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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 170


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Tapes
	 Superdads
	 Re: Andy Clyde
	 Re: Questions
	 RE:Ovaltine Home Page
	 Bert, Goons, and More 
	 Updated files on website
	 Freberg, Blanc, and Benny
	 Cereal box storage

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 11:22:20 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tapes
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>I usually buy mine retail, but in the SPERDVAC RadioGram is a long 
>running ad as below:
>Blank tape, open reel, apex 641.
>7" reels, 1800'
>25 for $99 and 10 for $45.
>
>Cassettes:
>Sony HF-60 20 for $25
>Sony HF-90 20 for $30
>
>Ron Baron
>63-09 108th St., Apt 2p
>Forest Hills, NY 11375
>1-718-896-0954
>
>I cannot vouch for this fella, but since he's been advertising for 
>several years now (longer probably) he must be ok.
>

I have used this guy and the tapes have arrived in excellent condition (I
ordered reels only) all shrinkwrapped. My only complaint was that he was a
bit slow in response. This is his primary living as Ron Baron is sight-impaired.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 12:37:39 -0600
From: bigsteve@[removed] (Steve Darnall)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Superdads
Message-Id: <v01530501adba8c983ee8@[[removed]]>

>In a recent message, two things caught my attention.  Not to be nit-picky,
>but who is Kal-El in Superman?  Was someone actually referring to Superman's
>Krypton father, Jor-El?

I'm sure a dozen people have already written in about this, but Kal-El is
Superman's birth name, given to him by his Kryptonian parents before their
planet exploded. That's not OTR, I know, but I spent two years working for
a trade magazine about comics, and I don't get too many chances to show off
my fancy (comic) book learnin'.

And don't even get me started on how many kinds of Kryptonite there [removed]

Steve Darnall
"Who can change the course of mighty rivers."

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 16:00:03 -0400
From: Lynchmob17@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Andy Clyde
Message-ID: <960511160002_533144445@[removed]>

Andy Clyde was a silent film comedian ong before he was Hoppy's 
sidekick.  He appeared as a supporting and starring comic in several
Hal Roach shorts.

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 16:09:36 -0400
From: Lynchmob17@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Questions
Message-ID: <960511160936_533148931@[removed]>

Most of those shows were pretty entertaining, although The Haunting
Hour was kinda dull.  The best show for supernatural horror was
Dark Fantasy.  It didn't run long, but it was one of the few shows
to feature the supernatural without explaining it away as just an
elaborate plot to fool someone.  the best episodes of this show are
"The Demon Tree" about a tree that comes to life and kills a cursed
family, and "The Headless Dead" about a man who is invited to join
a group of executed spectres in the Tower of London.  You can't 
beat Mel Smith's Hermit, though.  He scares the crap out of me. :)

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 20:41:08 GMT
From: veedee@[removed] (Vincent R. Damiano)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: RE:Ovaltine Home Page
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

This is the direct way to the Ovaltine page on the web: 
 
               [removed] 
 
I use Netscape [removed] and have this address in my bookmark and it goes
directly to the Ovaltine page.

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 21:08:30 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Bert, Goons, and More 
Message-ID: <960511210828_111657604@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                        May 11 - 1996 -- Saturday 7:30 PM cdt 

In issue 168, Richard Veit inquired about "Bert" as in "Dick and Bert".
According to Hap Holly (who is not on the internet), Bert (or Burt) is 
Burt Burtiss (spelling is phonetic).  He now works with Alan Barsman 
for the firm of Barsman and McCormick.  Again, that's the way the names
sound, not necessarily how they are spelled.  Hap also pointed out that
the man who said "WWWELLL" on the Chickenman Series was Jim Runyan (sp). 
Perhaps these names may ring a bell with others on the digest, and we 
might get spelling corrections and additional information from them.

---- New Topic ----  Please DO NOT CLICK -----

Also in issue 168 someone requested us to "... please click on "INCLUDE
MESSAGE FROM [removed]"  Please DO NOT do this.  We don't need multiple 
copies and re-postings.  It's okay to refer to the issue number or a 
brief reference to the original message, but not the entire posting. 
Thanks.

---- New Topic ---- Commercials intact -----

Richard J. Veit brings up a good point regarding if dealers could list 
whether commercials are intact.  Many otr programs did not have 
commercials, or the original airchecks did not include the commercials. 
These programs do not deserve to be avoided simply because there is no
commercial on the cassette.  No reputable dealer would deliberately remove
commercials if they existed.  Most (all?) AFRS programs had the 
commercials removed.  This is not the dealer's doing.  Sometimes there are 
two copies of the same program, one from the network and one from AFRS. 
I believe most dealers list AFRS or NBC (for example) when listing such a 
program.   Perhaps that's why you don't see remarks like "commercials 
intact" very often.  It would be nice if they could, but in many cases 
they can't.

---- New Topic ---- Three Goons ----

My total information about The Goon Show comes from listening to the 
programs in my collection, so I'm no expert.  In issue 167 it was pointed 
out that Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers were "all time champs for doing 
multiple characters".  There was a third Goon, Harry Secombe.  From 
listening to these shows it sounds to me as though all three are 
participating most of the time.  They did multiple characters, but three 
people can do more voices more easlily than two.  Perhaps some of our BBC 
listener-members could shed more light on this. 

----  Last Topic ---  Dayton Hamvention ----

There are quite a few Hams (Amateur Radio Operators) on the digest.  
If you're going to Dayton, please stop by Flea Market Space 544/545 and
introduce yourself.  I'll be at that space when I'm not bargain-hunting. 
Somebody should be at the spot if I'm not.  Look for me on [removed] MHz. 
-- 73 -- de W9ZMR, Ken 

Happy Taping -- Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois 
kenpiletic@[removed] 

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Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:35:06 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Updated files on website
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have updated the Radio Days web site with Episodes 8 & 9 of Captain
Midnight and the last episode of the Johnny Dollar series. Johnny Dollar
will be going away next weekend.  Look for something new in its place.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Sat, 11 May 96 21:09:32 0000
From: Charles Ulrich <ulrich@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Freberg, Blanc, and Benny
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Gruff (rsmfp@[removed]) wrote:

>   Anyway, I was under the impression that Freeberg was a pupil,
>   student, or whatever you might call it, of Mel Blanc. Laboring
>   under that impression, I thought he might have been involved in
>   Benny's productions, at least as a young "under-study"...correct
>   me if I'm wrong!!!

Freberg wasn't a student of Blanc's in any formal sense. They did work 
together on the "Goofy Gophers" cartoons at Warner Brothers, and on many
children's records for Capitol.

On page 47 of It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Freberg talks about appearing
on "a show starring one of my idols, Jack Benny." He doesn't actually
say that it was The Jack Benny Show, but he mentions the presence of
"Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, and Phil Harris's entire
orchestra". He had a "small part". This show was probably around August,
1945, but he doesn't say specifically.

--Charles

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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 07:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: wmackey@[removed]
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Cereal box storage
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I want to thank whom ever it was that mentioned using cereal boxes as a 
easy way to store tapes.  I had a couple that I re-enforced with packing 
tape and seem to work very well.  I can get two layers per shelf.

Now, if only there was a simple and easy way to re-record tapes so they 
would all be in order (a box of Benny, a box of Suspense, etc).  :)

Joe Mackey
Huntington, WV

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