Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #173
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Date: 5/12/2002 9:03 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 173
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This is your life                     [ ClifSr@[removed] ]
      Return Those Golden Days of Yesterye  [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Pete Kelly's Blues Radio shows. Hard  [ StepToons@[removed] ]
      Pete Kelly's Blues Hoosier connectio  [ "Hoosierwood" <hoosierwood@onemain. ]
      Re: Top Cat/ Phil Silvers             [ Steve Salaba <philmfan@[removed] ]
      85                                    [ "Harry Bartell" <harverly1@charter. ]
      Benny                                 [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]
      Arnold Stang                          [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
      Elizabeth, this is a serious questio  [ bloodbleeds@[removed] ]
      16" Glass Transcription Question      [ "[removed]" <swells@[removed]; ]
      Re: "Calvin" reruns                   [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Fred Flowerday and Jim Jewell         [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:48:32 -0400
    From: ClifSr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  This is your life

    Help!  A friend wants to do an authentic "This is your life" tribute,
    complete with the original theme music.  Was this Ralph Edwards show  ever on
    radio?  I have found one source of used videos where you get on a waiting
    list in case one shows up. I'm hoping there might some radio tapes in
    circulation. Anybody out there have one, and was the same music used on radio
     and TV?  My local reputation for finding obscure stuff is on the line!
    E-mail me if you can bail me out.  ClifSr@[removed]. Thanks.

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:48:52 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Return Those Golden Days of Yesteryear

    Speaking of the OTR "experience," John Meyer notes,

>     One aspect of radio that is forgotten is the visual. Rarely did a
>     family sit around the living room staring at the console, as is often
>     depicted. Mostly we sat around, if we had an hour's leisure, looking at
>     each other, sharing our reactions to the comedy, the suspense or the
>     terror:

    The only place I saw a depiction of people sitting around a living room
    staring at a console was in ads for a radio being hawked.  As Titus Moody
    once said on the Fred Allen show, radio was "furniture that talks."

    John M. added,

> >     Often, though, we did other things while we listened. <<

    That was and is one of radio's great strengths.  With a TV show or
    videotape/DVD, you have to remain fairly stationary to see what's going
    on.  You have no such restriction, even today, with radio.  Those who
    listen to one of the vestiges of OTR, Paul Harvey, can be driving,
    cooking, or anything else that doesn't require the listener to listen to
    something else.  I've heard local and/or national call-in talk shows in a
    number of shops I've done business with, yet commerce goes on.

    Even when listening to Captain Midnight in my room, I could be hunting up
    writing materials when the announcer alerted us to a pending Secret
    Squadron Signal Session at the close of the adventure.  OTR freed us to
    do things in parallel with our listening, and this is one reason I think
    there's a place for OSR in the 21st Century.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:48:58 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

      From Those Were The Days --

    1946 - Jack Barry hosted Juvenile Jury on WOR radio in New York City.
    The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on
    the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast.

      Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:24:53 -0400
    From: StepToons@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pete Kelly's Blues Radio shows. Hard to find?

    Hello, Gang.
    Since the subject has come up about Pete Kelly's Blues I thought I'd ask if
    anyone knows if there are many of the old shows available?
    I could only find two episodes (The shy woman & Kelly is kidnapped) and they
    include some of the best timed wise cracking, hard-boiled dialog I've ever
    heard on a radio show. In "The Shy Woman" there is a scene where a gangster
    slaps Pete into the table along with a trade of dialog and sound effects that
    is amazing. I've played this particular episode for some friends and I always
    get the same "Holy cow" reaction.
    I would love to unearth some more gems like this.
    Anyone?
    Step

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:25:06 -0400
    From: "Hoosierwood" <hoosierwood@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Pete Kelly's Blues Hoosier connection

    The trumpet was played by Dick Cathcart (
    [removed],+Dick ) from Michigan City, IN.  I need to
    do more research on is Hollywood career. Any help would be welcomed.

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:45:34 -0400
    From: Steve Salaba <philmfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Top Cat/ Phil Silvers

    I seem to recall a carton character named Hokey Wolf whose voice was
    patterned after that of Phil Silvers.

    I really liked Top Cat when I was a kid.

    Steve
    --
    Steve Salaba

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 14:21:06 -0400
    From: Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: 85

    Art Funk writes

>     "Hey, where have we seen that guy/gal before?" or "Geez, that guy
>     must be 85 years old by now."

    To those of us who might wish to be only 85 again, that sounds a tad harsh.

    Harry Bartell

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 17:34:53 -0400
    From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Benny

    I've received  a lot of flack regarding my e-mail regarding
    the actor who provided the voice of "Benny the Ball" on the
    cartoon "Top Cat".  The actors name was Maurice Gosfield
    and the voice of the main character (Top Cat) was Arnold
    Stang.  Althought, if you'll notice, I NEVER stated that Paul
    Freeman was definitely the voice of Benny.  I merely proposed
    that due to the similarity of names (Paul Freeman/Freeman
    Gosden) he might want to checkout the [removed]
    website for further info.

    The similarities to the Sgt. Bilko are unmistakeable.  I remember
    him in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" with Jonathan Winters
    (a classic), "The Henry Morgan Show" (although from what I've read,
    he wasn't too pleased with HM) and Frank Sinatra's bar buddy in "The
    Man With The Golden Arm" (who wore a tee shirt, vest, and a cap with
    an oversized bill.  It was one of the most frightening films aside from
    the
    black and white version of  "Madame X" with Lana Turner, which I've ever
    seen in my entire life.)

    My question to the mailing list is this: Can you think of any OTR actors
    who had an OTR which, didn't match up to it's film version?  One which
    springs to mind is Barbara Stanwyck's interpretation of "Sorry, Wrong
    Number".  Loni Anderson's version on TV wasn't up to the same level.
    Contact me off list  with your responses.  Remember, too, that opinions
    are subjective.

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 17:50:49 -0400
    From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
    To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Arnold Stang

    Arnold Stang was also a regular on The Milton Berle Show on radio.

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:23:42 -0400
    From: bloodbleeds@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Elizabeth, this is a serious question

    I don't mean this funny or negative in ANY way, but I have to ask this question after seeing
    your detailed answers on every subject - radio, tv and movie - put here: is there anything you
    Don't know?

    You must live in a library. It's truly amazing what you come up with on this list.

    Did you see The Time Machine from 1960? I'm curious what 3 books YOU would take, at
    the end of that film?

    In awe,

    Ben Ohmart

    The Great Gildersleeve book
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:33:38 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <swells@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  16" Glass Transcription Question

    Here is an odd situation. A friend of mine dropped off some glass discs for
    me to transfer to CD. As I was thumbing through them I noticed that they
    were all Classical Music, most likely taken off the air. There is no
    commercial label, no identifying marks, other than what's hand written on
    the sleeve. I seriously doubt these are 'homemade' copies, so I would guess
    that they were done "on the side" by someone who had access to the proper
    equipment. Can anyone shed some light on this, Elizabeth, Michael, anyone? I
    know some people had some transcription recorders, but I thought they were
    just the 4" or 5" 78 RPM discs.
    Thanks
    Shawn

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 20:06:19 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: "Calvin" reruns

    Eric Cooper wrote:

>     Question for Elizabeth. Why can't I see Calvin and the Colonel on the
>     Cartoon Network or in general syndication? Was it never a syndicated
>     re-run?

    "Calvin and the Colonel" has shown up in syndication from time to time --
    I've heard reports of it showing up in weird time slots on backwater UHF
    stations as late as the 1980s -- but it has the disadvantage of having
    only 22 episodes. That's not really enough for five-a-week stripping --
    it would start repeating in a little over a month -- so the program
    didn't have much success in reruns.

    There were also feelings at the time that the plots and humor were too
    complicated for a kid audience -- while "Calvin" had started as a
    prime-time series targeted to adults, ABC lost its nerve halfway thru the
    1961-62 season, and moved the show to Saturday morning -- where it got a
    reputation as a failed kiddie series.

    The series is currently gathering dust in the MCA/Universal vaults, but
    since Universal hasn't shown much interest in exploiting its animation
    properties other than the occasional halfhearted "Woody Woodpecker"
    collection, there doesn't seem to be much chance of it showing up
    anywhere any time soon. For the series to appear on the Cartoon Network,
    it would have to be licensed by Turner/Time-Warner -- and they're
    understandably more interested in exploiting their own animation
    properties than in licensing outside programming.

    While ABC only showed the program in black and white -- and most of the
    unlicensed bootleg videos floating around come from B&W 16mm prints --
    the series was actually filmed in color, and the animation was actually
    quite striking in an early-sixties kind of way. "Calvin" is a long long
    way from Correll and Gosden's best work -- but for what it was, it was
    well done, and an authorized video or DVD release of the series, in
    color, would be worth seeing.

    While you're waiting for "Calvin" to resurface, you could always collect
    some of the licensed merchandise related to the series. For a
    single-season program, it generated considerable interest from the
    merchandisers -- there were comic books, coloring books, a board game,
    and a few other trinkets. Lately original animation cels from the series
    have been showing up on eBay, for those interested in the ultimate
    obscure Correll and Gosden collectible.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 21:03:18 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Flowerday and Jim Jewell

    Jim Lawrence asked what happened to Fred Flowerday and
    Jim Jewell. While I can't answer that question myself,
    he may find the answer in David Rothel's book, "Who
    was that Masked Man." It's out of print, but some
    public libraries carry it. It's been a while since
    I've seen it, but I believe it had information on all
    the Lone Ranger cast and crew.

    Additionally, the Detroit News publishes annual
    indexes of articles going back many years (like the
    Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature). Those might
    provide obituary information, if applicable.

    Finally, Lone Ranger researcher Terry Salomonson might
    be of help. I don't know how to contact him, but
    someone else here might.

    Rick

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