Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #14
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Date: 1/14/2002 9:03 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 14
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Converting tapes into digital files   [ "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@hawai ]
      Re: The Cherry Sisters                [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Looney Tunes                          [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      OTR Postage Stamps                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Howard Cuver                          [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
      Howard Culver                         [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
      Molle Mystery Theater                 [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      Detectives from RS Greatest Detectiv  [ joseph <josephm@[removed]; ]
      Today in Radio History                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:02:16 -0500
    From: "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Converting tapes into digital files

    My new computer can burn CDs (Compaq Presario 5000 series). I was hoping to
    be able to convert my tape collection of old raio shows to MP3 or a similar
    space saving format on CD.
    Can anyone of the more technically wise folks out there tell me how to go
    about it? Do I need special equipment?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, either within the digest (I presume
    there must be some interest in converting tapes to a digital medium) or
    directly to my e-mail vollmann@[removed]

    Peter from Hawaii

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:33 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Re: The Cherry Sisters

    George Tirebiter wrote:

>     So the Cherry Sisters date back to at least 1910.

    The Cherry Sisters were indeed a real act, beginning in 1893 -- Effie,
    Jessie and Addie Cherry, three girls from Iowa who were also known as
    "The Vegetable Trio," because their act was so excruciatingly bad that
    their mere appearance on stage was the signal for produce to fly. They
    picked up a reputation for being "the worst act ever to appear in
    vaudeville," and one critic declared that "they had voices like the
    rattle of an empty coal scuttle." The act involved a strange melange of
    tear-jerking sentimentality, hawkish ultrapatriotism, and Bible-belt
    religion that had to be seen to be believed. Their singing was reportedly
    crass, tuneless, and could drown out the loudest pit band.

    The act was the vaudeville equivalent of an Ed Wood film festival -- and
    theatre managers encouraged audiences to play along with a self-conscious
    "so bad it's good" attitude. (No, smirking irony wasn't invented in the
    1970s.) In many theatres, when the Sisters were introduced, stagehands
    would ceremoniously raise a net in front of the stage in order to catch
    the heads of rotten cabbage, soggy tomatoes, putrid eggs, and other
    refuse the patrons would bring along in anticipation of Effie, Jessie and
    Addie's performance. The Sisters rode this image to a successful career
    that lasted nearly forty years, and in all that time, they never once
    broke character to suggest that they were in on the joke.

    In early 20th Century show-business slang, likening an act to the Cherry
    Sisters was to indicate an extreme lack of quality. This was, no doubt,
    the meaning which Arthur Godfrey and/or Archie Bleyer intended to evoke
    in naming their novelty trio.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:05:45 -0500
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Looney Tunes

    What a coincidence!  Martin Grams, Jr. wrote:

>     ...there is a book that got published in 1989 and I believe it is still in
>     print.  It's entitled LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES: A Complete
>     Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons by Jerry Beck & Will Friedwald.
>     The publishing company was >Henry Holt and Company. ...I believe [removed] or
>     a local bookstore might have it available for sale (my copy says $[removed] on
>     the back cover) and it's about 400 pages thick.

    I just got this book from my niece for Christmas!!!  (She knows I'm a huge
    Bugs Bunny fan.) My copy is the 9th printing of the first edition.  The
    price is higher now than Martin's copy.  Being a present, the price is
    mostly scratched out but the first number is either a "2" or a "3".  But
    it's AVAILABLE!

    Barbara

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:05 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: OTR Postage Stamps

    Russ Butler wrote:

>     In 1991, the [removed] Postal Service issued a set of Al Hershfeld drawings of
>     several radio personalities (Jack Benny, Baby Snooks, Abbott and Costello,
>     etc.) as 29 cent postage stamps.  All excellent!!
>     (...but, ya had ta lick 'em ta stick!)

    I'm sure everyone who has very large mailing lists appreciates the Post
    Office switching to the self-adhesive [removed]
    but you have to give the post office [removed]
    it's the only place one can go to lick Marilyn Monroe for 34 cents.

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:52 -0500
    From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Howard Cuver

>     I just watched a movie on the Western Channel called THE BLACK WHIP. Howard
>     Culver had a role in the movie. Is anyone out there familiar with the movie

    and know what part he played?

    Yes, Howard did play in THE BLACK WHIP, but I cant remember his role there.
    If you can email me privately and give me the names of the stars of that
    show, perhaps I can track down which one it was.  I believe this is one
    where the name changed after the show was filmed, and I dont know what the
    original name [removed] is the way I have them listed.

    Lois Culver
    KWLK Radio (Mutual) Longview, WA 1941-44
    KFI Radio (NBC) Los Angeles CA 1945-47, 50-53
    Widow of Howard Culver, actor

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:04:15 -0500
    From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Howard Culver

    [removed] found the listing for Howard Culver in THE BLACK WHIP (aka The
    Man with the Whip).  He played the part of Doctor Gillette.

    Lois Culver
    KWLK Radio (Mutual) Longview, WA 1941-44
    KFI Radio (NBC) Los Angeles CA 1945-47, 50-53
    Widow of Howard Culver, actor

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:06:03 -0500
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Molle Mystery Theater

    Of all the shows I've heard in this series none can top "Triangle of Death".
      And the neat thing is that I can listen to this over and over again, after
    a suitable interval, because I NEVER remember which of the two men is trying
    to kill her, the husband or the old boyfriend.  It is really well written to
    keep you in suspense until the very end.  Does anyone else have a favorite
    show from this series?

    Barbara

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:06 -0500
    From: joseph <josephm@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Detectives from RS Greatest Detectives

    As I am listening to this I thought I would make some comments on the programs.

    Philip Marlowe
    "Crime is a suckers road"

    While this show is nothing like Chandler's Marlowe. I did like the
    stories as produced by Norman McDonnell. My favorite story was when
    Marlowe meets the odd family after crashing in the snow blizzard. At
    least the family wasn't like the Gunsmoke where Dillon in a blizzard
    comes to a house with a bunch of western psychos.

    Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator

    Didn't like these much. The stories dragged on and on and on. William
    Gargan was a so-so audio actor.

    Boston Blackie
    "A friend to those need a friend, an enemy to those who make him an enemy."

    While I can enjoy Boston Blackie in a compilation. I wouldn't
    actively collect the program. I think there was a change in post war
    detective series. They grew more cynical, tougher and violent like a
    lot of the media of the times. The war and pre war detectives were
    pretty much like Blackie light stories of gentleman adventurers.
    Though I like Chester Morris's delivery. Sort of toungue in cheek.

    Broadway's My Beat

    This is the first Elliot Lewis production I have heard. And it is
    pretty good.  The acting is excellent. The sound effect are good.
    While I do find the narration just a little over ripe. It still
    conveys the story well.

    The one thing that the post war stories deliver is a lot of homicidal
    women. In film of the period woman in noir films tended toward the
    violent, but the production code rode herd so that violence was
    rarely used as a plot device. Post war decective shows, like tv shows
    of the late fifties and early sixties seems to use violence as a way
    of moving the story along. Sometimes violence as an easy plot
    solution.

    More later.

    These are my opinions. Alway willing to debate.

    Joseph McGuire

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:14 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Today in Radio History

      From Those Were The Days --

    1906 - Hugh Gernsback of the Electro Importing Company advertised radio
    receivers for sale for the low, low price of just $[removed] in Scientific
    American magazine. The first ad selling the gizmos guaranteed reception
    of about one mile.

    1910 - Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn were heard via a telephone
    transmitter; rigged by DeForest Radio-Telephone Company to broadcast
    from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City

      From a long time subscriber --

    January 13, 1933 - The Tydol Jubilee comes to a close, airing it's final
    broadcast over the CBS network, featuring the Three X Sisters and the
    Paul Specht Orchestra.

      Joe

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