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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 328

Table Of Contents: 

	 Please resend!
	 Newton's Law
	 Who dat?
	
	 bloopers on the net
	 Re:Death of Bill Monroe
	 Don't talk with your mic open and other bloopers
	 I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN
	 War Time Song
	 Boston Blackie
	 NELSON BRAGG
	 Re: "Watching Radio"  and  "Jack Benny--A&E"
	 Re: ACETEATE BASE TAPE - TURNING TO VINEGAR
	 What's My Line

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:36:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dewana Burnham <dburnham@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Please resend!
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi Everyone,

I need the people who have already sent me their collection lists to 
please resend them.  Last night I was doing some shifting around of 
messages, and inadvertently deleted the folder that had all of the lists 
in it.  

Sorry for the trouble!

Troy Burnham

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:03:48 -0600
From: Chet Cox <CHCOX@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Newton's Law
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I like Graham Newton's Law:  "He violated the number one rule of
[removed] when you are in a studio
with microphones, say only what could go to air."   I like it so much that I
think I shall endeavor to practice it in all situations.  So lets add Chet's First
Dirivative of Newton's Law:  "Strive to say only what could go on the air."

Of course, in these days of Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh, this may
become [removed]

*jeep!
~~~~Chet
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Quote of the day:  "To heck with the public!
I'm here to represent the people!"  --an unnamed Jersey state senator
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Rudesill <lranger@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Who dat?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

OK, the guy who sang "Hooray For Hollywood" in "Hollywood Hotel" was Johnnie
"Scat" Davis. He also appeared in a handful of other musicals.

After the release of the movie the song became Hollywood's anthem.

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:03:44 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Message-id: <01I9B81KXKGY8X2A4G@[removed]>
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From: mweisbe@[removed] (Weisberg, Mitch D)
Subject: Fwd: Minorities in OTR
 

 I'm looking for help in opinions, quotes, examples, etc. on how various 
minorities (racial, religious, ethnic, immigrant, gay, women, etc.) were 
depicted in OTR.  Both good and bad.  Specific episodes or general trends 
are appreciated.  In fact, any help is appreciated.

	Thanks,

		Mitch Weisberg.






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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:16:26 +0100 (BST)
From: hbj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: bloopers on the net
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Sorry, can't be more speciffic, but a friend
called me, and said "look what I found."
He then played a wav file over the phone.
"And, now, the president of the United
States, Hoobert Heaver."
I recognized the voice. Also, the bit.
Apparently, someone has placed all of those
old classic "Pardon My Blooper" cuts
somewhere on the web.
My friend can't remember where he found them,
though.
Wonder if anyone else has tripped over these.


henry Brugsch [removed]
hbj@[removed]

`[1;34;47mNet-Tamer V [removed] Beta - Registered

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:46:59 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Death of Bill Monroe
Message-ID: <960910124659_281766209@[removed]>

OTR musician, composer and singer Bill Monroe, a fixture on the WSM Grand Ole
Opry, Nashville since 1939, died Monday in Springfield TN. He had suffered a
stroke in March.
Monroe also was a square dancer in the 1930s for the road shows of the WLS
National Barndance. He literally created a form of music, bluegrass, and
would have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the definitive Blue Grass Boys'
recordings on Sept 16 and 17th. 
He would have been 85 this coming Friday. Bill will be laid out, and a
memorial service will be held, on Wednesday in the historic Ryman Auditorium,
site of the WSM Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1976. There are several
recordings available of Bill from the Ryman stage doing the NBC Prince Albert
portion of the Grand Ole Opry. May he rest in peace.

BILL KNOWLTON, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE', WCNY-FM: SYRACUSE, UTICA, WATERTOWN NY
(SINCE 1973)

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Date: 10 Sep 96 14:12:37 EDT
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Don't talk with your mic open and other bloopers
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

The story about MacKellar's remarks while on the phone with the mic 
open makes me think of the many times announcers have been close
to losing their jobs because of accidental- or on-purpose-remarks
they thought they could get away with. One example; a favorite of
mine: an announcer at a big Southern New England radio station
reading some wire copy, said, "in Athol, Mathachusetts,
today, ..." It really happened.

Remember, when you work in radio,
no good deed ever goes unpunished.

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:57:27 -0400
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>From: "F. Charles Simar" <FCharlesSimar@[removed]>

>I am looking for a recording of radio shows (if available) for my parents.
>What information I have, the show was a BBC production called (I believe)
>"Sorry, I'll Read That Again".  John Clese (from Monty Python fame) is 
>supposed to be heard on this show.  If anyone has any info about this show
>and how I can get some shows, please post the info here or contact me at
>this address:

Ah - one of my faves.  The full title is I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN.  It
aired on the BBC in the early-mid 1960s, and on National Public Radio in the
mid 1970s.  The 1/2-hour series features brilliant, fast-paced, silly,
ribald sketch comedy with lots of horrible puns.  For example, their sendup
of Moll Flanders ("Moll Flounders") contains the narration, "Then a tall,
handsome stranger rode up to me on a horse wearing hunting pink.  But before
I could ask why his horse was wearing hunting pink, he spoke.  I'd never
heard a horse speak before, and I was aghast with [removed]"  Their
Bonnie and Clyde spoof ("Bunny and Claude") is pretty good, too, as is "Ali
Baba and the Thirty-Eight Thieves" (yes - 38; two of them were stolen).

Regulars were Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Graeme Garden, Jo
Kendall and Bill Oddie.  Writers included Eric Idle.  Cleese and Idle went
on to fame as members of the Monty Python troupe, and Brooke-Taylor, Garden
and Oddie went on to star in a MONKEES-esque TV series called THE GOODIES.

I have a few on tape and can trade.  Alas, my machine chewed my copy of the
Moll Flounders broadcast.  Does anyone have it?
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:57:58 +0100
From: alvo@[removed] (Alan Voorhees)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: War Time Song
Message-Id: <v01530500ae5b23546f3c@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
content-length: 530

I got this message in my e-mail today, but don't know the answer:

My mother is trying to find the TITLE and SINGER of a
song that she heard during the war.  My father, during
World War II in 1943-44, used to address all her letters to
"Funny Face".  The only lines she remembers are:
          "when I see your funny face,
            every time, every place"
and possibly the line:
          "I wonder when my baby's coming home?"

Please post a response if you know, and I'll send it along to the person
who asked me. Thanks!

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:17:43 -0800
From: "C. HENDRIX" <chendrix@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Boston Blackie
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

To: Arlene Osborne
RE;Boston Blackie
Radio Yesteryear publishes a "Reasearch Report" which is "a list of
radio shows that we have in our archives. Just name the program or
name the person."

Type 2 listing short forms are listings of the availability and 
shows the catalog number, story title and audio condition." This 
costs $1 or Type #3 are the same as Type #2 but adds a program
description.

If you're interested, send Check$ and name of show as :
1. BOSTON BLACKIE, TYPE_______
to:
Radio Yesteryear
Box C
Sandy Hook, CT   06482-0847

Hope that helps, Dan Hendrix

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Date: Tue, Sep 10 1996 21:15:51 EDT
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: NELSON BRAGG
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

TO: ALAN CHAPMAN,  and Other old fans of Nelson E. Bragg:
Nice to see mention of my old friend, Nelson Bragg, who I admired like a
fathe when I was only 12 or so the first time I met him.  I was the Jr.
Announcer on Voltarine Block's CHILDREN'S SONG BAG on WCOP in the later
1940's under the direction of Ellie Dierdorf. However it was with Stan
Shaw, Nelson Bragg and other of the day that I spent endless hours
watching, imitating, admiring, envying. Jack Chase was always nice to me
in those days too. I would "help" him rip the news off the wire in the
beautiful newsroom (everything about the station was beautiful).
Nelson (a slight correction to yours) called himself "[removed]'s Little
Skinny Boy, [removed] Merry ole Mayor of Mylo Maine". He was a real
character and loved country music. I often sat with him in the old studio
D when he did the DJ verion of Hayloft Jamboree when WCOP turned
"country". The live afternoon shows were done in the big studio A at 485
Boyslton Street. He was a real down-Mainer, and could, for occasion, turn
in the accent a bit thicker when indicated, such as when he would do a
commercial for Wonder Bread, or talk about PEPSI COLA and how they
sponsored the live HAYLOFT JAMBOREE shows at "Mechanics Hall" and at
Nantaket Beach.  Nelson, Jr. lives in the Boston area, but didn't know his
father that well. I think I knew him better.  Of course he went to WBZ TV
later to do the morning show, and SWAN BOAT. A few old recordings of him
on WCOP and kinescopes of Ch. 4 are all that seem to remain, although a
great many people recorded HAYLOFT JAMBOREE - both the live shows and
Nelson's record [removed] must be someone with a substantial
collection. I am always looking for old discs from the 1947-1955 WCOP era.
I had access to EVERYTHING when I was a [removed] would give me
anything fromthe old transcription room, but since I couldn't play it, I
never took any home. Oh to be able to go back!!!!!
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO/YESTERDAY-USA SATELLITE RADIO NETWORK>>
9/10/96.                      FAX: (617) 9065-9984
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Date: Tue, Sep 10 1996 21:36:42 EDT
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: "Watching Radio"  and  "Jack Benny--A&E"
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

1. To put this whole thing thing of "watching radio" in some perspective,
   let's remember that the way in which we interpret any of our senses is
   subjective.  I may not see Superman's cape flowing in the breeze over
   Metropolis as I listen to a radio episode of the "man of steel" but
   you may!!  As far as "looking" at the radio, please remember our ears
   are placed on our heads to best localize sound looking straight ahead.
   If you try to localize a distant or faint sound, you look in its
   direction. Radio listeneres did this too - unconsciously!!
   We didn't look at the radio to SEE anything, we turned our heads in
   the radio's direction to HEAR [removed] an exciting part of
   the show we did not want to miss. Yes people "looked" at that radio,
   but not to examine the grille cloth or to see the glowing tubes, but
   rather, NOT to miss one detail of the excitement.
2. The A & E tribute  (BIOGRAPHY) to Jack Benny last Tuesday was a real
   insight into to Jack's life with his family and his work. If you were
   unable to record it (it was shown as beingh on on Manday night in one
   Boston paper) you will probably be able to get it in the BIOGRAPHY rack
   at uour local Barnes & Noble Book [removed] write to A&E and ask how
   you can obtain a copy. They usually give the address at the end of EACH
   show, so you can check any program (Mon-Fri 8-9pm EDT) for the
   information at the end of the show. I think they are $[removed] + S/H.
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO/YESTERDAY-USA SATELLITE RADIO NETWORK>>9/10
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Date: Tue, Sep 10 1996 21:54:31 EDT
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: ACETEATE BASE TAPE - TURNING TO VINEGAR
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

As Joe Salerno pointed out --- the old acetate-base tape can disintegrate
to a smelly unusable mess. Even though labeled "polyester" the
manufacturers were not always honest!
What To Do:
1. Nothing if it's gone beyond hope - [removed], all stretched beyond playing
whenever any torque is applied to it.
2. If it's still playable, but falling apart, play it once one track at a
time to a brand new tape. If you don't have two machines, borrow one.
3. Clean and dsemag your heads on the feed machine, as well as the entire
tape path including posts, lifters, capstan, etc. Then throw the old
tape away. You could save the rel and bos if you want to take the trouble.
*****[removed]*******
Even the "best" polyester tape is subject to degradation with the eventual
separation of the oxide from the tape base. Storage in a 70'ish temp, with
normal humidity is often useful in extending the life of a tape. Periodic
fast forawrding and reversing of every tape in your library (including
cassettes) is a further preservation mode. Transfering to digital disc, as
soon as the technology is widely available at a price the average consumer
can afford, is the only way to insure "indefinite" storage at this time.
Keep your eyes open for the new SONY small disc format, and another audio
and video format coming soon.
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO/YESTERDAY-USA SATELLITE RADIO NETWORK>>9/10
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: What's My Line
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Comic Weekly Man & Other Topics 
> Message-ID: <960909123113_474820104@[removed]>
 
> As I recall, the Radio Version of "What's My Line" was actually the 
> sound from the TV program.  When the guests would "sign in", the 
> announcer would tell the radio audience what the guest wrote.  There 
> may have been changes in the commercials, too, but the program was 
> basically a delayed simulcast.  I think I may have a program or two in 
> my collection - but I don't know where (as usual). 

That was the case with quite a few shows that had both radio and
television versions.  Only difference was that sometimes the radio version
was on first.  I know that was usually the case with Groucho Marx's "You
Bet Your Life."  

Since, at the time I became aware of these things, we lived in an area
where there were not yet enough TV stations for each network to have its
own affiliate, we used to see some TV shows several weeks late by
kinescope.  This was particularly noticeable when we saw Christmas shows
around the third week in January.  But I remember hearing a "Truth or
Consequences" show on the radio and seeing it on TV several weeks later.
I think "Strike it Rich" was on in the morning on radio and in the
afternoon on TV.  The "Voice of Firestone" was a simulcast on radio and
TV.  Art Linkletter's House Party, in the early 1960s, was on in the
morning on radio and on TV in the afternoon.

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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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