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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 272

Table Of Contents: 

	 Rip Lawson
	 Chicken Heart
	 "Grand Ole Opry"
	 Re: chicken man
	 test
	 Speed Gibson
	 Chicken Heart - Oboler
	 Re: Ken Greenwald's ET tapes, Cosby's Chicken Heart
	 Gershwin, gershwin, gers

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 01:09:38 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Rip Lawson
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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To the Digest: On the B side of a cassette I have that has the 
last two episodes of Speed Gibson (#177-78) are the first two episodes 
of a show called "Rip Lawson, Adventurer". Does anybody know anything
about this show? Are more episodes available? It probably aired 
in the late 1930s. Thanks.

Jack

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Date: 06 Aug 96 08:59:30 EDT
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Chicken Heart
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Rick Hartnett asks:

>Another question.  Bill Cosby did a comedy
>routine about setting the bed on fire as a child
>while listening to a chicken heart invading the
>world on a radio show.  Is this based in fact?
>No, not the part about the chicken
>heart invading the earth, the part about the
>radio show about the chicken
>heart invading the earth? It sounds like
>it could be an inner sanctum or the like.
>Does anyone know?

One of the things I've discovered through the
OTR group is that my memory is totally
unreliable, and I will be corrected in the
next post. Having said that, I believe that
the referenced show was heard on "Lights
Out" and was written and/or produced by
Arch Obeler. How'd I do?

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:40:22 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: RitaGold@[removed]
cc: grmason@[removed], cwolfe@[removed], SALT27@[removed],
        sthomas@[removed], bristbro@[removed] ([removed]),
        [removed]@[removed], BURNSBW@[removed],
        [removed]@[removed], vandemor@[removed],
        brkhmstd@[removed] (hazelannransom), bbur@[removed],
        bevans@[removed], Dick_Bowden@[removed],
        [removed]@[removed] (libbydoubler), hood@[removed],
        [removed]@[removed], dmacon@[removed]
Subject: "Grand Ole Opry"
Message-ID: <960806094021_593451231@[removed]>

VCR Alert! AMC is showing the 1940 Republic "Grand Ole Opry" Friday morning,
Aug 9th at 9 [removed] eastern! Here's your chance to get a good copy of the Uncle
Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, Oswald, Rachel, Judge Hay, Dorris Macon gem! 

BILL KNOWLTON (recuperating from a successful 24th Bluegrass Ramble Festival)

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:18:34 -0400
From: Joelsiegel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: chicken man
Message-ID: <960806101834_593474028@[removed]>

chicken man was a feature available to radio stations on lp disc. noel blanc,
mel's son, and, i believe, a comedy writer named dick chlorifine (sp?) were
involved, gary owens, one of radio's great voices (i still hear him on
commercials) did alot of the voices, as did bob arbogast.
one of the jokes: 
sfx: battle sounds.
one: i've got to get out of this chicken outfit.
two: why?
one: the feathers tickle me and the beak is driving me insane.
[removed] the cosby routine is based on a lights out episode.

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:30:22 -0400
From: dpf@[removed] (David Piersol-Freedman)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: test
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

This is only a test - please do not respond.

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 10:21:42 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Speed Gibson
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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To the Digest: I want to thank all the people who are helping me with
info about Speed Gibson, most especially Ted Davenport, Chris 
Zenchenko, Frank Passage, Steve Kelez, Charlie Laughlin, Richard Wright, 
Jay Hickerson, Marcus Antonsson, and Herb Duniven. Thanks guys.
Now, a final (Sufferin' whangdoodles!) question or two. The main actors 
in this series were Howard McNear, John Gibson, Hanley Stafford, Jack
Mathers and Elliot Lewis. Does anyone know if any of these actors is
still alive and where he can be reached? Can anyone fit the actor to
the character (Clint Barlow, Barney Dunlap, Speed, ETC) or characters
he played? Please Email me at jmann@[removed]  Don't fail me now, guys!

Thanks,
Jack

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 14:40:00 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Chicken Heart - Oboler
Message-ID: <960806144000_254060511@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                     August 6, 1996 -- Tuesday 1 PM cdt 

In issue 271, Rick Harnett asked about "Chicken Heart".  The only 
circulating copy of "Chicken Heart" (to my knowledge) was produced 
by Arch Oboler on a commercial LP with the title CHALLENGE IN HORROR. 

This disc had several excerpts, which apparently were from either "Lights 
Out" or "Arch Oboler's Plays".  The two main stories are "Chicken Heart"
and "The Dark".  There are also two or three shorter stories on the disc.
The sound quality is very good, but the programs themselves are incomplete.  
They have no beginning.  It would appear that Mr. Oboler used only the 
"meat" of each story for this disc.   The "Challenge in Horror" disc is out 
of print, but tape copies are in wide circulation among collectors.    

Bill Cosby may have heard the "original broadcast", but I suspect he 
heard the disc and based his comedy routine on that.  The reason I believe 
he did not hear the actual broadcast is that no copies of that broadcast 
are in circulation, although there are many other Oboler programs 
available.  With the popularity of the Cosby routine, it would seem that 
somebody would have come up with an actual broadcast recording by now. 

It's even possible that there may have never been a real broadcast, ie, 
Arch Oboler may have taken a script that was never broadcast, or he may
have written the story for the disc.  

Does anybody have any more input on this?  Does anybody have a broadcast 
date for the alleged "Chicken Heart" broadcast?   Was it on Lights Out, Arch 
Oboler's Plays, or another series?  All we know is that it was an 
Arch Oboler Production. 

Happy Taping ---  Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
kenpiletic@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:01:07 -0400
From: JanBach@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Ken Greenwald's ET tapes, Cosby's Chicken Heart
Message-ID: <960806160058_254115152@[removed]>

Hello again --
Rick Hartnett just wrote the OTR Digest with the same experience I just had
-- that Ken Greenwald is no longer supplying tapes of his ET transcriptions
(and understandably so) and suggested that I contact OTR members who have
already received them. I would also appreciate E-Mail from one of the
"Magnificent Seven" who have Ken's tapes to work out purchase or a trade.

On another front, Cosby is referring to an episode of Arch Oboler's Lights
Out that scared my mother half to death in the late thirties when she was
pregnant with me (is that why I turned out so strange -- liking OTR,
classical music, table tennis, [removed]) A scientist kept the chicken heart
alive in the basement and it started to grow until the basement could contain
it no longer at which point the inevitable happened.
I'm sure there are FAQs about this episode on Lou Genco's website, and
probably some threads on the OTR Home Page. -- maybe even a chronological
listing of all the old Lights Out shows. Happy hunting!

Jan Bach

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 96 22:08:48 -0500
From: welsa@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gershwin, gershwin, gers
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

    First, the disclaimer:  I have no monetary or artistic interest in the 
subject of this message.
    
    I just picked up a delightful CD of interest, I'm sure, to many OTR fans.  
It's called "GERSHWIN PERFORMS GERSHWIN" (on the Musicmasters label, #5062-2-C.
    
    There are five tracks on the album.  Two of them are complete 15-minute 
shows from a series George Gershwin did on the radio in 1934 to help raise 
funds for "PORGY & BESS". 
    
    A third track is excerpts from a Rudy Vallee "Fleischmann Hour" broadcast 
of 1932 where Gershwin is the guest.
    
    The other two cuts are recordings of rehearsals for the "SECOND RHAPSODY" 
(1931) and "PORGY & BESS" (1935). The rehearsals were done in radio studios so 
someone thought to record them. 
    
    The radio programs (complete with commercials) are a treat for OTR variety 
show fans as well as Gershwin devotees.  Highly recommended.
    
    
      
___
* UniQWK #5138* Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.




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