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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 249
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Archiving your collection             [ Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed]; ]
  jack benny (not radio) videos         [ EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed]; ]
  This week on rand's esoteric otr      [ rand@[removed] ]
  10-23 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Old Time Radio Shows - in Spanish     [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
  Plate Glass Window Question           [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
  Edie Adams                            [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Ed Kirby meets the Hummerts           [ vzeo0hfk@[removed] ]
  relative OTR newb                     [ Tremaine Lea <[removed]@ddicti ]

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:03 +0000
From: Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Archiving your collection

Hi all,

How do most of you archive your collection of OTR?  I keep all of mine
on my hard drive (in iTunes) and it is HUGE.  I'm considering burning
some of them onto DVD because such a large file of audio tends to
S  L  O  W  the computer down considerably.   Only problem - I
LIKE having instant access to my collection. When I wake up in the
morning I have my computer remote control right by my side, and can
listen to whatever strikes my fancy.

I'm just curious to see how others have dealt with the problem
of archiving their collections.  Thanks!

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:12 +0000
From: EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  jack benny (not radio) videos

hi again
there are 2 more benny dvd left at my wal-mart that i can see, anyone else
interested? cost is $[removed] +postage
if interested email me [removed]@[removed]
ed

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:19 +0000
From: rand@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week on rand's esoteric otr

I'll take this opportunity to invite you to check out my blog and podcast,
if you haven't stopped by already.  Some interesting rarities this week:

-Falstaff's Fables, a 1950 show featuring Alan Reed
-Dennis Day Show, a previously lost 1948 episode with a special cameo
appearance
-Jungle Jim battling the evil Bat Woman from 1936

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Randy

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Randy A. Riddle
Mebane, NC

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:27 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-23 births/deaths

October 23rd births

10-23-1871 - Rev. Dr. Karl Reiland - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1964
clergyman: 15-Minute NEWS commentary program for NBC
10-23-1884 - Cesar Saerchinger - Aix-la-Chapelle, France - d. 10-10-1971
news correspondent: "Story Behind the Headlines"; "America's Town
Meeting of the Air"
10-23-1887 - Oliver M. Saylor - Huntington, IN - d. 10-19-1958
reviewer: WGBS New York City
10-23-1896 - Nathan Abas - d. 6-1-1980
orchestra director, violinist: "Northern California Symphony Orchestra"
10-23-1901 - Arthur Jacobson - NYC - d. 10-6-1993
actor: Kirk Harding "Woman in White"; Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs
of Anthony"
10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
Highways in Melody"
10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
singer: "Voice of Firestone"
10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
Girl Marries"
10-23-1906 - Lucy Monroe - NYC - d. 10-13-1987
singer: (The Star-Spangled Soprano) "Hammerstein's Music Hall";
"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
10-23-1916 - Red Quinlan - Maquoketa, IA - d. 3-11-2007
founding board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications
10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA
actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
actor: "Monitor"
10-23-1921 - James Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 2-3-2002
singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
actor: "Couple Next Door"
10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
actor: "Earplay"
10-23-1940 - Tom McGrath - Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
writer: "The Silver Darlings"
10-23-1943 - Roger Scott - London, England - d. 10-31-1989
disc jockey: "Three O'Clock Thrill"; "Hitline"

October 23rd deaths

01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
writer: "Rudy Vallee Hour"
02-13-1919 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. 10-23-1965
actor: Stella Moore "Girl Alone"; Clara Blake "Romance of Helen Trent"
03-16-1892 - James C. Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
union leader" Head of the American Federation of Musicians
03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-23-1982
Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
interviewer: "This Is New York"; "In Town Today"
05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-20-1911 - Edward Eager - Toledo, OH - d. 10-23-1964
writer: "Jane Pickens Show"
06-26-1920 - Leonid Hambro - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-2006
pianist: "WQXR Halloween Party:
07-21-1905 - Diana Trilling - d. 10-23-1996
writer: "NBC University Theatre"
07-26-1915 - Fred S. Fox - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-23-2005
writer: "Freddie the Fox"
08-04-1897 - Abe Lyman - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1957
bandleader: "Jack Pearl Show"; "Lavender and New Lace"; "Waltz Time"
12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - NYC - d. 10-23-2002
songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:33 +0000
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Old Time Radio Shows - in Spanish

      Let me expand this question just a bit -

      Mexico, Venezuela and especially Argentina had "Golden Age" 
Spanish-language radio broadcasting comparable in quality and range to the 
United States and Canadian product. (Evita Peron was a noted soap opera 
actress.)

      Has any estimate been made as to what survives?

      Sincerely,

      George Wagner
      georgewagner@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:42 +0000
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Plate Glass Window Question

      When precisely DID the plate glass window between audience and cast 
disappear?

      I'd always assumed it was 1931, but in recently listening to an Eddie 
Cantor broadcast from December of that year audience sounds are still quite 
noticeably absent.

      Yes, of course I know the Ed Wynn story, but is the precise date 
known? And how long did it take for other shows to follow suit?

      Sincerely,

      George Wagner
      georgewagner@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:30:06 +0000
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Edie Adams
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To answer Kenneth's [removed], Edie Adams remarried twice, was
unsuccessful both times.  And yes she did Muriel cigar commercials, in fact
she did
those mainly to pay off debts left behind after Kovacs' death.   Some were
results of gambling, some the results of a blistering child custody  fight
from
Kovacs' first marriage.

By the way Edie Adams made her broadcast debut on a presumably simulcast
episode of "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts."

Dixon
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:30:15 +0000
From: vzeo0hfk@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ed Kirby meets the Hummerts
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    Oct 23, 2008 04:20:46 AM, [removed]@[removed] wrote:

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    Ted Meland's mention of Edward Kirby brought to mind a story about a
    meeting between the Kirbys and Frank and Anne Hummerts, producers
    extraordinaire, that I got when I interviewed Kirby's wife for WORDS
    AT WAR (Scarecrow Press, 2002).

    The premier broadcast of Chaplain Jim was a memorable one for Edward
    Kirby and his wife Marjorie. . . . . . It took place in the spring of
    1942 .. . . . . . The Hummerts invited them to watch it and to have
    dinner with them afterwards. bI wonder where theybll take us,b Mrs.
    Kirby said to her husband shortly before the show began. bMaybe it
    will be to Club 21 or the Stork [removed]

    When the show ended, the Hummerts met them at the studio exit and led
    them out to the street where a horse and carriage awaited them. bThis
    is for us,b Frank Hummert told them. bThis way we donbt have any
    problem with gas rationing. We hope you donbt mind,b he added, bif we
    have dinner at our [removed] bOur placeb was an elegant apartment on
    Fifth Avenue. Although the Kirbys had also speculated about who might
    be joining them, it turned out that the dinner party was to consist of
    just the two couples.

    The Hummertsb apartment was an immense one. As Frank Hummert led the
    Kirbys through it, he turned on the lights in the room ahead while
    Anne turned them off in the one they were leaving. bI hope you donbt
    mind if we eat in the kitchen,b Hummert told them  just as they walked
    into and then quickly out of the dining room. In the kitchen, he
    opened up a can of Campbell's vegetable soup while Anne opened a can
    of peaches which she served on a bed of lettuce. Later she commented,
    bI hope you donbt mind if the cake has been here a little while. Itbs
    still good [removed]

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:30:27 +0000
From: Tremaine Lea <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  relative OTR newb

Hello folks,

I was pointed to your list by someone at [removed] after
enquiring about old World War II broadcasts.

While I've amassed a fair number of files in mp3 format, the quality on
any number of them is quite low, or have obviously been run somewhat
haphazardly through some digital cleanup with less than stellar
results ;)

I guess what I'm wondering is how I might go about finding original
quality versions of various broadcasts from World War II?  CBS, BBC,
CBC, NBC and so on, as well as AFRS etc of course.

And at the risk of tossing in too much into my first message to the
list, is there a preferred method of filling in ID3 tags?  I'm currently
tagging them as best I can since they came to me with nothing but a
filename, but I'd rather get it 'right' than have to repeat it all!  For
the most part I'm replacing file names and 'track title' with something
that helps describe the broadcast, in the case of speeches (ie
Churchill, Roosevelt etc) I'm putting their name in as the artist, and
using the call letters of the stations as the album names.

Anyhow, I've likely rambled on more than enough ;)

Thanks in advance for your time and attention, I look forward to hearing
from you all.

---

Tremaine Lea

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position. - Mark Twain

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