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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 92


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Warblers, Master, and Hartz Canaries 
	 Introduction
	 air checks
	 transcriptions
	 Radio Theater
	 OTR WWW Page in top 5%
	 New Member introduces herself
	 George Burns Obituary
	 When did Jim Jordan die?
	 The Shadow Film
	 The End.

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:08:09 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Warblers, Master, and Hartz Canaries 
Message-ID: <960309060805_241535202@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                   March 9 - 1996 -- Saturday  4:30 AM cst 

In issue 89, Joel Siegel commented that the Hartz Mountain Canaries and 
the American Radio Warblers were competing shows.  While this is entirely
possible, I decided to check some of my reference material rather than 
to rely strictly on my dubious memory.   My reference search yielded 
interesting results. 

Dunning, Buxton-Owen, Terrace, and Rhoads do not mention the Canaries 
at all.  Hickerson and Lackmann both side with me, ie, The American Radio
Warblers and the Hartz Mountain Canaries are one and the same.  Then I 
decided to play my one and only program of the Hartz Mountain Canaries. 
The announcer, Jess Kirkpatrick, refered to the birds as THE MASTER RADIO 
CANARIES.  The Sponsor is Hartz Mountain, so we know for certain that the
Hartz Mountain Canaries are also known as the Master Radio Canaries. 

What about the American Radio Warblers?   Only Hickerson and Lackmann 
mention them in print, but Jay and Ron do not mention the Master Radio 
Canaries.  So, Joel may be correct.  There could have been more than one 
radio show featuring canaries.  

As to what's in the birdseed, Jess said, "... Proper food and proper 
feeding are of greatest importance."  He indicated that there are Eleven 
different seeds (plus other ingredients) in their regular birdseed.  He 
also stated that they sell another seed HARTZ MOUNTAIN SONG RESTORER.  
I wonder if that's the one with the marijuana seed.  

Does anybody have any other Canary programs in their collection?  It would 
be nice to compare broadcasts so we can solve the puzzle of who's who in 
the world of radio canaries. 

Happy Taping -  Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
kenpiletic@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 07:17:29 -0500
From: ORCATMD@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
Message-ID: <960309071725_441961736@[removed]>

Hello everyone.

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mike Dolister and I am a 
customer service rep for a large label printer here in Chicago. I first fell
in love
with otr as a child when I would hurry home from school and quickly do my
homework so I could tune in to Little Orphan Annie and The Lone Ranger
before supper.

I rekindled my love for otr when I met Fred Korb & Ken Piletic and joined
ORCATS (Old Radio Collecters And Traders Society)

After a seven year hiatus from collecting while in Atlanta,GA I returned
to the Chicago area and began collecting again. I have about 10,000
shows in my collection and would like to trade for the ones I don't have

I will be at the Cincinnati convention this April 12-13th and am hoping to
meet many of the members of this list there.

Thank you.
ORCATMD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 07:58:04 -0500
From: VernSchroe@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: air checks
Message-ID: <960309075801_345902076@[removed]>

>From time to time the term "air check" is used. It is quitye obvious what
this is or was; but can anyone tell me more about them and how they were
done?  Where were they made, what type of equipment was used, was it required
by the station management, the networks, sponsors, FCC, or????

For 35 years my late father-in-law was an engineer for WGN in Chicago.  One
day I mentioned "air check" to him and he gave me a puzzled look and said,
"what's that"? So that leads me to believe that not all stations made them.

Can anyone fill me in on the above?

Vern

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:26:51 -0500
From: VernSchroe@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: transcriptions
Message-ID: <960309092651_241582337@[removed]>

I have about 40 16" discs that were cut at WGN in Chicago in 1945,46,47.
 They include a dozen ADVENTURE PARADE, 5 SUPERMAN, 2 GEORGE OLSEN ORCH.,
20th AIRFORCE TIME,  SWEETHEART TIME,  and several WAR BOND MATINEE programs.

One is entitled  "THE HUMAN ADVENTURE', which is a spoof on the life of JACK
BRICKHOUSE which aparrently was made in jest and I am sure was never
broadcast.  
Is quite funny and a little riskee(spelling) for those days.

These were buried in my late father-in-laws basement who as I mentioned
earlier was a 35 year employee of WGN.

Vern

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 12:30:58 -0500
From: Radio41@[removed]
To: OTR@[removed]
Subject: Radio Theater
Message-ID: <960309123058_346052780@[removed]>

Hi all,
Congratulations Lou, on getting top billing on the web. You deserve it.
Just a quick note, The Radio Theater Hour now has a new main sponsor, The
American Movie Channel. Radio is getting back to real entertainment.
Thanks,
Jan Hodges

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Date: 09 Mar 96 17:00:17 EST
From: Alan Chapman <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: OTR WWW Page in top 5%
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:07:07 -0600
>From: lgenco@[removed] (Louis Genco)
>Subject: OTR WWW Page in top 5%
>Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Just received a note from the editors of Point (a WWW page rating service)
>that my Original OTR WWW Page is rated in the top 5% of all web pages!

Congratulations!   It deserves to be there!   Great job, Lou!!  Our thanks to
you!
	x     x     x x x    xxxxx   xxxxx         x         x        x    xx
	x     x    x      x   x     x   x      x      x  x         x     x     xx
	xxxxx   x       x   xxxx     xxxx      xxxxx          x x       xx
	x     x    x     x     x   x    x     x    x        x          x
xx
	x     x     xxx       x     x  x      x  x           x         x        0

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 19:13:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrea Helen Selch <ahs@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: New Member introduces herself
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hello Radio Fans:

My name is Andrea Selch and I have been lurking on OTR for a few weeks 
now. I am a graduate student in English at Duke University. I am writing a 
dissertation on poetry shows on the radio during the Golden Years. As you 
may know, there's not much "out there" on this topic, so I'm hoping you 
all will be able to help me learn more about, you guessed it, Norman 
Corwin, especially his early shows such as "Poetic License" aka "Rymes 
and Cadences" (1936, WQXR) and "Words without Music" (1938 CBS). If there 
are others I'd love to know about them and especially where to find them. 
Also, does anyone know all the places that hold Corwin's papers? I'm also 
interested in Archibald MacLeish--did he read any poetry on the air 
before his verse plays were done by Columbia Workshop? This is probably 
enough questions for [removed]

If you'd like to email me directly, my address is "AHS@[removed]". 

By the way--regarding Mercury theater: Although I know it wasn't 
intended by Welles or his group, Mercury/Hermes is the Roman/Greek god 
responsible for the invention of writing--orginally, "writing" was 
divined by the shapes birds made flying through the air, or, "on the air" 
as it were. A nice thought, since radio is words flying through the air. 

Andrea Selch

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:14:17 -0500
From: MVHaas@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: George Burns Obituary
Message-ID: <960309201416_241959630@[removed]>

  Here is the obituary of George Burns as posted on America Online Saturday
night. While inevitable, it is always sad to see one of the few remaining
stars of the golden age of radio pass away.    


    LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - George Burns, one of America's best loved and most
enduring entertainers, died Saturday less than two months after celebrating
his 100th birthday. 
    His manager and longtime friend, Irving Fein, said the wisecracking,
cigar-chomping comedian died at his Beverly Hills home at 10 [removed] PST.
``There was no pain, no suffering, thank God,'' Fein said. 
    Burns, who celebrated his 100th birthday Jan. 20, was remembered from
Hollywood to Washington. President Clinton, in a statement issued during a
trip to California, said he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, were
``deeply saddened to learn of the death of one of the great entertainers of
all time.'' 
    ``George Burns' sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts
and funnybones of more than three generations. He enabled us to see humor in
the toughest of times and laugh together as a nation.'' 
    Fellow comedian Milton Berle said Burns would be ''headlining up there in
heaven.'' California Gov. Pete Wilson said, ``George Burns proved that there
is no limit to success or endurance as long as one is blessed with a passion
for work, a refined sense of humor and a passion for a good cigar.'' 
    Burns had been in ill health since July 1994, when he slipped and fell in
the shower at his home in Las Vegas. 
    Burns' frailty earlier caused to him to cancel performances celebrating
his centenary at the London Palladium and Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He
was also too ill with influenza to attend his own 100th birthday bash in
January. 
    But Fein said the Oscar-winning entertainer had been ``doing fine'' in
the days before his death. ``He had been to his office, he had lunched at his
country club and played bridge there as recently as Wednesday,'' Fein said. 
    But at 4:30 [removed] PST (7:30 [removed] EST) his body began to ''quiver'' and his
breathing became very shallow, Fein said. Burns' live-in nurse called his
doctor who arrived shortly afterward and said his heart was ``extremely
weak.'' He died an hour later, Fein said. Burns had previously made it known
that he wanted to die at home and not in a hospital. 
    ``He just faded out,'' said Fein's wife, Marion. ``It was very peaceful.
They couldn't get him up. He was unresponsive and he stayed in a kind of
sleeping posture,'' she added. 
    Fein said Burns would be buried alongside his late wife, radio and TV
star Gracie Allen, at a private funeral service at the Forest Lawn cemetery
in Los Angeles on Tuesday. 
    Paying tribute to his friend of more than 30 years, Fein said: ``He was
one of the greats. He was a man who worked until he was 99, doing night clubs
and TV commercials. He was one of a kind. He will be greatly missed.'' 
    Burns essentially had two careers, one that started with his wife and
partner, Gracie Allen, on radio and television, and a second as a movie star,
recording artist and author that began when he was 80. 
    ``When you're hot, you're hot. I made more money in my 80s than at any
time in my career,'' Burns once said. 
    For 19 years Burns and Allen appeared on radio and television, Allen
playing a daffy, scatterbrained wife and Burns the bemused, tolerant husband
and straight man. 
    ``All I had to do was listen,'' Burns said. ``I'd throw in a 'Your
brother did what?' or 'You don't say' and Gracie would take it from there.'' 
    When Allen died in 1964 at the age of 58, Burns said he had to start
working again. ``My talent up to that point was in marrying Gracie,'' said
Burns, who visited Allen's grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery regularly for the
rest of his life. 
    But it was the death of his best friend, comedian Jack Benny, that saw
the rebirth of Burns as a celebrity, bringing him to the attention of a whole
new generation. 
    Benny was slated for the role of a retired comedian in the film version
of Neil Simon's ``The Sunshine Boys,'' which went instead to Burns, who had
last appeared in a film in 1939. 
    Burns won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance, and his
career soared. He toured the United States and made a number of trips to
Europe for concerts, in which he sang, danced a little and told stories. 
    ``Audiences were afraid that if they didn't applaud I'd drop dead on
stage,'' said the man with the first Social Security card, issued with the
Roman Numeral I. 

    Reuters/Variety  18:12 03-09-96

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:03:46 -0800
From: MikeTimble@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: When did Jim Jordan die?
Message-ID: <960309180345_27427999@[removed]>

Does anyone have the actual date of Jim Jordan's passing. I thought it was on
April 1 a few years back?

Thanks!

Mike Timble
Chicago

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:07:10 -0800
From: MikeTimble@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Shadow Film
Message-ID: <960309180709_27428640@[removed]>

Right before the Shadow movie starring Alec Baldwin was released, I saw a
preview for the film in the theatre. The gist of the preview was a forboding
voice reciting a poem of sorts that included the line "What evil lurks in the
hearts of [removed]".  It was very dramatic.

First, does anyone remember this [removed]

Is this poem based on the classic Shadow episodes or pulp books or was it a
new construct to promote the movie?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Mike Timble
Chicago

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 21:31:22 -0500
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The End.
Message-ID: <960309213122_164701763@[removed]>

This morning I heard from my mother (on my answering machine) that my
grandmother in Maine is in critical condition and will be dead very soon.  I
had minimal reaction to this.  My grandmother has been mentally ill for years
-- she has something like alzheimer's but isn't -- and she didn't even
recognize my mother when she last visited.  Except biologically, her life has
been over for years now and the fact of her death is more an epilogue than an
ending.

So I called my father, manning the homefront while my mother heads off to
Maine, acknolwedged the situation and waited for news.

Then I sat down to watch some television with my girlfriend while eating
lunch.  The first channel I flipped by was CNN Headline News and the chirons
on the screen said, "George Burns, Dead at 100."

I started to cry and didn't stop for several minutes.  I kept telling myself
it was stupid for a grown man who didn't blink an eye when he heard his own
grandmother was dying was now helplessly in tears over someone he had never
met.

A little later, CNN ran an interview with Irving Fein, who commented on how
well George seemed yesterday, and how happy George was that his book was
doing so well on the New York Times Bestseller List. (it's a fine book, by
the way, I bought it when it first came out).

And that was when I realized why my grandmother's death means so little to me
and death of a total stranger means so much.  Because Burns was still doing
his life's work when his life was taken from him.  He was still making us
laugh.  That's why the passing of a 100-year-old man who had one of the
greatest, most productive lives of any American since Edison is still
saddening.  You can't say he did it all and then left with a smile, because
he wasn't done doing it yet.

And of course, for us, he was the last of the great radio comedians who was
still doing that.  Even if he could only communicate with us through print,
you could still hear his voice as you read his jokes.  You could still fill
in for the late Jack Benny and fall  on the floor laughing.

The last word, I suppose, is that for Burns the fact that his passing caused
so many who never knew him to mourne him as a relative, means that he did
something pretty spectacular with his life.  And, like all of the other
greats who have passed recently from Phil Harris to Ginger Rogers to Gene
Kelly, his work is eternal.

Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]

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