Re: another intro
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Larry Maupin
Hello Bill. Thank you for sharing your background and favorite old-time radio programs. A couple of your comments stand out to me. One is that you like The Mysterious Traveler. Have you ever heard the episode "The Most Famous Man in the World"? That is my favorite because it is so hopeful about the future of mankind.
Also, you say that you like Backstage Wife and Perry Mason. I recently listened to a few episodes of Perry Mason and was surprised at how good they were. As for Backstage Wife, I think it is one of the best old-time radio soap operas. Larry and Mary's house in Rosehaven, Long Island is described in such detail that I can picture the very way it is laid out. Also the show has great theme music and good plots. I hope you post more messages any time you feel like sharing something or asking a question. Larry ----------------------------------------- From: "William Davis via groups.io"To: "main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io" Cc: Sent: Monday April 6 2020 2:37:57PM Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] another intro Got room for another old-timer? I'm Bill Davis in Lansing, Michigan and 67. I guess I could say I caught way back in the '60s before the golden age ended, catching shows like Suspense and Johnny Dollar when I was awake, considering I was only 9 then. I really caught the bug about 30-35 years ago with a handful of cassette to listen to. My collection grew to several hundred cassettes before I started converting MP3 CDs, then to DVD MP3s. I got started with Inner Sanctum, Superman and other juvenile serials before extending into other horror like The Hermit's Cave, Mysterious Traveler and many more. I have an interest in melodramas and soap operas like Back Stage Wife and Perry Mason - oh and of course comedy. BTW, if anyone is interested, check out Pumpkin FM in London on the Internet https://pumpkinfm.com/. They broadcast 24/7 with 8 stations (streams) and offer an onsite radio service to play what you want while continuing whatever else you're doing. Also works with Alexa and other apps. Channels: Brit Com 1, Brit Com 2, Strange Radio (Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery for the most part - series from US, UK, S, Africa and Australia) also a crime channel, a western channel (I think), and 3 more.
On Sunday, April 5, 2020, 10:22:01 AM EDT, Larry Maupin <lmaupin@...> wrote:
Hi Ryan. This is great. Before we lost the ability to create polls on the Main Group page, I was planning to do one on the best name of any old-time radio character. Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve would definitely have been one of the five choices!
Larry ----------------------------------------- From: "Ryan Ellett via groups.io"To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io Cc: Sent: Sunday April 5 2020 9:46:42AM Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] another intro Like Mike, Bill, and others, I discovered OTR in 2000 on the old Cobalt Club site that hosted tons of Shadow programs as well as some Avenger and Doc Savage. I think there was a large influx of newcomers to the hobby at the time because so many shows were being digitized and made available for free online. Folks like me, who had no awareness of them before, were introduced to this whole new medium. The hobby probably pushed me into getting broadband before I otherwise would have because downloading episodes over dial-up took forever. Many of you will remember things like Streamload and the OTRee distribution groups. There were so many Yahoo Groups that popped up within a 2-3 year span devoted to different aspects of OTR! I kept everything on CD at the time, finally approaching 600 CDs by around 2015 before I went all digital and dumped them in the trash. I had every single disc cataloged on my website (now defunct with GeoCities). The hobby sure has changed since then, but it's changed a lot since the 70s and 80s for the old-time collectors, too. Probably my favorite all-time series is the Great Gildersleeve; it's the only long series of which I've listened to an entire run (400+ episodes at the time) and I'm sure more have been uncovered since. Detective shows have always been my least favorite because I can count on getting lost in the convoluted plots. www.RyanEllett.com
On Sunday, April 5, 2020, 08:09:19 AM CDT, Bill Spray via groups.io <bill_spray@...> wrote:
Hello Ryan, Larry, Mike, Rob. and all the other OTR fans out there! I have a similar testimony to Mike, but I was looking for old music and came across some OTR programs.I was soon hooked and looking for more. That was around 99 - 2000. I can't remember when I joined OTRR, but at least 15 years ago. Sorry I have not had time to work on research - the love of the old shows is there. I collect books also - mostly westerns and high action fiction. My Louis L'Amour and Tom Clancy collections is around 90%. I have been listening to some of the Libravox recordings on Archive.org. I have done my best to inspire others to listen to OTR shows. I will make copies on CD and give to people and hope they get hooked also! Bill Spray Texas -- Larry Maupin -- Larry Maupin |
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