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Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:14:34 +0000
From: "Nichole Baxter"
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To:
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Subject: Re: April Fools is Foolish
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>>Isn't that what Elizabeth's April 1 posting was all
about - a starting point for one's imagination?
I'm a newcomer to this list,
*and* catching up on my
reading, so sorry this is a bit late. I'd just like
to put in my two cents which is that I've never
understood the appeal of pranks and jokes when it
involves deceiving someone. Such things are all
dangerous to one degree or another. I don't
understand why people could feel proud at making
someone else feel like a fool.
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[removed] im not big on April Fool's day. But even i have been on the bad
end of some pranks. Considering my birthday is 4 days after April 1st, i
get some pretty bad jokes played on me, and in the [removed] there just to be
laughed at! Nothing more! Nothing less!
Baby Snooks
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:15:26 +0000
From: "HARLAN ZINCK"
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To:
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Subject: Re: A&A Cast Photo
My thanks to Elizabeth McLeod
<lizmcl@[removed];, who kindly supplied us
with the URL to the Amos & Andy 1948 cast photo I recall seeing years ago -
and at her own site, yet, at
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I had spent considerable time reading the content of her outstanding "Amos
'n' Andy" site a year or so ago, but it seems the memory of the photo's
appearance there just didn't stick with me.
Speaking of memory, in viewing the photo again, I was surprised to note that
there were fewer black performers than I recalled, though indeed nine are
pictured - James Baskett, Lou Lubin, Wonderful Smith, Ernestine Wade, Eddie
Green, and the four Jubilaires. However, out of performing cast of what
appears to be perhaps twelve people (not including announcer Art Gilmore)
and excluding the Jubilaires (because I also excluded the Jeff Alexander
Chorus), that's five black performers out of twelve total - almost half,
which seems a fairly high number for 1948.
I've always presumed that "Amos 'n Andy' hired more black performers per
capita than any other mainstream network show of the same period - a
presumption that makes sense, given the nature of the show. Likewise, Jack
Benny had Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a regular as well as Butterfly
McQueen for one season or so; Eddie Green had been featured on "Duffy's
Tavern;" "Beulah" had Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, and others in the
leading role (following the death of Marlin Hurt, of course); and "The Great
Gildersleeve" had the wonderful Lillian Randolph as Birdie. I suppose we can
also credit the AFRS-produced "Jubilee" with featuring any number of black
performers during its lengthy run - especially host Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
and frequent guest Lena Horne - but this was not a show produced for or
heard via commercial radio.
I'd be curious to know what other similar inroads black performers had made
into maintstream radio at the same time as this 1948 photo was taken - and
whether we can reasonably credit the "Amos 'n' Andy" show with making those
opportunities possible, at least in part.
Harlan
Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:16:16 +0000
From: Herb Harrison
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To:
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Subject: Newsgroups & OTR
Mike, you said:
> You are correct but I wouldn't let any of these folks know that there
> are about 6 to 8 groups in the newsgroups where you can download OTR, both
> american and british. This should be kept as one of the best keep secrets
> between just you and me!"
You knew I was going to ask, so you might as well tell us:
???
Herb Harrison
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:17:32 +0000
From: Herb Harrison
<herbop@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Guide to actors on Suspense & POPUPS
Carolie Minuscule:
> If you can ignore the popups (and I can) this is a great site.
Charlie:
> [ADMINISTRIVIA: Pop-ups are VERY easy to eliminate completely;
> simply turn Javascript OFF in your browser preferences. If you
> visit a site you trust that requires it, simply turn it on
> temporarily, then turn it off when you leave. --cfs3]"
Me: I use a utility called "Pop-Up Stopper". It works on most sites to stop
pop-up ads, and you can activate any pop-ups you need to see with a
simple keyboard command.
Herb Harrison
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:18:32 +0000
From: Herb Harrison
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To:
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Subject: Library of American Broadcasting
Dan Hughes asks:
> Where is the Library of American Broadcasting? Who runs it? Is is open
> to the public? Why have I not heard of it? Or is this the museum in New
> York and I just wasn't paying attention?
I did a Google search. It showed 1,740 entries for "Library of American
Broadcasting". Looks to me like it's a valid organization.
Herb Harrison
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:19:24 +0000
From: Joe Mackey
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To:
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Subject: Today in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day over KDKA.
Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the action in
the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1943 - Nick Carter, Master Detective debuted on Mutual.
Joe
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:19:39 +0000
From: Elizabeth McLeod
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To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Black Comedians on Radio
On 4/11/03 12:29 AM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:
>Afro-Americans were not allowed to perform
>their OWN humor on the radio, so that it had to
>be filtered and somehow "sanitized" through two
>White guys.
This isn't entirely true. Leaving aside the fact that Correll and Gosden
were not primarily a comedy act during their prime years -- they were
dramatists telling a story, not gagsters reaching for laughs -- there
*was* opportunity for at least some black comedians to perform on radio
during the early years of the medium.
A careful look at the radio magazines of the time reveals that
African-American performers were performing comedy on the radio on the
local level as far back as the 1920s -- Jack L. Cooper, The One Man
Minstrel Show in Washington DC and later in Chicago; the comedy team of
"Pop and Fizz" in Cincinnati, "Ephus and Mr. Bodilly" in Chicago, and a
few others. At a time when there was, in fact, very little straight
comedy being performed on radio at all -- nearly all humorous acts were
novelty patter teams in the manner of Jones and Hare -- genuine
African-American humorists did have at least some representation.
There was even more of an African-American presence during the Depression
-- the once-popular stage team of Miller and Lyles reunited for their own
network program on CBS during 1931; the team of Ernie Whitman and Eddie
Green was regularly featured on the "Gibson Family" series in 1932; and
such stage veterans as Tim Moore, Johnny Lee, and Stepin Fetchit (all
performers who honed their skills and characterizations in black
vaudeville before black audiences long before they were ever known to
whites) made guest appearances on various variety series.
Of all variety series of the 1930s, Rudy Vallee's was the most open to
black
talent, pursuing a booking policy that was as close to color-blind as
radio could have been during that era: skin color was irrelevant to
Vallee and his staff. What mattered was talent. Not all radio impresarios
of this era were so open-minded, but certainly the example of Vallee's
program demonstrates that some opportunities did exist and that audiences
and sponsors were open to them. The success of these acts on Vallee's
program, in fact, led his sponsor, Standard Brands, to produce the
first-ever all-African-American network variety series in 1936-37: The
Fleischmann's Yeast Harlem Revue, starring Louis Armstrong and his
Orchestra with Eddie Green as featured comedian.
Elizabeth
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:12:18 -0400
From: ""
<cooldown3@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Amos & Andy
In a precious issue Elizabeth ended with:
" I can't think of any other major performers in
American pop culture who are so well known, yet so poorly understood."
And said above this that her website was primarily to reach 'professors in
training"
How much more available this priceless information would be in a reference
book in college libraries.
There is no permanence in the air, witness the programs themselves as proof.
Please consider publishing. remember in many courses the professor
designates certain book purchases as necessary to the class. As a folklore
student in college I purchased and kept many volumes of recommended reading.
Patrick
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:12:47 +0000
From: Michael Henry
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To:
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Subject: Re: Library of American Broadcasting
To answer Dan's question about the Library of American Broadcasting, we are a
research library at the University of Maryland dedicated to preserving the
history
of radio and television broadcasting. The LAB was founded in 1972 and was
located
in the NAB Building in downtown Washington, DC. Originally known as the
Broadcast
Pioneers Library, it was under the direction of Catharine Heinz until 1994
when it
was moved to the University of Maryland in College Park. With the move, we
grew to
10,000 square ft. of space. Over this last summer, we moved to a larger, newly
renovated 25,000 square ft. location. We share this space and resources
with the
National Public Broadcasting Archives, an organization dedicated to the
history of
public radio and television (see
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Over the last thirty years, our collection has grown to contain thousands
of books,
magazines, photographs, pamphlets, scripts, oral histories, audio
recordings, film
and video recordings, scrapbooks, and artifacts, anything and everything
relating
to radio and television broadcasting. We also have the personal papers of
veteran
broadcasters, including Arthur Godfrey, Helen Sioussat (director of Talks
at CBS),
Parks Johnson (the host and creator of Vox Pop), Alois Havrilla (Jack Benny's
announcer when Benny was still broadcasting from New York), and many other
men and
women involved in all aspects of radio and television broadcasting. You can
learn
more about these resources on our website:
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As you will see on our website, this material covers the entire range of
radio and
television broadcasting, from its pre-commercial days in the 1910's to the
present,
with a concentration on the 1920's thru the 1960's. We document all aspects of
broadcasting: including engineeering, programming, management, regulation,
as well
as the histories of local stations and the networks.
To better serve our wide variety of researchers (high school and college
students,
professional historians, documentary film makers, broadcasters) we continue to
collect the kinds of material that I mentioned above.
We are open for research Monday thru Friday, 10am to 5pm. If you have research
questions, material you wish to donate, or would like any additional
information
about the Library of American Broadcasting, please call (301) 405-9160 or
e-mail
us att:
bp50@[removed]
Sincerely,
Michael Henry, Research Specialist
Library of American Broadcasting
Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-9160
bp50@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:14:23 +0000
From:
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To:
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Subject: Amos n Andy Program Log
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There are many OTR program logs available online, but I have not seen one
for Amos n Andy. Is there one online?
Andrew Steinberg
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:14:49 +0000
From: Dennis W Crow
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To:
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Subject: A Question for Digest Readers
Last evening at an Elderhostel, one of the audience members asked about a
program she listened to in the forties which always started with the music
for "Columbia, the Gem of the Oceans."
I need help from my friends on the list. Do any of you know what program
she might be referencing?
Thank you.
Dennis Crow
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