Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #316
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Date: 10/2/2004 4:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 316
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      SAM SPADE live this Sunday            [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
      RE: Why so many "spooky" shows?       [ "Lou Giliberto" <kd7hcw@[removed]; ]
      Re: Scott Muni                        [ Mark J Cuccia <mcuccia@[removed]; ]
      10-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Old Time Radio Program in Waltham, M  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Dunning on sale                       [ "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@comc ]

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:34:19 -0400
    From: StevenL751@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SAM SPADE live this Sunday

    The Gotham Radio Players
    present

    THE  ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE
    "The Picture-Frame Caper"

    Live!  This  Sunday, October 3rd
    7:00pm (Eastern)

    WBAI, [removed] FM in New York  City
    Webcast worldwide at [removed]

    The Gotham Radio  Players and Wildroot Cream Oil (again and again the choice
    of men, and women and  children, too!) are pleased to bring back to the
    airwaves the greatest private  detective of them all, Sam Spade, in a
    long-lost
    adventure that hasn't been  heard since it's original broadcast more than 54
    years ago.

    Sam  Spade goes Hollywood, when beautiful screen star Lois Beyrou hires him
    to  protect her from a stalker.  But all is not as it seems.  Before this
    gruesome caper is over there's plenty of stealing and shooting, not to
    mention a
    punctured beret.  Thrilling adventure!  Love-crazed  madness!  Killer on the
    loose!  It's an "In-Between" picture, not good  enough for movies and too good
    for television.  So break out that bottle of  Missionary's Downfall, and join
    us this coming Sunday, as Sam dictates to Effie  the case he calls "The
    Picture-Frame Caper," or "Hollywood is Cracked Up - to Be  What It Is!"

    I am also very pleased to announce that the Gotham  Radio Players can soon be
    seen performing live and in person at this year's  Friends of Old-Time Radio
    Convention.  We will be offering a return  engagement of our recent recreation
    of Morton Wishengrad's acclaimed 1943 drama,  "The Battle of the Warsaw
    Ghetto."  The 29th annual Friends of Old-Time  Radio Convention takes place
    October
    21-24 at the Holiday Inn North, at Newark  Liberty Airport.   The performance
    by the Gotham Radio Players can be  seen that Friday, beginning at 4:45pm.
    For further information about the  Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention,
    please
    go to  [removed].

    The Gotham Radio Players were formed in 1991  by a group of enthusiasts for
    the heyday of radio drama. Our mission is to bring  new productions of classic
    radio programs of the 30's, 40's, and 50's to the  airwaves of the new
    millennium, as well as showcase original scripts written by  the emerging
    audio
    dramatists of today. Now under the leadership of producer Max  Schmid and
    director
    Steven Lewis, the Gotham Radio Players are featured  regularly in live
    performances on WBAI-FM, at the annual "Friends of Old-Time  Radio"
    Convention, and
    at other personal appearances in the New York City  metropolitan area.

    Steve Lewis
    director

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:34:40 -0400
    From: "Lou Giliberto" <kd7hcw@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Why so many "spooky" shows?

    ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; wrote:

>     "Spooky", as in all those radio shows we all can name which set the stage
>     for fright and shock.  Could it have something to do with the historical
>     context, WWII and Korea, which were a real life horror show in real time?

    This discussion came up in a horror writers forum, and people suspect the
    answer is yes.  Currently, written and movie horror is making a slow
    resurgence.  There are a lot more horror movies being released.  With the
    current war in Iraq and terrorism, that would follow the theory.

    As far as TV of the later period, my opinion is that they were much stricter
    about what they would show on screen, so the description of a monster
    killing someone on radio would pale in comparison to showing it on screen in
    gory detail.  After all, the best special effects are in the mind, as we OTR
    fans know. :-)

    -Lou

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:35:53 -0400
    From: Mark J Cuccia <mcuccia@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Scott Muni

    Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; wrote:

>     Legendary DJ Scott Muni dead at 74
>     Personality dominated New York airwaves for decades
>     Wednesday, September 29, 2004

    About a week or two ago, someone reading the list emailed me about one
    of my posts back then about the NBC Chimes, emailed me and we had a
    brief exchange about radio nostalgia. He noticed that I am in New
    Orleans and wondered if I remembered Scott Muni's radio program when
    Muni had the overnight program on WSMB-1350 here in New Orleans in the
    1950s.

    That was before my time, as I was born in 1961. I remember the late
    Larry Regan with a music and talk show overnight most nights of the week
    on WSMB-1350 in the 1960s/70s/80s, and off-and-on with his overnight
    talk show on WWIW-1450 in the 1980s and WTIX-690 in the 1990s.
    And Larry Regan, a local personality, passed away in June 1999. He was
    well into his 70s at the time; during his local music and talk show in
    the overnight hours, he might put on a 15-minute Bickersons skit or some
    other old time radio show for 15 to 30 minutes.

    Anyhow, I have heard the name Scott Muni, but as I mentioned, his days
    here in New Orleans on WSMB-1350 in the overnight hours was in the 1940s
    and 50s, before I was born.

    However, on Wednesday afternoon (29 September 2004), a current WSMB
    talk host, another local perrennial radio legend, Tom Fitzmorris, who
    does a "food" talk show, mostly about restaurant dining (not so much in
    home cooking and recipes though but also a little of that too), happen
    to mention the passing of Scott Muni and that Muni had been on WSMB in
    the 1940s and 50s, and had still been doing a local show in New York
    City. Also, Tom Fitzmorris (who I also remember doing a "food" and
    dining talk show in the 1970s on the old WGSO-1280) is a fan of old time
    radio programs but he doesn't play them on his own "Dining Around"
    program though.

    Mark J. Cuccia
    mcuccia@[removed]
    New Orleans LA CSA

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:18:02 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-2 births/deaths

    October 2nd births

    10-02-1890 - Groucho Marx - NYC - d. 8-19-1977
    comedian: "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"; "Blue Ribbon Town"; "You Bet Your
    Life"
    10-02-1893 - Roy Shield - Waseca, MN - d. 1-9-1962
    conductor: "Design for Listening"; "RCA Victor Show"; "Eternal Light"
    10-02-1896 - Bob Burns - Van Buren, AR - d. 2-2-1956
    comedian: (The Arkansas Traveler) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bob Burns Show"
    10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - IL - d. 8-9-1976
    actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
    10-02-1898 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
    comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
    10-02-1900 - Barton Yarborough - Goldthwaite, TX - d. 12-19-1951
    actor: Ben Romero "Dragnet"; Doc Long "I Love A Mystery/Adventure"
    10-02-1904 - Graham Greene - Berkhampstead, England - d. 4-3-1991
    writer: "Lives of Harry Lime"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    10-02-1909 - Alexander Raymond - New Rochelle - d. 9-6-1956
    cartoonist: Created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim
    10-02-1914 - Charles Drake - Bayside, NYC - d. 9-10-1994
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    10-02-1915 - Chubby Wise - Lake City, FL - d. 1-6-1996
    musician: "Town and Country Time"
    10-02-1934 - Peggy Joan Moylan - Sag Harbor, NY
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters, Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"

    October 2nd deaths

    02-10-1913 - James Monk - d. 10-2-1994
    actor: [removed] Moto "Mr. Moto"; Jim Brandon "The Avenger"
    02-26-1906 - Madeleine Carroll - West Bromwich, England - d. 10-2-1987
    actress: "The Circle"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
    actor: "Tony Awards"
    03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
    actor: Randy 'Lucky' Stone "Nightbeat"; Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad (Raised: [removed]) - d.
    10-2-1981
    singer, pianist: "Free World Theatre"; "New World A-Coming"
    07-14-1912 - Woody Guthrie - Okemah, OK - d. 10-2-1967
    songwriter, singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-18-1909 - Harriet Nelson - Des Moines, IA - d. 10-2-1994
    actress: Daisy June "Red Skelton Show"; "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    09-29-1907 - Gene Autry - Tioga, TX - d. 10-2-1998
    singer, actor: "National Barn Dance"; "Melody Ranch"
    11-17-1925 - Rock Hudson - Winnetka, IL - d. 10-2-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:54:01 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old Time Radio Program in Waltham, MA

    For those in the area, this looks like it might be of interest,

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:31:26 -0400
    From: "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dunning on sale

    Someone may have already reported on this, but I received a flier in today's
    mail from Oxford University Press--and John Dunning's OTR bible, On the Air:
    The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio is currently on sale for $[removed]  I don't
    ever remember the price of the book being that low, and perhaps it would be
    a good opportunity for someone new to the hobby to get a great deal on a
    must-have book:
    [removed];ci
    =0195076788

    As always, the usual disclaimers apply--I am not affiliated with Mr. D nor
    Oxford, but I certainly wouldn't object to payments from either of them
    being sent to my Swiss bank account.  (Kidding, I'm [removed])

    Ivan
    ----
    Classic movies, television and old-time radio at Thrilling Days of
    Yesteryear! [removed]

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