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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 342

Table Of Contents: 

	 The Stan Freberg Show log
	 Canadian Traders?
	 Richard Boone
	 IRC, Bill Conrad, YUSA
	 Rose Marie
	 Alfred Bester
	 Musician's Strike

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:27:28 PST
From: passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: The Stan Freberg Show log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

              T H E   S T A N   F R E B E R G   S H O W
              -----   -------   -------------   -------

                                 1957


First Show: 07-14-57                              Last Show: 10-20-57
Number Shows: 15                                  Audition Show: none


Show Description:

On July, 14, 1957, in the twilight of the great days of radio, Stan
Freberg opened his own show, a summer replacement for the Jack Benny
Show on CBS.  Mr. Freberg was already known to the radio audience for
parts played in numerous other series and a situation comedy, THAT'S
RICH.

Although the series lasted only 15 shows, it demonstrated Stan's
genius for satiric comedy.  In 1958, Capitol Records released an
album of some of the best of the sketches from the series.  The
albums, "The Best of Stan Freberg", won a Grammy award.

Regulars who helped Stan make his special brand of madness were June
Foray, Peter Leeds, Daws Butler and Peggy Taylor.


List Comments:

There are quite a few vendors who carry the full series.  Many list
only broadcast dates or list one sketch.  The AVPRO catalog listed
many sketches from each show.

The Smithsonian Historical Performances series offers a set of the
first seven shows along with an introduction on tape 1 by Stan him-
self.  A note on the rear of the package mentions the remaining 8
episodes will follow.  The set was prepared by Radio Spirits.


List:

    Date      Num  Skit Titles                            Src Key
    --------  ---  -------------------------------------  ---------
    07-14-57    1  1. Musical (or Tuned) Sheep            12345678
                   2. Incident at Los Varoses
    07-21-57    2  1. Barbara Frichie                     123 5678
                   2. Abominable Snowman #1
                   3. Mount Rushmore
                   4. Max's Delicatessen
                   5. Rock Around Stephen Foster
                   Hagmire Prill
                   At Home With Mr. & Mrs. Devil,
    07-28-57    3  1. Miss Jupiter                        123 5678
                   2. Skin Divers and Mandolins
                   3. Upward and Onward Girls!
                   4. The Flying Zazophs #1
                   5. Bob Tainter: Custer's Last Stand
                   Hagmire Prill
    08-04-57    4  1. Great Moments in History - Paul     123 5678
                      Revere
                   2. Herman Horne, #1 (Hi-Fi Lecture)
                   3. Lox Audio Theater
                   4. Yellow Rose of Texas
                   Rock Around My Nose
    08-11-57    5  1. Flying Saucer (Orville)             123 5678
                   2. Herman Horne, #2
                   3. Lawrence Welk
    08-18-57    6  1. CBS Censor                          123 5678
                   2. Bob Tainter: Cassablanca
                   3. Face the Funnies #1
                   4. Rock Island Line
    08-25-57    7  1. The Lone Analyst                    123 5678
                   2. Nose Flute
                   3. Driving of the Golden Spike
                   4. Banana Boat Song
    09-01-57    8  1. Good Humor Man                      123 567
                   2. The Zazzaloff Family
                   3. Uninterrupted Melody
                   4. Face The Funnies
                   5. St. George and the Dragonette
    09-08-57    9  1. Abominable Snowman Revisited        123 567
                   2. Washington Crossing the Delaware
                   3. The Honey-Earthers
    09-15-57   10  1. Build It Yourself Piano             123 567
                   2. Henry Cloverleaf
                   3. The Fortune Cookie Factory
                   4. Herman Horn's Stereo Factory
                   5. Heartbreak Hotel
    09-22-57   11  1. College Football                    123 567
                   2. Canine Talent Agent
                   3. Bang Gunley, US Marshal Field
    09-29-57   12  1. Rocket Sled                         123 567
                   2. Fixing a Leaky Faucet
                   3. Sha-Boom
    10-06-57   13  1. Circus Questions                    123 56
                   2. Grey Flannel Hatful of Teenage
                      Werewolves
    10-13-57   14  1. Freberg Sponsors Freberg            123456
                   2. Return of Miss Jupitor
                   3. Visit to an Ad Agency
                   4. Sam Splayed, Detective
    10-20-57   15  1. Last Show, Encore Of Best Skits     123 56


Information Sources:

The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.

Key Source
--- -----------------------------------------------------------------
 1  Edward J. Carr, 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512
 2  Radio Showcase, Steve Kelez, PO Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
 3  Satellite Broadcasting, 4580-E Mack Ave., Frederick, MD 21701
 4  University of Memphis Radio Program Archive, Microforms Dept.,
    McWherter Library, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
 5  Society to Preserve & Encourage Radio Drama, Variety & Comedy,
    PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177
 6  AVPRO, PO Box 1392, Lake Elsinore, CA 92531-1392
 7  Hello Again Radio, 10280 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
 8  Radio Spirits, PO Box 2141, Schiller Park, IL 60176-2141
    (Smithsonian Historical Performances series)

To be fair to all, this is not an endorsement of the above vendors
and clubs.  I receive nothing by mentioning them.  They help keep
OTR alive.  Please support them.


Last Update: 09-19-96


I retain copyright, but this log may be freely copied provided that
the text is unchanged.  Please send error corrections or additional
information to:   Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, Verona, NJ 07044
or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 07:00:09 -0300
From: "Stephen Moore" <moores@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Canadian Traders?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I seem to be having trouble getting this through, so here goes again.

Are there any OTR lending libraries in Canada, similar to SPERDVAC?  It
seems that clubs do not wish to lend across the border, which is
understandable.  Free trade is not THAT free. :)

Is there anybody in Canada who would like to do some trading, OR who would
like to form or belong to a trading type club in Canada?

Thanks.

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:21:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: JSEXTON@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Richard Boone
Message-id: <01I9P13OQ5JM8WVZ1G@[removed]>
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   I'm almost positive that I saw where Richard Boone died several years ago.
There are,sad to say,many of the old radio and TV personalities that have passedon recently including Western stars like Lash LaRue,Jock Mahoney,Guy Madison,
Sunset Carson,Nate Booth,Arkansas Slim Andrews to name a few.
  Best,John (JSEXTON@[removed])

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:30:36 -0400
From: "Donald A. Tevault" <donnie@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: IRC, Bill Conrad, YUSA
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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First, to Jack Mann--
	IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.  The way it works is, you use an
IRC program to log onto an IRC channel.  Then, you lurk there until
someone else logs onto that channel.  Then, you and anyone else on that
channel can type messages to each other in real time.  You never know
who you'll find there.  I once met a guy from Bucharest, Romania.  I
didn't realize where he was at until he made an apology for his English
and happened to mention where he was at.

	Now, I going to follow your suggestion from you e-mail to me.
	Jack's suggestion was to challenge the readers of this list to come up
with as many shows as possible that Bill Conrad performed in.  Of
course, we younger members remember him as Frank Cannon and the fat man
in Jake and the Fat Man.  But, he is another one of those current TV
actors who was quite busy in radio.
	Last topic:  This may come as a shock to those of you who are used to
my default e-mail signature (OS/2--Where *I* want to go today!), but I
now have a laptop computer that runs Win95.  I still prefer OS/2, and
it's still on my desktop machine.  But, at least Win95 now allows me to
take advantage of software that's not yet availbable for OS/2.  One of
these programs is RealAudio.  I can now tune into YUSA, and did so for
the first time a couple of nights ago.  I was quite surprised to hear
Ronnie Milsap, the country music star, as host of an OTR show, but he
did a good job.  Last night, an announcement was made concerning the
station's financial condition.  There now doing a fund raising drive,
requesting all listeners to send in a dollar bill to help keep the
station on the air.  If anyone wants details on this, or if they just
want to listen to good OTR programming, then I encourage them to tune in
and give it a listen.  And no, I'm not in any way affiliated with YUSA. 
I just think that it's a good station.

	Well, that's about it.

				Later,


				Donald A. Tevault

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:57:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: radbond <radbond@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rose Marie
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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"Baby Rose Marie" appears in the 1933 [removed] Fields film "International
House". She 
does a number which is supposedly being broadcast over a television set.
(Yes folks,
there was television in 1933!)

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 07:53:03 -0700
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Alfred Bester
Message-Id: <v01520d02ae673ee614e9@[[removed]]>
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:26:06 -0400 SanctumOTR@[removed] wrote:

>Alfred Bester cast the wonderful black radio actor Jauno Hernandez as
>Charlie Chan back in the 1940s but was overruled by network execs who

Alfred Bester??? Wasn't he the magazine editor who wrote fantasy and
science fiction in the 1950s and '60s? ("The Stars My Destination", etc.)
What the heck did HE have to do with Charlie Chan?... or is this a
different Alfred Bester?

_____________________________________________________________________
ALAN BELL  3768 Sonoma Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95405  dabell@[removed]
=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bruce Toor <batoor@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Musician's Strike
Message-ID: <[removed]@netcom2>
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Lois Culver reminds us of the musicians strike of (I think) 1948, during 
which shows such as Joan Davis's used a chorus instead of instrumental music.
I think there was a later strike which caused TV shows to be produced in 
Europe.

Bruce Toor




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