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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 51
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-23 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      need 7-inch METAL takeup reel badly   [ Chargous@[removed] ]
      AUDIO DC RECORDING                    [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 24 Feb to  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      RE: Rosa Rio                          [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
      CD recorder                           [ "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed] ]
      Re: Hindenburg & American Airlines    [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
      Welles FBI files                      [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]
      2-24 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:28:45 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-23 births/deaths

    February 23rd births

    02-23-1851 - Frederick Warde - Deddingnton, England - d. 2-7-1935
    actor, lecturer: WMC Memphis, Tennessee
    02-23-1883 - Victor Fleming - Pasasena, CA - d. 1-6-1949
    film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"
    02-23-1886 - Rae Eleanor Ball - d. 3-xx-1967
    violinist: CBS Network
    02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
    film director: "Biography in Sound"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
    news analyst: "CBS European News"; "[removed] Shirer: News and Comments"
    02-23-1905 - Emil Baffa - d. 11-xx-1973
    conducted his orchestra for NBC
    02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
    Broadway"
    02-23-1912 - Thomas L. Thomas - Maesteg, South Wales - d. 4-17-1983
    singer: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Voice of Firestone"
    02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
    actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-23-1915 - Paul Tibbets - Quincy, IL - d. 11-1-2007
    on 8-6-1945 dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan: "Morning Edition"
    02-23-1917 - John Brooks - Houlton, ME - d. 11-13-1999
    composer, arranger, pianist: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    02-23-1918 - Linwood McCarthy - Norfolk, VA - d. 11-23-2002
    actor: "Son of Erin"
    02-23-1925 - Niels Robinson - d. 1-18-1994
    actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"
    02-23-1926 - Isabel Bigley - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-30-2006
    singer: "Music for America"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"; "Let Freedom Sing"
    02-23-1927 - Regine Crespin - Marseille, France - d. 7-5-2007
    operatic soprano: "Voices"
    02-23-1935 - Gerrianne Raphael - NYC
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    02-23-1943 - Jada Rowland - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 23rd deaths

    01-10-1893 - John Bonnell - Prince Edward Island, Canada - d. 2-23-1992
    preacher: "Our Spiritual Life"; "Your Life Today"
    01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"; "Great Moments to Music"
    03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
    newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
    03-20-1924 - Philip Abbott - Lincoln, NE - d. 2-23-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
    singer: "American Album of Familiar Music"
    04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
    writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood";
    "Sherlock Holmes"
    04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
    singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
    Show"
    05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
    actor: "Big Jon and Sparkie"; "No School Today"
    06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
    operatic singer: WJZ New York City
    06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
    comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
    06-30-1925 - Alice Wallace - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-23-2002
    actor: "Music for America"; "Let Freedom Sing"
    07-14-1914 - Billy Kyle - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-23-1966
    pianist: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
    08-11-1913 - Edith Oliver - NYC - d. 2-23-1998
    actor: "Crime Doctor"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
    09-12-1910 - Shep Fields - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1981
    bandleader: "Rippling Rhythm Revue"
    09-27-1883 - Rev. Dr. Frederick K. Stamm - Millheim, PA - d. 2-23-1961
    pastor: "Highlights of the Bible"
    09-27-1915 - Frank Gerstle - d. 2-23-1970
    actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Six Shooter"; "Gunsmoke"
    10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
    2-23-1995
    author: James Herriot Books
    10-19-1889 - Fannie Hurst - Hamilton, OH - d. 2-23-1968
    writer: "United China Relief"; "Fanny Hurst Reviews"; "Big Joe";
    "United Nations Today"
    11-08-1899 - Edmund "Tiny" Ruffner - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 2-23-1983
    announcer: "Show Boat"; "Captain Diamond's Adventure"; "Better Half"
    11-13-1913 - Alexander Scourby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1985
    actor: Herbert Temple "Young Widder Brown"; Philip Cameron "Against
    the Storm"
    12-26-1914 - Robert Metzler - d. 2-23-1998
    scriptwriter: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "Phillip Marlowe"
    xx-xx-1914 - Leo McCabe - Belfast, Ireland - d. 2-23-1986
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:08:08 -0500
    From: Chargous@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  need 7-inch METAL takeup reel badly

    I know this isn't a classified site, but I desperately need help on finding
    a metal 7-inch takeup reel (or even more than one). I have some squealer
    reels that need to be baked, and I only have plastic reels.

    Please contact me if you have one or more 7 inch reel metal takeup reels
    that I can purchase.  I'd REALLY appreciate it.  I release a lot of rare
    and uncirculated shows from ETs that I own and this would be a huge help to me.

    Thanks,
    Travis

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:55:12 -0500
    From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  AUDIO DC RECORDING

    02-23-08

    Ross Butler inquired about an audio CD recorder.  Prhaps he already has
    one.  Many Cd-burning computer programs - such as Roxio - have facilities
    for taking WAV files and automatically burns them onto a CD as CDA files
    (the format used by commercially-produced music CD's).  To record on the
    computer, use the LINE audio input, and record as a WAV file.  MicroSoft
    gives you one with any version of Windows, but it only records for 60
    seconds at a time.  There's a freebie on the web called Audacity,
    however, that does just about everything but cure cancer.  (That may be a
    premature statement ... I haven't explored all of it yet.)  You have to
    set your own volume, as I don't *think* it has an AVC feature, so don't
    over-modulate.

    When you record as a WAV, there are fidelity and mono/stereo
    specifications that you have to select.  Roxio will handle just about any
    of them, as far as translating to CDA goes, but there are CD-burning
    programs that are fussier as to what you fed them.

    Regards,

    Jim Arva

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: The original question specifically referenced stand-alone CD
    Recorders, not computer software - I'd really prefer not to get the Digest
    bogged down in instructions on how to use computer audio processing software,
    burning software, etc. It isn't that I personally have no interest in this
    [removed] instead of taking up space with this here, let's do it off-list.

    By the time you read this, I will have posted a blog entry on the topic to
    the Nostalgic Rumblings blog at [removed] - you can see my
    thinking on this, and join a public discussion there. Of course, private
    comments pro/con/ambivalent on this or any other Digest content issue are, as
    always, welcomed and encouraged - to me directly, please (address and links
    in the footer of every issue of the Digest so you'll always have them handy).
    --cfs3]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:55:20 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24 Feb to 1 March

     From Those Were The Days --

    2/24

    1942 --  It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
    America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.

    2/27

    1922 - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National
    Radio Conference in Washington, DC. There, industry regulations were
    widely discussed.

    3/1

    1932 - Radio's greatest effort of on-the-spot news coverage began as NBC
    and CBS rushed to Hopewell, NJ to cover the kidnaping of the Charles and
    Anne Lindbergh baby.

    1941 -  Commercial FM broadcasting began in the [removed] when station W47NV
    in Nashville, TN started operations on this day.

    1941 - Duffy's Tavern debuted on CBS.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:55:49 -0500
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Rosa Rio

    JayHick@[removed] wrote:

>     Rosa is alive and well at 105 - 106 in June.   Karen and I recently went to a
>     silent movie performance she gave in Tampa accompanying 2 Buster Keaton
>     movies.   I had a chance to talk to her for a bit.

    You can hear an interview with Rosa Rio and some of her great old radio
    music recorded live in 1971 in her home (by yours truly) on "The Golden
    Age of Radio" at [removed]

    Bob Scherago, webmaster and former WTIC engineer

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:43:39 -0500
    From: "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CD recorder

    Russ,

    I have abandoned consumer CD recorders in favor of professional or
    "prosumer" models.  In addition to being better built, they also accept
    normal CD-R media, and don't need the higher priced "music" CD-Rs.

    The model I currently own is the TASCAM CD-RW900, and I can heartily
    recommend it.  I paid around $500 for it, but I think it's worth every
    penny.  Sony also makes excellent pro models, but the price can be much
    higher (closer to $1000).  Lots of other pro models from HHB, Marantz, and
    others are out there.  I have used recorders from all the manufacturers that
    I have mentioned.  All have their pros and cons.

    The pro models should also have better analog to digital converters onboard,
    which is critical when digitizing analog tapes and records.

    The TASCAM is available at most online professional electronics dealers (B&H
    and others) and also from your local professional recording store.  I bought
    mine from Tape Warehouse in Atlanta, GA.

    Happy recording,
    Sammy Jones

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:51:24 -0500
    From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Hindenburg & American Airlines

    Alan Bell queried:

>     I seem to recall reading somewhere that Herb Morrison
>     was covering the Hindenburg landing at least partly as
>     a promotional tool for American Airlines, which at the
>     time was boasting that it had great connections with
>     the dirigible. Unfortunately I don't remember where I
>     saw this. Can someone either confirm that I'm right or
>     that my marbles have gone missing?

        There is nothing wrong with your marbles.
        Coverage of the arrival of the Hindenburg on the first anniversary
    of its flights to the US was arranged as a promotional event by American
    Airlines, which booked reservations for the Hindenburg, made connections
    with the dirigible and (as Herb Morrison mentions prior to the
    explosion) had several planes waiting at Lakehurst, NJ to carry
    passengers on to their final destination.
        Herb's relationship with AA was central to what is considered the
    most famous eyewitness account in the history of radio.  During floods
    in the midwest in 1937, Herb Morrison went aboard a flight that the
    airline arranged for reporters to view the devastation.  Herb's appeals
    on the WLS "Dinner Bell Hour" brought in thousands of dollars in flood
    relief and officials at American Airlines were so impressed that they
    invited him to come to Lakehurst to witness the arrival of the
    Hindenburg.  Herb then suggested a novel idea, that WLS record the
    arrival and interviews with Chicago-area passengers as a possible
    feature on "The Dinner Bell Hour".  Herb was also an aviator and had
    worked for an aircraft company before going into radio, and was
    well-versed in aviation issues.  The station teamed him with engineer
    Charles Nehlsen and AA provided a special flight for the men and their
    equipment.
        So American Airlines was instrumental in the Hindenburg broadcast,
    flying Herb and Charlie to Lakehurst and, just as important, getting
    them back to Chicago with the transcription discs despite attempted
    interference from German agents.
                                                                          --
    Bill Jaker

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    Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:51:42 -0500
    From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Welles FBI files

    Has anyone ordered the set of FBI files on Orson
    Welles available at [removed] I'd like to
    get my hands on them but don't know the party selling
    them. Does anyone else have them on CD-Rom?
    Thanks.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:03:13 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-24 births/deaths

    February 24th births

    02-24-1876 - Victor Moore - Hammonton, NJ - d. 7-23-1962
    comedian: (The Lothario of the Lumbago Set) "Jimmy Durante Show"
    02-24-1885 - Bert Lytell - NYC - d. 9-28-1954
    actor: Jimmy Valentine "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; Jeb Stuart "Roses and
    Drums"
    02-24-1885 - Chester Nimitz - Fredericksburg, TX - d. 2-20-1966
    admiral of the navy: "Navy Day Program"; "We the People"; "This is
    the Navy"
    02-24-1889 - Boyd Bunch - Chamois, MO - d. 2-xx-1969
    pianist, arranger: "Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians"
    02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    02-24-1891 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - Moscow, Russia - d. 4-29-1954
    comedian: "Can You Top This"
    02-24-1895 - May Singhi Breen - NYC - d. 12-19-1970
    singer: (The Ukulele Lady) "Sweethearts of the Air"
    02-24-1904 - Tim Graham - Kansas - d. 1-14-1979
    actor: "Plays for Americans"
    02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
    actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    02-24-1916 - Willie Gilbert - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-2-1980
    writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    02-24-1917 - Peggy Wall - Spokane, WA
    actor: Blue Howard "Betty and Bob"; Lois Colton "Romance of Helen Trent"
    02-24-1919 - Betty Marsden - Liverpool, England - d. 7-19-1998
    actor: Daphne Whitehigh, Buttercup Gruntfuttock, et al "Round the Horne"
    02-24-1921 - Abe Vigoda - NYC
    actor: "You Are There"
    02-24-1922 - Steven Hill - Seattle, WA
    actor: "Treasury Salute"; "Up For Parole"
    02-24-1923 - Fred Steiner - NYC
    music: "On Stage"; "This Is Yor FBI"
    02-24-1924 - Talat Mahmood - Lucknow, India - d. 5-9-1998
    singer: "The Frank Sinatra of India) "All India Radio"
    02-24-1943 - George Harrison - Liverpool, England - d. 11-29-2001
    singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"
    02-24-1943 - Richard Carleton - Bowral, Australia - d. 5-7-2006
    correspondent for 2GB radio
    02-24-1946 - Barry Bostwick - San Mateo, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 24th deaths

    01-10-1927 - Johnnie Ray - The Dalles, OR - d. 2-24-1990
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-24-1904 - Franklyn Baur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1950
    tenor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    02-02-1936 - Arthur Lyman - Kauai, HI - d. 2-24-2002
    vibes: Won talent contest on Honolulu  radio, station KGMB
    02-08-1913 - Taylor Grant - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-24-1998
    newscaster: "Headline Edition"
    02-25-1904 - Marion Claire - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1988
    singer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    02-29-1916 - Dinah Shore - Winchester, TN - d. 2-24-1994
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
    satirist: "Voices of Vista"; "Here's to Veterans"
    03-16-1897 - Conrad Nagel - Keokuk, IA - d. 2-24-1970
    actor, emcee: "Silver Theatre"; "Passing Parade"
    03-16-1906 - Henny Youngman - London, England - d. 2-24-1998
    comedian: (Take my wife, please) "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    03-25-1906 - Jean Sablon - Nogent-sur-Marne, France - d. 2-24-1994
    baritone/composer: (French Troubadour) "Shell Chateau"; Magic Key of
    RCA"
    03-25-1916 - Jean Rogers - Belmont, MA - d. 2-24-1991
    actor: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
    04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
    actor: "Tell It Again"
    04-26-1906 - [removed] "Albert" Alexander - Winthrop, MA - d. 2-24-1967
    moderator: "Goodwill Court/Court of Human Relations"
    05-19-1906 - Bruce Bennett - Tacoma, WA - d. 2-24-2007
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"
    05-20-1920 - George Gobel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1991
    comedian, actor, singer: (Lonesome George) Jimmy "Tom Mix"
    05-29-1918 - Herb Shriner - Toledo, OH - d. 2-24-1970
    comedian: "Camel Comedy Caravan"; "Herb Shriner Time"
    06-01-1915 - John Randolph - NYC - d. 2-24-2004
    actor: "New World A' Coming"; "A Date with Judy"
    06-04-1924 - Dennis Weaver - Joplin, MO - d. 2-24-2006
    actor: Look Magazine Commercial "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    06-06-1918 - Martin Esslin - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-24-2002
    Head of radio drama for the BBC
    06-14-1894 - George Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1959
    orchestra leader: CBS network
    07-01-1908 - Alvino Rey - Oakland, CA - d. 2-24-2004
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
    07-21-1924 - Don Knotts - Morgantown, WV - d. 2-24-2006
    actor: Windy Wales "Bobby Benson's Adventures"
    08-01-1910 - Walter Scharf - NYC - d. 2-24-2003
    music director: "Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show"
    08-08-1921 - Webb Pierce - West Monroe, LA - d. 2-24-1991
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
    08-17-1896 - Alms Lawton - Woolwich, England - d. 2-24-1982
    actor: "I Love Adventure"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-02-1898 - Arthur Young - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England - d.
    2-24-1959
    actor: Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"; Son "The Baxters"
    09-02-1902 - Henry J. Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1984
    commentator: 'Your Land and Mine"; "News Commentary"
    09-09-1922 - Imogene Lynn - Trenton, MO - d. 2-24-2003
    singer: "Spotlight Bands"
    09-29-1910 - Virginia Bruce - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-24-1982
    actor: Susan Read "Rexall Summer Theatre"
    10-25-1901 - Daniel Landt - Scranton, PA - d. 2-24-1961
    singer: Landt Trio, "Doc Pearson's Drug Store"; "Bob Hawk Show"
    11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
    author: "Information Please"
    12-03-1927 - Isabelle Lucas - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-24-1997
    guest panelist: "Quote-Unquote"
    12-24-1906 - Franz Waxman - Konigshutte, Germany - d. 2-24-1967
    composer-conductor: "Good News of 1939"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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