Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #200
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Date: 7/3/2005 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 200
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Drawing a Blanc                       [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      re Harold Lloyd and stereo photograp  [ "ellsworth o johnson" <eojohnsonww2 ]
      PAUL TEMPLE/ HIGH & THE MIGHTY        [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
      Jack before the code?                 [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
      The High & The Mighty                 [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
      Edgar Bergan                          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:53:15 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Drawing a Blanc
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    Re: My previous post in response to Jordan Young's news about the upcoming Mel
    Blanc CD.
    It seems I spoke too soon.

    I guess I got too excited about this release that I headed my post with a
    reference to Mel's
    song "Big Bear Lake," probably his most recognnizable non-cartoon connected
    song.
    Unfortunately, according to the track listing at the Collectors' Choice
    website, "Big Bear Lake"
    isn't represented thereupon. Ditto for some of my favourite Blanc sides
    including:
    "Lord Bless His Soul," "Ten Little Bottles in the Sink," his version of "I've
    Got a Lovely
    Bunch o' Cocoanuts," and the WWI standard "K-K-Katy" (done a la Porky Pig).

    So this is what I'd like everybody to do: buy a copy & swell the sales so that
    Collector's Choice
    (better yet Rhino) will see that there's enough of a demand for Mel Blanc to
    justify putting
    out a more comprehensive boxed set.

    I can dream, can't I?  "Ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga!"

    Derek Tague

    [removed]: Would Jordan Young or Mary Lou Wallace or one of the other Blanc
    historians tell us
    the story how the song "Big Bear Lake" came about and how he became honourary
    mayor
    of Big Bear Lake, California? Didn't Mel write said song/

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:34:45 -0400
    From: "ellsworth o johnson" <eojohnsonww2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re Harold Lloyd and stereo photography

    Friends
    I too have one of the Harold Lloyds stereo photog books--mine comes with
    stereo glasses to look at the pictures in  the book in stereo. I inherited
    mine from my Father. He felt    in common several things with Harold Lloyd
    as they were both lodge brothers in the Masonic lodge, 32nd degree Masons
    for one [removed] my Father had been a motion picture projectionist from the
    very early days in the 1920s .

    I have a very nice stereo projector for the 35mm stereo slides. And these
    are fairly rare nowadays.  And a couple of fine [removed] [removed]
    taking.

    Ellsworth Johnson
    Spokane, Wa
    eojohnsonww2@[removed]

    Back in the 70s I took a tour through Harold Lloyds mansion in Beverly
    Hills, Ca. It was exciting. He was one of the few silent movie stars that
    became quite wealthy from acting in silent movies.

    Here are two sources that one might find  used copies of his books--
    [removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:35:01 -0400
    From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  PAUL TEMPLE/ HIGH & THE MIGHTY
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    First i want to thank all of you who responded to my query about PAUL TEMPLE
    and the CBC MYSTERY PROJECT shows. Mucha gracias, mi amigos! (I hope that is
    the way to write [removed] never took Spanish lessons :))
    Finally, I want to point out an OTR conncetion or two regarding the John Wayne
    DVD THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY which I watched recently on a copy purchased from
    our own Martin Grams, [removed] Other OTR actors in that cast included: Claire
    Trevor, Jan Serling(?), Sidney Blackmer, Regis Toomey, John Qualen, and Paul
    Fix. Then there is Wayne himslef along with Stack who both appeared on OTR
    programs. William Schallert is also in the movie's cast, although I am not
    certain about how connected he was with OTR. I think the story of the HIGH &
    MIGHTY would make an excellent audio play. DOes anyone know if such a show
    exist in the form of say, a LUX RADIO THEATER episode? Let me know.
    Thanks,
    Randy Story
    (who wants to come up with a catchy line like my pal Derek Tague's 'Yours in
    the ether'. Gotta work on [removed])

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:36:34 -0400
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack before the code?

    Derek Tague sez:

>     This coming Thursday, July 7th, the esteemed revival/art house  Film Forum
>     on West Houston Street here in NYC will be showing OTR-themed  films as
>     part of their on- going "Paramount Before the Code" series. Scheduled for
>     the 7th are:  1932's "The Big Broadcast" featuring Jack Benny, Burns &
>     Allen, Arthur Tracy, Cab Calloway, & Kate Smith

    That's pretty impressive, since Jack and Burns & Allen appeared in "The  Big
    Broadcast of 1937", decidedly after the start of the code, and the cast
    doesn't list Tracy, Calloway, or Smith!  Perhaps some wishful thinking on
    someone's part?

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:36:54 -0400
    From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The High & The Mighty

    It's nice to hear The High and The Mighty will soon be released. It's been
    over 50 years since I first saw it. I had just got to back to Japan after
    serving a year in Korea with the USAF. It was in Sept. 1954 and a few
    of my buddies got leave to go to Tokyo. We decided to take in a movie
    and The High and The Mighty was showing having been released that
    same year. It was a great movie. The thing that was annoying at the time
    was every time some one spoke the Japanese writing would appear at
    the bottom of the screen. After awhile you got used to it. It would have
    more annoying to hear John Wayne speaking Japanese:-)
    Don Dean N8IOJ

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 02:10:29 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Edgar Bergan

>     Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:10:46 -0400
>     From: "John Eccles, Jr." <jeccles@[removed];

>     In the 1939 film "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man" Constance Moore is
>     talking with Bergen and he attempts to explain the art of
>     ventriloquism to her.  She asks him,"How do you talk without moving
>     your lips?"  Charlie McCarthy replies,"You're asking the wrong
>     man."

    Edgar Bergan once told a story of how he used to sit with his daughter on one knee and
    Charlie McCarthy on the other, and the three of them would sing songs together.  But
    Candace seemed to be getting into it so much that he became concerned about whether she
    actually believed Charlie was real.  As he put it, "Either I'm an awfully good ventriloquist or I
    have a really stupid daughter."  So one day he mentioned to Candy, "Isn't it nice how Charlie
    can sing and talk with us?"

    And she replied, "Yes it is, Daddy, but you do move your lips a little."

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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