Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #238
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Date: 8/7/2005 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 238
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Chase And Sanborn Program             [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
      Lum & Abner                           [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
      A third network?                      [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
      OTR [removed]                  [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
      8-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      defending eddie guest                 [ Clif Martin <martbart@[removed]; ]
      Hybrid CD-MP3 Player                  [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Lum and Abner                         [ "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed] ]
      Re: Library                           [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]

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    Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:06:14 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chase And Sanborn Program
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    The show I have starts off with 'Sunny Side of The Street'
    so according to Jerry Haendiges it is the August 12 show.

    The confusing thing to me is Frances Langford says at 2:48 in the program:
    "The boys here as well as all other air stations are looking forward
    to Wednesday August first, that's the 38th anniversary of the
    Army Air Forces which began in nineteen hundred and seven with one
    airplane, one captain, and two enlisted men."

    Does anyone know why she would say this on August 12th?

    Does anyone Ken Carpenter's wedding anniversary date?

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    Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:28:53 -0400
    From: <cooldown3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lum & Abner

    Hi All

    ,Lum and Abner is still on a local station here at 5:15 Am. I am sure it is
    reruns but it still has a local following to.

    PAtrick
    Bowling Green, Ky

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:21:01 -0400
    From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A third network?

    Kenneth Clarke asked:

>         I read that there was a third network besides the
>     NBC Blue and NBC Red networks. It was known as NBC
>     Orange, and dealt with the Pacific coast programs.

    In 1928, the Pacific coast network consisted of KFI-Los Angeles, KPO,
    KGO-San Franscisco, KGW-Potland, KFOA-Settle, and KHQ-Spokane. By 1929,
    KOA Denver,  KSL, Salt Lake City and San Franscisco were linked to make
    the NBC network coast-to-coast. The netwok consisted of a total of
    14,800 circuit miles.

>     Didn't NBC Blue become the ABC radio network?

    Yes. The reason that NBC had to sell the Blue network was because of the
    Chain Broadcasting investigation which began by the FCC in 1938 and
    concluded in 1941. The FCC claimed that the owning of two networks by
    NBC constituted a monoply and NBC was using the Blue network to suppress
    competition against the Red network. Since the FCC powers concerned the
    licensing of stations, not networks a new rule came about to get around
    this. The new FCC ruling was, "No license shall be issued to a standard
    broadcast station affilated with a network organization which maintains
    more than one network". In 1942, the Justice Department filed antitrust
    suits against NBC/RCA and CBS. NBC and CBS called the new ruling illegal
    and appealed to the [removed] Supreme Court. The Court made it's decision on
    May 10, 1943 and upheld by a vote of 5-to-2 the FCC's chain broadcasting
    [removed] put the Blue network up for sale and it was sold to Edward J.
    Noble, who made his fortune in Life Savers candy for $8 million. The
    Blue network became ABC in 1945.

    Bill H.

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:21:26 -0400
    From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR [removed]
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    Hello, OTR fans.
    I am preparing my annual Christmas show for our local theater and I have
    decided to adapt several radio show scritps to the stage. I was wondering if
    anyone had access to, or could point me toward, copies of OTR scripts for
    shows of: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET(especially this one), BELLS OF ST. MARY,
    GOING MY WAY, or any other Christmas themed show? Please let me know if you
    have copies and I will be glad to pay for copying, shipping, [removed] I need them
    as soon as possible and I do not have the time to transcribe the show by hand
    as has been suggested. I have checked online sources already, but some of the
    holiday shows are not easily found.
    Please help out if you can. Contact me off list or on and you may contact me
    via phone at 417/256-9439.
    Thanks so much,
    Randy Story
    West Plains, MO

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 09:38:17 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-7 births/deaths

    August 7th births

    08-07-1883 - Reinald Werrenrath - New York City, NY - d. 9-12-1953
    baaritone: "Old Company Program"
    08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
    activist: "The Big Show"
    08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
    actress: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
    08-07-1909 - Sheldon Stark - New York, NY - d. 2-6-1997
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Straight Arrow"
    08-07-1910 - Freddie Slack - Westby, WI - d. 8-10-1965
    pianist, bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"
    08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
    director: Free lance
    08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
    sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-07-1914 - June Travis - Chicago, IL
    actress: Stormy Curtis/Wilson "Girl Alone"; Bernice Farraday "Arnold Grimm's
    Daughter"
    08-07-1921 - Poni (Jane) Adams - San Antonio, TX
    contestant escort: "Darts  for Dough"
    08-07-1926 - Stan Freberg - Los Angeles, CA
    comedian: "That's Rich"; "Stan Freberg Show"
    08-07-1942 - Garrison Keillor - Anoka, MN
    vocalist, storyteller: "A Prarie Home Companion"

    August 7th deaths

    01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
    comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
    01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
    actor: "I Am An American"; "The Unexpected"
    02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
    singer: "Philco Hour"
    03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d. 8-7-1931
    jazz musician: "Band Remotes"
    05-18-1900 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI (R; Los Angeles, CA)- d. 8-7-1965
    conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
    writer: "This Is Your FBI"
    07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
    actress: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of Honeymoon
    Hill"
    07-27-1920 - Henry "Homer" Haynes - d. 8-7-1971
    comedian: (Homer and Jethro) "Town and Country Time"
    10-20-1922 - John Anderson - Clayton, IL - d. 8-7-1992
    actor: William Clark "Horizons West"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:21:54 -0400
    From: Clif Martin <martbart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  defending eddie guest

    Hey Derek, it takesa heap o effort to type w/ one hand after surgery and
    somebody said it couldn't be [removed] ready for more on behalf of Michigan's
    beloved poet of the people  when   I get my hand back

    Clif Martin

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:42:19 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hybrid CD-MP3 Player

    Walmart has another hybrid MP3 player in their stores. This one is superior
    to the short-lived unit offered a couple of years ago. It sounds good and
    has played the MP3 programs I have given it the last two weeks.

    It does not remember where it was stopped, although I have been leaving it
    in pause mode indefinitely. It plays titles in MS-DOS order, which is often
    not the alphabetical long filename order. It has a bright backlit LCD
    display that I have been covering at night. There is no remote control. I
    have not tried using batteries. The old model went through 6 D-cells in 15
    hours, this one uses 8 D-cells.

    It has a tone selector for "pop, classic, jazz, etc." but not custom
    setting position. It has a good amp and speakers and will play loudly
    without distorting if necessary. It's a basic, but strange looking, table
    radio with AM and FM bands but no tape. The manual says it will play WMA
    files, but I have not tried those.

    Model - Durabrand CD-2086 made by Lenoxx for Walmart. Price $30. You can
    see the radio at the [removed] web site.

    Don Shenbarger

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:42:40 -0400
    From: "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lum and Abner
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    Here in Wisconsin, where "ya sure" and "ach ya" are often heard, I never had a
    problem enjoying Lum and Abner, regardless of their own speech patterns. One
    of my favorites was when Lum was going to be a "famous French chef" and make
    "creepy Suzie-ettes", which were "little pancakes that you pour coal oil over
    and light 'em on fire".

    As for party lines, back in 1977 my girlfriend still had one at her parents'
    farm.

    Jed

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:10:29 -0400
    From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Library

    A few years ago I organized a survey for the Society for American Baseball
    Research on "The Essential Baseball Library." I contacted about 30 people I
    knew had read a lot of baseball books and compiled the stuff I received into
    a article which appeared in one of our journals. I'd like to do the same
    thing for this website, if you folks will help me out. Just send me your
    suggestions and comments, if you like, for "The Essential OTR Library,"
    offlist and I'll put them all together and come up with something we all can
    share. (Besides I want to make sure my library has all the right stuff.)
    Thanks,
    Paul Adomites

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