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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 4
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Remembering Stewart Wright        [ Travis Conner <Chargous@[removed] ]
  Re: a larger question                 [ Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
  Looking for from ET/lo-gen Turn Back  [ Travis Conner <Chargous@[removed] ]
  Charlie ask about loco disc           [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
  Toni Arden Show                       [ "Paul Kattelman" <tallpaulk@[removed] ]
  Serendipitous local shows             [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
  Beulah                                [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:17:18 -0500
From: Travis Conner <Chargous@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Remembering Stewart Wright

Stewart Wright was a fine researcher and it is sad to hear of his
passing.  I am grateful for the logs of Twenty-First Precinct, Rocky
Jordan, the Line-Up, Imagination Theatre and other shows.  His research
really clarified the confusing 1953 Rocky Jordans.

Condolences to his family and let us remember a contributor to OTR
knowledge.

Travis Conner

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:17:33 -0500
From: Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: a larger question

are any of us actively collecting local station transcription recordings
>from the 1930's to the
1960's? (I naturally don't mean DJ airchecks, I mean "real"
[removed] dramas, musical programs, comedies, news, current
events, and such.)

Yes.  I don't actively look but a few times things have fallen into my lap.
I have probably posted these here before but will again for those who might
have missed out:

I've worked with our local historical museums and shared my OTR collection
with them for various exhibition.  After our local paper did a piece on my
collecting OTR I was contacted by a woman who was getting ready to downsize
on her way to a retirement home.  I ended up acquiring her very-late
husband's tapes and recorders.  There were about 200 reels of paper-backed
recording tape.  Half of the reels contained local, live recordings from
family events and clubs he belonged to.  The rest were off-the-air and some
were of local origin.  I made CDs of the family recordings for her and the
non-private content I posted to a web site I created:

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The local content included a Kiwanis picnic and auction, some religious
broadcasts from the first church in town, various news broadcasts like local
election results, etc.  The dates ranged from late-40s to early-50s.

A few years later I picked up 563 reels of tape at a local estate sale.  This
sat on the back burner for some years until retirement provided me with the
time to start going through them.  As might be expected, there were LOTS of
copies of vinyl records but I found over 900 hours of broadcast radio and
local live recordings.  Many/most of the broadcasts were national
religious/political content, with dates ranging from 1953 into the early
1970s with the bulk of the content from 1962-1966.  Many of the broadcasts
were local.  The one, true OTR show I found was an episode of "Look to the
Skies."  It's on reel 45.

The recordist was very politically active and belonged to various groups.  He
would take his recorder to these meetings and archive what went on.  He owned
a barber shop and even taped his discussions with his customers while cutting
their hair, many times without their knowledge.  He recorded local talk shows
especially when the topic was water fluoridation, something he was opposed to.

As I went through these tapes I set up a web page for each reel and provided
the contents of what I found.  If the content was obviously copyrighted I
only provide a snippet.  You can browse the entire collection here:

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Vince

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:21:40 -0500
From: Travis Conner <Chargous@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Looking for from ET/lo-gen Turn Back the
 Clock/Breakfast Club on  Here's To Vets

Does anyone happen to have ET/disc dubs or very low-generation dubs of
Turn Back The Clock (AFRTS run), other than the relatively recent 2017
hoard and the Radio Archives shows?  I'm only seeking wav or flac,
preferably raw, uncleaned.  My ancient (my newest edition is 2003) of
Hickerson's book don't mention any in circulation, and the Goldin
collection surprisingly only lists one.   The #1000th show salute, done
on the sister show America's Popular Music, mentions that the first show
run on AFRTS was April 26th, 1954, if I remember correctly.

The sister show, America's Popular Music, is enjoyable but scarcer. Of
the two, I prefer Turn Back the Clock.  I have come to really enjoy this
show and I would love to hear fresh material.

Furthermore, if you're the person who purchased Here's To Veterans 55-56
from the RadioArchives disc site (still kicking myself for missing out
on this one), please feel free to contact me.  I don't have to have the
ET, yet I am very much seeking an ET copy of this show, as I collect Don
McNeill's Breakfast Club.  I'm sure we can work out a show trade.  #55
is the Breakfast club/56 is the Frances Langford Show.  HTV #380, Mel
Blanc, is also one I'm looking for from the same bunch.

Travis Conner

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:23:56 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Charlie ask about loco disc
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Hi Everybody,

Charlie ask about finding transcription of loco shows.  The Anser is yes I
have found them over the years.

As some of you know my second Mom was the Big band singer Kitty Kallen.  One
of the transcription  she had that was given to me was a show on WSM called
Sunday Down South.    This show was from 1954 during the time when Kitty had
Little Thing mean a lot.  I have come across  a very large collection of
disc from KFI radio.  I have come across D Day recordings from KVOO and
other loco newscast over the years.  Some time big name guest like Bob Hope
would make appearances on station and we have them from Philadelphia and
Boston in 1949.

In new York   during the late 1930s Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Bea Wain
all had afternoon 15 minutes shows on loco New York radio station.  Bea
recall taking her school home work to the station and work on her school
stuff  while waiting to go on the air.  I wish  we had these shows too.

Take care,

Walden

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:31:11 -0500
From: "Paul Kattelman" <tallpaulk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Toni Arden Show
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	Can anyone recommend a source for the 15 minute Toni Arden Show
series? There were only 13 episodes - not sure about the approximate
[removed] To the best of my knowledge, the shows were the typical U S
governmental agency shows aimed at educating the public on a certain
public service or agency. Thanxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

	Tall Paul Said That

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 01:49:54 -0500
From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Serendipitous local shows

I've found that the immense Radio Echoes website has, here and there, some
locally produced shows on offer.  Recently, I came across an item called
"Duluth News," a news broadcast from that town.  And they have two episodes
of a novel quiz show called "Three Strikes and You're Out" offered by KGKO in
Dallas.    How many other nuggets remain to be discovered among RE's
90,000-plus shows I couldn't say.

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 01:50:31 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Beulah
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1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

And it became a TV series for a few years in the 1960s, with Ethel
Watersl and then Louise Beavers as Beulah.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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