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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 157


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Candy Candido
	 Re:  Some Like It Hot
	 Re:  the 3 Stooges
	 Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater
	 Jack Benny
	 Jean Shepherd
	 Love for Sale
	 Museum Collections
	 Olan Soule / Grand Marquee
	 End of OTR
	 May West
	 Olan Soule's Looks.
	 WHBQ - Memphis
	 jazbo Collins
	 May TimeLines
	 Re: Flick Lives
	 Re: Remember WENN
	 The Eternal Light
	 Shadow matter (and energy?)
	 A question from Kent

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 07:35:42 PST
From: "Bates, Robert" <rbates@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Candy Candido
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I hope many of you caught the very good "Biography" on Abbott and Costello last 
night (A & C on A & E). They had a brief interview with Candy Candido, who 
teamed briefly with Bud Abbott in the 1960s. Does anyone have any information on 
him?  I have hard him on the Jimmy Durante show, and I was always fascinated how 
his voice could go from very high to MIGHTY LOW. 

Rob

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:09:42 -0600
From: CHCOX@[removed] (Chet Cox)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  Some Like It Hot
Message-ID: <[removed]@fromGW>

Roy, your Hot Postum programming language gave me a fit of
uncontrollable giggles.  I doubt anyone who's not acquainted with LDS
theology would find it as funny, so I'm outright swiping this and using it
on several LDS lists.  What's worse, is now I can't get the "Hot Ralston"
theme out of my head, with the words "Hot Postum" in their place.  This
would have to be the sponsor for a different cowboy program --
perhaps "Tom Mixed-up and his Postum Iron Rodders are on the air!"

((oh, blazes with it!   EXTREMELY LOUD BELLY-LAUGH -
BWAH-HA-HA-HO!!))

>>> From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: some like it hot
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I got a laugh out of the response to Chet Cox's plug for the
LDS church. Since I spend some time in Utah each year and also make
use of the church's genealogical library from time to time, I'll tell you those
plugs were low key.
However, as Salt Lake City is something of a software center,
I'm starting the rumor that the church is behind a new programming
lanquage for the internet that uses modules called sermonettes.  It's
called Hot Postum.

 -----------------------------

*jeep~

~Chet
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:14:17 -0600
From: CHCOX@[removed] (Chet Cox)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  the 3 Stooges
Message-ID: <[removed]@fromGW>

Bill's hope for the Stooges on radio isn't as fantastic as it might sound. 
Though I've found no physical evidence, I've heard that Shemp Howard
(a teriffic individual comedian in his own right, though you'd never know
it from the films he appears in) did quite a bit of radio.  And the Stooges
on radio is no sillier than Harpo Marx on [removed] which, admittedly, didn't
work very well except for one Command Performance appearance with
Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper (Harpo's interpretor), and Jack Benny.  Even
then, they could have replaced Harpo with a sound effects man and
who would have known the difference?

<<<[removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: the 3 Stooges
Message-Id: <m0uDEBn-000YAdC@[removed]>

I was watching a video of the 3 Stooges the other day and got to
wondering if they ever appeared as guests on anyone's show? I realize
their comedy was mostly physical/visual but I thought that they may have
appeared on something like Command Performance. Does anyone know?
thanks.

*jeep~

~Chet
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:43:45 GMT
From: "John F. MacEachern" <johnfmac@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi!

The CCRMT is a relatively recent show, it may have been on Public Radio, but
I've only heard it on tape.  It is an awesome show!!!  It is new time radio
done in old time style.  It is still in production, though sporadically.  A
few months ago I spoke with Stephen Thomas Oney, the man who produces the
shows, I called him to see if there would ever be any new episodes, and
there were.  I've not yet heard the latest two, one of which stars Richard
Thomas, the guy who played John Boy in the Waltons TV show.

Many of the shows are about a retired Police Captain and his Doctor friend
(sort of like Sherlock Holmes) who solve crime mysteries on the Cape.  These
are definitely my favorites.  Others borrow themes from both current events
and old radio.  One show is a suspense thriller combining the exploits of
Robert Ballard and the sinking of the Titanic with the adventures of amateur
explorers.  Another combines a murder case set in the times of Charles
Dickens with Characters taken from the Perry Mason show.  Another is a
thriller set in New York and Cape Cod but with lots of influences from The
War of the Worlds.  There are other episodes that I can't easily classify,
some that I'm not crazy about, but for those of you who like real nasty
suspense, they're for you.

As you can probably tell by now, I'm a real big fan of this show.  I think
it's especially good for people not old enough to remember real OTR, like
me, because it's current.  It's equally as good for those who remember
because it's new yet done in the same style as they're used to including all
the detail, sound effects and production that made the old shows great.

You might think this reads like a commercial.  I hope it does.  I highly
recommend it to everyone!!!!   There'll definitely be something about it
that you'll love!  

It's not always easy to get every episode.  There is an anthology of them
that was offered in a catalogue, I think it was Minnesota Public Radio.  My
town Library also has some, as may yours.  Most I've ordered through my
local bookstore, they seem to be able to get any episode I want.  For those
of you willing to buy through the internet, there are some listed there as
well; just search for "Cape Cod Radio Myster Theater" and you'll find it.
I've never bought anything through the internet and those that were listed
could also be had through the local bookstore, but it might be quicker?

Again, I recommend it to everyone, it's fantastic, you'll love it!!! 

Hope I was TOO enthusiastic!

John MacEachern

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 11:17:50 cst
From: "Marty Dzik" <Marty_Dzik@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

     Hello,
     
     I'm looking for information on the Jack Benny "Si, Sy" routine. Does 
     anyone have information on how many episodes did the "Sy, Si" routine 
     show-up in?  
     
     Also, I'm looking for the name of the show where in the "Si, Sy" 
     routine, there was said "What was the name of your sister"?, and Mel 
     Blanc replys "Sue"..."What does she do"?..."Sew". 
     
     Thanks,
     Marty
     marty_dzik@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:55:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: k4lhb@[removed] (Thom Gooding)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jean Shepherd
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

For thsoe to whom it may be significant, Jean is K2ORS.

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:58:01 PST
From: jonesjm@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Love for Sale
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

This may not be appropriate for this list; please let me know if this
question should be asked elsewhere.  

i had an oppoprtunity to see Skitch Henderson conducting the Sacramento
Symphony and he did a Cole Porter medley including "Love for Sale."
I know this is from the old musical called, I think New Yorker.  However,
the question I have is this: The song was banned from the radio airways
at some point.  When and who sang it at that time?  Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrea Helen Selch <ahs@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Museum Collections
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Well I was just catching on my OTR-Digest and I realize that it is up to 
me to come to the defense of the Museum of Radio and Television. I speak 
not as a representative of the museum (although I am a Contributing 
Member), but as a researcher. As opposed to university collections, the MTR 
has two things going for it: 1) a very broad and substantial collection and 
2) universal accessibility. For $6 anyone can come in and listen to any 
broadcast that has been transferred to cassette tape. Other broadcasts 
which belong to the museum but are still in the archives in upstate NY 
can also be accessed--you just look it up on the computer and ask at the 
desk. It takes two weeks (approx) for it to be taped and shipped to the 
main MTR, but nevertheless there it is. It may be that you have to be a 
member to request a broadcast from the archive, but membership is quite 
affordable and is a way of supporting the future of OTR: Lots of regular 
people go to the museum and get "turned on" to OTR by chance. The more of 
them there are, the more certain we super-fans can be that OTR will have 
a long and glorious life! So go to the Museum, support it, and use its 
facilities. 

--Andrea Selch

PS Does anyone know where I can get a tape or CD of Archibald MacLeish's 
radio verse plays, "Air Raid" and "The Fall of the City"?

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 11:08 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Olan Soule / Grand Marquee
Message-Id: <m0uEJqE-00037FC@[removed]>

Grand Marquee's writer Virginia Safford Lynne also wrote scripts for "First
Nighter" which starred Olan Soule in its later years, as the suave First
Nighter.  I did not meet Virginia until 1950, when she was selling few
scripts and lived frugally with her elderly mother on the bottom floor of a
large stately old house in Hollywood.

I sat next to Olan at a Pacific Pioneer Broadcaster's meeting the day he was
celebrating his 80th birthday, and we spoke of Virginia, whom he felt was a
superb writer.  Olan's appearance never had been (to me) [removed] fact,
quite the opposite, but in the mind's eye on radio he took on a complete
different role. He was quite feeble by then, and indicated that he did not
have close family, but had a young man friend with him who often accompanied
him.  Olan and my late husband Howard Culver worked many radio and TV shows
together.

Olan died just over a year ago.

Lois Culver
Grants Pass Oregon

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:18:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Oliver <joliver@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: End of OTR
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        For folks wanting an interesting, succinct description of when OTR
ended, one would hard pressed to find a better comment than that of Bob Kirk
in V96 #156 of this List.  He's right on.  One only has to listen to the
1960, 1961 shows of Gunsmoke, with the reworked TV scripts and the canned TV
music bridges, to know that the patient was seriously afflicted and on life
support.

                                                Joe Oliver
W. Joseph Oliver
Department of Communication
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX  75962

   (409-468-4001)   

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Date: 30 Apr 1996 14:36:06 CST
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: May West
Message-Id: <m0uELEz-000Y9zC@[removed]>

Hi, all a week or 2 ago Someone was looking for a May West broadcast with Perry
Como. I don't have it but I saw a Cd called May West on the Air that had
clips from that broadcast as well as other broadcasts featuring May West
 It was in a Collector's Choice Catalog and I think the price was only
around 8 or 9 dollars.
If I can be of any further help with it phone number, address, etc. just
E-mail me and I'll be happy to get back to you.

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:27:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: <rjones@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Olan Soule's Looks.
Message-Id: <[removed]@mail>

Certainly Jim Widner knows that looks didn't matter in radio. Olan Soule
may have looked nerdy to Jim as Ray Pinker in the Crime Lab on TV's
Dragnet, but when he took over for Les Tremayne (who had succeeded Don
Ameche) on First Nighter he sounded big and handsome. Actually, he
didn't look that nerdy in person. Ron Lackman, in this sketchy little
1970 book REMEMBER RADIO, published a picture of Olan with Barbara Luddy
and he looked pretty good---as if it mattered. 
                                                Bob Jones

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:15:44 -0700
From: Bob Crump <bobcrump@[removed]>
To: "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: WHBQ - Memphis
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Izi Mann wanted to know the address for WHBQ radio.  It is still very 
much in operation; and, though they have changed owners and formats 
several times since the days of Elvis, it is still the same station.

I don't know their e-mail address (if they have one) but their snail mail 
address is: 6080 Mt. Moriah Rd., Extended, Memphis, TN.  I am not sure 
what the zip code is, but their phone number is 901-375-9324

Bob Crump

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:08:46 -0500 (EST)
From: MORTN2HHC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: jazbo Collins
Message-id: <01I45W85ZUOI9AR8WV@[removed]>

Hi gang, 

I was wondering, does anyone know of any otr with Jazbo Collins
and his tazmanian owl?I think he was on WNEW in New York City in
the late 40's and early fifty's.

Thanks for any help.

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:29:16 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: May TimeLines
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have updated my web site with the May issue of Timelines. 

Updates to Captain Midnight and YTJD will be in the next day or so.

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

                                                 

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Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 02:31:25 GMT
From: Francis Fisher <ffisher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Flick Lives
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Robert E. Yellen wrote: 

>31st Annual Jean Shepherd Concert
>31 May 96 Richardson Hall Princeton NJ 8 PM
>
>To get tickets
>1. Call box office 609-258-5000 with major credit card tickets $17 each

Would people going to this concert please tell Shep about this list? ...and
that we've got some serious questions for him and would like to say hello?
At least find out who represents him. Thanks!

Francis

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:23:18 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Remember WENN
Message-ID: <960430232317_387352962@[removed]>

I noticed in the newspaper that AMC is going to run "Remember WENN" again 
(the first three episodes that aired a few months ago, plus an additional 
10 episodes) starting this Saturday, May 4.  In Los Angeles, it will be 
on at 6:OO [removed] and repeated at 10:00 [removed]  (Check your local listings).

Although this show, set at a Pittsburgh radio station in late 1938, had 
several detractors on this list a few months ago, I thought it was 
charming and often very funny.  And it is without doubt the only TV 
series I've ever seen that dealt with old time radio.  If you didn't 
catch it last time, it's worth tuning in this time around.  

- Gregg Oppenheimer

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:57:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Eternal Light
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I was wondering if there is a site which has a complete archive
of the Eternal Light which was narrated by Alexander Skorbey.
In the early years of the program they were dramas and later on
the got quite talky. The early period I believe coincided with 
the founding of the State of Israel. I recall them as being
first rate with good scripts and fine acting.
I think it was carried on NBC.

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:17:11
From: "Chester L. Cox" <ChetEL@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shadow matter (and energy?)
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>
>Erik, could you elaborate?  What Shadow matter?
>> but that vendor's dealings in the Shadow matter
>>leave me thinking I ought to look elsewhere first.)
>*jeep!
>
>~~Chet
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 14:52:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]>
To: Old time radio digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: A question from Kent
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi Friends,
My fellow-collector and friend Kent Hagglund asked me to send out this
question for him. He can't do it himself as he's oversensitive to
electricity and unable to use computers.
If any of you can help him, Send your answers to me an I'll forward
them to him.
Kent's got a page from a catalogue containing some very interesting
tapes. The problem is that he doesn't know who the dealer is. All the
catalogue numbers has the letter MT in them. Does anyone of you know
who that dealer can be?
Both Kent and I would be very grateful if anyone of you can help us.
Kent's also interested in getting in touch with collectors who
specializes in Orson Wells, and so am I to.

Regards:

Marc and Kent

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