Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #289
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 9/4/2001 7:17 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 289
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Demographics                          [ steve mcguffin <earl22002@[removed] ]
      Scopes Trial                          [ "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
      sponsors message                      [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
      Re: Internet radio listening          [ "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed]; ]
      Re: Internet radio listening and Yea  [ "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
      Internet radio listening              [ Roger Lorette <webmaster@cyber49er. ]
      Internet hogging and retirement home  [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      My top five picks                     [ AandG4jc@[removed] ]
      5 Favorite OTR Shows                  [ "Mary Anne Burkhalter" <characterst ]
      There are Among My Favorite ...       [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Age and Jim French Radio Series Logs  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
      Superman theme                        [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      Re: How old are we?                   [ "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed] ]
      Aol and word plaining                 [ Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed] ]
      Downloading, etc.                     [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
      Re:Abbott & Costello                  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey5@[removed]; ]
      Internet radio listening              [ "David L. Easter" <david-easter@hom ]
      re: My 5 favorite otr shows           [ "Kenneth Studdard" <rtoombs@alltel. ]
      OTR Rebroadcast Stations              [ Christopher Lowell White <cncwhite@ ]
      Fu narrator                           [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      5 favorite OTR shows                  [ "J. Pope" <jpope101@[removed] ]
      favorite shows                        [ Jim Murtaugh <JimM@[removed]; ]
      Lives of Harry Lime episode title     [ passage@[removed] ]
      LUX: It's A Wonderful Life - script   [ passage@[removed] ]
      Whiz candy bar and cod liver oil!     [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
      net congestion                        [ Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed]; ]
      George Gershwin Radio Show            [ FKELLY <fkelly@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:31:37 -0400
    From: steve mcguffin <earl22002@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Demographics

    I'll be 34 and have been listening to OTR for as long
    as I can remember.  My father (who is 68) was and is a
    devoted AM radio listener, and I remember catching
    enough of some shows as a kid that I got interested.
    A station in Harrisonburg, VA, about 30 miles from
    here, used to play OTR from 10 to 11 every night.  So
    I've been hooked for a while!  I teach at a state
    school for the blind, and have several students who
    are very interested in OTR as well.  My personal
    favorites are Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Nightbeat.
    By the way, the favorite show in my father's house as
    a kid - hands down, The Grand Ole Opry.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:31:43 -0400
    From: "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Scopes Trial

    I was reading that the Scopes "Monkey" trial was the first court case
    broadcast live on radio.  Do any recordings exist?

    As for age, I'm 49.

    Vince

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    Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:31:55 -0400
    From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  sponsors message

    On the otr program Our Miss Brooks, one of her
    sponsors
    way Luster Cream Shampoo.  Here is how it goes.

    [removed] [removed] [removed] Beautiful luster
    cream
    girl.  You owe your crowning glory [removed] a luster
    cream [removed]

    I often wondered what Luster Cream Shampoo looked
    like?

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:48:58 -0400
    From: "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Internet radio listening

    Mary Anne Morel wrote:

>     I was just reading a letter from J. Alec West which discusses Internet vs
>     television popularity and the opportunity OTR has to build up
>     listenership--especially young people--within the Internet community.

    That would be nice, too ... but I think what the talk-show host was getting at
    was more "format" related than "OTR" related -- in other words, an interest in
    modern-day dramatic programming in an OTR-style radio format (NewTimeRadio???).

>     It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe
>     to--not an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs
>     because it slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission
>     difficult. In effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people are
>     non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

    As much as we'd all like OTR to be wildly popular, I'm certain we'd all agree
    that OTR is a drop-in-the-bandwidth-bucket.  If anyone is "ruining" anything
    (and I'm not necessarily saying they are), it's the people downloading the
    latest from Madonna, Metallica, and Dr. Dre -- not to mention the fringe
    element that causes the _greatest_ media bandwidth-draw -- namely, the folks
    who upload and download 4-gigabyte-sized copies of feature films ripped from
    DVDs and other sources day in and day out.

    OTR, besides website presence, only has a minor presence on the peer-to-peer
    entities that have taken over where Napster left off.  And, I suspect it will
    always be so.  _But_, if interest grows in modern-day dramatic content on
    radio, it only stands to reason that those who love the format might become
    interested in its earlier roots ... and, in the long run, have a positive
    impact on growth in the popularity of OTR among those who have never
    experienced it.  That would be nice.

    Regards,
    J. Alec West

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:50:21 -0400
    From: "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Internet radio listening and Yeast

    "Mary Anne Morel" commented:

>     Does downloading of programs really cause glitches or significant
>     slowdown in transmission for the rest of the Internet crowd?

    Everything that is transmitted on the net uses up some of the bandwidth, but
    it's not that simple.  This really isn't the place to get into bandwidth and
    packet switching issues but suffice to say that OTR downloading has little
    effect on the performance of the Internet.

    An OTR show is usually in the range of 5-7 megabytes in size.  Compare that
    to a 700 megabyte movie.  And USENET has MANY more movies being transferred
    than OTR.  Add in the music files being transferred and you'll see that OTR
    is barely a speck.

    In terms of performance lately, the Code Red worm/virus has had a greater
    impact than routine downloading.  I run my school's web site , where I also
    host my OTR pages, and I've seen over 1,000 attempts by this nuisance to get
    into my machines.  Spread that over the 1,000s of infected of machines and
    you start seeing a slowdown.

    I've been using the Internet since the mid-80s (all text-based back then)
    and I have NEVER felt guilty about the bandwidth I use, nor should you.

    As for yeast, I always chuckle when I hear those ads.  My mother told me
    that she still can't handle yeast after being forced to eat it in the 40s.
    Myself, I eat yeast frequently.  The nutritional yeast flakes available
    today are quite good and a primary source of B-12 for vegetarians who avoid
    dairy products.

    And, in a recent Digest, someone mentioned the show, "Great Gunns."  The
    only reference I've ever seen to that is in Buxton and Owen's "The Big
    Broadcast."  Are any of these in existence?  It sounds like a great program
    considering it starred Barbara Luddy, Bill Johnstone, and Marvin Miller.

    Also, "Mary Anne Morel"  wanted to know what computer hell would be like:
    perhaps forced to write the Great American Novel using the VI text editor in
    UNIX.

    Vince

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:51:07 -0400
    From: Roger Lorette <webmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Internet radio listening

    Mary Anne Morel  wrote:

>     It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe
>     to--not an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs
>     because it slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission
>     difficult. In effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people are
>     non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

    I believe that I would be far from an "expert" on the subject but with the
    tens of millions of people dowloading mp3 music around the [removed] other
    millions downloading "pirate-illegal" [removed] the other millions
    downloading "ripped" first-run movies within days of their theater release
    (sorry but I must plead at least partial guilt for all of these crimes) the
    percentage of these dastardly criminals exchanging OTR shows would be tiny
    indeed.  Saying that OTR downloaders are clogging the internet bandwidth is
    like blaming your teen-age daughter for the overloading of the 911 telephone
    system because she spent so much time talking to her boyfriend!!!

    Don't feel [removed] don't.

    Roger Lorette
    webmaster@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:52:20 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Internet hogging and retirement homes for radio
     actors

>     It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe
>     to--not an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs
>     because it slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission
>     difficult. In effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people
>     are
>     non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

    Well!

    It's true that many OTR listeners are of a decidedly non-Trekkie persuasion.
      Science fiction went from a largely optimistic and thoughtful genre to an
    anti-intellectual pursuit of fantasy after Star Trek became popular.

    But nobody hogs the Internet any more than anyone else.  Your message
    packets are routed over whichever lines are available, and nobody's traffic
    takes precedence over anybody else's traffic.  My guess is that MP3 music
    files constitute more traffic than OTR, but it's likely that news pages and
    commercial uses of the 'net form the bulk of the load on the system.

    ..................

    On another topic: I happened to be surfing the Web and came upon the website
    of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which I think is
    [removed]  Besides running the Oscars, one of their major functions is the
    running of retirement homes for movie people.

    I was wondering if radio people--either old-time or present-day--had any
    similar organization to take care of them when they get old, unemployed,
    disabled, or otherwise down on their luck.  Anyone know?

    M Kinsler

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:52:28 -0400
    From: AandG4jc@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  My top five picks

    1. Gunsmoke-The best program every.
    2. Suspence-I love to hear some of Hollywood's most famous stars on the
    program when normally they did not do radio.
    3. The Shadow-The Orson Wells episodes were the best.
    4. Lum and Abner-The early fifteen minutes spots were the best also.
    5. My Favorite Husband- I Loved Lucy, in any format!
    Allen

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:52:36 -0400
    From: "Mary Anne Burkhalter" <characterstogo@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  5 Favorite OTR Shows

    I guess my favorites are: Richard Diamond, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Fibber
    McGee & Molly and Box 13.

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:52:57 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  There are Among My Favorite ...

    Jer51473 asks,

>     It would be interesting to hear everyones top 5 in order of preference.

    Not counting Captain Midnight,

    The Lone Ranger -- approaches the mythic.
    Phil Harris-Alice Faye -- works as well today as when first aired.
    Pat Novak For Hire -- just for the atmosphere
    Jack Benny -- the absolute master comedian
    Adventures of Sam Spade -- a little of everything.

    Honorable Mention:

    Mr. Keen, Nick Carter, The Fat Man, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bold Venture,
    and The Shadow.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:59:19 -0400
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Age and Jim French Radio Series Logs

            Since Larry Albert mentioned Jim French's radio series, here is some
    additional information that may be of interest.

            I have recently updated my series logs for The Adventures of Harry
    Nile and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  I have also put
    together a brand-new log of the Kincaid, the Strange Seeker series.  All
    three logs include information supplied to me by Jim French Productions.
    You will find these logs at Lou Genco's Log page at:

    [removed]

            You will also find very good logs on two of Jim French's other
    series there:  Crisis and Tower Playhouse.  These logs were created by Frank
    Passage.

            In my own opinion as a long-time fan of the printed Sherlock Holmes
    stories, Larry does a very fine Dr. Watson.  His is a Watson that is very
    faithful to the way that Conan Doyle wrote the character.  I recently
    completed an interview article "Perspectives of a Current-Day Radio Actor -
    An Interview with Larry Albert."  It will probably be published in a few
    months in at least one of the Old-Time Radio Clubs' newsletters.

            Want to hear Larry as Dr. Watson?  Try the Imagination Theater web
    site at:
    [removed]
    Currently playing there for the next few days is "The Adventure of The Dover
    Maiden."  Also playing on the same program is "The Loophole," the first
    episode of the 1970's Crisis series.  It stars a favorite OTR actor - Hans
    Conried.  Another episode of  The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  -
    "The Adventure of the Wycliffe Codicil" will air later this month on the
    Imagination Theater web site.

            Oh yes, my age:  LIII

    Confused?  My age is in Roman Numerals.

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart Wright

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:55:41 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman theme

>     Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 08:33:04 -0400
>     From: Graham Newton <gn@[removed];

>     Although there are questions about this, Leon Klatzkin is credited on the
>     actual music score for the TV show main title theme "SUPERMAN", of which I
>     have the piano score.

    Thank you for responding.  I can easily believe that the other music from
    the Superman TV show was library music, but the main theme sounds
    so much like the radio theme that it's hard not to think that it was
    designed to be so.  So as long as we have nothing authoritative to the
    contrary, I prefer to believe that Leon Klatzkin did write the theme for the
    Superman TV show, and wrote it to evoke the radio theme.

     A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210          lawyer@[removed]
     Boston, MA 02108-2503           [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:56:13 -0400
    From: "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: How old are we?

    I just made it to 50 and have been interested in OTR since I was 16. I took
    a lot of verbal abuse both from peers and teachers but persisted in the
    humble though very correct opinion that radio drama, etc., was far better
    than the visual pablum being foisted on us in the 60's. (A few exceptions -
    Petticoat Junction and the Green Hornet among them.) In a recent post I
    spoke of my chance to act (?) in some new-time dramas taped in '77, and to
    work with and watch people like Raymond Edward Johnson, a wonderful person;
    Jack Grimes and Will Jordan.

    My list of favorites is a long one but a few are Fibber and Molly; Gildy;
    the Hornet; Sgt. Preston; Red Skelton; Bob Hope; Ma Perkins; Bob and Ray;
    Archie AND The Aldrich Family (this one's a draw); The Life of Riley, and
    almost any Christmas show.

    I'll be AFK for a few [removed] today we close on our new house and the
    movers come Wednesday.

     Macandrew

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:59:31 -0400
    From: Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Aol and word plaining

>     [ADMINISTRIVIA: All AOL members should complain loudly to AOL "Customer
>     Support" now about their problem with sending plain-text email; AOL is
>     currently beta-testing AOL [removed], and you need to let them know how annoying
>     their HTML-only email policy is NOW, before they perpetuate it in the new
>     version.  --cfs3]

    I heard , from another list, that the new [removed] (due to many complains)
    will reintroduce the plain text option for mail. As yet I haven't been
    able to verify this through anyother sources.

    			yours aol-oha,

    				Garry D. Lewis
    --
    Remember: for every silver lining, there is a cloud!

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:00:50 -0400
    From: Ga6string@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Downloading, etc.

    In a message dated 09/03/2001 9:49:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:
    Mary Anne [removed]

>     ... of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe to--not
>     an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs because it
>     slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission [removed]

    Hi all,
    I don't have any statistics to back up my opinion, but I would guess that the
    number of OTR fans and downloaders is miniscule in comparison to the number
    of people who download other things, such as pornography, from the Internet.
    The OTR community, as a function of the Internet or the world at large, just
    isn't that substantial. I'd be interested to hear how the person who posted
    that comment would respond if you asked he/she to back up the claim with
    facts!
    Sincerely,
    Bryan Powell

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:01:40 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:Abbott & Costello

      Kenneth Clark asked --

>     Near the end of the movie, it was noted that Bud and Lou had some trouble
>     with the IRS and were

    in debt.

      I'm sure you will get a lot of responses to this, but in gist, their
    agent didn't report all their income over the years (and may have
    skimmed some off as well, my memory is fuzzy on this) which led to the
    IRS nearly wiping them out of everything they had starting in the early
    '50s.  Bud lived until the early '70s and died nearly penniless, I
    believe in the Motion Picture Home (a sort of nursing home for needy
    actors).
      I've always loved Bud and Lou's word play, how Lou would misunderstand
    the meaning of a word and the madness would start.
      And Lou didn't always stick to the script of their radio program and
    whenever you hear Bud tell him to "talk sense" it's a code to get back
    to the script.  Another thing that cracks me up is Lou stating, "I'm on
    on page such and such, I don't know where you are!" when he lost his
    place.
      Joe

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

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:16:51 -0400
    From: "David L. Easter" <david-easter@[removed];
    To: "Old-Time Radio Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Internet radio listening

    In Issue 288 Mary Anne Morel wrote:

>     It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe
>     to--not an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs
>     because it slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission
>     difficult. In effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people
>     are
>     non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

>     What do computer experts on this list think of this comment? Does
>     downloading
>     of programs really cause glitches or significant slowdown in transmission
>     for
>     the rest of the Internet crowd? Am I going to be sent to computer hell for
>     downloading and listening to Jack Benny or the Six Shooter? And will my
>     punishment be never to hear another OTR program, but to endure Oprah, Rosie
>     O' Donnell, Jay Leno, Conan O' Brien et al reruns forever?

    Every user on-line "slows down" transmissions. The question is how much?

    Let's make a couple of assumptions. A single OTR show in mp3 format is 5MB.
    Over a period of time we will assume that an average of 50 OTR mp3's are
    downloaded on any particular day. That results in 250MB a day.

    Now for comparison, there are 147 million internet users in the [removed] and
    Canada. If only 1 in 10 of them (a _very_ conservative estimate) send or
    forward one of the little "gems" of wisdom/humor we all receive, at an
    average of 17KB each (note how small and innocent these file are); then we
    have generated 250MB.

    I can't begin to estimate the traffic in:

    1.) free e-mail greeting cards (significantly bigger than 17KB),
    2.) SPAM (bigger on average then 17KB but almost as prevalent),
    3.) pop-up ads (yes, they eat up bandwidth!),
    4.) music mp3 downloads (Napster and its successors),
    5.) pornography downloads ([removed] I have nothing against pornography and
    figure it is better than SPAM and pop-ups because the user actually
    requested the file.)
    6.) web casts of sports games (usually heard by people in offices who should
    be working),
    7.) web casts of live radio broadcasts (ditto #6 above),
    8.) the little known world of spyware ([removed] web bugs). I'll bet 90% of
    Old-Time Radio Digest participants have these bugs and don't know it. They
    are constantly transmitting data about you (phoning home) and using
    bandwidth in the process. (small "file" size, _very_ high volume).

    To answer your question, OTR mp3 files are large and eat bandwidth but so do
    other activities. Conversely, large numbers of people handling small files
    also eat bandwidth.

    You are no more slowing transmission then millions of other users.

    (Gee, if big trucks were banned from the highways, think how that would
    solve traffic problems! And bring back trains!)

    As for your "punishment be never to hear another OTR program, but to endure
    Oprah, Rosie O' Donnell, Jay Leno, Conan O' [removed]", I figure the only
    people that should be forced to listen to these reruns are the people that
    listened to then to begin with. Everyone else should have free choice!

    David L. Easter

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:17:29 -0400
    From: "Kenneth Studdard" <rtoombs@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: My 5 favorite otr shows

    Jer51473@[removed] wrote:

>     It would be interesting to hear everyones top 5 in
>     order of preference.

    My 5 favorite shows are:

    1. I Love a Mystery
    2. Amos 'n Andy
    3. Richard Diamond
    4. Jack Benny
    5. Lux Radio Theater

    I am 35 years old and have been hooked on Old Time Radio for 4 years.  I
    really enjoy the list.

    Kenneth Studdard

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:18:01 -0400
    From: Christopher Lowell White <cncwhite@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR Rebroadcast Stations

    Hi, my name is Bryant White I live in Westerly, RI, I am 12 years old and I
    just got interested in OTR. I own the complete collection of Dragnet on MP3
    cd and Our Miss Brooks also on MP3 cd but, I also would like to listen to
    OTR rebrodcasts on the radio. I have a shortwave radio that plays AM, FM,
    and Shortwave stations. So if anyone knows of any stations(AM, FM, or
    Shortwave) that rebroadcast OTR please tell me.

    Thanks,
       Bryant White

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:17:04 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fu narrator

>     From: JimInks@[removed]

>     Does anyone know who was the narrator for the Shadow of FuManchu?  It sounds
>     to me like it's Paul McGrath from Inner Sanctum but a friend of mine is
>     convinced it's Gerald Mohr.
>     -Jim Amash

    I go along with your friend - it's Gerald Mohr, earlier
    in his career.

    John Henley
    jhenley@[removed]
    ph  (512) 495-4112
    fax (512) 495-4296

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:04:12 -0400
    From: "J. Pope" <jpope101@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5 favorite OTR shows

        Neat - I can answer two questions at once.  My favorite show, and the
    one which first got me interested in OTR, is 'Dragnet.'  I started
    watching the color TV series about 2 years ago and made my way backwards.
    My next four favorites are:

    2. 'The Jack Benny Program'
    3. 'The Lone Ranger'
    4. 'The Burns and Allen Show'
    5. 'Dimension X'/'X Minus One'

    Jennifer

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:04:30 -0400
    From: Jim Murtaugh <JimM@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  favorite shows

    			I just turned 55 and my top 5 radio shows are also
    comedies.  Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, Amos and Andy,
    Phil Harris/Alice Faye, and The Life of Riley.  Thank heaven for mp3's, they
    have expanded my collection considerably so I am able to hear these shows.
    If there are any psychiatrists our there, maybe you can tell me what my
    choices mean.

    			Jim

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:04:40 -0400
    From: passage@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lives of Harry Lime episode title

    Hi All,

    Anyone know the title of a "Lives of Harry Lime" episode that
    involves a chartered plane to Nice, France with Moe as Harry's
    partner and Hyacinth as a stowaway?

    Frank

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:05:07 -0400
    From: passage@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  LUX: It's A Wonderful Life - script

    Hi All,

    I got the following script request:
    - -------
    Do you know anyone who has a script of the March 10, 1947 Lux Radio
    Theatre
    version of "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"  ?
    NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ

>     Il Professore <

    ilprof@[removed]

    Artistic Director/Santa Barbara Actors Theatre, Inc.
    [removed]
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    Either reply direct or to me and I'll forward.

    Frank

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:46:11 -0400
    From: Jer51473@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Whiz candy bar and cod liver oil!

     I dont know whether the poster had a typo or not, but the slogan went like
    this as I remember it: Whizzz, best nickle candy bar there izzz! Im not sure
    if they said "best candy bar" or "best nickle candy bar", but the last word
    was "izzz" and not "whizzz. Cod liver oil! We didnt get that as often as we
    got CASTER OIL, which was even worse. We had to take it whether we were sick
    or not at least once a year. If you would even hint at being sick, my dad,
    and I can hear him now, would say "the boy needs a good dose of oil to clean
    his liver off". Clean my liver off? I never saw Mom or Dad, either one take a
    dose of "oil". But, them certainly were the days when doing right by their
    children was the prime motivation of most parents.

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:46:22 -0400
    From: Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  net congestion

    In our previous episode:

>     It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail list I subscribe
>     to--not an OTR list--which was critical of downloading old radio programs
>     because it slowed down the global Internet system and made transmission
>     difficult. In effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people

    are

>     non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

    I won't claim to be a computer expert but I think this is garbage.

    I can hardly imagine that the number of people downloading OTR could compare
    to those who DL pop songs and whatever other material there is out there to
    take. OTR is a very small minority on the net I'm sure.

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:46:57 -0400
    From: FKELLY <fkelly@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  George Gershwin Radio Show

    A book I'm reading says that George Gershwin hosted a radio series in
    1934 on which he spoke and played.  Do any recordings of this exist?
    Any other information?

    Frank Kelly,
    (who just turned 64 and remembers when OTR was just "radio".)

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