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Date: 11/12/2015 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 94
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      38,000 Free OTR Shows!                [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
      surplus cassettes                     [ Al Hubin <ajhubin@[removed]; ]
      trying to locate info on these perso  [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
      For Collectors: Indexing and Preserv  [ Damon Coffey <damoncoffey@sbcglobal ]

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    Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:32:23 -0500
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  38,000 Free OTR Shows!

    If you have an Android cellphone (or tablet), you can install the free app Old-Time Radio
    Player and have immediate access to 38,000 old-time radio shows.  First you choose the
    Genre (Comedy, Mystery, Western, etc), then the show, then the episode.

    And you can set it to play just one episode and then turn itself off (which I do when I'm
    listening in bed, because I'm always asleep before the show ends), or to play
    continuously.

    ---Dan Hughes

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: I examined this "free" app carefully some years ago, and do NOT recommend it; it's no more than an advertisement-delivery system, serving up 11kHz highly-recompressed files from the development company server (leeched from [removed] and other websites), and tons of ads. I can give more details if anyone is interested (the Digest really isn't the place to discuss Android-related minutia), but a much more satisfying experience can be had by using a modern browser (for security, I'd suggest the actually-free CM Browser); visit almost any website with available OTR, like [removed], and play directly from the browser. Simple, no ads, no tracking.   --cfs3]

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    Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:32:55 -0500
    From: Al Hubin <ajhubin@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  surplus cassettes
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    I too have stopped collecting (then why did I just order those cds of newly
    found Lone Ranger shows?). I have over 6000 cassettes and many mp3 cds and it
    seems likely (at age 79) that I won't live long enough to listen to all those
    I already have (though I take a one hour walk each day with two half hour
    shows for entertainment)..

    Al Hubin

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    Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:33:51 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  trying to locate info on these personalities who
     did radio
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    Hi everybody,

    I produce interviews for our radio shows and also help produce some old time
    radio conventions.  Below are a list of people who worked in radio as kids
    either in the late 1940s or 1950s.  I believe many are still with us, others
    I don,t know but would like to locate contact info for any of them.

    Danny Richards of the Fibber McGee and Molly show

    Susan Seaforth of Lux Radio Theater,

    Jill Oppenheim of Red Ryder,

    Christopher Cook of Lux Radio Theater,

    Billy Fletcher of Lux Radiom Theater,

    Michael Miller of Lux Radio Theater,

    Sammy Ogg of Jack Benny,

    Patricia Ianonne of Jack Benny,

    Rosemary Ianonne of Jack Benny,

    Eric Nielson of Jack Benny,

    Peter Votrian of Jack Benny,

    Steve Wooten of Jack Benny,

    Michael Chapin of Jack Benny,

    Gil Barnett of Jack Benny,

    Tommy Benard of Ozzie and Harriet,

    Gordon Gebert of Lux Radio Theater,

    Thank you so much,

    Walden

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    Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:34 -0500
    From: Damon Coffey <damoncoffey@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  For Collectors: Indexing and Preserving your
     Collections
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    I hope it goes without saying, that all collectors should be mindful that
    they could have lurking within their collections "lost" episodes, along with
    better quality episodes than are currently publicly available. As a Dragnet /
    Jack Webb afficianado, I would love to be able to find some better quality
    versions of some of the older Dragnets / Pete Kellys and "Lions Eye" that
    suffer from "chipmunking", as well as some of the episodes that seem to have
    been stripped of [removed] fact, it would be interesting to have a
    variety of versions of any OTR program, with different commercials that were
    played in different markets, that are now lost. Your collections may have
    commercials that have never been heard since! I am also a big fan of "The
    Couple Next Door", and there are many episodes missing from that series that
    might be in your collections. Is there possibly a comprehensive list or index
    somewhere of lost OTR, that collectors could refer to? I've seen plenty of
    lists here and there about one or another series that has been lost, but it
    would be nice to have a comprehensive list we can use. D

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