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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 169


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Blank tapes
	 Peg Lynch shows in the 70's
	 Quality of recordings
	 One Actor / Many Voices
	 Best of radio comedy on cd from LaserLight
	 re: Kryptonian Kharacterizations 
	 Re: Dick Orkin
	 digital audio workstations workshop
	  OTR-related CDs
	 many thanks
	 Re: Sergeant Preston's Big Inch
	 Superman on Radio
	 Ovaltine
	 Super dad / telling the
	 some queries
	 Questions

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: wmackey@[removed]
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Blank tapes
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Wayne Caldwell asked about obtaining blank tapes.

I usually buy mine retail, but in the SPERDVAC RadioGram is a long 
running ad as below:
Blank tape, open reel, apex 641.
7" reels, 1800'
25 for $99 and 10 for $45.

Cassettes:
Sony HF-60 20 for $25
Sony HF-90 20 for $30

Ron Baron
63-09 108th St., Apt 2p
Forest Hills, NY 11375
1-718-896-0954

I cannot vouch for this fella, but since he's been advertising for 
several years now (longer probably) he must be ok.

As Bill would say:  Usual disclaimers apply.

Joe Mackey

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:16:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Fields <mfields@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Peg Lynch shows in the 70's
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

At 10:08 AM 5/6/96 -0500, you wrote:

>   Anyone with information about or copies of this 1970's series, please
>respond.

Yes these programs do exist. I got mine from RHAC. You can contact them on
the Old Time Radio Web page. I have episodes 1-17 produced in 1973 at the
University of Michigan and intended for NPR. Frankly I don't care for them.
Too much "adult-style" humour.

Mike Fields

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Date: 10 May 96 15:07:52 EDT
From: Ryan <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Quality of recordings
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Has anyone else had any expierience with Ken Mills and if so, how did you feel
about the quality of the recordings. I just received a dozen or so tapes from
him and some of them are chopped at the beginnings(program comes on already into
the intro). I'm wondering if this is due to sloppiness on his part in the
dubbing process or simply the original condition. These are Dragnet and Inner
Sanctum episodes and more than one suffers from this . In addition the volume
level is extremely low on all of them and this is something I've  only
expierienced with him, my other tapes are from more "commercial" sources and
maybe this is a necessary evil of going to a more "private' source?? Just
curious if anyone else has had similiar expierience either with him or other
[removed] prices can't be beat!!


-Ryan

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Date: Fri, 10 May 96 12:32 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: One Actor / Many Voices
Message-Id: <m0uHxvp-0003GoC@[removed]>

It was standard procedure, not an exception, for actors in dramatic shows to
"double", which is what it was called when an actor used more than one voice
in a show.  

Every actor on the show doubled when it called for a group of people
talking, as well as taking small parts as another character.  And it was
common practice to mark scripts with different colored pencils to indicate
the different characters.

"Straight Arrow" was two characters in one [removed] Straight Arrow
character was played with a little deeper voice to sound more "Indian-like",
and his alter-ego Steve Adams was played like your average rancher.  Howard
Culver's scripts were marked in red and blue to indicate the different
voices needed for the two characters.  If a crowd scene was needed, it
called for another voice or two or three, all marked differently.

Lois Culver
1941-1942 KWLK, Longview WA
1944-1953 KFI, Los Angeles CA

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:39:04 -0700
From: Bryce & Cari Hart <bchart@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Best of radio comedy on cd from LaserLight
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

About a month ago I picked up the "Best of radio comedy" 5 cd set by LaserLight. I 
bought it for around $30 at Tower Video & Records. For the most part, the sound quality 
is good. There are some shows that sound great and some shows that could have been 
improved. I think it is well worth the price. The shows include- Fred Allen, Jack Benny, 
Amos 'n' Andy, Duffy's Tavern, Ozzie & Harriot, Fibber McGee & Molly and many more.
        Does anyone else have any information on "OTR on CD"?

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:54:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: ulrich@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Kryptonian Kharacterizations 
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

CHCOX@[removed] (Chet Cox) wrote:

>(now I find I can't remember the actors who played Superman on the
>Super Friends cartoon show, nor the 1985 cartoon.  How embarrassing!)

Danny Dark played Superman on Super Friends and its various sequels.

--Charles

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:50:02 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Dick Orkin
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>

Richard Veit <Richard_Veit@[removed]> writes:
>I am happy that Meade Frierson brought up the name Dick Orkin (Issue 165)
>because I never knew this wonderful talent's last name. Let me explain. I was
>in radio for fifteen years, beginning in 1970, and around my various stations
>the team of "Dick and Bert" was legendary for producing hilariously inventive
>spots -- both commercial and public service. [...] Two questions for anyone 
>who can help: Who, then, is Bert?

Bert Berdis. I'm taking a wild guess about the spelling of his last name
but I don't think I'm too far off. Dick was the one with the wide-ranging,
boomier voice; Bert's was a softer, mellower one. What made their commercials
so much fun to listen to was not only the _really_ clever writing but the
just perfect timing and reading, and you could listen to their voices many
times over without getting sick of the commercials. They did a long series
of ads for Time magazine a while ago, too, as I recall.

I think they're both around still, but from what I recall, the team split 
up when one of them went to the west coast. There's been a long-running 
series of radio commercials still going here in Chicago which sound an 
awful lot like Dick Orkin's work and voice, although they might have been
produced elsewhere as one contains a reference by Dick (if that is Dick)
to "Soldier's [sic] Field" stadium, usually the sign of an out-of-towner.

>Is there a compilation available of the best of Dick
>and Bert?

If there is, I'll buy it!

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:07:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Debbie Karwoski <dkarwosk@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: digital audio workstations workshop
Message-ID: <[removed]@coinc0>

Digital audio workstations seems like too modern a topic to show up on 
the OTR list, but maybe some of you subscribers are contemporary 
producers of audio working with the new technology.  The Midwest Radio 
Theatre Workshop is hosting a day and a half workshop on working with 
digital audio workstations (DAWs).  The workshop is designed for those 
just headed into DAW work and those who already are working with 
workstations and are
want to get the most out of them.  Details - May 25-26.  Registration fee 
$175.  Workshop leader is Jane Pipik, recording and production engineer 
at WGBh, Boston. Workshop to be held in Columbia, Missouri.  For details 
or to inquire further, write - mrtw@[removed] or check the home page at 
[removed]

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:00:00 GMT
From: [removed]@[removed] (Marty Tabnik)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject:  OTR-related CDs
Message-Id: <96051014441728111@[removed]>

SC> Message-id: <01I4IHJPUOHU8ZEDP8@[removed]>

SC> I happened to notice that there exists a 5-CD set (also
SC> available in individual CDs) on the Laserlight label
SC> called "The Best of Radio Comedy."  Does any of you have
SC> this one, and how is it?
SC>                                 Scott Hooker

Yes.  And at $[removed] at PriceCostco for the entire 5-hour set
        It's a bargain.
And the recordings are hyper-clean, too.

Three *minor* quibbles
        - No timings
        - Commercials clipped
        - Poor liner notes
---
 * SLMR [removed] * Guilty?  Are you KIDDING?  This is ADVERTISING!!!*GoodCo.

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 19:09:31 -0500 (EST)
From: MORTN2HHC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: many thanks
Message-id: <01I4JV5KJHB694E6N2@[removed]>

I have been a member of this list for well over a year now, and I
think it is about time that I expressed my deep appreciation for
the enjoyment and the information that it has provided.  I have
asked many questions and without exception I have received
numerous answers.  Some on the list and many more by email
directly to me.  People have been extremely generous with their
time and in some cases with some programming never expecting
anything in return.  I have made some new friends and numerous
acquaintances in the past 14 months.  

A special thanks must go to Lou and Bill for their tireless work
in keeping the digest going.  We sometimes forget to acknowledge
the hard work that goes into such an undertaking.

Btw for those of you in the NYC area"thirteen by Corwin" is
repeated on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning at 12:30 on WNYC am,
820 kc.

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:25:07 -0400
From: Joelsiegel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Sergeant Preston's Big Inch
Message-ID: <960510202507_395979467@[removed]>

First, thanks to all who sent info. and offered help. It was used and useful.
I went to Dawson City, Sergeant Preston's old headquarters, by chartered
plane out of Whitehorse.
In 1898 Dawson City had a population of 30,000. Today it's 2,000. They've
barely built a building since.
I visited the mining office, the woman who's run it since 1981 told me at
least 1500 owners of Big Inch deeds have contacted her in the last 15 years.
About half have shown up in person.
She showed me the [removed] acre plot Quaker had purchased, told me, yes, the
land was confiscated "by the crown" for non-payment of taxes "sometime in the
60's."
Also Quaker never bought the mining rights. 
Which is OK because if they had they'd be worthless. A large gold mining
company tested the land every which way in the 70's and [removed] gold.
The land itself is flat and seems to be used as grazing land. It is not the
golf course, as was reported in one story (no sand traps -- they use old farm
machinery as hazards; you can't dig sand traps in the perma-frost), but two
lots behind the golf course owned today by the Fellers and the Cipollas. They
weren't home when I choppered in.
(The Klondike River is impassable this time of year. You either fly over or
go around -- a 1200 mile detour.)
The story airs on Good Morning America this Tuesday, the show broadcasts from
Jasper in the Canadian Rockies.
And, by the way, I took my Sergeant Preston map along with me (1952,
promoting the CBS-TV program) and the pilot assured me it's fairly accurate.

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:13:27 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Superman on Radio
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>However, Kal-EL has been played by a small handful of actors over the
>years, but only one played him on the radio show to my knowledge:  Bud
>Collier, who also played the role(s) in the impressive Paramount
>cartoons.  Bud was said to be embarrassed by his association with the
>character, especially in his middle years, but got over it late in life.  

Actually, there were two on radio. Collyer, of course, but the last season
on the air was played by Michael Fitzmaurice.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:18:53 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ovaltine
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>For those who care, Ovaltine has moved their 
>site to: [removed]~flashbyt/ovaltine
>

I tried this address but it does not recognize it, it should actually be

[removed]~flashbyt/ovaltine

Note the period before 'net'.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Fri, 10 May 96 22:26:16 -0500
From: welsa@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Super dad / telling the
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

    In a recent message, two things caught my attention.  Not to be nit-picky, 
but who is Kal-El in Superman?  Was someone actually referring to Superman's 
Krypton father, Jor-El?
    
    Also, I may have come to TV later than some, but I don't recall Bud Collier 
ever hosting "To Tell the Truth".  I thought this was Gary Moore's show.  Was 
Collier before or after Moore?
___
* UniQWK #5138* Life is uncertain--so eat dessert first.

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Date: 10 May 96 23:38:36 EDT
From: MICHAEL BERGER <[removed]@[removed]>
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: some queries
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

May 11, 1996

Several weeks ago, someone recommended an HBO special on Jack Benny, which I
taped and thoroughly enjoyed, with one reservation. By limiting itself only to
interviews with people still living, the show omitted any reference, except for
one brief shot and no name ID, to Jack Benny's most famous long-term show biz
relationship of all -- the "feud" with Fred Allen. With all the archive footage
available, how could they have left this out?  Was it because Allen, when
one-on-one with Benny, was the better ad-libber?

I have an NBC Biography in Sound of Fred Allen, but was there ever a TV special
about him?  I remember a Steve Allen special right after Fred Allen's death in
1956, since Fred appeared often on the old Tonight show.  I have a brief audio
tape of that special, not very good quality, of Fred's last known routine on TV
-- a spoof review of Steve Allen's appearance in The Benny Goodman Story.

Also recently, I visited the Museum of BC in NYC and came across a rare piece of
CBS footage from April 1949, when the network put TV equipment on the radio set
of Arthur Godfrey Time, as a test run to the scheduled start of simulcasting
that program from the fall of the same year. The show wasn't telecast that day,
but CBS saved the kinescope, apparently as part of its fine-tuning prior to the
simulcast start-up.

Among the "little Godfreys" on that show were Janette Davis, the Mariners, Bill
Lawrence (a Talent Scouts winner and the pre-Julius LaRosa young male singer on
Godfrey time) and, of course, announcer Tony Marvin, plus Archie Bleyer and the
boys, including that truly hilarious cackle of trombonist Cy Shaeffer.

Sitting next to Godfrey was a middle-aged woman whom he referred to once, I
believe, as Mugs.  She wasn't a "talent", and I don't think she was a producer,
but somehow I seem to remember the nickname. Anybody remember this
behind-the-scenes figure?

Michael Berger

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 09:27:30 -0400
From: ERICKZIN@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Questions
Message-ID: <960511092728_111351281@[removed]>

Hi,

I heard a tape recently of the Inner Sanctum.  One show was the "Girl and the
Gallows" and the other is " Dead to Rights". First one was aired 05-01-45 and
the second was aired 05-22-45.  The announcer seems and sounds different on
each show.  Did they have a different announcer often on this series or is it
the same person with great acting skills??

Also, I have heard that Lights Out shows before 1940 are better than the
later shows?  Is this true? 

How good were the following [removed] Cave, Creaking Door, Theater
10:30, Nightfall, Wierd Circle, Haunting Hour, and Quiet Please.  I have
heard mixed reviews.  Any great shows from these series.  I know the one from
Quiet [removed]"Thing on the Fourble Board". Still need to get it and hear
this one.

Finally, is there a book that highlights the main theme or brief description
of individual shows? 

ie: DIMENSION X : "The Embassy": Invasion of Earth with a twist.
     
     Lights Out: "Meteor Man":  Alien seeking new source for fast food.    

Thanks

Carl

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