Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #127
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 4/25/2001 11:34 AM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 127
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     Halls of Ivy                         ["Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed]]
     Re: Bon ton                          [Cnorth6311@[removed]                 ]
     Speed Gibson                         ["Steve Prange" <sprange@[removed];]
     [removed]                  [Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed]]
     Re: Reception                        [Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];      ]
     The $64 Question                     ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Re: The Gosden Family                [Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]]
     The Swingin' Years                   ["Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];  ]
     Re Gordon Payton & scripts wanted    [Howard Blue <khovard@[removed];     ]
     Re: Audio Quality                    [Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]]
     Earth Abides                         ["Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm]
     Billy Idelson                        ["Welsa" <welsa@[removed];        ]
     two cents worth from the no-tech pea [Ga6string@[removed]                  ]
     Re: Hi Speed duplicators             [Fred Berney <berney@[removed];      ]
     Mayor of the Town                    [Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed]]
     The Swinging Years                   [George Aust <austhaus1@[removed]]
     #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [lois@[removed]                  ]
     King's Men again                     [Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed]]
     Swingin' years tapes                 [ClifSr@[removed]                     ]
     Mayor of the Town Info               ["Lee, Steve (DEOC)" <slee@[removed].]
     Radio Awards                         ["Panke, Dan" <[removed]@[removed]]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:37:34 -0400
    From: "Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halls of Ivy

    I'm a big fan of the Halls of Ivy.  The Coleman's are excellent actors, and
    I wish my own college experience was similar to the view of college life
    presented by the show.  Not only that, but I wish I was more like Dr. Hall.
    To be a polymath like that, who can understand and expound on (often at
    great length) so many different subjects would be wonderful.  Go ahead and
    laugh, but while others might find OTR heroes in Sam Spade, Captain
    Midnight, or The Shadow; Dr. Hall will always be my OTR hero.

    -Chris Holm
    cbholm@[removed]

    Speaking of Captain Midnight, I've been reading chapters (in random order)
    of Harmon's _The Great Radio Heroes_, and have been thoroughly enjoying it.
    Reading the 'Aces of the Airwaves' chapter, I've become interested in
    Captain Midnight.  I've never heard the show, and would like to try a
    sample.  Can anyone (Mr. Kallis, perhaps?) recommend a source where I would
    be able to get a few consecutive episodes, so that I can try out the show?
    Thanks.

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Might I suggest you take a look at Mr. Kallis' book, "Radio's
    Captain Midnight; The Wartime Biography?" There's a review posted at
    [removed]  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:43:57 -0400
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Bon ton

    I would like to thank every one who replied to my question concerning the
    BonTon store in OTR. As usual every one was generous to a fault and I am
    truly thankful. Some took the time to write me directly by e mail while
    others answered in the digest, but, which ever way you answered, thanks again.

    Charlie

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:43:59 -0400
    From: "Steve Prange" <sprange@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Speed Gibson

    Is there, anywhere, a listing of who played who in this radio serial?

    I am intrugued as to what character was played by Howard McNear, who went on
    to be Floyd Lawson on Andy Griffith. If it turns out to be Clint Barlow, as
    I believe, that gives me an interesting idea for a piece of fan [removed]

    Thanks
    Steve

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:01 -0400
    From: Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    Steve Jansen remarked and questioned:

    <<<Also joined the Radio Listeners Lycaeum (the WHAT?!?!?)>>>

    Yeah, what the heck is a [removed] anyway?

    Gordon

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:03 -0400
    From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Reception

    Troy Burnham asked us:
    My question is for those of you who are old enough to remember OTR in
    it's
    hay day.  I've been back on the list for two or three days and I've seen
    a
    couple of posts about not always having good sound on OTR shows when
    they
    were actually on radio and since I'm not old enough to know, I was just
    wondering how bad the quality of some of the stations were that some of
    you
    listened to.  Was there just a lot of static?  Did the show fade in and
    out?  Was there audio from other stations bleeding over the station that

    you were listening to?

    I grew up in New York City with the 50,000-watt network flagships
    radiating all around us, so what
    we usually heard on the radio was loud and clear.  During a thunderstorm
    you might get some static
    crashes, but normally the sound was as perfect as if the performers were
    in the room with you (I got
    a special kick out of listening to people turn script pages) (or maybe
    dropping them on the floor ;-).

    However, I also loved to pick up distant stations on my little Emerson
    and that would be closer to
    the listening experience of someone who lived out in the hinterlands,
    far from the transmitters.
    Programs would fade in and out and sometimes you could even pick up the
    same program from two
    stations at a time.  I can remember listening to a show coming in
    perfectly until the network ID, then
    two different announcers simultaneously would deliver station breaks
    from, say, Boston and
    Cleveland.  Then thirty seconds later, it was back to the show we stayed
    tuned for.

      When I listen to OTR shows I like to transport myself back to when the
    show
      was actually aired and I think that I could make better use of my
      imagination if my shows weren't of perfect quality since from what
    I've
      read here a lot of times they weren't in perfect quality for many of
    you 50
      or 60 years ago.

    If you want to transport yourself, Troy, just lie on the floor while you
    listen, or hide the radio under a
    blanket so the grown-ups in the house don't know you're tuned in after
    your bedtime.  That's what it
    was like for a lot of us 50 or 60 years ago (ohmy, time flys).

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:05 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The $64 Question

    Art Shifrin asks of "the $64 question,"

> >     Why that amount?  Did it have a significance at that time?<<

    Yes.  It was the top prize on a show called "Double Or Nothing," which I
    used to hear growing up.  The idea was that you could answer a question
    for $1.  If you won that, you could leave with that, or bet it again,
    doubling it to $2.  Answering that (if you lost, you got ... nothing,
    hence the show's title), you could go for $4 (double two) or leave, and
    on up the chain until you reached the pinnacle, which, if you won, gained
    you $64.  If someone was at the $32 level (and the questions got
    increasingly more difficult), the emcee would say, ... And now, for the
    $64 question ...."

    Now recall that 1940 dollars were worth a lot more than today, so $64 was
    a respectable amount of money.  "The $64 question" became synonymous in
    conversation with "the most important question," "the key question," or
    "the heart of the puzzle."  A typical exchange might be,

    Sidekick: But how could the killer possibly get out of a room locked on
    the inside?
    Hero:       _That's_ the $64 question!

    One gag was having Jack Benny on one show.  He answered the question for
    a dollar, but didn't want to risk losing it on a "double or nothing" bet.

    The show eventually altered its format slightly (I think the top limit
    was around $80) but by that time, "the $64 question" was part of the
    lexicon.

    It still might be, save for the Old TV show, The $64,000 Question.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:08 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: The Gosden Family

    David Buswell wonders,

>     I wonder if Elizbeth, the resident A&A expert, has any information on Mr.
>     Gosden's progeny minus any Hollywood slant.

    Linda Robinson is Freeman's youngest daughter, by his second wife Jane
    Stoneham (sister of former New York/San Francisco Giants owner Horace
    Stoneham) and was probably the single most powerful person in the
    corporate PR industry during the 1980s. She served as press secretary for
    Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and went on to found the firm
    of Robinson, Lerer and Montgomery, serving as its CEO until it was
    recently bought out by the Young and Rubicam advertising agency. She now
    serves as a Y&R vice president, and continues to run the RLM unit. I've
    never spoken with her, but she has a reputation for being a smart,
    aggressive, no-nonsense type who can make the media jump. She has also
    attracted plenty of controversy: one of her most prominent clients in the
    corporate-raider era was the junk-bond Kingfish himself, Michael Milken
    -- practictioner of Wall Street manipulations not too different from
    those that A&A themselves had enthusiastically parodied in 1929 and 1930.

    As for the other Gosden kids, Freeman had two children with his first
    wife, Leta Schrieber (who he met when she was a secretary at WGN in 1926
    during the days of "Sam and Henry"). Freeman Jr., born in 1929, had a
    distinguished career in advertising, and is the author of a well-regarded
    book on direct marketing techniques. He was formerly a partner in the
    Smith-Hemmings-Gosden advertising agency in Los Angeles, which was bought
    out several years ago by Foote, Cone and Belding -- which, in a bit of
    irony, is the direct descendent of Lord and Thomas, the agency which
    brought "Amos 'n' Andy" to NBC in 1929.  Freeman and Leta's daughter
    Virginia, born in 1930, was a housewife and charity worker for many years
    in the LA area. Freeman and Jane had a son as well, Craig, who is a
    health-care executive in Connecticut.

    Charlie Correll, meanwhile, had four children by his second wife Alyce
    McLaughlin -- daughters Dorothy (who passed away last year) and Barbara,
    and sons Charles Jr. and Richard. The two sons are both in show business
    -- Charles is an Emmy-winning cinematographer, and Rich is a director
    with Warner Brothers Television, specializing in sitcoms. Rich was also a
    child actor, appearing in "Leave it to Beaver" as Beaver's friend Richard
    Rickover, was involved in restoring the films of the late silent film
    comedian Harold Lloyd, and is well-known as one of Hollywood's most
    enthusiastic collectors of monster-movie memorabilia.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:17 -0400
    From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Swingin' Years

    The Swingin' Years with Chuck Cecil is syndicated in markets all over the US
    and Australia.  Chuck has been doing this excellent show since just after
    WWII, when he walked into KFI, Los Angeles, to take an announcer's job.  He
    looked like a little high school kid, with a big grin which never
    [removed] all the girls were drooling over him!

    He had been taping Big Bands, and interviewing Big Band leaders during the
    [removed] era.  He now has over 40,000 tracks of [removed] Music and over 300
    interviews with the "greats".

    Chuck and his wife Edna were good friends of mine and my late husband's,
    Howard Culver.  He is now 77 and I believe still lives in the San Fernando
    Valley of Los Angeles.  I have misplaced his address but will try to find a
    listing of stations carrying his syndicated show, which often is heard on
    Saturday afternoon or evenings.  It's definitely worth a listen!

    You may read more about Chuck and his "Swingin' Years" at
    [removed]

    Lois Culver
    1941-1943 KWLK (Mutual) Longview, Washington
    1944-1953 (intermittant) KFI (NBC) Los Angeles
    Widow of Howard Culver, OTR actor

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:44:43 -0400
    From: Howard Blue <khovard@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re Gordon Payton & scripts wanted

    Gordon Payton generously offered to lend amateur dramatists copies of
    radio scripts that he has. I know Gordon and I am sure that he passes on
    to the people who borrow his scripts the admonition to obtain permission
    from the copyright holders before they perform. As a writer who
    subscribes to the OTR Digest I feel strongly that the rights of the
    creators of the scripts and/or their heirs should be protected. Literary
    property is property.

    			Howard Blue

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:46:44 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Audio Quality

    Mark Kinsler wrote:

>     As to the quality of the program sources, it's my impression that taped
>     shows (which began with Bing Crosby's) would have sounded a bit better than
>     those recorded on disc.  However, I doubt that any of the shows I heard
>     originated on anything but tape, so I'm not in a position to judge.  Dr Biel
>     and Ms McLeod have said that good disc recordings sounded very good.

    The quality of a transcription depends entirely on where it was recorded
    along the program circuit. The best quality transcriptions, made directly
    off the control-room program amplifier are *better* than the program
    would have sounded to a listener picking up the program at home. It has
    been documented that NBC Radio Recording Division discs made in this
    manner often have audio response in excess of 12 kc.  A disc recorded off
    the air or somewhere along the network circuit will only be as good as
    the signal at the point of reception. You can easily hear the difference
    this makes by listening to a program containing remote cut-ins. Listen,
    for example, to the NBC D-Day coverage -- the recordings were made off
    the program circuit in New York, and the New York portions are crisp and
    clean - but when a switch is made to a correspondent in Washington or
    Hollywood, the fuzziness of the network lines is plainly audible. So it
    is that a recording made in New York of a program originating in
    Hollywood will not sound as crisp as a recording made in Hollywood of
    that same program.

>     So why do our current transcriptions sound so poor by comparison?  I don't
>     really know, though I'm sure that others do.

    Multi-generation tape degradation is the biggest factor. When you listen
    to the average OTR tape, you're not hearing the original recording at
    all. You're hearing a blurry copy of a copy of a copy of a copy ad
    infinitum, and that copy carries layer after layer of defects laid down
    by every recording machine along the line. In most cases when you hear
    "cross talk" on an OTR tape, it has nothing to do with any broadcast
    signal -- it's bleed-thru from another track on someone's master reel
    somewhere along the line, because their tape heads were not properly
    aligned.

>     My guess is that many were
>     originally made off the air with home disk-recording equipment, which had
>     been sold for many years.  These recordings would contain fade-outs and
>     cross-talk from other stations, especially if they were made at great
>     distances from the broadcasting station.  It's possible that some of these
>     recordings could have been made with the object of proving one of the usual
>     brags of the time: that _my_ radio can pick up stations from a thousand
>     miles away, and here's the recording to prove it: Fibber McGee and Molly,
>     broadcast from Chicago as heard in Denver.

    I've encountered few recordings that can actually be documented as "dx
    recordings," but some do exist. SPERDVAC has two 1938 Mercury Theatre
    programs in its Archives Library that were recorded off the air by a
    listener in Vermont from stations in West Virginia and North Carolina.
    This listener had professional-quality recording equipment, and even
    though the recordings are on uncoated aluminum discs, the quality is
    excellent, albeit with plenty of fading and interference. A persistent
    Spanish voice can be heard bleeding into one of the programs.

    I think, however, that OTR fans in general tend to assume too great an
    importance for home recordings in the preservation of OTR. Home
    recordings of radio broadcasts are not uncommon -- but prior to the
    advent of wire and tape, the vast majority of  home recorded broadcasts
    that survive are brief fragments, usually poorly recorded by people who
    didn't quite seem to know what they were doing.  It was easy to make a
    *bad* disc recording, and all too many hobbyists never advanced beyond
    this stage. (Some did, but these are definite exceptions.)

    Home recordings made on tape are usually much better quality --
    especially if the recordist made the aircheck off an FM station. Some of
    the WOR-FM Jean Shepherd airchecks from the early 1960s that Max Schmid
    has put into circulation are of breathtaking audio quality.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:46:45 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Earth Abides

    It was mentioned about "Earth Abides".

    To the best of my knowledge it was broadcast on the following:
         Escape, 11/5/50 (Part 1) & 11/12/50 (Part 2).

    There is also a 1/2 hr. program in circulation that is supposed to be
    Suspense but does not appear in logs that I've seen.

    The book was written by George Stewart and became available in the [removed] in
    1949.

    All correct except SUSPENSE.  It was done on Escape (wonderfully by the way
    and a must on any OTR fan's list).  One of the best scenes is at the end
    when John Dehner sits and talks with the children about the world it once
    was, admiring the rusty, crumbling relic that was once the San Francisco
    bridge.

    It was NOT done on radio's Suspense.  Some collector once edited the two
    half-hour Escape presentation and dubbed in a Suspense opening.  That
    recording has been floating about in one or two sources (I'll keep nameless)
    and it's not Suspense.  Probably a result of a fan's appreciation for the
    drama, and the show itself.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:46:47 -0400
    From: "Welsa" <welsa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Billy Idelson

    Just curious--does anyone know if Billy Idelson is still living?  He played
    Rush on Vic and Sade for many years.

    Ted Meland

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:07:03 -0400
    From: Ga6string@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  two cents worth from the no-tech peanut gallery

    Hi all,

    In light of the conversation regarding methods of listening to [removed] my
    favorite listening medium is a very small portable cassette tape
    recorder/player (mine is a Sony TCM-818, purchased a decade ago, and
    subsequently replaced in the Sony line by the current TCM-929). It's about
    the size of a hardback book (say, 300 pages), weighs virtually nothing, with
    a 2-inch speaker. Mine runs on 4 "C" batteries (it also have an adapter,
    which I never use), and will run an extraordinary amount of time before I
    have to replace them. The later model runs of AA batteries, which probably
    don't last as long.

    This is an incredibly convenient way to listen to OTR -- I can carry my tape
    player from room to room with me, carry it outside for yard work and throw it
    in the grass beside me -- it's apparently indestructible. It sounds fine to
    me, and I don't waste a minute downloading shows or worrying about which new
    piece of technology to buy!

    I gave the TCM-929 to my brother for Christmas (I got him hooked on OTR,
    too), and he takes it with him on business trips, and loves it.

    Best of all, it's less than $20. So if it ever breaks, I'll just throw it
    away and buy another one.

    I'm not suggesting that everyone run out and buy a Sony tape player, or any
    particular brand, for that matter, but I am happy to report that at least a
    couple of low-tech/no-tech OTR listeners among us are doing just fine!

    Sincerely,
    Bryan Powell

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:10:59 -0400
    From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Hi Speed duplicators

    There are a few very good systems. Back in the early days of cassettes,
    Pentagon made the finest system I could find. It cost $10,000. Was reel to
    reel to 4 cassettes. Over the years the company changed until in the 1980's
    they had the equipment built overseas and they let their quality suffer.

    In the late 1980's Sony got into the act. They make a system that is
    absolutely excellent. But, it is not cheap. Each unit sells at wholesale
    for $2200. The heads will just about never wear out. It is impossible to
    tell the difference between the original and the copy.

    The master unit comes with a master playback unit and 3 slaves, all built
    into one case. The slave units have four slaves. You can attach up to 10
    units to the system.

    Part of our business is recording conferences and sell the tapes on site.
    There are around 100 such companies around the country doing this kind of
    work. I would guess that at least 90% if not all of them use the Sony
    duplicators. I use to below to an association made up of these companies
    and all of the members (about 50 companies) used Sonys.

    At the peak of our conference business we were dubbing over 80,000
    cassettes per year and we've never had to have the Sony's repaired. That
    speaks for their quality in workmanship. As far as sound, they are the best
    I've heard.

    Otari is another company that makes duplicating equipment for
    professionals. I've never owned one of their systems, but from what I've
    heard, they are also excellent. They might even be priced higher than the
    Sony.
    Fred
    For the best in Old Time Radio Shows [removed]
    New e-commerce page [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:35:35 -0400
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mayor of the Town

    After all, Conrad Binyon was there so I really don't have the right to
    question his judgement.  I'll just provide an "alternative thought."

    I made a mistake identifying his playing a nephew instead of a ward. Point
    well taken.

    But I have only available shows to draw my conclusions.  I re-listened to
    an episode wherein Butch argued with Marilly that he shouldn't have to wear
    long underwear.  His responses were, indeed, "bratty."  She also carped and
    harangued that he wear the long underwear.  She held onto the thought for a
    good ten minutes. Great fun.

    That Agnes Moorehead could carp effectively in a characterization does in
    no way depreciate her excellence as an actress.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:35:33 -0400
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Swinging Years

    Steve Mcguffin asked about the program "The Swinging Years" hosted by
    Chuck Cecil. This is not off-topic at all as Chuck regularly featured
    OTR broadcasts of remotes by the big bands on this show which he began
    on KFI in Los Angeles in [removed] I listened to his show for 10 or 12
    years over public radio station KPPC in Pasadena until about 14-18
    months ago when the station switched formats to all talk. Thats really
    what we needed out [removed] more hot air! LA radio is in such sad shape
    that I rarely even turn it on anymore and instead listen to OTR or music
    CDs.
    I have not been able to locate Chuck Cecil over the internet but I know
    that he is living in the San Fernando Valley and that his show is
    available in some cities. I think Philadelphia is one of them and that
    the station does webcast his show on Saturdays. However the time is not
    convenient for me and is so saturated with advertising that its an
    effort to listen to it. So I don't. I wish that he could land a show on
    a local station because it really is a quality program.

    George Aust

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:46:19 -0400
    From: lois@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over three years, same time, same channel!

    Our numerous "regulars" include one of the busiest "golden years" actors in
    Hollywood; a sound man from the same era who worked many of the top
    Hollywood shows;  owners of some of the best OTR sites on the Web;
    maintainer of well-known OTR digest lists (we all know who he is)..........

    and Me

    Lois Culver
    KWLK Longview Washington (Mutual) 1941-1944)
    KFI Los Angeles (NBC) 1944 - 1950
    and widow of actor Howard Culver

    (For more info, contact lois@[removed])

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:46:17 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  King's Men again

    Stephen Kallis wrote:

>     "Bing Crosby had a 'boy group' called The King's Men.  I
>     never heard them anywhere else than the Bing Crosby show.
>     Where there other groups that only appeared on a single OTR
>     show?"

    Click on the link where I quote Brian Johnstone's response along
    with a picture of the King's Men during their Fibber McGee and
    Molly days at:

    [removed]
    --
    conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
       From the Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
         Encino, California.

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:48:16 -0400
    From: ClifSr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Swingin' years tapes

    For Steve McGuffin and anybody else interested in Chuck Cecil's Swingin years
    show:  I have 3 reel to reel radio station tapes of the show that I rescued
    from the dumpster when one of the stations I worked for changed formats.  Any
    other old "broadscatterers" ... my favorite Arthur [removed] who have
    worked at stations that changed owners/managerment/format every six months
    and tossed out disks and tapes with every change,  probably have collections
    of rare and irreplaceable gems they acquired that way.  That's how I latched
    on to "Manhattan Tower," a  wonderful  '40s AFRS big band remote and some
    stuff I will probably  never get around to listening to.  Depending on the
    response I get to this post, I'll either get the tapes dubbed to cassettes
    or offer the R to R's to the highest bidder.  They are standard [removed] inches
    per second, probably two track stereo.  I have not listened to them. The play
    lists are long gone.

    Clif Martin

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:00:13 -0400
    From: "Lee, Steve (DEOC)" <slee@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mayor of the Town Info

    "Mayor of or Town" is a Bedford Falls type of town - with good people.  The
    stories are terrific WW II small town slice of life vignettes. Yes, they are
    over-sentimentalized - but so what. I listen to OTR to relax, pretend, and
    escape as far away from the modern world as I dare. An analog man in a
    digital world - that's me. Jerry Haendiges at jhaendiges@[removed] has a
    little more than 40 episodes.  I bought all he had, and as usual, they are
    fine, trouble free recordings.

    Steven Lee

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    Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:27:29 -0400
    From: "Panke, Dan" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Awards

    I was wondering whether radio ever had awards given for Best Comedy Show,
    Best Actor, etc. similar to the Academy Awards or TV awards.

    Did the award process just happen with the advent of film?  If there was
    awards, to what extent?  Best Sound Effects? Producer?

    And if there was awards, is there a site that provides the 'winners' through
    the year?

    Dan Panke
    [removed]@[removed]
    (613) 724-4244x22249

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