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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 206


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Vinyl Cassette Albums
	 radio soap opera theme
	 Collector's Radio Network
	 re : Lone Ranger's Family
	 Behind-the-scenes at Radio Broadcast
	 BBC and Programs from Other Countries
	 Re: Vinyl Cassette Albums
	 One Ranger's Family comments
	 Remember WENN - Rollins episode

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 96 16:11:32 UT
From: "Bruce Rosenberger" <BR3D@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Cc: marc-a@[removed]
Subject: Vinyl Cassette Albums
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Marcus Antonsson asked about cassette storage albums in OTR # 202.

National Audio Company, Inc.
Box 3657 Glenstone Station
Springfield MO 65808

Phone: (417) 863-1925
Fax: (417) 863-7825

I have never dealt with this company, but noticed the name on a box shipped to 
a local OTR dealer and found the address at the library. Their catalogue 
carries many useful items like blank tapes, labels, HS copiers, and the vinyl 
albums you asked about (they have ones that hold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 
16.
I was going to buy blank tapes from them, but found a local distributor that 
carries Maxell brand dup tapes for only a few cents more. (Excellent quality 
BTW!).

Bruce M. Rosenberger

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:01:19 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: radio soap opera theme
Message-ID: <960609130119_552537064@[removed]>

Here's a question recently asked of me by one of my listeners.
She says Tchaikowvsky's Symphony #6 in B Minor, Op 74 "Pathetique" Movement
I, Adagio, Allegro no troppo sounds exactly like a soap opera theme, and
actually sent a copy of the music.
Of course, I'm totally stumped by this one since soaps are not one of my
areas of focus.  Any clues?
-Bob Burnham;  BRC Productions
Platecap@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:53:35 -0400
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Collector's Radio Network
Message-ID: <960609135334_213659157@[removed]>

According to an announcement recently published in trade publications and
made at this years NAB convention in Las Vegas, Collector's Radio Network
will unveil a 24-hour broadcast schedule in the Fall.  Music and old time
radio will have a place in the broadcast schedule although not in the
traditional sense.  The format rather, is a live interactive concept which
will feature listener participation, special guests, occassional excerpts,
and possible occassional recreations. 
A lively, fast moving format with personable hosts will be the mainstay of
Collector's Radio Network.  The network - the first to be based in the state
of Michigan - will originate from a newly constructed fully digital facility
in Dearborn, Michigan, which replaces the old site used for the past year.
A free Collector's Radio Network Newsletter is now available upon request.  A
web site featuring RealAudio feeds will be available at a later date.
Programming will be distributed to affiliate radio stations via digital
stereo transponder on Satcom C-5 (Note:  Sorry, the format is not receivable
on most home satellite backyard dishes).
Represented by:  Abernat Roxben & Boggs
More Information: Kevin Starks, Collector's Radio Network, [removed]
 1-800-739-7900  FAX 313-359-0331.  e-mail KStarks@[removed]

Bob Burnham; BRC Productions; Platecap@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:36:17 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re : Lone Ranger's Family
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

     I have the same information that Steve Lewis posted, but I was 
     wondering where Dan Reid (SR.) is mentioned by name. All the tapes I 
     have only mention him as Captain Reid. Does anyone have an episode 
     name ?

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 96 12:12 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Behind-the-scenes at Radio Broadcast
Message-Id: <m0uSpux-0004ffC@[removed]>

"Breakfast at Sardi's" was a morning radio show held  at the famous Sardi's
restaurant in Hollywood.  One summer when I was young, I went to the show
along with my mother and grandmother.  All the ladies received corsages as
they entered the restaurant, and were served, I believe, coffee and juice.
It was exciting to see all the sketches of the stars on the walls.

Tom Breneman [removed]'d the show, which employed audience participation, and he
asked silly questions, tried on hats of the ladies, interviewed people,
giving orchids out right and left.  One of the "contests" was for the oldest
lady in the audience.  Of course, to a young person, her own grandmother
seems the oldest person, and I frantically waved my hand and pointed to my
grandmother.  She became very flustered and tried to wave Brenaman away.
She would never tell anyone her age, and prided herself on "looking young".
The poor lady was perhaps in her 50's at the time, so Brenaman, after asking
her age on the air, went on to find someone who was in her 80's.  

I have a souvenir of that show - a silver ring shaped like an orchid.

Lois Culver
Grants Pass OR

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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 15:43:50 -0700
From: Jim Kitchen <jkitchen@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: BBC and Programs from Other Countries
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

[removed]@[removed] in OTR Volume 96, issue 197, dated June 2, 1996 asks about BBC 
programs, and other programs from Australia and South Africa.  There are some excellent 
programs in the BBC Radio Collection. There's Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Dobbs as 
Sherlock and Norman Shelly as Doctor Watson, other Sherlocks with Sir John Gielgud and 
Ralph Richardson as Holmes and Watson, and Clive Morrison and Michael Williams in the 
Holmes and Watson roles.

There's Mysteries by famous English Authors such as Dame Agatha Christie's Hercule 
Poirot and Miss Marple, Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey staring Ian Carmichael who 
started in the TV versions and Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael staring Michael Hordern.

Adventures in Cassetts had some Agatha Christe and P. D. James programs last year.  
Radio Spirits has some Agatha Christie in their latest catalog.  Radio Spirits calls 
these programs NEW TIME RADIO!  The best source is the BBC Radio Store, Bush House, 
London.  Well worth the visit for a Radio Fan if you are ever in London.  The English do 
a fantastic job dramatising these stories which are usually set in England.  Many are 
radio versions from the popular PBS Mystery and Masterpiece Theater series.

I have The Creaking Door album produced by Adventures in Cassetts.  The jacket says, 
"These excellent drama produced in South Africa in the 1950' feature so many odd twists 
that you'll be both fascinated and surprised by every show!"

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) produced Vanishing Point beginning in 1985. 
These riveting and unusual mysteries have been favorably compared to Rod Serling's "The 
Twilight Zone."  Wireless had two volumes of Vanishing Point several years ago.

New Time Radio programs are usually stereo which really enhances their enjoyment!!

Jim Kitchen

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 21:21:57 -0400
From: JanBach@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Vinyl Cassette Albums
Message-ID: <960609212156_131387765@[removed]>

Hello again --
This matter comes up frequently in the OTR Digest -- I believe it was only a
couple of weeks ago that someone else mentioned Polyline Corporation in
connection with something or other. I have found their cassette albums to be
very dependable and reasonably cheap. Their latest catalog (March 96) shows
albums for one, two, three, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen
cassettes -- just about every size as well. And they also have storage for
DAT tape and a variety of other media. They are at 1233 Rand Road in Des
Plaines IL 60016 (847-390-7744) and they now have two catalogs available for
the asking: one for audio recording and duplicating, the other for
software/multimedia packaging and mailing (which includes their blank media).
Give them a try, Marcus!

Jan Bach 

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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 19:33:58
From: "Chester L. Cox" <ChetEL@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: One Ranger's Family comments
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Jes' a few things to add to Michael Carreher's excellent "One 
Ranger's Family" (what an inspired title!) post.  The Lone Ranger's 
name was never, according to many sources, mentioned on the radio 
program and I doubt it was on the TV show.  Evidently, that 
horrible movie with Klinton Spillsbury (who evidently was such a 
masterful actor that we've seen him in dozens of plays and movies 
since then, right?) was the first to name him "John."  Myself, I've 
always harboured the suspicion that the masked rider of the plains 
was named "Britt."  (And does anyone know if anything ever came of 
the red herrings they dropped about the Ranger's identity before 
the first serial?  There was a LOT of hints that his face or name 
was well-known in the time period.)

Have noticed that the official spelling of Reid is with an I 
instead of two Es.  Also note that it really doesn't matter on 
radio (or TV), does it?

For anyone who would like to see further development on the Lone 
Ranger/Green Hornet relationship, the first few issues of the first 
run (I think they're into their third volume now) of NOW Comics' 
Green Hornet title very entertainingly showed the connection, 
though they couldn't use the NAME "Lone Ranger."  The premise is 
that the radio Hornet was the son of Dan Reid, that the 1960s TV 
Hornet was HIS son (or nephew, I've forgotten), and that there's a 
current one in 1996.  A real family tradition, y'might say.

Finally, few people remember how Gran'ma Frisbee not only raised 
Dan Reid from a baby, but also fried the toughest pancakes in the 
West.  Unable to eat the durned things, Dan and his friends would 
hurl them discus-style for competition, and named after Gran'[removed]

*jeep!
~~~~~~Chet-EL

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:35:14 -0500
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN - Rollins episode
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I thought this past weekend's instalment of "Remember WENN," with Howard
Rollins, was - while still being firmly rooted in fantasyland - a
provocative, enjoyable story.  (And how wonderful to see Rollins back on
top of his game.) 
It got me to wondering:  we all know that characters of various ethnicities
were almost always played by white actors, in those days - but does anyone
know of any historical cases of there being black radio actors who
portrayed characters not of that color?  
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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