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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 248


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 New Freberg Album
	 The Great Gildersleeve
	 Pat B's
	 The Great Gildersleeve
	 Kens ET quality
	 Re: used tape 
	 Captain Midnight & I Love A Mystery
	 Ken Greenwald's Tape
	 Lum and Abner networks and dates

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: davidrj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New Freberg Album
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Here are excerpts from a just-in wire service report, distributed by the Los 
Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service:

"Stan Freberg has just released Vol. 2 of his classic comedy album "Stan Freberg 
Presents the United States of America."
...
"The original album, which came out in 1961, was one of the central artifacts of 
post-Eisenhower popular culture.
"A satiric musical comedy that traced, in song and sketch, the early days of the 
13 colonies up through the Revolutionary War, the LP quickly took off and has 
steadily retained the status of classic, Its many declared admirers have 
included Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg and the Beatles."
...
"The newly released Vol. 2, racing speedily across the 19th century and into the 
20th, brings us up to World War II. It was commissioned by and is released by 
Rhino Records label."

The much longer story than is indicated here notes that the album is available 
as a two-disc (or cassette) set packed with Vol. 1, or separately.

dave jewett
vancouver usa

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 17:06:19 -0400
From: elchurch@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Great Gildersleeve
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

> I've also some questions about Gildy whom's been a favorite comedy of
> mine since I started collecting otr.
> First, who were the writers, I know a few names, such as Leonard l.
> Levinson, but I don't know for sure during which periods they wrote.
> I'm also uncertain of when the series stopped. There doesn't seem to
> be any shows available after 1954, but I've heard that the series was
> on until 1958. Did it move to television or something? A while ago
> there was some discussion about the four gildy-movies that were made,
> are they available on video somewhere?
> Finally, Gildy's nephew Leroy had a pal called piggie who was in the
> show now and then. Who played that part?


Although the radio show ran until 1958 no shows have surfaced after 
6/2/54. Nearly 600 episodes are available. No source I have indicates 
why the remaining episodes are unavailable. Some programs of this era 
were lost because they were experimenting with using tape and the tape 
was reused at a later time by someone. Perhaps someone else has a mre 
definitive answer. I am a real fan of this program also so I am happy so 
many episodes are available. (my philosophy: be thankful for what you've
got!)

Edgar L. Church Jr.

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 17:34:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Larry T. Lewis" <mfltl@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Pat B's
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Henry A. Campbell-Ickes <hacickes@[removed]> said:
>Subject: Who was the other "Pat B."? (fwd)

>Hmmmmm -

>If memory serves, the other "Pat B." was Pat Brady, but I can't >remember what his connection was!  I guess I was never much of a >Western fan . . .

>Thanks.  Andrew Green has been trying to help me sort the Pat B's out by 
>e-mail.  Pat Brady was, as mentioned earlier, Roy Rogers' sidekick.  Pat 
>Butram was Gene Autry's.  But was there another Pat Buttram who did a lot 
>of character work on TV in the 60's?  Andrew reminded me that he is best 
>remembered as Mr. Haney on *Green Acres* and *Petticoat Junction*.  
>Andrew believes this was the same Pat Butram that rode with Autry, but I 
>remember the earlier Pat as having a more normal singing and speaking 
>voice (when not in his Froggy mode) than Mr. Haney's cracked voice.  Also 
>believe he was a bit shorter and stockier.  Does my memory deceive me?

 Robert Kirk <kirk@[removed]> said"

Pat Buttram was Gene Autry's sidekick.  He also appeared in Petticoat
Junction. Smiley Burnette was Gene's earlier sidekick. He played the
character of Froggy, and could change his voice dramatically.

Regards,

Larry Lewis            Internet: mfltl@[removed]
Geography  Department  Bitnet: mfltl@[removed]
Western Illinois Univ  Phone: (309) 298-1764
Macomb, IL 61455                  

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:39:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: toorby@[removed] (Bruce Toor)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: The Great Gildersleeve
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Marcus Antonnson asks who wrote The Great Gildersleeve.  During the 1940s it
was Sam Moore and John Whedon.  I was a school chum of Sam Moore's son
George, and we used to go to his house after school to read and play all the
roles in the previous week's scripts; we even tried our hand at writing some
episodes of a radio series ourselves, and I recall that he once loaned me a
Gildersleeve script to take to school and present to the class.  We also
attended the broadcasts from time to time.  It was through the Moores that I
attended a lecture on current events given in 1944 during FDR's run for a
fourth term, by a young west coast radio newscaster named Chet Huntley.

Bruce Toor

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:00:05 -0400
From: George Clements <clements@[removed]>
To: OTR@[removed]
Subject: Kens ET quality
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        I"ve just finished listening to the tape Ken Greenwald sent me. He
certainly knows what he is doing. The quality he has produced out of l940's
transcription is remarkable. I know there was good sound on alot of those
old ETs, but the limiting factor was the playback. The demonstration he
gives in the beginning is very revealling. What ever he is doing, hes got
alot of the right answers.

        I'm looking for a program from the 40s. It was produced by The
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. It played on Sunday night. It was called "L for
Lankie". It was the story of the adventures of a crew of a Lancaster bomber. 
I've tried alot of places, including the archives of the CBC, and even they
don't have anything. I guess its the old story of "we do't need that, strip
the vinyl off the aluminium and recoat it, after all its wartime and the
aluminium was in short supply"Just thought I'd ask.


     "No, the CD Rom drive is not a coffee holder"

                                  George.      

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:00:08 4
From: "edcarr" <edcarr@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: used tape 
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

price increase,
 many thanks to those of you
that purchased mu reels on
used tape,i finally ran out,
i now use brand new tape,w/
new reel and box.
i really hate to do this,but
nothing i can do about it
1200 ft now $[removed]
1800 ft now $[removed]
remember i have hundreds of
shows from disc.
                     edcarr@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:48:19 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Captain Midnight & I Love A Mystery
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I've just updated my website with new episodes of Captain Midnight and The
Temple of Vampires. Look for both at:

[removed]

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Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:15:44 -0400
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ken Greenwald's Tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I just received a cassette from Ken Greenwald. It is a copy of one of his
ETs. It starts off with a straight  transfer and you can hear all the
surface noise that is on the disc. Then it plays a second time, this time
sounding a little better. Then the disc is repeated a third time and this
time, it sounds like a live broadcast. No scratches, no surface noise.

It is a high quality transfer. I don't know what he is doing and I missed
the start of his conversation that lead to his offering to send out these
tapes, but whatever he does, the tape sounds just great.

Maybe he'll discuss his methods. I for one am impressed.

                                        Fred

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:07:13 GMT
From: rwright@[removed] (Richard Wright)
To: [removed]@[removed], marc-a@[removed]
Subject: Lum and Abner networks and dates
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 14:23:04 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]>
>To: Old time radio digest <otr@[removed]>
>Subject: Lum and Abner
>Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>Hi Friends,
>I've read in a catalog from an otr-vendor that Lum and Abner was the only
>comedy to be aired over all the major networks. But I'm not sure during
>what years they were on the different networks. The earliest shows in
>that catalogue (Radio Memories) are from mutual, 1935. But it says that
>the series started in 31, was that on mutual to? And when did L ana A
>move
>to nbc, cbs, etc? I would be very grateful for some info about this,
>
>Regards:
>Marc
>
Info from John Dunning _Tune in Yesterday_ and Buxton & Owen _The Big
Broadcast_

Lum and Abner began April 1931 on Station KTHS, Hot Springs, AK

April or July 1931 moved to Chicago on NBC--sponsor Quaker Oats

By 1935 on Blue Network for Horlick's Malted Milk

Switched to CBS for Postum in 1938 running 3/week until 1940

Stars dropped out for a year to make movies

Returned in 1941 4/week for Alka Seltzer on ABC until 1947

Fall of 1948 returned on CBS for Frigidaire as half hour Sunday
sit-com and in 1949 moved to Wednesday for Ford Motor Company

Final run of 15 minute shows began on ABC in early 1950s with
last show May 15 or 31, 1953
-------------
Richard
aka rwright@[removed]

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