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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 93


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 "P" in Gildersleeve
	 Hollywood Fights Back
	 Jack Benny Apperances
	 Big Jon and Sparkie
	 Way to go, Lou!
	
	 Social Security Trivia
	 George Burns
	 Airchecks
	 Searching for Another Show
	 aircheck

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:06:29 -0500
From: richrw@[removed] (Richard M. Weil)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "P" in Gildersleeve
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Does the "P" in Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve stand for anything? I've never
seen it listed anywhere.

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:30:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "W. John Weber" <wweber@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Hollywood Fights Back
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Does anyone know if and where copies exist of Hollywood Fights Back, a 
1947 special denouncing the activities of the House Un-American 
Activities Committee?

					-- John Weber

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 22:10:35 -0500
From: Marty_Dzik@[removed] (Marty Dzik)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny Apperances
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Does anybody know how many "Suspense" shows that Jack Benny appeared in and
what the titles are?  Also, did Jack Benny appear in any other shows in a
dramatic role like he did in Suspense?

Any info. would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance.

Marty Dzik
marty_dzik@[removed]



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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:18:39 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Big Jon and Sparkie
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have noticed some discussion on the program "No School Today". This was
one of my favorite shows as I was growing up.

In fact it was one of the first shows I recorded when I first got my tape
recorder in 1952. I have about 150 program. What I mostly recorded was the
first 9 or 10 minutes of the program that had the movie serial "General
Comet of the Universe Patrol".

I had a chance to meet Big Jon - Jon Arthur - when I was about 15. He  was
doing a guest appearance at the radio station that broadcast his show in
Miami, Florida. I use to spend time at that station, WQAM, and I was there
the day he was there.

I told him that I had recorded a lot of his shows, so a few weeks later, he
announced my name on the air as having almost all of the shows on tape.
Naturally, I have a recording of this show.

We tape sponded a few times. I mailed him an audio tape and he replied.

If anyone was living in Miami the year he did his show at Miami Stadium, you
might recall that the show had to be stopped because some people were coming
onto the field. I was the person who started that movement. I walked onto
the field and started taking pictures of him. Others followed me and soon
there were so many people crowding around his stage, that he had to stop the
show and ask everyone to return to their seats.

If you think Red Skelton's "bad little boy" was a problem, you should have
known me when I was growing up.

Anyway, I thought that I would throw this in to add to the discussion.

                        Fred

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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:22:49 -0600
From: bigsteve@[removed] (Steve Darnall)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Way to go, Lou!
Message-Id: <v01530500ad6814cf87ff@[[removed]]>

Hi everyone--

Let me just add my congrats to Lou Genco for his recent "Top 5%" rating.
There's nothing so nice as finding a place where everyone convenes around
something for the same reasons: love and respect.

I've been an infrequent visitor to the Digest, so allow me to introduce
myself: I'm a 31-year old who "discovered" radio when my father switched on
Chuck Schaden's marvelous "Those Were The Days" program (I'm willing to bet
a lot of Chicagoans can tell the exact same story). It was a "Fibber McGee
and Molly" show so it was the best possible introduction. I can honestly
say that discovering radio at 12 had something to do with my pursuit of
acting (which I did for several years) and writing (which I do today for,
among other publications, Chuck Schaden's Nostalgia Digest). A few years
ago I rediscovered the tapes I'd had as a teenager and I was in love all
over again.

Anyway, it's been a delight to "meet" all the folks I've been able to
correspond with through Lou's page (especially the traders, who have been
delightful).

Write if you get work. Hang by your thumbs.

Steve Darnall

[removed] I was saddened to hear of George Burns' passing. I was doubly sorry to
be told on the same day that Minnie Pearl passed away earlier this week.
Doesn't *anybody* live forever anymore?

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 05:57:22 -0500 (EST)
From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Message-id: <01I25VP6K2HE95NNIS@[removed]>

God is dead.

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 06:09:54 -0500 (EST)
From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Social Security Trivia
Message-id: <01I25VQOPPRM95NNIS@[removed]>

Just to be nit-picky, the running joke was that Jack Benny had a Social
Security Number of 2, and that Al Jolson was 1.  Since George was born after
Jack, perhaps he got 3.  8)

George will be sorely missed by all of us, but thank goodness for the 
tremendous wealth of material he left behind.  I met George twice, on
August 2, 1982 for the first time (I have carried a photo from the meeting
in my wallet ever since).  He was incredibly gracious and sweet, and I showed
him several radio magazines featuring articles on him and Gracie.  I can
still remember him holding the magazines and saying "Look at [removed]'t
she beautiful?"  Funny that I just wanted to share the magazines with him
and never asked him to autograph any of them.

In 1981, my family had the top-winning cat in the nation, and somehow my
mother and I decided to send George a copy of the CFA (Cat Fancier's Associa-
tion) yearbook, since he had two or three cats, and I was already corre-
sponding with him.  George sent me a great letter saying that he had read
the book to his cats, and that when he was done they had enjoyed it so much
that they asked him to read it to them all over again.

Not to be cliche, but as everyone has said, George is with Gracie now.  And
even more, he can now make Jack fall down with laughter again.

--Laura Lee
International Jack Benny Fan Club

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:42:13 -0500
From: KevinN5PRE@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: George Burns
Message-ID: <960310084209_442615343@[removed]>

Friday, I purchased a box set of the all-time greatest comedians of OTR from
a record store here in Houston.  One of the main reasons I bought it was
because Burns and Allen were represented on it.  It wasn't until Saturday,
shortly after 1:00pm(CST) when I opened it up and put it on the player.  My
wife and I were talking about how for many years we thought George was
holding out for his 100th birthday.  You know, a person with a goal can
achieve it by sheer will power.  The ironic part of it all was, without
knowing it, I bought and listened to the one episode that was most
appropriate.  It was the one where Gracie wanted George to become a doctor.
 Instead, he goes to the hospital to be a guinea pig for a serum to make you
live to be 100 years old.

Kevin Trotman

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:47:08 -0500
From: Ted McKay <tmckay@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Airchecks
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Air checks are exactly what the name implies, recordings made off the air
(or from the line feed from the studio to the transmitter) at a
specific period of in time.  More often than not they were requested by a
sponsor or agency that wanted a record of their commercial or program in
the actual environment in which it was broadcast.  Most airchecks (we
always wrote it as one word) at large stations were done by the control
room engineer, so if the engineer at WGN mentioned by Vern was a
TRANSMITTER engineer it is reasonable to expect that he would not be
familiar with the term.  Generally, the aircheck order and time would be
written on the CONTROL ROOM log and not on the logs circulated to other
departments like sales or promotion, since the aircheck was sometimes
used by station management to check on the work done by announcers.  (We
always knew we might be up for an aircheck if an engineer would turn
over the log when we walked in the control room!  Air checks were also
used to check the program and commercial content of local competitors,
or as a service to management at an out of town station that might be
interested in hearing how someone who had applied for a job at their
station might sound on the air. (as opposed to disc or tape)  Some
larger agencies would engage local recording studios to aircheck a
station without its knowledge, because asking someone to aircheck
himself or itself is like allowing the inmates to run the asylum!
At the smaller stations the aircheck is really a product of the tape age
(late 40's on) since most smaller stations did not have disc recording
equipment.  However, I have seen some airchecks sent out on those
cardboard based Wilcox-Gay Recordio discs done in someone's home!  Now,
that's a REAL aircheck!

Ted McKay
Cincinnati, Ohio

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:02:10 -0500
From: LindaJay@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Searching for Another Show
Message-ID: <960310110209_346828544@[removed]>

Hello,

I am a new subscriber to OTR.  I wrote a brief bio a few issues back.  I'm a
writer/editor, live in the San Francisco Bay Area, have written for
multimedia CD-ROMs as well as business and education writing. 

I am seeking audiotapes for a couple of Shadows, a Mr. and Mrs. North, and a
Grand Central Station that my late father -- Verne  Jay -- wrote during the
1940s.  I mentioned that my Dad was a staff writer at WLW Radio and
Television in Cincinnati from 1947-1956, and that he and fellow WLW writer
Rod Serling co-authored a play for the Phillip Morris Playhouse in 1953.

Now I've come across the script for another audiotape I'd love to have.
 Actually, I've searched for all of these for years, and really don't believe
they exist.  But here goes:  It's "Famous Jury Trials," title: The State vs.
Zeke Mills, Script No. 69, aired on the NBC-Blue Network on March 3, 1942.

Thanks for listening!       LindaJay

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:16:58 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: aircheck
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

An aircheck is a recording made of a program while it is being 
broadcast usually from the station modulation monitor which
is a high quality receiver. It could also be made from some
other radio receiver. The purpose was to verify the actual
program content as heard by the audience. Airchecks were usually
made for sponsors.
A linecheck was a recording made from the output of the station
audio console and was of higher quality and would be the preferred
way to archive a program for later use such as rebroadcast.
The definitions got a bit muddy with aircheck being used for 
both purposes. The engineers understood that if a recording was
requested by the talent, it was a linecheck. If it was requested
by the sales department, it was an aircheck.
Anyone who worked in radio can tell you of DJs who listened to line
rather than air and would be happily talking to the four walls
while the transmitter was off.
I worked a rock concert broadcast at the old San Francisco Winterland
that I hope no aircheck exists for. Between bands the mixer was fading
pots up and down to find where the next set up musicians was and two
of them were heard to say: "Hey, what are the mikes for?" "Well they're
doing a live broadcast in quadraphonic [removed] don't ***K up."

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