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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 404

Table Of Contents: 

	 Bill Bragg's Actions
	 Whither "Amos & Andy"?
	 Jack's Well Gesture
	 Ralph Edwards on Suspense
	 FOTR---next???
	 Lucky the Leprechaun
	 VCR Recording and Speed
	 Ralph Bell at FOTR / Eddie Cantor
	 Re: OTR Movie on TCM
	 Buck Rogers programs
	 VHS recording
	 War/Worlds LP; Return/Jedi
	 Original broadcast of War of the Worlds on BBC.
	 Louise Erickson
	 Jack Benny Program Wanted
	 [removed] Gold

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bill Bragg's Actions
Message-ID: <[removed]@login>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi [removed]

   I have to disagree with Bob Burnhams comments.  First, I do think these
comments belong here, they directly concern old time radio.  Yesterday is
the only main source for otr today, and a lot of readers here listen to
the station and should know what sort of person really runs the station
before they send in their money to support it.  I have no reason to such
up to him anymore, so I can speak frankly about this.  No, I'm not just
being bitter, I am only questioning his actions and asking other to do the
same.

   Yes, he is the station owner/operator and can do as he chooses. But
when he says on the air like he did only a week ago that no one gets fired
who is a dj, and the only way you get taken off is by breaking the rules
or by resigning.  And he has stated many times now, in order to drum up
financial support, that he, Bill Bragg does not run the station, the
supporters do.  Since I have not broken the rules (that I know of) and the
supporters haven't spoken out against me, I am questioning his actions,
and I encourage all the YUSA listeners and supporters to question him
about this matter.  His e-mail address is:  bill@[removed]

   I believe he is being paranoid about something, and he has not given he
the decency to answer whatever charges he has drummed up.  He is being
judge and jury and certainly isn't being fair.  I have received many, many
messages of support, and where I know we can never go back now and I will
never be on YUSA again, I think I AND the YUSA listeners are owed a reason
for his questionable action he has made.  

   We are not dealing with a normal commerical station [removed] it is a
"mom and pop" sort of operation.  Bill's firing me is (I believe) personal
in nature, and not based on fact or finacial concerns. All of the djs are
working on a volenteer basis, and if the station is truly ran by
supporters, they are owed an explaination, and because of my 2 and 1/2
years of service and sending in cassettes twice a month (many times
overnight mail), I feel I am owed an explaination also.

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:22:47 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Whither "Amos & Andy"?
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

SanctumOTR@[removed] (Anthony Tollin) writes:
>Charles Mazza asked what is the best starting off point for 
>someone branching out into radio comedy.  If you want to start 
>with only one show, I'd have to suggest JACK BENNY, followed 
>by AMOS 'N' ANDY and FRED ALLEN.

All right, I have to ask this: I often read statements like the above 
about how fabulous Amos & Andy is. Fine, but when it comes to actual 
broadcasts of same, there is thundering silence. Through years of 
listening to Chuck Schaden's broadcasts, and Stan Freberg and "When 
Radio Was", not _once_ have they played Amos & Andy. Not once.

I've heard that the reason for its demise was the offensive stereotyping,
and I understand, but I must say I've heard what I've thought to be 
equally bad stereotyping on other programs. Besides, aren't we able to 
listen to this as adults and recognize it as a historical item? Can't we
broadcast even one episode, with all the appropriate disclaimers up front?
I can't believe I'm the only one out here who's never heard a single 
rebroadcast episode of this show.

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:54:23 -0600
From: Chet Cox <CHCOX@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack's Well Gesture
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

<<<Did the radio audience know about his "[removed]" hand gesture before
the TV
series? Or was it just the timing of the pause.

Joseph M>>>

Well (pause), Jack had used this gesture and pause in his early movie
appearances, and had used it in vaudeville long before his radio fame. 
According to Paul Harvey (and, I think, George Burns), his hand on
neck-and-chin-line (not quite on the cheek) began when he was
covering nail scratches given to him just before he went out on stage by
his evidently jealous wife, Mary Livingstone.  (Though this may have
been before they were married.)

And now you know (pause) the Rest of the Story.


*jeep!
~~~~Chet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quote of the day:  "The only people who have a right to complain about
what I do for a living are vegetarian nudists."  --Ken Bates, licensed
trapper

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Donald L. Roberts" <droberts@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ralph Edwards on Suspense
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hello Listers,

I hope to hear from persons with Suspense Expertise regarding a Suspense 
program in which Ralph Edwards of Truth or Consequences fame was the 
guest star.

I do not recall details of the program except that Edwards went to visit 
some sort of weird cliff house and ultimately jumped out of a window to 
his death.

Thanks much for any response.

Don Roberts

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kathy O'Connell" <oconnell@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: FOTR---next???
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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I'd like to put in my 2 cents about the fabulous FOTR convention as 
well.  Something that I don't think has been mentioned here yet is that 
Jay Hickerson announced that a donation will be made to the perpetrators 
of this list and the otr website in gratitude for their incredible work 
in promoting the hobby of old-time radio.  Thanks, Jay----it was an 
excellent choice.

I missed a lot of stuff due to previous commitments, but I enjoyed what I 
was there for.  And, as a western TV fan, it was a thrill to meet Will 
Hutchins.  I appreciate the way that Jay has allowed some of the folks 
who worked in TV to come to the convention and share their experiences 
and allow them to feel that they are part of the radio.  That's a poor 
paraphrase of some lovely words I heard from Will Hutchins.  Thanks, Jay.

I attended Gary Yoggy's presentation on political campaigns and radio.  
I think Gary is a terrific "professor" of old-time radio topics.  I 
always enjoy his work.  

One lovely moment for me was at the beginning of Saturday's night's 
excellent "Lone Ranger" recreation.  When the first notes of the William 
Tell Overture began, I looked over to see Ken Roberts in his seat 
"conducting" the music.  The happiness on his face was contagious!  And 
that's what I think I love most about the FOTR [removed] joy that 
the guests share with us.

Now, my appetite has been whetted.  I'm giving some serious thought to 
attending Cincinnati and even SPERDVAC one of these years.  Could someone 
give me an idea of dates?  An outline of what to expect?  I've let my 
SPERDVAC membership lapse, so if anyone has that information as well, 
please pass it along!

Jay Hickerson ....thanks again for the wonderful job you do every year.

Kathy O'Connell
WXPN
Philadelphia, PA

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Ulrich <culrich@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lucky the Leprechaun
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Your friend is right.  Parley Baer was the Keebler elf.  Arthur Anderson
> voiced the Lucky Charms Leprechaun.

Thanks for this information. I've been wondering for a long time who was
the voice of Lucky. Does anyone know who did the Cheerios Kid?

And if anyone has a video of the 1966 commercials in which Lucky the
Leprechaun meets Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, please let me know.
Boris and Natasha were of course played by Paul Frees and June Foray, both
of whom did a lot of OTR.

--Charles

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:09:23 -0700
From: joseph@[removed] (joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: VCR Recording and Speed
Message-Id: <v01530500ae9259cc3d88@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

VCR playback is very critical about speed. If you use the slowest (ep or
slp) speed you do not get Hi Fi and tracking is much more tighter so each
machine plays back their own recordings better. As in all recording the
faster the better. In any recording for video or audio archiving and
playback on other machines use Standard Play (SP), two hour speed.

Joseph M

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:49:56 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Ralph Bell at FOTR / Eddie Cantor
Message-ID: <961022144955_1745754718@[removed]>

Those of you who missed the Friends of OTR convention missed fine in-person
performances of Ralph [removed] a voice you will recognize IMMEDIATELY, if
you've ever heard CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a show that people keep asking
me for). 

Oh yes, and available at this convention, there was a new release on both CD
and cassette of Eddie Cantor shows from Brian Gari (Eddie's grandson, who was
there with his mother, one of Eddie's daughters)...  Brian has an e-mail
address but I forgot to get it.
Two previously unavailable shows are included--one with Lucille Ball, and the
other with a star-studded cast including Groucho Marx and Jack Benny.   I've
heard them and both are in excellent sound -- having had all the latest
technoloy and original transcriptions.

Why get the shows from a re-seller, when you can get them directly from an
actual family member at a lower price?

Bob Burnham;  BRC Productions;  Platecap@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 14:02 CDT
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: OTR Movie on TCM
Message-Id: <m0vFm5v-000kA8C@[removed]>

Radbond said,
>The Turner Classic Movies November schedule released today shows that the
>1946 movie "Radio Stars On Parade" will be shown at 3AM on Thursday,
>November 7th. 
>I can't find it in any of the reference books I have so I have no idea who is 
>in it.

"Radio Stars On Parade" is a 1945 B-picture from RKO, and a starring
vehicle for their comedy (?) team (?) of Alan Carney and Wally Brown,
sometimes known as "the poor man's Abbott and Costello."  (I am not making
this up.)
Per my reference book, they play "managers of a foundering talent agency
who take their promising new client {Frances} Langford on the rounds of all
the popular radio shows (at least the ones RKO had access to).  They wind
up in the middle of Ralph Edwards' 'Truth or Consequences' show which
yields the climactic yucks."
Others in the cast are Don Wilson, Tony Romano, Rufe Davis, Sheldon
Leonard, Skinnay Ennis, and the Town Criers.
An amusing thing about this is the idea of Frances playing a "hopeful" in
1945 - she had been starring on radio and appearing in pictures for a dozen
years, by that time.
 
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:24:36 -0400
From: JACoffeen@[removed]
To: OTR@[removed]
Subject: Buck Rogers programs
Message-ID: <961022152435_338861005@[removed]>

The Buck Rogers radio programs began in the 1930s, and for a while closely
followed the comic strip.  I have the few cassettes that were issued by Radio
Yesteryear a few years ago, and the company indicated that it would not have
any more.  Does anyone know where I could find other programs?  They could be
on cassette, or, even better for my purposes, could be written scripts of the
programs.  

I'd appreciate any help on this.

Thanks,

Jim Coffeen

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:56:11 -0500
From: "...." <jsalerno@[removed]>
To: "'OTR LIST'" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: VHS recording
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Personally I've had no trouble with tapes recorded on VHS-HiFi. And 
although my oldest are not in HiFi, those dating from the late 70s look as 
good as they did back then, suggesting that stability, at least of the 
video signal, isn't a problem. I wonder that the half inch width gives it 
more stability, unlike other helical scan formats that are on 8 mm tape.

Also note that on most machines, to insure a stable signal some video needs 
to be recorded with it even though it is not related to the audio.

Joe Salerno
jsalerno@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 15:10 CDT
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: War/Worlds LP; Return/Jedi
Message-Id: <m0vFn9q-000kA8C@[removed]>

Brief tangential comments:
"The War of the Worlds" rock-opera LP:  composer/artist is Jeff Wayne.  The
bibliographic record says "Rock musical: Richard Burton, narrator, with
soloists, vocal and instrumental ensembles."  It was released on Columbia
Records as a 2-LP set in 1978, with a lurid cover painting.  This was the
tail-end of the "rock-opera" period that had seen such deathless
achievements as "Quadrophenia" by The Who, and "Journey to the Center of
the Earth" by keyboardist Rick Wakeman.
---
"Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" is a _brand-new_ production, coming more
than a decade after "The Empire Strikes Back" was broadcast.  I saw a TV
feature about its making.  I presume it was offered for broadcast to NPR,
don't know for sure, but I do know that, sadly, the "radio drama" or
"spoken word" programs on public radio are usually the ones that draw the
least amount of directed listener support during fundraisers - at least in
this part of the country, and excepting the read-aloud program "Short
Subjects" which seems to have caught a lot of people's fancies.


John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:49:19 +0100 (BST)
From: hbj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Original broadcast of War of the Worlds on BBC.
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

On the 31st at about 11 pm local time, Radio 2 what was once known as
the light program will be running the Orson Wells broadcast in its
entirety.
This was in the newest radio times. Wonder if they'll have cleaned it up
at all.
regards


--
Henry Brugsch
Editor of [removed]
hbj@[removed]
[removed]


hbj@[removed]

Net-Tamer V [removed]; Beta - Registered

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:46:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: lev@[removed] (S or A Levene)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Louise Erickson
Message-Id: <v01530500ae92b7e0f42c@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Louise Erickson was at the FOTR convention on Saturday night, and was
heard, all too briefly, in the re-creation (or in this case, possibly the
original production) of  The Canterville Ghost.  Ms Erickson, who lives in
New York, noted when introduced that she is now 68 years old and still
playing teenagers.  She  was Judy on A Date With Judy, and now 50 years
later can still create at will that lovely,enthusiastic teen-age girl's
voice and manner.  It is a sound characteristic of that era that one
doesn't hear any more -- (John Dunning calls it the "breathless
adolescent") -  teenagers talk differently now - and there is something
very touching about hearing it, and from this gracious, attractive woman.
She was a featured guest in Cincinnati a few years ago (gosh that's a hard
name to spell for a foreigner, I keep confusing the number of n's and t's)
- where she charmingly re-created another of her roles, Marjorie on The
Great Gildersleeve.
Sam Levene

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:53:08 -0600
From: "Dale H. Winn" <dalew@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny Program Wanted
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Looking for Jack Benny Program from 2/12/39 Skit: Love Finds Andy Hardy.
Will trade or buy this program.
I currently have over 600 Jack Benny Programs. 

Reply by private email to dalew@[removed]

Dale Winn
Hooper, Utah

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:31:40 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed] Gold
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

BigKids said:
>> 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.

Then A. Joseph Ross said
>
>I recognize his name, all right.  But I don't think he's "late" yet.
>

Mr. Ross is correct. Gold was born in 1914 but has not moved to that
ultimate sense of wonder yet. As I understand, Gold had (or has) acute
agoraphobia and never left his apartment while producing Galaxy SF Magazine
in the fifties.

Anyone know if this is still the case?

BTW, Gold did have one story on Dimension X/X Minus One - it was "The Old
Die Rich."


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