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Sinatra and Rocky Fortune
I could swear I had a volunteer to write a short (1 page) bio of Frank Sinatra's radio work for our upcoming Rocky Fortune update. But I can't find any reference now to that communication. Please let me know if you volunteered for that job!
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Re: Sinatra and Rocky Fortune
Ah, found it in a different group. Everyone enjoy their Turkey Day!
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Cinnamon Bear goodies
Here's some Cinnamon Bear goodness. Many, many years ago I received these in the mail from #1 Cinnamon Bear fan Dennis Crow. He has since passed away but would post on the OTR Internet Digest offering to send a pack to anyone interested. The Digest's owner, Charlie, still makes these available every year and I have no doubt Dennis would be thrilled to make them available via this group. The file consists of a map of Maybeland, the Cinnamon Bear music, and lyrics to the songs. Enjoy!
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Tim Germain
Thank you, Ryan.
Tim
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Here's some Cinnamon Bear goodness. Many, many years ago I received these in the mail from #1 Cinnamon Bear fan Dennis Crow. He has since passed away but would post on the OTR Internet
Digest offering to send a pack to anyone interested. The Digest's owner, Charlie, still makes these available every year and I have no doubt Dennis would be thrilled to make them available via this group. The file consists of a map of Maybeland, the Cinnamon
Bear music, and lyrics to the songs. Enjoy! |
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David Oxford
Thanks, Ryan.
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David Oxford On Nov 29, 2019, at 14:33, Ryan Ellett via Groups.Io <oldradiotimes@...> wrote: Here's some Cinnamon Bear goodness. Many, many years ago I received these in the mail from #1 Cinnamon Bear fan Dennis Crow. He has since passed away but would post on the OTR Internet Digest offering to send a pack to anyone interested. The Digest's owner, Charlie, still makes these available every year and I have no doubt Dennis would be thrilled to make them available via this group. The file consists of a map of Maybeland, the Cinnamon Bear music, and lyrics to the songs. Enjoy! Cinnamon Bear Goodies |
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Clyde Beatty items for set
I need a volunteer to write a short biography of Clyde Beatty (1 page) and someone to write a very short show synopsis that could be recorded for the set. Let me know if interested.
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Dropbox/OneDrive - Crime Classics v1911
OTRR certified Crime Classics v1911 (1.58 GB on Windows) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this collection possible.
These links will be available until December 31.
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zmhxud7cxksh1e9/AAD_BPbqyYQmD-v8J_Dmu1Tza?dl=0
OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Al5Sbh6lIkj5jZ5ctK-LJesPKNaFmg?e=a2EF8Q
Series synopsis:
Crime Classics came to CBS on June, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories." The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland – connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway’s My Beat and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Bernard Herrmann composed the music that replicated authentic music of the era being dramatized. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the scripts. Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics.
Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly sensitive. Orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings.
Cases profiled on the series ranged from a seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, was actually based on fact. For example, the show about the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrill's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. In the story "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of an unknown dead man and placed in glass. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. Thus his killers were found out by the dead man, using his head.
This show is a good companion to other old time radio shows that are historically oriented, such as Cavalcade of America, You Are There, and American Trail. |
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Special interview with disc collector David Gibbs
Joe Webb
My interview with disc collector David Gibbs is now available! I interviewed David at SPERDVAC in November. We had a wide ranging discussion about finding discs, the perils of cleaning and transcribing them, some of the tricks of equalization and digital processing. Because David is also a musician, that affects the way he assesses sound and plans his recording strategy. Recording discs is hard work tempered by its being a labor of love. I hope you enjoy our discussion! https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZWjImkZS0CmE8eMXk4yVYFA2ggVvf4QGhy7
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Suspense Collector's Companion - 2020 edition available at Amazon My Suspense radio series (CBS 1942-1962) historical and recording research website
New page added about Suspense and the Red Channels blacklist
The Whistler radio series (CBS 1942-1955) research website
The Big Story radio series (NBC 1947-1954) original news stories adapted for the series research website |
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Re: Special interview with disc collector David Gibbs
C. Nava
Thanks, Joe! Looking forward to the interview.
In particular, I've always wondered about the real stories behind Big Story and Dragnet.
:)
Claire
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Subject:[OldTimeRadioResearchers] Special interview with disc collector David Gibbs
My interview with disc collector David Gibbs is now available! I interviewed David at SPERDVAC in November. We had a wide ranging discussion about finding discs, the perils of cleaning and transcribing them, some of the tricks of equalization
and digital processing. Because David is also a musician, that affects the way he assesses sound and plans his recording strategy. Recording discs is hard work tempered by its being a labor of love. I hope you enjoy our discussion! https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZWjImkZS0CmE8eMXk4yVYFA2ggVvf4QGhy7
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Suspense Collector's Companion - 2020 edition available at Amazon My Suspense radio series (CBS 1942-1962) historical and recording
research website
New page added about
Suspense and the Red Channels blacklist
The Whistler radio series (CBS 1942-1955)
research website
The Big Story radio series (NBC 1947-1954) original news stories adapted for the series
research website
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Listener Needed
We received a donation earlier this fall of about 40 episodes of various soap operas that did not appear to the owner to be in circulation or copies that he believed to be in better sound. I finished encoding them from cassette about a week ago and would like to find a volunteer who would be interested in going through and a)checking each episode against what we have in our library and/or b)checking the sound quality against that of any existing episodes that might be in the library. Once this is done I plan to make them available to the group. Any soap fans?
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Re: Listener Needed
Damon Fries
I’m up for it, are there flac versions? I need a good project this week ...
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Re: Listener Needed
Kevin Karweck
Which soaps? I'm listening to the Young Widder Brown episodes now.
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Re: Listener Needed
If it's Backstage Wife, I'm in.
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Re: Listener Needed
Ryan, I am available to do whatever you need. Love to help out wherever I can.
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Old Radio Times Patreon
I don't believe we've advertised this on the OTRR Yahoo/.io groups but the Old Radio Times (our e-zine) has a Patreon page where anyone can become a financial supporter. If you're not familiar with Patreon, it is a platform where you can pledge money on a regular basis to some sort of content creator. You create an account and link it to your bank or PayPal or some payment method. It's a legit platform, I've been using it for a couple years to support podcasters, indie game publishers, and others. You decide how much to give ($1 minimum) and how often. In this case the Old Radio Times is suggesting a pledge of $1 per issue. We publish four issues in one year, currently. So each time we send out the newest issue your bank or PayPal or credit card would be charged the pledge amount ($1). You can cancel it at any time, it's very simple. The ideas is the money received will be used for group upkeep costs, such as websites, purchases, etc. It would be very exciting if we ever get to a point where there's actually enough income from Patreon for the Times to actually pay nominal amounts to authors or even buy some sort of desktop publishing software to up its appearance. Check out the link below to see how it works:
The Old Radio Times Patreon page Ryan |
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Re: Listener Needed
Thanks to those who have volunteered! Damon took first crack at them and discovered some digital artifacts from the encoding process that I hadn't noticed. He's working on getting that cleaned up, then I'll see if he wants some listening help. Stay tuned.
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OTRR Releases
Sue
After a prolonged multi-year absence, I'm back again with OTRR. One of my first projects is to update the OTRR Release database that I created and include all the missing releases and archive.org information. I've modified the database for the new version numbering format and have gone through and added almost all of the missing releases that I am aware of -- mainly by going through tons of old (mostly distro) emails and then looking for the current series on archive.org. I also updated the web page with the new Maintained (vs Certified) definitions: http://otrr.org/pg05b_groupreleases.htm So far, I've added new series to the database, and their release information (with a couple of exceptions -- see below), but I have not yet updated the archive.org info (that will be in the next week or so). Now, I need some help. (1) I believe I'm missing some information for The Adventures of the Falcon. The most recent information I have about this is that version 2 is a 2 CD set marked Certified Accurate and was released Jan 4, 2013, but there may be something later. This series is not on archive.org (due to previous rights issues back in 2010 with our first release of this series). Does someone have the information for later release(s)? (version number, release date, number of CDs/DVDs, distro number?) Or put the set on DropBox for me? (2) Same question for The Lives of Harry Lime. Most recent info I have for that is version 1 was a 1 CD set marked Certified Complete, released on Jul 25, 2012. I think there is a new release (or releases) of this series too. (3) Distros NCD102 and NCD103 were a two-part distro in Jan 2017 for OTR-Related Comics. Was that a newer version than the previous v1.1 OTR-Related Comics set released Apr 11, 2011? Or just a re-distro of the same set? (If newer, does anyone have the version and release date of this release?) (4) What's missing from the release reports (other than the current archive.org links, which I'll work on this week)? Please look at the various release reports on the web page and see if you can spot any missing series or releases. (5) The text on the web page itself -- are there any updates that should be made? Thanks! -Sue -Sue |
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Re: Listener Needed
Damon Fries
I’ve been going through the shows, investigating discrepancies in airdates and filenames, fixing a few sound issues - I’m happy to say that almost all the shows are not in the library and those that are will be significant upgrades. Quite a few are not even in the Goldin list, so it’s a very nice collection with lots of interesting, rare orphaned episodes. It’s 60+ shows and I’m over half-way through and expect to be finished this week. I think soap fans (and possibly even non-soap fans!) will enjoy these (there are a few non-soap 15-minute shows included too).
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Thanks, Damon, for your hard work on this. The donor felt the OTRR would be the best place to send these shows, not only to preserve them but to make sure they became available to the wider public. We'll certainly get them added to the library but when Damon's done with his work I may try to make an Archive.org posting for them so it will be easier to download them all in one spot, rather than going to 30 different series on our library and having to grab one or two episodes at a time. We'll keep you all posted.
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Re: OTRR Releases
Joe Webb
So glad to hear you're back!
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Suspense Collector's Companion - 2020 edition available at Amazon My Suspense radio series (CBS 1942-1962) historical and recording research website
New page added about Suspense and the Red Channels blacklist
The Whistler radio series (CBS 1942-1955) research website
The Big Story radio series (NBC 1947-1954) original news stories adapted for the series research website |
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