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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 352

Table Of Contents: 

	 Fruit Frost Warnings
	 OTR Digest ID's
	 The Lone Ranger
	 Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge
	 Dottie Lamour
	 Bill Johnstone
	 Obits: Lamour and Weston
	 The All American Boy (wave the flag for Hudson High)

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 20:12 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fruit Frost Warnings
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To Bruce Toor:

To Lois Culver: I remember the Fruit Frost Warnings.  They came on at 
exactly 8 [removed] every night during the season and interrupted the schedule 
on KFI.  Remember the name of the announcer?  Was it Floyd Young?

You have a good memory, Bruce -- yes, it was Floyd Young.  These warnings
saved many a citrus crop in the Los Angeles area over many years.  The early
frost warnings, when I first was in Los Angeles, was a signal for the
thousands of smudge pots to be lighted in the [removed] the skies were
filled with the oily smudge for days!

Lois Culver

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 20:15 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Digest ID's
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 Do we want to do something this 
>formal, or just wear computer chips to identify ourselves?  -Max

Sound like a good use for all the jillion AOL disks we receive in the mail! LOL
Hang 'em around your necks!

Lois

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:15:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger
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> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:40:10 -0400
> From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: GOODRICH SHADOW DATES/MOORE vs. HART as LONE RANGER
> Message-ID: <960923104009_291178981@[removed]>
> 
>  Moore (in his new book) and Hart both talk about how Trendle and his
> representatives on the set insisted that The Lone Ranger be portrayed like a
> military colonel, and that his lines had to me read slowly, methodically and
> humorlessly.   Moore really came into his own as The Lone Ranger after his
> return in 1954, when new owner Jack Wrather encouraged Clayton Moore to bring
> more of himself into the role (and Moore's comedic gifts were showcased as
> the old prospector, a Mexican bandito, etc).   

This reminds me of when I first read Jim Harmon's book =The Great Radio
Heros=.  When he mentioned "when the Lone Ranger's voice changed," I
thought of when John Hart replaced Clayton Moore.  But of course, Harmon
was referring to when Earl W. Graser died and was replaced by Brace
Beemer.  I was too young to remember that one.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge
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> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: JSEXTON@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: KIM By Rudyard Kipling
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>   When I was a young boy,I barely remember listening to Hallmark Hall Of Fame
> ("When You care enough to send the very best"). ...

>    It also seems that for several years they would feature Lionel
> Barrymore in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Dicken's Christmas Carol.
> I cannot remember ever seeing [removed] as Scrooge in the movies or
> television-but do recall his crusty voice on the radio more than once
> as the timeless Scrooge. Best,John (JSEXTON@[removed])

This reminded me of a cartoon I saw many years ago of the character
"Hazel," which appeared regularly in the Saturday Evening Post.  The
paperback that I have, which I bought in the late 1950s, contains cartoons
from 1943-46, so there are a number of them which show old-style console
radios.  But the one this reminded me of shows Hazel, the housekeeper,
sitting in a chair, talking to a boy, with a Christmas tree in the
background, and she says, "...And then Tiny Tim says to Lionel
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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:21:49 -0500
From: Steven Lewis <lewis@[removed]>
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Subject: Dottie Lamour
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Seems that no one has taken note of the passing of Dorothy Lamour.
Although we mostly remember her for her movies -- especially the Road
pictures -- she put her time in on the radio back there in the golden
age. I recall that she was the female vocalist in the late '30s on the
Edgar Bergan-Charlie McCarthy show. Bing, Bob and Dorothy made a Road
picture for the radio in 1947. One of Bing's Philco Radio Shows in 1947
consisted mostly of a skit called "The Road to Hollywood" in which the
three road warriors recreated how they met and how they got into
pictures. Quite fancifully, of course. Dorothy today is usually
considered the least significant of the Road threesome, but when she was
first cast in the "Road to Singapore" in 1939 she was as big a Paramount
star as Hope or Crosby. For more reminiscences of Dorothy drop by my web
site and check out "what's new."

Steven Lewis
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 01:01:23 -0700
From: Dennis De Marco <dennisdm@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bill Johnstone
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Now that we have a resident Shadow expert here -- which I think is great --
I would like to pose Anthony a question. Can you provide some bio
information on Bill Johnstone -- background, what he did  after the Shadow,
when he died etc?.To me he was the best Shadow, providing an air of
sophistication to the character.

Dennis

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Obits: Lamour and Weston
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I'm surprised not to have seen any mention of the following two recent radio
related deaths.  
I have to assume that Dorothy Lamour was covered in the media, but perhaps
Paul Weston slipped through the cracks.  According the the AP wire, he 
was a conductor and arranger for Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby, and founder 
of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.  He died last 
Friday at the age of 84.  He had also received a Grammy award for a 
comedy album recorded with his wife Jo Stafford.  He composed songs such as
"Day By Day", "Shrimp Boats", and "I Should Care".  Other credits include
arranging the score for Holiday Inn, he was musical director of NBC-TV 
for five years beginning in 1957, as well as for Laugh-In and The Bob 
Newhart Show, and served as an executive at Capitol and Columbia Records.

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:48:51 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: The All American Boy (wave the flag for Hudson High)
Message-ID: <960925124850_292931137@[removed]>

Michael Hanks wondered about the availability of the Jack Armstrong series.

Off the top of my head, there are at least 96 fairly consecutive 15 minute
episodes in nice sound that have been available for many [removed] also some
half-hour shows.

Unfortunately, it's not too popular among many collectors which is the reason
why it is not widely promoted/cataloged.

Bob Burnham; BRC Productions;  Platecap@[removed]




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