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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2002 : Issue 1
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Today in Radio History [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Re: Today in Radio History for Janua [ "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@hotmail ]
Tracer of Lost Persons [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
Recovered copyrights [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ lois@[removed] ]
Today in Radio History [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Identity of Show [ bruce dettman <bdettman@[removed] ]
Born to Play the Role [ "Ed Kindred" <kindred@[removed]; ]
Shawn Thomas [ "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed] ]
Hindenburg Recordings [ ilamfan@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:00:09 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Today in Radio History
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
From Those Were The Days -- Tue, 1 Jan 2002
1925 - Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan
Opera in New York City made their singing debuts on radio this day.
The broadcast over what was WEAF Radio (now WABC) encouraged others
to sing on radio.
Of course WEAF became WNBC not WABC, and they had made their singing
debuts years before--this was their radio debut. :-) This program was
the first of a series of programs sponsored by Victor Talking Machine
Co. featuring live performances of music the performers had recorded for
Victor and would be available at your record store the following
morning. McCormack is said to have filled extra time at the end of the
program with a song he had recorded but was not yet released. The
company was not happy, because they had to disappoint customers.
Brochures were available in the stores detailing the songs to be sung
and the catalog info on the records. This info was also in half-page
ads in The New York Times on the day of the broadcasts. I'll let you
decide whether this advertisement contract had anything to do with the
front page story about this broadcast in the Times the next morning.
Recordings were not made of this broadcast, although four excerpts were
recorded of the second program (with different performers) two weeks
later. Bori and McCormick appeared on the first anniversary broadcast
the following year, and excerpts of this broadcast were likewise
recorded. By this time the series had been moved to WJZ--and this
station DID become WABC. Milton Cross is heard announcing on some of
these, as is Victor executive Calvin Childs who had been the announcer
on many of Victor's early records between 1900 and 1905.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:00:48 -0500
From: "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Today in Radio History for January 1
Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed]; passed along from Those Were The
Days:
1925 - Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan Opera
in New York City made their singing debuts on radio this day. The
broadcast over what was WEAF Radio (now WABC) encouraged others to sing
on radio.
First off, WEAF later became WNBC (wasn't it also WRCA for a spell?) and is
now WFAN. It was WJZ that became WABC, after the station originally using
the WABC call sign became WCBS.
I also find it odd that a 1925 broadcast would have "encouraged others to
sing on radio" (the admiration for Bori and McCormack notwithstanding) as
the very first station in Chicago, KYW, initially did nothing but broadcast
opera performances in 1921. 1925 seems a bit late for the "encoragement" to
be needed.
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:01:47 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tracer of Lost Persons
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:59:33 -0500
From: otrbuff@[removed]
I'm anxiously trying to locate some specific episodes of Mr. Keen, Tracer
of Lost Person.
This reminds me of a really hillarious Bob & Ray routine called "Mr.
Trace, Keaner than Most Persons."
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:02:51 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Recovered copyrights
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:15:39 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
Check the copyright law again. It's been changed perhaps several times
since you might have last perused it. There is such a thing as recovered
or recaptured copyright, although many of these have to do with foreign
registrations and international treaties.
Rights can be recovered or recaptured when an assignment of rights
expires, or when a publisher allows a book to go out of print for a
period of time specified in the contract, allowing the author to recover
the rights. There also is a provision for the author or his/her heirs to
recover assigned rights 35 to 40 years after first publication. But once
something has been lost to the public domain, it stays there, at least
for domestic works. I'm less certain of the law regarding foreign works,
since international treaties are involved, but I think it works somewhat
the same way.
Another way that rights are sometimes "recovered" is by adding to or
revising the work. This, as I understand it, is what was done with
Tolkein's =Lord of the Rings= trilogy in the 1960s. I've never quite
been clear on how the trilogy got into the public domain in the United
States, but somehow under the technicalities of [removed] copyright at the
time, the trilogy got into the public domain. Ace Books flooded the
market with paperback editions of the three books of the trilogy without
paying Tolkein anything for them. While these were commonly called
"pirated" editions, they were perfectly legal. As I recall, for the
authorized edition, published by Ballentine, Tolkein added material and
perhaps revised some portions. The anger of the fan community and bad
will generated by Ace probably helped Tolkein here, though, in fact, Ace
had made its money by then.
From what I remember, Stern
had died during the initial 28 year copyright term and his estate renewed
the story's copyright for another 28. Because this second term was still
in force when the 1976 law went into effect, the copyright term then
became the life-of-the-author-plus-50 years.
It did not. Copyrights in their second term when the 1976 law went into
effect were extended to 75 years from first publication. If they were
still in effect when the Sony Bono law was passed, that became 95 years.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:03:02 -0500
From: lois@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:03:26 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in Radio History
From Those Were The Days --
1921 - The first religious broadcast on radio was heard, as Dr. [removed] Van
Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church
preached on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1959 - CBS radio dropped the curtain on four soap operas. Our Gal
Sunday, This is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife and Road of Life all hit the
road for good.
From a long time contributor --
1934 - The George Jessel Show premiered over CBS.
Joe
--
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:22:33 -0500
From: bruce dettman <bdettman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Identity of Show
Need some help identifying episode of a show.
Not certain if it appeared on Escape, Mysterious Traveler, Inner Sanctum
of perhaps The Hermit's Cave (don't think it was Lights out).
The plot had to do with infidelity (as I recall) but the grissly
conclusion had the cheating couple killed in a lake by a rampaging
octopus which literally devours them.
Sound familair to anyone?
Thanks in advance.
bruce dettman
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:56:16 -0500
From: "Ed Kindred" <kindred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Born to Play the Role
Elliot Lewis as absolutely anybody he was cast to play from Remley to
Suspense,
The Scarlet Queen and anything else. If he did it he owned it.
Ed Kindred
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:42:33 -0500
From: "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shawn Thomas
Folks,
If I'm the last person to discover this and you already know, please
forgive this intrusion.
Many of you remember Shawn Thomas. At one time, his OTR website was
one of the best out there in terms of program selection. And, although
I've suspended my own programming at [removed], it was Shawn who got
me into the hobby and convinced me to put up the website. When Shawn
suffered an untimely death in his twenties, his mother kept his
"[removed]" website up in his memory. I'm assuming she was unable to
fund hosting further since the website went offline. However, I have
some disturbing news to report.
If you have any website linkage to the "[removed]" site, delete it
now. Once the domain name became available, it was bought by an Armenian
smut peddler and now hosts an "adult-oriented-XXX" site. Just so you
know. And if any of you know Shawn's mother, for goodness sake don't
tell her of this. God knows it would probably break her heart.
Damn this sick world anyway ...
Regards,
J. Alec West
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:10:36 -0500
From: ilamfan@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject: Hindenburg Recordings
A few months ago, a gentleman posted on the OTR
bulletin board looking for video of the Hindenburg
crash. I contacted him about some remastered audio of
the crash that I had, but I have since lost his
address. If you are him, please contact me off-list.
(Gosh, that sounds ODD. But I'm sure you know what
I mean.) Thanks.
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