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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 56
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
"Lum and Abner" comic completes year [ Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@s ]
Doo Wah Ditty revealed [ "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@ ]
Nostalgia Expo [ Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed]; ]
"Peter Fugitive" from 1960's Chicago [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
Looking for "Let's Go To Town" radio [ Midwest Today magazine <midtod@iowa ]
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:45 -0400
From: Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Lum and Abner" comic completes year two
The "Lum and Abner" comic strip is at this address:
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You're invited to join us as we wrap up our second year of the "Lum and
Abner" comic strip. A commemorative page will be published Sunday, May 26, as
both a visible comic strip and an audio adaptation.
Negotiations for a third year were successful, and that will begin on June 2
(at a new home site to be announced soon).
The current story is entitled "Abner Cadabra, and details Abner's attempts at
becoming a magician. Previous weeks are available for viewing and listening.
Thank you so much!
Donnie Pitchford,
"Lum and Abner" Cartoonist
Carthage, Texas
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:27 -0400
From: "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Doo Wah Ditty revealed
Great! Rochester's aunt from Doo Wah Ditty was coming to visit him. Check
the episode on 2/29/1948 episode.
Thanks for the three additional contributions posted about Doo Wah Ditty.
There always seems to be more to every story, and more to uncover! Phil
Harris' attempt to legally own someone else's song by changing a few things
doesn't speak much about Harris' character. Also, Doo Wah Ditty, finds its
way into a couple of pop tunes. Finally (?) Phil Harris reveals on TV to
Jack that Doo Wah Ditty is where he goes on weekends to hide from his wife.
Secretly leaving Alice Faye on weekends is a hard joke to believe!
-Nik Kierniesky
Gettysburg
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:34 -0400
From: Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Nostalgia Expo
Jack French's post regarding Bobby Benson gives me the perfect
opportunity to plug the upcoming Nostalgia Expo to be held in Cincinnati
at the Crowne Plaza Blue Ash on May 31 and June 1.
Ivan Cury will be one of our special guests this year - his first time
for an OTR convention in Cincinnati - and he will be directed in a
recreation of a Bobby Benson episode - Grandma Wales - by the very same
Don Ramlow who located the McKnight obituary. Don will be directing
four other shows as well, plus we'll have a show by The Chicago Players
Group directed by Randy Larson and one by American Radio Theater
directed by Joy Jackson. That's a total of seven recreations in just
two days.
Fan favorite, Bob Hastings, will be with us again and we'll have
presentations on Johnny Dollar by John Abbott, the Career of Ted Malone
by Ryan Ellett and Duffy's Tavern by Martin Grams. We'll also be
screening Dave Parker's video documentary Remembering Radio.
A complete schedule of events has been added to the website:
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It's a clickable link right below the logo at the top of the page.
I might also mention that our venerable listmaster, Charlie Summers and
his lovely daughter Katie (Thank heaven she got her mother's looks!)
will be doing Summers Time Live interviewing both Ivan and Bob on Friday
afternoon.
It promises to be a great time and at $12/day you would be hard pressed
to find a better entertainment deal.
So, if you've been sitting on the fence about attending now is the time
to jump off. We'd love to have you j0in us.
Mike Wheeler
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:43 -0400
From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Peter Fugitive" from 1960's Chicago radio
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This is perhaps under the topic of "NTR" instead of "OTR" but I'll ask it
anyway. I found a brief tidbit on the web about this show (below) but I wonder
if anyone remembers it and may have recordings.
DJ Art Roberts featured a radio serial entitled "The Wild Adventures of
Peter Fugitive" featuring WLS Production Director Ray Van Steen.
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:16:53 -0400
From: Midwest Today magazine <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Looking for "Let's Go To Town" radio series
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I've always been a fan of Rosemary Clooney but until recently didn't
know she had made a number of appearances on a radio series by the
National Guard called "Let's Go To Town." I discovered this quite by
accident while browsing YouTube and found a couple of songs there.
The sound quality was fairly decent but a bit raspy, probably from
having been played so much.
There is a second YouTube poster that seems to have a lot more
Rosemary/National Guard material but inexplicably, instead of just
posting audio derived directly from his tape or disk copies, he first
plays it through his home stereo (which he proudly displays in the
video) with his big speakers, but places the microphone so far away
in the room he has created an echo effect that ruins the performances.
Next I checked and found some of the National Guard disks had
recently sold so my hunch is they are generally circulating.
I'm interested in finding anybody in the OTR community who
specifically has a good copy of "Let's Go To Town" #145/46, and any
others of that series that contain Rosemary. When I say "good copy" I
do not mean something that has been played to death such that there
is incredible surface noise, pops and clicks that are impossible to
clean, or a foggy sound from having been copied multiple times by
cheap tape recorders running at an improper speed or down sampled so
the file size is tiny!
I'm just amazed that so many collectors who supposedly appreciate old
radio shows so mishandle the audio and degrade it in the process.
Anyway, enough of my rant. I'd love to have copies of these shows if
anybody has some good copies. I appreciate it very much!
Larry
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