Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #323
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/4/2001 9:03 AM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 323
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Evolution of the Sitcom           [ GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@ ]
      Turned their back on radio            [ Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed]; ]
      Re: RKO Radio Pictures                [ Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ lois@[removed] ]
      OTR for Kids                          [ "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback ]
      Welles Begatting LP                   [ Paulurbahn@[removed] ]
      James Arness on Radio?                [ Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed]; ]
      could a new war bring back radio?     [ Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed]; ]
      Paladin, Paladin, Where Do You Roam?  [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Re: I deserve 50 lashes               [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      Welles: Begatting                     [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
      Re: Begatting of the [removed]     [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
      OTR for kids                          [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      Paladin                               [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      PAUL MCGRATH                          [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      re Begatting                          [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      OTR Talk                              [ "John Burns" <[removed]@sympatico ]
      Ted Davenport                         [ "John A. Southard" <jsouthard@[removed] ]
      The Begatting of the President        [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      OTR Credits                           [ "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed]; ]
      Listening to OTR via the Radio        [ "Sara Long" <smlong@[removed]; ]
      Re: "Wire Paladin"                    [ Alan Bell <bella@[removed]; ]
      Re: Begatting of the [removed]     [ Alan Bell <bella@[removed]; ]
      KIDS RADIO; IT'S ALIVE AND FLOURSHIN  [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      WHISTLER                              [ "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@charter- ]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:31:02 -0400
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Evolution of the Sitcom

         Don't at least some of the roots of radio and
    television situation comedy trace back to the great
    newspaper comic strips of the 1920s? Here we already
    have Mom and Pop and the kids, the abrasive boss,
    funny neighbors, and so on, in comedy situations
    depending as much on narration and dialogue as on
    graphics.

         George Wagner
         GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:30:55 -0400
    From: Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Turned their back on radio

    I once asked my Mom, who was born in 1909 about here recollections
    of listening to the radio. She really could not remember any
    particular programs that stuck in her mind as being favorites. I
    do remember as I was growing up we did listen to the radio a lot,
    and I remember her listening to the soaps in the day as she worked
    around the house. I would hurry home from school to get my farm
    chores done so I could listen to the juvenile serials in the
    afternoon. I remember listening to the Lone Ranger, the Green
    Hornet, Jack Armstrong, Space Patrol, ect., ect., ect., but do not
    really remember many details. I remember we would listen to the
    night time shows, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Can You Top This?, Our
    Miss Brook, and ect., but if you ask me to recall details of any
    particular show I cannot do it. The one thing my Mother did
    remember quite vividly was hearing radio for the first time. She
    was a young girl and an Uncle purchased a set that required head
    phones to listen. He would place the head phones in a #3 metal
    wash tub (without the water of course), and they would all set
    around the tub and listen. I imagine the program content was 'very
    clean'.

    Bill Harris

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:31:26 -0400
    From: Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: RKO Radio Pictures

    Ray Erlenborn commented:

>     I'm surprised that no one has sent in the RKO morse code signal. I only
>     have a
>     short memory of the code, but I do know that R is  ._, and O is  ___ and
>     A is  ,_   so for seventy years or so I have known that the signal was
>     RKO RADIO PICTURES. They repeated the  ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,,
>     of the letter S at the end.

    I put my copy of "Flying Down To Rio", with Fred Astaire and
    Deloris Del Rio in the VCR but the beginning of the RKO logo
    garbled, but I was able to copy the word PICTURE and then the
    letter V (dit dit dit dah) repeated four times.

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:31:53 -0400
    From: lois@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

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    Our numerous "regulars" include one of the busiest "golden years" actors in
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    and Me

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    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, 3 Oct 2001 11:32:03 -0400
    From: "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR for Kids

    Family Theater would probably be good for kids.  I've only heard a couple of
    episodes, but it seems to be a very well produced show. Many of the episodes
    are adapations of well known stories.

    Anyone know if there is a log available for Family Theater?

      - Philip

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:32:38 -0400
    From: Paulurbahn@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Welles Begatting LP

    Ted wrote:

>     Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
>     begatting of the President"?  A friend asked me today if I know of such a
>     recording.

    It's available on ebay for $[removed]

    Paul Urbahns
    paulurbahn@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:46:30 -0400
    From: Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  James Arness on Radio?

    James Arness mentions in his new book that he began as a radio announcer.
    Does anyone perhaps recall ever hearing him then?  That would have been in
    the early 1940's.   Yesterday USA will interview him this coming Sunday for
    anyone interested.  Time is about 8:00 [removed] Eastern at [removed].
    The same evening Classics & Curios will feature music from a Bing Crosby
    show with the Dorseys.

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:47:03 -0400
    From: Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  could a new war bring back radio?

    I hope to God the world doesn't become involved in a
    'holy' war, and that terrorism can be stamped out (as
    much as possible anyway). But I wondered if there Is a
    WW3, if it would bring back radio, because of its
    ability to be heard by Anyone, even soldiers on the
    move, etc, like Armed Forces Radio did/does for
    troops.

    Yes, radio is still alive and with us, but I meant
    fiction programs, something besides music and talk
    radio. Could otr become new time radio?

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

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:04:14 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Paladin, Paladin, Where Do You Roam?

    Mark Kinsler, speaking of the TV and OTR hero of Have Gun, Will Travel,
    observes,

>     I believe that it was always implied that Paladin wasn't his name at
>     all: a 'paladin' is sort of a hired hero of the samuri variety.  I think
>     the term comes from Middle Eastern literature somewhere.

    A paladin was one of the 12 greatest knights ("peers") of the court of
    Charmagne.  Rather like the Knights of the Round Table in King Arthur's
    court.  The greatest of the paladins was Roland (or, in Ariosto's poem,
    Orlando Furioso  [Orlando Mad {insane}] Orlando).  By extension, a great
    knight is sometimes referred to as a paladin.  Note that the business
    card of the hero of those radio/TV programs had a picture of a chess
    piece on it -- a knight.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:04:53 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: I deserve 50 lashes

>     From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
>     To: <[removed]@[removed];
>     Subject:  Re: Kids Show

>     on 10/1/01 8:54 AM, OldRadio Mailing Lists at
>     [removed]@[removed] wrote:

    Help!. Please don't send any more e-mails about the terrible mistake I made
    in my last Digest posting. Mea Culpa, I'm beside myself with embarrassment.
    I [removed] BIG TIME APOLOGIES ARE DUE TO TED DAVENPORT.

    When I responded to "Scott Eberbach" when he requested input about some
    Radio Programs that would appeal to "kids", I made an unpardonable goof. I
    suggest he get some copies of the "Archie Andrews" program and maybe he
    should contact the good guy OTR Dealer Ted Davenport. But instead of giving
    Ted's e-mail address as "RADIO MEMORIES", I wrote Radio Spirits instead.

    I can only offer two plausible explanations for my very dumb mistake.

    A) I was experiencing a "senior moment" at the time.

    B) I had Carl Amari on my mind, because I have a bone to pick with him.

    By the way. I heard a rumor that Carl Amari was no longer affiliated with
    "Spirits". Any substance to that rumor?

    In [removed] Ted, can you ever forgive me?

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:05:20 -0400
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Welles:  Begatting

    Ted Kneebone asks:

    Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
    begatting of the President"?

    Yep. It was about Nixon, not Reagan.  It came out in 1969, and you can
    get a still-sealed copy at this site for seven bucks plus shipping:

    [removed]

    ---Dan

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:06:18 -0400
    From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Begatting of the [removed]

    In a message dated 10/3/01 10:04:39 AM, Ted Kneebone asks:

>     Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
>     begatting of the President"?  A friend asked me today if I know of such a
>     recording.  He did not know if it has been broadcast or not, but said he
>     recalls that it was done during the Reagan administration.

    ***Yes, I have it.  I bought the LP when it first came out in 1969, but it's
    about Richard Nixon, not Ronald Reagan.  It's a political satire record with
    Welles recounting Nixon's career in pseudo-biblical verse.  It was released
    by Mediarts Records and the text was published by Ballantine Books. --ANTHONY
    TOLLIN***

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:10:45 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR for kids

    I'm really surprised that no one has yet mentioned the obvious: LET'S
    PRETEND.

    Barbara

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:15:18 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Paladin

    Mark Kinsler wrote:

>     I believe that it was always implied that Paladin wasn't his name at all: a
>     'paladin' is sort of a hired hero of the samuri variety.  I think the term
>     comes from Middle Eastern literature somewhere.  Might be Turkish or Arabic.

    In a way, Mark's right.  Paladin wasn't his real name, and many times on
    both radio and television, characters in episodes suggested "Paladin" wasn't
    real.  When the man in black met up with Phineas Fogg from Around the World
    in Eight Days (episode entitled "Fogg Bound"), Fogg was introduced to
    Paladin and remarked that Americans often use an alias to protect their own
    identities when hiding from something or someone.  Paladin smiled when he
    heard that.

    Part of the mystery of the series is his real name, never given. One of the
    biggest misconceptions is the business card that mentioned "Wire Paladin,
    San Francisco."  Wire was not Paladin's first name, that was merely the
    method customer could use to get in touch with him.

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:22:18 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  PAUL MCGRATH

        Regarding the lengthy list of under-appreciated or under-regarded radio
    players, surely Paul McGrath must be included.
        In my opinion, one born many years ago when I first heard him on the air,
    must have been 1950 or so, in my opinion, his vocal talent and acting ability
    have been overlooked and I for one would like to state that.
        Does anyone even have a picture of this man?
        I would love to see one. Please contact me if you have any photos at all
    of this mystery man.
        Thanks.
                Gwynne

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:22:46 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re Begatting

    Ted asked,

>     Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
>     begatting of the President"?  A friend asked me today if I know of such a
>     recording.  He did not know if it has been broadcast or not, but said he
>     recalls that it was done during the Reagan administration.

    "The Begatting of the President" was a comedy LP record that, I
    believe, satirized the 1968 election of Nixon; it came out in
    1969.
    The Center for American History at the Univ. of TX at Austin holds
    a copy.  Its bibliographic record lists it as performed by Welles
    and written by Myron Roberts and Sasha Gilien, with music by
    Luchi de Jesus.  It is Mediarts Records number 41-2.

    I never heard this work but I remember it being advertised,
    in (I think) record club listings.  I always gathered that the
    whole thing was sort of like "The First Family Meets the-
    Orson-Welles-who-narrated-King Of Kings."  With a mock-
    biblical cover illustration.
    Very much pre-Reagan, though he _was_ gov. of California
    at the time.

    (As an aside:  During RR's presidency, Earle Doud, creator of
    the original "First Family," produced "The First Family Rides
    Again" with Rich Little doing the voices of Reagan, George Burns,
    Johnny Carson and so on; of course by then comedy records were passe,
    and it didn't make much  of a splash, but it does have several funny
    routines.)

    John Henley
    jhenley@[removed]
    ph  (512) 495-4112
    fax (512) 495-4296

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:23:33 -0400
    From: "John Burns" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Talk

    I'm a lurker who has been enjoying this list and now want to add to the
    discussion. I just turned 56, for the record. Have been a collector for many
    years.  I have spoken about OTR at a Lions Club and some local historical
    society meetings. I created a CD that allows me to play clips to go along
    with a commentary that covers everything from what people collect to the
    technology tools that can be used to collect, catalogue, edit, play, etc OTR
    shows.  Listed below are the clips I have edited into the discussion.  Max
    time for a talk is 45 minutes. So the idea was to pack a whole lot in a
    short period of time.  The audiences range from young "what is OTR" types to
    seniors whose eyes sparkle as the memories flood back.

    I am about to give a talk again in a couple of weeks and am interested in
    comments of what's missing (or more practically needs to be changed as this
    already hits the limit of time avaialble).  I start with an opening set of
    clips that start and end and I ask the audience for the show name and then
    complete the clip (eg McGee's voice saying don't open that door, followed by
    the clatter after someone names the program).  As I go through each segment
    I mention other shows not included. Reference things like Duff'ys Tavern and
    Cheers to bring things into context for those unfamiliar with OTR.  These
    talks are in Toronto and I will be adding a Happy Gang clip as I have had
    that requested at all my talks and I now have a clip to add.  Now that I've
    gone public here, I will probably have to add an Archie clip as well ;-)

    All comments to the list or to me personally are appreciated. Hopefully this
    stays formatted when posted

    Track	Time		Show Date		Title

    Opening
    1	0:06		42-10-04		Jack Benny Opening Part 1
    2	0:38		42-10-04		Jack Benny Opening Part 2
    3	0:18		50-01-05		Dragnet Opening Part 1
    4	0:14		50-01-05		Dragnet Opening Part 2
    5	0:32		43-02-02		Fibber McGee Clip Part 1
    6	0:11		43-02-02		Fibber McGee Opening Part 2
    7	0:25		41-01-26		The Shadow Opening Part 1
    8	0:06		41-01-26		The Shadow Opening Part 2

    History of first Broadcasts
    9	0:25		20-11-02		KDKA First Broadcast Clip
    10	0:11		22-08-28		First Commercial WEAF New York
    11	1:06		26-xx-xx		"First NBC Broadcast with Will Rogers
    12	0:27		29-01-14		Amos and Andy Clip

    History - News
    13	0:32		37-07-20		Marconi Memorial Program
    14	0:37		38-02-10		March of Time
    15	1:53		39-08-28		CBS News
    16	0:24		40-08-24		Ed Murrow on Blackout
    17	0:36		41-12-07		The World Today Pearl Harbor Clip
    18	0:25		41-12-09		FDR Fireside Chat
    19	0:54		43-03-21		Winston Churchill Part
    20	0:53		43-08-16		Raymond Graham Swing

    Entertainment Shows - Kids
    21	0:19		39-12-06		Captain Midnight Opening
    22	0:26		40-02-12		Superman Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Stars
    23	0:10		xx-xx-xx		Adventures of Babe Ruth Opening
    24	0:12		48-10-10		Box 13 Opening
    25	0:23		49-12-24		Richard Diamond Opening
    26	0:19		58-02-23		Bold Venture Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Detective/Police
    27	0:18		53-10-05		GangBusters Opening
    28	0:17		41-06-21		Green Hornet Opening
    29	0:29		43-10-18		Nick Carter Opening
    30	0:10		51-12-21		Harry Lime Opening
    31	0:35		56-09-17		"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"

    Entertainment Shows - Mystery
    32	0:22		41-05-25		Inner Sanctum Opening
    33	0:16		44-09-03		Whistler Opening
    34	0:15		49-12-01		Suspense Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Comedy
    35	0:33		48-01-08		Burns and Allen Opening
    36	0:19		40-07-29		Duffy's Tavern Opening
    37	0:22		48-12-26		Edgar Bergan Opening
    38	0:06		48-05-26		Great Gildersleeve Opening
    39	0:19		49-03-06		Our Miss Brooks Opening
    40	0:16		45-05-10		Lum and Abner Opening
    41	0:11		49-10-05		You Bet Your Life Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Drama/Theatre
    42	1:02		36-06-01		Lux Theatre - The Legionaire and the Lady Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Sci-Fi
    43	0:21		51-08-30		Dimension X Opening

    Entertainment Shows - Westerns
    44	[removed]		53-05-08		Wild Bill Hickcock Opening
    45	0:15		52-07-05		Gunsmoke Opening
    46	0:30		35-08-26		Lone Ranger Opening with Earle Graser

    War of the Worlds
    47	3:36		38-10-30		Mercury Theatre War of the Worlds
    48	2:30		40-10-28		[removed] Wells Meets Orson Welles

    Full Program Added to complete CD
    49	28:56		43-02-14		Jack Benny Program - From Toronto

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:23:46 -0400
    From: "John A. Southard" <jsouthard@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ted Davenport

    I noticed a real boo boo in the last list. Ted Davenport was listed as Radio
    Spirits. It should have been Radio Memories. The rest of the article was
    correct. I have done business with Ted for about a year and he is fast and
    his tapes are top quality. Check him out. his prices are reasonable too.
    John Southard
    jsouthard@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:24:03 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Begatting of the President

    Ted Kneebone wrote:

>     Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
>     begatting of the President"?  A friend asked me today if I know of such a
>     recording.  He did not know if it has been broadcast or not, but said he
>     recalls that it was done during the Reagan administration.

    I remember this (though I don't have a copy of it).  It dates from the late
    1960s or early 1970s.  Orson reads a script recasting then recent history in
    pseudo-biblical language.  I'm sure someone who has a copy will write in
    with more details.

    George

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:24:37 -0400
    From: "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Credits

    Oh golly!   I was always a showbizzy person, and so I paid close attention
    to movie credits and radio credits, back in the old days.   Yeah, I was one
    of the school kids who stayed to watch the closing credits roll as everyone
    else walked out of the movie house.
        But then, I grew up in Britton, South Dakota, where movies and actors
    were regularly discussed during recess at school and over sodas at Howard
    Daken's Drug Store on Main Street.   So, we have Ivan Besse to thank for
    first run movies.
        And the OTR connection?   We talked about the actors in OTR programs,
    too.   We were fascinated that Mr. Boynton on "Our Miss Brooks" was also
    Jeff Chandler, who often played Indians in the movies.   Good casting.   He
    was of Native American descent.    And Chester A. Riley was William
    Bendix -- hey he was in the movies, too!   And on it went!   Willam Gargan
    was the dad who gets back with his wife and daughter in "The Bells of St.
    Mary's"   And he was "Martin Kane, Private Eye" on the radio.
        And what was the theme music to "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar?"   Mr.
    McNeary, our science teacher who "knew everything," said it sounded like
    Samuel Barber's Symphony #1.   So I bought a copy of the Mercury LP with
    Howard Hansen conducting the Rochester Sym Ork.   Nope.  But sure was good
    music.
        Then thanks to this OTR Digest, I was told what it was, thanks to the
    gentleman in Canada.  :)   So, it's all come full circle!

    Best,

    Jim Stokes,
    NaturaLite Pictures,
    who shall return to New York after Thanksgiving to shoot some more scenes to
    "There"s Danger In Romance."

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:24:57 -0400
    From: "Sara Long" <smlong@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Listening to OTR via the Radio

    Hi to all:
    I  live in an area where I can't can't decent radio reception so I  want to
    listen to an NPR radio station via my PC virtually ALL the time. We can
    afford to put in a dedicated telephone line for very little money and have
    the computer running and play whatever stations we want to listen to. (We
    can't afford to buy a separate computer just for this task however.)Since
    there are quite a few stations that broadcast OTR programs during the times
    I want to listen to them, I should be able to hear a lot of great programs.
    Here's my problem: any time I do ANYthing with the computer like typing and
    using different fonts, printing a file, or switching to another software
    program, etc. the sound stops and I can't hear the radio signal. When I'm
    done with my keyboard action, all is well. Does anyone know how to get
    around this? How can I keep the radio signal clean while I use the computer
    at the same time? Replies directly to me are appreciated.
    Thanks.
    Sara Long
    Elkins, West Virginia (where we have lots of tall trees and poor FM radio
    reception)

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:25:19 -0400
    From: Alan Bell <bella@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "Wire Paladin"

    "Mark Kinsler" writes:

>     paladin' is sort of a hired hero of the samuri variety.  I think the term
>     comes from Middle Eastern literature somewhere.  Might be Turkish or Arabic.

    Actually, Paladin is a word that means one of the twelve legendary
    peers of Charlemagne's court, or, more simply, a knight or heroic
    champion. It undoubtedly wasn't his name at all, but his professional
    moniker, like "Prince" or something.
    --
    Alan Bell
    Grandville, MI
    bella@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:25:35 -0400
    From: Alan Bell <bella@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Begatting of the [removed]

>     Anyone know of a recording of Orson Welles doing something called "The
>     begatting of the President"?

    You betcha! Haven't listened to it for a few years, but when it as
    newer, it got listened to A LOT in our house. I still have it.

>     He did not know if it has been broadcast or not, but said he
>     recalls that it was done during the Reagan administration.

    Don't know if it was broadcast, either, though I suppose it was,
    after all it was just a record. Any ASCAP-dues paying station could
    have.

    But it wasn't the Reagan administration, it was the Nixon
    administration, and it was a sort of quasi-Biblical story-telling of
    the infamous campaign of 1968. I thought it was a scream at the time,
    although younger people would be bewildered by a lot of ther
    references. You had to be fairly well tuned into current events and
    names in the news to "get it" even then.
    --
    Alan Bell
    Grandville, MI
    bella@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21:01 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  KIDS RADIO; IT'S ALIVE AND FLOURSHING!

    Those of you who have been looking for OTR - type programs for the young
    ones in your family, there is a URL called Whits End
    [removed] Just log in and clock on
    to your city link and the station and progeams are listed.  In Baltimore,
    they are broadcast over WITH 1230 Daily at 8:00 AM, Sunday at 7:000 AM and
    Saturdays at *:00 AM.

    The programsare called "Adventure In Odyssey.  Chaeck it out.

    Owens

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    Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21:09 -0400
    From: "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WHISTLER

    	Hi anybody,
        I have some 'Whistler' movies and a few  tv shows from early tv if anyone
    is interested in obtaining copies from me just e-mail me .
        Hope to see you all  at [removed] in Newark soon.
    				Till The Next Time,Harold

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