Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #287
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 9/2/2001 7:25 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 287
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Lou Costello's son's death            [ "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self ]
      my age                                [ Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed]; ]
      Re: "First Commercial"                [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Re: Yeast Eating                      [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Re: Slogans                           [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      HARRY BARTELL                         [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Queensboro commercial                 [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      BROADWAY & 9TH AVENUE                 [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      SUPES themes                          [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Yeast                                 [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      My little typo, age, etc              [ "David Jewett" <davidrj@[removed] ]
      Superman theme and age                [ Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed]; ]
      a renaissance for OTR format???       [ "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed]; ]
      THANK YOUS/BOB HOPE/TOMMY RIGGS       [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      AN EVENING WITH OTR                   [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      Radio Spoof                           [ dabac@[removed] ]
      WEAF and Spot Commercials             [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
      Re: Yeast                             [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      Re: Superman Themes (slightly OT)     [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
      HARRY BARTELL                         [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      otr fan demographics                  [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      CURLEY BRADLEY & SAM COWLING          [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Hershey's Candy Bar                   [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Re: James Stewart in Six Shooter      [ Roger Lorette <webmaster@cyber49er. ]
      "Some people ask why ...."            [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:15:37 -0400
    From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lou Costello's son's death

    In March 1943, with the team at it's peak, Lou Costello got Rhuematic
    (sp?) fever, forcing the radio show off the air for the rest of the
    season.  At rehearsal of the first show of the 43-44 season (unsure of
    the date) Lou recieved a phone call telling him that his son, Butch, had
    drowned in the family's swimming pool.  It was to have been the first
    night that Butch got to hear his father on the radio.

    Nobody really expected Lou to make it back in time for the broadcast.  I
    think, that in light of the tragety, Mickey Rooney had been brought in to
    substitute for him.  Lou called Bud shortly before the broadcast,
    informing him that he would indeed be at the studio in time to go on the
    air.

    The show went as well as it always did (good or bad, depending on who you
    ask), until after the program went off the air, Lou burst out in tears,
    and Bud had to explain to the audience what happened.

    If you watch any of the team's films after this period, in many shots you
    can see a bracelet on one of Lou's arms.  Lou had the bracelet engraved
    with the word "Butch" then welded to his arm so it could never be
    removed.

    By the [removed] regards to ages, I'm 22, and have listened to OTR
    since I was about 7.

    Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:52:16 -0400
    From: Ben Ohmart <bloodbleeds@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  my age

    I'm 30, about to be 31 this month. I started listening
    to Bickersons and Abbott and Costello when I was 10 or
    so. Loved it. Then, the only way of getting shows was
    on tape, in bookstores. They were high priced, so I
    couldn't afford to experiment much. The mp3 has helped
    a lot. Helped more than hurt, I'd say.

     =====
    Check out Fibber McGee's Scrapbook, a new otr book!
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:54:15 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: "First Commercial"

    Philip Railsback wonders,

>     So to make absolutely sure, I'll check right now -- is there a
>     recording of this commercial?

    No. The earliest surviving genuine recording of a voice broadcast dates
    to November 1923. There is a recreation of part of the so-called "first
    commercial," however --  it was made at WNBC (the former WEAF) in 1952 as
    part of a special program observing the thirtieth anniversary of the
    broadcast. Clips of this excerpt have been floating around ever since,
    muddying the waters for researchers.

    Aside from the chronological issues raised by Donna Halper in her
    discussion of this subject, I'd add that this broadcast was probably not
    what most people would actually think of as a "commercial" in the modern
    sense of the word -- it was neither a spot announcement nor a direct
    sales pitch. It was, instead, a dry ten minute talk on the philosophy of
    Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it applies to the idea of getting away from
    the unhealthy life in the cities. The sales pitch for the apartments was
    indirect to the extreme -- at the very beginning of the talk, the speaker
    acknowledged that the Queensboro Realty Company was paying tribute to
    Hawthorne's ideals by naming its new cooperative apartment complex in his
    honor, and then went on for the next ten minutes to discuss the benefits
    of suburban living. The closest thing to a sales appeal came in the final
    paragraphs of the talk:

    "Imagine a congested city apartment lifted bodily to the middle of a
    large garden within twenty minutes travel of the city's business center.
    Imagine the interior of a group of such apartments traversed by a garden
    court stretching a block, with beautiful flower beds and rich sward. so
    that the present jaded congested section dweller on looking out his
    windows is not chilled with the brick and mortar vista, but gladdened and
    enthused by colors and scents that make life worth living once more.
    Imagine an apartment to live in at a place where you and your neighbor
    join the same community clubs, organizations, and activities, where you
    golf with your neighbor, tennis with your neighbor, bowl with your
    neighbor and join him in a long list of outdoor and indoor
    pleasure-giving health-giving activities.

    "And finally, imagine such a tenant-owned apartment, where you own a
    floor in a house the same as you can own an entire house with a
    proportionate ownership of the ground, the same as the ground attatched
    to an entire house but where you have great spaces for planting and
    growing the flowers you love, and raising the vegetables for which you
    are fond.

    "Right at your door is such an opportunity. It only requires the will to
    take advantage of it all. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to your
    family to leave the hemmed-in, sombre-hued, artificial apartment life of
    the congested city section and enjoy what nature intended you enjoy.

    "Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York, recently
    declared that any person who preached leaving the crowded city for the
    open country was a public-spirited citizen and a benefactor to the race.
    Shall we not follow this advice and become the benefactors he praises?
    Let us resolve to do so. Let me close by urging that you hurry to the
    apartment home near the green fields and the neighborly atmosphere right
    on the subway without the expense and the trouble of a commuter, where
    health and community happiness beckon -- the community life and friendly
    environment that Hawthorne advocated."

    As Donna has demonstrated, this wasn't "the first commercial" by a long
    shot -- it was simply the first time to be sold by AT&T for WEAF. But one
    shouldn't get the idea that because it wasn't "the first* it wasn't an
    extremely important occasion -- AT&T's thought-out philosophy for WEAF,
    the idea of "toll broadcasting," was the cornerstone on which the entire
    OTR era was constructed -- the idea of a broadcasting station simply
    being a "hall for hire," where sponsors could buy blocks of time to
    present programs of their own creation. Implementation of this idea was a
    major step beyond the experimental philosophies of the other broadcasters
    of that time, and toward the creation of a self-sufficient broadcasting
    industry. AT&T clearly spelled out this plan in a press release in
    January of 1922:

    "The American Telephone and Telegraph Company will provide no program of
    its own, but provide the channels thru which anyone with whom it makes a
    contract can send out their own [removed] have been many requests
    for such a service, not only from newspapers and entertainment agencies
    but also from department stores and a great variety of business houses
    who wish to utilize this means of distribution."

    It took AT&T six months to actually get its station on the air -- and
    another month beyond that to make the first sale -- but the *idea* was
    clearly in place well in advance. Regardless of who was actually the
    first broadcaster to log a sale, AT&T was clearly in the vanguard of
    promoting what became "commerical broadcasting."

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:55:48 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Yeast Eating

    David Jewett wonders:

>     "East three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast daily."

>     I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

    In the 1920s, Standard Brands was looking for a new way to market yeast
    -- and copywriters at J. Walter Thompson siezed on recent research on the
    vitamin content of the product to promote eating it as a dietary
    supplement and as an aid to proper digestion. If you look thru any
    national magazine of the late twenties or early thirties, you'll find ads
    on this theme, usually featuring a Famous European Medical Specialist in
    lab coat, nose glasses, and pointy beard discussing how eating three
    cakes of yeast daily will cleanse your system of noxious poisons and
    eliminate ugly skin eruptions. In Fleischmann's radio advertising on the
    Vallee program, Dr. R. E. Lee filled this role, presenting one-minute
    talks that always stressed the health benefits of yeast consumption.

    Yeast-eating became a major fad in the twenties, and there were a number
    of knockoff products -- Yeast Foam Tablets, Ironized Yeast, and the most
    noxious-sounding of all, the Tastyeast candy bar: a bar of compressed
    yeast covered in chocolate. All of these yeast products were widely
    advertised on radio, and helped contribute to the mid-thirties backlash
    against graphic discussions of intestinal blockage in radio commercials.

    There are still yeast-eaters today, as a trip to any well-stocked health
    food store will demonstrate. I used to know a man of the 1930s generation
    who well into the 1980s had the habit of picking up cakes of
    Fleischmann's Yeast from the supermarket shelves while shopping with his
    wife, gobbling them down, and then handing the empty foil wrappers over
    to the puzzled checkout clerk.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:01 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Slogans

    Russ Butler submits:

>     I'll betcha the answer to Elizabeth's trivia
>     question # 8 [removed]"Hershey'[removed] a bar of
>     chocolate for five cents"

    Close -- very close. But not quite.

    "XXXXX -- What a bar of candy for five cents!"

    One last hint -- it was a product of the Peter Paul Company, which began
    using this slogan around 1939. The product sponsored local newscasts on
    NBC owned-and-operated stations during the mid forties, alternating with
    Peter Paul Activated Charcoal Chewing Gum.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:28 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HARRY BARTELL

        Enjoyed Harry's tongue-in-cheek remark that he is 88 and has been
    interested in OTR for 71 years!
        God love him!
        What disturbed me a little though, was his mentioning that he had "30
    cassettes."
        That almost broke my little radio heart.
        C'mon people, what is a guy like Harry Bartell, who embodies the very
    spirit of radio itself, what is a guy like him doing with ONLY 30 CASSETTES!!!
        Unless, of course, that is all that he desires.
        Dear Mr. Bartell, would you be kind enough to state your 'druthers as
    regards some programs that you might like to have?
        God knows there are many of us who see to it that you get them, and the
    very best copies too!!
        And also, would you kind enough to accept our thanks for your work?
                     <A HREF="[removed],+Michael+C.">Michael
    C. Gwynne</A>

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:56:45 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Queensboro commercial

    Philip Railsback asks:
     > is there a recording of this commercial?

    There is a recreation. I have a copy somewhere, but I don't believe the
    original actually exists.

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:57:06 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  BROADWAY & 9TH AVENUE

        Broadway and 9th Avenue run parallel and do not meet in the Upper West
    side, or anywhere.
        It is more likely that he is referring to the Lower East Side where
    Broadway and E. 9th Street constitute one of the greatest melting pots in the
    country back then.
        I still like to go to Katz's Deli and fall into a sinful and delicious
    Pastrami and sour pickle feast.
        Sigh.
                        Gwynne

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:59:23 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  SUPES themes

    Folks-
    Wanted to second most of what A. Tollin said; meant to write much the same,
    but I have to go thru this inane extra AOL MAIL [removed]
    One caveat: tho the underscoring of the TV show was library, I believe the
    main theme was original?
    Best,
    Craig Wichman

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    version.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:42:31 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Yeast

    David Jewett asks:

>     Regarding commercial slogans, someone mentioned:
>     "East three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast daily."
>     I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

    During the depression malnutrition was a major health issue. Many did not
    have enough to eat and consequently were deprived of vitamin fortification
    one normally got through regular diet. I believe there was a government
    study at the time that showed that less than 25 percent of Americans were
    getting proper nutrition.

    Much of the baking products up until the late 30's were processed to the
    point that nutritional values were practically nil. Yeast, going back to
    the twenties had been considered and was tauted as such as a health food
    with strong vitamin content. Products such as Ironized Yeast had campaigns
    devoted to increased weight gains equaling increased nutrition. Thus their
    "Don't Be Skinny" campaign as well as Fleischmann's "Eat Yeast For Health."
    Odd products such as Yeast tablets were offered.

    Look at a lot of the major advertisers on radio during the thirties into
    the forties: Fleischmann, Ironized Yeast, Horlick's Cocomalt, Ovaltine and
    others. All promoted their product as high nutritional supplements mostly
    from a perspective that weight gain is important for proper nutrition.

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:43:12 -0400
    From: "David  Jewett" <davidrj@[removed];
    To: "oldradio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  My little typo, age, etc

    Nuts. On my tongue-in-cheek comment the other day about eating yeast, I
    typo-ed the first word.

    The commercial slogan, of course, was "Eat three cakes of Fleishmann's Yeast
    daily!"

    I still wonder why anyone would want to do that.

    Maybe that typo was my age showing up.

    I was born in 1937, but am not sure how old I am since I am really bad at
    math! Besides, I don't really want to know. I recall I was 39 for many
    years.

    Seriously, have loved radio since I was a kid. Listened to anything and
    everything, and now an avid collector for years, reliving those wonderful
    days.

    When there was a chance to stay home from school (a sore throat, maybe), I
    would spend the day near the radio. Listened to things like "Queen for a
    Day," game shows, etc. I liked an afternoon comedy show starring Jack
    Kirkwood. Does anyone remember it? Maybe it was just West Coastal.

    When I grew up I got a job on a daily newspaper, writing about radio and TV.
    How cool was that?

    Anyway, I read this OTR digest every day and enjoy immensely.

    I'll try and contribute [removed]

    Now, what about eating yeast?

    Dave J.

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:48:18 -0400
    From: Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman theme and age

    Thanks for posting the Superman ep Roger. I've DLed it but not listened yet.

    Re: my age, I already have bifocals!

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:04:31 -0400
    From: "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  a renaissance for OTR format???

    I was listening to a local talk-show on my way home from work the other day and
    the host said something that peaked my interest.  He said that Internet
    browsing by the general public was clearly taking a "toll" on television
    viewing.  He also said that many people he knows choose to listen to the radio
    while browsing ... and that many of them bemoan the fact that the same dramatic
    presentations on TV don't have radio counterparts.

    Got me to thinking.  Could the Internet be the OTR-format's best friend in
    disguise?  And, could rejection of the "tube" in favor of the "monitor" signal
    a resurgence of interest in audio programming of a dramatic nature?  I suppose
    it's possible.  I doubt if radio will ever recapture the listenership it once
    had ... but, we might be witnessing the beginning of a balancing act.  Food for
    thought.

    Regards,
    J. Alec West

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:05:16 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  THANK YOUS/BOB HOPE/TOMMY RIGGS

    First, I want to thank all of the posters who sent me "Happy Birthday"
    wishes last week.  It sure did make this old "trouper" feel real good, that
    you thought enough to send a greeting.  Thank you!
    * **********************************************************************

    If any one wants to send Bob Hope an e-mail get-well, his address is:
    admin@[removed]  He will answer U eventually, as I received an answer from
    him last year on his Birthday.
    * **********************************************************************

    I am sure we are familiar with the comedy radio performances of Edgar Bergan
    and Paul Winchell, and their alter egos, Charlie McCarthy. and Jerry
    Mahoney,  But little has been said or written  of the team of Tommy Riggs &
    Betty Lou.  I know he appeared on many radio shows in guests spots - but -
    does anyone ever recall him to have a show of his own.  I vaguely remember
    him on an early Ed Sullivan TV show. He was a great Vantriliquist, with hos
    little girl "partner," Betty Lou."  He seems to have vanished into thin air.

    Owens

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:06:03 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  AN EVENING WITH OTR

    If there is anyone in the Baltimore, Washington, DC, York, PA, and DE areas
    If you want to spend a delightful evening with OTR, The Golden Radio Buffs
    will be presenting 2 live performances of OTR scripts, One is a recreation
    and the other writtem by yours truly. THe date is Saturday, Sept. 15, at
    7:30 PM. The two scripts are "The Great Gildersleeve", & "Vamp Til Ready,"
    (which is set in a radio studio during the hey-day of radio).   If
    Interested, contact me at my email address, and I will send you full details
    by email. Thanks.

    Owens

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:06:07 -0400
    From: dabac@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Spoof

    Recently a poster mentioned listening to the Golden Age of Radio
    Theater, which I used to listen to & enjoy also. I remember that the
    host of the program once made mention of a spoof of radio soap operas
    that he recalled as being aired for a short time around the mid-forties.
    At the time he did`nt quite recollect the title but thought it may have
    been something such as "Great Guns".  Does anyone remember such a
    program or know of any other spoof-type shows?   Thanks -Dan

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:08:20 -0400
    From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WEAF and Spot Commercials

    Phil Railsback asks about the availability of a recording of the "first"
    radio commercial on NYC's WEAF, the announcement selling apartments in
    Jackson Heights, NY:

    There *is* a re-creation of the commercial that sounds a lot like what would
    have aired on
    the AT&T-owned, NYC radio [removed],
    didn't the real estate company "sponsor" a
    15-minute program of music? Early radio
    advertising broadcast time was only sold
    in five-minute minimums, not 30 or 60-second spots.

    Spot commercials were not aired until the Pepsi-Cola "hits the
    [removed] as much for a [removed], nickel, nickel" 30-second
    jingle was aired first on a New Jersey station in September, 1933,  That's
    when the 12-ounce, Pepsi bottle was introduced and sold for a nickel to
    compete with Coca-Cola's "five cent,
    pause that refreshes" theme for a six ounce bottle!

    Incidentally, the 30-second jingle was produced
    for only $2,500 by Walter Mack.  The music was
    an old English hunting song, "D'Ye Ken John Peel"
    updated by Alan Bradley Kent and Austen Herbert Croom to become one of the
    most famous radio
    jingles in advertising history.

    By 1935, the Pepsi jingle had been broadcast 296,426 times in various
    versions, a Latin beat for Hispanic audiences, a twang for country music
    fans, and Pepsi sales were up phenomenally wherever the jingles were heard
    in radio markets that broadcast them. It was even allowed to be broadcast on
    NYC's leading classical music station, WQXR, albeit was rendered sedately on
    a solo celeste in keeping with the "classical" format.

    Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:08:35 -0400
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Yeast

    I asked my mother if she knew why people ate yeast, and she said the doctor
    told her mother to give her at least one cake per day after she had pneumonia
    to help build her strength back up. My mother is not much of a bread eater to
    this day, and she said it's because of that.

    Charlie

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:29:20 -0400
    From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Superman Themes (slightly OT)

    A. Joseph Ross wrote:

>     The radio show didn't have theme music at first, but it did eventually.
>     After I first heard it, I assumed that the TV show theme must have been
>     written as a variation on the radio theme.  I find it hard to believe that
>     it was just generic library music, not intended for Superman.  But since
>     Graham Newton is the expert, I assume he will know the true facts.

    I'm looking forward to Mr. Newton's expertise.  Meanwhile here's the lowdown
    from another expert: Paul Mandell, from his liner notes to "ADVENTURES OF
    SUPERMAN: Music From the Original 1950's Television Series" (on Varese
    Sarabande, and HIGHLY recommended):

    * ****
    Before television, there were two SUPERMAN themes: Sammy Timberg's "Superman
    March" for Paramount's theatrical cartoons, and William Grant Still's "March
    of Fate" for Columbia's SUPERMAN serials.  Neither could be used for TV.

    The credited composer of the SUPERMAN TV theme is Leon Klatzkin.  Frankly,
    the credit is troublesome.  Klatzkin's job on SUPERMAN was to select Mutel
    (the "MUsic for TELevision" library) tracks and tell the editors where to
    place them.  According to David Chudnow (owner of the Mutel library), "Leon
    was working as a music cutter for television.  He'd look at a show, pick the
    cues off my turntable, and write out an order.  Then he'd give me the cue
    sheet.  That's all he did."

    This much is known: the "Superman Theme" was orchestrated and recorded in
    New York by Jack Shaindlin in 1952.  Which comes as no surprise: it's
    strikingly similar to those whopping Mutel cues which are believed to have
    come from Shaindlin.  The "Superman Theme" can even be heard in (four other
    cues).  If Klatzkin actually wrote it, he clearly based it on that motif.
    Some feel it may have been prewritten by one of Shaindlin's ghost writers.
    The truth, it seems, has been borne away by time and lost in the darkness
    and distance.

    * ****
    Mr. Newton, if you have more information, I'd be delighted to hear about it
    off-line.

    Michael J. Hayde

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:41:48 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HARRY BARTELL

    Heard our very own Harry Bartell on one of the 'Dirty Saturday' Gunsmoke
    rehearsals.

                      Sandy Singer
              A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:41:59 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  otr fan demographics

    Bet, if a study were to be made, us OTR'ers, no matter what the age,
    would score extremely high in imagination -- that's why we're such
    interesting folk.

                      Sandy Singer
              A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:42:28 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CURLEY BRADLEY & SAM COWLING

>     When Curley Bradley sang "Take a tip from Tawm, Goand tell your Mom:
>     Shredded Ralston cain't be beat"...

    That's exactly how Curley talked.  We lived in a 'show-biz' area of
    Chicago -- Curley lived next door and the Breakfast Club's Sam Cowling
    lived two doors away.  Guess it was my early exposure to these two that
    got me in to this crazy business.  Actually, Marvin Miller was
    responsible for getting me my very first gig in '43.

                      Sandy Singer
              A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:42:36 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hershey's Candy Bar

    And who will ever forget the night Lowell Thomas spoke of those people in
    the chocolate factory -- with and without [removed]

                      Sandy Singer
              A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:43:36 -0400
    From: Roger Lorette <webmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  James Stewart in Six Shooter

    JOSEPH  ANDOLINA, JR  wrote:

>     Does anybody know a site where I can download some mp3's of James Stewart's
>     Six Shooter?  Pat French (Jim French's wife) is interested in hearing the
>     series. She and Stewart had befriended each other when she and Jim were in
>     Hawaii years back. I've gotten her various other radio appearances he made,
>     but would love to get some Six Shooters.  Any help would be appreciated.

    My site doesn't support downloading but it does contain nearly the entire run
    (38 shows) of "Six Shooter" in Real Audio format for listening while online.
    If you can't find a site to download them from then visit [removed]
    for listening.

    Roger Lorette
    webmaster@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:53:52 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Some people ask why ...."

    Dave Jewett, referencing the commercial suggesting folk eat three cakes
    of Fleischmann's Yeast daily, inquires,

>     I'm almost afraid to ask, but WHY?

    Well, why not?  :-)

    Actually, yeast cakes were touted as a health food in the 1930s and
    1940s.  As was Cod Liver Oil,

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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