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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 391


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 SPERDVAC Convention '95
	 Real Audio -vs- WAV
	 Scary Stuff
	 Sound processing, Suspense, etc.
	 Scary radio
	  How thoughtless of me
	 Test and Intro
	 Arthur Godfrey
	  new guy on the block
	 styles of Suspense

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 16:05:57 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: SPERDVAC Convention '95
Message-id: <01HXN0L5HC428X2934@[removed]>

I recently returned by train from Los Angeles where I attended the
SPERDVAC Convention at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles Airport.  Three
glorious days devoted to the art of radio and conversation and friendship.
Folks, radio is much more that sitting in the dark and listening to our
beloved tapes of our favorite shows.  SPERDVAC and the FOTR (Friends of
Old Time Radio) put the humanity back into the voices.

There was a recration of "Three Skeleton Key" and an Escape episode of
"One Eighth Apache" with Parley Baer, and Lawrence Dobkin, directed by
Herb Ellis.  There was a tribute to Arch Obeler by one of his child 
stars, Tommy Cook ( who actually broke down as he remembered how much
fun it was on those shows).  Space Patrol blasted off again with most
of the original cast in fine form.  The banquet on Saturday night was
hosted by Steve Allen who was a smooth and funny as ever.  Les Tremayne
did a one person spot on the Civil War that brought tears to many eyes.
It was a wonderful convention.

Each evening the parties went long into the night with fans and stories
about radio going on and on and on . . . . 

If you still havented tested the waters - start planning ahead, Jay
Hickerson has already locked in the dates for the next Newark Convention.

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:23:22 -0600
From: Lou Genco <lgenco@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Real Audio -vs- WAV
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

If you would like to compare the sound of OTR .WAV files and OTR Real Audio
files, check my web site.  The "old" site has several short soundbytes in
.WAV format.  The beta site has the same soundbytes converted to .RA
(realaudio) format.

If you have a sound card, you probably know how to play WAV files.  You can
download a free .RA player from the Real Audio site (whose URL is at my beta
site).  If your browser is configured correctly, you will be able to hear
the OTR clips as you watch the page.

DO *NOT* SET YOUR BOOKMARKS TO THE BETA SITE, but access it through your
usual bookmarks!!!!

[If you enjoy beta testing, and find an error at my beta site, please send
me a note]

Lou
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:13:40 -0800
From: Ronhare@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Scary Stuff
Message-ID: <951114171339_18514791@[removed]>

Here's my list of scary (and neat) stuff

CREAKING DOOR Don't Go Down the Mine
DIMENSION X Nightfall
ESCAPE Zero Hour
ESCAPE Leinengen Versus the Ants (the Gerald Moore performance)
LIGHTS OUT OxychlorideX (DEVIL AND MR. O The Hole)
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER Strange New World
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER Behind the Locked Door
QUIET PLEASE The Thing On the Four'ble Board
SUSPENSE Three Skeleton Key
SUSPENSE The Second Door
THEATER 10:30 Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon
THEATER FIVE Molecule Masquerade

Ron Hare

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 16:59:25 -0800
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sound processing, Suspense, etc.
Message-ID: <951114165923_18513460@[removed]>

Someone posted comments on the Roland processor and that it wasn't tom well
suited for old time radio.

I have had moderate success with a device manufactured by Behringer simply
called a Denoiser.  
The 2-channel model has a dynamic noise filter as well as a sort of noise
gate section.  IF USED PROPERLY and in combination with other processing
equipment, very good results can be obtained.
If used improperly, very BAD side effects will result.  The list price is
under $[removed] from any broadcast supplier like Harris-Allied,
Broadcast Supply Worldwide (BSW), Bradley, Professional Audio Supply (PAS),
etc.

I posted several comments about Suspense recently which may or may not reach
this list (due to problems with my local provider).  I included a list of
prime shows for each year from 1942-1952.
The best source of information on Suspense can be found in available logs.
 Jay Hickerson has one available. A more recent version is available from
Randy Eidemiller.

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:09:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: WMACKEY@[removed]
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Scary radio
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

 David mentioned in a issue yesterday the show "Dead Earnest" about a man 
who is presumed dead but is really alive.
 I never heard the radio show, but Alfred Hitchcock had that in a plot of 
his tv show, starring Joseph Cotton, who was in a car crash.
 I noticed several of Hitchcock shows were re-worked stories from radio, 
just as early I Love Lucy were re-worked My Favourite Husband shows.  :)
 Joe (who doesn't really have a _favourite_ scary radio show)

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:25:00 GMT
From: [removed]@[removed] (Marty Tabnik)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject:  How thoughtless of me
Message-Id: <95111417442110895@[removed]>

BR> From: Bruce Rudesill <lranger@[removed]>
BR> Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

BR> [bobbitt] I'm un-employed which pretty much precludes
spending any of YOUR money but
        You want OTHERS to GIVE you their property? {sheesh}


BR> As for R-P, as owner,being allowed to do whatever they want
BR> with their property, including nothing. I consider that a
BR> crap attitude.  If they don't want to do anything with it,
BR> why can't collectors?

[vd. "property, private".]
Or do you have difficulty with that concept? {sigh}


BR> You should try and remember if it wasn't for
BR> collectors/hobbyists there would be no OTR.

Without Ralston-Purina there would have been
        NO programs for YOU to complain about.
Ditto for P&G, Quaker Oats, etc.


BR> I live in the Cincinnati area and am familiar with the
BR> Vic & Sade/P & G horror story. Hundreds if not thousands,
BR> of transcription disks straight into the dumpster. Yessir,
BR> them OWNERS are really concerned about our OTR heritage.

That is unfortunate.
However, you seem to have difficulty with the concept that
        It IS their property.
[P&G, among others, has a toll-free 800# customer service #.
I wonder how many folks have used it.  Or sent a postcard.]


BR> Do you really think R-P is going to get any additional
BR> milage out of Tom Mix?

Mox nix.


BR> But the disks are their property aren't they? So they can
BR> just let them sit around and slowly turn to dust.  And then
BR> they'll be gone and no one will ever hear them again.  All
BR> thanks to corporate stupidity and shortsightedness.

That IS unfortunate.
Try persuasion because
        They DO own'em.
[Have you contacted, say, former USSenator John Danforth.
I believe that his family owns a substantial hunk of R-P.]


BR> Since you want to side with these guys, I have no empathy
BR> with you.

I'll try to bear up under the strain.


BR> Worse, I don't understand your attitude at all.

Since you don't comprehend the concept of private property.
        Gimme your PC!

Your attitude of "I wannit, I wannit, I wannit!" does NOT,
I believe, reflect the majority of OTR fans and hobbyists.
Most of us are law-abiding folx who, when faced with a
situation like R-P's, use p-e-r-s-u-a-s-i-o-n.

You HAVE written to RP, right?
---
 * SLMR [removed] * McBorg:  over 50 billion assimilated

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Date: 14 Nov 95 21:30:02 EST
From: Joel  Senter <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Test and Intro
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

OTR Friends:  I have been lurking around for a while without nerve to
speak.  If this posting doesn't work, please forgive me - I'm an old guy
(one advantage of being old is that I actually remember most of "The
Golden Age!") and all this cyber- and computer-stuff still seems like
witchcraft to me.  I read the Digest through my local university (where I
used to work) connection, viz., SENTERRJ@[removed], but it is
easier for me to send communications through CompuServe - hope this
works.  The name is R. Joel Senter (Joel - I try not to let anyone know
what the "R" stands for) and I have no claim to OTR fame, but a little
history.  I am past president of our local OTR club; some "old timers"
might recall something called "The Old Time Radio Defense Fund" which my
wife, Carolyn, and I managed a few years ago to help our collector/vendor
friends with legal costs associated with that Shadow litigation nonsense
a few years back, and (this might get me in trouble, but I'm ready for
it); and I'm the guy who defended Amos 'n Andy on the symposium at Newark
this year.  Hope we make contact with The Digest - if so, I'll be seeing
you all later.  Thanks. Joel

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:34:26 -0500
From: Nicholas Coburn <coburn@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Arthur Godfrey
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

    For the many thousands of requests and to refresh ageing memories;

    In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
    on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine
    where she carved her name and I carved mine

    Oh June, like the mountains I'm blue
    like the pines I am lonesome for you

    In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
    on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

    

    Thanks for the many Godfrey memories folks. I remember when WTOP was
  WJSV and Arthur was the "morning man".

NWC

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 22:59:38 PST
From: gcoppen@[removed]
To: "@[removed]"[removed]@[removed]
Subject:  new guy on the block
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

     As the subject says I am a new member ( Nov 10,95 ) and I  am
really enjoying all this email that has been coming in. 
     One thing I have discovered ---- I am not the only one that is
saving these old programs ---- I figured that it was me alone that
was feeding all these retailers and their kids.
     Now you all must understand that I live in Winnipeg, some people
have another name for it and that is winterpeg. As I sit here typing
I glanced up at the tv and the temp. outside is a real nice -22
and that puts a frost on the pumpkin if you know what I mean. Now 
you know why we like an indoor hobby for the winter.
     Well this is just a bit of an intro of myself, when I get a
bit more know how I will be back and perhaps contribute instead of 
just sandbagging.
     Nice to meet you all and I look forward to reading all your
coments etc.


                                George
     

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 20:27:08 EST
From: platecap@[removed] (Bob B)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: styles of Suspense
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I've been pretty involved with re-creating a complete set of Suspense
shows on cassette and in doing so, can make the following observations
about the changes in "approach" and "tone" of the production.

1942-1943 - Sometimes "drawing room dramas" with somewhat of a British
flavor.

1944-1948 - The "golden" years of Suspense with a more Americanized
[removed] the arrival of Roma Wines as sponsor

1949-1958 - The "silver years" of Suspense.  The 1950's productions are
still top notch [removed]  Autolite as sponsor comes and [removed]
The "Johnny Plugcheck" commercials are a fun (though campy) diversion.

1959-1962 - Production values generally became more formula laden with
stock [removed] some good shows were being done although the
"really" famous actors/actresses are phased out by the 1960's for the
most part.

Someone asked about scary [removed] of these fall into that category
among Bob's Most Remembered Suspense Stories:

1942 - The Hitch Hiker 9/2/42 w/ Orson Welles, The Kettler Method
9/16/42 w/ Roger DeKoven
1943 - Sorry, Wrong Number 5/25/43 (nuff said) re-done 8/21/43, The
Night Reveals 12/9/43 w/Robert Young
1944 - A World of Darkness 1/20/44 w/Paul Lukas, Donovan's Brain
5/18-25/44 w/ Orson Welles,  Fugue in C Minor w/ Vincent Price
1945 - August Heat 5/31/45 w/ Ronald Colman, Murder for Myra 8/9/45 w/
Lloyd Nolan
1946 - Return Trip 6/27/46 w/ Elliot Reid, Dead Ernest 8/8/46 w/ Wally
Maher
1947 - The 13th Sound 2/13/47 w/ Agnes Moorehead, Smiley 8/14/47 w/
Donald O'Conner
1948 - 9/16/48 Hitch Hike Poker w/ Gregory Peck, Hands of Mr Ottermole
w/ Claude Rains Vincent Price
1949 - The Copper Tea Strainer w/ Betty Grable 4/21/49, Lunch Kit 6/9/49
w/ John Lund
1950 - On a Country Road w/ Cary Grant 11/16/50
1951 - Backseat Driver w/ Fibber McGee & Molly  2/22/51
1952 - Wreck of the Old 97 w/ Frank Lovejoy 3/17/52
1953 - Vial of Death w/ Lloyd Nolan 5/18/53

This is only a partial list and out of 900 shows available there's lots
of other good ones.

This is also NOT meant as a list of shows available for trade or sale
from myself or any other [removed] only as a guide to those who may be
faced with someone elses list as suggestions for shows which are good to
listen to.


Suspense began on CBS on 6/17/42 with Charles Ruggles starring in The
Burning Court.  CBS had previously broadcast The Lodger on 7/22/40 as
part of its Forecast series. This show is regarded as the Suspense
AUDITION show.

The final production of Suspense was aired on 9/30/62. Christopher Carey
and Neil Fitzgerald starred in Devilstone on this date. This was the
944th show (not including the Audition).

Additional information is available in Suspense logs. One is by Jay
Hickerson.  A more recently done Suspense log available from Randy
Eidemiller also includes a script, a list of missing shows and much
other background information.

No endorsement is meant or implied by mentioning these logs. I get no
compensation. No money changed hands.  I did not collect $200 by passing
Go.

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

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