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Date: 8/9/2005 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 240
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Doc Adams                             [ "Scott Rogers" <srogerssprint5@eart ]
      Doc Adams birth name                  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      Time In Thy Flight                    [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
      Oughts                                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Piece of Cake quiz                    [ "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@veri ]
      party lines                           [ Mark Reesor <mrees@[removed]; ]
      Radio Studio 2005                     [ jjljackson@[removed] ]
      8-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Don Mc Neill's Breaskfast [removed]   [ "Tim Lones" <tlones@[removed]; ]
      Allan Sherman                         [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      RE: Party Lines (OT???)               [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
      Lum and Abner - History of Party Lin  [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
      Re: Chappell Christmas                [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:26:06 -0400
    From: "Scott Rogers" <srogerssprint5@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Doc Adams
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    Doc Adams of Gunsmoke name was Galen Adams. Here is another one: What was
    Festus' mules name?
    -Scott

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:30:27 -0400
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Doc Adams birth name

    on 8/8/05 5:01 PM, Ron Sayles asks:

>     This should be a no brainer for this list, but what was  Gunsmoke's Doc Adams
>     birth name?

    Charles ... on the radio show.  The character was named Doctor Charles
    Adams" by William Conrad himself, because of the character's macabre glee
    (in early episodes) in profiting financially from Matt's gunfights via
    autopsies, etc.

    The Doc Adams of the TV show was renamed Dr. Galen Adams, while Chester was
    Chester Wesley Proudfoot on the radio show and Chester Goode on television.
    I've often wondered if this was done for legal reasons because these
    characters were given their full names by radio cast members who were passed
    up for the TV series. --Anthony Tollin

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:27:32 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Time In Thy Flight

    Rob (erest@[removed]) notes,

>     I was a little disappointed when no one starting saying the date with
>     Twenty-ought-oneas we entered the new century.

    Maybe that's due to the presence of an OTR science-fiction show called
    Two Thousand Plus.  :-)

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:27:46 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Oughts

       Rob wrote --

>     I was a little disappointed when no one starting saying the date with
>     Twenty-ought-oneas we entered the new century.  Always got a smile when
>     some one would says "Hasn't been this cold since 19 ought four"

       Well, I for one do.  When talking about something in the last few
    years I'll say something like, "Well, let's see, it was in ought [removed]"
       "Ought" is used verbally.  I don't recall its usuage in writing,
    which would be "'02" (oh-two), unless its in a story or script form.
       Joe  (Of course I could be [removed])

    --
    Visit my home page:  [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:51:37 -0400
    From: "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Piece of Cake quiz

    Hi,

    Here's my answer to the question asked by Mr. Sayles.  Dr. Adams' first name
    was Charles.

    Just to have a little more fun, here's my piece of cake question:  For whom
    was Dr. Adams named, and who originally suggested his first name?

    Buck Saunders

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:20:03 -0400
    From: Mark Reesor <mrees@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  party lines

    Here in the wilds of Canada - I'm just a couple miles from the Toronto
    border actually, but in a rural area - we had a two party line well into
    the 1990s. Bell called it "semi-private," and the advantage was that you
    didn't hear the other ring. Before that we had a regular party line -
    our ring was two longs. I used to hook a speaker and small amp on to the
    line when using my computer online, so I could hear the click when the
    other party picked up (you weren't supposed to use modems on party
    lines); I came to enjoy hearing the modem squeal! I'm still waiting
    impatiently for Ma Bell to upgrade the wiring so I can get DSL!

    Mark Reesor

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:20:57 -0400
    From: jjljackson@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Studio 2005
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    Hi guys

    I am a little late with this posting, but better late than never.

    American Radio Theater finally has a web-site up   [removed]
    and a page set aside to talk about the Radio Studio event, happening on Sept
    9,10,11, 2005
    [removed]

    Radio Studio 2005 has a combination of old-time recreations and a new
    original drama, featuring some of the great OTR performers, like
    Ivan Cury   (Bobby Benson)
    Barbara Fuller  (One Man's Family)
    Dave Parker    (Lone Ranger)
    Cliff Carpenter   (Terry and the Pirates)
    Jean Rouverol    (One Man's Family)
    Kevin O'Morrison   (playwright, Charlie Wild)
    Esther McVey   (Storyteller)

    We will have some interviews, as well as sharing stories thoughout the
    weekend.  For something a little different, we will be having our rehearsals
    for the shows on Friday and Saturday nights--which are open to all
    participants--whether they want to just watch or be a part of the action.

    The shows we are planning on recording:
    Bobby Benson
    FBI in Peace and War
    Escape--One Eighth Apache
    Bickersons
    Great Gildersleeve #28  Victory Book Drive
    I Love A Mystery--Chapter 2  Tropics Don't Call It Murder
    My Friend Irma
    Easy Aces

    Several of them are scripts that are without recordings, something that ART
    wants to give a voice to.

    The original drama is a story based on the letters of a young soldier in the
    first year of the Civil War. It's called Alonzo's Watch, and is written by
    his great grand-nephew, Mike Wheeler, and Joy Jackson.  If you think along
    the lines of a LUX Radio Theatre, that's the scope of this play. It follows
    the year of Alfred Wheeler's enlistment, from the mustering in, to just
    before Antietam. We are going to have our OTR guests bring the main
    characters to life.  We might even have some Civil War Re-enactors at the
    performance, in their uniforms.

    For information please check the website [removed]
    For reservations, please email  AmerRadioTheater@[removed]

    We are going to have a grand time!

    Joy Jackson
    producer, American Radio Theater
    JJLjackson@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:21:08 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-9 births/deaths

    60th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing

    August 9th births

    08-09-1892 - Joe Emerson - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 9-30-1969
    gospel singer: "Hymns of All Churches"; "Hymn Time"
    08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
    actress: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    08-09-1901 - Charles Farrell - Onset Bay, Cape Cod, MA - d. 5-6-1990
    actor: Verne Albright "My Little Margie"
    08-09-1902 - Zino Francescatti - Marseilles, France - d. 9-17-1991
    violinist: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall Program"
    08-09-1903 - Don Bernard
    director: "Blondie"; "Life of Riley"; "Meet Mr. Meek"
    08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - Nebraska - d. 6-25-1978
    actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer Tucker"
    08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-09-1910 - Snag Werris - New York City, NY - d. 2-27-1987
    writer: "The Comedy Writers Show"; "Quixie Doodles"

    August 9th deaths

    01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - New York City, NY - d. 8-9-1949
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show"; "Burl Ives Sings"
    08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
    commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
    09-20-1899 - Elliot Nugent - Dover, OH - d. 8-9-1980
    actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-25-1906 - Dimitri Shostakovich - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 8-9-1975
    composer: "Four for the Fifth"
    10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - Illinois - d. 8-9-1976
    actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:53:22 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Don Mc Neill's Breaskfast [removed] AM,
     Canton Ohio 1955

    Hello:
    There was an Article in yesterday's Canton,Repository about Canton's 150th
    anniversary which included a special visit by Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
    at Canton Memorial Auditorium which was broadcast live over Canton's ABC
    radio affiliate WHBC 1480 AM on August 19, 1955.  I know this is a shot in
    the dark but would this show have survived in some [removed] think I read on
    the list that "Breakfast Club" is one of the harder shows to find.  I think
    it would be neat to hear a live broadcat from my hometown in the 1950's.
    Any help would be greatly [removed]

    Tim Lones

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:54:15 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Allan Sherman
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    In the on-going thread about "On Top of Spaghetti," my pal Chris Werner
    mentioned:

    <snip>

>     and I only knew the version from the 60's (Alan Sherman version
>     I think).

    Chris, stick to your area of [removed]"Boston Blackie."

    The Allan Shermanversion goes:
     "On top of Ol' Smokey, all covered with hair,
    Of, course, I'm referring to Smokey, the Bear."

    Yours in the New Jesrey ether (where pizza is a way of life),

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:24:47 -0400
    From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Party Lines (OT???)

    I seem to remember, when I was a kid, just about every comedy show on the
    radio, at one time or another, had some kind of joke about a party line. The
    possibilities were endless, with all sorts of situations regarding mistaken
    identity. I still wonder if "Sorry, Wrong Number" was as effective as it was
    just because the listeners at the time were well aware of the frailties and
    the weird situations that developed in real life because of party lines.

    I grew up in Chicago, always living in a private line situation for one
    reason or another. My parents owned a candy store with a public coin
    telephone as our personal telephone. In those days, I guess it wasn't unusual
    for ma and pa stores to have such a deal with the phone company. Just about
    all public telephones were indoors, in stores, shops, whatever. I didn't know
    that our family was weird in the sense that every month we received a check
    from the phone company instead of a bill.

    In 1970, I moved to Pullman, Washington, to begin graduate studies at
    Washington State U. There I was introduced to the "General Telephone Company
    of the Northwest." (If anyone is wondering where Pullman is, I'm not sure I
    can answer, except to note that to get there, one traveled to the end of the
    world, then just before falling off the edge, make a left turn and go another
    75 miles.) All that was available then and there were two party lines. I
    usually managed to deal with the situation easily. If I picked up the phone
    and heard a voice instead of a dial tone, I'd just hang up and wait a while,
    then try again. One year my party line neighbor was apparently a foreign
    student who was unfamiliar with the concept and, while I was on the phone
    engaged in conversation, I'd hear the click of a pickup, then hear a voice
    speaking in a foreign language; the voice would get less loud, as though the
    individual were talking to someone else in the same room, then another voice
    would come on, as though the person had passed the phone to someone else to
    try to figure out what was going on. I remember the first time this happened,
    that my mind drifted back to the OTR days and I felt like I had been
    transported to a situation in some old radio comedy show. Sadly, after a few
    additional incidents with the same individual, the joke wore rather thin. I
    couldn't communicate with him to explain what party lines were all about and
    I don't know if he ever learned what to expect and how to properly react. I'm
    not sure because it is all so long ago, but I believe I never got a private
    line as long as I lived there, and I moved away after Thanksgiving, 1979.

     B. Ray

       W9KEE (ex W7KVW)

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:37:36 -0400
    From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lum and Abner - History of Party Lines

    I grew up on a farm.  As a child there were only party lines because the
    telephone company was owned by a group of local farmers and each was
    responsible for the poles and wire on his farm.  It was the wall mounted
    type of phone with a crank on the side to ring and batteries to maintain
    the current for a call.  There were about 10 families on our line and our
    ring was 3 long rings, just as it was on Lum and Abner at their store.  To
    call off the line one did one long ring for the operater and a request was
    made for another line and the connection made manually with wires and
    plugs, just as you have seen in movies.

    In the 60's a large company bought the local companies and replaced the
    wall phone with one that looked like the old rotary dial desk top model but
    which still had a crank on the side and no dial and big batteries on the
    floor.  Later rotary phones were installed but party lines were maintained
    but one didn't here another's phone being rung. However, being a party line
    if one picked up the phone to make a call you listened first to see if
    another call was in progress before dialing.  Just as with the old crank
    phones, a click could be heard when another's phone was picked up so you
    knew someone else was on the line.  If you didn't hear the hangup click you
    could ask them to do so without knowing who it was.

    There was pressure over time to do away with party lines as the
    subscription cost was less then single lines.  My parents refused until
    over time they were the only phone left on the old party line and had a
    single phone by default and in time the phone company just made it a single
    line at no additional cost.

                                   XB
                                    IC|XC

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    Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:56:21 -0400
    From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Chappell Christmas

    I have this somewhere.

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