Tomorrow morning I will begin sending out a distro entitled "Air
Checks" to everyone who replies to this message and asks to be
signed up for it before then.
My definition of an air check is a station break during which
the announcer gives the name, call letters and location of the
radio station over which an episode is being broadcast. These
are
very rare, and looking for OTR episodes that have one is like
going
on a treasure hunt. I find it exciting to come across one
because
they give the listener an opportunity to imagine what it would
have
been like to listen to the episode at that particular time in
history on that particular radio station.
There is a way to have some fun with this distro. In the list
below, I will give all the information I have about the series,
episode title and date of each show but will not reveal the air
check. Instead, at the end of each episode description I will
place
in brackets the time during the program when the air check
occurs.
So if you see [1:24] or [14:46] you will know the exact minute
and
second to be on the alert for. If you want to, you can make a
list
of these 9 shows and the stations over which they were aired,
save
it and add to it when you happen upon more shows with air
checks.
Notes: (1) The file that contains Edith
Adams' Future also has We Are Always Young on it.
You
will need to wait about 10-15 seconds after the Edith Adams
episode
is finished, then you will hear the air check for We Are
Always
Young soon thereafter; (2) None of the files contain
series or
episode titles and dates, so I will list them below in the order
in
which I will send them out tomorrow and Wednesday. If you find
any
that do not match up, all you have to do is listen to the
episode
to learn which one it is. I hope that will not occur, but to err
is
human.
Now for the list:
1. "Nightmare" from Murder at Midnight (11/4/46).
[0:25]
2. "Inditement" from Inditement [0:01]
3. Edith Adams' Future (7/25/41) [14:46]
4. We Are Always Young (7/25/41) [16:32] on same
file.
5. "Bob Chester Orchestra" (9/21/39) [26:52]
6. National Barn Dance [1:24]
7. Grand Old Opry [25:53]
8. Counterspy (7/27/42) [0:12]
9. "Switchboard Secrets" from Front Page Drama
(11/19/33) [0:26]. Note: The air check here gives only the name
of
the network, but I think the episode is worth including because
almost nobody has ever heard of the network and it will be nice
to
have a show that was aired over it.
Larry
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Larry Maupin
