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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 75


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 First Dramatic Series?
	 RE: Family Radio Personalities
	 "Teddy Bergman"
	 Whoops! Lum and Abner [removed]
	 Myrt & Marge
	 VHSHiFi: Yet [removed]
	 NIGHTBEAT question
	 Myrt & Marge Follow-up.
	 Having No problems with Dat

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:51:19 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: First Dramatic Series?
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	A question was posed to me today and I realised I didn't have a 
clue to the answer.  What and when was the first dramatic series on radio?
I guess it would have to be network radio to qualify, or would it?  How 
about the first Soap Opera or Serial?  Variety show?  Other catagories?
If nothing else, this discussion should help fill a few issues.
	-Max

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Date: 26 Feb 96 09:47:48 EST
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: RE: Family Radio Personalities
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Sat, 24 Feb 1996 15:28:26 -0600
bensmanm@[removed]
(Marvin R. Bensman) wrote:

>>We have had mention of the Ameches (Don and Jim).
>>How many other families had more than one member in radio?

Ozzie and Harriet kept the whole family employed.

There was also Bing Crosby, who, of course, had his own radio
show, and bandleader-brother Bob.

This must qualify for [removed] I grew up listening to John B. Gambling
on WOR in New York in the 40's and 50's; his son, John A. Gambling,
took over in the 60's, and now, I understand (I've moved from the area)
that his grandson, a third John Gambling is doing the morning show
there. Talk about neopotism!

Regarding OTR music - I don't think anybody's mentioned
Funiculli Funiculla - played on the harmonica - for the 
PM soap, Just Plain Bill. 

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:46:41 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: "Teddy Bergman"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

welsa@[removed] wrote:

>I also note from the [Myrt & Marge] cast list that such [removed] as 
>>....Teddy [removed] at various times in 
>this granddaddy of soap operas.

Also known as Alan Reed.


John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:09:18 -0600
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Whoops! Lum and Abner [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>

The following appeared under "Corrections and Clarifications" in
yesterday's (Feb. 25th, 1996) edition of the Sunday Chicago Tribune:

    In a story on the Lum and Abner store and museum in the Feb. 4
    Travel section, numerous historical details were incorrect. The
    radio broadcasts originated from Chicago from 1931 to 1938; they
    were broadcast from California from 1939 to 1955. The buildings
    were purchased in 1969 by Lon Stucker's mother, Dorothy McClure,
    and her husband, Ralph; Lon and Kathy Stucker have owned the
    buildings since 1979. The names "Lum" and "Abner" were coined
    for their first broadcast as amateurs on radio in Hot Springs,
    Ark., before Quaker Oats sponsored the show. The farewell written
    on the death of Norris Goff (Abner) by Chester Lauck (Lum) was
    published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and other papers, not
    the now-defunct Arkansas Star. In addition, the road from Hot
    Springs is not an Interstate but rather [removed] Highway 270, and the
    population of the town is 18, not 50.

    The Tribune regrets the errors.

Other than that, I'm sure it was pretty much correct.  ;-)

It would be interesting to read that farewell of Chester Lauck's, if
anyone has a copy. Unfortunately my February 4th Tribune is long gone
so I don't know whether they reprinted it there.

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Adobe Systems, Inc. (formerly Frame Technology)
Advanced Product Services
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:41:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kathy O'Connell" <oconnell@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Myrt & Marge
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I'm so glad to see a discussion of Myrt & [removed] of my favorite 
shows. Does anyone know exactly what is available?  I have several tapes 
I picked up at the Friends of Old Time Radio convention a couple of years 
ago, but they seem to be later in the run.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the daughter, who played the 
sister, died in childbirth.  Might have read that in Dunning.

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:56:39 -0500
From: SeptSev@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: VHSHiFi: Yet [removed]
Message-ID: <960226155637_231688453@[removed]>

Friends:
In Digest 74, Ron wrote:
<<I have direct experience
with many brands and models of VHS HiFi machines and do not recommend VHS
Hi-Fi as an archival medium. I think it's a wonder that it works at all!>>

I'm by NO means an expert.  And I don't understand why it works, but let me
assure you, in my experience, VHSHiFi DOES work. I have experienced none of
the frequency noise described.  I guess, as the tapes age, time will tell if
there is a tracking problem.  I have three machines, I play my tapes on all
of them--no problems. For me, combined with cassettes, it is the ideal
back-up medium.

Regards,
Thom Bray (who doesn't understand why those big airplanes can fly either:))!!

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:40:39 -0500 (EST)
From: passage@[removed] (Frank Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: NIGHTBEAT question
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi All,

I'm not familiar with Nightbeat but it seems to be broken up into 3 different
"series".  There were 2 auditions, one on 5-19-49 and one on 1-13-50.  The 
first show was on 2-6-50 and the last of this first series was on 11-10-50.
The show re-started (series 2) on 3-4-51 and appears to run until 9-25-52.
Now, I found a third series that starts on 4-2-54 and runs to 3-31-55, although
I'm not sure of the exact last show date.  I've heard there was a South African
series by the same name, but I don't know dates.  Does anyone know if this
3rd series is actually the SA version?

Frank

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:39:08 -0500 (EST)
From: rjones@[removed]
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Myrt & Marge Follow-up.
Message-Id: <[removed]@mail>

Over the years I'vd been fond of saying that Myrt and Marge was not a
soap opera but a chewing gum opera. Its long-time sponsor was Wrigley.
You talk about a sponsor identification: the characters' full names were
Myrtle SPEAR and Marge MINTER. Donna Damerel (Marge) was, indeed, Myrtle
Vail's daughter. I've heard that she died in childbirth and that another
actress came in to play Marge. I was just a kid at the time and most of
this information came to me in scraps later on. I can't document it.
VARIETY carried an obit of Myrtle Vail in the 1960s (aged somewhere in
her 90s, I think) but the clip is astray in my disorganized files. The
show made a great impression on me and I loved the theme song POOR
BUTTERFLY, from the first time I heard it. Years later as a music host
in Cincinnati (WKRC & WCKY) I made known my liking for the song---and
began playing a different recording of it each day, although when I
started I had only about 15. Listeners began sending me old 78s,
cassettes, tapes, and eventuAlly I acquired some 200 recordings of POOR
BUTTERFLY, (Al Jolson with Oscar Levant on the piano, Deanna Durbin,
Helen Trauble, Frank Sinatra with the Ellington orchestra, Fritz
Kreisler in the 1920s on a $250,000 Stradivarius among them, Benny
Goodman loved the song and recorded it at least eight times) so I could
go most of a year without repeating.  The song was written in 1916 by
Raymond Hubbell (music) and John Golden (words) for THE BIG SHOW. A
READER'S DIGEST booklet with their record set "Down Memory Lane" notes:
"THE BIG SHOW was one of the spectacles that played regularly at the
Hippodrome in New York. On learning that an Oriental singer wold be in
the cast, Golden. . .assumed it would be Tmaki Miura who had had a great
success in Puccini's MADAME BUTTERFLY. For her he wrote the lyrics of
Poor Butterfly. However, the Oriental singer turned out to be a Chinese-
American who was so miscast that she was soon replaced by Sophie
Bernard. Miss Bernard's performance,later supplemented by a dance-band
recording started Poor Butterfly on its way to such success that,
according to Golden, "I think I am safe in saying that [removed] Harms, the
publishers, in all their experience, never had a bigger selling song and
I know I never had one which made more money."

Alec Wilder in his 1972 book AMERICAN POPULAR SONG wrote "[removed]
on of the lovliest ballads I've ever heard." 

I guess my longtime latter-day association with the song proves that I
agree with Wilder.
                   Bob Jones

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:32:01 -0500
From: SupDaveTV5@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Having No problems with Dat
Message-ID: <960226183200_231837929@[removed]>

I have used DAT for about 5 years and have had no problem with storage or
tracking.  My collection of shows is archived to DAT.  I have been using
Maxell and Ampex DAT tapes with no problems.  Dat makes a great format for
archiving old radio.  I know the sound quality of the radio shows does not
use DAT to its fullest, but with its compact size and 2 hour record time at
[removed] & 48 khz, and 4 hour with 32khz is my choice for archiving my prized
collection


David Van Nostrand
SupDaveTV5@[removed]

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