Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #145
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 4/17/2002 9:03 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 145
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Time marches On!                      [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      RE: RON SAYLES                        [ Kevin Michaels <kmichaels@doityours ]
      Re: The Stooges on the Air            [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Sheila not Meredith                   [ "Donald & Kathleen Dean" <dxk@ezlin ]
      newsgroups                            [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
      NYC benefit play                      [ khovard@[removed] ]
      Marshmellow Fluff                     [ "Robert Yellen" <ryellen@[removed]; ]
      Re: Otr News groups                   [ Richard Novak <rnovak@[removed]; ]
      Roy Barfield's Book                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Memories                              [ "Richard Carpenter" <sinatra@raging ]
      Re: Early Cantor                      [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
      Gloria Stuart                         [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      when did tape become the norm         [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:19:53 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Time marches On!

    My former friend Lee Munsick posted:

>     Of course the moral in all of this is, go to as many conventions and meet
>     as many of these wonderful people as you can.  Sadly, there are fewer of
>     them every year.  In another ten years probably the only one left will be
>     dear Arthur Anderson!

    Humph! I say againŠŠWhat am I? Chopped Liver! Thanks for the comforting
    thought Lee. :) Wow! So little [removed] many people to "get even" with. :)

    Besides, if I'm not mistaken, I'm younger than Arthur. (But then again, I
    lead a more reckless and dissipated lifestyle, so he just might outlast me).

    I just hope I last long enough to finish the dang book. If it sells, then my
    young wife (18 years old) will have the means to keep a roof over her head.
    :)

    And what's all this BS about everyone should attend conventions. Your not
    going to Cincy!  All talk, that's you. :(

    It's just as well you won't be there. You'll escape having cubed Jello
    slipped into your shorts. Like I always sayŠ Paybacks are hell!  :)

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:19:15 -0400
    From: Kevin Michaels <kmichaels@[removed];
    To: "Radio  Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: RON SAYLES

    Sorry, Ron, must be two guys with the same name.  Thought it was you.
    Well, we still have Jack French and Tom Heathwood to be heard from.  Don't be
    bashful, fellas, let us hear your story about your contributions.

    Kevin

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:45:09 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: The Stooges on the Air

    Dennis DeMarco wrote:

>     Anyway, the author mentions that the stooges made some radio appearances in
>     the 30s, including some with Ted Healy.

>     Does anyone know what shows they were and if they exist?

    The Stooges once turned up, of all places, in a daytime soap opera. The
    following item is from the "Merchandising and Promotion" column of
    Broadcasting, issue of 10/15/37, p. 90:

    "Columbia Pictures Corp., New York, and Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.,
    Minneapolis, will conduct a tie-in advertising campaign for Columbia's
    "Three Stooges" comedies and Pillsbury's Farina. On October 18th, the
    'Stooges' will be introduced into the script of 'Today's Children.'
    Pillsbury's program is broadcast five days a week on the NBC-Red network.
    The Pillsbury agency is Hutchinson Adv. Co., Minneapolis."

    There are a few episodes of "Today's Children" floating around, and given
    the tone of the program, I cannot begin to imagine how Moe, Larry, and
    Curly were "introduced into the script," or for that matter how such a
    bizarre tie-in came about in the first place. (I'd love to have been
    sitting in on the pitch meeting.) There doesn't seem much chance of a
    recording showing up, but the script would be fascinating to examine.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:53:49 -0400
    From: "Donald & Kathleen Dean" <dxk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sheila not Meredith

    Thands to all who caught my error in my last posting:

>     I saw Penny Singleton & Meredith Macrae (wife of Gordon) in
>     a USO show shortly after I arrived at K47 Air Force Base,
>     Chunchon, Korea in October 1953

    It was Sheila Macrae not their daughter Meredith who was only
    9 years old in 1953. Just wanted to make sure you were all
    paying attention.  :-)

    Don Dean (3 days before Cincy)

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:54:05 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  newsgroups

    My search turned up these:

    [removed]
    [removed]
    [removed]

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:23:25 -0400
    From: khovard@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  NYC benefit play

    Dear Friends,

    	On Saturday, May 18th, at 7:30  PM, The Kraine Theater, (85 E. 4th, -
    between 2nd & 3rd.) will present a benefit performance of "Becoming
    Something," a play about the late radio, film & stage actor Canada Lee
    (appeared in films such as Lifeboat, Cry the Beloved Country, Body and
    Soul).Tickets for the play itself are only $15 - and you can contribute
    whatever you wish to the beneficiary of the performance, the Canada Lee
    Scholarship Fund which is administered by the Schomburg Center for
    Research in Black Culture.

    	There will also be a small reception for those attending for the
    Scholarship Fund where you can meet Frances Lee Pearson, widow of Canada
    Lee, as well as the the cast, the author, etc. The play will have a short
    run from May  9-26, but the only performance for the fund will be on the
    18th.

    Please let me know if you would like to attend and I will keep you
    posted.

    Howard Blue

    For further information, you can contact:
     Mona [removed] 			mzoek@[removed]
     Joanne Meyers-msmovies@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:27:01 -0400
    From: "Robert Yellen" <ryellen@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Marshmellow Fluff

    A brief history of Marshmellow Fluff aand the Fluferettes can be found at

    [removed]

    The site also contains the Fluffernutter Jingle.

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:42:53 -0400
    From: Richard Novak <rnovak@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  Otr News groups

    On Tuesday 16 April 2002 09:34, Glenn Alexander <glenn31313@[removed]; wrote:

>     Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:17:08 -0400
>     From: Glenn Alexander <glenn31313@[removed];
>     To: [removed]@[removed]
>     Subject:  Otr News groups

>     Hi can anyone tell me which newsgroups are available
>     for down loading otr programs?
>     Thanks
>     Glenn

    There are about half a dozen otr and related news groups.

    The ones you might be most interested in are:
    [removed]
    and
    [removed]

    (Note the second one is "sound" not "sounds."

    There are also some British groups but not all radio groups are on all
    servers. You should also be aware that you need a premium news server in
    order to find complete postings. Small news servers are likely to be
    disappointing.

    To see what groups your server has available just search the list starting at
    [removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:02:22 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Roy Barfield's Book

    After reading Jack French's reply to Kevin Michael's I realized that on my
    last response I had the wrong book on my mind.  To answer Kevin's question,
    now that I have the proper book. Like Jack French, my name seems to be in many
    places where OTR people congregate. I just got a letter one day from Roy
    Barfield asking if I would like to contribute to a new book that he had in the
    works. I sent him a little anecdote about my favorite program as a child (Buck
    Rogers) and my mother's reaction to it. I was pleasantly surprised when I
    actually saw that he used my little anecdote.
    --
    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:43:42 -0400
    From: "Richard  Carpenter" <sinatra@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Memories

           I enjoy this forum so much that I feel as if I almost know its
    contributors. So I'd like to share a few memories of my father as they
    relate to old time radio.

           I remember him faithfully tuning in to Bing Crosby to hear Bing sing
    about the blue of the night meeting the gold of the day. I remember his
    oft-repeated imitation of the opening of "The Shadow" ("Who knows what evil
    lurks ..."). I remember his lame parody: "Tales calculated to keep you in
    SUSPENDERS!" I remember how he'd never miss Jack Benny's show and would
    cheerfully, and fairly accurately, imitate several cast members -- even
    Mister Kitzel! (He also did a dead-on impersonation of Senator Claghorn of
    Allen's Alley fame). Yes, he enjoyed the greatness that came from behind
    that glowing dial so many years ago.

          My dad died yesterday. When I was very little, I thought he was King
    of the World, that there was nothing he didn't know or couldn't do. I
    didn't have to get much older to learn that surely wasn't so, and yet when
    I got the phone call that I had been both anticipating and dreading, I
    thought of a sentence from Shakespeare: "Let us sit upon the ground and
    tell sad stories of the death of kings."

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:18:44 -0400
    From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Early Cantor

    Elizabeth McLeod writes:

>     You'll want to look for a 2-CD set released a few years ago called "The
>     Eddie Cantor Chase & Sanborn Radio Show," (Original Cast
>     Records >OC-8715) containing a nearly-complete 1931 [removed]
>     The set will run about $30

    I found it at [removed] (had never heard of it before) and it is,
    indeed, $[removed], but says it's a 4-cd set, not 2. Here are the
    contents as listed on the web.

    4 Compact Discs of the Classic Eddie Cantors's Radio Show from
    December 1931 through December 1933.
    Disc One Includes: Radio Shows from 12/13/31, 10/30/32 and 11/5/32
    Disc Two Includes: Radio Shows from 11/26/33 and 12/3/33
    Disc Three Includes: Radio Shows from 12/10/33 and 12/17/33
    Disc Four Includes: Radio Shows from 12/24/33 and 12/31/33
    80 Tracks Total

    Same set you're talking about?

    Alan/Linda Bell
    Grandville, MI

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:58:30 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gloria Stuart

    Does any one have any cast credit for Gloria Stuart for radio?  I recall she
    did a Suspense, and I just book her for YUSA for this Sunday.  Take care,

    Walden

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:28:46 -0400
    From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  when did tape become the norm

    I know that ABC allowed Bing Crosby to use magnetic tape circa 1947, but
    I was wondering when the networks stopped using discs for transcribing
    and switched to tape. Was it over a long period of time or a relatively
    short one?

    Eric Cooper

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