Old Time Radio Show Requests

dbf wrote:Does anyone have FLAC/WAV versions of the "Omar, Wizard Of Persia" serial from (I think) 1931 ?

check out this web site

Columbia Demonstration Record
excerpt of Omar, Wizard Of Persia

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The season being upon us, does anyone know where the best extant transfer of The Cinnamon Bear can be found? (Is it the RA one?)

Oh man I forgot all about the Cinnamon Bear.

I've got the RA copy, which I believe is the best copy around.
Jeff

I'm looking for any network news broadcasts for the following dates in 1939.
Sep 10; 28; 30
Oct 01; 14; 22; 28
Nov 04; 18; 25
Dec 24; 31

If you have any of these will you please post them.

CompleteDayMan wrote:I'm looking for any network news broadcasts for the following dates in 1939.
Sep 10; 28; 30
Oct 01; 14; 22; 28
Nov 04; 18; 25
Dec 24; 31

If you have any of these will you please post them.

I have 3 files

1939-10-01  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ8kVQkZmXD3JcAYeAYQ4NegPgrLk8CAhcJ7
1939-10-14  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZfkVQkZ2cvp2Ir0aSL8kDPgSCmBGyognUry
1939-10-22  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZekVQkZzmMtXNx09hujM6s2spHwKfeQE09k

kdmarket wrote:

CompleteDayMan wrote:I'm looking for any network news broadcasts for the following dates in 1939.
Sep 10; 28; 30
Oct 01; 14; 22; 28
Nov 04; 18; 25
Dec 24; 31

If you have any of these will you please post them.

I have 3 files

1939-10-01  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ8kVQkZmXD3JcAYeAYQ4NegPgrLk8CAhcJ7
1939-10-14  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZfkVQkZ2cvp2Ir0aSL8kDPgSCmBGyognUry
1939-10-22  https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZekVQkZzmMtXNx09hujM6s2spHwKfeQE09k

Outstanding! Thank you kdmarket

Does anyone have the following episodes to share?

Amos and Andy Show 46-11-05 The Mystery Novel

Favorite Story - From The Earth To The Moon

Favorite Story - The Valiant

Thank you!

By the way, nice to see that avatar back on the Cobalt boards Completedayman! Glad to have you with us.

Harlow Wilcox wrote:Does anyone have the following episodes to share?

Amos and Andy Show 46-11-05 The Mystery Novel

Favorite Story - From The Earth To The Moon

Favorite Story - The Valiant

Thank you!

By the way, nice to see that avatar back on the Cobalt boards Completedayman! Glad to have you with us.

No luck on your requests I'm afraid Harlow, but thanks for the kind comment. It has indeed been a while.

Thank you!

Here's the only one I have. It's not one of my encodes, but is pretty good sound quality,

Tom

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Thank you Tom!

Crunklydunks wrote:The season being upon us, does anyone know where the best extant transfer of The Cinnamon Bear can be found? (Is it the RA one?)

Yes I bought the Radioarchives copy too and it sounds fabulous compared to any other source I have ever heard. They had it on a good deal last Christmas, maybe they will do the same this year?

A few pages ago there was a request for the Towers of London Scarlet Pimpernel series. I love this series, it was a formative OTR experience for me and one of the first series I listened to both on cassette then later on MP3s, and now I wish it was available in higher quality.

Here is a link to a folder with FLAC recordings of 24 Scarlet Pimpernel episodes released on cassette in the UK by Hodder Headline in the 1990s.

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They are a big sound upgrade compared to the commonly circulating 32kbps set (in the OTRR Library and on [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but they are trimmed of most preamble and announcements and generally just contain the body of the story. There is a big variation in running times of different episdes but I don't think anything of the story is lost, only music and announcements including most of the mid-episode commercial breaks and musical pick-ups.

The episode titles are as issued by Hodder and may have been specially made up as I haven't seen them anywhere else. The numbering and ordering matches the Archive set linked above with two exceptions
- The Archive/OTRR Library set has a duplicate of episode 2 in place of episode 21. Here is a FLAC of the true episode 21.
- The episode listed here as 7 is distributed as episode 32 "The Man in the Mask" in the Archive set. I believe that this FLAC is the true episode 7, and the Archive set has 7 & 32 the wrong way round.

Episode 7 'The False Pimpernel' in this FLAC set (distributed as episode 32 'The Man in the Mask' in the Archive set, Blakeney's introduction begins "It started with an ugly rumour from Marseilles") matches the newspaper listing for episode 7 quoted by Digital Deli for 52-08-12 on WIBA ("unscrupulous Englishman poses as the Pimpernel and almost kills him").

The episode distributed as #7 in the Archive set ('Sir Percy Impersonates Leclair', Blakeney's introduction begins "A summons from Lord Lowther, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, always meant a prelude to action.") is clearly set later in the story. It seems to take place during the war that starts in episode 19, the Pimpernel's identity is not as secret as in earlier episodes, he and Bonaparte are already old enemies and Bonaparte's rank has increased since episodes 15-16 for example where he is a Lieutenant. It also seems to match the description for program #32 in the Radiogoldindex ("The Pimpernel is captured, jailed and tortured because of the treachery of 'the man in the mask'").

There may be more going on with episode numbering later in the series, but I do think that these FLAC file are in all probability the true first 24 episodes.

It was my request, Rearle1. Thank you SO MUCH for this!!!!!!

Thank you

Anyone have any network news programs for the following days in February 1940?

09; 14; 15; 16; 20; 21; 22; 27

CompleteDayMan wrote:Anyone have any network news programs for the following days in February 1940?

09; 14; 15; 16; 20; 21; 22; 27

news 1940-02-27 British Minister of Misinformation.mp3 (137.3 KB)
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kdmarket wrote:

CompleteDayMan wrote:Anyone have any network news programs for the following days in February 1940?

09; 14; 15; 16; 20; 21; 22; 27

news 1940-02-27 British Minister of Misinformation.mp3 (137.3 KB)
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Thanks. Not sure what this is - it sounds like a clip from a German Lord Haw-Haw broadcast.

CompleteDayMan wrote:

kdmarket wrote:

CompleteDayMan wrote:Anyone have any network news programs for the following days in February 1940?

09; 14; 15; 16; 20; 21; 22; 27

news 1940-02-27 British Minister of Misinformation.mp3 (137.3 KB)
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Thanks. Not sure what this is - it sounds like a clip from a German Lord Haw-Haw broadcast.

it is a  Lord Haw-Haw broadcast

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OK, it seems that kdmarket and myself are the only ones interested in Fitch Bandwagon. Before we stop posting to the topic, I have one last request. If any of you have Fitch shows in your holdings prior to Feb 1946 that are NOT in the list below, will you please post them to the Fitch Bandwagon thread in this forum. Thank you.

Fitch Bandwagon 1939-04-09 Johnny Green, first son...tle Headache.flac
Fitch Bandwagon 1939-05-21 Dick Jurgens, first son...Old Gentleman.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1939-06-04 Jack Teagarden, first s... Nobody Knows.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1939-06-18 Bill Carlson, first son...n Your Dreams.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1941-10-26 Benny Goodman, first So...net A La King.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1941-12-07 Horace Heidt, first son...rto In B Flat.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1942-05-24 Bob Crosby, first song, Jersey Hop.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1942-12-20 Chico Marx, Mel Torme AFRS#8.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1943-04-18 A Circus Program from M... Garden AFRS.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1943-05-30 Duke Ellington, 1st Son... Bounce AFRS.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1944-04-16 Axel Stordahl with Frank Sinatra
Fitch Bandwagon 1944-08-13 Less Brown, Kay Carrole AFRS #114.flac
Fitch Bandwagon 1944-12-03 Dick Powell, Xavier Cugat AFRS#130.flac
Fitch Bandwagon 1945-xx-xx Dick Powell, Freddy Martin, Andy Devine AFRS.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1945-02-11 Phil Harris, Jack Benny AFRS#140.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1945-03-11 Dick Powell, Benny Goodman AFRS#144.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1945-10-21 Cass Daley, Glenn Gray.mp3
Fitch Bandwagon 1946-02-03 Cass Daley, Pat O'Brien.mp3

um ... no .. you aren't the only ones interested. I'm a little too busy right now to engage this. I actually hoped you'd continue ...

i am also interested in the fitch bandwagon broadcasts. but have nothing new that is not on your list. in fact i have more or less nothing what is on your list!!

Keep boppin´
marcel

OK then I'll continue, filling in / upgrading, if necessary, from the list above. Check back on the Fitch thread later in the day.

Here's fellow Canadian Luigi Romanelli and his orchestra, from May 14, 1939.

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