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>	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 443
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>
>Articles in this issue of [removed]:
>
>	 Re: The Bickersons
>	 Abby Lewis
>	  Well!
>	 John Dunning book
>	 Circumstances that brought me to [removed]
>	 Giselle MacKenzie
>	 Who  Was Giselle McKenzie
>	 Jack Benny Reruns
>	 Crisis
>
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>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 19:14:33 -0500
>From: JanBach@[removed]
>To: [removed]@[removed]
>Subject: Re: The Bickersons
>Message-ID: <951210191432_50253184@[removed]>
>
>Hello, again --
>No one who responded to the Bickerson question mentioned (or perhaps knew?)
>of at least two Bickerson LP recordings, which I presume were scripted by
>Philip Rapp specifically for the recordings: The Bickersons and The
>Bickersons Fight [removed] were released in stereo in 1962, and the only
>reason I have them is that I recently had the opportunity to buy some LPs our
>local library was selling out to make room for CDs (this is the time to buy,
>folks -- sometimes for as little as 25 cents to half a dollar). The first
>album has Breakfast with John and Blanche, The Bickersons at Sea, Wedding
>Anniversary, and Later That Same Evening. The second album has the sketches
>obscurely entitled Round One, Round Two, Round Three and -- yes, you guessed
>it -- Round Four. At that time Don Ameche was doing live stage appearances in
>plays and hosting International Showtime on TV. Frances Langford was then
>living in Jensen Beach, Florida, and running the Frances Langford Outrigger
>Restaurant, Terrace Villas and Marina.
>A couple of related items: 1. Have any of you seen Frances in an early
>appearance as an ingenue actress with a leading role in the original Lum 'n'
>Abner movie? 2. Did you know that the actor who replaced Don Ameche on the
>half-hour radio show later played Marlo Thomas' dad on "That Girl"?
>Interesting connection, when one remembers that Marlo's own dad, Danny
>Thomas, played a role on the original Bickerson sketches!
>
>Later,
>Jan Bach
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 10 Dec 95 19:46:56 EST
>From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
>To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
>Subject: Abby Lewis
>Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>This weekend I saw the latest offering at the 3D-IMAX theater in New York City,
>a very enjoyable film called ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME.  Imagine my surprise,
>though, when at the very end of the film who should show up playing the
>grandmother but radio actress Abby Lewis.  Abby was on FIVE MINUTE MYSTERIES, A
>HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY, THE ROAD OF LIFE, and is a frequent guest at the FOTR
>convention in Newark.  If anyone is in NYC and wants to catch the film, it will
>probably be playing for the next 6 months or so.
>
>Steve Lewis  
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:28:00 GMT
>From: [removed]@[removed] (Marty Tabnik)
>To: otr@[removed]
>Subject:  Well!
>Message-Id: <95121018075318223@[removed]>
>
>JB> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:46:36 -0500 (EST)
>JB> From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
>
>JB> As for the essential radio, I'd have to say any one of
>JB> the following should be the included JB program(s):
>JB>         4/9/50 Jack gives 50 cents to a panhandler
>
>The actor who played the "panhandler" later went on to much
>greater fame on TV.  His character was consistent thru many
>radio and TV appearances -- even tho' his TV character took
>the name of a pre-existing character.
>
>Anyone [except you, LauraLee, 'cause we all know that YOU
>know the answer <g>] wanna guess
>        The actor's name:
>        The radio character's name:
>        The name of the TV star who gave him his big break:
>        The TV character played by the TV star:
>        The TV character played by the actor:
>        What OTHER talent the actor had:
>        What well-known radio-TV show first starred the TV star:
>        The name of another radio-TV star who replaced the Big
>            TV Star and who later replaced him:
>---
> * SLMR [removed] * When Frank Sinatra dies, the 20th Century is over. *Anon.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:22:55 -0500
>From: JRayb71827@[removed]
>To: otr@[removed]
>Subject: John Dunning book
>Message-ID: <951210222254_69426652@[removed]>
>
>Although the John Dunning book, "Tune In Yesterday," was published in 1976 it
>remains one of the best information sources for OTR fans.  Unfortunately, it
>has become more difficult to find and is quite expensive.  However, it has
>been known that John has been working on a new version.  Well, here's the
>latest info about it.  This story will appear in the Jan/Feb issue of my OTR
>newsletter, "Thrilling Days of Yesteryear," as follows:
>                  "JOHN DUNNING BOOK UPDATE
>    A recent chat with John discloses he's ironed out his differences with
>his publisher (Oxford) and the book is now in the editing stage for cosmetic
>changes.  His original manuscript of 3,600 typed pages had lots of white
>space and after tightening was really only about 2,600 pages.  He cut about
>500 and the finished product will be about a thousand pages in book form.
> His wife, Helen, has quit her job to devote full time to the book and John
>says everything should be finished by April or May.  But, publication won't
>be before that same time in 1997 and could be pushed back until fall of '97.
> Of course, he wants the earlier date and hopes Oxford will retain the "Tune
>In Yesterday" title.  John told me there'll now be about 65-85 pages on news,
>15-20 pages on band "remotes," plus sections on sports, religious broadcasts,
>concerts and Metropolitan Opera.  The first book had about 700 entries and
>the new one, he says, will be at least twice that.  In  addition to his
>on-going mystery series about Cliff Janeway ("Booked To Die," and "Bookman's
>Wake"), John is back doing an OTR show on Denver radio and it's going great
>in the ratings.  By the way, "Bookman's Wake" is due to come out in paperback
>in March and has big advance orders."
>          Just thought you'd like to know.
>                            John Rayburn
>                            [removed] Box 36106
>                            Denver, CO 80236 
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 11 Dec 95 00:19:12 EST
>From: Ross & Corinne Learn <[removed]@[removed]>
>To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
>Subject: Circumstances that brought me to [removed]
>Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
>From:	Ross & Corinne Learn, 103014,1016
>TO:	OTR Digest, [removed]@[removed]
>DATE:	12/8/95 10:23 PM
>
>RE:	Copy of: Circumstances that brought me to [removed]
>
>When I considered the question of how those of us who grew up on television in
>the 60's came to discover OTR, I thought "that's easy, because it's good".
Then
>I got to thinking about direct influences.  I can relate to the opening of
HBO's
>"Dream On" because I can remember being in front of the TV alot.  (I was
born in
>1961).  
>
>The first and most obvious influence had to be cartoons.  The Flintstones, The
>Jetsons, and the countless hundreds of Warner Bros cartoons I watched as a
>child.  Another BIG one was watching Disney's "The Jungle Book" and becoming a
>Baloo fanatic.  It was obviously a connection I made early on with the voices
>that led me to explore old radio shows once I started hearing them.
>
>Another connection I came up with was that I liked old Universal monster cycle
>movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, etc.  This combined with Abbott
>and Costello, made me interested when I would see something with the names I
>recognized on the cover.
>
>Somewhere along the way, I picked up an interest in Big Band music (from where?
>I have no idea.  No one I knew listened to it.)  But when I see OTR/Big Band
>mixtures, I have to listen.
>
>I am still getting influences even today.  Our Canadian A&E clone BRAVO! is
>airing episodes of "Fernwood 2-Night".  It was only after watching it in reruns
>and recognizing Frank DeVoll's name from research did I realize that these
>veterans of radio still influence entertainment today.  Just watched an episode
>where Barth invited "Happy" up.  They were joking about him being an expert in
>the music of the past.  His reply, "I wish you wouldn't make fun of the past,
>I've spent alot of time [removed]"  Good one, Frank!
>[removed]
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 01:03:29 +0001 (EST)
>From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
>To: [removed]@[removed]
>Subject: Giselle MacKenzie
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>> Date: 10 Dec 1995 20:47:11 GMT
>> From: [removed]@[removed] (Robert j. Field)
>> To: [removed]@[removed]
>> Cc: otr@[removed]
>> Subject: Giselle MacKenzie
>> Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>> 
>> > Who was Giselle MacKenzie?
>> 
>> I believe that Giselle MacKenzie was on the TV version of Your Hit Parade,
>> but I could be mistaken. 
>
>She was.  And after that, she had her own show.  It lasted less than one 
>season:  28 September 1957 to 29 March 1958, according to Alex MacNeils 
>=Total Television=.  It was a half-hour musical-variety show, produced by 
>Jack Benny's J&M Productions. 
>
>======================================================================
>A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
>15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
>Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
>======================================================================
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 01:11
>From: "bill harris" <billhar@[removed]>
>To: "otr digest" <otr@[removed]>
>Subject: Who  Was Giselle McKenzie
>Message-Id: <m0tP1dO-000YG8C@[removed]>
>
>Ol> From: Dave Spiceland <spicelandrd@[removed]>
> Ol> Subject: Who is Giselle?
> Ol> Message-id:
> Ol> <[removed]@[removed]>
> Ol> From: Kubelski@[removed]
>
> 
>> Ol> I've always [removed] was [removed]
>>
>>O nooooooo!
>>I *remember* "Giselle, Giselle <but not the rest of the lyrics>".
>>She was a lovely, talented, violin-playing, singing brunette.
>>ISTR that she had her own TV show.
>>[Hey, Lou!  Is early TV allowed here?]
>>
>> Ol> From: rwaite@[removed] (Roy Waite)
>
>Giselle McKenzie was on the early TV program "Your Hit Parade" along with
>Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lansen(sp), and can't remember the other fellow. 
>Each week they would perform the top ten songs of the week.
>
>Bill Harris
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:58:04 +0001 (EST)
>From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
>To: [removed]@[removed]
>Subject: Jack Benny Reruns
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:46:36 -0500 (EST)
>> From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
>> To: otr@[removed]
>> Subject: Jack Benny and all related topics
>> Message-id: <01HYMLI52J4Q96X6JC@[removed]>
>> And on Jack's reruns, I tend to agree that the comedy is just different from
>> I Love Lucy or Dick Van Dyke.  Notice that the Honeymooners is rerun, but
>> not the Jackie Gleason Show (from which the Honeymooners spun off). 
>
>I did see the Jackie Gleason Show rerun on a local PBS station about ten 
>years ago, just after I got cable.  And the late 1960s Smothers Brothers 
>Show was rerun last year on E!.  Maybe that network could be a home for 
>Jack Benny reruns.
>
>======================================================================
>A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
>15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
>Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
>======================================================================
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 11 Dec 1995 06:15:58 GMT
>From: [removed]@[removed] (Ron B. Hare)
>To: otr@[removed]
>Subject: Crisis
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>In reply to Frank Passage's question about *Crisis*
>
>Crisis was a 25-minute anthology series produced in Seattle around 1974-1976
>by Jim French. I'm also pretty sure that the series did not get the
>distribution that it deserves. All of the episodes in my collection have KVI
>Seattle promos.
>
>I do not recognize the writers, actors and actresses (except for Pat French,
>who has appeared in many modern-era radio dramatic productions). The series
>was consistently well done in all respects. It proves that high quality radio
>drama does not require big budgets and famous actors. (Another example is
>Sci-Fi Radio, which is even better.) Crisis topics were similar to those of
>Sears/Mutual Radio Theater - adventure, comedy, and drama with a few science
>fiction and western episodes. Unlike Sears Radio Theater, there was no rigid
>topic format.
>
>Jim French introduced each episode, directed most of them, and wrote a good
>share of the scripts. In my opinion, Crisis is well above average and an
>enjoyable listen but does not fall in the *don't miss* category.
>
>Ron Hare
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