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Date: 8/16/2014 8:27 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 72
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Book on Announcers                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      The Hayloft Gang DVD                  [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Eleanor Roosevelt's Radio Shows       [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Brace Beamer Celebration              [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
      Early BBC royal broadcasts            [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:20:35 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Book on Announcers

    I going to guess the book Tom Michael was thinking of is:

    "Golden Throats and Silver Tongues: The Radio Announcers"
    written by Ray Poindexter (River Road Press 1978)

    Used copies of this abound on the  Internet and <[removed]> has five
    different copies, starting at $ [removed] plus S & H.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:21:06 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Hayloft Gang DVD

    The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barndance is now officially
    released on DVD.

    This is the story of the WLS Chicago radio program that introduced many
    country and western artists to America. The documentary was shown on PBS
    in September, 2011. The DVD includes lots of extra stuff and is a worthy
    production. I was a supporter of the project to release this program on
    DVD and have had my copy for several months. Apart from that, I have no
    connection with the program or the DVD. I do enjoy it and recommend it
    to all.

    The format is widescreen 16x9 with portions cropped for 4x3 film
    segments. The DVD is a DVD-R disc and plays in all modern DVD players as
    far as I know. It's available from the official website as well as Amazon.

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    Don Shenbarger

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    Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:21:12 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Eleanor Roosevelt's Radio Shows

    I was recently contacted by Mary Jo Binker, Editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt
    Papers at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is trying to
    locate all of the broadcasts (either in audio, scripts, and/or both) in which
    that distinguished lady was featured. Binker has already searched the
    archives of the Audio/Visual section of the Library of Congress, the FDR
    Library in Hyde Park, NY, the Library of American Broadcasting at Univ of
    Maryland, and the NBC collection at the Univ of Wisconsin. While she has
    obtained audio copies of several programs, there are many others she needs to
    find. Many of these were sustained, but some were sponsored; nearly all were
    15 minutes in length.

    The total inventory of what Binker has and what she is still missing is too
    extensive for this posting. But I will summarize it, listing dates, network,
    and name of program (if known) so that Digesters can check their holdings to
    see if any appear in their collections. If any of these programs show up in
    their own inventory (either audio or scripts) I'd ask them to contact Binker
    at <mjbinker@[removed]; You may also email her if you have any promising leads
    for her to follow up on.

    NBC (title unknown) weekly Dec 1932 to Mar 1933, sponsored Pond's Cold Cream,
    missing all 14 broadcasts.

    CBS (title unknown) weekly Nov to Dec 1934, missing all 6 broadcasts

    CBS "It's a Woman's World", weekly Feb to Apr 1935, missing all 10 broadcasts

    NBC (title unknown) weekly, Apr to Jul 1937, sponsored by Pond's Cold Cream,
    missing 11 of the total 13 broadcasts

    NBC "Over Our Coffee Cups" weekly Sep 1941 to Apr 1942, sponsored by
    Pan-American Coffee Bureau, missing 7 of the total 28 broadcasts

           After the death of FDR in 1945, she continued on the radio on the
    following programs, while serving in various official capacities of the
    United Nations.

    ABC "Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt Program" 3X weekly Nov 1948 to Feb 1949, 5X
    weekly Mar 1949 to Sep 1949. Missing 151 of the total 176 broadcasts

    NBC "Eleanor Roosevelt Program" 5X weekly from Oct 1950 to Sep 1951. Missing
    only 8 of the total of approximately 235 broadcasts.

    Thanks for all your help,

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:21:18 -0400
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Brace Beamer Celebration

    I hadn't seen this before, from 2013:

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    Includes a brief sound bite with Shirley Ann Maylock, who was on the
    show as a child.

    And just for fun, here's one on sound effects from 1933:

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    Is one of those actors John Todd? I see some similarity.
    --
    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:21:29 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Early BBC royal broadcasts
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    Hi Folks
    Documentary coming up in early September on the BBC World Service. Sounds like
    it could be interesting ... ...

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    Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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