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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 323

Table Of Contents: 

	 The Comic Weekly Man
	 That'll Hold the Little B*st*rds
	 Dragnet
	 C120 Cassettes
	 Colonna's Trolly
	 new time/old time drama, one perspective
	 Some OTR comments
	 Maintaining a Database
	 Professor Was A Thief

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:27:18 -0400
From: "Read G. Burgan" <rgb@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: The Comic Weekly Man
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A Joesph Ross asks if anyone remembers the Comic Weekly Man.  I not only
remember it, I have one transcription of the program.  Unfortunately, the
program was distributed with two transcriptions, and both were needed to
make a complete program.  That is, one transcription contained part two for
two different programs, and one transcription carried part one for two
different programs.  So I do not have a complete program.

I remember listening to it early on Sunday mornings on the local radio
station where my father was the chief engineer.  I also remember being
frustrated because our family subscribed to the Milwaukee Journal, and they
did not carry most of the comics being read on the Comic Weekly Man.  But
it was a wonderful show full of enthusiasm and special effects.  Some day I
want to get a number of broadcasts of the program.  I know there are
sources out there.  Fortunately it was syndicated to individual radio
stations on sixteen inch pressed plastic transcrptions, and a number have
survived.

Read Burgan

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 15:07:50 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: That'll Hold the Little B*st*rds
Message-ID: <960907150750_473725603@[removed]>

I was a great fan of Uncle Don's, but somehow I missed the broadcast in which
he adlibbed after he thought he'd gone off the air. The alleged line was,
"That'll hold the little bastards."

But while this story has been repeated and repeated endlessly, and elaborated
upon and revised . . .

For example, the version in the Digest recently, that says there were *many*
such incidents involving Uncle Don, while not quite beyond the realm of the
possible, strikes me as very far-fetched. For one thing, it's apparently a
"new" version of the story, appearing some 50 years after the alleged
incident. Unless someone can provide documentation that this version has been
around for a long time, I am inclined to dismiss it as an exaggeration or
distortion. For another thing, if the "little bastards" line was broadcast
even once, Uncle Don would have been in very deep, very hot water. If it
happened twice, he would have been gone, gone, gone-dee-n-don gone. So I just
don't see *how* it could have happened "many" times.

But what I'm curious about at this point, is whether any documentation exists
of the actual incident, at the time it happened. Is there by any chance an ET
of the offending broadcast? Or a home recording? Or were there any reports of
the incident in the general press or the radio trade press at the time?

We couldn't just be dealing with an Urban Myth now, could we?

Naah.

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 12:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dragnet
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Having seen several references to the radio version of Dragnet, I
was reminded of the radio station inside San Quentin prison. It
wasn't on-th-air, it was actually a multichanneled wired system
fed from a control room which also originated a local channel.
The other channels were taken off air or by tape delay. When
Dragnet came on, the inmates called it "This Is Your Life".

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 14:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: ronhare@[removed] (Ron Hare)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: C120 Cassettes
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About C-120 audio cassettes: they're great.
Half the storage space and just 1 or 2 db lower recorded level than Type1 C60s.

I know that there are still lots of skeptics and I'm sure that we'll hear
about a bad past experience or two.

During the past several years I have used hundreds of these (different
brands), many through dozens of passes, with trouble-free results in all
sorts of recorders and players. Professional suppliers like Polyline still
sell lots of them, so the return rate must be reasonable. The tape is
thinner, so a good shell is an absolute requirement.

C-120s seem to not sell very well at retail because of their negative
image, so they may be hard to find. If you need some, our friends at
Polyline stock good ones at good prices (all plus shipping an maybe recent
price increases). They stock TDK, 3M and Maxell, but the TDKs are the best
deal:

TDAM-C120   with boxes: $[removed] ea (case of 100), $[removed] ea (case of 10)
TDZM-120C   without boxes: $[removed] ea (case of 200), $[removed] ea (case of 50)

Polyline Corp 847/390-7744 (Illinois)
PolyWest Corp 818/969-855 (California)

The disclaimer: I'm in no way connected with Polyline except as a satisfied
customer for recording studio supplies.

Ron Hare
ronhare@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 07 Sep 96 17:03:37 -0500
From: Nathan Gregory <ngregory@[removed]>
To: "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Colonna's Trolly
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

-- [ From: Nathan Gregory * [removed] #[removed] ] --

While catching up on my OTR digests I ran across the thread on "Colonna's
Trolly" 
and it rang a big loud bell in the back of my memory.  Unfortunately, my
collection continues to outstrip my ability to index, but a bit of digging
around 
in the record wall, and here it [removed]

A Reddish plastic 10" 78
Capitol Children's Series
Super-Flex Album DAS-60
"Here Comes Colonna's Trolley"
   Parts one and two


ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!  I love to run a Trolley
So I can ring the bell.  On each run I have such fun
a motorman's life is swell.


Anyone interested in hearing it?	



Nathan
<ngregory@[removed]>

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 20:22:39 -0400
From: ad827@[removed] (Jeff Green)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: new time/old time drama, one perspective
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have noted a few people here inferring that the only source for new time
drama is otr, and I have to make a correction in my particular case.  I
have been producing audio drama since I was a pre-teen, and never heard
any authentic otr until I was in my 20s.  My parents were not radio
listeners at all and there was no other way I could have heard any of this
material, though since they did watch TV I suppose a connection could be
claimed through that medium.  The primary source for audio inspiration for
myself was a large collection of children's records inherited from my
older siblings, most from the forties and fifties, 78 rpm or 33, produced
by people like the Children's Record Guild out of New York, which I
listened to on a little electric turntable with an actual needle for a
stylus that vibrated a little tinfoil diaphragm.  Having a children's
audience in mind, with no pressure of sponsors or timetables to maintain
and no live audiences, these productions were often bizarre, dream-like
affairs with many marvelous sound effects experiments and wacky
characterizations.  I credit much of the experimental nature of much of my
professional drama (see the Lodestone catalogue at
[removed]~lodeston/) to the freeform nature of these
early listenings.  Don't get me wrong, I love otr, and will listen to it
when I can, but it had little to do with my efforts in the audio medium.

Jeff Green

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:11:38 -0400
From: RCapps0013@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Some OTR comments
Message-ID: <960907211137_279806980@[removed]>

Hello, [removed]
I just finished catching up on OTR digest from #300 to date, and saw some
unanswered questions.  Here is my 2 1/2 [removed] so-called prissy salesman
is Frank Nelson (YYYeeeeeeessssss!) whom I don't remember from OTR but
do remember as the quiz show emcee on an episode of "I Love Lucy" in which
Lucy attempts to steal the answers to the weekly quiz show in order to cheat
and win.  One day in the late 1960's I happened to walk into Bert Wheeler's
Hollywood Magic Shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and saw Frank Nelson in there
purchasing toys or magic tricks or something.  I still have the autograph
that he
signed for me that [removed] Holloway wasn't the voice of Jiminy
Cricket,
of course, but he was the voice of another beloved Disney character, namely
Winnie the Pooh.  As the father of a six-year-old girl, I have watched and
listened
to enough Pooh videotapes to be certain that Sterling Holloway is indeed
[removed]
hope this info is [removed]
Bob of Northridge

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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:29:23 -0400
From: RadioClass@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Maintaining a Database
Message-ID: <960907222921_473933961@[removed]>

Hi All,
I have seen many postings of ways to catalog radio collections and how to
store the tapes.  For what it's worth, here is my way of cataloging and
storing tapes.  

When I first started my collection, I used 90 minute tapes.  Now, I use 60
minute tapes unless I am taping a series of 15 minute episodes such as Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar.  I prefer the 60 minute tapes because I have a complete
1/2 hour show on each side of a tape.  Previously, i just continued taping
the next show on my current tape.  Now, I keep the shows together.  Sides A
and B will have episodes of the same show.

My system is simple.  I number each tape as I start it.  I maintain a master
book of the tape numbers.  On my computer, I use MSworks for windows because
this is the software I started with.  I have a separate file for each show.
 I save these in three directories.  The first is for shows A - F, the second
directory is for shows G - M, and the last directory contains shows N - Z.
 In each file, I list the tape number, broadcast date and either the title of
the show or a short synopsis of the show.  I keep a file titled "Available
Tapes" so that I can quickly locate a tape that has a blank side for
recording a new episode of the same show.  

Storage:  I store my collection of 1900+ tapes in plastic tape storage boxes.
 Each box holds 15 tapes.  On the front of each box I list the numbering
sequence of the tapes in each.  These boxes are stored in "Towers" that I
purchased at Venture.  

So, when I want to listen to a particular show, I open that show's file.  I
select the episode I want to hear and note the tape number.  Then I just
select that tape number from my numerical file of tapes in the plastic boxes
in the towers.  

It works for me.

Happy Listening!
Anne

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Date: 07 Sep 1996 21:29:47 GMT
From: [removed]@[removed] (Ron B. Hare)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Professor Was A Thief
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

DOH!
Ed Carr reminds me that "Professor Was a Thief" was DIMENSION X (not X-1 like
I said in #322 ).
Thanks Ed.
DOH!
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