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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 7


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Sea Mysteries
	 DBX FILTERS, Dolby, & HIGH BIASED TAPE
	 WHITEHALL 1212 log
	 Heads
	 Stan Freberg
	 SF68 Partial Log
	 Hoobert Heever
	 HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW!
	 Stations playing otr
	 more on boucher
	 Hobbes/Shelley's S. Holmes
	 pinch rollers
	 RE: Name that show
	 Junk

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:45:51 -0800
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sea Mysteries
Message-ID: <960105104549_21747112@[removed]>

I reached another unusual box of material in my collection being unpacked for
the first time in a several years.

One of the series I discovered was eight episodes of SEA MYSTERIES.  I have
not listened to it yet.  I know nothing about it, there are no dates, so
probably syndicated or foreign series.

Any clues from anyone??
If it's in good sound, I'll transfer it to [removed]

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 15:27:27 -0500
From: SeptSev@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: DBX FILTERS, Dolby, & HIGH BIASED TAPE
Message-ID: <960105152725_32746806@[removed]>

Hello Again Friends--
A couple of questions for the technically minded out there.  1.)Any advantage
to mastering OTR on High biased tape as opposed to normal?  Does it minimize
noise if you're making dups  with a high bias master down to  normal bias?
 In other words, is the sound better on a normal bias copy made with a high
bias master, or a normal bias copy made from a normal bias master? Or is
there a difference?

2.) If you are duping using two tape decks,and your source tape is Dolby
encoded, and you are playing the master with the Dolby on, but recording the
dup with no Dolby, is the Dolby encoding traveling to the dup anyway? Or does
the dup deck have to have the Dolby button on in order to encode?

3.) Do DBX single direction(?) filters make a noticable difference in
filtering noise out of OTR dups?

Please excuse the questions of a novice.
Regards,
[removed] Bray 

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 15:41:48 -0500 (EST)
From: passage@[removed] (Frank Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: WHITEHALL 1212 log
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi All,

Thought I sent this one out back in mid-December but I can't seem to find
it in my back issues. So, just in case it didn't make it, here it is again:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 
                          W H I T E H A L L   1 2 1 2
                          -----------------   -------
 
                                  1951 - 1952?
 
 
     First Show: 11-18-51                            Last Show: ??-??-??
     Number Shows: 44?                           Audition Show: none known
 
 
     Show Description:
 
     WHITEHALL 1212 was a British police OTR drama series brought to the 
     United States, sometimes mistaken for THE BLACK MUSEUM.  The series
     was heard over NBC.  WHitehall 1212 was the police emergency phone 
     number in London just before '999' (their equalvalent of "911" here 
     in the States). 
 
 
     List Comments:
 
     All catalogs had dates to go with episode titles. Ed Carr's catalog 
     also listed episode number. The titles vary between sources. A lot
     of the titles from RHAC had "Case of" or "Murder of" before the title
     where Ed Carr's titles didn't. I've opted to use the RHAC titles and
     apply the title to both sources.
 
     Exact number of shows or date of the last show is not known. 
 
 
     List:
 
         Date      Num  Title                                 Src Key
         --------  ---  ------------------------------------  ---------
         11-18-51   01  The Blitz Murder Case                 123
         11-25-51   02  ?????
         12-02-51   03  The Fonier Case                       123
         12-09-51   04  The Murder Of Duncen Fraizer          123
         12-16-51   05  The Man Who Murdered His Wife         1 3
                        A Wife, A Husband, A Murder            2
         12-26-51   06  Heath Row Affair                      1 3
                        The Heathrow Airport Affair            2
         01-06-52   07  The Murder Of Charles Brooks          123
         01-13-52   08  Chasmeer Is Murdered                  1
                        The Gun And The Mechanical Pencil      2
                        Chasmir Cashuba Is Murdered             3
         01-20-52   09  The Case Of Donald Simes              1 3
                        A Case For Ballistics                  2
         01-27-52   10  The Murder Of Phillip Avery           1 3
                        Poor Little Lamb                       2
         02-03-52   11  The Pete Williams Case                1 3
                        The Telltale Skull                     2
         02-10-52   12  The Case Of Arthur Freeman            123
         02-17-52   13  The Case Of The Late Mrs. Harvey      123     
         02-24-52   14  The Murder Of Peter Aimery            1 3
                        The Letters Of Murder                  2
         03-02-52   15  The Murder Of Margaret Ashley         1 3
                        The Return Of Jack The Ripper          2
         03-09-52   16  The Case Of Dr. Dunken Allen          1 3
                        The Case Of The Atomic Secrets         2
         03-16-52   17  The Case Of Thomas Applebee           1 3
                        The Confession  
         03-23-52   18  The Case Of The Black Gladstone Bag   123
         03-30-52   19  The Murder Of A Bloody Belgium        1 3
                        Message In Blood                       2
         04-13-52   20  Fatal                                 1
                        The Case Of The Fatal Bath             23
         04-20-52   21  Mrs. Manerva Bannerman                1 3
                        The Case Of The Missing Corpse         2
         04-27-52   22  The Case of Francis Nichelson         1 
                        The Case Of Francesca Nichelson        23
         05-04-52   23  Wm. George Greenly                    1
                        The Case Of William George Greenley    23
         05-11-52   24  The Case of Marge Tate                1 3
                        The Imposter                           2
         05-18-52   25  The Case of Sidney Wolfe              1 3
                        A Set Of False Teeth                   2
         05-25-52   26  The Case of Maggie Roulinson          1 3
         06-01-52   27  Murder of Winaford Hogg               1 3
         06-08-52   28  Strange Bonfire                       1
                        The Case of Donald Patric Paget         3
         06-15-52   29  The Case of The Homemade Handbag      1 3
         06-22-52   30  The Murder of Mrs. Anne Batterersbee  1 3
         06-29-52   31  The Case of Weed Eradication          1 3
         07-06-52   32  The Murder Of Mr. Sweet               1 3
         07-13-52   33  No Title                              1
                        The Case of The Ambush                  3
         07-20-52   34  The Case Of The Undidentified Woman   1 3
         07-27-52   35  The Case Of Magenta Blotting Pad      1 3
         08-03-52   36  The Murder Of Mora Brady              1 3
         08-10-52   37  The Case Of The Missing Clarinet      1 3
         08-17-52   38  The Case Of Dugal Henry               1
                        The Murder of Captain Dougall Henry     3
         08-24-52   39  The Murder of Lady Madge Johnston     1 3
         08-31-52   40  The Case Of The Madden Family         1 3
         09-07-52   41  The Case Of The Eaton Brothers        1 3
         09-14-52   42  The Case Of The Winchester Bottle     1 3
         09-21-52   43  The Case Of The Inoperative Wireless  1 3
         09-28-52       The Case Of The Electric Torch          3
         
 
     Information Sources:
 
     The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
     and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.
 
         Key  Source
         ---  ----------------------------------------------------------
          1   Edward J. Carr, 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512.
          2   Steve Kelez, Radio Showcase, [removed] Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 
              95402
          3   Radio Historical Association of Colorado, [removed] Box 1908, 
              Englewood, CO 80150
 
     Although I have had favorable dealings with some of the above, to be 
     fair to all, this is not an endorsement of them. I receive nothing by 
     mentioning them.
 
     Last Update: 12-11-95
 
 
     Although I retain copyright, this log may be freely copied provided 
     that the text is unchanged.  Please share it with fellow OTR lovers.
 
     I would greatly appreciate any error corrections or additional
     information. Please send them to: Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, 
     Verona, NJ 07044 or via e-mail to passage@[removed]

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 13:15:58 EST
From: platecap@[removed] (Bob B)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Heads
Message-Id: <m0tYJYG-000YGUC@[removed]>

There is no protective coating on heads in the strictest sense, although
the laminates that are part of the head gap could be said to protect the
gap.  When it wears away, you can actually see a vertical line on the
head directly in the center.  When that happens, the head is completely
gone.  There are some companies, however, that specialize in re-lapping
(or coating--in a sense) heads, but that service is primarily for
professional multi-track heads.  Heads are actually surprisingly durable
considering the miles of rust that are dragged across them!

Bob Burnham; BRC Productions; [removed] Box 2645; Livonia, MI 48151
voice (313) 277-3798;  fax (313) 277-3095; internet platecap@[removed]

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:25:06 -0800 (PST)
From: jnestero@[removed] (John Nesteroff)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Stan Freberg
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

	Does anybody else think that Stan Freberg does an excellent job 
of hosting When Radio Was?  I think He's super.  


-Cliff N.

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 17:39:42 -0500 (EST)
From: passage@[removed] (Frank Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: SF68 Partial Log
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

                                   S F   6 8 
                                   ---   ---
 
                                      1968
 
 
     First Show: ??-??-68?                           Last Show: ??-??-68?
     Number Shows: 18?                           Audition Show: none known
 
 
     Show Description:
 
     SF 68 was a product of South Africa.  Produced by Michael McCabe, it
     ran for about one year (1968) and was sponsored by BioTex, a cleaning 
     solution.  The announcer was Dennis Smith, but the cast members were 
     never announced.  McCabe gave up the program at the end of that year's 
     run and began producing a horror series called Beyond Midnight.  There 
     were 18 episodes (not verified).  The plays were adapted (by McCabe) 
     from various science fiction stories, for example, "A Sound of Thunder"
     was written by Ray Bradbury.
 
     If you enjoy science fiction, these are quite good and it's interesting 
     to compare them against domestic science fiction radio drama, both old 
     and new.  
 
 
     List Comments:
 
     The only catalog that listed series numbers was NARA's.  No catalog
     had dates.  Although quite a few vendors carry the shows, not many
     carry a lot of them, as can be seen from the "Src Key" field.
 
 
     List:
 
         Date      Num  Title                                 Src Key
         --------  ---  ------------------------------------  ---------
                     1                                        
                     2  The Answer                            1
                     3  The Cage                              12   6
                     4  The Castaway                          1    6
                     5  The Death Dust                        1    6
                     6  Homecoming                            1 3   7
                     7  Jenny With Wings                      1
                     8                                        
                     9  The New Wine                          1    6
                    10  
                    11  Quest                                 1     7
                    12  Routine Excercise                     1   5
                    13  
                    14  
                    15  Wanted in Surgery                     1 3
                    16  Watchbird                             1    6
                    17  The Will                              1    6
                    18  
                    
                    ??  A Sound Of Thunder                    1 34  7
                    ??  The Signals                           1
                    ??  Grenville's Planet                     2
                    ??  The Space Cow                          23
                    ??  Last Rites                               4
 
 
     Information Sources:
 
     The information above was obtained from the following OTR vendor
     and club catalogs.  Contact them directly for more information.
 
         Key  Source
         ---  ------------------------------------------------------------
          1   North American Radio Archives (NARA), 134 Vincewood Dr., 
              Nicolasville, KY 40356.
          2   Edward J. Carr, 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512.
          3   Ken Mills, Nostalgia Recordings, 907 Maple Ave., Ridgefield,
              NJ 07657.
          4   Steve Kelez, Radio Showcase, [removed] Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 
              95402
          5   University of Memphis Radio Program Archive, Learning Media 
              Center, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
          6   Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And
              Comedy (SPERDVAC), PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177
          7   Satellite Broadcasting, 4580-E Mack Ave., Frederick, MD 
              21701
 
 
     Although I have had favorable dealings with some of the above, to be 
     fair to all, this is not an endorsement of them. I receive nothing by 
     mentioning them.
 
 
     Last Update: 12-11-95
 
 
     Although I retain copyright, this log may be freely copied provided 
     that the text is unchanged.  Please share it with fellow OTR lovers.
 
     I would greatly appreciate any error corrections or additional
     information. Please send them to: Frank Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, 
     Verona, NJ 07044 or via e-mail to passage@[removed]
 
 

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 02:37:04 -0500
From: celtic@[removed] (Stuart Joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hoobert Heever
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 03:44:40 GMT
>From: bilj@[removed] (Bill Jaker)

>2) If you'd like to hear an excellent example of how announcing styles 
>evolved, listen to Harry Von Zell on Bing Crosby's first broadcast for Cremo 
>Cigars.  It was on CBS on 2 September 1931 and can be found in many 
>collections.  Then compare Von Zell on a program from the 40s (he was 
>everwhere: Eddie Cantor Show, Burns & Allen, The Aldrich Family).  Ladies 
>and gentlemen, you would not believe it was the same guy.
*******************************************************************
Harry Von Zell was also the announcer responsible for the famous blooper
mis-introducing President Herbert Hoover as President Hoobert Heever. <g>
Does anyone else remember the famous (or maybe infamous) Blooper records by
Kermit Schafer? They were a big hit in the 50's and most of them seemed to
be taken from radio broadcasts. The only problem with them was the fact that
they were re-creations of the bloopers (with actors) instead of the actual
broadcasts.
Stuart Joseph
who is snowed under in VT, not only with work, but also with the real thing!

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 02:37:07 -0500
From: celtic@[removed] (Stuart Joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW!
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:42:29 -0500
>From: fisherf@[removed] (Francis Fisher)

>
>At NBC, in Rockefeller Center, during the 60s, everyone visible through the
>glass was expected to dress for the tours that came through the building.
>Announcers sat except when working a live audience.
******************************************************************
I worked as a copy boy in the newsroom of NBC (down the hall from the radio
studios) in the mid-60's and we were visible to the touring public.
I got a part in an Irish play and grew a short beard and let my hair get a
bit longer than everyone else, but it wasn't extreme.
I got a lot of grief from my superiors for my transgression and I was asked
to resign, which I did.
A few years later, about 1970, my overall boss had typical 70's sideburns,
long hair and a moustache, but by then I had longer hair and a fuller beard.
We were also required to always wear ties, though because we were part of
the news room, we didn't have to wear jackets.
Stuart
who again has a beard, but not as much hair, but not for lack of trying.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 04 Jan 96 20:36:40 -0500
From: welsa@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Stations playing otr
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I can add to the list of stations playing OTR on a regular basis.  Wisconsin 
Public Radio broadcasts two hours of OTR every Sunday night from 9:00 [removed] 
until 11:00 [removed] CST.  Norman Gilleland ably hosts the show and it is heard on 
several outlets around the state (alas, not where I can hear it).  The few 
times I have picked it up have been fun.  Occasionally Norman includes a 
contest such as "Name That Sound".  He plays a sound effect and listeners call 
in their guesses.  The winner usually receives a nice OTR-related prize (Joan 
Benny's book was a popular give-away for quite along time.)
    
    

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 08:41:44 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: more on boucher
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>Boucher's real name was William Anthony Parker White.  Apparently, his 
>pen name took over so completely that he used his real name only for 
>voting and paying taxes.  He is even supposed to have had a joint 
>checking account with himself.

On the Simon & Schuster cassettes of the "rediscovered" Rathbone/Bruce
episodes, several have introductory comments by Denis Green's widow.  She
explains that Boucher was a college mate of hers, so it was quite the
coincidence that he and her husband ended up working together.  During
college, the man was known to everyone as [removed] White; by the time of the
Holmes broadcasts, his Anthony Boucher penname had become so prevalent that
he preferred for even his oldest friends to call him "Tony."

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

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 08:41:48 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Hobbes/Shelley's S. Holmes
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

David Hatch wrote:

>In addition to the 1940s Sherlock Holmes radio programs,
>there was a British series in the 1970s, heard in the 
>United States over public radio.  
>
>This series featured Carleton Hobbes & Normal Shelley.
>The stories were strictly out of the Conan Doyle canon;
>none were scripted directly for this series.  As a result,
>the stories were fairly authentic, and provided an
>authentic radio voice for the Baker Street duo.

This was, IMO, an absolutely superb series.  Both Hobbes and
Shelley had completely suitable voices for their roles, and
the dramatizations are closer to the original stories than any
film ever got, or than the Rathbone/Bruce series ever got.

In a book titled The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook, it's implied
that Hobbes and Shelley essayed these roles for the BBC 
sporadically throughout the 1950s and 60s.  I don't know the
full history of the series, and I don't know when the ones
heard on NPR in the early 1980s were recorded, but in my
listening experience it seems that BBC archival recordings are
usually of such high quality that it's next-to-impossible to
date them just by ambience.  
I do know thru my researches, however, that both Hobbes and
Shelley were elderly men in the 1970s.  Hobbes died in 1978,
and Shelley in '82 or '83.

I know there's a gentleman out there who could tell us about
this [removed];-).

John


  

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

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:59:05 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: pinch rollers
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Some folks say it's OK to use alcohol to clean rollers if you don't get
>them too wet.  Other folks say never to use alcohol on rollers.  If one
>doesn't use alcohol on rollers, what would be recommended for cleaning
>them?  Joel Senter

A good method for keeping your pinch roller relatively grunge-free is to
only use premium-quality blank tape of a recognized national (or
international) brand.  Usually, the binders on these tapes will be good
enough to inhibit much flaking, so the buildup on the pinch rollers will
take some time.  Cleaning them once or twice a year, with 90% isopropyl
alcohol, shouldn't hurt them too much.
Modern improvements in recording tape also mean that it isn't as imperative
as it used to be to clean and demagnetize the heads.  In fact, with the
materials that rec/pb heads are made of now, demagnetizing is superfluous.

I'm speaking of home decks.  If, like me, you listen to a lot of OTR on
your car deck, car decks seem to need cleaning about five times as often.

When I worked in a home electronics repair shop, during the 80s, the techs
had access to a substance called Vita-Drive, which was a "rubber
rejuvenator."  It restored belts and pinch rollers to a flexible, pliable
condition.  But it was an industrial substance and I have no idea if it's
still made.

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

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 12:05:09 -0600
From: Lou Genco <lgenco@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed], Jerry Purvis <hqsouth@[removed]>
Subject: RE: Name that show
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

In [removed] Digest V96 #6, Jerry Purvis asked abouut a program whose
plot was something like:

>Man finds uncovered ship, but has to kill a few people along the way.  He
>props up the hatch to go below deck.  He finds the treasure and a body in
>the hold just as the hatch support collapses.  As he tries to get out, he
>hears the desert winds covering up the ship.

Off the top of my head, that sounds like -Suspense-, "The Lost Ship".


Lou
------------------------------------------------------------------------
WWW page on "Old Time Radio":                   [removed]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 16:32:00 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed] (JIM COKER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Junk
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I noticed quite a few people picked up on the "Sam And Dave."
I actually have a cassette of one show, probably the only show
surviving. Basically the plot is that Sam gets Henry to do a portray a
public speaker at some club. Henry is nervous and has to be coached by
Sam who is on the floor out of sight. One of the characters voices is
exactly like Andy except his dialog is monotone with no inflection at
all. Thankfully, he developed the ability to read a script better in
later years. This cassette is countless generations away from the noisy
disk but well worth listening to.
OTR was a long way from "Hi Fi."

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