Hi Scott. I hope you will be able to find the article with no problem. It follows a story line that ran for about eight months. If you get through it I would like to know whether it makes you want to

Good morning to everybody. An article I recently completed entitled "Murder and Madness in Young Widder Brown" has been posted on Ted Davenport's website. You can find it by typing Radio Memories, the

Ryan, as I recall Jim was a professor at a university (I think it was Western Kentucky but could be wrong), taught courses in popular culture and played episodes of old-time radio shows to his classes

Mine is The Great Radio Soap Operas by Jim Cox. He has a lot of material in his chapters on 31 of the most famous OTR soap operas that cannot be found in any other publication that I have run across.

Geoff, thank you for sharing such an interesting experience. The phrase "Border Radio" has a nice ring to it, just as "Western Swing" does, and you obviously enjoyed working on the project. I remember

Scott, that is so sweet! I don't think your gift could have been better bestowed. One of Jackie's good qualities is that she actually reads posts without automatically deleting them. Sometimes that pa

Hi Jackie, That sounds good. Congratulations on being married for half a century! Best wishes, Larry -----------------------------------------From: "jackies@... via groups.io" To: main@oldtim

Thank you Ryan. I will mention that OTRR has always been an on-line group. I am including instructions on how to join the group by sending you an email, and am indicating that applicants are encourage

Dear Jackie, Thank you for your kind words, and I am so glad you did join the group. I will include your last paragraph in the article because it describes one of the benefits of being a member so wel

John, I did mention that every member receives the newsletter, but not that membership is free. So I will include that fact and also mention the Purchasing Group. Thank you for reminding me. Larry ---

Hi Mike. I will just use Ryan's estimate of 262 as the number of current members. In the piece, I am including a section on volunteer opportunities within the group and stating that new members are en

Hello to all members. The editor of an OTR newsletter asked me to submit an informational piece on the OTRR Group. He accepted it, but requested that I expand it to include the following: (1) When and

Brian, After you do I would like to know what you think about the episodes. You can post some comments here of just send me a personal message if you prefer. There are several other OTR soap opera lov

Hi Scott. I have not noticed any Purchasing Group distros during the past few weeks either. As for the collection, Paul posted a message yesterday with a link to it. You should still have the message

Hi Rick. Now that you have access to the collection you have all the episodes that I have. The dates were difficult to sort out because some were real dates and others were more like tags that only ap

Brian, I am glad you read Paul's message and were able to access the collection. If you listened to any of the episodes I hope you enjoyed them. Larry -----------------------------------------From: "B

Rick, thank you very much for doing that. I do not have the episode dated August 4, 1942 but thanks to you that will be the only other one Paul needs to be able to release the collection. I'm sure Bar

Hi Pete, That is a very well written and informative article. Thank you for posting it. I have also noticed that in some of the episodes there is no introduction and the first thing you hear is someon

Hello to everybody. There is an episode of "The Story of Mary Marlin" dated June 7, 1944 that has been circulating for many years. Paul Kornman needs it in order to release the library's third curated

Thank you for the information Bob. I would like to know where you went to graduate school. I went to Ohio State, and the title of my dissertation is something like "The Influence of George Granville,