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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 266
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      "The Day the Earth Stood Still," Eve  [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
      Two and Only                          [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
      RE: Rupert Holmes                     [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
      Re: Borrowing our music               [ "Michael Guccione" <jetbonami@hotma ]
      Fred Korb, ORCATS Secretary - [removed]  [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
      Lone Ranger Intro                     [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Luthor                                [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
      OTR Road Trips                        [ "Scott Eberbach" <saeberbach@earthl ]
      A little traveling music, [removed]  [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Re: OTR in the car                    [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      8-13 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      re: best OTR in the car               [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      WE INTERRUPT THIS BORADCAST ON BBC    [ "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@cable ]
      Mayberry/Maltin/Millions              [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:44:57 -0400
    From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "The Day the Earth Stood Still," Everett Sloane & Jackson Beck
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    In a message dated 8/10/04 12:17:23 PM, Steve Salaba asks:

>     I happened to tune in to an internet radio station today just in time to
>     hear the last part of a radio dramatization of the 1952 science fiction
>     film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" which starred the same actor who
>     played "Klaatu" in the film, Michael Rennie. It seems to have been a
>     transcription played for the US Armed Forces according to the "commercial"
>     I heard during the broadcast. I'm wondering what program it may have
>     originally been on. The film was released the same year I was born, so I
>     didn't see it until it was on TV years later. I didn't know they'd done a
>     radio version. It's one of my favorite films.

    ***"The Day the Earth Stood Still" aired on January 4, 1954 on THE LUX RADIO
    THEATRE, and featured both Michael Rennie and Billy Gray from the movie cast.
     It's one of the shows I selected for Radio Spirits' recent SCIENCE FICTION
    CLASSICS 10-hour collection, along with stories by Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester,
    Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Wyllis Cooper, L. Sprague de Camp, Philip K.
    Dick, Gordon R. Dickson Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Arch Oboler, Robert
    Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon and H. G. Wells.
      The latter author is represented by THE LUX RADIO THEATRE adaptation of
    George Pal's 1953 "The War of the Worlds" film.

    "The Day the Earth Stood Still" has been my favorite science fiction film
    ever since the days when it used to run on SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES.   Of
    course, back then I missed much of the Christ symbolism that was added to Harry
    Bates' short story "Farewell to the Master" by screenwriter Edmund H. North.
    For those unfamiliar with the very-moving story, a traveler named Klaatu
    descends from the heavens with a message of peace, walks among mankind as "Mr.
    Carpenter," is betrayed by a supposed friend, and ascends to the heavens after
    being resurrected.   I have to admit, I missed the "Carpenter" connection for
    years.

    I was especially glad to include stories by my late friends Clifford D. Simak
    and Gordon R. Dickson.   I worked with Cliff for several years in the
    Minneapolis Star-Tribune building, and I was in Gordy's company when we watched Neil
    Armstrong take "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" thirty
    years ago last month.

    There's been a lot of Digest talk recently about Jackson Beck and also
    Everett Sloane.   One of my favorite selections in this set is the CBS RADIO
    WORKSHOP adaptation of Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth," which features
    both of these superb radio actors ... and features Sloane singing folk songs
    with a science fiction flavor.

    And of course, SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS also features a heavily-illustrated
    historical booklet by yours truly, ANTHONY TOLLIN (who will be attending the
    Armadillocon SF convention this weekend in Austin, TX).

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:42:48 -0400
    From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Two and Only

    <<Sean Dougherty went to see Jay Johnson's one-man [removed];>>

    Wasn't the title, "The Two And Only" also the name of a Bob and Ray show on
    Broadway (1960's?) and there's an LP of their performance as well?  Great
    name for a show, and Jay Johnson was terrific on "Soap" with this little
    wooden, sarcastic friend. Wonder where his "tour" will take him, any
    information, anyone?

    =Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:43:00 -0400
    From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Rupert Holmes

>     Did anyone else know that Rupert Holmes' first album
>     featured a nine-minute OTR parody?

       It's a surprise to me. But, considering Holmes also
    wrote "Remember WENN", the 1990s OTR-themed sitcom on
    the American Movie Classics channel, and "Goodnight
    Gracie", the one-man show about George Burns, it seems
    very appropriate.

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:11:32 -0400
    From: "Michael Guccione" <jetbonami@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Borrowing our music

>     I've been watching quite a few episodes of Twilight Zone available on DVD.
>     It seems to me that there seems to be quite few instances where the "in show
>     music" seems strikingly similar to interior music used on SUSPENSE in its
>     later years (Mid to Late 1950s). In particular, I recently watched the
>     Twilight Zone version of "The Hitchhiker". In certain places the show seemed
>     "borrow" from the music the 1942 Radio version in places unless I'm
>     imaginating things. Does anyone know more about this?

    The music for the Twilight zone episode "Hitchhiker", which originally aired
    1-22-60, is credited as 'stock' music, but was done by Bernard Hermann who
    did the score for he original "Hitchhiker" radio play which was written by
    his wife at the time Lucille Fletcher (see "Twilight Zone Companion"). Those
    haunting 4 notes which you may be referring to were repeated 2 years later
    in the film, "Cape Fear" which Hermann also scored and  in the "Cape Fear"
    remake. Speaking of remakes does anyone out there dig the Carl Amari radio
    "Twilight Zones"?

    Anyway, here's a website that may be of interest to you, it lists theme
    music from many OTR shows and is in the process of being updated:

    [removed]

    Michael G

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:12:00 -0400
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Korb, ORCATS Secretary - [removed]
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    Hi Gang -

    I'm sorry to report that Fred Korb, secretary of the ORCATS (Oldtime Radio
    Collectors and Traders Society), passed away yesterday, August 11, 2004.  He
    had
    been hospitalized for two weeks.  He died in Edward Hospital, Naperville,
    Illinois. The exact cause of death is still undetermined.

    Fred attended the FOTR and Cincinnati Conventions for many years, and the
    REPS Convention in 2002.  The purpose of this posting is to notify his many
    friends in the
    OTR community across the country of his passing.

    Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:12:29 -0400
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lone Ranger Intro

    Rest assured, Richard Pratz, that Fred is saying "from out of the past" in
    the introduction to the Lone Ranger.  But I'm pretty sure that back in the
    mid-forties, Harry Golder, Fred Foy's predecessor, occasionally says, "..A
    fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud of dust and a hearty Hi Yo
    Silver".

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:05:05 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Luthor

    Did Lex Luthor ever appear in any of the Superman eps on radio? Howabout
    other comics villains, like Brainiac? Or did he come along later?

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:29:09 -0400
    From: "Scott Eberbach" <saeberbach@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Road Trips

    Hi All!
    Ben's query on what up OTR listeners listen to while on a long road trip I
    found a bit intriguing. For me it depends upon the distance and the time
    involved. For a long trip I will usually go with a serial. ILAM/Adventures
    By Morse for a really long trip or Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (five part
    serials) for trips of little shorter duration. If you have children along on
    your trip one of the children's serial might prove [removed], The
    Magician or The Adventures Of Superman would work I would think. On my most
    recent trip (almost 4 hours round trip) I took along some Phil Harris/Alice
    Faye shows and The Birdseye Open House with Dinah Shore. So, I guess it
    really depends on what your in the mood for. Regardless, that is my 2 cents.

    Scott

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:44:42 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A little traveling music, [removed]

    In #265, Ben Ohmart wondered:

>     I've noticed a lot of shows are like classical music, which
>     rises and falls too much to make it level enough to hear
>     everything even IF you keep twisting the knob higher and
>     lower. What do y'all listen to on long trips, and how do you
>     keep the whispers level with the shouting?

    Part of the problem is signal-to-noise ratio.  It's quiet at home, but it's
    noisy in a car - so you have to run the volume louder than you would at home.

    I've experienced this problem myself.  A big part of it will depend on what
    kind of car you are driving.  There is a drastic difference between cars in
    the amount of cabin noise you'll experience.  Generally, luxury vehicles have
    more soundproofing materials built into them, and are quieter inside - but
    this is a general rule and you can find exceptions on both sides.  Other
    factors such as road surface, how fast you drive, windows up or down, or tire
    quality can make a big impact.

    Some of the radio-tech guys may disagree, but in my experience a high output
    aftermarket stereo makes a big difference.  Though factory installed sound
    systems have gotten better, they're still not (in most non-lux car cases)
    spectacular.  They tend to distort quite a bit at higher volume, and I find
    the distortion the most unpleasant part.  A high output head unit pumping
    quality speakers won't distort as much, even at higher volumes.

    So yes, you still get the loud part/quiet part problem, but it goes from
    being painful to being merely annoying.  It's a more radical solution though.
    You might find that just riding the volume up and down is easier.

    I'm anxious to hear other people's thoughts on this.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:17:59 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: OTR in the car
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    Much as I like comedy, my favorite show for long car trips is actually
    "Suspense."  It's the lazy man's way of telling ghost stories.  I imagine
    "Inner
    Sanctum" might even be better for this, if there were more of them in
    existence.
    Travelling comedy to me would probably be something like Jack Benny or Abbott
    & Costello.

    Dixon

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:04:40 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-13 births/deaths

    August 13th births

    08-13-1895 - Bert Lahr - NYC - d. 12-4-1967
    comedian: "Hildegarde's Raleigh Room"; "Manhattan at Midnight"; "Royal
    Vagabonds"
    08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
    host: "Murder by Experts"; "Once Upon a Midnight"
    08-13-1902 - Regis Toomey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-12-1991
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    08-13-1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers - Olathe, KS - d. 4-21-1999
    bandleader, actor: (America's Boyfriend) "Twin Stars"; "Pick-A-Date"
    08-13-1905 - Olga Albani - Barcelona, Spain - d. 6-3-1940
    singer: "Coca-Cola Hour"; "Silken String"
    08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
    actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-13-1909 - Dave Willock - Chicago, IL - d. 11-12-1990
    actor: Tugwell "Jack Carson Show, Sealtest Village Store"
    08-13-1909 - John Beal - Joplin, MO - d. 4-26-1997
    actor: Bonnie Doon "Amazing Mr. Tutt"; "Box 13"; "Favorite Story"
    08-13-1910 - Skinnay Ennis - Salisbury, NC - d. 6-3-1963
    bandleader, singer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
    08-13-1913 - Melvin Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 10-14-1988
    film writer, producer, director: "Pepsodent Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-13-1916 - Gloria Dickson - Pocatello, ID - d. 4-10-1945
    actress: "Warner Bros. Academy Theatre"; "Federal Theatre Special"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    08-13-1919 - George Shearing - London, England
    sideman:  The Bert Ambrose Band
    08-13-1929 - Pat Harrington - NYC
    actor: "Hollywood's Open House"

    August 13th deaths

    02-21-1916 - Norman Jolley - Adel, IA - d. 8-13-2002
    actor: Dr. Milingro "Space Cadet"
    03-12-1893 - Gene Morgan - Racine, WI - d. 8-13-1940
    actor: Rex Marvin "Myrt and Marge"; Bill Taylor "All My Children"
    06-13-1913 - Bob Bailey - Toeldo, OH - d. 8-13-1983
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; George Valentine "Let
    George Do It"
    10-15-1879 - Jane Darwell - Palmyra, MO - d. 8-13-1967
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-13-1913 - Helen Mack - Rock Island, IL - d. 8-13-1986
    producer, director: "Beulah Show"; "Affairs of Ann Scotland"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:04:51 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: best OTR in the car

    Regarding the best OTR for the car: Personally, my
    wife and I really enjoy the 5 part Johnny Dollars on
    the road. We love them so much, in fact, that we save
    YTJD almost exclusively for road trips! I find you
    almost never have to adjust the volume--the sound
    levels on these shows are pretty even.

    Kermyt

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:31:43 -0400
    From: "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WE INTERRUPT THIS BORADCAST ON BBC
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      If anyone hasn't tuned in, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a series called "We
    Interrupt This Broadcast". This past week it was on Stan Freeberg. You can
    still catch it on their Listen Again option under Comedy & Quizes. Last week
    it was on Bob & Ray. It's a good series to catch. I think there's only 4
    shows in all to the current series.

     [removed]

    Joe
     <<BBC - Radio 4 - Comedy - [removed];>

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    Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:36:27 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mayberry/Maltin/Millions
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    OTR ACTORS in MAYBERRY

             I know I'm tardy in chiming in on this one, but I don't know how
    everybody missed this OTR/TAGS connection: "Lorenzo Jones" himself played the
    title roles in the "Andy Griffith" episode "Mr. McBeevee," in which Opie
    befriends a telephone line repairman in the woods and has a hard time
    convincing Andy, Barney, & Aunt Bee that he's real. This episode was touted on
    a recent TV Land special as having been  selected by the core cast  (Griffith,
    Knotts, Howard) of TAGS as being their all-time #2 favourite episode.
            However, it's worth noting that some of the OTR actors mentioned as
    being Mayberry passersby also dropped in on its spin-off show, "Gomer
    Pyle---USMC." Swenson once played the Fort Henderson commanding officer
    colonel prior to Forrest Compton (Gomer was selected to escort Col. Swenson's
    daughter to a dance). Also, Norris "Abner" Goff played Gomer's visiting
    grandfather Grandpa Pyle on an episode (the original silent-movie "Jane" Enid
    Markey played Grandma Pyle in a separate episode) and sometimes scriptwriter
    Bill Idelson once played a character named "Harold Kanobly" who ended up
    marrying Sgt. Carter's sister.
             Hey, I'd like to give a "shout-out" & a "Derek sez 'Hey!'" to Jim
    Clark & all my friends in TAGSRWC--"The Andy Griffith Show" Rerun Watchers
    Club.  Before I decided to concentrate on OTR research, I used to write & do
    research  for the TAGSRWC publication "The Bullet."

    LEONARD MALTIN & OTR MOVIES

           It's that time of year again when the new "Maltin" is out. By this I
    mean "Leonard Maltin's 2005 Movie Guide," the familiar annual paperback of
    callipygian proportions known to movie fans all over. I bought my first copy
    of this venerable reference book back in 1978  (when it was simply called "TV
    Movies") & have dutifully bought every edition since.
          Because of the "instant classic" status of Mr. Maltin's 1997 release
    "The Great American Broadcast," I was quite disappointed to see that OTR films
    "Gildersleeve's Ghost" & "It's A Joke, Son!" (w/ Kenny Delmar as Senator
    Claghorne) have been dropped from the listings (thankfully the FM&M film
    "Heavenly Days!" still warranted inclusion).  Lenny's "Preface to the 2005
    Edition" brings up the fact that certain older entries had to be jettisoned to
    accommodate the more popular latter-day offerings. If it's any solace, Maltin
    goes on to say that his publisher Plume Books will be publishing in 2005 a
    companion volume concentrating on the films of the 1920s-1960s & that titles
    eliminated from the standard work  more than likely will find their way into
    the spin-off. I know most OTR-into-movie spin-offs were largely B-movie
    "quickies" designed to exploit a reigning OTR show or character's popularity,
    but as we say here in Noo Yawk, "C'MON!" Not that the A 'n' A film "Check and
    Double Check"  can be called a "quickie," readers might be interested to learn
    that the "Maltin Guide" gave it its lowest rating.
          However, in spite of the fact that there are about a dozen editors and
    contributors listed & that the decision to give Throckmorton  & Beauregard the
    heave-ho was probably done "by committee," overall, it was to me disappointing
    that these case-by-case decisions carry the name of such an avowed OTR fan as
    Leonard [removed] BTW played a great comic foil to Jackson "The Cisco Kid"
    Beck at the 1997 Friends of Old-Time Radio convention in New Jersey.
          I'm sure the Senator might even appreciate that his movie listing has
    "gone South."

    LUCKY OTR LOTTERY NUMBERS

         Because of my fondness for "The Jack Benny Program," I always play "39"
    whenever I play lottery games of the "pick-6" or "power ball" variety. I'd
    play "79" as in "79 Wistful Vista" if only the numbers pool  went up that
    high. I would play "13" as in "Box 13" if I wasn't so d----ed
    triskaidekaphobic. I guess one could throw in "42" if you allow for the
    post-OTR-era "The HiTchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
         Do any of my fellow ether-ites have any lucky lottery numbers connected
    to OTR that I can try to keep  the perennial "39" company  next time the
    multi-state Mega Millions gets really big?

    "39 all the time!"

    Derek Tague

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