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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 385

Table Of Contents: 

	 OTR URL LIST
	 Tape Squeal
	 "John Reid"
	 Nero Wolfe
	 The Lone Ranger's first name
	 Roma Wines 
	 Real Audio
	 Microphone search
	 Re :Lone Ranger's Name and alt origin and Brother Dan

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:38:04 -0700
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: OTR URL LIST
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Dear Digesters: I'm reposting my OTR Webpage URL list using http://
before each address. This will save all my  OTR friends a lot of typing!

          Jack's List of OTR Internet URL's

I've decided to include the http:// in the URLs (unless they start with something else,
of course) so that you may just click on the address to access the Web page. Thanks 
to Joe Oliver for the suggestion.

Abbott & Costello Home Page - [removed]
Adventures in Cassettes - [removed]
Airwaves Media Page - [removed]
Antique Radio Classifieds - [removed]
Atlanta Radio Theater Co. - [removed]
Audionet Classic Radio - [removed]
BBC Shows - [removed]
BBC World Service - [removed]
Becker Internet Group - [removed]
Bellingham Antique Radio Museum - http://antique-radio-[removed]
Big Radio - [removed]~[removed]
Bob Hope - [removed]
Bob Hope - [removed]
Boston Radio Archives - [removed]
BRC Productions - [removed]
Broadcast History - [removed]~rfs/
Broadcasting in Chicago: 1921-1989 - [removed]~[removed]
Broadcasting Related Websites - [removed]~[removed]
CBC Radio Drama - [removed]
Charlie Laughlin's OTR Page - [removed]
Classic Old Time Radio - [removed]
Classic Radios - [removed]
Commercial Catalogs - [removed]
Cyberplex Theaters - [removed]~cyberplx/
Dick Orkin's Radio Ranch - [removed]
Don't Touch That Dial - [removed]
FAQ: OTR - [removed]
FreQ - [removed]
Golden Age of Radio - [removed]
Golden Days of Australian Radio - [removed]
Heritage Radio Classics - [removed]
History of Radio Broadcasting -
[removed]
Index CBC Radio - [removed]
Jack Benny Episode List - [removed]~[removed]
JAM's Radio Nostalgia - [removed]
Jean Sheperd Page - [removed]~[removed]
Jean Sheperd - [removed]~[removed]
Jeff Miller's Home Page - [removed]
Jerry Stearn's Radio Drama and Comedy - [removed]~[removed]
Library of American Broadcasting - [removed]
Lin Robertson's Old Time Radio Page - [removed]
Lou Genco's OTR Page - [removed]
LodesTone - [removed]~lodeston/[removed]
Lum & Abner - [removed]
Museum of Radio and TV - [removed]
McCoy's Recordings - [removed]
Nazi Radio - [removed]
Nostalgia Times Radio Programme - [removed]
Old Radio (and TV) - [removed]
Old-Time Music on the Radio - [removed]
Old Time Radio Links -[removed]
Old Time Radio Show Logs - [removed]~daleb/
100 Years of Radio - [removed]
OTR Digest - [removed]~wdp/OTR_ONLINE/
OTR FAQ - [removed]
OTR Premiums - [removed]~jrolsen/[removed]
Pacific Rim OTR - [removed]~radio/sounds/
Phil's Old Radios - [removed]:80/~philn/
Price as the Radio Saint - [removed]
RadioActive Online Newsletter - [removed]
Radio Archive - [removed]~bensmanm/
Radio Classics - [removed]
Radio Collecting Links - [removed]#three
Radio Days - [removed]
Radio Era Archives - [removed]~tsm/
Radio Hall of Fame - [removed]
Radio Magazine - [removed]
Radio Memories - [removed]
Radio Showcase - [removed]
Radio Spirits - [removed]
Radio Theater on the Web - [removed]~[removed]
Radio Yesteryear - [removed]
Real Audio - [removed]
RHAC Catalog - [removed]
Science Fiction on Radio - [removed]~[removed]
Sci-Fi Guy - [removed]
Sound Affects: A Radio Playground - [removed]~[removed]
Sperdvac on the Web - [removed]~[removed]
Sperdvac Open Reel Library 1501+ - [removed]~rnovak
Stations Broadcasting OTR Shows - [removed]
Steven Lewis' Bing Crosby Page -
[removed]
Superman on Radio - [removed]
The Shadow - [removed]
Thousand Oaks Radio Library Collection - [removed]
Tribute to Orson Welles - [removed]
TV Video & Radio Audio - [removed]
Vincent Price On Radio - [removed]
Wayne's Old Time Radio Page - [removed]
YesterdayUSA - [removed]
ZBS Homepage - [removed]

NEW ADDITIONS TO THE LIST ARE INDENTED 

This list is by no means complete. For additions, deletions, corrections and comments,
please 
Email me at    jmann@[removed]     Thanks to all,

Jack Mann

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:56:02 -0700
From: efk0490@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tape Squeal
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Just a quick note to thank all of you who responded to my question on
tape squeal either via e-mail or through the Digest.  You all had good
ideas and I appreciate the time you all took to write.  

Regards

Gene K

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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "John Reid"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:18:09 -0400
> From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: LONE RANGER origin/GERALD MOHR
> Message-ID: <961010081808_206878853@[removed]>
> 
> We're stuck with the LONE RANGER being named "John Reid"
> because of the faulty memories of some nostalgia book authors back in the
> 1960s.  Ranger Reid never had a first name in either the radio or television
> series, but the name entered into Ranger lore via the disasterous 1980 movie.

Maybe someday I'll get to listen to a recording of the show that my father
and I heard back around 1954 or 55, and maybe I'll be proven wrong, but
until then I insist that the name "John Reid" was used on at least one
radio episode.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:50:40 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Nero Wolfe
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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>I actually have two questions about the Adventures of Nero Wolfe.  First 
>of all, I have a few programs from late 49 and early 50 that say The 
>"New" Adventures of Nero Wolfe.  Do they say that because that program 
>was just coming on the air at that time, or was it a program earlier in 
>"The Golden Age" and then it was brought back in 1949.  
>

There were essentially two runs of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe. The first
starred several Nero's: Santos Ortega, [removed] Williams, and Luis Van Rooten.
This was the series which ran in 1943/44 via ABC. It left the air and was
resurrected on Mutual sponsored by Jergens and starred Francis X Bushman as
Wolfe. This ran in the later 40's leaving the air by about 46. Because of
the new network and sponsor and star, it was dubbed the "New" adventures. 

After it died, it was resurrected one more time in the early fifties,
starring the "sounding-much-older" Sidney Greenstreet as Wolfe. It too was
on Mutual and sponsored by Plymouth. It also was dubbed "new."


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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 01:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger's first name
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:17:23 -0400
> From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: LONE RANGER's first name
> Message-ID: <961010191722_540690000@[removed]>
> 
> A. Joseph Ross's correction intriques me since it is based on very nearly
> first-hand information.  Do you recall approximately what year this episode
> was broadcast?  How old were you?  Season of the year, [removed]  Since nearly
> all the later disks survive as well as the original scripts, I'd be
> interested in trying to track down the episode where the Ranger was given a
> first name.  Do you recall any details about the plot?  

As I said, I didn't hear the whole episode.  All I remember is the LR
talking with a dying man who clearly knew who he was.  And it wasn't the
20th anniversary show -- I've got that one.  It had to be around 1954-55
or maybe early 1956 because I remember distinctly where we lived at the
time and that I heard it on the large livingroom radio which, by later in
1956, had been moved to the basement den (It now graces my own
livingroom.).

It might be the episode involving Ace Perigon's gang that is described in
Chapter XI of Jim Harmon's =The Great Radio Heros=.  At least the
description, at the end of the chapter, of the LR talking to a dying man
who recognizes him, rings a bell.  But according to Harmon, that episode
was aired in January 1950, and that's definitely too early.  Unless I
heard a repeat broadcast.

Another clue: I think this was during a period that we were listening to
radio more because the TV was broken and my parents, for some reason or
other, didn't have it fixed for awhile.  And I think it was during that
same period that I remember listening to a radio tribute to Fred Allen,
who had just died. 

I'd really love to track it down and hear this episode, after all these
years.  What little I heard seemed like an unusually powerful episode, and
I was sorry I had missed most of it.  And, of course, I'm curious to find
out whether the LR's first name really was used in it.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 06:32:10 -0400
From: ErikS74342@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Roma Wines 
Message-ID: <961012063206_331940900@[removed]>

I've seen several postings on Roma Wines lately, and thought I'd offer one
assumption I've long had. This is a little fuzzy, but at my newspaper we get
the central California wire, and about eight years ago there was plenty of
coverage about the tribulations of the Gallo family.

Seems they came from Italy and settled in the Fresno area -- and when they
applied their winemaking skill to the grapes of the region, they settled on
the trade name Roma, to salute their Italian origins. Later they reverted to
the family name -- and that's how we get the Gallo wines we know and diss
today. Sort of like the way  Nissan and Datsun are two names for the same
thing.

Let's say I'm not answering this in any definitive fashion -- it's been years
since I read these newspaper stories -- but it's the best answer I have to
"Whatever happened to Roma Wines?"

Erik Smith
Kennewick, Wash.

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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 07:23:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: caldwell@[removed] (Wayne Caldwell)
To: cardiacrx@[removed], otr@[removed] (otr mailing list)
Subject: Real Audio
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Bob
 I have a real audio problem also. I go on line from my job and am not allowed
to put a sound card in the machine at work. I have downloaded real audio files
and then off line used the real audio player to play back the OTR program and
it works for me.
 I have a copy of RA but not sure of the version and will have to look at home.

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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 09:14:34 -0400
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Microphone search
Message-ID: <961012091432_1312960611@[removed]>

   This is a relatively unusual type of request.  In addition to OTR shows,
books, scripts, etc., I also have a fairly decent collection of OTR
memorabilia (microphones, radios, wire recorder, Jack Armstrong Hike-O-Meter,
Tom Mix wooden pistol, Little Orphan Annie Ovaltine shakeup mug and so on).
   I have the first kind of microphone I ever used more than 50 years ago,
plus several of the classics such as RCA 44 and 77.  However, I've had no
luck so far in getting the first type of mike I used on television.  It was
an RCA BK-1, that we referred to as an "ice cream cone."  It isn't a widely
sought after souvenir but I would certainly like to be able to add one to my
collection.  Anyone know of a possible source?
                            John Rayburn

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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 08:59:08 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re :Lone Ranger's Name and alt origin and Brother Dan
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  My hat is off to Anthony Tollin for the fine information he has give on 
  the Lone Ranger. I especially like the idea that the Lone Ranger's name 
  "Reid" was give as a pre-quel to the Green Hornet. 
        However I must point out that the name "John Reid" was used prior 
  to "the movie" of 1980. I have a record album  from Golden Age Records 
  with a copyright date of 1977 ( seems to me I bought it the next year in 
  1978). On the back of the Album cover there is a really poorly done write 
  up about the Lone Ranger and his nephew "Don" and how the Lone Ranger  
  "shot"  Butch Cavendish. The Author of the Blurb is Bonnie Simmons, who 
  was definitely thinking of the TV series. 
        The Reason I mention all this is that The Lone Ranger is referred 
  to as "John Reid" in this blurd and even though most of the description 
  is inaccurate, someone, somewhere came up  the name "John Reid" prior to 
  the year 1980!
  
  Also The episode that features the young woman finding the Lone Ranger in 
  Grant's Pass, where she rode to meet her brother "BOB". is titled
   "A Girl To Aid" Transcription # 598 date  12-01-41.
  By the way they didn't use the name BOB  when they named the six rangers 
  in the later origin episode.
  
  Lastly I have never heard an episode where the Lone Ranger's brother is 
  called 'Dan'. I have always heard people refer to him as Dan SR.  Does 
  anyone know of any episodes where the brother is referred to as DAN?
  




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