Posted on 09/22/2013 1:49:21 PM PDT by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Two great shows.
I’m glad you slept, dear Ms. Onyx. You don’t sleep like that unless you need it badly! Get all well soon. There’s nothing like a nice steady rain to help sleep, too. :-)
Now, let’s find Kitty!
Yep. I think I might have even mentioned on these boards that I even wrote to Phil Harris one time, telling him how much I enjoyed the show. Used to listen to episodes on cassette back during my college years. Got a nice note back from Harris.
Also had plans to write to the “Our Miss Brooks” cast, too, as the vast majority of the actors were still around. But never got around to it. Although I did give Gale Gordon’s address to a friend of mine, and he wrote to him and got a nice letter back.
Thanks so much!
I’m having a wonderful time enjoying the programs!
ALL of them.
Wow. Don’t go trying to hold Kitty’s hand...
Love Lucille Ball...
“...now he shouldn’t have gone up on two wheels like that...”
A few things. First there are places on the web you can listen to almost any otr program. I stopped buying cds.
Also, if yo get a wifi radio, you can listen to otr anytime. I wake up and go to bed to it.
Vic and Sade? Can’t place the show. It’s good?
If you ever think about it and are willing, I would love to have a scan of that letter.
Yeah, Kitty’s hot-headed. Reminds me of me. :-/
Greg Bell who hosts the channel on XM says that his listeners either love it or hate it. It's got a rather surreal quality to it. I love it. There are a bunch of episodes (each around ten minutes) at the link. Begins in 1937.
If anyone gives it a listen, I would be interested in your reaction. There are other web sites with a lot of information and compiled references to the show.
Sorry to say I don’t have a scanner. Not to mention, my archaic dial-up system has just about reached the end of the line.
I enjoyed writing to a few old-time actors back then, but I didn’t do it much. Probably because I felt a bit too self-conscious, trying to compose things. I had a list addresses to about a thousand actors, actresses and such, but I suppose I wrote to less than a dozen. I usually did get a response, oddly enough. Jimmy Stewart, Kay Kyser, Mel Blanc, and Arthur (Dagwood) Lake, among them.
I’ll listen this week sometime and let you know. A lot of good stuff was happening in 1937.
Wait wait. Jimmy Stewart wrote you back?
Yes, I got back a little thank-you card from Stewart, with a nice hand-written reply. I’d just seen “The Naked Spur” (1953) on the late-show a few nights earlier, and wrote commending his performance (where he was almost veering on madness, wanting to exact revenge). He’d always been one of my favorite actors even before then.
A few years later, I just barely missed a chance to meet him in person. Got to see and meet a number of old-time actors of that era, but always regretted missing out on Stewart.
Do you think it could have been from a pr writer?
Who doesn’t love Jimmy Stewart? On the XM channel this morning I heard an interview about the creation of the museum in his hometown - Indiana, Pennsylvania.
How very swell! You got a note from Mr. Stewart!
Oh, absolutely. People of his stature tended to have secretaries, who could and would do such things. So, I never entirely “trusted” that autographs were authentic. But that didn’t really bother me, because I frankly didn’t really care about autographs. I just wanted to convey a nice message to someone whose work I appreciated and enjoyed.
I’ve actually come to think more warmly towards autographs than I used to. I passed on so many opportunities, and later came to regret not getting them. Not because of any value, but because they ultimately become nice little mementos of meeting someone. I generally get them now, when I go to nostalgia shows and such. But, wow, I missed out on so many opportunities that were standing right in front of me, from Ginger Rogers to Cary Grant to probably a hundred others.
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