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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 462

Table Of Contents: 

	 1955 Radio Schedule
	 Bob and Ray. Thanksgiving Turkeys? No Way!
	 OTTV
	 HOLIDAY GREETINGS!!!
	 70s Payola
	 sound effects, Jack Benny
	 Two JAck Benny Questions
  
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:38:49 -0500
From: SartyK@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 1955 Radio Schedule
Message-ID: <961128063849_1717442185@[removed]>

For a project I am working on, I need the complete radio and tv schedules
(including summer replacements) for 1955 for all networks.  Would appreciate
anyone with such information contacting me by email.  Did Radio and TV Mirror
still publish radio schedules in 1955?  If so, does anyone know where I may
acquire issues for that year?  I bought three magazines from 1950 several
years ago, but can't remember from whom. Most of the newspapers from that
period that I have consulted so far only have partial radio schedules. What
newspaper published the best radio page in the fifties?  Also, where would
one find TV Guides from 1955 and about what would be the asking price?
 
George M. Kelly
Sartyk@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:34:38 EST
From: jjyellen@[removed] (James J Yellen)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bob and Ray. Thanksgiving Turkeys? No Way!
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Here's a reprint of a note in David Hinckley's Radio column that appeared
in the New York Daily News today, Turkey Day.

"RADIO GREATS: It was 50 years ago this fall that morning deejay Bod
Elliot of WHDH in Boston started bantering with newsman Ray Goulding, and
one of radio's most enduring and famous comedy teams was born. Bob And
Ray worked together for 44 years, unitl Goulding's death in 1990. To mark
the anniversary, two of their classic recordings have been released for
the first time on CD: "Bob & Ray:The Two and Only" from 1970, and the
double-CD "Bob & Ray: A NIght of Two Stars," from a Carnegie Hall show.
In addition two new cassette albums have also been complied:  "The Soap
Operas, Vol.  4," and "Vintage Bob & Ray Vol. 2, WHDH, NBC, and CBS."
  
"These compilations are done by the nonprofit Radio Foundation, run by
Larry Josephson of NPR. He's also assembling a 52-week Bob and Ray series
to run on NPR. For information, or to order, call 1-800-528-4424."

I know that there are other B & R fans on the digest and thought they
might be interested in this info.

Happy Thanksgiving to All.

Jim Yellen

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:37:19 -0600
From: Sammy <rharris@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: OTTV
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Nick stinks!!!!  Who cares what they run now unless you don't care if they
chop it [removed]
When they first came on they were new and not enough advertisers and they
ran stuff [removed] they cut about three minutes out of their [removed]
TV Land is running most of the stuff uncut so if wanted get it now because
as soon as it catches on goodbye!!!
Just like their parent Nick they will take out the butcher knife!!!
Funny that Nick ran stuff uncut when they were in the clear and then when
they scrambled and started charging they started [removed]!!!!
How about a station playing old time radio .....  taking the Shadow, Our
Miss Brooks, [removed] and cutting them for [removed]  burn the
station!!!!

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:16:13 -0500
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HOLIDAY GREETINGS!!!
Message-ID: <961128101611_1486426592@[removed]>

May I extend my best wishes to one and all for an old-fashioned Christmas
complete
with all the great old shows that really knew how to send personal greetings
to all of
it's listeners. If  you have a chance, drop by and hear some of the fine
holiday offerings on YESTERDAY-USA on the web, iuncluding our show, HERITAGE
RADIO
THEATRE. Don't eat too much, and remember a nice rest after a hard day at the
table!  <<TOM HEATHWOOD / HEIRTAGE RADIO THEATRE / YESTERDAY-USA>>  11/28/96

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:23:25 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 70s Payola
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The payola scene was different in the 70s. With the rising
popularity of drugs, the new albums being promoted to the
DJs came with packets of a white powder. One major record
company with broadcasting ties was caught flat footed to 
what was going on and there was a rather quick change at
the top of the record company. To maintain a broadcast
license, one must be squeeky clean.
At the record company it had deteriorated to the extent
that no business was done on Fridays. Some secretaries
went topless. And the guy who pushed around the mail cart
was the highest paid employee. You see, the cart had this
compartment under the mail [removed]

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:31:21 -0600
From: Cockrum <bcockrum@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: sound effects, Jack Benny
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I've enjoyed the recent conversations about sound effects and the extra

efforts Jack Webb made for realism. 

I apologize if the following have been asked and answered before, but

since I'm new on the block, this is as good as time as any.

-0-

1--At the end of some of the shows on CBS Radio in the 1950s they credit

the sound effects men with the words "Sound patterns [removed]" Considering

they were unsung heroes on most programs, any credit would be good, but

was the term something that CBS or certain directors or producers

adopted, feeling the SFX people were especially deserving, had the job

become more involved than before (and "sound patterns" reflected that

better than a simple "sound effects by ..."), did they work well ahead

of the cast in developing the sound effects prior to even the first

run-through of the script? 

-0-

2--Not really having to do with sound effects, except for "Twombley" the

sound man in the last original Jack Benny program aired on May 29, 1955.

I've read several places that Mary Livingstone had declined to do the

show before a studio audience starting in 1950 or '51. In fact Joan

Benny says in her book, "Sunday Nights at Seven," that she was her

mother's stand-in at the studio; her mother's voice, having been
recorded at home, would be spliced in prior to the network playback. My
question about the May 29,1955 recording is ... is that Joan Benny doing
Mary's part? It certainly isn't Mary. Is there any more to the story ...
why would they n o t have Mary on the LAST original broadcast? (I know
that a similar strange thing happened in the case of Gene Autry and his
final Melody Ranch show -- he didn't appear ... instead the announcer
read a "telegram" from Autry thanking his listeners. Can anyone explain
that one?)

-0-

Hope everyone has had a happy Thanksgiving.



Bob Cockrum

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:17:54 -0600
From: toews@[removed] (Bruce Toews)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Two JAck Benny Questions
  
Message-Id: <[removed]@one>

Hi. Two quick questions. First, Jack alludes on several of his programs to
an album of records he's made. What exactly was on this, and have any of
these survived?

Second, who was [removed] Boone <SP?) Thanks very much.

Bruce

Net-Tamer V [removed] - Registered


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Date: 29 Nov 96 00:00:07 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #9 of 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7222 Side A,  3/21/50.  Deep Shadow

In this episode Phillip has to track down a bride-to-be that's missing on her
wedding day along with $50,[removed]  One of the clues is an old photo taken in
front of the stalls on Olivera Street.  The villains can't keep their mouths
shut.  "You're not taking me coppers."  "Don't miss our star, Gerald Mohr, in
Republic Pictures upcoming movie, The Blonde Bandit".  

NARA Cassette 7222 Side B, 3/28/50.  The Sword of Cebu

A short dumpy man with wild black hair tries to hire Marlowe to recover a
missing sword.  Phillip gets misled in a Philippine jungle, chases an English
accent to Venice and winds up at a Shinto shrine with a friend from Siam.  All
this without leaving Los Angeles.  With Paul Frees.  Stay tuned for Pursuit. 

That's 30 for tonight
NGC
Norman Cox



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