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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 50
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Rosa Rio                              [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  Audio CD Recorder                     [ Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed]; ]
  Jack Benny on Lawrence Welk show      [ zbob@[removed] ]
  2-22 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Copyright discussions                 [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  A Voice In The Night & other new sho  [ Chargous@[removed] ]
  Little Caesar                         [ Michael Guccione <jetbonami@hotmail ]
  OTR Stars in the News                 [ seandd@[removed] ]
  Marine Band on Radio                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:53:04 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rosa Rio
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Rosa is alive and well at 105 - 106 in June.   Karen and I recently went to a
silent movie performance she gave in Tampa accompanying 2 Buster Keaton
movies.   I had a chance to talk to her for a bit.   She remembers fondly the
early
conventions she attended.   She gets around without help and is talkative as
ever.   Her husband, Bill Yeomans was also there selling her several CD's.
Robert Smith who attends our conventions flies down to Sun City where Rosa
lives and drives her to all her concerts.   She sent her best to all her
friends.
 Jay

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:53:37 -0500
From: Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Audio CD Recorder

I want to purchase a reliable CD recorder to transfer vinyl and OTR
audio cassettes to CD-RW then burn CDs in the computer
(Nero).  My old stand-alone Phillips CDR770 has been working perfectly
but now parts are unavailable to repair.

Any suggestions to buy something similar, or whom to contact who might
have one for sale that works they no longer need?  Brands, models to
recommend? Thanks.  Please reply off list to my email.

=Russ Butler   songbook2@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:53:57 -0500
From: zbob@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny on Lawrence Welk show
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My local PBS station (KTEH) will be showing a Lawrence Welk show which they
describe as:
"Academy Awards - Jack Benny's hilarious monologue and violin solo highlight
a show which features great movie songs." This will apear (in SF) on Saturday
(23rd) at 7:00 PM with a rerun on Sunday, 5 PM. I'm recording [removed]

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:54:03 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-22 births/deaths

February 22nd births

02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
actor: Pop Gunn "Great Gunns"; Frazier Mitchell "Mary Marlin"
02-22-1889 - Carl Balcomb - d. 9-xx-1977
host: "Poet's Corner"
02-22-1890 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actor: Lillian Burke "Woman of Courage"
02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
writer: "Truth or Consequences"
02-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Rockland, ME - d. 10-19-1950
author: "Against the Storm"
02-22-1897 - Alonzo Deen Cole - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-7-1971
writer, producer, director: "Casey, Crime Photographer"
02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-xx-1975
actor: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady Esther
Serenade
02-22-1905 - Jean Colbert - d. 9-5-1995
actor: "Young Dr. Malone"; "Portia Faces Life"
02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
actor: Jim Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Doug Adams "Passport for Adams"
02-22-1907 - Sheldon Leonard - NYC - d. 1-10-1997
comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; Joe Crunchmiller "Judy Canova Show"
02-22-1908 - John Mills - North Elmham, England - d. 4-22-2005
actor: "A Christmas Carol"; "Charlie Chaplin"
02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH - d. 11-23-2000
announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower
Basin Street"
02-22-1911 - Vaughn Taylor - Boston, MA - d. 4-26-1983
actor: "National Travel Club"; "There is No Night"
02-22-1912 - Buddy Tate - Sherman, TX - d. 2-10-2001
jazz saxphonist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
02-22-1915 - Jules Munshin - NYC - d. 2-19-1970
actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
02-22-1918 - Don Pardo - Westfield, MA
newscaster, announcer: "NBC News"; "Magnificent Montague"
02-22-1918 - Sid Abel - Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 2-7-2000
sportscaster: "Play By Play Detroit Red Wings"
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d.
3-23-1994
actor: Pallina "Terzoglio"
02-22-1922 - Newt Arnold - Palo Alto, CA - d. 2-12-2000
actor: "Railroad Hour"; "This Is Your FBI"
02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
1-29-2002
actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
02-22-1926 - Dorothy McGuire - Kansas City, KS
singer: (The McGuire Sisters) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
02-22-1926 - Kenneth Williams - Islington, England - d. 4-15-1988
actor:  the Snide "Hancock's Half Hour"
02-22-1929 - James Hong - Minneapolis, MN
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"

February 22nd deaths

01-08-1904 - Peter Arno - d. 2-22-1968
panelist: "Stop Me If You Heard This Before"
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
comedian: Columbus 'Lum' Edwards "Lum and Abner"
02-14-1922 - Murray "The K" Kaufman - NYC - d. 2-22-1982
disc jockey: "A Tribute to Murray the K"
02-16-1884 - Joe Smith - NYC - d. 2-22-1981
comedian: (Smith and Dale) "Al Jolson"; "Kate Smith"
04-03-1892 - Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon - Chester, PA - d. 2-22-1957
[removed] air force general: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
violinist: "The Magic Key"
04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d.
2-22-2005
actor: "Inner Sanctum"
04-26-1883 - Harry Sothern - London, England - d. 2-22-1957
actor: "Counterspy"; "Kitty Foyle"; "True Story Hour"
05-09-1911 - Harry Simeone - Newark, NJ - d. 2-22-2005
arranger, choral director: "The Fred Waring Show"; "Columbia Presents
Corwin"
10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-24-1904 - Radie Harris - NYC - d. 2-22-2001
gossip columnist: CBS Radio Network
12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
actor: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
xx-xx-1910 - Tamara Drasin - Sorochintzy, Ukraine - d. 2-22-1943
actor/singer: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Atlantic Family"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:24:36 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Copyright discussions

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:39:06 -0500
From: skallisjr@[removed]

I suspect that a significant number of claims of copyright status
are, at best, merely guesses.

It was once a lot easier, since any copyrighted work had to have a
copyright notice on it.  It was fairly safe to assume that anything
published without a copyright notice was in the public domain.  But
that changed around 1989, when the United States joined the Berne
Convention, an international copyright treaty.  It requires not
formalities to protect a copyright, which means that the copyright
laws had to be amended, and you can never assume anything from lack
of a copyright notice any more.

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:34:37 -0500
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];

If anything, the trend continues to be the other way with
protection periods constantly increasing, declarations of
everything is copyright even without registration, and movement of
simple protection requiring owner's action against unauthorized
users to violation of a Federal crime for copying in some
circumstances.

I do think copyright protection is being carried to an extreme.  But
before complaining too much about the copyright system, it would be
helpful to look at the other extreme:  Mozart died in poverty while
his compositions were being played all over Europe.

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

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:25:14 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Voice In The Night & other new shows

Here are some of the highlights of shows I've found recently, most if not
all, previously uncirculated.  I've posted them in usenet's highspeed OTR
group, but for those that aren't able to do usenet, I provided a download
link in HQ mp3.

One is A Voice in the Night, a rare musical mystery; "The Case of the
Worried Detective".  Stars Carl Brisson, who seems to have a slight Elmer
Fudd accent going on (from a WOR linecheck).  The other group (large
download, circa 80-something MB) cointains misc. stuff mostly including
Russel C. Comer Productions stuff (Frank Farrell and Lord Weejie and Miss
Duck).  I'm pretty sure there were two separate runs of Frank Farrell (a
Jack Armstrong knockoff).  The earlier one, or at least I think it's
earlier, is the one with Walter Tetley.  All but the Audition are from the
earlier version.  I *think* the audition is from "version B" (style is
different and subject matter is from the version B episodes listed at
Goldin, and Spud seems to be different), as I call it. Why do I think there
are two runs of [removed]  Hickerson shows a post-war show.  Most of these sound
pre-war, both in sound and subject matter.  Also, take a look at
Goldin.  Except for the first two eps, which are from "Version A", all the
others are different in style and running time.   From the style of the
discs and of the show, I attribute these episodes to circa
1938-1941,.  Lord Weejie and Miss Duck are a couple episodes of a  1930s
mystery serial.  The pack also contains a rare episode of Father Brown
Mysteries.  Also, two episodes of the circa 1932 jungle adventure series
Captain Jack.  These two episodes came from later, circa 1940 Allied label
Pressings, but the show sounds like it came from the series mentioned in
Hickerson.

A Voice in the Night is available by itself here (download is pretty
self-explanatory, don't click on the
ads).  [removed]

*I would like to hear the Voice in the Night episode in circulation -
anyone got a quality copy?

The other multi-pack is here [removed]  (larger
download).

Anyway, enjoy these rare shows.  Speaking of rare shows; has a copy of a
different [removed] Fat Man episode that came up on ebay circa 2001-2 ever
appeared in circulation?

Travis

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:25:28 -0500
From: Michael Guccione <jetbonami@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Little Caesar
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Does anyone know if there's a radio version of the movie 'Little Caesar' with
Edward G. Robinson?

Thanks,
Michael Guccione

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:22:26 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Stars in the News

No OTR articles today, but with the Oscars coming this weekend, many reporters are looking back at Oscar hosts of the past, which prominently included OTR stars such as Jacky Benny and Bob Hope.

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This article about cross-dressing and Oscars actually mentions Benny's Charlie's Aunt character.

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Here's a homage to the Si Sy routine, including a YouTube link to one of the television versions (the really great one with the tijuana strings)

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This is even more off-topic, but how often do we see articles about French appreciation for Gieselle MacKenzie as a singer?

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This article on tv show "What's My Line" mentions Jack Benny and several other OTR stars.

[removed]

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:37:25 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Marine Band on Radio

As most Digesters know, I've been working with the library staff of
the Marine Band in Washington, DC to compile an accurate history of
their NBC radio series, "Dream Hour," which aired weekly from 1931 to
1954. Despite the fact that it was one of the most durable music
programs on network radio, and certainly the longest series by any
service band, it has been under the radar of all OTR reference books
and compilations thus far.

Some of that invisibility may be attributed to variations on its
title over the years, since it was called "Dream Hour," "Shut-In
Hour," "Dream Hour for Shut-Ins," "Patriotic Dream Hour" and
"Patriotic Shut-In Hour." Hundreds of shut-ins in the [removed] and Canada
mailed in their requests for musical selections every week and the
Marines took these into consideration in planning each weekly program.

As with any live radio show of that era, comparatively few scripts
and even fewer audio copies have survived to today, in whole or in
part. I'll be gathering more information on these in next few months.

So far I've concentrated on the "Leader's Logs," a daily summary of
the Marine Band, bound in books comprising one year's activities
each. I've reviewed the first seven years (1931-37) and confirmed
that the band had a large number of regular network shows, in
addition to "Dream Hour." During one typical month, January 1933,
this band filled the airwaves with a dozen different programs, mostly
on NBC:  the Thursday 11:30 to 12:30 PM "Dream Hour," the first-
Saturday "4-H Club" one hour program, and the twice-a-week one-hour
concert broadcasts (3 PM Mondays and 8 PM Wednesdays) over CBS, NBC,
and the Dixie Network.

Most of the NBC programs of the band were handled as remotes by their
local affiliate WRC, produced at band headquarters. The band
leadership developed an association with Arthur Godfrey, whom WRC
usually assigned announcer duties for the Marine shows. The genial
redhead was even permitted occasionally to sing a song with the band,
usually "Pale Potomac Moon" or "Lazy Bones."

In January 1934, Godfrey was apparently fired by WRC manager, K. H.
Berkeley, and the band leaders were upset when Don Lowe was sent in
Godfrey's place to announce the 1-9-34 "Dream Hour." The Marine
officer in charge of the band, Taylor Branson, attempted to intercede
in Godfrey's behalf but Berkeley would not budge so the band had to
accept Lowe as their new announcer.

Stay tuned for more history of the Marine Band on network [removed]

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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