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Date: 1/15/2014 10:51 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 6
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      "Lum and Abner" Comic Strip           [ Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@s ]
      Re: Ed Sullivan                       [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      This Day In Radio                     [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
      Cliff Carpenter                       [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:46:55 -0500
    From: Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Lum and Abner" Comic Strip

    Just a reminder that the "Lum and Abner" comic strip is still rolling along,
    and for our blind friends we provide an audio version complete with music and
    sound effects. The 137th strip was published this past Sunday, and there are
    archives to help get caught up. This summer, if all goes as planned, Lum and
    Abner will make a guest appearance that should be quite special, but I can't
    announce the specifics yet!

    I'd be honored if you'd visit us each week at our home site. Thank you!

    [removed]

    Donnie Pitchford,
    "Lum and Abner" Cartoonist
    Carthage, Texas

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    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:49:36 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Ed Sullivan

>     Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:26:12 -0500
>     From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     1/12

>     1932   Ed Sullivan joined CBS radio in a program of gossip and interviews.

    This is interesting.  At some point Ed Sullivan must have begun to
    include appearances by new talent, since we have long been told that
    Jack Benny's radio debut was on Ed Sullivan's show.  So now I'm curious
    to know just how much he did that in the radio days.  We know that by
    the time he did a television show, he was doing a variety show, not
    gossip and interviews.  So does anyone know to what extent Sullivan did
    actual performances on his radio show?

    In TV days, the joke about Ed Sullivan was that "Sullivan will be on the
    air as long as other people have talent."  But Ed had some talent of his
    own.  Once, when Red Skelton was out sick, Ed substituted for him.  I
    have a video of Ed Sullivan, in costume and makeup, doing Red's
    characters Clem Kadidlehopper and Freddy the Freeloader and doing a
    pretty good job of it.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
    [removed]|[removed]| [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:49:46 -0500
    From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  This Day In Radio

    It was posted, in part:

>     Aunt Jenny's whistling canary, for those of you ready to inquire, was
>     played by animal imitator, Henry Boyd.

    Boyd = Boid = Bird

    :)

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    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:49:53 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cliff Carpenter

    Folks;

       After a few delays, I've finally posted a small tribute to [removed] bunch
    of photos I've taken of him over the years, and a short video taken at the
    2010 FOTR Convention where he played Doc Gamble to Arthur Anderson's Fibber
    McGee.

       It's on the blog at [removed] - as always, you may need
    to scroll down if I've posted anything else between my writing this and you
    reading it.

             Charlie

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