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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 384

Table Of Contents: 

	 Re: turntable
	 L-R Information on OTR Tape
	 A Night at the Alan
	 Four-track recordings
	 The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
	 Metacom Loves a Mystery
	 JOHNNY MERCER
	 FRED FOY's first LONE RANGER/earlier LR narrators
	 Roma, Danny Kaye, and shoelaces
	 JACK KIRKWOOD SHOW
	 Midwest convention
	 Help?
	 Weston (Edwards)
	 Re: 

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:42:41 4
From: "edcarr" <edcarr@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: turntable
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

to the person who was looking
for a turntable,i called esoteric
sound,the fellows name is mike
i've known him for years,in fact
many years ago he built me a turntable
i asked him to send me some information
and he will,now if that person is really
interested in obtaining one i will share
the info with [removed] am sorry but i can not
find that issue with your,name i am hurrying
this and i shouldn'[removed] the brief talk
i had there are a few things besides the
table and slapping down a record.
                               anyway,let me know
                                    ed

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Date: 9 Oct 1996 18:41:25 -0500
From: "John Hale" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: "OTR Posting" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: L-R Information on OTR Tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I have been borrowing reel tapes from SPERDVAC and making copies on Hi-Fi =
VHS.  My vcr has the feature of copying mono signals across both channels =
if only the left channel is plugged in. This has worked fine to date.

Now I want to copy some shows onto cassette and I discover that my audio =
deck doesn't have this same feature.  The tapes I am copying have only =
information on the left channel.  I purchased a splitter ( one female RCA =
to two male RCA).  I plugged the left output from the reel to reel into =
the splitter and  then tried to plug these two into the Left and Right =
inputs on the cassette deck only to discover that I still only have the =
left channel being recorded.

I'm sure that there's a simple fix that I'm overlooking.  I'd appreciate =
any ideas from the audio experts out there.

Thanks

John Hale
[removed]@[removed]
Dallas, TX

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:28:19 -0600
From: Chet Cox <CHCOX@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Night at the Alan
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

John Pellatt asked (in reference some disks he had):  Alan Jones Show
(who was he?) 

Chet sez:  This might be the Alan Jones who bored me to tears in the
Marx Brothers' _Night at the Opera_, a movie which would have been
their most hilarious if Alan (taking the unthankable Zeppo "straight man"
part) had vanished along with his part and all the songs.

*jeep!
~~~~Chet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quote of the day:  "If you want to be safe on the streets at night, carry a 
projector and slides of your last vacation."  --Helen Mundis

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:28:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dewana Burnham <dburnham@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Four-track recordings
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hello Everyone,

The question I have will probably be answered best by the blind 
subscribers to the digest, but anyone is welcome to reply.  I record my 
radio shows on four tracks on the 15/16 IPS speed.  I was wondering if 
anyone else does this, and how successful it has been as far as show 
quality.  I have been collecting OTR for about eight years now and have 
always recorded my shows this way, but if it really takes away from the 
quality quite a bit, I may think about slowly going back and rerecording 
on two tracks at 1-7/8.  I only record the way I do to reduce the number 
of tapes.  

Since this is, at best, on the fringes of the OTR subject, any comments 
can be sent to my private E-mail.  

Thanks in advance.

Troy Burnham

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:34:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dewana Burnham <dburnham@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi Folks,

I actually have two questions about the Adventures of Nero Wolfe.  First 
of all, I have a few programs from late 49 and early 50 that say The 
"New" Adventures of Nero Wolfe.  Do they say that because that program 
was just coming on the air at that time, or was it a program earlier in 
"The Golden Age" and then it was brought back in 1949.  

The other question I have about this program is who played Inspector 
Cramer?  It sounds to me like Humphrey Bogart, but I can't be sure?  

Troy

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:13:16 -0700
From: Frank Mallory <frankm@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Metacom Loves a Mystery
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Just came across a note in issue #4 (May, 1992) of the _A-1 Gazette_ that 
sheds some light on availability of ILAM and other C. E. Morse shows.

The editor of the Gazette reported that he had received a release form 
from the Morse Family Trust demanding (my word) that he publish certain 
information in each issue of the Gazette in exchange for permission to 
publish excerpts from the works of [removed], and to refrain from copying or 
lending any tapes of Morse shows (which was one activity of the A-1 Club) 
without prior written permission from the exclusive licensee, Metacom 
Inc. of Plymouth, Minn. This resulted in the resignation of the original 
editor, Jim Major.

The point here is not that everybody making ILAM copies without written 
permission from Metacom is doing so illegally; but rather that Morse most 
likely would have turned over copies of all available shows to them at 
the time he licensed them.

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:37:00 -0700
From: Bigbands <bigbands@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Cc: bigbands@[removed]
Subject: JOHNNY MERCER
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

JOHNNY MERCER- new Web Site(under construction)

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:16:12 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FRED FOY's first LONE RANGER/earlier LR narrators
Message-ID: <961011151611_541233114@[removed]>

Fred Foy's first LONE RANGER broadcast occurred not in 1945 or 1946 (as
Michael Carraher speculates) but on July 2, 1948 ("The Meadow Sisters" -
episode #2411/recording #1636).  The later portion of the classic opening
("With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked
rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early Western
United States.  Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater
champion of justice.  Return with us now to those thrilling days of
yesteryear.  From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great
horse Silver!  The Lone Ranger rides again!") was first heard on the 12-3-45
episode ("The Lone Ranger's Mailbox," #2007/1232).  Amazingly, THE LONE
RANGER series lasted more than 2000 episodes without the full best-remembered
opening, and nearly 2500 broadcasts before being introduced by its greatest
announcer/narrator.   Of course, it was the same year that Fred Foy made his
debut (1948) that the Lone Ranger's Bryant's Gap origin was finally
broadcast.  Earlier announcer/narrators included Harold True, Al Chance,
Brace Beemer, Charles Wood, Harry Slagle and Harold Golder.  A couple of
other narrators handled the chores when Foy went out to try his luck in
California including Stan Dale (today the head of the Human Awareness
Institute) and Hal Neal (the longtime GREEN HORNET announcer who was later to
become president of ABC radio).  Jay Michael filled in for "Burly Scott's
Sacrifice" (May 29, 1954, #3309/2529), the broadcast where Fred Foy (Beemer's
understudy) filled in as THE LONE RANGER.  Fred Foy's autobiographical
CD/cassette, "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch," tells the story quite well and
includes excerpts of his performance as the Ranger and a Jack Benny Egypt
Army remote Foy announced.  Fred will be selling his CDs and cassettes at the
FOTR convention next week, and they can also be ordered from Radio Spirit's
catalogue.  The best source of information on THE LONE RANGER is Dave
Holland's now out-of-print FROM OUT OF THE PAST: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE
LONE RANGER. -- Anthony Tollin  

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Date: 11 Oct 1996 14:50:34 CST
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Roma, Danny Kaye, and shoelaces
Message-Id: <m0vBnXe-000k6qC@[removed]>

Hi, all
Thanks for those who gave me info on Roma wine---Hick!!!
Boy I'd sure like to have a coppy of the Jack Benny show with Danny Kaye
also. Sue Hamilton do you people have it? I'll buy or swop as well. Now
to finish tying this all together I think the [removed] Jack Benny
Christmas package is a great one. I understand the fact that a lot of
people may already have most of the shows available in it but on the
other hand, a lot of us don't. I wonder if one of our nay sayers had
been offered a chance to have a coppy of the Shoelaces program before it
was marketed if they would have minded paying $25's or even more just to
have that episode?
NOt trying to stir up trouble here just thinking I probably would have
done it.

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 13:19 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: JACK KIRKWOOD SHOW
Message-Id: <m0vBo3E-0008CTC@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>I remember listening to the Jack Kirkwood Show, a half hour program at
>1:00 pm on the West Coast.  This was probably early Fifties.  I believe
>it was a Mutual Network show.   

Yes, I remember the Jack Kirkwood Show.  It was was on in the morning in the
early 1940's, went to an evening slot at CBS about 1944, then to Mutual in
the early 1950s.

I only got to hear the evening show, as I was working during the daytime,
but it was done like a vaudeville show.  Kirkwood was always funny with his
old jokes and satire on Westerns, etc.  Skits, a little music and comedy.
He opened with the orchestra, and "Hi, neighbor.  Hi, neighbor.  Time to
smile and say hi!"..and Jimmy Wallington, I believe, was the announcer on
the show.

Lois Culver

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 18:13:00 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Cc: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Midwest convention
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Bill Scherer wrote:

>I just can't stay away. Has there ever been an OTR convention similar to
>FOT in the midwest?
>

I don't recall if anyone answered this question for Bill, but yes, there is
a midwest convention every year in Cincinnati, Ohio. Usually the third week
in April. It will certainly be noted here when it is coming around, Bill.


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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:28:50 -0400
From: CardiacRx@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Help?
Message-ID: <961011192846_1379899987@[removed]>

I have a minor dilemma, [removed] I hope you can help.  I'm trying to
access the 'Superman' serials at the Warner Bros WWW Page ([removed])
and I'm having trouble.  By my address, you can tell I use AOL as a provider.
 Well, I can't get RealAudio to work with AOL.  AOL [removed] alllows the use of
[removed] only the 16-bit version, so everytime I try to use RealAudio
through Netscape I get a message telling me my bandwith is too narrow/not
wide enough.  Now, a prompt that pops up as being available for this
situation is to use RealAudio [removed]  I wouldn't have a problem except that
[removed] isn't available any longer at the RealAudio web site!  HELP!!!   Can
anyone suggest how I can (1) get real audio to work with AOL [I get a message
that there was a problem connecting with the RealAudio server], (2) get a
copy of RealAudio [removed] ?
I realize that my easiest option is to change [removed] to other issues
regarding relocation, that isn't an immediate option.  Any help at all would
be SOOOOOOO appreciated.  Especially since the very first episode is
available now, and I don't have to jump into a story mid-stream.  Feel free
to e-mail me privately so I don't cause a logjam in the Digest, and thanks in
advance for any and all help/advice.

Have a blast at the FOTR [removed] don't think I'm going to be able to
hit it.  :(   ([removed] Newark is only 2 hrs away!).

Bob Simko (CardiacRx@[removed])

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 21:19:11 -0500
From: "Marvin R. Bensman" <bensmanm@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Weston (Edwards)
Message-id: <l03010500ae84afa581a5@[[removed]]>
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I looked for my Jonathan and Darlene Edwards album and found their second
issue; "An Evening In Paris." The cover has a shattered champagne glass
(looks like a Memorex advertisement). I've converted to cassette but unsure
that I can or should add to Radio Archive.

Not radio although played on the radio (at least once that I know); and has
Columbia reissued on CD? Doubt it, but one never knows.

Any advice?

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*Professor Marvin R. Bensman, [removed], [removed]                              *
*Department of Communication; Office Phone: (901) 678-3174 or 678-2565 *
*University of Memphis        Fax: (901) 678-4331                      *
*Memphis, TN 38152                                                     *
*E-mail: BensmanM@[removed]                                       *
* To see University of Memphis radio archive look at:                  *
*[removed]~[removed]                  *

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 22:35:03 -0400
From: Neubacher@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: 
Message-ID: <961011223501_331763104@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-10-11 10:39:20 EDT, you write:

<< 
 >>Alan Jones, who was he?

     The father of Jack Jones, a popular singer of not too many years ago.
 Alan Jones
was the original singer of "The Donkey Serenade."

Bill Neubacher
NEUBACHER@[removed]




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