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                          Last Updated 10-28-96

[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 464

Table Of Contents: 

	 OTR venders, libraries & clubs?
	 New/used reel tape supplies?
	 WBBM
	 Free Open-Reel Tapes Are Gone
	 Sheldon Leonard
	 Happiness Boys Recordings, etc.
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews
	 Bob & Ray
	 Alien worlds

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 06:21:51 -0600
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR venders, libraries & clubs?
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Would all venders please contact me via E-mail?
I have Ed Carrs disk catalog but need info on everyone else as well as the
OTR clubs and lending libraries.
Thank you!

By the way Ed you will get an order for reels soon.

Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
E-mail to:
bratcher@[removed]
Record collector, 8mm, super 8, 16 and 35mm Film collector.
I like old radio's too.
Collins, Hallicrafters, National & Hammurland are my Favorites!

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 06:30:55 -0600
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New/used reel tape supplies?
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Anybody have suppliers of new and used reel to reel tape on 7 inch reels?
My used finds are few & far [removed]
Ran out of tape and had to go back to cassette till I find more tape.
Just so used to those reels turning!
Help???

Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
E-mail to:
bratcher@[removed]
Record collector, 8mm, super 8, 16 and 35mm Film collector.
I like old radio's too.
Collins, Hallicrafters, National & Hammurland are my Favorites!

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:47:27 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WBBM
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There is an article on the origins of WBBM in the Autumn 1996
Illinois Historical Journal. It started in Lincoln, IL. It
was owned by Harry Leslie "Les" Atlass and began as an Amateur
broadcasting station with the call 9DFC. 
Atlass was in the produce and poultry business and eventually
sold out to Armour.
On one of the earliest broadcasts a dozen fresh eggs were offered
to the first listener from another state to call or write.
WBBM used the phrase "We Broadcast Better Music". Their music
was mostly live jazz. Although, on one broadcast, his dog
accompanied a harmonica player with yowls.
They pioneered the use of leased telephone lines for remote
broadcasts and quickly copied any innovations taking place
in other markets.
In 1924, WBBM was moved to Chicago.

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 12:48:05 -0500 (EST)
From: radbond <radbond@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Free Open-Reel Tapes Are Gone
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I had a great response to my offer of free open-reel copies of the WJSV
Complete Broadcasting Day and CBS's D-Day coverage. I guess I underestimated
how many people still have open-reel collections. 

Some people seemed to think I was making open-reel copies of this material. 
These tapes are my originals. I am giving them away after copying any 
interesting material to cassette. 

  

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 12:53:21 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon Leonard
Message-ID: <961130125320_1118389384@[removed]>

Steve Lewis's mention of Sheldon Leonard brought an immediate mental response
-- a clear audio recollection of Leonard's slightly nasal, East Coast tough
guy delivery. And a visual one as well -- Leonard's somewhat fleshy face,
prominent nose, dark hair, beefy [removed] and of course he's wearing a
gray fedora, white shirt, wide handpainted tie, dark double-breasted
pinstriped suit.

There was another actor (and comedian), Phil Foster ( who played a recurring
character in the TV sitcom "Laverne and Shirley") whose style was rather
similar.

But Leonard had a long a distinguished career on radio and in films. In later
years I believe he became a TV producer, and even created a short-lived
series in which he played a kind of retired gangster/godfather/doting-grandpa
figure, a caricature of his trademark role.

All of which -- pardon me for nostalgizing like this, it's the day after
Thanksgiving and one's thoughts turn to past pleasures -- makes me wonder how
many others remember Sheldon Leonard. And who, if any among us, knows
anything about him.

Anyone know his biography? What were his radio credits? What's available on
cassette?

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 12:59:02 -0500 (EST)
From: nipper@[removed] (Nipper)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Happiness Boys Recordings, etc.
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Hi OTR fans,

I do hope this announcement/request is appropriate to this list.

For the past several years I have been collecting material by Billy Jones
and/or Ernest Hare.  Both were sucessful solo artists during the acoustic
recording era before teaming up around the mid 20s.  After teaming up they
were known as the Happiness Boys on record and the Interwoven Pair and
Tastee Loafers or something appropriate to plug their sponsors on radio.  I
currently have access to some 250-300 records and a few radio broadcasts of
the pair either as a team or doing solo work.  If you have information
relating to either of these artists or recordings and would like to trade
tapes and other material, please contact me at Nipper@[removed]  Thanks!

A series of great articles on the two by the late Jim Walsh ran in the March
through August 1959 issues of Hobbies magazine.

 
        Martin Fisher
       Nipper@[removed]

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* Specializing in pre 1930s *
*popular discs and cylinders*
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Date: 30 Nov 96 15:42:45 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #10 of 15.
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7223, Side A  The Man On The Roof, 4/4/50

An old Spanish woman hires Phillip to prove that her son is not a thief.  A red
head in a mink coat plus a green button will lead him to a wounded man with a
gun on a rooftop; cornered there by the cops.  A flashback technique is
effectively used to tell the story of how Phillip finds out who has been
hijacking truckloads of furs.

NARA Cassette 7223, Side B The Anniversary Gift, 4/11/50

For this episode the show finally gets a sponsor.  Ford Motors picks up the tab
and runs ads for their 1950 autos but our star, Gerald Mohr does not show up.
Instead we get to hear our old friend, William Conrad, taking his place.  Norman
Macdonnell, the producer of this show, will use Conrad again in a couple of
years when he starts up Gunsmoke.  With "Bill" Conrad, as he is listed in the
credits, we get a much tougher version of Phillip Marlowe which is fun to hear.
Marlowe has to get back a missing platinum Benrus watch for a grieving widower.
A helpful motorcycle cop steers him in the right direction.   No clues as to
where Gerald Mohr is tonight.

That's 30 for tonight,
NGC
Norman Cox   

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 17:56:06 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bob & Ray
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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>Here's a reprint of a note in David Hinckley's Radio column that appeared
>in the New York Daily News today, Turkey Day.
>
>"RADIO GREATS: It was 50 years ago this fall that morning deejay Bod
>Elliot of WHDH in Boston started bantering with newsman Ray Goulding, and
>one of radio's most enduring and famous comedy teams was born. Bob And
>Ray worked together for 44 years, unitl Goulding's death in 1990. To mark
>the anniversary, two of their classic recordings have been released for
>the first time on CD: "Bob & Ray:The Two and Only" from 1970, and the
>double-CD "Bob & Ray: A NIght of Two Stars," from a Carnegie Hall show.
>In addition two new cassette albums have also been complied:  "The Soap
>Operas, Vol.  4," and "Vintage Bob & Ray Vol. 2, WHDH, NBC, and CBS."
>

You can get more info on this via the Bob and Ray website:

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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:28:50 -0500
From: "David K. Bialik" <dkbialik@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Alien worlds
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Does anyone remember a show that used to be on WXLO  during the early
seventies called Alien Worlds?  And are any tapes available?



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