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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 172
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Speaking of Jon Pertwee               [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      Recording CDs from cassettes          [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
      Re: Alcohol                           [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Copying cassette to CD                [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      re: Dear Adolph                       [ Kevin Bristol <citadel92@[removed] ]
      Re: Dear Adolph (casettte to CD)      [ "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed]; ]
      The Savada Collection                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Suspense DVDs                         [ Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed]; ]
      Re: Larry Jordan's question about Do  [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
      Owens Pomeroy in hospital             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      7-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:52:51 -0400
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Speaking of Jon Pertwee

>     It's been argued whether CPO Pertwee was inspired by Sgt Bilko (with Lt.
>     Comm. McHale following both) or whether they developed independently, but
>     HMS Troutbridge is only half the ship that PT-73 was -- largely because of
>     Lovable Leslie . . .

    Ah, but the Tardis was bigger than both of them put together.

    ([removed] the first joke Jack Benny was alleged to have told onstage to really
    "get" this line)

    --Laura Leff  <- (Who just finished watching Pertwee in "Planet of the
    Spiders" 2 nights ago)
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:53:11 -0400
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Recording CDs from cassettes

    Don Frey asks about recording cassettes onto CDs.

    Don, a couple of solutions to your cassette-to-CD recording problem.

    1.  Several companies make CD recorders that hook into your stereo system
    (I have one), so anything you play on your stereo, including your CD
    deck, can be recorded directly to CD without a computer.  Start here:

    [removed]

    2.  You can use a patch cord from your cassette player's LINE OUT jack to
    your computer's LINE IN jack and record your cassettes to your computer's
    hard drive, then burn the audio files to a CD.  This method lets you edit
    the sound, taking out static and making it sound better than the
    original.  Just use the free program Audacity.  You put Audacity into
    record mode just before you begin playing the cassette, then when the
    recording is done you use Audacity to tweak the sound.  Save the new file
    and burn it to a CD.

    Get Audacity free here:

    [removed]

    Hope this helps!

    ---Dan, [removed]

    [removed]  I see you're an Alan Ladd fan.  My mother worked at a printing
    company around WWII time, and Alan Ladd ordered a set of encyclopedias
    from her company (Donneley's in Indiana).  My mother was assigned the job
    of embossing his name in gold on the front of each volume, since she was
    the best embosser at the company.  The high point of her career!

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:54:19 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Alcohol

    On 7/10/2008 David VanNostrand wrote:

>     When you use rubbing alcohol try to find 99%, lesser has water and other
>     additives in it.  Also the best cloth is a lint free cloth.  Just an FYI.  At
>     the TV station where I work we use Techwipes for head cleaning.

    Denatured alcohol is ethanol, the same stuff in our booze, modified
    by adding a denaturing component that makes it unpalatable. There are
    many chemicals used to denature ethanol and for that reason I would
    not use it to clean tape heads. It might leave some long chain
    organics (gum) on them. This would normally be unexpected, but who
    knows what they use in [removed]

    Isopropyl alcohol is the one that should be used to clean tape heads.
    It is available everywhere in 70% and 90% or higher concentrations.
    The only thing in it should be water. Avoid the mixes sometimes used
    in making rubbing alcohol which may include wintergreen or other alcohols.

    I've used Techwipes and they are good where access is available. But
    for cassette tape heads it's easiest to use Q-Tips. Dip one end in
    the IPA and scrub away gently then dry with the other end of the Q-Tip.

    The doors on almost all cassette players can be removed by lifting
    slightly when open so you can get to the heads. Do not tighten any
    screws you see in there as there are several used to adjust the head
    position and azimuth, if you change them you will need a tech to
    re-align everything.

    Regarding demagnetizers, I recommend them. Use them at intervals of
    about 50 hours of play or 20 hours of recording. Use the wand
    type--the cassette cleaning tapes with a whirling magnet in them
    cause more magnetism than they should be removing. (Think about it,
    when the tape stops, the magnet stops spinning and it will be pointed
    at your record head.) If you don't use a demagnetizer, the poorer
    quality tapes (all commercial OTR tapes for instance and the low
    priced tapes most people use for OTR recording) will lose the high
    frequencies from partial erasure. I may be able to provide a sample
    of the effect if somebody wants to hear what happens. It is true that
    high quality tapes retain their magnetic image better, but such tape
    costs $4 at cassette or so.

    Don

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:16:32 -0400
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Copying cassette to CD

    Hi all

    In digest 171, Don Frey asked if there was anything to
    turn cassettes into CDs.  There is.  I purchased a
    Crosley Songwriter CD recorder from Carson Pirie Scott
    in October last year.  The cost was $[removed] plus tax.
    It will copy cassettes and records (78, 45, 33 1/3)
    onto CDs.  I've seen these for sale at Target and
    several other places.  Be careful.  There are similar
    units for about $200 that will play all the media, but
    not record to CD.

    Anne

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:16:47 -0400
    From: Kevin Bristol <citadel92@[removed];
    To: OTR <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: Dear Adolph

    In response the inquiry about converting cassette to a digital format I
    submit this device:

    [removed]

    If you already own a standard old cassette deck that has RCA/Composite
    jack capability then the following is a cheaper option since it allows
    you to connect equipment you already own to it. Comes with the software
    to convert the old tapes to a digital format:

    [removed]

    Kevin

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:16:58 -0400
    From: "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Dear Adolph (casettte to CD)

    If you still have a casette player, just attach a cable from the Line Out to
    the Line In connection on your computer's sound card, then record to your CD
    burner (free program, Audacity, should do the job).  Or, you could buy a
    stand-alone CD player/recorder and hook up the casette output to that.  Be
    sure it has a Line-In connection!  Any way you do it, it's in real time,
    thus labor-intensive - that's why I gave up on transferring my LPs to CD
    after the first few <g>.  There are casette player/CD writer combination
    stand-alone units, but they seem to be in the $300-$500 range.

    Candy

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:17:06 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Savada Collection

    An AP release this week announced the donation of over 200,000
    recorded albums, weighing over 50 tons, to Syracuse University by the
    estate of Morton Savada, a prominent NYC record shop owner and
    collector. The collection spans the years 1895 to the 1950s and most
    of it is music froim those eras. But the collection also includes OTR
    programs and V-Disks, distributed in WW II for entertainment to
    military personnel.

    This collection will boost the Belfer Audio Laboratory & Archives at
    Syracuse University to over 400,000 78 rpm records, making it second
    only to the Library of Congress in such holdings.

    Savada died this February of lung cancer at the age of 85.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:17:17 -0400
    From: Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Suspense DVDs

    I bought the first two DVD collections of "Suspense" TV shows when
    they came out last year and have been eagerly awaiting the final
    volume in the proposed 3-volume set. The first two sets came out
    within months of each other. Does anyone know when we can expect the
    third volume? Mr. Grams?

    Bryan W.

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:17:41 -0400
    From: Joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Larry Jordan's question about Don McNeill's
     Breakfast Club
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    Re: Larry Jordan's question about CD's available of Don McNeill's Breakfast
    [removed] more

    In 2001, The University of Notre Dame Press published the book, Don McNeill
    and his Breakfast Club. It was written by former Washington DC news anchor,
    John  Doolittle.  I highly recommend the book, which
    chronicles the career of Don McNeill and his easy to take, morning radio
    show which began each day with a smile, a prayer and a march around the
    breakfast table. As a youngster, growing up in the late 1940's and
    early 50's, I would pray for NO SCHOOL days, so I could stay home and  listen
    to this talented entertainer. As an aspiring future on-air radio  wannabee, I
    learned much about personality radio from listening to Don  McNeill.

    As an extra bonus, in the book, Don McNeill and his Breakfast Club, there  is
    a CD of sample clips from the show to give 'flavor' to what the show was all
    about and why it remained on the air for 35 years! I'm sure Larry Jordan and
    others will find both the book and the Breakfast Club CD a real special
    treat.

    Now, if Charlie will permit, here comes a plug----or [removed]
    In my forthcoming book, Radio Pro, published by BearManor Media  this fall
    (thanks Mister Ben:-) my first chapter is dedicated to Radio's  FIRST ON-AIR
    PRO'S. It's a tribute to some of broadcasting's pioneer  personalities, who
    inspired me to pursue an on-air radio career. Radio Pro's  mentioned,
    include, Fred
    Allen, Jack Benny, my long time friend, Fred Foy--who  graciously wrote an
    intro for the book--and two of the very best 'one on one'  communicators ever
    on
    [removed] Godfrey and Don McNeill.

    Joe Martelle
    Mesa, Colorado

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:17:47 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Owens Pomeroy in hospital

    I was advised today by the daughter of Owens Pomeroy (of the Golden
    Radio Buffs of Maryland) that he is in the hospital, following a
    serious fall in his apartment. Saundra Pomeroy-Jordan told me that he
    lives alone and emails her almost daily. He fell down last Friday
    night, could not call for help, and remained on the floor until his
    daughter found him the next day. Alerted by the fact he had not
    emailed her, she went to his apartment on Saturday and found him
    severely dehydrated with muscles beginning to break down.

    He was quickly taken to a local hospital where he is in stable
    condition. He will remain in the hospital for a few more days and
    then go into rehab. His daughter knows that messages of cheer from
    his OTR friends will boost his spirits and hasten his recovery. You
    can send them to him in care of his daughter at
    <ladypomeroy@[removed];

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:49:03 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-11 births/deaths

    July 11th births

    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Portland, MI - d. 2-18-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
    screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
    moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
    "People's Platform"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
    film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1897 - Johnny Marvin - Butler, Oklahoma Territory - d. 12-20-1944
    country singer: Had his own show on NBC
    07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
    organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
    07-11-1906 - Harry Von Zell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-21-1981
    actor, announcer: Bill Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"; "George Burns and
    Gracie Allen Show"
    07-11-1909 - Irene Hervey - Venice, CA - d. 12-20-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1914 - Tommy Bartlett - Milwaukee, WI  - d. 9-6-1998
    emcee: "Welcome Travlers"
    07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    07-11-1929 - Hermann Prey - Berlin, Germany - d. 7-22-1998
    operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    07-11-1933 - Chuck Cassey - Chicago, IL
    composer, conductor: (Chuck Casey Singers) "Voices of Vista"
    07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
    presenter: Radio 1

    July 11th deaths

    01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
    actor: Portia Blake "Portia Faces Life"; Belle Jones "Lorenzo Jones"
    01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
    lyricist: "The Railroad Hour"
    02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
    piano, conductor: "Frank Sinatra"; "Jim Hawthorne Show"
    02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
    jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
    02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
    actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer "Myrt and Marge"
    03-24-1892 - Roy Harvey - Monroe County, WV - d. 7-11-1958
    guitarist: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
    03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
    writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
    04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
    singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
    04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
    singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
    04-17-1913 - Richard Travis - Carlsbad, NM - d. 7-11-1989
    announcer and sportscaster
    04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
    actor: Karen Adams "Woman in White"; Lois "Bill Goodwin Show"
    05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
    actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
    06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
    actor: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr.
    Malone"
    06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"
    08-10-1910 - Roy Ringwald - d. 7-11-1995
    singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
    09-12-1892 - Malcolm LaPrade - d. 7-11-1974
    creator, producer: "The Collier Hour"
    09-15-1896 - Irene Arledge - d. 7-11-1977
    contralto: KFDM Beaumont, Texas
    09-26-1898 - George Gershwin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-1937
    pianist, composer: "Music by Gershwin"
    09-27-1918 - James McCallion - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-11-1991
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Sydney Lawrence "One Man's
    Family"
    11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
    actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
    actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-20-1919 - Everett Greenbaum - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-11-1999
    writer: "Greenbaum's Gallery"
    12-22-1912 - Lady Bird Johnson - Karnack, TX - d. 7-11-2007
    first lady: owner of radio station KTBC Austin, Texas

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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