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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 429

Table Of Contents: 

	 War of the Worlds, Karloff & Freberg
	 War of the Worlds - correction
	 M. Amsterdam's song
	 Re: Walter Winchell on Jourgern's Journal
	 Re: alternate WAR OF THE WORLDS
	 
	 Beaumont, OCee Ritch, etc.
	 Re: KARLOFF IN A MUSICAL
	 RE: SUSTAINING SHOWS
	 Re: Radio Theatre Hour
	 Dotie Lamour
	 ADMINISTRIVIA: Using correct subject lines

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Date: 05 Nov 1996 02:45:05 GMT
From: kg@[removed] (KEN GREENWALD)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: War of the Worlds, Karloff & Freberg
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hello!
	So, you want more versions of "War of the Worlds?"
Yes, there was another version done in Britain by the BBC. It aired 
over Los Angeles' NPR radio station KCRW back in 1984. Monday, 
September 17, 1984, and each week to Monday, October 22, 1984, in 
six complete hour long episodes.
How good is it? In my opinion, it is brilliantly done! The six episode 
scripts follow the original [removed] Wells novel very closely and the 
encounters with the Martian machines (and later, the Martians 
themselves) is terrifying.
	The first person who contacts me via e-mail will receive (free 
of charge) a copy of all six episodes on cassette, with the proviso that 
person freely distributes copies of the cassettes to those who are 
interested in it. I'd be happy to make additional copies, but I simply 
don't have the time, and I don't want any money out of this. I would 
like to see the show reach as many people as possible. So that first 
person contacting me --- please post to the OTR Digest that you have 
the show and are willing to distribute additional copies. 

BORIS KARLOFF: Did you know that Boris did funny bits also? Yes, he 
appeared on The Spike Jones show, and he's very funny! I produced 
two CDs for the the Spike Jones family, one of which contains the 
show with Karloff, followed by another show in which Peter Lorre 
appears on Spike's show. This is the famous broadcast where Paul 
Frees does "My Old Flame," followed by Lorre's rendition of the same 
song. Not being a singer, Lorre fails beautiful by turning the number 
into a comedy routine. You can find the CD in music stores across the 
US -- you'll find the CD under the Comedy section.

STAN FREBERG: I have the distinct pleasure of knowing Stan, and 
asked him when he started doing voices for cartoons. He told me he 
started in the mid-40s doing voices for Columbia Pictures cartoons 
and went on from there, ever upward, until he became famous.

WARNER BROTHERS CARTOONS: Least we forget, Bea Benaderet 
appeared in many a Warners cartoon, usually the voice of the lady of 
the house where Sylvester and Tweety had their constant feuds. 
(What the  **** has this last note to do with OTR?)

My best to everyone!
Ken G. 

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Date: 05 Nov 1996 05:23:40 GMT
From: kg@[removed] (KEN GREENWALD)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: War of the Worlds - correction
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Woops!
I checked the 1984 taped episodes of the British 6 part War of the Worlds to
discover that each episode is not one hour long, but one half hour long. I
stand corrected.
My offer still stands.
Thanks,
Ken G.

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 09:12 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: M. Amsterdam's song
Message-Id: <m0vKnB2-000k9LC@[removed]>

This is an entry in volume 2 of the reference work "Popular Music,
1920-1979," edited by Nat Shapiro and Bruce Pollock, published by Gale
Research Company in 1985.

RUM AND COCA-COLA
Words by Morey Amsterdam, music by Jeri Sullavan and Paul Baron.
Leo Feist Inc., 1944.
Subject of well-known plagiarism suit discussed at length in Louis Nizer's
book, "My Life in Court" (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961).  Decision of
federal Circuit Court of Appeals was in favor of plaintiff, Maurice Baron,
publisher of music folio, "Calypso Songs of the West Indies," by Massie
Patterson and Lionel Belasco.  Court found that music to "Rum and
Coca-Cola" was taken from Belasco's work, "L'Annee Passee," written in
Trinidad in 1906.  Subsequently, financial settlement was made in return
for which plaintiff relinquished future property rights and writer and
publisher credits.  Lyrics are an adaptation of a calypso sund in Trinidad
during World War II.  Best-selling record by the Andrews Sisters (Decca).

end quote.
Nick At Nite had a nice tribute to Morey last night, running 4 back-to-back
"Buddy-specific" episodes of Van Dyke, with a little 30-second compilation
of some of his best lines and a bit of cello music, in between.  Trivia
buffs:  "Buddy Sorell"'s full name is "Moishe Selig Sorrell."  
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:25:53 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Walter Winchell on Jourgern's Journal
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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	There are several of these available, including one I took off
an NBC transcription from December 07, 1941 (date of Pearl Harbor, for 
those not paying attention).  The rest I have are from the late forties.

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:04:16 -0800
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: alternate WAR OF THE WORLDS
Message-Id: <v01520d00aea40934b3a4@[[removed]]>
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SanctumOTR@[removed] wrote:

>The H. G. Welles novel of course also begat the feature
>film which in turn begat a radio adaptation of the film.
>I don't recall at the moment whether it was on LUX or some other show,

It was indeed Lux, in the mid-1950s (1956?)

>If I recall correctly, Les Tremayne and Paul Fries were in both the
>radio and film versions.

Actually the film starred Gene Barry and the radio version starred Dana
Andrews. Paul Frees narrated the beginning of the film and appeared briefly
as a radio announcer just before they dropped The Bomb on the Martians.

_____________________________________________________________________
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recommend, because it is a wuss-a-rama New-Age computer that you
basically just plug in and use"
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_____________________________________________________________________
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=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:47:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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"Jeff Fuller" asks
>Is the broadcast on Mercury Theatre the only adaptation done on
>radio of the [removed] Wells classic? I don't know of any other version. Did
>other programs do one in perhaps a more traditional way, that [removed]
>Wells may have approved of?

Don't know if Wells would have approved, but there was the 50th Anniversary
version from Otherwold Media, and the [removed] Theatre version with what
some of us refer to as the "Star Trek" cast.  

The 50th, I think, is very close to what Wells would have done having the
current technology.  
+++++ Henry Howard == The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company +++++
+++ [removed]   or  /artc /audiocraft+++
+++++    Produced at Audio Craft  (770) 923-7955        +++++
  ======================================================= (7)

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:49:47 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Beaumont, OCee Ritch, etc.
Message-ID: <961105124945_1880954286@[removed]>

Marty Jukovsky suggests that I may have been thinking of a comic strip when I
offered the name McNutt in re: Charles Beaumont. Well, yes and no.

The great cartoonist Rube Goldberg invented a character named "Boob McNutt"
and featured him in a Sunday comics feature of the same name, that ran from
1915 through 1934 -- a good, long run for a comic strip. 

And Marty is either a good researcher or has a damned good memory to remember
Boob McNutt. Jeepers, the strip was discontinued before even I was born, and
that's going some!

But as for the "Static" episode of "Twilight Zone," I checked out the writing
credits with Frank Robinson, as promised, and here is the skinny as provided
by Frank. I think I kept it straight . . .

Charles Nutt was the writer's "birth name," and in his younger years he got
tired of schoolyard jokes about "Ches" Nutt and "Wal" Nutt. [These,
incidentally, correspond with another comic strip of the era, "The Nutt
Brothers, Ches and Wal." This strip included a little fellow who loved
nothing more than to stand around watching parades. He had a bulbous nose and
a long beard, and wore a kind of very long tee shirt or gown, and is the
prototype of Robert Crumb's Mister Natural. His favorite expression -- honk
if you remember this one -- was "Nov Shmoz ka pop!" Come on, Marty, you
remember the little parade-watcher!]

Tired of name jokes, Charles Nutt changed his name to Charles McNutt.

But the change failed to do the trick. Jokes persisted, so he changed his
name again, this time going to court to do it formally and legally, to
Charles Beaumont.

He died, incidentally, at a tragically early age, of early-onset Alzheimer's.
Bet you didn't know about that -- one more thing to worry about, next time
you can't find your keys.

As for OCee Ritch, I don't know the origin of the odd spelling, but my guess
is that the guy's name was [removed] and he elided the initials into a word.

Robinson tells me that Beaumont was a part-time race car driver. Amateur,
professional, or semi-pro, he didn't know. But he attained a certain
celebrity from this activity, and developed a small circle of admirers,
friends, and hangers-on. Several of these were people he'd known through
Hollywood writing circles. This group included George Clayton Johnson,
William F. Nowlan, and -- OCee Ritch.

When Beaument started writing "Twilight Zone" scripts for Serling, he would
sometimes take story ideas from friends, develop them into scripts, and then
share screen credit (and dollars) with the person who provided the story.
Apparently, Ritch gave Beaumont the idea for "Static." Beaumont developed the
script, and the rest is history.

Hence the odd line in the TZ reference book that refers to an "unpublished
story" by Ritch.

This trivia, at best remotely related to OTR, has been brought to you by the
Lupoff Research Service. 

Please remit promptly.

Yours truly,

RAL

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:11:16 -0500
From: SeptSev@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: KARLOFF IN A MUSICAL
Message-ID: <961105131115_1081094828@[removed]>

Wild guess [removed] could it have been an early musical version of Peter Pan,
with Karloff as Hook? (I know "Drink Blood" makes one think of Dracula, but
was there ever a musical version of same?)
Regards
[removed] Bray

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:07:49 -0500
From: NORIAC@[removed]
To:   otr@[removed]
Subject: RE: SUSTAINING SHOWS
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

X-URL: [removed]~wdp/OTR_[removed]
X-Mailer: Lynx, Version [removed]
X-Personal_name: Joseph Gallant
X-From: notquite@[removed]

I once read in a history of CBS ("CBS:" written 1975 by Robert Metz) that
 it was NBC early on that made stations pay for sustaining programs, but
 after 1928, CBS offered sustaining programs to affiliates free of charge.
 According to Metz' book, NBC had to soon change this practice.

Joseph Gallant

notquite@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:40:13 -0500
From: LBohall@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: LBohall@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Theatre Hour
Message-ID: <961105144012_1416965084@[removed]>

Does anyone know if the Radio Theatre Hour is still in production? It was
started with some fanfare around Jan. [removed] was supposed to be released
on 300 stations when it hit full stride. However, it never reached the Kansas
City market (apparently). It would be nice to know if the show is still up
and running. Thanks!
Larry D. Bohall <><
"Never fail to believe what you cannot understand, for the world is full of
wonders." L. Frank Baum

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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 16:02:17 -0800
From: Reference Desk <refdesk@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Dotie Lamour
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I quite appreciated Steven Lewis' posting about Dorothy Lammour's
passing.  I surely noticed that sad occurance; I was bummed for several
days.  I especially love "The Road to Hollywood" episode on Bing's
Philco Radio Time; that episode was one of the things that made me a fan
of Lamour (a radio show, not the [removed])  She also had on on-air
"feud" with Lou Costello that was quite funny.  Although the general
public didn't mention much about this talented artist's passing (except
for the sarong that she wore), she will be sorely missed.

Thanks for remembering, Steven Lewis.

David Stoner
sf7tq@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 18:42:48 -0600 (CST)
From: wdp (Bill Pfeiffer)
To: otr@[removed] (Old Time Radio)
Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Using correct subject lines
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Greetings:

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