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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 275

Table Of Contents: 

	 Re: WENN staff's long hours
	 Re: Ernie Kovacs' Theme
	 Ellery Queen
	 Stan Freberg
	 Ellery Queen
	 Re:  E-Z listening
	 Wounded, not Offended

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:10:00 -0400
From: DiReilly@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: WENN staff's long hours
Message-ID: <960808123250_174194881@[removed]>

<(Though I don't recall seeing them on in the early morning, just late at
night.  So maybe it's not so bad.  Maybe they're the late shift.>

Actually, they were shown early in the morning, because one episode featured
"Bedside Manor" with Hillary appearing worse for the morning. <g> That was
the episode when Celia first appeared. 

Diana Reilly
DiReilly@[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:03:05 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Ernie Kovacs' Theme
Message-ID: <960808150304_594912133@[removed]>

To laura Lee, I believe Ernie Kovacs' theme was "Oriental Blues" by the Tony
DeSimone trio. I have a 78 of it; it was later released on a Decca 45 when
Ernie was getting bigger.

Incidentally, L; we had two four-hour Jack Benny marathons; July 30th and Aug
1st on WRVO-FM, Oswego NY. Eight shows each evening! Well!!

BILL KNOWLTON, WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY

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Date: 08 Aug 96 15:41:56 EDT
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Ellery Queen
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On August 8, DiReilly@[removed] wrote:
>>Does anyone know whether there was
>>ever an Ellery Queen radio series? I
>>know there were several tv shows and
>>movies over the years, but I've never
>>read anything about a radio series. 

I've never heard of an OTR Ellery Queen
program, but in the 1970's there was an
Ellery Queen drop-in feature tailored for
(then) contemporary radio shows. The
format of the sindicated feature was the
two or three minute dramatization of a
murder or other crime situation, then the
announcer asked the listeners if they
could solve the mystery. There'd be an
opening in the show for commercials,
then the last part of the program would
show the solution.

I was working as a studio engineer at the
time at WTIC in Hartford, CT., where we
carried the feature on the PM drive show.
The program host always had another
announcer in the studio with him to deliver
the middle commercial (live). After the
commercial, the host would ask the 
announcer, "what do you think the solution
is?" The announcer would always come up
with the solution ver batim. It took weeks
before the host caught on that the other
anouncer had listened to the tape before-
hand. (Notice, I haven't mentioned names!)

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 21:00:32 +0000
From: "F. Charles Simar" <FCharlesSimar>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Stan Freberg
Message-ID: <[removed]@LOCALNAME>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I believe that the History Of The [removed] (Both the old and new volumes) is now
available on Compact
Disc.  I believe that I saw that disc available from Collector's Choice
Music Catalog.
Also for those interested, his radio show "The Stan Freberg Show" is being
released by
the Smithsonian as two different sets (episodes 1 - 7 are available now, not
quite sure when 8 - 15
will come out).  I have found the Smithsonian set at Barnes and Noble, but
also is available in
different catalogs.  I hope that this info is helpful to Stan Freberg fans
out there.

Also, I would like to thank those who have sent me airdates so far.  I hope
to get more responses
soon.  If you would like a copy of the list of shows that I need airdates
from or have airdates
for me, please email me at the following address.

           FCharlesSimar@[removed]

Have a super day.

Thanx.  8'>

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 96 17:07 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Ellery Queen
Message-Id: <m0uof7M-0007afC@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Yes, Diana, there really was an Ellery Queen!

It was a CBS show from 1939 to 1948, in various formats.  There were several
Ellery Queens over the years, ranging from Hugh Marlowe, Larry Dobkin,
Carleton Young, Sidney Smith and Howard Culver (my late husband, who was the
last Ellery Queen - and he would ask you not to comment on that!)  The
format included various "armchair detectives", and at one period, the
audience as armchair detectives, who were supposed to guess the identity of
the villain.  At one time our old friend, and very in-demand actress,
Virginia Gregg played Ellery's assistant.

Lois Culver
KWLK - Longview WA 1941 - 43
KFI - Los Angeles CA 1944 - 53

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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:35:26 -0500
From: vintage@[removed] (Andy Blatt)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  E-Z listening
Message-Id: <v01540b00ae3045004642@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Laura Lee mentions easy listening music and Bonneville Broadcasting.  A few
years ago there was a Symphony (orchestra?) that supplied music to radio
stations; it was called Hollyridge or Hollyrich Strings.  I don't think any
of their work was commercially available.

Also, Bonneville Broadcasting is wholly owned by the Mormons (Latter Day Saints)
and they are based in Salt Lake City (with a couple of local broadcast
outlets there - KSL-AM and KSL-TV).  WMXV (Mix 105) in NYC used to be known
as WRFM and was easy listening with music supplied by Bonneville
Broadcasting.  It is now
adult-contemporary (WMXV).  Bonneville Broadcasting has been in the
broadcasting business for years.  I think KSL-TV was the first TV station
in that area.

Andy Blatt
vintage@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:13:36 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Wounded, not Offended
Message-ID: <960809111335_255797284@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                      Friday - August 9, 1996 -- 10:10 AM cdt 

Regarding my previous posting concerning the famous (?) 
[removed] "... If I Have Offended and [removed]"   I made a mistake
(I make many mistakes).

The qoute should be  "... If I Have WOUNDED any Soul ..." 
We still need to know who used that line in the closing of 
the radio (early TV?) program.

Thanks. 

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




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