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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2001 : Issue 301
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Changing top 5 [ "glen" <gschroeder10@[removed]; ]
Betty Jane & Joe [ "laurie1125" <lauriep@[removed]; ]
New World A Coming [ khovard@[removed] ]
Re: And a Little More on Barbara Jea [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Bartell Photography [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
Re: Where To Find Needles [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Re: Where To Find Needles [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Top Five [ "Jimidene Murphey" <jimimark@[removed] ]
the top five? [ "randy story" <BYGEORGE@[removed]; ]
Lee Munsick's eMail address [ leemunsick@[removed] ]
Buster Brown and Tighe [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
sleeves for 16 inch discs [ "Ken Lanza" <klanza1@[removed]; ]
Re: Harry Bartell's Top Five [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
Buster Brown theme [ "Jackie Lannin" <jackquack@[removed] ]
ARTHUR GODFREY & LENNY BRUCE!!! [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Frontier Gentleman Bow out [ "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@mynr ]
Froggy and Buster [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
SF OTR Drama [ "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@mynr ]
Favorite OTRs [ fran-nik@[removed] (Shelley Gordon) ]
Phil Harris' Popular Songs [ "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@rivnet ]
L&A MP3s [ Captain Blaze <jefotr@[removed]; ]
It's like a war report [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:25 -0400
From: "glen" <gschroeder10@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Changing top 5
Hi all.
After a few people mentioned the difference between what we like now and
what we liked when the shows were, I had to change a couple of things,
because a couple of the shows I like a lot now, I never heard as a kid
because they were already gone. The top five I mentioned before were Fibber
Mcgee, Jack Benny, Gunsmoke, Suspense and the Whistler. I never heard The
Whistler as a youngster because it was gone by the middle fifties, and the
Fibber McGees I really remember are the fifteen minute ones that were on
NBC in around 1955. If my memory is right, these shows had non audience and
there weren't as many characters as before. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
going on memories from about forty-six years ago. Gunsmoke, Suspense and
Jack Benny I do remember hearing as a child. I also remember Johnny Dollar,
Have Gun Will Travel, Amos and Andy and a few others. Last night on the big
Broadcast from Washington [removed] I heard Buster Brown which I also remember
but I remember watching it on the T word. Thanks for listening.
Glen Schroeder
Madison Wisconsinl l
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:16:32 -0400
From: "laurie1125" <lauriep@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Betty Jane & Joe
I have a 10 minute radio show of the morning radio talk show of
Betty Jane +ACY- Joe. The show that I have was probably broadcast in
1950 or [removed] show came out of the Pacific NW.
What can you tell me about the show. And what ever happened to Betty
Jane +ACY- Joe?
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:35:43 -0400
From: khovard@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New World A Coming
I need to know if tapes of the following two episodes of New World A
Coming are in circulation.
ìParachutes for Democracyî (aired Nov. 26, 1944)
and ìHeroes of the Skiesî (aired December 3, 1944)
I do not necessarily need to get copies of them.
Thanks,
Howard
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:01:41 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: And a Little More on Barbara Jean [removed]
Thanks to Conrad Binyon for the casting-directory info on Barbara Jean
Wong -- I knew she was versatile, but the accordion was a new one on me!
To fill in a bit more on the life of this talented actress, after making
several movies in the 1940s and 1950s, she grew up to become a
grammar-school teacher in Los Angeles and was deeply involved in civic
groups during her later years, among them the Museum of Chinese-American
History in LA. She passed away in November of 1999 at the age of 75.
The Museum of Chinese-American History did a brief tribute to her in its
Fall/Winter 1999 Newsletter, which is available online at
[removed]. Her OTR-era work
gets much attention in this piece, and several photos are displayed,
including a mid-thirties vintage mike shot, a photo of her with Michael
Raffetto, Gloria Blondell, and Barton Yarborough of "I Love A Mystery"
circa 1943, and a picture of her as an adult, posing with Correll and
Gosden and several African-American child actors who appeared with her in
the cast of the A&A Christmas show. From everyones' ages, I believe this
picture dates to 1953 or 1954. (Can anyone give a positive ID on the
other kids in this photo? I think the girl is Patty Marie Ellis, who
played Arbadella on TV, but I don't recognize the three boys.)
Elizabeth
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:25:05 -0400
From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bartell Photography
For Jay Ranullucci: Yes, Harry Bartell's photography is magnificent! Ive
seen it and can attest to that!
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: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:34:49 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Where To Find Needles
Nathan Hutchins wonders,
While I'm writing, does anyone know of anyone that still makes record
needles or where I can order one?
You'll probably find what you need at Garage-A-Records, which has a
website at [removed]
Depending on what you're looking for, this site can be complicated to
navigate, because its listings are simply scans from old manufacturers'
parts lists, and these can sometimes be hard to read. You'll want to have
as much information as possible on your old stylus and its cartridge
beforehand -- and you'll probably end up having to do a visual match of
the old one against the picture in the catalog in order to ensure you
have the right item. If all else fails, you can email them the model
number of your phono, and they'll do a search for you.
Prices are quite reasonable, all things considered -- figure on spending
anywhere from $10 to $30, depending on the specific item.
Standard disclaimer applies -- not an owner or stockholder, just an
occasional customer.
Elizabeth
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:35:16 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Where To Find Needles
Nathan Hutchins wonders,
While I'm writing, does anyone know of anyone that still makes record
needles or where I can order one?
You'll probably find what you need at Garage-A-Records, which has a
website at [removed]
Depending on what you're looking for, this site can be complicated to
navigate, because its listings are simply scans from old manufacturers'
parts lists, and these can sometimes be hard to read. You'll want to have
as much information as possible on your old stylus and its cartridge
beforehand -- and you'll probably end up having to do a visual match of
the old one against the picture in the catalog in order to ensure you
have the right item. If all else fails, you can email them the model
number of your phono, and they'll do a search for you.
Prices are quite reasonable, all things considered -- figure on spending
anywhere from $10 to $30, depending on the specific item.
Standard disclaimer applies -- not an owner or stockholder, just an
occasional customer.
Elizabeth
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:02:44 -0400
From: "Jimidene Murphey" <jimimark@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Top Five
If I'm going to have to narrow the list down, some of you that read my few
posts probably know that I am a sci/fi and mystery nut. The winners [removed]
in no special [removed]
1) Dimension X and X-1 (must put them together because some shows were
originally Dimension X then redone for X Minus One or Future Tense.)
2) Whistler
3) Inner Sanctum
4) Mysterious Traveller
5) Black Museum or Mercury Theater or anything with Orson Welles (gotta love
that man's voice)
Show that got me started in OTR was CBS Radio Mystery Theater, then started
catching Sherlock Holmes (thank you, Mr. Bartell, for many hours of pleasure
when I was pulling weeds in my yard - a most unpleasant task).
Jimidene Murphey
"Keepin' It Alive"
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:15:19 -0400
From: "randy story" <BYGEORGE@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: the top five?
greetings gates! let's communicate!
i have been reading with delight the recent lists of OTR top fives and i
decided it was time to plunk my own magic twanger and weigh in on the issue.
here we go:
1) THE PHIL HARRIS/ ALICE FAYE SHOW
2) I LOVE A MYSTERY
3) DRAGNET(wow!)
4) GUNSMOKE
5) HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
this was one of the toughest lists that i have ever produced for any reason.
it is similar to being asked to choose among a highly-prized litter of
champion puppies and bring out the best one. impossible. i thought of THE
LONE RANGER because i have such fond memories of the show in reruns when i
was a kid(i am 38 by the way). alas, there was no room on the list for it.
as for [removed], i have been listening to my recently purchased
collection of shows from that series in marathon sessions for the last few
weeks and i continue to marvel at the depth there. GUNSMOKE is much the
same for me. and ILAM is just too much fun to be ignored! as for PHIL/ALICE,
it is the only radio program that i have listened to that has made me laugh
out loud for any length of time. my sides hurt and my eyes tear with each
episode.
finally, i would like to add my list of least favorite shows:
1) THE GREEN HORNET(a ripoff)
2) THE AVENGER(another rip off)
3) LIFE WITH LUIGI
4) BRIGHT STAR
5) MY FREIND IRMA
nobody asked for my opinion, but i thought since we spending so much time
praising a lot of these [removed], you understand.
turning off my magic twanger now,
randy story
[removed]
what was the name of the book that told the story of WXYZ radio and the
creation of TLR, TGH, and others? please let me know.
thanks
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:44:28 -0400
From: leemunsick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lee Munsick's eMail address
Oops! Afraid some correspondents were not sent my new eMail address.
I'm no longer available via AOL. My apologies - here 'tis:
leemunsick@[removed]
Thanks! Lee Munsick That Godfrey Guy
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:44:48 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Buster Brown and Tighe
When I was growing up, I heard the "That's my dog Tighe," quote on the
Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang program, and I checked the Buster Brown
shoe stores. I saw a portrait of a kid with a hat and blond curly hair,
and a rather strange-looking dog. What I didn't know then was that
Buster Browen was a comic-strip character, and his almost constant
companion was his dog, Tighe. My paternal grandmother was a
Bruster-Brown comic-strip fan.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:04:11 -0400
From: "Ken Lanza" <klanza1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: sleeves for 16 inch discs
Is this of any help??
Gaylord Bros., Box 4901, Syracuse, NY 13221-4901. Phone: 8 am to 7 pm EST
(800) 448-6160, FAX (800) 272-3412. Gaylord publishes an Archival Storage
Materials & Conservation Supplies catalog and, among an immense variety of
items, provides boxes, supports, and archival sleeves for 16 inch
transcription discs.
[removed];sid=5A8B1AEB4C8E4A93ABC21352E1BCDF
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:44:54 -0400
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Harry Bartell's Top Five
Says the legendary Harry Bartell:
The most fun to do was always Gunsmoke and any one- hour commercial show
paid more.
(Gasp!) You mean to say GUNSMOKE is *last* on your [removed] and money is
second??? I'll bet there'll be some feedback about THAT over the next few
digests! (Here's where we separate the fans from the working actors!)
LOL!!!
Michael
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:54:50 -0400
From: "Jackie Lannin" <jackquack@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Buster Brown theme
Hello OTR fans,
I am a lurker and enjoy this list a lot- I am female, 47 and have always
enjoyed all forms of radio theater.
I can contribute the "Buster Brown" theme song, since I memorized it when I
was quite small and sing it to my students at the Science Museum I work at
as often as I can- that and the "Poll Parrot" song-
"Does your shoe have a boy inside?
What a funny place for a boy to hide.
Does your shoe have a dog there too-
A boy and a dog and a foot and a shoe.
Well, the boy is Buster Brown, and the dog is
Tige, his friend-
They are really just a picture, but it is fun to
play [removed]
So look, look, look in your telephone book
for the store that sells the shoe-
with the picture of the boy and the dog inside,
And you can put your foot in too!
Buster Brown Shoes!"
Now go sing it to someone you love!
Jackie in St. Paul
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:55:09 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ARTHUR GODFREY & LENNY BRUCE!!!
Yes folks it's true!
Lenny's first and very funny appearance on the Godfrey Talent Scout show
features his Mom Sally, introducing Lenny to Arthur and the resulting bit
about Vaudeville in Bavaria is hilarious!!
Anybody wants it contact me and I will gladly serve it up with chuckles
and grins.
Gwynne
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:16:19 -0400
From: "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: "OTR DIGEST" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Frontier Gentleman Bow out
A short time ago I wrote in DIGEST on the merits of Frontier Genetleman. I
have since completed listening to the entire 41 episode run in consecutive
order. Like the finishing of a good book, I was saddened to the point of not
wanting to hear the final episode because it was final show. The ending of
show like radio version of Have Gun, Will Trave ("The Toddhunters" 11/27/60)
seems parallel the obvcious decline of radio at the time. Mr. Kendal
concludes with some final reflections on his experiences in the American
west while riding a train to Chicago and then to New York where he will take
Atlantic passage back to England. He ends with the hope of returning some
day to the America west which for several months has been his home leaving
us with lonely trumpet theme one last time. I found the interconnected
episodes involving Belle Siddons provided much more character development
for [removed] Kendal. Here we learn much more about Kendal than previous revealed
through his breakfast conversations with Belle Siddon the ex-confederate spy
turned Gambler. Kendal throughout the series makes isolated references to a
woman in England who married someone else (Most notably in "Kendal's Last
Stand"). We never learn to much is this regard. In addition my favorite
episode #2 "Charlie Meeker" Kendal refers to his serivce in India in the Her
Majesty's Royal Lancers. He also mentions his military service in India it
in the aforementioned "Kendal's Last Stand" in reference to the American
General Goerge Armstrong Custer.
John Dehner in the Hickman 1976 Gunsmoke Documentary mentioned Anthony
Ellis based the series on the English remittance man who sent to American
west by his family and sent remittance money to "stay away". Curiously I
remember hearing an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel involving an Enlishman
who came to American West and became an leader of a outlaw gang. Ironically
the train ride to New York is the ending for Kendal, but not for John Dehner
who within two weeks of saying goodbye as Kendal would reappear in the
Carleton Hotel in San francisco as Paladin trading in his Accent and writing
pen
Mike Kerezman
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:16:41 -0400
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Froggy and Buster
In reply to Fred Berney who commented on Froggie The Gremblin
and Buster Brown:
1. No, Froggie was never a character on HOWDY DOODY. He was always on
SMILIN' ED'S BUSTER BROWN GANG. "Plunk your magic twanger Froggie" Ed would
say, and with a whistle and a puff of smoke -- Froggie would become visible.
Quite a feat for a pre-TV
frog. (Of course, he did it on TV later.)
2. The Buster Brown signature line was a bit different from the way
Fred had it -- it was "That's my dog Tige, he lives in a shoe, I'm Buster
Brown, look for me in there too."
Tom Heathwood - Heritage Radio Theatre
[removed]
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:17:05 -0400
From: "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: "OTR DIGEST" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SF OTR Drama
I have been following the Science Fiction on OTR with some interest
particular w/ regard to ROD SERLING, GENE RODDENBERRY, ETC. (Yes, I do like
SF as well as Adult Westerns). Anways one science fiction drama on X MINUS
ONE that has always intringued me is the show "Sea Legs" particularly for
its thinly disquised social commentary. Having listened to it several times,
I cannot help wondering for myself (Staying strictly to the content of the
Drama) whether the episode was intended as a critique of Communism during
hey day of Cold War or as a critcism of McCarthy witch hunts. I think if you
listen to the show closely, an arguement can be made for either case. I
reached this opinion after re-listening to it after severals years had
passed since I had first heard it.
Mike Kerezman
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:17:13 -0400
From: fran-nik@[removed] (Shelley Gordon)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Favorite OTRs
Favorites:
1. Fibber Mcgee and Mollie
2. Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
3. Night Beat
4. The Whistler
5. Have Gun, Will Travel
Sam Spade (a tie)
Shelley
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:17:41 -0400
From: "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Phil Harris' Popular Songs
Steve Kallis reminded us of the Harris "top of the charts" song "The Thing."
There were at least two others that were popular in the 1940s, although not
as popular as "The Thing." One was "That's What I Like About the South" and
the now politically incorrect "The Darktown Poker Club."
The former song was satirized by the Harvard mathematics instructor Tom
Lehrer in his first album As I recall the Lehrer lyrics, they were
something like this:
"I wanna go back to Dixie;
Take me back to dear ol' Dixie;
It's the only little ol' place for little ol' me.
Old times there are not forgotten;
Whupping slaves and pickin' cotton;
And waiting for the 'Robert E. Lee.
(It was never there on time!)
I wanna go back to Alabammy;
Back to the arms of my dear old mammy;
Her cookin's lousy and her hams are clammy;
But what the hell, it's home.
For paradox, the Southland is my nominee;
Give me a hamhock and a grit of hominy;
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home."
Dave
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:52:59 -0400
From: Captain Blaze <jefotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: L&A MP3s
S. A. Wells recently wrote:
As I stated in an earlier post, I am working completing the entire
surviving series of Lum & Abner. That one project, will have cost me a small
fortune,and although I know that in the end there is a very good chance that
someone will steal it and again claim they did it, but I figure that it is
more important that these show become available so everyone can enjoy them
as I have.
Not sure why you'd want to waste your money and time
to convert L&A to MP3 as virtually all of their extent
shows have already been converted to MP3 and are
freely available in at least two MP3 trading groups
and are also on several ftp sites and streamload
accounts.
CB
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:23:20 -0400
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: It's like a war report
Last week in one of my classes, Problems in Contemporary Broadcasting, I
was discussing that so many radio stations today do not even have
newscasts, let along a news staff or department. "What would it take,"
I asked, "for today's radio broadcasters to interrupt their programming
to tell its audience what is happening in the real world?"
Now I know.
Doing a dial sweep there are only three stations I can pick up that are
playing music. The two group owners in the area, Cumulus and Clear
Channel are simulcasting on all their stations from the one station each
has as their news and talk oriented station. Some of the unaffiliated
stations are taking TV audio (I assume with permission.)
One of my British friends who was a child in London during WW II said
that the scenes she was watching on British TV were like the Blitz. One
CBS radio correspondent mentioned it was like the scene Edward R. Murrow
described of the bombs falling during his rooftop broadcast. Of course,
no bombs fell during that broadcast, it was all anti-aircraft fire. It
was a victim of CBS's live-only broadcast rule. A few minutes later as
I listened to reports of a plane falling in Virginia, another in
Pennsylvania, possibly one headed for LA. it sounded more like the
report late in the first part of War of the Worlds of all of the
capsules landing in different parts of the country. Actually, the
closest we have come to the WW II live radio reports was the beginning
of the Gulf War on CNN because it was an audio-only report that first
evening--no pictures. And it was live--they could have been blown up at
any time during the broadcast. It was one of the few times we could
listen to something like this without the hindsight of how it ended.
I hope that none of our OTR family was directly affected by this
tragedy.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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