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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 302

Table Of Contents: 

	     re: Achronyms for call signs,
	 TV actors who were once in OTR
	 Roy Shield radio
	 FOTR, etc.

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:24:13 +0100 (BST)
From: hbj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:     re: Achronyms for call signs,
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Here are a couple of tags for station call letters.
    We Buy Zombies. (g>)
    WHN We're here Now

regards
 --
henry: [removed]
hbj@[removed]

`[1;30;46mNet-Tamer V [removed] Beta - Registered

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 08:13:10 +0500
From: "Donald A. Tevault" <donnie@[removed]>
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: TV actors who were once in OTR
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Hi all!  Since I'm only Jack Benny's age, I'm not quite old enough to remember much about OTR in its original form.  In fact, the only shows I do 
remember are a few airings of "The Breakfast Club" and "CBS Mystery Theater".  But, now that I've discovered OTR as a hobby, I've been 
surprised to hear a lot of voices that I had previsouly known only from television.  Among some of the TV actors I've heard:

	Joe Kearns--TV's original Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace.  I've heard him on The Judy Canova Show, The Burns and Allen Show,  
The Mel Blanc Show and Suspense.  I've read that he was one of radio's busiest actors.
	Gale Gordon--TV's second Mr. Wilson and Lucille Ball's co-star on several of her TV shows.  I've heard him on The Phil Harris Show, 
My Friend Irma and--of course--Our Miss Brooks.  Also billed as one of radio's busiest actors.
	Eve Arden--One of The Mothers-in-Law on TV.  Also radio's Miss Brooks and the secretary on The Danny Kaye Show.
	Alan Reed--The voice of TV's Fred Flintstone.  I've heard him on My Friend Irma and The Mel Blanc Show.
	Art Carney--Norton on The Honeymooners.  I was quite surprised to hear him on The Henry Morgan Show.
	Henry Morgan--Before I got into OTR, my only knowledge of him was from having watched him as a panelist on I've Got a Secret.
	Frank Nelson--I've seen him on a few rerun episodes of I Love Lucy.  A regular on Jack Benny's radio show.  At least one guest 
appearance on The Phil Harris Show.

There are probably more, but these are the ones who most immediately come to mind.  My question now--Does anyone have any more 
information on these performers?  Like, something about their bios and what other shows they may have performed in?  If so, just post in the 
Digest, so that everybody can enjoy the answers.

								Later,


								Donald A. Tevault

OS/2--Where *I* want to go today!

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:21:27 +0200
From: Piet Schreuders <schreu@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Roy Shield radio
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I am researching the work of Roy Shield, who worked as NBC Music 
Director in Chicago between 1932 and 1945 and New York between 1945 
and 1955.

Rich Samuels gave me your address after I wrote to him with the 
following query:


> >(1)
> >Roy Shield wrote a tone poem entitled "Gloucester", dedicated to the fishermen of the
> >coastal town. It was first aired over the NBC-Blue Network on
> >Saturday, September 6, 1941 (9:30 pm EDST) in the NBC Summer Symphony
> >program. It was first performed the previous season in Chicago's Grant
> >Park.
> >I am looking for recordings of this piece; the
> >Dutch Metropole Orchestra (a radio symphony orchestra) is interested
> >in recording it. 
> >(I have already checked the NBC sound collection at the Library of
> >Congress, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection of the New York Public
> >Library, the Museum of Broadcasting, and the NBC collection in the
> >State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin.)
> >
> >(2)
> >For the daily radio serial "JUST NEIGHBORS" starring Betty Caine,
> >Kathryn Card and Helen Behmiller, Roy Shield wrote the theme song.
> >According to an NBC press released dated August 1938 this theme was
> >originally composed for the Hal Roach comedies. I need to know which
> >music this was. How can I obtain a recording of a broadcast of "Just
> >Neighbors"?
> >(I have already checked numerous radio tape collectors).
> >
> >(3)
> >On December 25, 1934 (5:00-5:15 pm) NBC-WJZ broadcast "Daffy-Dilly
> >Christmas", a fantasy story with words by Willis Cooper (NBC
> >continuity writer, also the author of "Lights Out"). The story is
> >about a mischievous little dog named Geevle. The music was written and
> >directed by Shield. How could one obtain a recording or other
> >documentation about this show? Is Willis Cooper still around?
> >
> >I would appreciate any advice you can give.
> >

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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kathy O'Connell" <oconnell@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: FOTR, etc.
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Sorry to take up the Digest's time with personal stuff, [removed]

JAY HICKERSON!!  Please send me yet another copy of the information on 
this year's Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention.  Just as I was getting 
out my checkbook to send out my deposit, I realized that I had given away 
every copy I had of the thing.  

I received a lovely letter from Durward Kirby (responding to a lovely 
letter he got from me) saying that he won't be at this year's 
convention.  Hope he gets there in the future.

For those of you who are on the fence about attending the convention---DO 
IT!!  
Kathy O'Connell
WXPN
Philadelphia, PA




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