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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 109


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Taped shows from the 1950's
	 Re: Sandy Strong 
	 Henry/Harry Morgan
	 New Subscriber
	 questions about OTR 
	 Heritage Radio????
	 Godfrey's Sister

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 03:04:37 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Taped shows from the 1950's
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	Bob Jennings recently remarked that he was surprised at the lack
of '50s shows, when they were recorded on tape.  
	Actually, there is a reason taped programs are more scarce.  Tape 
was very expensive and scarce, and the programs were disposable.  The tape
was re-used, week after week!  Once a program was aired, it was erased and
taped over.  This is the reason that there are so few Shadows from the 50s,
and so many other shows, too.
	Many years ago, when my partner Jack Shugg found the Nightwatch
police series masters (they were under a desk in the Culver City police 
department!) we spent many nights replacing all the old splices that had 
dried out and fallen off.  It was obvious that the tape had been used, 
edited, re-used, and re-edited over and over again. 
	-Max

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:21:13 GMT
From: rwright@[removed] (Richard Wright)
To: [removed]@[removed], Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Sandy Strong 
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Sat, 23 Mar 1996 02:04:44 -0600, you wrote:


>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:29:26 -0500
>From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
>To: [removed]@[removed]
>Subject: Bobby Benson
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
<snip>

>Just a note about premiums.
>
>I did own, but no longer, the Olvaltine shacker. But, sitting right in front
>of me is a red mug from a show called Sandy Strong. Does anyone remember
>that show? Even my memory is kind of fuzzy about it.
>
>It might have been television. It was sponsored by Olvaltine. I don't know
>how this mug has survived. It has the Sandy Strong song on one side. Part of
>it has come off, but what is left reads.
>
>drink a glass of Olvaltine
>
>with your meals and in between
>
>it's good for you and taste so keen
>You'll love it's chocolate flaver
>
>                                            Fred
According to _The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable
TV Shows 1946-Present_ by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

Sandy Strong
   Children's
First Telecast: September 25, 1950
Last Telecast: March 23, 1951
Broadcast History:
      Sep 1950-Mar 1951, ABC Mon-Fri 6:15-6:30
 
Cast:
   Sandy Strong and:
Mr Mack (1950)..........................Ray Suber
Mr. Mack (1950-1)..................... Forrest Lewis

Children's puppet program from Chicago.

_The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1976_ by
Vincent Terrace had no entry on the show.

Forrest Lewis also played Mr Peavey, the town druggist on the
syndicated TV version of The Great Gildersleeve in 1955 as well as
having been on the earlier radio version where he had replaced Richard
LeGrand as Peavey. He was quite active in OTR including playing
Mortimer Meeks on Meet the Meeks (1947-9), J. Wellington Keats, the
hotel manager  in the first run of Scattergood Baines (1937-42); a
member of The Theatre of Famous Radio Players (1945); Wash on The Tom
Mix Ralston Straightshooters (1930s); James Carter, the father, on The
Woman in My House (1951-9); and episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny
Dollar.

Don't have any other credits for Ray Suber but _The Complete Directory
of Prime Time TV Stars1946-Present_ by Tim Brooks has:

Ray Suber----puppeteer, host
    Sandy Strong (child)......Mr. Mack (1950)
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Richard
aka rwright@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 07:31:24 -0500
From: BKliene@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Henry/Harry Morgan
Message-ID: <960322184613_253385513@[removed]>

Re:  the Henry/Harry Morgan confusion, the excellent character actor, (MASH,)
Harry Morgan was originally Henry Bratsburg.  Evidently ethnic names were not
in  when he started out acting, so he used the name, Henry Morgan.  Then he
discovered there was already a Henry Morgan, (the comedian,) so he changed it
to Harry Morgan.  

He used to live here in the Santa Rosa area, (Calif.)  Don't know if he still
does, but I noticed him as lively as ever, and as hilarious, on a recent TV
episode of "Grace Under Fire."  

Barbara Kliene   

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:08:38 -0800
From: Gordon Robson <grobson@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New Subscriber
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hello everyone

I was delighted to find this wonderful forum on Old Time Radio.  I am 42 
years old, so I did not experience OTR live.  However, over the years, I 
have grown very fond of old programs broadcast over a local radio 
station, CHUM-FM on their "Theatre of the Mind" program.  The Shadow, 
Green Hornet and X-Minus-One are favorites.  Recently, I have been 
getting tapes from the library, and purchasing tapes as well: these tapes 
contain the old commercials as well.  This is wonderful!  I feel like I 
am in another era - a much slower moving, happier time.  I'm looking 
forward to learning more about OTR through this forum.

Gord Robson

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 21:43:22 PST
From: Izi Mann <izi_mann@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: questions about OTR 
Message-ID: <[removed]@>

Hello friends,
For my daily column of OTR in Voice of Israel I need your help in few 
things:
1. Does anybody know - or may make an assessment - how many listeners 
received the KDAK broadcat of the elections night, November 1920?
2. Dose anybody know where I can download one of president Roosewelt's 
"fireside chats"? If anybody has a piece and can send me as a wav or aud 
file or on a cassette, I'll appreciate (all expanses will be paid).
3. Dose anybody know where I can download Caruso - the tenor of the opera - 
singing in the Metropolitan of New York in 1910? If anybody has a piece and 
can send me as a wav or aud file or on a cassette, I'll appreciate (all 
expanses will be paid).
I need the recordings for my daily column and for a special program I will 
run at the beginning of April, commemorating 100 of radio and 60 years - 
exactly 60 - of broadcasting in Israel.
You can send me the recordings at attachment by e-mail or by snail mail to: 
Izi Mann, Voice of Israel, [removed] 1082, Jerusalem Israel.
Thanks for the assistance.

Izi Mann
izi_mann@[removed] 

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Name: Izi Mann
E-mail: izi_mann@[removed]
Date: 03/23/96
Time: 21:43:22

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:24:20 EST
From: bedtime@[removed] ( DAVID ALLAN BOUCHER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Heritage Radio????
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Someone posted something awhile back from an address, something
[removed]"heritage1@[removed]"

I must have it [removed] the mail bounced back.  

Does anyone have the correct address?

Thanks!

Dave

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 09:38:36 +0900 (JST)
From: ROY WAITE <rwaite@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Godfrey's Sister
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have been lurking here for several months enjoying all of the fine and
interesting postings.

I have a question.  I wonder how many of you are aware that Arthur Godfrey's
sister was in radio, too.  Can't recall her name for sure -- was it Kathy?
Anyway, sometime in the 50's she had a weekly spot on CBS on Saturday
afternoon around 4 or 5 PM CST. A deadly radio hour for sure!  It was a
talk, variety show.  It didn't survive long.  Does anyone out there remember
that, and would anyone happen to have a copy of  that show?

NEW SUBJECT.  Can anyone recall the name of the show that came on after
Arthur Godfrey's morning radio show in the 40s?  It was a continuing soaper,
from 11:30 to 11:45 AM EST, sponsored by Old Dutch Cleanser, and I believe
the theme song was a Norwegian folk tune.  

And then years later, it was replaced by Grand Slam, hosted by Irene Beasley
with announcer Dwight Weist, sponosred by Hostess Twinkies and Cupcakes.
Does anyone remember that show, and do we have any biog on Irene Beasley?

Thnaks


Roy Waite
Tokyo, Japan

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