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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 400

Table Of Contents: 

	 Music Til Dawn
	 Re: MORE BOOKS
	 Friend's of OTR Convention another blast
	 Molle Mystery Theater
	 Open-Reel Tape Dubs
	 Partial OTR Digests and "Greek" sections
	 Louise Erickson
	 Logs for Lone Ranger
	 Shoelaces episode
	 Yesterday USA/ Bill's questionable actions!
	 D-day Broadcasts
	 1)FOTR-Newark 2) Music till Dawn
	 Red Skelton for Christmas
	 [removed]

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 96 09:27 PDT
From: Michael Borkon <mborkon@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Music Til Dawn
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Until a couple of years ago, in the San Francisco Bay Area, we had a
classical music program on the air from Midnight -- 6:00 [removed] called Music
Til Dawn which was hosted by local radio/tv/movie/public personality Scott
Beach--wonderful deep voice. It began with "That's All," which continued
softly in the background between the selections Beach played. There were
also the usual number of (local) commercials and public-service
announcements. Was this a local version of the national program which has
been discussed here, I wonder.

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:22:19 4
From: "edcarr" <edcarr@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: MORE BOOKS
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

thanks to everyone who asked for the book information
at the convention, it turned out i had enough of them
to go around. and i hope everybody got some of the
ones they wanted.
the following books are mine, and they are for sale
however i am not putting a price tag on them, if you
are really interested in them make me an offer, if the
offer is a fair one it's yours. i would hope you start
at a minimum of $10 each. if by this time next sunday
it's $10 fine. postage is extra.

a lavish of sin (not radio,written by carlton e. morse)

the general,david sarnoff,the rise and fall of the
communications industry.

fred allen's letters

much ado about me (fred allen)

out of the air(mary margaret mcbride)

all hardbound with d/j  all in nice shape.
                                  edcarr@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:09:00 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Friend's of OTR Convention another blast
Message-ID: <961020130859_1213178176@[removed]>

I am just back less than an hour from the 21'st annual Friends of OTR
convention in Newark.  My plane touched down ahead of schedule in Detroit and
we arrived home before noon.

I will have more comments later, but those of you who know me know that I
have a bit different perspective because I've been to so many, and spend much
of the time behind dealer tables (although I do take in all the evening
activities).

Highlights (outside of recreation events) were hearing the latest gossip from
the ever-present Jim Snyder (NARA News editor); low-lights were the badly
missed Tom Monroe (NARA Librarian Emeritus);  "wry grin" moments were again
hearing Bob Burchett (editor of the printed Old Time Radio Digest, and
Cincinatti convention chairman) tell the story of (in one of the dealer
areas) calling me up to ask for the last chapter of I Love Mystery and
discovering I was only 18 at the [removed] That was 22 years ago.

More [removed] have to unpack my "sctuff."
Bob Burnham;  BRC Productions;  Platecap@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:10:37 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Molle Mystery Theater
Message-ID: <961020131037_547201381@[removed]>

Some years ago I taped an interview for broadcast, with the late H. L. Gold.
You may recognize his name -- he was best known as the founding editor of
Galaxy Science Fiction, the Galaxy SF Novels, and Beyond Fantasy Fiction
magazine. He'd earlier been a sub-editor to Mort Weisinger at Thrilling
Wonder Stories. He was also a talented (but regretably unprolific) author in
his own right, and wrote a number of comic book scripts in the 1940s.

But -- here's the kicker -- he also mentioned writing for radio, and
specifically mentioned writing for the Molle Mystery Theater. I wish I'd got
more details from Gold at the time, but the interview was taped a long time
ago, and Gold is now deceased. 

So:

(1) Does anybody have any information on the Molle Mystery Theater, and in
particular writing credits that might include Gold, writing either as H. L.
Gold, Horace Gold, or Dudley Dell? (The last is the only pseudonym of his,
that I know of ... there may have been others.)

(2) What MMT shows are available? Are any of Gold's?

BTW, my personal recollection of MMT is that it was a very good, very
atmospheric suspense program, a little more given to fantastic themes than
"Suspense" but a little less so, than "Lights Out" or "Inner Sanctum."

But then, I haven't heard an installment of MMT since Hector was a pup. Come
to think of it, I haven't come across that expression since Hector was a pup,
either. Who the heck was Hector? Is this a reference to the Trojan War?

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:37:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: radbond <radbond@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Open-Reel Tape Dubs
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I'm in the process of copying all my open-reel tapes to cassette now. I use
a 20-year old semi-professional deck with speed control. I also use an
equalizer. 

I'd be glad to transfer open-reel tapes for $15 an hour and I'll supply 
the cassettes. 

 

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:22:37 EDT
From: w9fjl@[removed] (RICHARD S. FISHER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Partial OTR Digests and "Greek" sections
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Suddenly I am receiving only about 1/2 of each OTR bulletin.
Also am receiving some sections in strange letter and number
combinations.

Any clue or am I the only one.

Dick Fisher

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:37:14 -0400
From: IDickerson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Louise Erickson
Message-ID: <961020143714_215015582@[removed]>

I was intrigued to read in Jim Widner's report of day 3 of the FOTR
convention that Louise Erickson was a guest.

Is there some kind soul out there who could let me know how I might go about
contacting her? Only she starred in a few Saint [removed]

BTW: I do hope Anthony Tollin and any other digesters who attended, will
regale us with their stories of the convention. I found Jim Widner's reports
absolutely [removed]

Regards,

Ian Dickerson,
Author of A SAINT I AIN'T--The Authorized Biography of Leslie Charteris.
Due Spring '97

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:28:00 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Logs for Lone Ranger
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Terry Salomonson has a different address:  

[removed] Box 347
Howell, MI 
48844-0347

He is online at terryotr@[removed]


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Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:28:10 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shoelaces episode
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>episode, into my auto-reverse tape deck. The shoelaces episode is really 
>quite funny. The only spoiler material that I will give is that the Lucky 
>Strikes commercial in the middle is done by a bunch of toy soldiers which 
>Don bought for Jack which chime musically when you wind them up, and 
>sing, too, in voices that sound (how about this) just like the Sportsmen. 
>I guess they had high-quality digital sampling back then already. <GRIN>
>
>Anyway, if you don't have most  of these Christmas episodes, I think the 
>AIC collection is well worth it, though beware of being dinged with duty 
>if you live in Canada. They leave the commercials in, a pleasant surprise.
>

I concur heartily with this review. Luckily, I won mine at the FOTR
Convention and am listening to it right now as I type this. The copy is
very clean and the rest of the shows appear to be equally as good.

Great stuff for the upcoming Christmas holiday season.


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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:07:34 -0400
From: Randy Minnehan <minnehan@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Yesterday USA/ Bill's questionable actions!
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Hi [removed]

   Many of you know that I was a dj on Yesterday [removed] I say "was"
because Mr. Bill Bragg phoned me just a bit ago and gave me two
[removed] either resign OR have my show (The Time Machine) cancelled!
No explaination, he said he didn't owe me one!  Can you believe this? 
I've worked for over two years for him as a dj, and I don't even get
told why I'm sacked!  I would like to encourage everyone to send e-mail
to Mr. Bragg and ask him why THE TIME MACHINE was cancelled?  If you
find out why, I'd like to know too!  E-mail him at:
                                   bill@[removed]

   And you paying supporters of the station, don't you think you deserve
to know why also?  I have done NOTHING to cause this action.  Bill's
actions should make you think about wheather or not the station deserves
your money.  If Bill can turn on me, he can turn on anyone!

   This isn't over!  

   Randy Minnehan

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "The Cruisin' Quartet" <tenor@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: D-day Broadcasts
Message-ID: <[removed]@explorer2>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Several years ago I know that Radio Yesterday was offering a considerable
amount of material from D-Day coverage on several networks.  This is not
the six hours that everyone seems to have from CBS.

Does anyone know if this is still available.  I would like any information
that you could pass along.


I believe one of them were aircheck from WEAF.


On another subject, has anyone ever heard Dragnet (radio) epsiode #1.  I
would like any information on this as well.



Neal Ellis
(tenor@[removed])

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: lev@[removed] (S or A Levene)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: 1)FOTR-Newark 2) Music till Dawn
Message-Id: <v01530502ae9040bbd1c5@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

 1.)Thanks to Bruce Rosenberger for his kind comments on our Canadian radio
presentation at Newark, which I did with longtime Canadian radio
personality Carl Banas and writer-artist  Ken Borden.  I was frankly
dubious about doing it, thinking that  Americans would not be interested
and wouldn't show up.  However a good-sized crowd gathered and they seemed
to enjoy it.  We were very pleased. I'd like to do another about the great
innovative drama series of the 40's-60's, called CBC Stage.  I have a
number of examples that  I could play.

The hour-long production  of  Orson Welles' version of Treasure Island was
one of the best  re-creations I've ever attended, with a wonderful cast
superbly produced and directed by Arthur Anderson.  (Elliott Reid was
particularly memorable as Long John Silver,and Jackson Beck as the old
Captain.  Also Dick Beals as Jim Hawkins. Well, they were all great.) Mr.
Anderson, a Let's Pretender and  author of the delightful, informative book
about that series, is a treasure in our world of OTR.

2)  Music Till Dawn - I  was pleased to see this topic come up.  My
memories of that much-loved  music program are  vivid, and the version I
knew was that  of Jay  Andres on "the WBBM Air Theater" in Chicago.  As a
student  in  the area for five years  (from 1954-58 and again in l962) that
progam was always there - for studying to, listening to quietly while
unwindng late at night, and of course for courting to.  Everyone - everyone
-  I knew listened to, and talked about, Jay Andres.  Personally I have
never heard a greater radio voice, absolutely in tune with the music and
the time of night.  Every night  at midnight the WBBM announcer would say,
"It's 12 o'clock, the witching hour in the Windy City, and time once again
for Music Till Dawn, a  full 5 and 1/2 hours of the best in recorded music,
presented by American Airlines, and brought to you by - Jay Andres." Then
the theme - "That's All"  - up full then under as the host's rich and
velvety voice said "American Airlines greets you with  MUSIC -  till Dawn".
And on it would go through the night casting its magic spell with classical
and semi-classical music and Jay's comments and occasional, unintrusive
commercials which really made me want to fly on that airline.  Only once do
I actually remember hearing the end of the program,  heading up the Outer
Drive to Evanston after a particularly memorable night on the town in
Chicago.   Last year I was back  for a Northwestern  reunion and I learned
that Jay Andres was still living in  the Chicago area, semi-retired.  I
decided it was time to write him a fan letter, some  35 years belated, to
thank him for the pleasure he'd brought us back then.  I received a warm
and friendly reply.  He too is one of the treasures of  this medium.
Sam Levene

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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 23:41:18 -0400
From: "Harry Harbst" <hharbst@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Red Skelton for Christmas
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi All,
I need some help and figure this is the group that can do it.
My interest in Old Time Radio has prompted a request from a relative for a
Christmas gift that would mean a lot to them. The search is on for a
recording of Red Skelton narating "The Little Christmas Tree". In it Mr.
Skelton portrays a Christmas Tree trying to discover his own purpose, and
that of the holiday season he represents.

While this may not be actual OTR, it is my hope that some of you may have
heard the recording and might be able to offer some help in finding a copy
of it.
Also, I hope anyone who might be a collector of Red's programs will e-mail
me with details of where to find some of his other recordings. He's a
favorite here, however I'm not well connected to many sources of his work. 

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:53:36 -0700
From: dean allchin <dallchin@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear "theatre of the minders"

If any of you has a flate rate internet connection (and thus does not have
to count the time he is on the Net) and doesn't mind listening to a little
streaming OTR, turn your real audio-equipped browser to [removed]
every Sunday night to hear 2 hours of OTR between 10 and 12 pm Pacific Time.
They even take requests.

Tonight is the Shadow: Murder in the Deathhouse
               Suspense: Somebody to Help Me
               Empire Strikes Back: (Episode 5)
               Richard Diamond: Stick Pin Caper

Thanks again to David Hassel for his new Site

Dean Allchin
Vancouver
               




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