Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #156
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Date: 8/15/2009 8:52 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 156
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      July 2009 deaths                      [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      President Truman Assassination Attem  [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
      Feudin', fussin' and a-fightin'       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Les Paul - Did He?                    [ "Carl J. Chimi" <cchimi@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Les Paul's electric guitar            [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]
      CBS Bong                              [ "Joe" <jpostove@[removed]; ]
      RE: Shadow episode                    [ "Carter, Gay" <CarterG@[removed]; ]
      It all [removed]                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Re: eyes, bongs and chirps            [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Re: Alvino Rey                        [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Re: Les Paul - Did he?                [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:38:44 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-15 births/deaths

    August 15th births

    08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
    actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
    08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
    Playhouse"
    08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
    violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
    08-15-1894 - Harry Akst - NYC - d. 3-31-1963
    writer: "The Barry Gray Show"
    08-15-1897 - Aben Kandel - d. 1-28-1993
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1897 - Charles Tobias - NYC - d. 7-7-1970
    songwriter: (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree) "Music for Millions";
    "Great Moments to Music"
    08-15-1898 - Monroe Upton - d. 8-6-1990
    announcer, writer, comedian: KFRC San Francisco
    08-15-1901 - Ned Washington - Scranton, PA - d. 12-20-1976
    songwriter: "Dick Aurandt Show"
    08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
    saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
    08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
    writer: "Major Hoople"
    08-15-1907 - Margaret Brayton - d. 5-29-1992
    actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1909 - Hugo Winterhalter - d. 9-17-1973
    pop-music conductor, arranger: "Johnny Desmond Program"; "Musical
    Showcase"
    08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
    commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe Show";
    "Johnny Presents"
    08-15-1910 - Signe Hasso - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 6-7-2002
    actor: "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Hollywood Star Time"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
    along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"
    08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
    08-15-1914 - Eve Alwyn - Christ Church, New Zealand - d. 11-16-2005
    actor: WEAT West Palm Beacg, Florida
    08-15-1916 - Van Patrick - d. 9-29-1974
    detroit lions play-by-play: "Jean Shepard Show"
    08-15-1918 - David Baskerville - Freehold, NJ - d. 12-xx-1986
    nbc staff composer and conductor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - NYC - d. 1-30-1999
    comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    08-15-1923 - Baby Rose Marie - Lower East Side, NYC
    singer: (Radio's first genuine child star) "Baby Rose Marie"
    08-15-1924 - Phyllis Schlafley - St. Louis, MO
    commentator: "America Wake Up"
    08-15-1924 - Robert Bolt - Sale, England - d. 2-20-1995
    writer: "The Last of the Wine"
    08-15-1925 - Bill Pinkney - Dalzell, SC - d. 7-4-2007
    singer: (Drifters) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
    08-15-1925 - Oscar Peterson - Montreal, Canada - d. 12-23-2007
    jazz pianist: "Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum"
    08-15-1925 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
    country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
    08-15-1931 - Joe Feeney - Grand Island, NE - d. 4-16-2008
    irish tenor: Got start at station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska
    08-15-1933 - Bobby Helms - Bloomington, IN - d. 6-19-1997
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-15-1935 - Joey Jay - Middletown, CT
    baseball pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    08-15-1944 - Linda Ellerbee - Bryan, TX
    disk jockey and newscaster for WVON Chicago

    August 15th deaths

    01-10-1917 - Jerry Wexler - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-15-2008
    record producer: "Sound Stage"
    01-10-1924 - Max Roach - New Land, NC - d. 8-15-2007
    jazz drummer: "Bands for Bonds"; "Jazz Alive"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
    03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
    announcer: (America's first Ambassador of the Radio) "Newsacting"
    03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
    04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
    host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
    05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
    actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
    05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
    actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
    05-30-1921 - Roy Neal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-2003
    actor: "The Lost Continent"
    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    07-18-1906 - Clifford Odets - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-1963
    playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Hollywood
    Players"
    07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
    actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
    Winslow of the Navy"
    07-28-1903 - Duane Thompson - Red Oaks, IA - d. 8-15-1970
    actor: Telephone Operator "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
    09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - California - d. 8-15-1966
    actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
    10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
    announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
    Highways in Melody"
    11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-15-1935
    humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
    11-28-1916 - Richard Tregaskis - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-15-1973
    author, war correspondent: (Guadalcanal Diary) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    xx-xx-1920 - Bob "Shamrock" Shannon - West Allis, WI - d. 8-15-2000
    announcer, host: "Mayor of the Town"; "The Man Says Yes"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:38:51 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  July 2009 deaths

    03-22-1912 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL - d. 7-1-2009
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Aldrich Family"
    07-21-1922 - Mollie Sugden - Keighley, England - d. 7-1-2009
    actor: Worked in British radio
    03-20-1933 - Pasquale Borgomeo - Naples, Italy - d. 7-2-2009
    Director of Vatican Radio
    10-12-1912 - Robert Mitchell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-4-2009
    organist: "Jump-Jump of Holiday House"; "Midnight Matinee"
    08-12-1917 - Ebba Haslund - Seattle, WA - d. 7-10-2009
    writer: "Himmelsk Dilemma"
    06-17-1924 - Sir Edward Downes - Birmingham, England - d. 7-10-2009
    conductor: "BBC Philharmonic"; "Netherlands Radio Philharmonic"
    04-16-1939 - Donald MacCormick - Scotland - d. 7-12-2009
    host: "London News Direct"
    05-19-1913 - Beverly Roberts - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-13-2009
    actor: "The John Barrymore Theatre"; "The Falcon"
    02-25-1915 - Brenda Joyce - Excelsior Springs, MO - d. 7-13-2009
    actor: "Good News of 1940"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "AmericanShowcase"
    01-01-1947 - Neil Munro - Musselburgh, Scotland - d. 7-13-2009
    actor: Quentin Nickles "Investigations of Quentin Nickles"
    07-19-1919 - Dallas McKennon - La Grange, OR - d. 7-14-2009
    start in radio reading O. Henry and Mark Twain
    11-04-1916 - Walter Cronkite - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-17-2009
    newscaster: "Soldiers of the Press"; "A Tribute [removed]"
    07-04-1921 - Betty Underwood - Rockford, IL - d. 7-17-2009
    script writer: Oregon Public Broadcasting
    01-03-1925 - Jill Balcom - London, England - d. 7-18-2009
    actress: "Time for Verse"
    11-18-1924 - Les Lye - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-21-2009
    emcee: CFRA Ottawa; CKEY Toronto
    05-35-1935 - Hiroshi Wakasugi - NYC - d. 7-21-2009
    orchestral conductor: "Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra"
    07-27-1925 - Harry Towb - Lame, Northern Ireland - d. 7-24-2009
    actor, writer: "The Debt Collector"; "A Candle for Casey"
    08-01-1919 - Stanley Middleton - Notinghamshire, England - d. 7-25-2009
    author: "The Captain of Nothinghamshire"
    06-01-1935 - Reverend Ike - Ridgeland, SC - d. 7-28-2009
    His weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across
    the [removed]
    06-23-1923 - George Russell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-29-2009
    composer, theoretician, pianist: Director of Swedish Radio
    10-19-1920 - Harry Alan Towers - London, England - 7-31-2009
    producer: "The Black Museum"; "Horatio Hornblower"; "The Scarlet
    Pimpernel"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:38:57 -0400
    From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  President Truman Assassination Attempt

    Hi all,
        Hope everyone is having a good Summer. While listening recently to radio
    coverage of JFK's assassination, I heard several mentions of the unsuccessful
    attempt on President Truman's life which occurred Oct. 1,1950.
        Which got me thinking,,,are there are surviving radio reports on this
    attempt?  For that matter, anything from when Ike had his heart attack?
        If anyone knows where I can locate/obtain these recordings, please
    contact me off-list. Thanks!
                                      Ken Stockinger

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:40:32 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Feudin', fussin' and a-fightin'

    Kenneth Clarke writes:

>     One of the feuds I've heard which got pretty heated was the one between
>     columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.  I believe each one worked for
>     a different news syndicate as well. Was this an actual feud between the two
>     columnists or just a way to boost their own ratings? Were they as mean
>     toward each other when in public or was this just something they both did
>     when they were behind the microphones doing their respective shows?

    Dear Kenneth ....

    Please go to your local library and check out my book "Radio Speakers:
    Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters
    and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from
    the 1920s to the 1980s -- A Biographical Dictionary."  If you can't locate
    this volume you can order it from

    [removed] or 800-253-2187.

    The full details of their feuding are there, along with the similar
    adventures of Jimmy Fidler, Walter Winchell, and others of the Hollywood
    gossip circuit who constantly fought tooth and toenail to get ahead of the
    competition.  You'll find 1,161 performers documented there, incidentally,
    most of them in lengthy detail, so some other questions in your mind might
    be satisfied with that tome, too.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:41:50 -0400
    From: "Carl J. Chimi" <cchimi@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Les Paul - Did He?
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>     Can someone who really knows clear up who did what?

    There were many inventors of the electric guitar.  I've never heard the
    Alvino Rey story, and I'm intrigued by it.  Most of the stories I've heard
    date back to the early 1930s, but certainly electric guitars very similar to
    modern ones were being sold by about 1935 or so.

    My understanding of what Les Paul did is that he invented a very unusual
    electric guitar, and he did it when he was just a kid, in about 1927.  As I
    understand it, he took the tone arm and needle from an electric phonograph
    (then a very new device) and somehow attached it to the top of the body of
    his acoustic guitar, such that the needle picked up the vibrations of the
    top as he played.  The needle assembly thus acted as an electrical
    transducer and sent the signal to the phonograph's amplifier.

    I have no idea how well it worked, but given how new the electric phonograph
    was in those days, and how young Lester was, I think it was a pretty clever
    idea.

    He is often credited in news stories with inventing the electric guitar
    because of his work on "The Log", which was an experiment in crafting a
    solidbody guitar, but that came much later, after the idea of the electric
    guitar had firmly taken hold.  The importance of the The Log cannot be
    overestimated for guitar players (like me), though, because it led to such
    axes as the Les Paul, the Telecaster, and the Stratocaster.  Guitars like
    those were easier to manufacture, cheaper to buy, had increased sustain, and
    just sounded real cool.

    RIP Les.  Very few people have the sort of influence you had.

    Carl

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:42:01 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history

     From Those Were The Days

    8/23

    1923   Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, The Happiness Boys, were heard on
    radio for the first time. The two were billed as radio's first comedians
    and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing
    commercial.

    8/24

    1950   The summer replacement radio show for Suspense, titled Somebody
    Knows, was heard for the final time. The program offered a reward of
    $5,000 for information that led to the solving of crimes. Somebody Knows
    began with the introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have
    committed the perfect crime that there are no clues, no witnesses
    listen. Somebody knows."

    8/25

    1949   NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
    for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
    patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
    and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
    Maple Street in Springfield.

    8/26

    1873    Lee DeForest was born on this day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
    DeForest seemed to be a born inventor. He held patents for hundreds of
    different items including the photoelectric cell and the surgical radio
    knife. But none had as much impact on the world as his invention of the
    electron tube, specifically the triode, a three element vacuum tube,
    which later became the audion tube possibly the most significant
    invention that made radio possible.

    1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
    time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

    8/28

    1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
    WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
    Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
    Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
    Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
    five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 plus long
    distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid $100 for 10
    minutes of commercial airtime.

     From The [removed]

    1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
    Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
    "Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
    Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:42:30 -0400
    From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Les Paul's electric guitar

    In V2009 #155, Norman Flagg questions whether or not Les Paul really did
    invent the electric guitar, bringing up the point that Alvino Ray was
    using one earlier than Les did.  I believe the answer to that is that --
    to the best of my knowledge -- Les Paul is credited with the invention of
    the *solid-body* electric guitar,  Might Alvino Ray's been an electrified
    *acoustic* guitar?

    Regards,

    Jim Arva

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:42:56 -0400
    From: "Joe" <jpostove@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CBS Bong

    I wrote Michael Paraniuk (digest #155 8/15/09) the following message but my
    mail bounced back. If Michael is watching the list or if anyone else can
    answer my questions about the CBS bong, I would be delighted.

    Thanks,

        Joe

    Hi Michael,
        I read with great interest your post to the radio digest on the CBS
    "chirp' and its disappearance from CBS Radio. The major talk station in
    Norfolk carries Fox (nose held by finger and thumb) and CBS has been hard to
    find. Just lately I have started listening to a very small talker here which
    carries CBS. It was good to hear the bong again.

        I'm writing because a few years ago I was watching "The Price Is Right"
    on CBS-TV and I could have sworn I heard the bong. I even posted to the
    digest about whether or not the TV side carried the bong, but got no
    replies.

        Do you know if the tv side once, and perhaps continues to carry the
    bong? And lastly, the bong I hear on the TOH CBS casts does not quite sound
    like the bong of my youth (60's 70's). It sounds a little more forceful.
    Thanks for your time.

         See you on the radio!

          Joe Postove

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:43:07 -0400
    From: "Carter, Gay" <CarterG@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Shadow episode
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    Bob,

    You aren't in the Twilight Zone, that is a Shadow episode. It is "Murder from
    the Grave" from April 6, 1941. Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston/The Shadow.
    It should be readily available.

    Gay Carter
    CarterG@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:43:41 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  It all [removed]

    From: "kclarke5@[removed]"  kclarke5@[removed]

>     As far as whether radio actors/actresses would be able to  succeed on
>     TV, that point is debatable. Many of them who were successful on  radio
>     (and even had their own shows) weren't as successful on  television

    Well, Kenneth, I'd say yes - and no.

    True, some "A+"  Radio giants were never as successful in TV - [removed], Fred
    Allen.

    But MANY  "B and C" level performers (and I speak here of fame, not talent)
    did just fine:  Harry Bartell, Joe Kearn, Bill Conrad, Bud Collyer, Raymond
    Burr, and many other  folk of their [removed]

    Best,.
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:44:02 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: eyes, bongs and chirps
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    In a message dated 8/15/2009 5:18:45 [removed] Central Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     CBS  RADIO CHIRP   XXXX - July 2009.  I will truly miss this little  bird
>     that has set my watch for decades. May she Rest In  Peace.

    I only know of the chirp dating back to the 1970s, and first heard it on
    the "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre" and CBS Radio News updates.  I know the
    "bong!" dates back as far as 1940s episodes of "The Whistler," "Escape" and
    "The
     Spike Jones Show" (based on the OTR where I've heard it).  Can anyone
    narrow down the earliest they've ever heard either the "Bong!" or the
    "Chirp!"?

    Dixon

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:44:37 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Alvino Rey

    Hello again --

    Re Norman Flagg's question about Alvino Rey vs. Les Paul as the inventor of
    the electric guitar: Alvino Rey invented an electric pickup (contact mike)
    that could be connected to the hollow body of an acoustic Gibson guitar; he
    had first used it as an electric pickup for his banjo (he first tried a
    telephone receiver, then used a phonograph needle!). He is also credited
    with the invention of the pedal steel guitar. Les Paul is credited with the
    invention of the solid body guitar; once the guitar was amplified, it no
    longer needed the hollow body in order to project the sound.
    By the way, did anybody mention here that Les Paul early in his career was
    in a terrible accident (automobile, I think) and had to make a choice with
    the surgeon as to whether his right arm would be set permanently straight or
    bent? Naturally, he chose the bent arm, without which he would have been
    unable to play the guitar at all.

    Later,
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:45:38 -0400
    From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "Bulletin Board, OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Les Paul - Did he?

    Norman Flagg asks about the truth of Les Paul's accomplishment because

>     With any mention of his name, Les Paul is always credited with inventing the electric guitar . . .

       While it is possible that some unknowledgable writer might have phrased it this way, what he actually did was develop the SOLID BODY electric guitar. As you had correctly noted, there had been many electric guitarists before him.  These had attached either mechanical contact mics or magnetic pick-ups to regular hollow body guitars.

    And while we are at it, let's mention that Les Paul was certainly not the inventor of "overdubbing" either.  He was a very skilled practitioner and developed innovations to make the process easier, but he wasn't the first.  Thomas Alva Edison was.  The tinfoil phonograph of 1877 was capable of making new recordings while playing a recording, and by early 1878 Edison is noted to record himself making comments about the playback of himself.  Both recordings could then be played back together.  This is more accurately "sound-on-sound" but the concept was there.  Adding vocals or additional instruments to prior recordings was often done in the film industry, and as early as 1927 Victor was overdubbing Caruso recorings on top of electrically recorded orchestras.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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