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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 84
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      mp3 bitrates, etc                     [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]
      Betty Hutton Has Died                 [ wboenig@[removed] ]
      Burns and Allen                       [ ddunfee@[removed] ]
      Christmas in LENT?                    [ wich2@[removed] ]
      Cheap OTR speakers                    [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
      Wikipedia                             [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
      Toby's Corn Tussell News              [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      RIP Betty Hutton                      [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      looking for a trade, you come out on  [ "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
      Sniffles                              [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@verizon. ]
      ESPN needs OTR help                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Parley                                [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
      Dick Beal                             [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
      3-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:51:23 -0400
    From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  mp3 bitrates, etc

    ddunfee@[removed] wrote:

>     Am radio was limited in its upper frequency
>     capacity and the various mp3 levels have their impact most on how much
>     upper frequencies are modified to reduce file size.  Even with the very
>     best frequency range available on the radio networks many mp3 levels exceed
>     that range and can reduce file size without any audible changes.

    We go through this subject every so often. Network radio had an upper
    limit of 8 kHz until the early 1940s, and 5 kHz thereafter. And that was
    on "A" lines; small market stations having, say, "C" lines, sometimes
    had cutoffs of 3 kHz.

    Obviously the best-sounding sources for OTR are original transcription
    discs and reference linechecks made in the same building as the
    originating studios, before the signal was hit with EQ and filtration,
    but [removed] isn't like there's a lot of fidelity to worry about
    losing with mp3 compression. Audio artifacts, yes, but not fidelity.
    (You can't lose what isn't there to begin with.)

    Michael Shoshani
    Chicago

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:18:25 -0400
    From: wboenig@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Betty Hutton Has Died
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    Energetic 1940s-era singer-turned-actress Betty Hutton has passed away at the age of 86, according to several news reports.  Hutton appeared on several shows during radio's golden age, including The Pepsodent Show, Command Performance, and Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra.

    A complete obituary can be found here:

    [removed]

    A video of her singing "Murder, He Says" on Command Performance #92 (November 1943) can be seen here:

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:19:30 -0400
    From: ddunfee@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Burns and Allen

>     according to his longtime partner George Balzer, "Sam is the one that
>     'married' George and Gracie."

    I just heard a 1940 show where George was upset because she was dating
    someone else.  I'm also struck how in these early times the show seems much
    more a vaudeville routine then the situation comedy it became later.

                                  XB
                                    IC|XC

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:16:29 -0400
    From: wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Christmas in LENT?
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    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];

>     Sniffles and OTR did figure into an earlier Christmas-themed cartoon ...
>     Sniffles is listening to some sort of radio lullabye purveyor of the time
>     evocative of Ireene Wicker, the "Singing Lady."

    There's also a "This is the -WB Announcer!" type, and a choral group. Great
    Chuck Jones piece - though as you say, saccharin doesn't begin to cover it
    (The Wife loves it!)

>     However, I've forgotten the name of THIS cartoon.

    That would be BEDTIME FOR SNIFFLES

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:55:04 -0400
    From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cheap OTR speakers

      Last week I found a single speaker for one dollar at our local Dollar Tree
    store. The sound is more than adequate for old time radio shows. They plug
    in to the headphone jacks of MP3 players and are easier to use than FM
    transmitters which cost at least $20 at most stores.

      For $3 at a local thrift shop I bought some twin speakers that are
    amplified but have to be plugged in and the sound is great. Only drawback is
    that they can't be used if listening to OTR on a walk because they have to
    be plugged in. The dollar speaker does great on walks as long as you don't
    walk on shoulder of a busy highway.

      Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:27:52 -0400
    From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
    Subject:  Wikipedia

    I share Martin Grams' caution regarding Wikipedia.

    As I have said before, this  reader-written, on-line enyclopedia,  continues
    to speculate that Walter Tetley played the part of Jimmy in "The Cinnamon
    Bear."  The time is right but the voice is not the same, and there is not a
    shred of credible evidence that Tetley knew anything about "The Cinnamon
    Bear." This is a major OTR mystery as yet unsolved, but good people are
    working on it.

    I have not corrected the entry because my past experience with such matters
    suggests that to correct information often times has the opposite effect of
    perpetuating confusion.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:34:57 -0400
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Toby's Corn Tussell News
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    Can anyone help Martin Tytun.   He doesn't have e-mail.   His address is 30
    St. Charles Pl., South Setauket, NY 11720.   He has about 6 1/2 hours of the
    program mention above.   It broadcast about 1939.   He would like to something
    about it and can't find any info.   Jay Hickerson

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:38:28 -0400
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RIP Betty Hutton

    My Syracuse daily reports the death of Betty Hutton. It does not go into
    details because it has not been officially reported; it was given to the
    press by a close friend of hers.

    Any updates?

    Betty sure wasn't captured by radio <g> although I'm sure she was on the air
    many times.

    Bill Knowlton

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:38:50 -0400
    From: "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  looking for a trade, you come out on top

    good after noon /evening
    it seems to me cassettes are on their way out, a number of
    dealers in otr informed me they have ziltch in cassette sales, so i purpose
    this as a trade for any of you that still
    collect on cassettes, no money will have to exchange hands, but i have a few
    things i'd like to acquire and if it has to be on cassette fine.
    1st here is my up front offer, i have give or take 50 bbc
    shows on cassettes, also some otr shows and many
    blanks 60s and 90s, i would trade all these for some
    50s 60s rock roll tapes and throw in some big band
    i really just want to copy them to cds, if all you had was
    10 or 15 cassettes fine, done deal, as long as they would be in nice shape.
    i'll even scour my house to find all the blanks i have, many of the blanks i
    have are still in wrappers
    anyone out there interested?
    edcarr@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:39:47 -0400
    From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sniffles

>     However, I've forgotten the name of THIS cartoon.

    Derek I can't remember the name but I can tell you the "The Cartoon Network"
    ran it just this last Xmas.

    Rob

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:40:14 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  ESPN needs OTR help

    The MWOTRC just received a request for assistance from ESPN but their
    event is way out of our geographic region, as they're looking for help
    in the NYC and/or CT area. (Are you listening, Gotham Radio Players?)

    Geraldine Cowper, ESPN, 1500 Broadway, 32nd Floor, NYC 10036, is
    coordinating a project for the ESPN radio broadcasting conference in
    Bristol, CT to be held June 19-21, 2007. They wish to re-create four 15
    minute radio shows from the 1930s for a performance on either the night
    of the 19th or the 20th.

    They need help in finding suitable scripts, sound effects, and some
    leading actors. They also want to use many of their ESPN employees in
    this performance, properly directed by knowledgeable OTR persons, at
    the mikes and sound table.

    If you or your group can render assistance, please email Cowper
    off-list at:
      <[removed]@[removed];

    ESPN will be very grateful for your help.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:40:24 -0400
    From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Parley
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    I was at the Newark convention when Parley walked in. Jay started to play the
    Gunsmoke theme song after he made the announcement. A very touching moment.
    There weren't many dry eyes in the room including mine now.

    Bob Burchett

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:47:24 -0400
    From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dick Beal
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    Dick Beal was the only guest I ever ask pay his air fare. Someone
    said they would like to meet him. I had several quests invited
    already. Dick over the years had done very well with acting, and
    commercials, so I thought he might be able to do it. That's the
    only time in 18 years I've done the Cincinnati convention that I ever
    ask anyone to pay their way. (Our local radio club did the first 2
    conventions.) In some cases I paid for the guest and their wives.

    Bob Burchett

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:20:34 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-14 births/deaths

    March 14th births

    03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
    author: "Escape"
    03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
    physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
    03-14-1886 - Harvey Hays - d. 6-xx-1964
    actor: "Tom Mix"
    03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
    conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
    03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
    bandleader: "Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
    bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
    03-14-1913 - Jay Barney - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1985
    actor: Bugsy O'Toole "The Romance of Helen Trent"
    03-14-1918 - Dennis Patrick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-13-2002
    actor: "Shakespeare Festival"
    03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
    baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
    03-14-1919 - Luther Henderson - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-29-2003
    arranger: "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
    03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
    trupeter: Count Basie Orchestra
    03-14-1933 - Sir Michael Caine - London, England
    actor: "Wednesday Night" CBC
    03-14-1940 - Rita Tushingham - Liverpool, England
    actor: "Mistress of Novices"

    March 14th deaths

    01-09-1901 - Chic Young - Chicago, IL - d. 3-14-1973
    cartoonist: Creator of Blondie Bumstead nee Boopadoop
    01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
    actor: Tex Mason "Songs of the B-Bar-B"
    03-08-1922 - Al Gionfriddo - Dysart, PA - d. 3-14-2003
    sportscaster: KONG Visalia, CA
    05-30-1915 - Frank Blair - Yemasse, SC - d. 3-14-1995
    newscaster, announcer: "America Looks Ahead"; "Fulton Lewis, Jr."
    06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
    actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1907 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
    announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    09-03-1910 - Michael Eisenmenger - d. 3-14-2003
    sound effects: "Captain Midnight"; "Backstage Wife"
    09-03-1918 - Tom Dillon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2005
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    11-23-1913 - Maurice Zolotow - NYC - d. 3-14-1991
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-29-1895 - Busby Berkeley - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-14-1976
    choreographer: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "Whatever Became Of . . . ?"
    12-08-1895 - Harold Arlin - d. 3-14-1986
    first full time radio announcer in the world, KDKA, Pittsburgh, 1921

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:09:03 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
     with the Big Bands"

    The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
    and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
    with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

    Each week we feature four complete shows in MP3 format
    for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
    Age of Radios" and two "One Night Stands." We present
    new shows every week or so. The current four programs
    will be available on line at least until the morning of 3/21/07.

     Program 42 - September, 1973 - Kenny Delmar

    Senator Beauregard Claghorn was a popular radio character
    on the "Allen's Alley" segment of "The Fred Allen Show".
    Senator Claghorn, portrayed by actor Kenny Delmar, was a
    blustery politician whose home was usually the first at which
    Allen would knock. Claghorn would typically answer the door
    with, "Somebody, ah say, somebody knocked! Claghorn's the
    name, Senator Claghorn, I'm from the south."

    Program 43 - October, 1973 - Jack Pearl, Peter Donald,
    Will Jordan

    This program was recorded at an OTR convention in New
    Haven, Connecticut, where we were fortunate enough to
    run into three generations of comedians who spent much
    of their careers in radio.

    "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"

    Program 39 - Teddy Wilson (Part 2) - October, 1974

    Part 2. Theodore Shaw Wilson (1912-1986) grew up in
    Tuskegee, Alabama. After working in Chicago with Jimmie
    Noone, Louis Armstrong, and others he moved in 1933 to
    New York to join Benny Carter's band. He played informally
    with Benny Goodman in 1935 and officially joined Goodman's
    trio the following year, thereby becoming one of the first black
    musicians to appear prominently with white artists. Wilson was
    the most important pianist of the swing period.

    Program 40 - November, 1974 - Glenn Miller Society

    This weeks's program features five prominent Connecticut
    Yankees who are members of the Glenn Miler Society. Arnold's
    guests are Howard Holcombe, of the Glenn Miller Society; Pete
    Campbell, of the Traditional Jazz Society; George Malcomb-
    Smith, of the Hartford Jazz Society and former WTIC program
    host; Al Gentile, of the Connecticut Big Band Society; and Bob
    Harrington, of the Coon Sanders Nighthawks. Musicians all, they
    discuss the Glenn Miller Society and big band music in general
    and their areas of interest.

    In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
    the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
    and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
    Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
    Big Bands."

    Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
    Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
    and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
    with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
    from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
    Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
    Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
    of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
    Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

    Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
    era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
    the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
    When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
    of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
    of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
    series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
    with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
    etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
    eras of music history.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster

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