Comments for rand's esoteric otr

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by paul abraham

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:59:24 +0000

They have the same thing today, it’s called a debate!

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by Spaceman Spiff

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:05:18 +0000

In the 1960’s a friend had a copy of these at the University of Colorado. I still remember the “performance”! In truth, we were all ROFLOAO!

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by Peter Restivo

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:08:39 +0000

Wonderful old radio…. or simulated radio. Imagination over visual. It still works.

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by Luther

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:06:41 +0000

We used to listen to this in around 1970. Our copy was on a cassette done by a comedian named Gene Tracy. You can still find it free for download if you search for “international Crepitation Contest”.

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Jeff

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:10:18 +0000

Great story; and I’m very glad to see that you’re posting again! I’ve enjoyed your shares tremendously, especially the very early ones. Thanks for all the listening enjoyment–

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by mablefable

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:21:35 +0000

Having grown up in home pervaded with flatulance and defecation humour (which is what happens when you have 3 brothers only a year or two apart in age), this felt highly familiar, it’s something we could have easily made up as kids! Speaking from the female point of view (if there is such a thing), I didn’t find this offensive at all. I too agree that it must be “fenetre de breeze”. The translation “zephyr window” is a literal translation in that a zephyr is a breeze. Part of the humour is the translation of an english word (breeze) used in a french term. Besides, “fenetre debris” would have had to be “fenetre de debris”, and would have been translated to “offal window” or “trash window” or whatever, rather than “zephyr (ie. breeze) window”. There’s my etymological dissertation of the day!

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by bob stepno

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:19:27 +0000

Terrific show, Randy — and good interview over at jimbo’s blog, which is what brought me back here after months of not visiting.

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by michael utz

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:01:41 +0000

great interview!

Comment on Command Performance - Victory Extra by Derrick

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:21:32 +0000

this is amazing and thanks so much for putting it online. what strikes me is how humble they are in victory. there isnt any patriotic bombast, these arent people celebrating their victory in war so much as an end to the war. just amazing to listen to.

Comment on The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 by k+alb

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:19:51 +0000

Much to my amazement last night, I mentioned ,’it was only a freep’ where apon my girlfriend said ‘at least it wasn’t a flutterblast’ I almost died that she had heard this bit of college age humor from over 20 yrs ago…we listened to it and well let’s just say it was eye watering …in collage we listened to the Dr. Demento version…I’d pay good money for a copy…

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by rental mobil jakarta

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:21:41 +0000

Nice article, thanks for the information.

Comment on Down Our street - January 21, 1948 by Steve Daugherty

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:24:43 +0000

My dad (Chuck Daugherty) worked for WXYZ as an announcer from the ’50’s. I have many similar old records (and original tape recordings, studio vinyl recordings, sounds checks, and other stuff… Lone Ranger, Sergent Pepper of the Yukon and The Green Hornet cast studio bench). My dad is still alive and might be able to answer your questions about your recording.

Let me know if you need my help.

Steve Daugherty

Comment on Southland Echoes - Pgm 49-23 by Fred Isenor

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:07:26 +0000

Great to have a couple more songs by Judie & Julie as I only had two of their Bluebird 78’s on a CD. Fred

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Jimbo

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:28:59 +0000

Wow Randy. I’ve only just become aware of your NPR debut… I’m gonna download it. Meanwhile, gonna let everyone know.

Congrats! Jimbo

Comment on Sunkist Musical Cocktail - March 15, 1931 (excerpt) by John Danko

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:13:52 +0000

I have acquired three of the sunkist interviews with louella Parsons. Norma Shearer, Ann Harding, and ruth chatterdon

All come with original mailing envelope and a 1 1/2 cent stamp. Did they produce more of these interviews? Anybody know

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Nathan Moser

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:46:51 +0000

That was great Randy!- Can you put similar on youtube?

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Nathan Moser

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:46:11 +0000

That was great Randy- Can you put similar on youtube?

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by DavidinBerkeley

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:13:52 +0000

Congrats, Rand!

Comment on Words with Music - Pgm 28 by David

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:11:17 +0000

Oh good another episode of this series. I really liked the ones that Merle Oberon did.

Dr. OTR: You also might like the OTR series called “Anthology”, which lasted 1 season in the mid 1950’s, as well as “Moon River” and “Music and the Muse”.

Comment on Bobby Hammack - Pgm 213 by David

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:55:26 +0000

Thanks for bringing back Hammack.

That theme sure is snappy.

Comment on Bobby Hammack - Pgm 213 by Jason

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:51:46 +0000

I’m sincerely glad and grateful to see you posting on a semi-regular basis, Randy. Thank you for all of your efforts.

Comment on Bobby Hammack - Pgm 213 by Phillip

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:26:43 +0000

Wonderful to have more Bobby Hammack. Many thanks.

Comment on Boulevard of Make Believe - Pgm 12 by Bob

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:52:52 +0000

Sounds like the Jan Garber Orchestra’s recording with Lee Bennett on vocals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F69iDhpNMXg

Comment on Bobby Hammack - Pgm 211 by RichTheCat

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:22:06 +0000

PS - Good to see you back!!!

Comment on Bobby Hammack - Pgm 211 by RichTheCat

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:20:44 +0000

Cool. Love the guitar and vibes. Moves right along. My kind of swing. Keep it coming if possible.

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Erica

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:12:14 +0000

Very cool! Unfortunately missed it “live,” but enjoyed the podcast later. And as always, learned so much

Comment on GI Jive and KGEI Shortwave sign-off - excerpts - circa 1946 by Jim Widner

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:26:28 +0000

KGEI was not part of or owned by the Voice of America. It was from 1939-1945 a separate shortwave station owned, as it said, by General Electric. It was somewhat controversial in that for a while it was the only station in the U.S. providing a U.S. perspective to the Pacific. It was originally started to promote GE products overseas, but had no news editorial policy, so before the war broadcast isolationist such as Charles Lindbergh and others. But with the intervention of the Roosevelt administration, it convinced this private station to hire or carry broadcasts of commentator William Winters and took on a stance that Germany & Japan should not be allowed to expand their power of influence.

After the war, the station was purchased by the Far East Broadcasting Organization based in the Phillipines.

Comment on Words with Music - Pgm 28 by Dr. OTR

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:40:25 +0000

Never mind, I poked around and found two other eps you’d posted (#1 and 13 — did I miss any? The http://randsesotericotr.podbean.com/category/words-with-music/ link only pulls up episode 1).

There’s a long-running BBC programme called “Poetry Please” which features late-night readings of poetry. It’s billed as the world’s longest-running poetry request programme. You can listen to recent episodes here, but only for about a week after they’re broadcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp7q

Comment on Words with Music - Pgm 28 by Dr. OTR

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:26:46 +0000

Wow, that is really … relaxing. It would be perfect for late-night listening; not so good for rush-hour driving. Bob and Ray did their own take on this with Charles the Poet, who could never make it through a reading without giggling.

Do you have any more of these?

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Mike Harron

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:15:49 +0000

Well done Randy. Great interview……..and thanks for the direct links.

Comment on Hollywood Bowl - Pgm 78 by Hollywoodbowltix

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:07:18 +0000

Hank - what a great find! Rand, thanks for posting the info too

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Mike Hobart

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:19:03 +0000

Nice to see you back on-line again.

Thanks for all these great old shows.

Comment on Your humble host featured on public radio’s The Story by Britt Reid

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:40:25 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for all the encodes that you have shared with everyone. I appreciate your efforts.

Comment on Village Store - Pgm 87 by Dr. OTR

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:06:02 +0000

Thanks so much for this! I’ve really become a fan of Joan Davis’ radio work, and this series was a lot of fun. It’s light and fluffy — perfect for late night listening when I’m doing the dishes. There were dozens of workaday comedy variety shows like this one that aren’t very well remembered (and often don’t aren’t well represented among surviving shows), which is a pity because they reveal a lot about the character and values of the country at the time. So if you have any more WWII variety comedy shows, please post ‘em!

Comment on Fred Allen Show, Pgm 147 by Yowp

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:08:05 +0000

It’s appropriate Digger O’Dell appeared. He was played by John Brown, who had been a regular on Allen’s show for at least ten years. This was during the time Allen was pushing NBC to give Morgan his own show. Papers were speculating Allen was going to produce it. Del Sharbutt is the announcer at the end. Kenny Delmar must have enjoyed lampooning the Lucky Strike spot. He did them for a year on Benny’s show then American Tobacco’s agency fired him because they didn’t like his sound. And he wasn’t crazy about their hard sell. Earl Wilson mentions his appearance on the show in his column of March 11, 1949.

Comment on Weird Tales - Program 2, Part 2 - The Curse of Nagana by Doug Wood

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:45:09 +0000

I remember seeing a add in a old copy Weird Tales magazine promoting this show. The only other time I’ve seen it mentioned lately someone said that Robert Bloch was on board as writer or consultant for the series.

Comment on Mercer McLeod, The Man With the Story - Pgm 1 by Joel Cunningham

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:53:06 +0000

I have some discs, 4, I think. I was going to list them on ebay but will see if you are interested first. Let me know. Cheers, Joel

Comment on The Story Lady - January 10, 1948 - excerpt by Chloe

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Thanks for posting these 3 new shows, Randy. I’m always amazed at the rare shows you find. Can’t wait to see what other jobs are considered “unusual” for women

Comment on Weird Tales - Program 2, Part 2 - The Curse of Nagana by thingmaker

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:05:25 +0000

Esoteric indeed! Thanks for bringing this item to the light of the great electrical internet.

Comment on Smiley Burnette Show - Pgm 177 by David in Atlanta

Thu, 31 May 2012 23:22:49 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Roy Lanham and the Whippoorwills and hadn’t heard some of these performances. Thanks!