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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 329
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Ray Bradbury [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK Schedule for [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
RE: Short life expectancy of CDs [ jlsalley@[removed] ]
Short life expectancy of CDs [ "KDK" <kdkalit@[removed]; ]
SUSPENSE lists and "The Black Door" [ "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@cfai ]
Today in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Walden Hughes interview [ sojax@[removed] (Roger S. Smith) ]
9-2 Births/Deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Art Linkletter [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
BLONDIE [ oldpdb@[removed] (Paul Barringer) ]
Canadian car-crash show [ Gord Lepsenyi <lepseg@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:38:51 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ray Bradbury
Richard Carpenter asked:
While growing up, there were three radio programs that scared the bejabbers
out of me (and my brother,
too, even though he was all of a year older). Theywere "Zero Hour" on
"Suspense," "Mars Is Heaven" on "X
Minus One," and "The Masks of Ashor" on "The Hall (or was it Halls?) of
Fantasy."
A question: Were "Zero Hour" and "Mars Is Heaven" on other series besides
"Suspense" and "X Minus One," respectively?
Sure was.
ZERO HOUR
DIMENSION X (6/17/50) with Roger DeKoven, Rita Lynn and Denise Alexander
ESCAPE (10/4/53) with Mary McGovern and William Johnstone
MARS IS HEAVEN
DIMENSION X (7/7/50) with Wendell Holmes and Peter Capel, later
rebroadcast 1/7/51.
ESCAPE (6/2/50) with Jeff Corey, Ian Wolfe and William Johnstone
These two Bradbury stories were also done on other radio programs like
BRADBURY 13, but are worth catching on television's RAY BRADBURY THEATER
because he had input into the productions and how he wanted them dramatized
which allows the viewer to get a superb rendition of how the author pictured
the drama.
Most notably (if you can find a video copy) is the note worthy production of
"Zero Hour" done on television's
LIGHTS OUT! with details reprinted below.
EPISODE #95 ìZERO HOURî Broadcast on July 23, 1951
Starring: Denise Alexander, Margaret Hayes, John OíHare, and Richard
Wigginton
Written for Lights Out! by George Lefferts, based on the short story by Ray
Bradbury.
Story: Intelligence greater than man's uses innocent children as the key
weapon to begin an invasion that will enslave mankind.
The television production was performed on "live" sound stages - and the
sound of little children's feet coming up the steps at the end of the
production leaves a real impact and like the radio versions it allows the
audience to picture the martian invasion in their mind.
Martin Grams, Jr.
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:22:03 -0400
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK Schedule for week
starting: August 31st
Here's our lineup on The OTRN for week starting today 8/31 - for one week in
streaming hi-quality audio 24/7 - Tune in Anytime:
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
1. THE PACKARD HOUR (The Fred Astaire Show) 1/3/36
"The Dentist" - Program includes complete presidential election
returns. Fred Astaire, Johnny Green's Orch., Charles Butterworth,
Allen Jones, Ann Jameson, Trudy Woods and Ken Carpenter.
2. THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL 7/11/41 starring Bing Crosby, with
Lionel Barrymore, Eddfie Bracken, and Bob Burns.
THE HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
1. BULLETIN: Vintage Boston / Cleveland radio/TV RED SOX sportscaster, Ken
Coleman, passes away at age 78.
2. SPECIAL GUEST: Jim Cox, noted OTR writer, historian joins Tom
from Louisville to talk about his newest book for McFarland Publishers,
"Frank & Anne Hummert's Radio Factory." A new look
at radio's most prolific writers.
3. MR KEEN, TRACER OF LOST PERSONS CBS/AFRS 1/5/50
"The Rushville Murder Case"
4. THE COLGATE SPORTS NEWSREEL with BILL STERN NBC
3/17/44 with special guest: Hollywood star, Constance Bennett.
Enjoy - Tom & Jerry
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:01:05 -0400
From: jlsalley@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Short life expectancy of CDs
I know this topic may be of interest to those on this digest. It scared
me!
Check out the article on this web site! [removed]
I can't make a general statement about all CDs, but I can report that about
a year ago when I decided to organize my collection, I was shocked. With no
real system of being able to tell when I had recorded a particular CD or
what brand it was (if it wasn't obviously branded), I wound up with about
25% of the CDs that I had recorded over a four period being unreadable. A
few of those I could read the CD, but couldn't actually retrieve anything,
and a few more I managed to read on another computer. Not scientific, just
what happened to me. Different brands, different computers and different CD
writers (as I upgraded) involved. Some music, some otr, some word
processing and other files. Some really important.
Wish I had kept better records so I 'd have an idea of what to do in the
future.
I still burn stuff to CD, but I don't consider it an effective longterm
storage method.
Jerry Salley
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:36:37 -0400
From: "KDK" <kdkalit@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Short life expectancy of CDs
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Arlene Osborne wrote:
I know this topic may be of interest to those on this
digest. It scared me!
Check out the article on this web site!
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Yeah, right. And the sky is falling too! I think they must have neglected to
tell you that they left the CD's in the sun for those 20 months! Just as with
the newspaper, you can't believe everything you read on the internet!
I have, literally, quite a few hundred CD's I have recorded over the last 5
years with music and OTR programs and I probably have about 20 CD's recorded
with just archival data. They are on name brand and off brand names. I
paid a much as $[removed] for some of them over 5 years ago and as little as free
after rebates recently. I have never, ever, had any post-recording failure due
to the CD's themselves. I just tried a data CD-RW, written at 2X almost 4
years ago and it works just fine and looks physically good too! The only
failures I have ever had were during initial recording and also before I
learned to never use DIRECTCD from ROXIO.
If these CD's were failing after 20 months, why have we not heard any outrage
from literally many millions of worldwide users over the last 7? years CD's
have been in home use? Why are people continuing to buy and use them if they
fail in 20 months? Why are the recorders still being sold? Why are Kodak,
Fuji, Memorex, Sony, Verbatim, etc. still in business?
Like anything else, if you abuse the product it will likely fail. I keep my
recorded CD's in plastic 1/2 size cases, stored vertically, out of the
sunlight and at room temperature ranging from 62 to 90 degrees, 40 to 100%
Chicago humidity over the course of a year. From my own experience, if you
take reasonable and proper care of your CD's, you'll likely have few, if any,
problems.
Ken
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:28:53 -0400
From: "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SUSPENSE lists and "The Black Door"
Thanks to those who posted the BEST OF SUSPENSE lists. My younger bother who
is a [removed] Lovecraft fan and who read most of his work in print particularlly
enjoyed the Lovecraft type SUSPENSE story the "The Black Door" from 1961. It
was really great. I was wondering if there was other stories by Robert
Arthur that may have been done on THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER (which there is no
surviving recording) re-done on another program like SUSPENSE?
Mike Kerezman
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:30:01 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
1941 - The Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.
1946 - "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series. His
identity had been well guarded for years. Most people didn't have a clue
as to the identity of Superman until a TIME magazine article about
Collyer appeared in 1946.
Joe
--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:30:49 -0400
From: sojax@[removed] (Roger S. Smith)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Walden Hughes interview
If you missed the interview on Yesterday USA last night between Walden
Hughes and Lee Munsic you have really missed a winner. In the first
minute or so Lee was a little on the quiet and reserved side but then
BAM! he came loose and boy what knowledge and wonderful stories of
Arthur Godfrey he had. When he opened up he sounded a lot like Dr.
Michael Biel, and like Dr. Biel you couldn't hold him back. Dr. Biel is
another person well worth listening to and he is usually on every Sunday
evening. GREAT JOB Walden and Lee, thanks for a wonderful evening.
Roger Smith
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:31:55 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-2 Births/Deaths
September 2nd births
09-02-1902 - Henry J. Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1984
commentator: 'Your Land and Mine"; "News Commentary"
09-02-1904 - Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) - NYC - d. 9-14-1974
comedienne: "Vera Vague Show"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
September 2nd deaths
01-14-1908 - Russ Columbo - Camden, NJ - d. 9-2-1934
singer, bandleader: "Russ Columbo Show"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Jay Jostyn
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:32:18 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Art Linkletter
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:27:56 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
Did he interview children in his radio days, too?
Art Linkletter's House Party, including the kid interviews, was on both radio and television for
many years.
Mr. Linkletter, when he started his interview would throw out one or
another stock question ([removed], "If you could be any animal, which would
you want to be?") and let the kid take it from there.
In his book, "Kids Say the Darndest Thinks," Linkletter describes one child who said he
wanted to be an octopus, "so I can catch all the bad kids in my class and spank them with
my testicles." Linkletter tried to correct the child, but the kid was insistent. "Mr. Linkletter,
you've got that wrong. Not 'tentacles,' 'testicles.'"
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210
lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:58:46 -0400
From:
oldpdb@[removed] (Paul Barringer)
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: BLONDIE
The Bumstead family's daughter indeed was named Cookie, so named in a
readers contest from some half a million suggested entries to name her.
The prize to the winner was $[removed], which back in 1941 was quite a bit
of moola.
Incidentally, The Dagwood sandwich is included in The Webster's New
World Dictionary making it part of our language.
Blondie was also portrayed on a [removed] postage stamp, along with other
comic strip characters on other stamps, celebrating the first 100 years
of the comic strip.
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:02:07 -0400
From: Gord Lepsenyi
<lepseg@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: Canadian car-crash show
Hi there,
In the early to mid '50s, back in Saskatchewan, Canada, I sat spellbound at
the radio waiting for another deadly conclusion to a weekly radio show that
always ended in [removed] car crash. The only other thing I can remember
about this show is that one episode featured the song 'O Danny Boy' in an
incredibly sad context.
I suspect that this show was the automobile driver's version of 'Crime Does
Not Pay' as it showed how tragic car crashes could be.
Any idea what the show was called and do you know who might have copies?
Thanks so much,
Gord
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