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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 392

Table Of Contents: 

	 Danny Kay on Jack Benny
	 Re: "HERE WE GO AGAIN," HARLAN ELLISON, WAR OF THE WORLDS
	 Looking for programs
	 Music Till Dawn
	 Gregory Hood
	 War Of The Worlds On CD
	 #OTR Chat
	 FOTR Convention
	 @ The FOTR Convention
	 Catching Up
	 Query about 15min. Fibber McGee Shows
	 VCR alert - "The Night That Panicked America"

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 05:31:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Bruce Toews <toews@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Danny Kay on Jack Benny
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Danny Kay guest starred on Jack Benny on 3/6/55.

Bruce

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:06:14 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "HERE WE GO AGAIN," HARLAN ELLISON, WAR OF THE WORLDS
Message-ID: <961016090614_212356575@[removed]>

Tom Barnett asks if any members have videotapes of Fibber McGee & Molly's
HERE WE GO AGAIN.  I do, also courtesy of AMC.  Email me after the FOTR
convention.  
     At least one HARLAN ELLISON story was adapted on the 1960s South African
science fiction radio series SF68.
     Radio Spirits recently set their engineers to work to upgrade Orson
Welles' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast for their recent THE SMITHSONIAN
COLLECTION-OLD TIME RADIO SCIENCE FICTION resulting in the best sound
recording so far.  The collection also features a 60 page booklet on radio
science fiction by yours truly, Anthony Tollin.  Say hello at FOTR 

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:10:19 -0400
From: acosentini@[removed]
To: otr@[removed] 
Subject: Looking for programs
Message-ID: <264df8b0@[removed]>
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     I've been contacted by, The Lennon Documentary Group. They are in the 
     process of putting a documentary series about the Irish in America. 
     Part of the series main focus will be Al Smith and his career. In 
     particular his 1928 run against Herbert Hoover. Anyway they need the 
     following radio or audio clips. If you can help out call Beth Levison 
     at 212-501-7878 or fax at 212-501-7879. (Another great PBS show in the 
     works)
     
     Abie's Irish Rose
     Bishop Canon, 1928
        Canon speaking out against Al Smith, Irish & Catholics
        And pro prohibition
     George M. Cohan
        Singing "Yankee Doodle Boy"
     Herbert Hoover
        From the 1928 campaign
     FDR
        "Happy Warrior" speech 1/27/28
     Al Smith
        Audio of and about him
     Rev. John Roach Straton
        Any audio of or about him
     Rev. Billy Sunday
        Any audio of or about him
     Mayor Jimmy Walker
        Particularly, Walker singing "Will you love me in December"
     Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
        Any audio of or about her
     Popular Radio programs from 1928
     Speeches for or against Al Smith
     Speeches against prohibition, Irish and Catholics
     Evangelist speaking against Al Smith 
     
     I have no vested interest in this project. I just want to help the 
     world through Old Time Radio :)

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 8:32:32 -0400
From: "MACHARG, KEN" <kmacharg@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Music Till Dawn
Message-ID: <32C36432017E1B00@[removed]>

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  The Christian show you are talking about is done by Bill Pierce who
himself is an accomplished trombonist.

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     [removed] Pierce does "Nightsounds", a late night 30 minute 
program of soft Christian music and spoken comments which is carried by 
many Christian stations in the [removed] and on shortwave by HCJB. I haven't 
heard the Music Till Dawn program regularly, but when I have heard it 
it has not been by Bill Pierce. Interesting, this past summer I heard 
the Music Till Dawn program on a Saturday AFTERNOON on a station in 
Ohio. Oh well, best wishes to all. --Ken MacHarg

Kenneth D. MacHarg  
Casilla 17-17-691  
Quito, Ecuador
Kmacharg@[removed]
FAX: 593-2-447-263                        
Phone: 593-2-466-808

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:09:34 -0400
From: IDickerson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gregory Hood
Message-ID: <961016100932_128071629@[removed]>

Is there a kind soul out there who'd be able to give me a very brief of
summary about the show "The Casebook of Gregory Hood".

Brief? Who starred in it, who produced it, who wrote [removed]

Thanks,

Ian Dickerson,
Honorary Secretary, The Saint Club (and biographer of Bruce taylor)

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:14:02 +0000
From: "F. Charles Simar" <FCharlesSimar@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: War Of The Worlds On CD
Message-ID: <[removed]@DEFAULT>
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Yes there is a very good version of War Of The Worlds on CD (also on
cassette, but I prefer CD's) through
Adventures In Cassettes (which I might add that I have had NO problems with
in the few years that I have
dealt with this company).  BTW:  I just got the new AIC w/Jack Benny on the
cover.  I LOVE the new format
of the catalog.  Lots of great new stuff!  8'>                

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 96 10:37 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OTR Chat
Message-Id: <m0vDZuC-0008QGC@[removed]>
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REMINDER:  Get together with others for some OTR Chat on IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) Thursday evening, 8 PM EST (5 PM PDT) on Skylink network.  Type /join
#OTR  to get to the chat channel.  

Please realize that if you cant get there just at that time, we are in there
until everyone gives up, has to go to bed, to dinner, or whatever.  Last
Thursday there were people in the channel from 7:40 PM to 11:40 PM [removed]
and out.  We are looking for a large turnout soon!  Come talk about your
favorite subjects, exchange cassettes, learn how things were done in the
Golden Days of Radio - whatever your interest.

If you do not know how to get onto IRC, ask your provider for instructions.
If there is no one at that channel when you first arrive, hang in there and
someone will show up!

A couple of Skylink servers for your use:
[removed]
[removed]
[removed]
[removed]

Lois Culver (Lois@[removed])
KWLK, Longview WA 1941 - 1943
KFI, Los Angeles, 1944 - 1953

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:56:25 -0700
From: Dennis De Marco <dennisdm@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FOTR Convention
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Can someone post for me the location in Newark for the FOTR convention?
Also, its hours on Saturday.

Thanks,

Dennis

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 96 22:41:21 UT
From: "Bruce Rosenberger" <BR3D@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: @ The FOTR Convention
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Just a reminder to anyone attending the FOTR Convention In Newark:
Look For the @ symbol on the literature table next to the registration table 
for your stickers. They're small enough to place on your ID badge ( Jay 
suggests next to the [removed])

Bruce

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:19:18 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Catching Up
Message-ID: <961016191917_544601450@[removed]>

Well, you were right, Minnesota was *not* frigid, the first half of October.
We arrived there on a balmy evening and had several lovely days, then just
one gray, raw day, then several more warm days before returning home.

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In re: Chris Steinbrunner and Jean [removed] I don't wish to quarrel with
the estimable Mr. Kolb, but I'm afraid he's putting words in my mouth, then
picking a quarrel with me over things I never said.

I knew Chris Steinbrunner for many years, approximately 1960-1993. He was,
indeed, a modest and generous man, not given to bragging. He contributed
chapters to two books that I compiled ("All in Color for a Dime" and "The
Comic Book Book") and was in all ways a splendid person. We visited each
other's homes many times and spent many pleasant hours in one another's
company.

When I say that he told me he wrote scripts for Jean Shepherd, I mean exactly
that. Chris told me that he wrote scripts for Jean Shepherd. If you doubt
that he wrote them, I suppose the thing to do is ask Shepherd. He's still
around, and while I don't know the man and have never had any direct
communication with him, I don't suppose it should be too difficult to get a
message to him.

I don't know what more than that I can say on the subject. If Chris were
still alive, he could confirm his statement and give chapter-and-verse, I
suppose. But unfortunately he is gone from this plane of existence.

If anyone wants to follow this up with Shepherd, that would be quite all
right with me. Other than that, it seems to me, it's a matter of, Case
Closed.

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In re: blind [removed]  I don't know how many blind detectives have been
created over the years by various writers, but I do know that the two most
prominent such were Max Carrados created by Ernest Bramah, and Duncan MacLain
created by Baynard Kendrick.

I can't give you the exact dates of [removed] the top of my
[removed] if it's important, let me know and I'll look 'em up in any of
several standard reference books. Including a couple written by my late
friend, Chris Steinbrunner.

But in general terms, Bramah was an old-timer who wrote in the early years of
the 20th Century (if not earlier). Kendrick was a more modern writer, who
wrote his stories of a blind detective as moral-boosters for soldiers who had
been blinded in the First World [removed] would put the publication dates
of the MacLain stories in the 1920's and 30's.

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Re: Dwight Weist. . . Does anyone know if movie acress Diane Weist is the
daugher of OTR actor Dwight Weist -- or otherwise related to him? There's an
interesting OTR connection here anyway, as Diane Weist was one of the stars
of Woody Allen's movie "Radio Days."

Enough, enough. Gotta get in gear and head for school in another hour.

Minnesota was wonderful but it's nice to be home.

Sorry I missed Dick Lochte at Bouchercon. Next year in Monterey, Lochte --
and let's do someting OTR for the convention, waddaya say?

Dock Lupoff

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:37:05 -0400
From: BROACH88@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Query about 15min. Fibber McGee Shows
Message-ID: <961016193705_1413921843@[removed]>

There are a whole bunch of these available through RHAC - but as a devout
FM&M fan, I have found them to be disappointing.  No studio audience, nor
laugh track, just dead silence after the "gags".  Music is canned, no Harlow
Wilcox.  Even Fibber & Molly sound like they're just putting in their time.
Bob Roach - Columbus OH

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:23:46 -0400
From: DavidLHsl@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: VCR alert - "The Night That Panicked America"
Message-ID: <961016202345_212902586@[removed]>

  Speaking of "War of the Worlds", I noticed this movie in my Primestar guide
that is coming up on the Sci-Fi Channel:

  "The Night That Panicked America" (Drama) Based on events that followed
Orson Welles' broadcast about an alien invasion.  Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young.
(1975) (2 hrs.) October 26, Sci-Fi (12pm EST)

  I watched this back when it first came on (I was 12 at the time), so I'm
anxious to see it again.  I don't remember the entire thing, just bits and
pieces.

David Hassell
[removed]
"A robin has a breast of fiery red,
And so has a bowl of chili,
But chili has no feathers on its head,
So it must feel rather silly."
(Ray Noble's attempt at a love poem for Gracie on "Burns and Allen" -
04/17/40)




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