Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #287
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 9/2/2001 7:25 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 287
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Lou Costello's son's death            [ "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self ]
  my age                                [ Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed]; ]
  Re: "First Commercial"                [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Re: Yeast Eating                      [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Re: Slogans                           [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  HARRY BARTELL                         [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Queensboro commercial                 [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  BROADWAY & 9TH AVENUE                 [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  SUPES themes                          [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Yeast                                 [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  My little typo, age, etc              [ "David Jewett" <davidrj@[removed] ]
  Superman theme and age                [ Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed]; ]
  a renaissance for OTR format???       [ "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed]; ]
  THANK YOUS/BOB HOPE/TOMMY RIGGS       [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
  AN EVENING WITH OTR                   [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
  Radio Spoof                           [ dabac@[removed] ]
  WEAF and Spot Commercials             [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
  Re: Yeast                             [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Re: Superman Themes (slightly OT)     [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
  HARRY BARTELL                         [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  otr fan demographics                  [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  CURLEY BRADLEY & SAM COWLING          [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  Hershey's Candy Bar                   [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  Re: James Stewart in Six Shooter      [ Roger Lorette <webmaster@cyber49er. ]
  "Some people ask why ...."            [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:15:37 -0400
From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lou Costello's son's death

In March 1943, with the team at it's peak, Lou Costello got Rhuematic
(sp?) fever, forcing the radio show off the air for the rest of the
season.  At rehearsal of the first show of the 43-44 season (unsure of
the date) Lou recieved a phone call telling him that his son, Butch, had
drowned in the family's swimming pool.  It was to have been the first
night that Butch got to hear his father on the radio.

Nobody really expected Lou to make it back in time for the broadcast.  I
think, that in light of the tragety, Mickey Rooney had been brought in to
substitute for him.  Lou called Bud shortly before the broadcast,
informing him that he would indeed be at the studio in time to go on the
air.

The show went as well as it always did (good or bad, depending on who you
ask), until after the program went off the air, Lou burst out in tears,
and Bud had to explain to the audience what happened.

If you watch any of the team's films after this period, in many shots you
can see a bracelet on one of Lou's arms.  Lou had the bracelet engraved
with the word "Butch" then welded to his arm so it could never be
removed.

By the [removed] regards to ages, I'm 22, and have listened to OTR
since I was about 7.

Rodney Bowcock

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:52:16 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  my age

I'm 30, about to be 31 this month. I started listening
to Bickersons and Abbott and Costello when I was 10 or
so. Loved it. Then, the only way of getting shows was
on tape, in bookstores. They were high priced, so I
couldn't afford to experiment much. The mp3 has helped
a lot. Helped more than hurt, I'd say.

 =====
Check out Fibber McGee's Scrapbook, a new otr book!
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:54:15 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: "First Commercial"

Philip Railsback wonders,

So to make absolutely sure, I'll check right now -- is there a
recording of this commercial?

No. The earliest surviving genuine recording of a voice broadcast dates
to November 1923. There is a recreation of part of the so-called "first
commercial," however --  it was made at WNBC (the former WEAF) in 1952 as
part of a special program observing the thirtieth anniversary of the
broadcast. Clips of this excerpt have been floating around ever since,
muddying the waters for researchers.

Aside from the chronological issues raised by Donna Halper in her
discussion of this subject, I'd add that this broadcast was probably not
what most people would actually think of as a "commercial" in the modern
sense of the word -- it was neither a spot announcement nor a direct
sales pitch. It was, instead, a dry ten minute talk on the philosophy of
Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it applies to the idea of getting away from
the unhealthy life in the cities. The sales pitch for the apartments was
indirect to the extreme -- at the very beginning of the talk, the speaker
acknowledged that the Queensboro Realty Company was paying tribute to
Hawthorne's ideals by naming its new cooperative apartment complex in his
honor, and then went on for the next ten minutes to discuss the benefits
of suburban living. The closest thing to a sales appeal came in the final
paragraphs of the talk:

"Imagine a congested city apartment lifted bodily to the middle of a
large garden within twenty minutes travel of the city's business center.
Imagine the interior of a group of such apartments traversed by a garden
court stretching a block, with beautiful flower beds and rich sward. so
that the present jaded congested section dweller on looking out his
windows is not chilled with the brick and mortar vista, but gladdened and
enthused by colors and scents that make life worth living once more.
Imagine an apartment to live in at a place where you and your neighbor
join the same community clubs, organizations, and activities, where you
golf with your neighbor, tennis with your neighbor, bowl with your
neighbor and join him in a long list of outdoor and indoor
pleasure-giving health-giving activities.

"And finally, imagine such a tenant-owned apartment, where you own a
floor in a house the same as you can own an entire house with a
proportionate ownership of the ground, the same as the ground attatched
to an entire house but where you have great spaces for planting and
growing the flowers you love, and raising the vegetables for which you
are fond.

"Right at your door is such an opportunity. It only requires the will to
take advantage of it all. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to your
family to leave the hemmed-in, sombre-hued, artificial apartment life of
the congested city section and enjoy what nature intended you enjoy.

"Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York, recently
declared that any person who preached leaving the crowded city for the
open country was a public-spirited citizen and a benefactor to the race.
Shall we not follow this advice and become the benefactors he praises?
Let us resolve to do so. Let me close by urging that you hurry to the
apartment home near the green fields and the neighborly atmosphere right
on the subway without the expense and the trouble of a commuter, where
health and community happiness beckon -- the community life and friendly
environment that Hawthorne advocated."

As Donna has demonstrated, this wasn't "the first commercial" by a long
shot -- it was simply the first time to be sold by AT&T for WEAF. But one
shouldn't get the idea that because it wasn't "the first* it wasn't an
extremely important occasion -- AT&T's thought-out philosophy for WEAF,
the idea of "toll broadcasting," was the cornerstone on which the entire
OTR era was constructed -- the idea of a broadcasting station simply
being a "hall for hire," where sponsors could buy blocks of time to
present programs of their own creation. Implementation of this idea was a
major step beyond the experimental philosophies of the other broadcasters
of that time, and toward the creation of a self-sufficient broadcasting
industry. AT&T clearly spelled out this plan in a press release in
January of 1922:

"The American Telephone and Telegraph Company will provide no program of
its own, but provide the channels thru which anyone with whom it makes a
contract can send out their own [removed] have been many requests
for such a service, not only from newspapers and entertainment agencies
but also from department stores and a great variety of business houses
who wish to utilize this means of distribution."

It took AT&T six months to actually get its station on the air -- and
another month beyond that to make the first sale -- but the *idea* was
clearly in place well in advance. Regardless of who was actually the
first broadcaster to log a sale, AT&T was clearly in the vanguard of
promoting what became "commerical broadcasting."

Elizabeth

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:55:48 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Yeast Eating

David Jewett wonders:

"East three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast daily."

I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

In the 1920s, Standard Brands was looking for a new way to market yeast
-- and copywriters at J. Walter Thompson siezed on recent research on the
vitamin content of the product to promote eating it as a dietary
supplement and as an aid to proper digestion. If you look thru any
national magazine of the late twenties or early thirties, you'll find ads
on this theme, usually featuring a Famous European Medical Specialist in
lab coat, nose glasses, and pointy beard discussing how eating three
cakes of yeast daily will cleanse your system of noxious poisons and
eliminate ugly skin eruptions. In Fleischmann's radio advertising on the
Vallee program, Dr. R. E. Lee filled this role, presenting one-minute
talks that always stressed the health benefits of yeast consumption.

Yeast-eating became a major fad in the twenties, and there were a number
of knockoff products -- Yeast Foam Tablets, Ironized Yeast, and the most
noxious-sounding of all, the Tastyeast candy bar: a bar of compressed
yeast covered in chocolate. All of these yeast products were widely
advertised on radio, and helped contribute to the mid-thirties backlash
against graphic discussions of intestinal blockage in radio commercials.

There are still yeast-eaters today, as a trip to any well-stocked health
food store will demonstrate. I used to know a man of the 1930s generation
who well into the 1980s had the habit of picking up cakes of
Fleischmann's Yeast from the supermarket shelves while shopping with his
wife, gobbling them down, and then handing the empty foil wrappers over
to the puzzled checkout clerk.

Elizabeth

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:01 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Slogans

Russ Butler submits:

I'll betcha the answer to Elizabeth's trivia
question # 8 [removed]"Hershey'[removed] a bar of
chocolate for five cents"

Close -- very close. But not quite.

"XXXXX -- What a bar of candy for five cents!"

One last hint -- it was a product of the Peter Paul Company, which began
using this slogan around 1939. The product sponsored local newscasts on
NBC owned-and-operated stations during the mid forties, alternating with
Peter Paul Activated Charcoal Chewing Gum.

Elizabeth

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:28 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  HARRY BARTELL

    Enjoyed Harry's tongue-in-cheek remark that he is 88 and has been
interested in OTR for 71 years!
    God love him!
    What disturbed me a little though, was his mentioning that he had "30
cassettes."
    That almost broke my little radio heart.
    C'mon people, what is a guy like Harry Bartell, who embodies the very
spirit of radio itself, what is a guy like him doing with ONLY 30 CASSETTES!!!
    Unless, of course, that is all that he desires.
    Dear Mr. Bartell, would you be kind enough to state your 'druthers as
regards some programs that you might like to have?
    God knows there are many of us who see to it that you get them, and the
very best copies too!!
    And also, would you kind enough to accept our thanks for your work?
                 <A HREF="[removed],+Michael+C.">Michael
C. Gwynne</A>

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:45 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Queensboro commercial

Philip Railsback asks:
 > is there a recording of this commercial?

There is a recreation. I have a copy somewhere, but I don't believe the
original actually exists.

Jim Widner
jwidner@[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:57:06 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  BROADWAY & 9TH AVENUE

    Broadway and 9th Avenue run parallel and do not meet in the Upper West
side, or anywhere.
    It is more likely that he is referring to the Lower East Side where
Broadway and E. 9th Street constitute one of the greatest melting pots in the
country back then.
    I still like to go to Katz's Deli and fall into a sinful and delicious
Pastrami and sour pickle feast.
    Sigh.
                    Gwynne

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:59:23 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  SUPES themes

Folks-
Wanted to second most of what A. Tollin said; meant to write much the same,
but I have to go thru this inane extra AOL MAIL [removed]
One caveat: tho the underscoring of the TV show was library, I believe the
main theme was original?
Best,
Craig Wichman


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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:42:31 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Yeast

David Jewett asks:
Regarding commercial slogans, someone mentioned:
"East three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast daily."
I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

During the depression malnutrition was a major health issue. Many did not
have enough to eat and consequently were deprived of vitamin fortification
one normally got through regular diet. I believe there was a government
study at the time that showed that less than 25 percent of Americans were
getting proper nutrition.

Much of the baking products up until the late 30's were processed to the
point that nutritional values were practically nil. Yeast, going back to
the twenties had been considered and was tauted as such as a health food
with strong vitamin content. Products such as Ironized Yeast had campaigns
devoted to increased weight gains equaling increased nutrition. Thus their
"Don't Be Skinny" campaign as well as Fleischmann's "Eat Yeast For Health."
Odd products such as Yeast tablets were offered.

Look at a lot of the major advertisers on radio during the thirties into
the forties: Fleischmann, Ironized Yeast, Horlick's Cocomalt, Ovaltine and
others. All promoted their product as high nutritional supplements mostly
from a perspective that weight gain is important for proper nutrition.

Jim Widner
jwidner@[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:43:12 -0400
From: "David  Jewett" <davidrj@[removed];
To: "oldradio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  My little typo, age, etc

Nuts. On my tongue-in-cheek comment the other day about eating yeast, I
typo-ed the first word.

The commercial slogan, of course, was "Eat three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast
daily!"

I still wonder why anyone would want to do that.

Maybe that typo was my age showing up.

I was born in 1937, but am not sure how old I am since I am really bad at
math! Besides, I don't really want to know. I recall I was 39 for many
years.

Seriously, have loved radio since I was a kid. Listened to anything and
everything, and now an avid collector for years, reliving those wonderful
days.

When there was a chance to stay home from school (a sore throat, maybe), I
would spend the day near the radio. Listened to things like "Queen for a
Day," game shows, etc. I liked an afternoon comedy show starring Jack
Kirkwood. Does anyone remember it? Maybe it was just West Coastal.

When I grew up I got a job on a daily newspaper, writing about radio and TV.
How cool was that?

Anyway, I read this OTR digest every day and enjoy immensely.

I'll try and contribute [removed]

Now, what about eating yeast?

Dave J.

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:48:18 -0400
From: Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Superman theme and age

Thanks for posting the Superman ep Roger. I've DLed it but not listened yet.

Re: my age, I already have bifocals!

Joe Salerno

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:04:31 -0400
From: "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  a renaissance for OTR format???

I was listening to a local talk-show on my way home from work the other day and
the host said something that peaked my interest.  He said that Internet
browsing by the general public was clearly taking a "toll" on television
viewing.  He also said that many people he knows choose to listen to the radio
while browsing ... and that many of them bemoan the fact that the same dramatic
presentations on TV don't have radio counterparts.

Got me to thinking.  Could the Internet be the OTR-format's best friend in
disguise?  And, could rejection of the "tube" in favor of the "monitor" signal
a resurgence of interest in audio programming of a dramatic nature?  I suppose
it's possible.  I doubt if radio will ever recapture the listenership it once
had ... but, we might be witnessing the beginning of a balancing act.  Food for
thought.

Regards,
J. Alec West

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:05:16 -0400
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  THANK YOUS/BOB HOPE/TOMMY RIGGS

First, I want to thank all of the posters who sent me "Happy Birthday"
wishes last week.  It sure did make this old "trouper" feel real good, that
you thought enough to send a greeting.  Thank you!
* **********************************************************************

If any one wants to send Bob Hope an e-mail get-well, his address is:
admin@[removed]  He will answer U eventually, as I received an answer from
him last year on his Birthday.
* **********************************************************************

I am sure we are familiar with the comedy radio performances of Edgar Bergan
and Paul Winchell, and their alter egos, Charlie McCarthy. and Jerry
Mahoney,  But little has been said or written  of the team of Tommy Riggs &
Betty Lou.  I know he appeared on many radio shows in guests spots - but -
does anyone ever recall him to have a show of his own.  I vaguely remember
him on an early Ed Sullivan TV show. He was a great Vantriliquist, with hos
little girl "partner," Betty Lou."  He seems to have vanished into thin air.

Owens

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:06:03 -0400
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  AN EVENING WITH OTR

If there is anyone in the Baltimore, Washington, DC, York, PA, and DE areas
If you want to spend a delightful evening with OTR, The Golden Radio Buffs
will be presenting 2 live performances of OTR scripts, One is a recreation
and the other writtem by yours truly. THe date is Saturday, Sept. 15, at
7:30 PM. The two scripts are "The Great Gildersleeve", & "Vamp Til Ready,"
(which is set in a radio studio during the hey-day of radio).   If
Interested, contact me at my email address, and I will send you full details
by email. Thanks.

Owens

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:06:07 -0400
From: dabac@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Spoof

Recently a poster mentioned listening to the Golden Age of Radio
Theater, which I used to listen to & enjoy also. I remember that the
host of the program once made mention of a spoof of radio soap operas
that he recalled as being aired for a short time around the mid-forties.
At the time he did`nt quite recollect the title but thought it may have
been something such as "Great Guns".  Does anyone remember such a
program or know of any other spoof-type shows?   Thanks -Dan

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:08:20 -0400
From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WEAF and Spot Commercials

Phil Railsback asks about the availability of a recording of the "first"
radio commercial on NYC's WEAF, the announcement selling apartments in
Jackson Heights, NY:

There *is* a re-creation of the commercial that sounds a lot like what would
have aired on
the AT&T-owned, NYC radio [removed],
didn't the real estate company "sponsor" a
15-minute program of music? Early radio
advertising broadcast time was only sold
in five-minute minimums, not 30 or 60-second spots.

Spot commercials were not aired until the Pepsi-Cola "hits the
[removed] as much for a [removed], nickel, nickel" 30-second
jingle was aired first on a New Jersey station in September, 1933,  That's
when the 12-ounce, Pepsi bottle was introduced and sold for a nickel to
compete with Coca-Cola's "five cent,
pause that refreshes" theme for a six ounce bottle!

Incidentally, the 30-second jingle was produced
for only $2,500 by Walter Mack.  The music was
an old English hunting song, "D'Ye Ken John Peel"
updated by Alan Bradley Kent and Austen Herbert Croom to become one of the
most famous radio
jingles in advertising history.

By 1935, the Pepsi jingle had been broadcast 296,426 times in various
versions, a Latin beat for Hispanic audiences, a twang for country music
fans, and Pepsi sales were up phenomenally wherever the jingles were heard
in radio markets that broadcast them. It was even allowed to be broadcast on
NYC's leading classical music station, WQXR, albeit was rendered sedately on
a solo celeste in keeping with the "classical" format.

Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:08:35 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Yeast

I asked my mother if she knew why people ate yeast, and she said the doctor
told her mother to give her at least one cake per day after she had pneumonia
to help build her strength back up. My mother is not much of a bread eater to
this day, and she said it's because of that.

Charlie

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:29:20 -0400
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Superman Themes (slightly OT)

A. Joseph Ross wrote:
The radio show didn't have theme music at first, but it did eventually.
After I first heard it, I assumed that the TV show theme must have been
written as a variation on the radio theme.  I find it hard to believe that
it was just generic library music, not intended for Superman.  But since
Graham Newton is the expert, I assume he will know the true facts.

I'm looking forward to Mr. Newton's expertise.  Meanwhile here's the lowdown
from another expert: Paul Mandell, from his liner notes to "ADVENTURES OF
SUPERMAN: Music From the Original 1950's Television Series" (on Varese
Sarabande, and HIGHLY recommended):

* ****
Before television, there were two SUPERMAN themes: Sammy Timberg's "Superman
March" for Paramount's theatrical cartoons, and William Grant Still's "March
of Fate" for Columbia's SUPERMAN serials.  Neither could be used for TV.

The credited composer of the SUPERMAN TV theme is Leon Klatzkin.  Frankly,
the credit is troublesome.  Klatzkin's job on SUPERMAN was to select Mutel
(the "MUsic for TELevision" library) tracks and tell the editors where to
place them.  According to David Chudnow (owner of the Mutel library), "Leon
was working as a music cutter for television.  He'd look at a show, pick the
cues off my turntable, and write out an order.  Then he'd give me the cue
sheet.  That's all he did."

This much is known: the "Superman Theme" was orchestrated and recorded in
New York by Jack Shaindlin in 1952.  Which comes as no surprise: it's
strikingly similar to those whopping Mutel cues which are believed to have
come from Shaindlin.  The "Superman Theme" can even be heard in (four other
cues).  If Klatzkin actually wrote it, he clearly based it on that motif.
Some feel it may have been prewritten by one of Shaindlin's ghost writers.
The truth, it seems, has been borne away by time and lost in the darkness
and distance.

* ****
Mr. Newton, if you have more information, I'd be delighted to hear about it
off-line.

Michael J. Hayde

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:41:48 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  HARRY BARTELL

Heard our very own Harry Bartell on one of the 'Dirty Saturday' Gunsmoke
rehearsals.

                  Sandy Singer
          A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:41:59 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  otr fan demographics

Bet, if a study were to be made, us OTR'ers, no matter what the age,
would score extremely high in imagination -- that's why we're such
interesting folk.

                  Sandy Singer
          A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:42:28 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  CURLEY BRADLEY & SAM COWLING

When Curley Bradley sang "Take a tip from Tawm, Goand tell your Mom:
Shredded Ralston cain't be beat"...

That's exactly how Curley talked.  We lived in a 'show-biz' area of
Chicago -- Curley lived next door and the Breakfast Club's Sam Cowling
lived two doors away.  Guess it was my early exposure to these two that
got me in to this crazy business.  Actually, Marvin Miller was
responsible for getting me my very first gig in '43.

                  Sandy Singer
          A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:42:36 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hershey's Candy Bar

And who will ever forget the night Lowell Thomas spoke of those people in
the chocolate factory -- with and without [removed]

                  Sandy Singer
          A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:43:36 -0400
From: Roger Lorette <webmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  James Stewart in Six Shooter

JOSEPH  ANDOLINA, JR  wrote:

Does anybody know a site where I can download some mp3's of James Stewart's
Six Shooter?  Pat French (Jim French's wife) is interested in hearing the
series. She and Stewart had befriended each other when she and Jim were in
Hawaii years back. I've gotten her various other radio appearances he made,
but would love to get some Six Shooters.  Any help would be appreciated.

My site doesn't support downloading but it does contain nearly the entire run
(38 shows) of "Six Shooter" in Real Audio format for listening while online.
If you can't find a site to download them from then visit [removed]
for listening.

Roger Lorette
webmaster@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:53:52 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Some people ask why ...."

Dave Jewett, referencing the commercial suggesting folk eat three cakes
of Fleischmann's Yeast daily, inquires,

I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

Well, why not?  :-)

Actually, yeast cakes were touted as a health food in the 1930s and
1940s.  As was Cod Liver Oil,

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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