Got a message from Jim B last night indicating widespread problems here.  While I’m not yet in possession of all the details, I do see that the Index pages containing series links seem to have been reverted to older, out-of-date versions.  Your mileage may vary.  Unfortunately, I have a day job and that day is just beginning so it may be a bit before further clarification is available.  In the meanwhile, surf our pages with caution and patience, please.

The Library today makes a rare foray into the years after 1962 and the end of the Golden Age.  We’ve an excellent reason for doing so!

Some of you are no doubt big fans of the Ethel and Albert show, the late 1940s program often considered a pioneering effort in situation comedy, authored by and starring Peg Lynch (who’s still very much with us and was appearing at conventions as recently as 2008).  You may also recall that with the tremendous assistance of friend and member Gary Smith, we were able to expand our collection of those dramatically and improve the Otter logs quite a bit as well.

Peg’s radio career continued for several decades, and her brand of humor centered on everyday events remained of interest to networks long after most of her colleagues and competitors had vanished from the airwaves.  Besides a reworking of the E&A format for CBS’ 1957-60 The Couple Next Door, there were Ethel and Albert reprises on NBC’s Monitor (1963-65) and on NPR in 1972.  The final flowering of her signature format, the daily trials of a husband and wife, was the series The Little Things in Life, which ran in 1975-76.  All in all, it’s in many ways a very direct extension of the Ethel and Albert program created thirty years earlier… and thus I think it only makes sense to give it a home and some well-deserved exposure on our site.  When I woke up this morning, there were 4 examples of this show in the Library… but by mid-afternoon you will be able to find the COMPLETE run of 150 episodes!   Thanks again to Gary for his sweat equity and also to Jim B. and Tony J. for their support… and if you see Peg in your travels, say a warm hello and express your appreciation and ours, too.

Larry Gassman has been good enough to send us a baker’s dozen of his Same Time, Same Station interview sessions from the 1970s… seven noticeable sound upgrades and six entirely new recordings.  Of perhaps greatest interest is a 3-part, 3-hour session with the legendary Carlton E. Morse.  Come and get ‘em!

New Shows:

Same Time, Same Station 72-12-03 Frank Buxton Remembers Remembering Radio.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-02-25 Carlton E. Morse Remembers Radio Part 1.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-03-04 Carlton E. Morse Remembers Radio Part 2.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-03-11 Carlton E. Morse Remembers Radio Part 3.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-05-27 Jay Jostyn Mr. District Attorney Part 1.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-06-03 Mr. District Attorney Jay Jostyn Part 2.mp3

Upgrades:

Same Time, Same Station 72-02-20 (09) Les Tremayne Remembers Radio Part 1.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 72-03-19 (13) Tommy Cook Remembers Radio Part 1.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 72-05-14 (21) Easy Aces.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 72-05-21 (22) Eddie Cantor Part 1.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 72-05-28 (23) Eddie Cantor Part 2.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 72-07-09 Judy Canova Remembers.mp3
Same Time, Same Station 73-04-08 (68) Harry Truman Remembered.mp3

Finally finished cleaning up a major hunk o’ miscellany this weekend and it’s all out there for your perusal.  In general I’ll just be posting a long list of:  all-new series and the related show titles, new shows in existing series, and upgrades to pre-existing files.  Two new series I’ll make special mention of:

– I had a single episode of Al Jolson’s Lifebuoy Show from 1937 passed on to me, and in checking it out I noted that there were a dozen more listed in Goldin.  Well, love Jolson or loathe him, his recordings from that era are still well worth presenting here, and after a little digging around I found 2 more buried in our own Shell Chateau certified series… and then some good friends at Cobalt Club made six more available, so we’ve got a nice little run of those for you.

– I had a single episode of a show called Double Feature starring Jackie Gleason for some years now… and then the Purchasing Group came up with a couple more, taking the show out of “Singles and Doubles” catch-all status.  Well, we’ve added these as a new series, but changed the title, as a little research showed that “Double Feature” was given as a title for AFRS rebroadcasts but “The Jackie Gleason – Les Tremayne Show” is what’s given in Goldin and elsewhere, so that’s what we’ll be using.  Logs for this show and the Jolson show will be added to Otter shortly.

Without further ado:

New Series:

Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 37-04-06 First Song – This Year’s Crop of Kisses.mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 37-09-07 Guest – George Jessel (second half).mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 37-09-28 Guest – Joe Penner.mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 38-10-18 Guest – Marie Wilson.mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 38-10-25 Guest – Olsen and Johnson, Kay Thompson (2nd half only).mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 38-11-01 Guest – Connie Boswell.mp3
Al Jolson – Lifebuoy Show 38-11-15 First Song – California, Here I Come, Guest – Vera Zorina, Merry Macs.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 44-05-21 Guest – Eleanor Steber.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 44-11-05 Guest – Nikolai Alexander.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 44-11-12 Guest – Earl Wrightson.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 44-12-03 Guest – Frank Parker.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 46-01-10 Guest – Ginny Simms.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 46-01-17 Guest – Lily Pons.mp3
Andre Kostelanetz Show 46-02-21 Guest – Perry Como.mp3
Bailes Brothers xx-xx-xx First Song – I Love Her More.mp3
Bailes Brothers xx-xx-xx First Song – Remember Me.mp3
Bailes Brothers xx-xx-xx First Song – The White Dove.mp3
Barry Wood Show, The 46-xx-xx (117) First Song – Foot Loose And Fancy Free.mp3
Barry Wood Show, The 46-xx-xx (118) First Song – Sweet Sue.mp3
Barry Wood Show, The 46-xx-xx (121) First Song – I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover.mp3
Barry Wood Show, The 46-xx-xx (122) First Song – Sing Something Simple.mp3
Forty Million 52-11-08 (01) Death Was Catching (Josephine Hull).mp3
Frank Parker Show xx-xx-xx (27) First Song – Marie.mp3
Frank Parker Show xx-xx-xx (28) First Song – Blue Moon.mp3
Frank Parker Show xx-xx-xx (29) First Song – Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.mp3
Gisele MacKenzie Show 56-xx-xx (07) Guest – Snooky Lanson.mp3
Gisele MacKenzie Show 56-xx-xx (08) Guest – Cab Calloway.mp3
Harvest Of Stars 480125 First Song – Rio Rita.mp3
Harvest Of Stars 480215 First Song – Great Day.mp3
Jackie Gleason – Les Tremayne Show 44-08-13 (01) First Song – Amor, Amor, Amor, Guest – Edgar Bergen.mp3
Jackie Gleason – Les Tremayne Show 44-08-20 (02) First Song – What A Difference A Day Makes.mp3
Jackie Gleason – Les Tremayne Show 44-09-24 (07) First Song – Sunny Side of the Street.mp3

New Shows for Existing Series:

Let Freedom Sing 52-xx-xx (13) First Song – Forth And Back.mp3

10-2-4 Ranch 45-07-31 First Song – He’s Riding For The Rancho.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-02 First Song – Instrumental.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-09 First Song – Mr. Sandman’s On His Way.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-11 First Song – Rio De Janerio.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-23 First Song – Do I Worry.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-28 First Song – On The Rhythm Range.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-08-30 First Song – Texas Polka.mp3
American Portrait  46-03-30 Thomas Jefferson.mp3
Arthur Godfrey Collection xx-xx-xx Joe E Brown Substitutes.mp3
Backstage Wife 47-07-03.mp3
Backstage Wife 47-08-13.mp3
Backstage Wife 47-09-03.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4088) Mary Is Trying To Find Victor.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4089) Mary Agrees To Meet Victor.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4090) Mary Is Back In Her Hotel.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4092) Mary Hails A Taxi.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4093) Mary Goes To The Police.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4094) Claudia Vincent Is Caught.mp3
Backstage Wife xx-xx-xx (4095) Mary Is In The Hospital.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #1.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #10.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #2.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #3.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #4.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #5.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #6.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #7.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #8.mp3
Captain Midnight Promo #9.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-09-03 First Song – Goodbye Jonah.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-09-17 First Song – We’re In Love.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-12-03 First Song – Once In A While.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-12-10 First Song – Rosalee.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-12-17 First Song – My Fine Feathered Friend.mp3
Chesterfield Time 37-12-24 First Song – Rockin’ The Town.mp3
Frank Merriwell 47-08-09 (045) The Riddle Of The Dry Wells (1st Half only).mp3
Hollywood Hotel 37-06-11 (140) A Day At The Races.mp3
Information Please 44-03-13 Guest – Quentin Reynolds.mp3
My Friend Irma 49-05-02 (108) Irma Reads A Mystery Book.mp3
My Friend Irma 49-05-09 (109) Venus De Milo Missing Arms.mp3
Paul Whiteman – Forever Tops 46-09-30 First Song – Allset Staccato.mp3
Paul Whiteman – Forever Tops 46-10-06 First Song – Now I Know .mp3
Rocky Jordan xx-xx-xx The Nile Runs High (rehearsal)(AFRS).mp3
Science Magazine Of The Air 4x-xx-xx Bone Graft Surgery.mp3
The Lone Ranger 40-03-20 (1116) Willing To Fight.mp3
The Lone Ranger 43-02-19 (1573) Silver King.mp3
Whatever Became Of xx-xx-xx Big Town.mp3

Upgrades:

10-2-4 Ranch 45-01-02 First Song – Sing Something Simple.mp3
10-2-4 Ranch 45-01-04 First Song – I Had A Dream.mp3
Amos & Andy 45-01-12 One Phony Antique.mp3
Amos & Andy 51-04-29 Cousin Sidney Moves In.mp3
Arthur Godfrey Collection 49-04-18 Winner – Lenny Bruce, John Connolly.mp3
Arthur Godfrey Collection 49-05-23 Winner – Richard Hayes.mp3
Barry Gray Show 46-10-27 Guest – Al Jolson.mp3
Barry Gray Show 47-06-14 Guest – Victor Moore.mp3
Beyond Midnight 69-01-03 (10) Short Circuit.mp3
Beyond Midnight 70-02-27 (65)The Picture.mp3
Beyond Midnight xx-xx-xx Don’t Joke in the Morgue.mp3
Beyond Midnight xx-xx-xx The Signalman.mp3
Big Guy 50-05-07 (01) Unheard Voice.mp3
Big Guy 50-10-29 (26) Patent Leather Bag.mp3
Big Town 48-12-28 (460) The Dangerous Resolution.mp3
Big Town 49-01-04 (461) Masks of Evil.mp3
CBS European News 40-07-16 Democratic Convention Swings Into Second Day.mp3
CBS European News 40-07-17 Democratic Convention to Nominate Roosevelt.mp3
Chandu 48-07-02 (005) Dorothy Disappears aka Rug Shop.mp3
Chandu 48-07-05 (006) Search for Dorothy aka Hypnotic Persuasion.mp3
Chandu 48-07-06 (007) Slave Auction aka Dorothy Is Rescued.mp3
Chandu 48-07-07 (008) To Cairo aka Cab Ride To Cairo.mp3
Dr Christian 53-12-23 (786) Tony’s Parcel.mp3
Fibber McGee And Molly 44-12-26 (0420) McGee Controls His Temper.mp3
Fibber McGee And Molly 47-10-14 (0523) Catching Teeny’s Cat.mp3
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-01-06 (0535) Magic Act.mp3
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-05-04 (0552) Selling the House.mp3
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-05-11 (0553) Going Fishing.mp3
Freedom USA 52-05-11 (21) Dean’s First Chairmanship.mp3
Freedom USA 52-05-18 (22) Leaked Report.mp3
Freedom USA 52-06-22 (27) Cloud Seeding.mp3
Freedom USA 52-06-29 (28) The Nazi.mp3
Freedom USA 52-07-06 (29) Cody’s Monster.mp3
Freedom USA 52-07-13 (30) Army Red Tape.mp3
Freedom USA 52-10-12 (43) Indian Fishing Rights.mp3
Freedom USA 52-10-19 (44) Flood Control.mp3
Freedom USA 52-12-07 (51) Lumberjack Revolt.mp3
Gang Busters 49-01-08 (0562) The Case of the Surprised Safecrackers.mp3
Gang Busters 49-01-15 (0563) The Case of the Masquerading Gunmen – Pt 1.mp3
Information Please 44-04-24 Guest – Irene Dunne.mp3
My Son Jeep 53-05-03 (15) The Fight.mp3
My Son Jeep 53-06-07 (20) Peggy’s New Dress.mp3
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney 44-07-10 Jerry’s Birthday Bicycle.mp3
Raymond Gram Swing 41-05-09 The Monitor And The Merrimac.mp3
Results, Inc 44-12-30 (13) Mummy-Sitting with Queen Sheshack.mp3
Rudy Vallee – Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour 34-08-30 (254) Crossed Roads – Elsie Mae Gordon, Jeanne Aubert.mp3
Shadow, The 38-06-26 (126) The Old People.mp3
Shadow, The 38-07-03 (127) Voice Of The Trumpet.mp3
Sleep No More 57-01-09 (10) Waxwork – The Man and the Snake.mp3
Sleep No More 57-01-23 (11) I Am Waiting – Browdian Farm.mp3
Sleep No More 57-01-30 (12) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall – Escape.mp3
Sleep No More 57-03-06 (15) Thus I Refute Beelzy – The Book Shop.mp3
Sleep No More 57-03-13 (16) The Escape of Mr Trimm.mp3
Sleep No More 57-03-20 (17) Woman in Gray – A Suspicious Gift.mp3
Sleep No More 57-04-03 (18) The Bet – The Clerk’s Quest.mp3
Sleep No More 57-04-10 (19) A Passenger to Bali.mp3
Sports Answer Man 46-xx-xx (17) Oldest Golf Tournament.mp3
Sports Answer Man 46-xx-xx (18) Chances Of A Ball Player Getting Five for Five.mp3
Sports Answer Man 46-xx-xx (25) Origin Of Baseball’s Spring Training.mp3
Strange 55-xx-xx (87) Capt. Robinson (AFRS).mp3
Strange 55-xx-xx (88) Deja Vu In France (AFRS).mp3
The Avenger 45-06-08 (01) High Tide Murders.mp3
The Big Story 50-01-04 (145) Murder and a Frustrated Father.mp3
The Big Story 50-01-11 (146) Gambling, Divorce and Murder.mp3
The Big Story 50-07-12 (172) Hunch That Paid Off.mp3
The Lone Ranger 48-03-05 (2360) Holly Hill Holdup.mp3
The Lone Ranger 48-03-08 (2361) Toll Bridge.mp3
This Is The Story 50-12-27 (114) The Barrier (may be program #14).mp3
This Is The Story 51-xx-xx (016) The Reluctant Fighter.mp3
This Is The Story 52-11-27 (049) Arctic Miracle.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (063) City Of London.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (064) Paper.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (081) Gutenberg Printing Press.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (082) Easter Eggs.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (087) Woolworth.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (088) Mustard.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (103) Boston.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (104) Robert E. Lee’s Mother.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (115) Ralph Waldo Emerson.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (116) Bismarck.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (117) Charles Dickens.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (118) McGuffey’s Reader.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (133) Ulysses S. Grant.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (134) Leaves Of Grass.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (145) Little Jack Horner.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (146) Daniel Dafoe.mp3
This Is The Story 5x-xx-xx (155) Hans Christian Anderson.mp3
This Is The Story xx-xx-xx (098) The Great McGraw.mp3
Time For Reason 47-02-03 About Radio.mp3
Time For Reason 47-06-28 America’s Leadership For Freedom (o.mp3
Time For Reason 47-08-31 The East End Of Europe.mp3
Tom Powers Life Studies 35-10-30 Emergency Standby.mp3
Tom Powers Life Studies 36-02-20 Sanctuary.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (115) The Whitey Ford Story.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (116) The Bill Rigney Story.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (117) The Tom Tresh Story.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (118) The Richie Ashburn Story.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (119) The Willie Mays Story.mp3
Tops in Sports xx-xx-xx (120) The Eddie Gottlieb Story.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (2080) First Song – Boy How It Was Raining.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3074) First Song – Don’t Be a Fool, You Fool.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3075) First Song – Hula Dancer.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3077) First Song – Where Did Robinson Caruso Go.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3079) First Song – Everything Is Hotsy Totsy Now.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3081) Skit About an Airline.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3082) Skit – Throw out the Dragnet.mp3
Two Daffodils 3x-xx-xx (3084) Skit – Songwriters Meet on the Street.mp3
Under Arrest 48-11-07 (039) Joe Barker.mp3
Under Arrest 49-02-06 (052) The Sam Carver Case.mp3
Under Arrest 49-06-26 (070) The Paris Road.mp3
Upper Room, The 47-xx-xx (1) Those Whom God Hath Joined Together.mp3
Upper Room, The 47-xx-xx (2) For Richer, for Poorer.mp3
Upper Room, The 47-xx-xx (3) Romantic Life VS Marital Love.mp3
Upper Room, The 47-xx-xx (4) Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune.mp3
Upper Room, The xx-xx-xx (5) Two Heads Are Better Than One.mp3
Upper Room, The xx-xx-xx (6) A Child Shall Lead Them.mp3
Whatever Became Of 67-02-14 Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering, Dr. Huer.mp3
Whatever Became Of 67-04-18 Romance of Helen Trent.mp3
Whatever Became Of 67-05-16 The Great Gildersleeve #2.mp3
Whatever Became Of 67-xx-xx Just Plain Bill.mp3
Whatever Became Of 68-12-03 Nora Drake.mp3
Whatever Became Of 70-12-15 Easy Aces.mp3
Whatever Became Of xx-xx-xx Bill Adams – Let’s Pretend #1  .mp3
Whatever Became Of xx-xx-xx Pepper Young’s Family.mp3
Whatever Became Of xx-xx-xx Sybil Trent – Let’s Pretend #2.mp3
Witness, The xx-xx-xx (08) Apart From.mp3
Witness, The xx-xx-xx (09) Farm Couple Adopts.mp3
Works Progress Administration Presents 37-xx-xx (06) First Song – Works by Hayden and Mozart.mp3
Works Progress Administration Presents 37-xx-xx (10) First Song – Fernando Del Nonsensico.mp3
Works Progress Administration Presents 37-xx-xx (12) First Song – the Golden Tower.mp3
Works Progress Administration Presents 38-xx-xx (46) First Song – Carmen.mp3
Works Progress Administration Presents 38-xx-xx (53) First Song – Lento from the String Quartet, Opus 96.mp3
Yank Bandstand xx-xx-xx (47) First Song – I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me (Al Taylor).mp3
Yank Bandstand xx-xx-xx (48) First Song – What Is This Thing Called Love (Tommy Edwards).mp3

… but still a bit shaky in the stirrups.  Real life is even hairier than usual after several weeks away, so forgive the slowness with which we get this ‘ol critter headed back down the trail again.

Not sure why I’m writing in such unforgivably lousy cowpoke lingo, unless it’s been inspired by today’s addition of 34 new Melody Roundup episodes, courtesy of Jim B.  Check ours vs. yours, may be a heapin’ pile of fills for yuh.

In case you have not already noticed it, no new series/episodes have been coming out.  The reason is that the Librarians are on vacation for the month of June.

Rest assured that we have many gigs of new materials you will see in July.

Sometimes things just kinda dovetail.  I was assimilating those new Columbia Workshop shows starring Agnes Moorehead from a few days ago and noticed some more CW banter going on over at OTR+, where the estimable Bingster has just unleashed a massive helping of these programs.  Found a couple handfuls that either were personal fills or corrected some errors in my holdings (egad!)… and then checked my new situation against the Library’s, at which point I found that I myself had stashed a few items that still needed sharing!

Included in this bunch are quite a few that I have found turn up as falsely labeled items most of the time… but not this time around.  These are all checked and I’ll stand by them.  The final item might raise some eyebrows, but “Once Upon a Tune” seems to be to have been a “sub-series” of Columbia Workshop much as “Columbia Presents Corwin” or “Twenty-six by Corwin” were, so I’ve asked to have that log appended to the Workshop’s Otter log and will include any shows that we find in the Workshop folder as well.  So far, all I have been able to get my hands on is this “Tortilla Jones” episode.  Anyone else got some to contribute?

Hope this fills some gaps for y’all.  Our new CW count is 186… only 140 or so to go!  (Sigh…)  Here’s the show list:

Columbia Workshop 36-12-19 (020) The Gods of the Mountain.mp3
Columbia Workshop 37-09-05 (055) S S San Pedro.mp3
Columbia Workshop 37-11-07 (064) The Horla.mp3
Columbia Workshop 40-10-20 (050) A Man’s House.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-05-18 (003) The People Yes.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-08-24 (016) Old Testament Trilogy Part 3.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-09-21 (020) Human Angle.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-10-05 (022) Wolfiana.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-10-12 (023) Murder in Studio One.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-10-26 (024) The Odyssey of Runyon Jones.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-11-02 (025) Man with a Platform.mp3
Columbia Workshop 41-11-09 (026) Psalm for a Dark Year.mp3
Columbia Workshop 42-02-08 (012) Portrait of Jennie.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-03-14 (002) The Long Name None Could Spell.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-03-21 (003) Lonesome Train.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-03-28 (004) Savage Encounter.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-04-11 (006) You Can Dream, Inc.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-05-30 (013) Untitled.mp3
Columbia Workshop 44-07-18 (018) The Moat Farm Murder.mp3
Columbia Workshop 45-08-07 (006) Savage Encounter.mp3
Columbia Workshop 47-03-15 (003) Once Upon A Tune-Tortilla Jones.mp3

Today we’ve got for you one series new to the Library, and some great additions to a couple of old classics thanks to the donations of our members.

For the police drama fans out there, we’ve got the “reality show” from 1957-58 called Unit 99.  In this one you get to follow the Sacramento police on their rounds, very much like the “Nightwatch” program of several years earlier.

We keep chipping away at Columbia Workshop… we’ve got about half of those thought to exist available here, but the rest are proving exceptionally difficult to get our mitts on.  Thanks to Edward Lawler, we’ve got five more today.  Someone at OTR+ was kind enough to draw the community’s attention to these a few days back… they all star Agnes Moorehead and are sourced from a fansite devoted to her work. 

38-11-24 (115)  Beauty and the Beast
39-05-01 (137)  Wet Saturday
40-05-05 (030)  The Honest Captain
41-01-26 (063)  This Is From David
41-02-16 (066)  A Crop of Beans

From Bruce Forsberg come seven Abbott and Costello episodes… all but one were considered to be out of circulation as far as Otter is concerned but Jim’s been notified to take ‘em off the missing persons list!  Among these is a very early program from the boys’ 1940 stint as summer replacement for Fred Allen on Time to Smile.

40-07-31 (005) Guest – Madame Lazonga.mp3
48-02-25 (203) Abbott And Costello Make A Picture.mp3
48-09-23 (223) Sam Reads His Mail.mp3
48-09-30 (233) Sam Shovel – Lifebouy Kills BO.mp3
49-01-20 (249) Sam Shovel – She Was On Her Last Lap.mp3
49-02-10 (247) Sam Shovel – He Lost His Aunt’s Pay.mp3
49-05-05 (264) Sam Shovel – They Caught Him With His Plants Down.mp3

Thanks, Edward and Bruce!

We’ve made major enhancements to one of the greatest of all radio comedy programs today and added the half-dozen examples we could find of another series you don’t hear too much about.

First, we’ve been fortunate enough to get access to MANY new episodes of the groundbreaking Ethel and Albert series, written by and starring the great radio talent Peg Lynch as Ethel with Alan Bunce sharing the mike as Albert.  Unlike many examples of radio situation comedy, Ms. Lynch’s contributions to the genre are remarkably naturalistic and exude the feeling of the kind of comedic truth we all experience in our own real lives.  It’s a real breath of fresh air.  I need to once again thank member Gary Smith for all the efforts he has made in the past year to get Peg’s work before a new audience… he’s done a ton of research and legwork and shared the results freely with us.  (There’s some more news on this front coming down the road a piece… stay tuned).  As a sort of just reward, Gary’s recently been promised a chance to converse with the lady herself and is, of course, absolutely besides himself.  Looking forward to hearing all about it, Gary.  So… if like myself, you’ve until recently only been able to lay hands on a dozen or so E&A programs, I’m happy to say you’ll now find 50 of ‘em here at the OTRR Library!

Also new to the Library today is The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy, a 1946-47 offering starring the inimitable Frank Morgan playing the usual sort of aerated self-proclaimed genius he specialized in throughout much of his career.  Hope you enjoy both of these additions, especially you distaff types on this Mothers’ Day 2010.

Until further notice, the issuance of new cards is on hold.

I have a tremendous back log, plus I will be at the Cincy
Con this week-end.