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                          Last Updated 10-28-96

otr Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 482

Table Of Contents: 

	 Flashback power
	 Introduction to the group
	 Jean Shepherd

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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 06:12:09 +0000
From: sterling@[removed]
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Subject: Flashback power
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The recent thread about when the terms WWI and WWII were started 
triggered a totally forgotten memory.
Probably before the start of WWII, when I was a kid (72 now) I 
remember the shock I felt while listening to a quiz show (I think 20 
Questions) when a contestant refered to the fact that he was a 
veteran "of the great war". The host blurted a response of "There is 
nothing GREAT about any war."
I had never heard anybody sound to angry on a fun type entertainment 
show.
Not a great event to have return from the sub concious, but it 
probably generated a disdain for war I have shared with many over the 
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Another great unintended wonder of OTR Digest.
   10-Q
Dwayne Johns
(aka) Keith Sterling

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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:43:23 -0800 (PST)
From: rleftwich@[removed] (Robert L Leftwich)
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Subject: Introduction to the group
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As an introduction to the group, my name is Rob Leftwich, and I am a
Virginia native, residing in Roanoke.

My first interest in old time radio came as a kid when I would go to sleep
listening to WJR, WBT, WKYW, WFAA, WBAP and many others.  My uncle gave me
an old tube type Scott multi-band console radio that I got working when I
was 11 and became an avid shortwave listener.  I got my amateur radio
license when I was 12, beginning with the call KN4YDG.  Now it's N4KUG.

I was a music nut in junior and senior high school and played alto sax for
the entire time.  We won some major awards, got to march in the Macy's
Parade in 1962, played at the World's Fair in 1964, etc.  I grew to like
classical music and started hanging around a local radio station that split
it's broadcast day between easy-listening and classical music.  I worked by
way through college working on the air and selling spots for this station,
WLRJ-FM.  Once the stations started automating, they began using little DEC
PDP-11 processors to select between the tape machines, spot carts, etc.   I
learned to program these things and about the same time got married.  I
should mention that I had a 16 piece big band (based on the Les & Larry
Elgart Orchestra sound) during college, and I ended up marring the vocalist.

The money in small town radio was/is pretty much at the poverty level, so I
got a job with the Norfolk & Western Railway as a computer consultant.  I've
been there 28 years and now that the kids are out of college, I'm playing
alto sax once again in the Kazim Temple (Shriners) big band and in the
Roanoke Valley Community Band.

I collect old broadcast equipment (boards, microphones, mike flags, cart
machines, and almost anything made by RCA or Gates).  I have started
researching old radio personalities of the past and thought this might be a
good forum to explore that idea.  I wonder if anyone knows what happened to
Dave Kidd who did a jazz show on WGY in the early 60's.  Also, how about
John McCormick ("the man who walks and talks at midnight") who did the
"Music Till Dawn for American Airlines for the CBS O&O's in the 60's.  One
more is Johnny Andrews who did a Sunday night show on WCBS. He sat at a
piano and played bridge music while he talked then sequeued into a recording
(in the exact key).

As an introduction, I hope this isn't too long, but I have been looking for
a good place to discuss old time radio for some time and I just went crazy
when I found this service.

                            Best regards,

                                          Rob


Robert L Leftwich,President
The Leftwich Corporation
[removed] Box 4041
Roanoke, Virginia 24015
540/989-4235 (phone)
540/989-7373 (fax)

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:49:13 -0400
From: mwaters@[removed] (Martin J. Waters)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jean Shepherd
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Max Schmid asked in an 11/1/96 post: Where outside NY and Boston was Jean
Shepherd carried in syndication?

In the early 1970s, his program was carried late at night by WFCR-FM,
Amherst, Mass., a public radio station that then covered western
[removed] [removed] and most of Conn., with a boost from a translater in
New Haven, as Conn. had no public radio station then.

Martin J. Waters
Assistant Director of Public Information
Wesleyan University
Middletown CT 06459
USA
(860) 685-3703
fax: (860) 685-3601



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