Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #107
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 4/5/2001 6:11 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 107
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     April Fools Joke                     [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]
     JOAN BENNY INTERVIEW ...             [Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed]; ]
     curious in boca                      [JJiovanazz@[removed]                 ]
     student difficulty in comprehending  [leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass]
     WLW "Moon River" Organ               [Udmacon@[removed]                    ]
     WLW/Everybody's Farm                 [bkeller@[removed] (Bob Keller)]
     Listening ...                        ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Re: Waller at WLW                    [Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]]
     Re: Lois Culver TV appearance?       [Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed]]
     Re: Lois Colliers                    [Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed]]
     Lois Culver's Double                 ["Gerald D. Wright" <gdwright@atdial]
     Vinton Hayworth                      [Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed]]
     Virginia "Payne"                     [Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed]]
     CBC History                          [Sam Levene <srl@[removed];      ]
     re: looking over my shoulder         ["David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed]]
     re:College students and OTR          ["David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed]]
     Re:Lois Culver TV appearance.        [Robert Coppedge <robertc@[removed]; ]
     Dressing as fast as you can          ["Edward Loyer" <Edward_Loyer@umich.]
     So, who played Blackie's gf?         [John Henley <jhenley@[removed]]
     Re: CBC History                      [Lou Genco <webmaster@[removed]; ]
     April 1                              [badaxley@[removed]             ]
     CBC History                          [Al Girard <agirard@[removed]]
     RE:  scariest show                   ["Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self]
     Video Yesteryear                     ["George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm]
     CBC Radio Resources                  ["Jeff Geddes" <jeffg@[removed];]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:11:55 -0400
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  April Fools Joke

         I'm not your world's brightest guy. You can keep
    me occupied for hours by giving me a file card with
    "turn over" written on both sides. And I STILL think
    that there are a bunch of little people living inside
    my console radio.
         But, gee, I didn't have any problem at all with
    the April Fools issue. I saw the numbers, thought for
    a brief moment that this might be a massive computer
    glitch, then read your message, glanced at the date,
    laughed like a loon, printed out the entire issue, and
    then got on with my (such as it is) life.

         Actually, I think the your basic idea here was
    pretty darn good. But my suggestion would be that all
    future postings must be in Old Church Slavonic.

         George Wagner
         GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:11:57 -0400
    From: Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  JOAN BENNY INTERVIEW ...

    Here is next week's live interview schedule on The Yesterday USA Radio
    Networks:

    Red Steagall:  April 8, Sunday, 7:30 [removed] EST
    Henry Busse, Jr.:  April 9, Monday, 10:30 [removed] EST
    Eleanor Vallee (Rudy's widow) & FRANK BRESEE:  April 10, Tuesday, 10:30 [removed]
    EST
    Joan Benny (Jack's daughter):  April 11, Wednesday, 10:30 [removed] EST

    All interviews will be broadcast on [removed].  Thanks for
    listening.
    Duane Keilstrup

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:11:59 -0400
    From: JJiovanazz@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  curious in boca

    have been a life long radio [removed] recently moved to the boca
    raton area of florida and am interested in finding other local old time radio
    enthusiasts  in other areas of the country there were old time radio clubs
    that met on a regular basis as well as local ammeter groups who performed old
    time radio [removed] their any such groups in the south Florida
    area???  if so, send me an e-mail to jjiovanazz@[removed], jim

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:15:41 -0400
    From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  student difficulty in comprehending radio drama

    those kids who can't see black & white as clearly are really saying they
    want to see something new preferably with gunfire and/or crashes

    with teacher patience etc many will appreciate what you want them to
    appreciate & years later will tell you that's what they learned in your
    class

    but it can happen. here in short is what i learned from a student. get a
    copy of john ford's the grapes of wrath, to the flat tire at the top of
    the hill as the joads are approaching the government camp. now listen
    carefully to what tom says to ma as she sets (not sits) on the fender.
    bet you never heard it before. no one does. but a student heard it in
    class. the next day i had to tell her she was right and i was wrong.
    made her day.

    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:18:44 -0400
    From: Udmacon@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WLW "Moon River" Organ

    There's a wonderful illustrated site on the WLW organ at

    [removed]

    Unfortunately, though, I believe the SW Ohio roadhouse where the organ is
    currently housed is now closed. Anybody in Oxford or Cinti know about its
    fate?

    Bill Knowlton, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE," WCNY-FM: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown NY
    (since Jan. 1973). Sundays, 9 pm est: [removed] (with Windows Media
    Player) "The Parlor Is A Pleasant Place To Sit On Sunday [removed]"

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:30:22 -0400
    From: bkeller@[removed] (Bob Keller)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WLW/Everybody's Farm

    Dave Phaneuf's comment on WLW's program "Everybody's Farm" was great.

    When I was in second or third grade (ca. 1961) my class went on a field
    trip to the farm and was there while they did a broadcast. My dad, who was
    (I believe) program manager at WMOH in Hamilton, at the time wasn't as
    enthusiastic about it, but he later told me that even he tuned in!

    I know that several WLW histories have been cited on the list before, but
    Dick Perry's book "Vas You ever in Cincinnati" also holds some interesting
    info on the development of broadcasting in Cincy.

    BTW I still have my two glass mugs celebrating WLW's anniversary that were
    sold through Arby's in the early 70s.

    Bob Keller
    Waukesha, WI

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:30:20 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Listening ...

    Vince Long, discussing the problem with students' listening to OTR,
    notes,

> >     And we want them to sit quietly and listen to an ancient, scratchy

    recording of some non-relevant (to them) piece of broadcast history
    ....<<

    Which isn't what we did, which is part of the problem.  I once gave a
    presentation of OTR aviation shows to a pilots' group, some of whom were
    of my generation, and I had an equivalent problem.  In that case, the
    only thing that made sense was that just sitting there, doing nothing
    else, was the difficulty.

    I wouldn't want to do nothing but sit there -- especially with other
    people -- _just_ to sit there and listen.  It's an extra load on a
    student, particular when the presentation method is new to them.

    Randy Cox also notes,

> >     . There is a correlation with people who also have trouble watching

    black and white movies. I've heard from film studies teachers who say
    their students claim they can't see a black and white film as clearly as
    they can a technicolor [removed];<

    Umm .. outside of some retinal disease, this one's really hard to swallow
    -- particularly since some of the newer TV commercials are monochrome.
    I'll betcha that there's some other factor in these "film studies"
    courses that's producing this reaction.  The difference between
    monochrome films and those in color is much less than the difference
    between OTR dramas and either film or TV.

    Leonard Fass, speaking of suggested OTR shows for students, notes,

> >     i love a [removed] a lot happens but it sure does paint pictures

    and the characters basically being stereotypes it is easy to imagine
    [removed];<

    Umm ... I think enough happens in an ILAM, in my opinion.

    The Shadow is good, but isn't a stereotype.  It's only one of the most
    famous shows of OTR -- and has cassettes on sale at various bookstores,
    etc.

    Although I favor Pat Novak For Hire as a good introduction to the genre,
    one that also could catch their fancy is The Whistler, because the host's
    narration sets up things well, and thus smooths over rough spots.  I put
    The Whistler miles above The Mysterious Traveler, which tries to be in
    the same sort of territory.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:17:36 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Waller at WLW

    Mike Ogden wonders,

>     Has anybody heard this story before and can comment on the veracity of it
>     one way or the other? Any Fats Waller authorities out there? (Or, in the
>     idiom of Beulah, "Somebody holler for a Waller scholar?")

    This is a widely-circulated story, and it may very well be that Waller's
    drinking and clowning and carousing and general bawdiness were offensive
    to the straight-laced Powel  Crosley Jr. -- but it's not necessarily the
    reason for his departure from WLW.

    Waller's tenure at WLW was actually a very brief interlude in his career,
    and was apparently planned as such. Waller was a well-established
    composer and recording artist long before he arrived in Cincinnati in
    1933: he had made his first records in 1922, and began making a long
    series of piano rolls the following year. He worked as a studio musician
    thruout the late twenties, sitting in on recording dates for a broad
    range of performers, and began his long relationship with Victor in late
    1926, recording a number of hot solos on the pipe organ at Trinity Church
    in Camden, New Jersey. He also composed scores for several all-black
    Broadway revues -- "Keep Shufflin' (1928), "A Load of Coal" (1929), and
    "Hot Chocolates" (1929) (My grandmother-in-law had fond memories of
    attending this latter show as a rebellious 23-year-old flapper, much to
    the horror of her conservative Swedish-immigrant family.)

    Waller recorded constantly thru 1929, but the near collapse of the
    recording industry in 1930 caused him to turn to other venues. He made
    his network radio debut in the winter of 1930-31 as a featured artist on
    the New York-based "Paramount-Publix Radio Revue," a CBS series also
    known as "Paramount on Parade." He was featured on this series for six
    months.

    Waller remained in New York thru the middle of 1932, taking what
    recording work he could find, and making occasional radio appearances.
    Finally, in early 1933, his agent signed him to a six month contract with
    WLW, where he formed his first set band, "Fats Waller and His Rhythm,"
    featured on the "Fats Waller Rhythm Club" program. This program ran thru
    the alloted six months, and came to an end in December of 1933. Waller
    took the band on a very successful tour of the Midwest as and then
    returned to New York -- where the Rhythm Club broadcasts resumed over CBS
    in the summer of 1934. Waller and the band also resumed recording for
    Victor that spring, beginning the long series of "Fats Waller and his
    Rhythm" recordings that are probably Waller's most enduring body of work.

    So, whatever Waller's personal relationship with Powel Crosley might have
    been -- and it probably wasn't cordial -- it's safe to say he wasn't
    fired for his behavior. He was only in Cincinnati for a limited time, as
    part of a well-calculated career move: to bring his music to the
    attention of a wider audience and to keep working until the recording
    industry recovered from the effects of the Depression.  Waller *did* play
    the famous WLW organ during his tenure in Cincinnati -- he had an
    established reputation as a jazz organist, and given that fact it's
    highly unlikely that Crosley would have had a problem with him performing
    on the instrument in the style for which he was known. You don't hire an
    artist known as a specialist on a particular instrument and then fire him
    when he does precisely what you hired him to do.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:17:34 -0400
    From: Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Lois Culver TV appearance?

    References: <[removed]@[removed];
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    X-UIDL: 4d14b8410d2230e7055b60f371832284

    A search of the IMDB database gave this information on "Boston Blackie"
    tv series:

                        Lois Collier

    		    Birth name
                            Madelyn Jones
                        Date of birth (location)
                            21 March 1919,
                            Salley, South Carolina, USA
                        Date of death (details)
                            27 October 1999,
                            Woodland Hills, California, USA. (Alzheimer's
    Disease)

    				yours with gum on my shoe,

    					Garry D. Lewis
    --
    Ephemeral;
    Like a bolt from the blue or a fart in the dark- it suddenly came to me!

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:17:32 -0400
    From: Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Lois Colliers

    With a little more digging I came up with this:

    [removed]

    			yours see was pretty, but before my time,

    				Garry D. Lewis

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:17:30 -0400
    From: "Gerald D. Wright" <gdwright@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lois Culver's Double

    The original poster stated:

    "Boston Blackie from 1952. KentTaylor plays [removed] But guess who
    plays Blackieís girlfriend ...? Itís none other than our own Lois
    Culver. Of
    course her long radio history is ìknownî to all, but I was unaware of
    her
    TV work. Lois is very [removed]"

    And "Our" Lois responded:

    "Hate to disappoint you, but "your own Lois Culver" never did any TV
    work."

    The answer is:

    The original poster needs to have his eyes checked. The actress who
    played Blackie's  lovely secretary Mary Wesley was Lois "Collier" (real
    name Madelyn Jones) star of low budget films in the 1940s. Her lengthy
    credits can be found at:

    <[removed],+Lois>

    And to bring this all back to OTR she "Lois Collier" did appear at least
    on the Orson Welles' Radio Almanac (aka Your Radio Almanac) show of May
    24, 1944.

    Gerry Wright
    San Francisco

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:57:41 -0400
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Vinton Hayworth

    Thanks to Tom Heathwood for clarifying the theme music connection between
    radio's "Mr. District Attorney" and TV's "Highway Patrol."

    I meant to post yesterday an inquiry regarding Vinton Hayworth.  I note
    that he had a continuing role in "The Adventures of Archie Andrews," and I
    thought perhaps Harlan Stone may be able to respond.

    Last year in this forum, we had extended discussion about AFRA and how it
    functioned during the McCarthy era.  Elizabeth commented on a book written
    by Rita Morley Harvey titled THOSE WONDERFUL, TERRIBLE YEARS (Southern
    University Press. 1996).  This is a fascinating book that includes interior
    glimpses into some fairly important radio actors;  Bud Collyer, Virginia
    Paine, and Frank Nelson are three examples among dozens of others.  This
    book is an informative, chilling "read" and presents a surprising
    political dimension to folks we reminisce about here all the time.

    Vinton Hayworth played a major role in this book and is portrayed in a
    negative light against the backdrop of political blacklisting.  I am
    wondering if Harlan ever noticed this aspect of Hayworth, or if politics
    were kept out of the studio. Harvey's book portrays AFRA as rife with
    political infighting and details positions actors took about each other.
    That couldn't help but seep into the broadcast studio from time to time.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:16:40 -0400
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Virginia "Payne"

    Sorry, I spelled Virginia Payne's name wrong.  The wonderful actress who
    was MA PERKINS deserves better treatment.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:33:48 -0400
    From: Sam Levene <srl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CBC History

    Here are some of numerous books that have dealt with the CBC.  I wouldn't
    say any of them are great:

    The most recent and most gossipy would be Cue the Elephant by retired CBC
    newsman Knowlton Nash, subtitled "Backstage tales at the CBC" - by no means
    a serious book, but fun and informative.  Published 1996.
    In 1994 Nash wrote a more serious book called The Microphone Wars.
    The late CBC producer Sandy Stewart wrote two books in the 1980's:  From
    Coast to Coast-a personal history of radio in Canada -- and -- Here's
    Looking at Us - a Personal History of Television in Canada.
    There was quite a good pictorial history published in 1982 and probably hard
    to find, called "The Birth of Radio in Canada - Signing On," by Bill McNeil
    and Morris Wolfe.  There have been books about specific issues or events in
    CBC history dealing with CBC drama or current affairs programs. And a few
    memoirs by CBC personalities.  There was a collection of superb CBC Radio
    Drama scripts published in 1987 and edited by Howard Fink and John Jackson,
    called "All the Bright Company- Radio Drama produced by Andrew Allan".
    There was "Image in the Mind- CBC Radio Drama from 1944 to 1954" by the late
    Alice Frick, who worked in that area at the time.   The great radio
    personality Max Ferguson published a wonderfu, funny memoir a long time ago
    called  "And Now - Here's Max". In 1986 former CBC executive and author Eric
    Koch published the story of CBC's most controversial and successful current
    affairs show, a precursor of programs like 60 Minutes, called "Inside Seven
    Days - the show that Shook the Nation".  (which it did - I worked on it,
    though that's not why it shook the nation.) And undoubtedly lots of others,
    mostly forgotten.  There was a biggish, scholarly book from the 80's about
    CBC Drama by a Canadian academic whose name and book title I can't now
    remember, since I no longer have the book.

    Sam Levene
    CBC maintains an elaborate website - just go to [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:33:49 -0400
    From: "David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: looking over my shoulder

    Bill W. in Issue 106 asks: <<what OTR program episode has scared you the
    most???? >>

    Well, [removed] it wasn't OTR (I'm not old enough) but it was OSR (CBS Radio
    Mystery Theater).  AND [removed] I hesitate to post this for this
    [removed] I can't remember the episode's title.  I just remember being
    scared out of my bejeebies (say, what is a bejeebie, anyway?) while driving
    home from Cincinnati to Dayton one night and listening to RMT.  Kinda silly
    for a grown man, I suppose, but hey!  it was good!  and I couldn't wait to
    get out of my car and get inside.  I've been searching RMT lists several
    times now trying to figure out which episode it was, but I can't even
    remember the details enough to figure it out.  I just remember the fear!

    Dave P.

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:50:54 -0400
    From: "David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re:College students and OTR

    Vince Long writes about helping OTR deprived students listen to OTR:
    <<An suggested activity to keep the listeners focused is to tell them that
    <<they will write a verbal description of what they "see" in a particular
    <<scene.  After the show is over, give them a few minutes to write up the
    <<description and then share with the class.

    Shortly after I joined this forum a couple months ago a similar topic ran.
    I share my response from then for the benefit of [removed] which btw is very
    similar to Vince's.  (Was it you, Vince, that gave me the idea at last years
    CINCI CONVENTION?)

    Anyway, I bemoaned the fact that I had been unsuccessful in getting my
    teenage daughters interested in OTR.  Someone suggested I have them listen
    to SUSPENSE's House on Cypress Canyon, and have them listen with the
    understanding that they were to describe or draw a picture of what THEY
    thought the monster of the story looked like.  This one had tried it with
    his own kids, and worked beautifully.  So I, too, tried it -- with not as
    much success.  However, though it did not make them mad raving
    gotta-have-OTR-at-any-cost fans of OTR, it did at least open the door for
    them, make them more sympathetic and more willing to [removed]  (I have even
    caught my oldest getting into an occasional OTR show that I insisted be
    played on the car radio -- "after all, I let YOU listen to your HIP-HOP, the
    LEAST you could do was let ME listen to something I LIKE!" -- did that sound
    parental enough?)

    For what its [removed] I think Vince's idea is a good idea

    Dave P.

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:50:56 -0400
    From: Robert Coppedge <robertc@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:Lois Culver TV appearance.

    This might clear up  the mystery of Lois Culver's TV appearance.

    In the Boston Blackie TV series, the female lead was played by LOIS
    COLLIER.

    This could easily be confused with Lois Culver.

    Bob Coppedge. - Terre Haute, Indiana.

    --
    Please visit my Home Page at:

            [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:10:19 -0400
    From: "Edward Loyer" <Edward_Loyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dressing as fast as you can

    I, like Richard Pratz, remember this show but not the name.  I lived in western
    Michigan and am pretty sure the show originated in Chicago and am also pretty
    sure it was on everyday. As I recall the purpose of the dressing activity was
    to
    get you to the breakfast table.  There is a flickering memory that Malt-O-Meal
    was a sponsor or one of the sponsors but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
    Hopefully there are other speedy dressers out there that can add to Richard's
    quest for knowledge and now mine too.  Ed Loyer

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:57:42 -0400
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  So, who played Blackie's gf?

>      >Boston Blackie from 1952. KentTaylor plays [removed] But guess who plays
>      >BlackieÌs girlfriend ...? ItÌs none other than our own Lois Culver. Of
>     course >her long radio history is ÏknownÓ to all, but I was unaware of her
>     TV work. >Lois is very [removed]

> >     If this was April Fool's Day I'd think Charlie was doing it again!
> >     Hate to disappoint you, but "your own Lois Culver" never did any TV
> >     [removed] Anyone have any idea who this imposter was?

    The actress in question was Lois Collier.

    Her filmography runs from the late 30s to the
    late 50s, during which time she made quite a number
    of features, the majority of them low-low-budget.
    Looks like most of the time she was contracted
    to Universal.  Typical 40s titles are "Jungle Queen,"
    "The Crimson Canary" and "The Cat Creeps." (Also,
    how about "Miss Mink of 1949"??) In the
    50s she was in such as "Flying Disc Man from Mars"
    and "Missile Monsters."

    She passed away only a couple of years ago.

    And to tie this to recent threads:  One of the
    films in her credits is "A Night in Casablanca,"
    starring our boys the Marx Brothers.

    Oh and by the way:  Blackie's gf was called
    "Mary Wesley."

    John Henley
    Austin TX

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:12:00 -0400
    From: Lou Genco <webmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: CBC History

    On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:22:48 -0400, Gordon Payton wrote:

>     Does anyone know of a book(s) that cover the history of what the Canadian
>     Broadcasting Corporation has done since it started? A website to suggest?

    Folks interested in non-US OTR can start their investigations at
    [removed]

    At four links to Canadian radio are provided, at least two of which
    link to "history" sites.

    --
    Lou
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    THE WWW site for "Old Time Radio":         [removed]
    ------------------------------------------------------------------

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:45:46 -0400
    From: badaxley@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  April 1

    Charlie,
    Ouch!  I was getting ready to say to heck with it on the digest until it
    finally dawned on me. Duh!  You got me this time!
    Bob Axley

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:11:28 -0400
    From: Al Girard <agirard@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CBC History

>     Does anyone know of a book(s) that cover the history of what the Canadian
>     Broadcasting Corporation has done since it started? A website to suggest?

    The book you're looking for is "From Coast To Coast" by Sandy Stewart
    ISBN 0-88794-147-8

    Al Girard

    Unofficial Fibber McGee and Molly Home Page
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:44:25 -0400
    From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE:  scariest show

    The scariest show I ever heard was just last night.  The Ghost Hunt
    episode of Suspense.  [removed] don't know why, but it's scared me
    to death!

    Rodney

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:06:27 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Video Yesteryear

    Hello All,

    J. Randolph Cox asks if Video Yesteryear has given up the ghost. The answer,
    sadly, is yes.  While I wasn't thrilled with their prices, they had lots of
    stuff you couldn't get elsewhere.  They had were several items I was
    planning to buy sooner or later.

    Incidentially, Radio Spirits bought up their existing inventory and it is
    for sale on the Mediabay site (if anything is left - and when I checked it
    out a few weeks ago everything that I was going to buy "someday" and that
    isn't for sale elsewhere was gone).

    George

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:06:22 -0400
    From: "Jeff Geddes" <jeffg@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CBC Radio Resources

    Like yourself, I wish that the history of radio broadcasting at the CBC was a
    little more advertised, but we'll have to make do with what we have.

    Try this first;  it is a list that I compiled (in its early stages) that
    lists many Canadian OTR shows and what little information I could find on
    each one.

    [removed]

    another site to check (which is a horrible resource tool because of the lack
    of many things) is the cbc webpage.

    [removed]

    They used to have a specific site for CBC radio, but now there is just one
    that covers both radio and TV.

    Next I would try this book:

    "THE MICROPHONE WARS: A history of triumph and betrayal at the CBC"
    It is available to order online at [removed]

    If you have any other questions, I will probably be able to help you
    privately if you contact me at
    jeffg@[removed]

    Happy Listening!

    jeff

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