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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 190


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 TRanscriptions
	 RE: Stairway to the Sun
	 New email address
	 Fibber McGee and Molly Intros

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Date: Sun, 26 May 96 12:52 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: TRanscriptions
Message-Id: <m0uNlrI-0003bIC@[removed]>

Regarding the term "transcriptions":

Before the shows were recorded on tape, they used "transcriptions" - a
large, usually glass, phonograph-type record.  These were generally
designated as "electrical transcriptions".  The use of these also makes you
realize why a lot of the shows recorded in this manner did not last over the
years -- they got broken.

In the station logs which listed the shows, commercials, and everything else
to go on the air that day, these were shown as "ET", to show that there
should be a transcription on hand to play in that particular spot.  

It was my first job at KFI, Los Angeles, in about 1943, to type up the logs,
gather the commercial scripts from the Continuity Department, and put them
into the proper studios each night.  The Transcription Department then put
the big records in the proper studios, as shown on the log.

Lois Culver

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Date: 26 May 96 16:43:35 EDT
From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: RE: Stairway to the Sun
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Bob Burnham wrote:
>>Several years ago, I Love a Mystery - Stairway to the Sun (I THINK) was
>>re-created at Friends of OTR Convention 

Yes, a single episode from the serial was recreated 7 or 8 years ago.  Bob
Dryden was there and recreated his original role of Jack.  That was the
convention that started me going to the Friends of Old-Time Radio - I
couldn't miss up the opportunity to meet Carlon E. Morse in person.  They
also recreated an episode of ONE MAN'S FAMILY that year. 

>>No disrespect meant to Morse or any of the performers, but it was not one of
>>his better efforts.  My total honest opinion is the story was pretty campy
>>and lame.  

Well, they did a single 15 minute episode from near the end of this 
30-episode adventure.  You can't expect the audience to jump in at that 
point in the story and fully appreciate all that is going on.  Since 
that convention I've had the opportunity to read the entire serial.  In 
my opinion it's grade-A ILAM.  Maybe not the greatest of them all, but 
certainly up there.  In talking with fans of ILAM, it does seem that 
"Stairway To The Sun" is the adventure that listeners remember hearing 
when it was originally broadcast, and among the lost storylines that
collectors are searching for it is considered the "holy grail" of ILAM. 

Steve Lewis


But the recreations *are* yet another reason why old time radio fans owe it
to themselves to attend at least *some* of the Friends of OTR [removed]
 you never know when the scheduled performances will be the *last* of those
talent people (plus you get to meet weird collector-dealer types like me!).
 ;-)

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Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 21:44:51 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: New email address
Message-ID: <960526214449_204479696@[removed]>

I've switched!  Please note my new email address:

JackBenny@[removed]

(formerly JackBenny@[removed]).  Please send all email to the new address
effective immediately.  Thank you.

--Laura Lee
International Jack Benny Fan Club

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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 08:53:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bruce Toews <toews@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Fibber McGee and Molly Intros
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

A while back, someone asked about why HArlo Wilcox (SP???) was so often 
laughing when he began the show with, "The Johnson's Wax Program, bla bla 
bla". I heard an episode on the radio last night which might shed some 
additional light on the subject.

This episode started off with Jim Jordan (Fibber) saying something to the 
effect of, "Hi folks. The program originally cancelled at this time will 
now be heard." This got a laugh out of the audience and started the show. 
(January 2, 1940).

Bruce

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