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Post by otrhead 8/8/2021, 6:17 pm

Using Fire Fox 90.02

Click on Greybelts Degoo link

High light the title at the top of the Degoo page, right click and select "copy" in the pop up window

While hovering over the audio player at the right of the screen, right click and select "save as". Paste the title in the location window and hit enter.

This has worked for the last 8 of Greybelts posts.

Can't thank you enough Greybelt. No one puts together a series better. Background additions are great.

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Post by lasombra 8/9/2021, 1:21 pm

otrhead wrote: High light the title at the top of the Degoo page, right click and select "copy" in the pop up window

When I right click it completely disappears, no pop up window either.

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Post by greybelt 8/13/2021, 7:33 pm

Back from vacation where it was great to have four days of nothing of importance (except for safe driving). I'll start posting daily again right at this very moment...

Today's episode is a Jonathan Bundy adaptation of a Jack Johnstone story Smile
Johnstone edited and truncated the 5-part YTJD from early September 1956 into this episode. So what is it? 50 minutes of YTJD 5-part drama down to 22 minutes of Suspense? First thing you do is take out all that expense account stuff...

The spelling of the title has always been an issue, with a lot of collections having
"Kamoshek" rather than the correct
"Kamashek" which is in the newspaper clippings.
We don't have a Suspense script cover, but the YTJD covers have "Kamashek."
Glad to see the CBS publicity department agreed with Johnstone. Small miracle.

Ian Martin is in this episode, one of the small number of actors who were in the inaugural season of the series (August 1942's Cave of Ali Baba) and in its final season.
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Martin was a regular at the Newark radio conventions. He was one of those "life of the party" types with grand and often bawdy jokes that went up to the line and didn't cross it... except for maybe a toe length.

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1962-04-21 Charlotte NC News
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1962-04-21 Rochester NY Democrat & Chronicle
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1962-04-21 Wichita KS Eagle
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Post by lasombra 8/13/2021, 8:08 pm

How odd, I have no memory of ever seeing Ian Martin at FOTR. Welcome back.

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Post by greybelt 8/14/2021, 9:03 am

lasombra perhaps I made the mistake of posting "Newark" instead of "Bridgeport." I should have just said "FOTR" in case I misremembered. It's interesting after all these years "Newark" has become generic for that series of conventions that I even use it that way. Gosh, I even remember the first two in Meriden, CT. You know, "the Newark convention in Meriden". Almost sounds like what they did with that baseball team name "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim." To which one commentator said "The Brooklyn Dodgers of Los Angeles."

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1962-04-29 Kansas City Mo Star
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1962-04-29 Miami FL Herald
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Elaine Rost had a long radio career, best known for The Brighter Day of which few recordings are available. Many collectors did not know her name and always assumed it was "Ross" in their logs and show descriptions.
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Post by lasombra 8/14/2021, 11:01 am

Are there any panel recordings of Ian Martin at FOTR? For me the name Elaine Rost immediately brings to mind Frank Merriwell.

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Post by artatoldotr 8/14/2021, 11:56 am

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Post by greybelt 8/15/2021, 4:29 am

It took a few days but I got this message overnight: “Thank you for contacting Degoo Support. I apologize for the trouble with the app. The issue has been escalated to one of our developers for investigation. We will be in touch as soon as we have an update.”

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Lasombra: I no longer have any of the tapes from back then, unfortunately

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Was on YesterdayUSA with Walden Hughes, Larry Gassman, John Gassman, and collector Keith Scott last evening. Will get details about playback or download if available.

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This episode was last updated 3+ years ago.

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1962-05-20 Tampa Bay FL Times
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Post by greybelt 8/16/2021, 7:46 am

The 1960s Suspense are nearly done... and then a few day break as I attend the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention this upcoming weekend. Then we'll head back to the beginning of the series.

Suspense_1962-07-01_Black_Death_wChristopherCarey WNDC AIRCHECK (Durham NC).mp3
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Network with commercials, posted 2 years ago
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1962-07-01 Miami FL Herald
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Post by artatoldotr 8/16/2021, 10:17 am

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Post by greybelt 8/16/2021, 12:29 pm

This is the link to the YesterdayUSA program I was on this past weekend with Walden Hughes, Larry and John Gassman, and Keith Scott
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WITH THIS POST we have broken 40 pages ... soon the forum software will lock this thread and start a new one... without warning... but worry not, we have been through this before...

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Post by greybelt 8/16/2021, 11:57 pm

This episode has not been upgraded for 9 years and usually circulated with a patched opening and no opening commercial. This starts in mid commercial. The overall sound is better.

Another script by Bill Robson. He mentions the couple is traveling to "Red Mountain," a reference to his earlier script Night on Red Mountain (aka Nobody Ever Quits)

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1962-07-15 Indianapolis IN News
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1962-07-15 Knoxville TN News-Sentinel
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1962-07-15 Sacramento CA Bee
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1962-07-15 Kansas City MO Star
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Who was Jimmy Blaine? He did not do many dramatic appearances, but he had an interesting career, unfortunately cut short at age 42, five years after this broadcast.
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1951-09-09 Kansas City MO Star
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1967-03-20 Kansas City MO Times
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Grayson Hall may be better known for her role in Dark Shadows. She did not do much radio work, likely only the two Suspense appearances, in this episode and Weekend at Glebes.
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Post by artatoldotr 8/17/2021, 9:48 am

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Post by greybelt 8/17/2021, 11:15 pm

This episode was originally planned for August 26 with Lost Ship originally scheduled for this August 19 date.

Today's recording is important only because it is complete. It is unfortunately not in the best shape. If you missed the better recording two years ago, it is reposted here.

Suspense_1962-08-19_PagesFromADiary (has opening comml) LQ.mp3
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A better sounding but edited recording can be downloaded here...
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1962-08-19 Sacramento CA Bee
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1962-08-26 Rochester NY Democrat & Chronicle
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1962-08-26 Tampa Bay FL Times
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1962-08-26 Rock Island IL Argus
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Post by artatoldotr 8/18/2021, 9:52 am

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Post by chasedad 8/18/2021, 2:09 pm

"Pages from a Diary" is an effective latter-day "Suspense" episode, and an interesting experiment in composing an entire episode out of narration (almost all of it from Jim Backus). It has one very strange element, though: an entire fifty seconds is lifted from the first half and repeated in the second half. In the complete recording posted today it starts at 6:32 with "I am two people..." and ends at 7:23 with "...the leader my body must follow." This entire segment is repeated from 14:41 to 15:33. It's not that Jim Backus is asked to perform the dialogue again; the recording, background music included, is simply repeated during the second half of the drama. It's possible that the lengthy narration was recorded in segments and then edited together later on...did someone goof and paste the segment in twice? Was it done intentionally to pad out the running time? It is possible to drift in and out listening to this one and I heard the episode several times before confirming to myself that there was in fact a repetition. (I remember thinking to myself on previous listens "Didn't he say this already?" but didn't bother to go back to confirm it.) If on any of your future research trips you're able to get your hands on the script for this one, it'd be interesting to see if that repetition is scripted in, although I would doubt that it would be.

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Post by greybelt 8/19/2021, 8:24 am

Re Pages from a Diary: Keith Scott sent me his sense of it
A psychodrama, with a hint of Norman Bates.  Seems to me his diary notes represent his subconscious coming to terms with his darker impulses.  And it appears to be a deliberate edit from the first speech, inserted later, as if he is trying to re-justify his murderous feelings to cover up any guilt. I don’t know whether he kills both the housekeeper and the lady called Janet...it’s one of those David Lynch-style stories that is left up to each listener to interpret.

But I sure would love to know if a script exists. I wonder if Zirato or Paul Roberts or Hendrickson left collections to universities. Backus does a fine reading, especially when we are all so used to his comedy persona.

They’re my thoughts. You might all have different readings, but it’s sure not the regular linear narrative story on this series. I’d be interested to know if Ms Voland was a published author.
Will keep you posted as to other ideas.

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Today's recording is a completist's one -- and it's a low encode recording. My how far we've come in eliminating the low encode recordings of the early days of digital OTR when dial-up ruled the day and small files were the way OTRdom coped... This just has a bit more piano at the open.

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The other recording we have -- I've never been able to upgrade it
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1962-08-19 Boston MA Globe
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1962-08-18 Indianapolis IN News
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Post by artatoldotr 8/19/2021, 10:33 am

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Post by greybelt 8/19/2021, 7:24 pm

These three episodes are being posted early as I head to the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. I will return sometime on Sunday. Posts of programs starting early in the series will begin sometime mid-week. I will have a special post on Monday without a recording. Please watch for it.

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Forgot to add a note re Pages from a Diary...

An AFRTS disc for the episode, #1020, came up on eBay a few months ago. The price seemed very high considering the episode and its era, so it was not pursued. Please keep an eye out for the disc or a recording. Remember, it is always possible that it could be on an old cassette or a reel, or even an old digital set of the series. As Yogi Berra said, "Sometimes you can see a lot just by looking."

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This episode is a re-used script from the short-lived series Creeps by Night 1944-04-23 "Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan"

The AFRTS version of this episode, #913, is known to exist. If you see it, please let me know.

Suspense_1962-09-02_DeathOfAlexanderJordan_wCLemke&PMcGrath UPGRADE-3.mp3
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1962-09-02 Miami FL Herald
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This is another where the AFRTS version of this episode, #914, is known to exist. If you see it out there in the outskirts of OTRdom, please let me know.

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1962-09-09 Charlotte NC Observer
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1962-09-09 Sacramento CA Bee
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The AFRTS version of this episode, likely to be #915 but that is not certain, is known to exist. If you see it, please let me know.

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That's it for the last year of the series... back with more next week...


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Post by artatoldotr 8/20/2021, 9:34 am

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Post by nickp57 8/20/2021, 3:40 pm

Degoo's now working great for me again -- thanks for fixing the issue. One other issue though -- the Degoo link for Golden Years is actually Strange Day in May. hubiC link is correct. Thanks again for putting in all this work greybelt.

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Post by greybelt 8/23/2021, 7:40 am

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But first -- so glad the Degoo links are working again. The only communication I had from them was that it had been escalated to the developers but I never got word that they had fixed it! Thanks for letting me know. I always worry that what works on my computer and in my account may not be what others are experiencing.

The Degoo link for Golden Years has been corrected in the post. Here it is for your convenience so you don't have to scroll back...
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A couple of years ago I received a note from a Cobaltian who had remembered seeing a listing in an early 2000s catalog that was a long missing repeat performance of Wet Saturday, except this was the one with Boris Karloff!
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Now some background that I have been able to piece together...
Because of the cheap CDs packed with low encode mp3s, Gordon's sideline business of selling cassettes was no longer worth pursuing and he decided to concentrate on his other interests and his preparation for retirement. He packed up his cassette masters and they sat in storage for a few years. He finally sold them a year or so ago. A long-retired fan of sci-fi purchased the cassettes for that main interest, but he also had an OTR collection. It is important to note that this was an OTR fan, not a hard core completist/collector/researcher. He devoutly loves listening and the savors the history of the era. When he got the cassettes, he gathered up the OTR ones and reviewed them. He checked around with collectors and fans and asked if they wanted the cassettes. He had no takers. No surprise, they were cassettes, after all and everyone had moved on to the digital formats we enjoy so much.

When he sorted through the Suspense tapes, he compared the titles with his collection, identified duplicate titles he already had, and disposed of them because of space issues. So the Wet Saturday cassette master with Boris Karloff went into the trash. Wet Saturday was performed three other times in the series. It is likely that the cassette label had no mention of it being the Karloff episode. It's easy to understand how this all happened.

These were all innocent decisions based on what was important to the individuals involved. It's a hobby, and everyone has their preferences for enjoyment and for collecting... even those collectors who were not interested in taking the Suspense cassettes off his hands. There was nothing wrong with what they did and we should not begrudge anyone for their decisions in this regard.

Now it's up to us die-hard completists to become OTR gumshoes and track it down... Gordon is successfully and happily retired and has no interest in OTR and has no recordings, no customer records, and therefore no leads for this pursuit. As true gumshoes, we have to pound OTRdom's streets for clues. Gordon often had a dealers table at FOTR conventions in Newark. It is likely that he sold a few of these recordings at the convention. He probably had dealer tables at other nostalgia and scifi conventions. He had a good mail order business at one time and probably sold copies that way. There may be a Karloff collector who has it (the Karloff fan web sites don't have it... but that doesn't mean we don't keep looking there!). There were likely collectors at his dealer tables who saw "Wet Saturday"... I already have one of those... but sometimes the Karloff collectors would be drawn toward his appearance and not be interested in any of the other performances.

The problem here is the sequence of events... the recording was found late in the life of Gordon's business... at a time his customers were getting recordings from the new mp3 dealers that emerged on the scene... so awareness of the program and his catalog was not cultivated the was it would have been just a few years before, so a buzz around its availability could not get started.

As you know, I scour collections constantly, looking for recordings of missing episodes, especially recordings that might be misdated. The 1947 recording that appears in most collections is usually a mislabeled December 1943 broadcast with Charles Laughton. I've seen the network and the AFRS recording of the 1943 broadcast in collections as the 1947 recording. The file name often includes Karloff's name despite it being the Laughton broadcast.

Please... keep an eye out for this recording. If you know inactive collectors who might have collected and traded cassettes or bought from Gordon (almost 20 years ago!) please search it out. I was still on OTR hiatus at this time and had not come back to the hobby. So I have no contacts from this era or this style of collecting.

It is frustrating to know that a missing recording exists... but this is not the only one. I know that there is a dictation recording of the 1947-07-17 Beyond Good and Evil with Vincent Price in a dictation technology that may not be easily playable even if we could obtain it.

Perhaps with some luck the recording may surface. There may be someone who has it who does not know that it may be as special as it is.

Your help and encouragement is always greatly appreciated... I hope we can all get lucky in this regard.

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Post by artatoldotr 8/23/2021, 12:19 pm

Good Morning greybelt:

I have checked thru my versions of Wet Saturday, both on cassette and on mp3, and I'm sorry to say that I do not have the Boris Karloff version.

I also checked the 1947-07-17 Beyond Good and Evil with Vincent Price and it's also one I don't have.

We'll keep on trying.

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Post by greybelt 8/23/2021, 12:21 pm

I've poked around a bit more -- if anyone has Digital Deli access, there are two recordings in their Karloff collection. They are likely mislabeled, but I have to check anyway.
Boris Karloff Suspence 471210 Wet Saturday Boris Karloff.mp3 5 041 062
Boris Karloff Suspence 471219 Wet Saturday Boris Karloff .mp3 5 184 822

Can anyone help with this?

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Post by Kestanley 8/23/2021, 5:01 pm

Regarding Digital Deli, I suspect their FTP service is no longer available. A couple of years ago, I was using it (did not download that episode, unfortunately) and when I tried to buy more credits, never heard back from the guy who was running it. He was in poor health (in and out of the hospital), and I suspect he's passed away.

From what I understood, there were two people involved--the gentlemen with the server and the shows and the person who was mainly responsible for the logs and show information (Digital Deli Too). Perhaps trying to contact the owner of DD2 is the way to go.

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