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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 339

Table Of Contents: 

	 Welcome Anthony Tollin and question
	 Re:  Baseball shows
	 Re: "Big Broadcast" movies
	 "America Before Televison" Tapes
	 I Confess
	 Old Time Radio Chat
	 Shadow question
	 OTR Chat
	 Re: Big Broadcast
	 The Archers
	 by way of electrical transcription
	 Gotham Players auditions
	 WJSV Bradcast day

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
cc: kubelski@[removed]
Subject: Welcome Anthony Tollin and question
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

First off, Anthony!  Glad to see you're finally on-line.  OK gang, get 
all your Shadow questions out - the answer man is here!
Now a question from a listener - Bob Luthmann wants to know for a newspaper
article: What show was sponsored by Intoxication Perfume by D'orsay, with 
the slogan "Someone lovely has just passed by"?  I've never heard such a 
thing, but many one of you knows.  
	By the way Sean, this guy is a columnist for the Staten Island Advance
(80,000 readers). Might be good for a convention plug. So let's get the answer
to this one class!
	-Max

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:41:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dewana Burnham <dburnham@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  Baseball shows
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi All,

I whould have remembered the Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First" 
because it is one of my favorites.  There is another of my favorites that 
hasn't been mentioned yet, and that is the episode of My Favorite Husband 
where Liz and Iris try to learn how to play baseball so that they can 
play on the same team wit their husbands.  That was another one of my 
favorites.  An while I am at it, does anyone have that episode that they 
could send to me.  I did have it, but it got erased accidentally.  

Troy Burnham

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:56:03 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "Big Broadcast" movies
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

John Henley <jhenley@[removed]> writes:
>But, to be a bit more [removed]"The Big Broadcast" was a 1932 film
>starring Bing Crosby and Burns & Allen.  Its sketchy plot was an excuse to
>feature segments starring popular radio & recording favorites of the day -
>in this case, Kate Smith, Cab Calloway, The Boswell Sisters, and Bing
>himself among others.  The idea was to get ticket-buyers into the theater
>to actually SEE the performers that beforehand they'd only heard.

I have heard a somewhat more pessimistic reason for some of these movies,
perhaps more so for the later ones than the earlier ones, and that was
that a number of stars managed to get written into their contracts that
they were to appear in a certain number of movies, and this was one way
to "burn off" a number of movie requirements all at once, by concocting
a production with a zillion members in the cast. (Certainly this would
explain some of the TV-movies-with-sitcom-stars we see today.)

>There were other radio-revue films, my favorite of which is "International
>House" (1933), with Calloway, Stoopnagle and Budd, Rudy Vallee and Baby
>Rose Marie.

AMC broadcast "Hollywood Canteen" recently, which as a period piece
(mid-WWII, I think it was) I found fascinating. 

Also Re: Radio Stars on TV: Someone here (sorry, I've lost that issue)
had asked if anyone had taped the "Biography" episode on Jack Benny. I
did, and if that person is still hunting for a copy, please contact me
via email.

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:25:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: radbond <radbond@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "America Before Televison" Tapes
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

My 20+ year-old open-reel tape copies of the MJSV complete broadcast day 
have a sign-on just before 6AM. Then recorded music is played until 6:29:30AM.
The time is announced every three minutes. The musical pieces are not 
identified. The station leaves the air "to make technical adjustments"
for about 8 1/2 minutes at 6:14AM.   

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:18:43 -0700
From: ulrich@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: I Confess
Message-Id: <v01540b01ae65dd53f290@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

In OTR Digest #338, Dewana Burnham <dburnham@[removed]> wrote:

>Also, I want to know if anyone knows about a program called I Confess.
>I'm not sure when it was on, but it was about people who would confess to
>committing a crime.  I did have one episode where a young teenage girl
>runs away with her boy friend and ends up in trouble when her boy friend
>tries to robb a store to get money to buy drugs and gets killed by the
>police.  Does anyone have this episode?  And how many other episodes are
>available.

I don't have it, but it's available from Radio Showcase. Their catalog
gives the date of "Teenage Runaway" as 10/17/52. Keith Scott refers to the
episode as "Narcotics", gives the same date, and states that this was the
audition. So there may never have been any other episodes.

--Charles

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:32 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Old Time Radio Chat
Message-Id: <m0v3RQh-0007hzC@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>From: "Stephen Moore" <moores@[removed]>

>Since there has been some interest shown in real time chatting about OTR, I
>will try this Thursday at 20:00 EST.  Lets just call the channel OTR, and
>see who shows up.

>[removed] net will this be on?  Undernet, Efnet, [removed],
[removed], >innernet, superlink?????>

Lois

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:37:55 -0400
From: Michael Psarakis <[removed]@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shadow question
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I have been collecting shows from the "Shadow" series
and still can't figure out the large gap in available and
unavailable shows.  I would think that a series as
popular as the Shadow may not have been saved in
the late thirties but certainly I would think the shows
between 1949 and the series end would have been
saved somewhere, especially considering the (pardon
the term) obscure shows that were saved during the
same period of time.  My mind is clouded when it
comes to understanding this.

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:25:58 -0300
From: "Stephen Moore" <moores@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: OTR Chat
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

It seems like there is some genuine interest in OTR chat.

I will try on IRC for a first try.

I would think a channel name of OTR would be sufficient :)

Hope to see some of you there on Thursday.

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:39:14 -0400
From: "Michael A. Carraher" <carraher@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Big Broadcast
Message-Id: <m0v3ULk-0004iAC@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

In the early sound on film era, Hollywood was desperate to find performers
who could talk.  It turned first to the stage, and as radio grew in
popularity at about the same time, it turned to radio for new talent.  In
addition to Hope and Crosby, movies appropriated radio stars like Gene
Autry and -- of course -- Jack Benny.  And, lest we forget, a certain
sportscaster from WHO in Des Moines.  Hollywood scouted -- and tried out --
local radio performers, as well as network stars.  Few had the looks to
match the voice.
------
BTW:  George Putnam is still on the air.  He does a midday talk show on
KIEV, Glendale.

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 18:13:00 PDT
From: "Litsey, Alan" <alitsey@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Archers
Message-Id: <32409E6A@panther>

Does anyone know of a club, or vendor that copies of BBC's "The Archers" can 
be obtained from? "The Archers" is the longest running radio soap on the BBC, 
and is still quite popular. It began in the early 1950s. I'm interested in 
obtaining early shows, but especially recent ones. Thanks! 

Alan Litsey
 

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:07:09 -0400
From: BCH66@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: by way of electrical transcription
Message-ID: <960918200707_481456304@[removed]>

In Seattle in 1948 KIRO radio often transcribed a popular weeknight 
CBS program and played it on Sunday night deleting the CBS feed of ESCAPE.
I know this was a station practice because the CBS stations in Spokane
and Oregon ( same time zone and geographical area) were broadcasting ESCAPE
as was the network back East but with a three hour time difference.

But in looking at a radio schedule you often have no idea of what 
is going on behind the scenes.
For example during winter months Monday night on CBS was always 6pm LUX RADIO
THEATER ( pacific time). During months of daylight savings time it went to
5pm. After the war( 1947 and after)  rather than adopting the 5pm airing the
show moved to 9pm.
Typical schedule:
 Pacific Time Zone       Pacific Time Zone          Eastern
                  during daylight sav       winter months               
6:00  My friend Irma   6:00 Lux Radio Theater   8:00 Inner sanctum
6:30  Screen Guild                                         8:30 [removed] 
7:00  various              7:00 My friend Irma        9:00 Lux Theater
7:30 [removed]          7:30 Screen Guild
8:00 Inner Sanctum    8:00 various                  10:00 My friend Irma
8:30                          8:30 A. Godfrey            10:30 Screen Guild
9:00Lux Theater         9;00 Inner Sanctum                     

Fist off you will notice that a show like Inner Sanctum was on at 8 back East
and 9 out west ( 8pm during daylight savings time) So either CBS was airing a
transcribed feed of an earlier "LIVE" show 
for western listeners or were still requiring performers to do two live
shows! But with Lux Theater you do not know if the network was sending a
delayed broadcast to the west or if the local station on its own decided to
record the show for a 9pm release.

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Date: 18 Sep 96 20:34:28 EDT
From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
Cc: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>,
        Max Schmid <mschmid@[removed]>
Subject: Gotham Players auditions
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ACTING ON THE RADIO???

The Gotham Radio Players, Manhattan's very own old-time radio recreation troupe,
is looking for some new voices.  

WHO WE ARE:

The GOTHAM RADIO PLAYERS were formed in 1991 by a group of enthusiasts for the
heyday of radio drama.  Our mission is to bring new productions of classic radio
programs from the 30's, 40's, aand 50's to the airwaves of the 90's.  We have
performed at various venues in the New York metro area, and are featured
regularly on WBAI-FM's "The Golden Age of Radio."  Among the live,
fully-produced recreations we have presented have been episodes from such series
as: Boston Blackie, Let's Pretend, The Adventures of Sam Spade, The Columbia
Workshop, The Adventures of the Thin Man, Dick Tracy, and Lights Out.   Although
we are an amatuer ([removed] non-paying) acting troupe, our radio broadcasts are
heard by an audience that numbers in the neighborhood of 15,000.   


WHAT WE NEED:

Although we are always on the lookout for new talent of all vocal types, at this
time we are especially in need of younger-sounding voices (teens, 20's and
30's), both male and female.  In particular, we are looking for a female with a
20-or-30-something character voice for an upcoming production.

You should be within a comfortable travel distance from Manhattan, since  for a
typical production we schedule 2 or 3 rehearsals early on weekday evenings.

If you'd like further information, or if you're interested in setting up an
audition with us, please reply via private e-mail to me at
[removed]@[removed]

Steve Lewis  

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:19:33 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Cc: efk0490@[removed]
Subject: WJSV Bradcast day
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>A final question before this group regarding "America Before
>Television"...any thoughts whether the 6:00 am to 6:30 am program block
>was deleted for the collection or whether there was no programming at
>that time despite later indications that broadcasting started at 6:00 am
>and not at 6:30 with the Arthur Godfrey [removed], was the repitition
>

I have a copy but not from any commercial source. My copy includes the
6:00-6:30 am block you say is deleted. I would have to go back and listen
to it again to see what it is specifically.


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Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
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