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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 18


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 40's radio disks for sale
	 Last Jack Benny Show
	 1920s Call Letters
	 Need Back Issues
	 Lights Out story name quandry
	 Radio Books
	 whistler
	 Introduction

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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:49:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Dan Hughes <dhughes@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 40's radio disks for sale
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

This is from the "vinyl for sale" newsgroup:

 Article #5279 (5328 is last):
From: Vasudha@[removed] (Vasudha Dillon)
Subject: 1940's Radio Shows for sale 16" 33 1/3 on vinyl
Newsgroups: [removed]
Date: Sat Jan 13 05:54:26 1996
 
 HOLLYWOOD OPEN HOUSE
 
 
NBC Orthacoustic Radio Transcriptions  on 16" vinyl dics 33 1/3 RPM 
in excellent condition
 
Produced by Kermit-Raymond Corp. Radio Recording Division of National 
Broadcasting Co.
 
Program 2} LOUIS RAINER w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, Patricia 
Gilmore and Jim
Ameche.
 
Program 3} GLENDA FARRELL w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, Patricia 
Gilmore, Jim
Ameche and Harry Kool,
 
Program 4} ALLAN JONES w/Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, P. Gilmore, 
Eddie Mayhoff,
J. Ameche.
 
Program 5} RUTH CHATTERTON w/ E. Madriguera & Orchestra, P. Gilmore, H. Kool,
J. Ameche.
 
Program 6} HILDEGARDE AND RAGS RAGLAND w/E. Madriguera & Orchestra, J.
Ameche.
 
Program 7} MARGO AND HENNY YOUNGMAN w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, J.
Ameche, Patricia Gilmore.
 
Program 8} ANN RUTHERFORD AND HENNY YOUNGMAN w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, Harry Kool, Jim Ameche.
 
Program 9}* CONSTANCE BENNETT/BLOCK AND SULLY w/ Enric Madriguera & 
Orchestra w/ Patricia Gilmore and J. Ameche, Harry Kool.
 
Program 10} GLENDA FARRELL AND JAN MURRAY, w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, P. Gilmore, J. Ameche.
 
Program 11} FAY WRAY AND JOSEPH CALLEIA, w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra,
H. Kool, J. Ameche,  Harrington E. Hyers.
 
* on red vinyl
 
 
Program 12} ELISA MAXWELL AND GREGORY RATOFF, w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, J. Ameche, P. Gilmore.
 
Program 13} NEIL HAMILTON AND SKIPPY HOMIER,w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, H. Kool, J. Ameche, Henny Youngman.
 
Program 14} FAY WRAY AND EDDIE NORRIS,  w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra,
J. Ameche, P. Gilmore, Morey Amsterdam, Mabel Todd.
 
Program 15} WENDY BARRIE, w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, Jack Waldron, 
Jerry
Cooper, J. Ameche.
 
Program 17} KAY FRANCIS w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, Wesson 
Brothers, Jerry
Cooper, J. Ameche.
 
Program 18} JANE WITHERS* w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra, Peter Donald, P.
Gilmore, J. Ameche.* Recorded on one side with RCA logo embossed on reverse.
 
Program 20} RICHARD ARLEN, GUY KIBBE, HENNY YOUNGMAN w/ Enric
Madriguera & Orchestra,  J. Ameche, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Jerry Cooper.
 
Program 21} STEWART ERWIN, GUY KIBBE, GEORGE GIVOT w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, P. Gilmore, J. Ameche, Edith Fellows, Jay Hodges.
 
Program 22} MARGO AND THE WESSON BROTHERS w/ Enric Madriguera & Orchestra
Jerry Cooper, J. Ameche.
 
Program 26} BONITA GRANVILLE AND WALTER ABEL w/ Enric Madriguera &
Orchestra, H. Kool, Mary Wickes, J. Ameche.
 
Program 28} MARTHA SCOTT w/ Ray Bloch Orchestra, J. Ameche, Stroud Twins and
Danny O'Neil. 
 
Program 29} WALTER ABEL w/ Jean Parker, and Henny Youngman, J. Ameche, Ray
Bloch and [removed] Monika Lewis.
 
Program 30} PHIL REGAN, Adele Astaire, J. Murray, J. Ameche, Ray Bloch and
Orchestra.
 
Program 31} FAY EMERSON, Morey Amsterdam and Bobby Doyle, J. Ameche and Ray
Bloch & Orchestra.
 
Program 32} JACK PEARL, J. Ameche, Francis Faye, Ray Bloch & Orchestra.
 
Program 35} HELMUT DANTINE AND HENNY YOUNGMAN, J. Ameche , Ray Bloch
& Orchestra.
 
Program 36} FAYE EMERSON AND LENNY KENT, Jerry Cooper.
 
Program 37} ROLAND YOUNG AND JOHNNY MORGAN, J. Ameche, Ray Bloch and
Orchestra, w/ Monika Lewis.
 
Program 38} DIANA BARRYMORE AND LEW PARKER, J. Ameche, R. Bloch and
Orchestra. Nobel and King.
 
Program 41} ROLAND YOUNG AND ROMO VINCENT w/ Ray Bloch and Orchestra,
J. Ameche, Merie Greene.
 
Program 43} JACKIE GLEASON, ROGER PRYOR and ZASU PITTS, J. Ameche, Merie
Greene, Ray Bloch and Orchestra.
 
Program 44} MISCHA AUER, Joey Adams, Tony Canzonerri, Mark Plant, Nan 
Wynn, J.
Ameche, Ray Bloch and Orchestra.
 
Program 45} JOHN CARRIDINE, Edith Fellows, Danny O'Neil, Frankie 
Thomas, Cameron
Andrews and the Norman Luboff Choir with J. Ameche and Ray Bloch and 
Orchestra.
 
Program 47} RODDY McDOWELL AND MOREY AMSTERDAM, J. Ameche, Bea Wain,
And Ray Bloch Orchestra.
 
Program 50} BERT LAHR with J. Ameche, Danny O'Neil, Diane Courtney, 
Ray Bloch and
Orchestra.
 
In addition to these I also have some copies of the preceeding 
programs which have hand
written labels and are recorded on one side.  
 
All recording are in excelent condition and in the original sleeves.  
I would like to
communicate with anyone who has interest in these recordings.
      

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:17:52 -0500 (EST)
From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Last Jack Benny Show
Message-id: <01HZZFELH0369AQGGK@[removed]>

Know what?  I've been out of town (gee what a surprise).

Without looking it up, I believe I recall that _McGuire the Liar_ was the
song on the last show.  Also without looking it up, it had been some time 
that Mary had not been in the studio for the show.  She had tremendous stage
fright, and had often taken to fainting right after the show (not helped by
her hypoglycemia).  Thus she would record her lines sitting in her room at
home, and they would be edited into the performance (I, too, am still amazed
at the deftness with which this was done).  I think Joan only read Mary's 
lines once or twice (but not positive);  this is definitely another actress
doing Mary's part on the last show (and I hate to say, a pale substitute).

Why would someone edit out Dennis' song?  Could be several reasons that I can
think of;  there may have been a copyright problem with specifically that 
song at some time.  Someone may have edited the song out at some time (and
the commercials perhaps), and when someone later tried to restore it, they
put in the wrong song.  Or there's an outside possibility (although I doubt
this highly) that the two separate performances (if they were still doing 
this at this point) for east and west coast may have had a change in song for
some odd reason, but didn't have the chance to rewrite the later reference.
I would guess that it's the second one (edit and restore), maybe from an AFRS
copy.

--Laura Lee
International Jack Benny Fan Club

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 02:47 CST
From: JeffM@[removed] (Jeff Miller)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: 1920s Call Letters
Message-Id: <m0tbO5t-000Y1VC@[removed]>

I have compiled a list showing the significance of about 300 1920s
call letters.  The list contains almost all of the requested call
letters of that decade (most calls back then were issued from an
alphabetical sequence).  I have listed below the calls whose
significance I do not know or am unsure of.  If you believe you know
the significance of any of these calls, please e-mail me with that
information and I'll e-mail the entire list back to you.  I actually
posted the entire list to this group recently, but it was apparently
rejected for being too long.  Thanks.

Jeff Miller
New Port Richey, FL

KLCN  Blytheville AR    Daily Courier-News (?)
KLBN  Little Rock AR
KMIC  Inglewood CA    Inglewood, California (?)
KRLO  Los Angeles CA
KNRC  Los Angeles CA
KPLA  Los Angeles CA    Pacific Los Angeles (?)
KWTC  Santa Ana CA     Come West to California (?)
WOL   Washington DC
KSEI  Pocatello ID
WBCN  Chicago IL
WCLS  Joliet IL
WOCG  Sycamore IL
WPEP  Waukegan IL
WGL   Fort Wayne IN
WOWO  Fort Wayne IN
WHOG  Huntington IN
KWCR  Cedar Rapids IA   Cedar Rapids (?)
WFIW  Hopkinsville KY
WDSU  New Orleans LA
KRAC  Shreveport LA    Caddo Radio Club (?)
WSSH  Boston MA
WBIS  Boston MA       Shepard Stores (?)
WEPS  Gloucester MA
WAFD  Detroit MI
WBDC  Grand Rapids MI
WAGM  Royal Oak MI
WMCO  Saginaw MI
KUPR  Omaha NE
WDCH  Hanover NH
WHPP  Englewood Cliffs NJ Happy (?)
WBMS  Union City NJ
WRST  Bay Shore NY
WINR  Bay Shore NY
WBRS  Brooklyn NY      Brooklyn Radio Station (?)
WPDQ  Buffalo NY
WKEN  Buffalo NY      Kenmore (?)
WGOP  Flushing NY      Grand Old Party (?)
WJUG  New York NY
WOKO  New York NY
WWGL  Richmond Hill NY
WOKT  Rochester NY
KIOS  Eugene OR
KOOS  Marshfield OR
KOIN  Portland OR
KWBS  Portland OR
WDOD  Chattanooga TN
WSIX  Springfield TN    638 Tire & Vulcanizing Co. (?)
WCFT  Tullahoma TN
KWWG  Brownsville TX
KRLD  Dallas TX       Radio Labs of Dallas (?)
KTUE  Houston TX      Uhalt Electric (?)
KTAP  San Antonio TX
KROX  Seattle WA
KOWW  Walla Walla WA    Walla Walla (?)
WKDR  Kenosha WI      Kenosha Edward A. Dato (?)
WGWB  Milwaukee WI
WRJN  Racine WI
WRRS  Racine WI

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 04:25:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill P <rrb@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed] (Old Time Radio)
Subject: Need Back Issues
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Dear Readers

I need back issues 95/473 through 95/479  I deleted a directory by
mistake.

Please write me and let me know that you have these issues and can
send them to me.  

Please do not send the issues.  I only need them once, thank you <g>..

I appreciate the help.

William Pfeiffer
List Administrator

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 09:48:04 -0500
From: Jblackie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lights Out story name quandry
Message-ID: <960114094802_41291587@[removed]>

Hello all-

I've just been listening to some tapes I either never got to or had
forgotten, and found something interesting.  The tape was traded from another
collector and was labeled "And Adam Begot."  Somewhere I had found that this
episode is also known as "Across the Gap."  Maybe.  But upon playing it, it
turned out to be an episode I had previously obtained (twice, both in bad
shape sound-wise) called "Neanderthal."  It involves a car filled with 2 men
& a woman, traveling down a road in Europe when they turn a curve, car goes
out of control, they go down a cliff and awaken in Neanderthal times, meeting
with (of course) a killer Neanderthal who breaks the arms & legs of the men
(while the woman is off looking around) and prepares to kill them later (for
food?).  Strange, historically WRONG in its depiction of the Neaderthals, but
good fun, away.  Which episode IS this?  Is it all three?

Well, I know that Arch Oboler had programs called 

 _Arch_Oboler's_Plays_ 

_Lights_Out_

and 

_The Devil & [removed] (re-broadcasts of LO, I understand)

Could these be different incarnations of the same program?  Are they all the
same indeed, or have I been mis-led by a collector?  Episode names are
sometimes questionable, but Oboler was usually VERY good in telling the
listener the name of the piece.  

Any help out there?  Does someone have these episode titles with different
plots?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim Blackie

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:37:26 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio Books
Message-id: <01HZZZ4A74TI8X069P@[removed]>

Four radio related books of note from Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller,
Falls Village, CT  06031-5000

543705 Sherlock Holmes & the Masquerade Murders by Frank Thomas
       (aka Tom Corbett) $[removed]
354430 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio by Tom Lewis $[removed]
631167 Man of Magic & Mystery: A Guide to the Work of Walter B. Gibson $[removed]
686638 Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs  $[removed]

$[removed] Postage and Handling.  Quantaties Limited.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:53:31 -0500 (EST)
From: MORTN2HHC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: whistler
Message-id: <01HZZZTLX0EA98C00M@[removed]>

Hi gang,

I am looking for a whistler episode called "clayton house."  I
can't find it in anybody's catalog.  I would appreciate any help. 
Thanks.

                                        *73*
                                        Mort
                                mortn2hhc@[removed]

        A hundred years ago Hester Prynn of the THE SCARLET LETTER was
        given an A for adultery.  Today she would rate no better than a
        C-plus.  Peter De Vries
        

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:36:02 -0600 (CST)
From: barrym <barrym@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I'm a new subscriber to this list.  I only learned of it today from
someone in the Audiobooks listserve, to which I also subscribe.

I'm 55 years old, so I do remember what is now called old time radio.

I remember Saturday mornings sitting with my brother and 1 or 2 of our
friends in the yard near the window near the radio with it turned up
enough so we could sit in the grass and listen.  We heard "Let's
Pretend" and "No School Today" and "Buster Brown" and others that I
can't recall now.

At night the family would listen to the variety shows and the comedies
and mysteries.  My personal favorites was "Baby Snooks" and later,
"Burns and Allen".  I guess that's still my favorite.

I remember listening to the weekly dramas as much as I could.  I don't
remember the names of most of them now, but they were plays performed
on radio.  I think that Halmark Hall of Fame might have been one.

In recent years I've bought a number of tapes of the old broadcasts as
they've become available.  I'm particularly fond of "Suspense" and I
think I was back then, too.

Some of the tapes of the otr shows are ones I don't recall at all.  For
example "I Love a Mystery".  I've only heard it on tape as far as I know,
and I wish more of them were available.

The current Audiophile magazine has an article explaining that most of the
old shows are lost now.  I'm very sad to hear that.  I think they're an
important part of our history.

Like everyone, I suppose, I migrated to TV for entertainment when there
were no more stories on the radio.  But I missed them.  When I said so
people thought I was a little bit crazy.  I've always been a pretty
avid reader, too, and about 7 or 8 years ago I began having vision
problems that limit my reading to technical things I need for my career.
I began substituting Audiobooks.  I soon found myself listening to
them and not watching TV at all.  Finally, last year, I gave my TV to
my sister because I had only turned it on about 3 times a year for
several years.  The reason:  I just don't find TV to be very good
entertaining.  It's trite and silly and there's much too much hype for
my tastes.

I usually don't write long messages on listserves and newsgroups, but
it looks like I did this time.  I'll generally keep them short.

Barry

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