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RHAC-RWUN-March2010.Lwp SOCIA S TI A O L N A O C I F R C O T O S I L O H R O A I D D O A R FO 5 U 7 NDED 19 Volume 35, Number 2 March/April, 2010 representative of the present times. But it just seems the characters of old were more believable, Meeting the Test of Time tolerable, and all had their weaknesses and faults, (Are OTR Shows Timeless?) much like so many of us. We remember names like Bob Hope, Red By Paul Barringer Skelton, Chester A. Riley, Our Miss Brooks, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen and Is it fair to say that our favorite radio shows from so on with a nostalgic smile. However, in the long the Golden Age of Radio are independent of time, or run, they did what they were broadcast to do. timeless, compared to other media? They made us laugh, and even if it was for just a I would say maybe not endless, in the broadest half-hour or so they made us see the humor and sense of the word, but some were able to withstand faults in ourselves and at the same time released the test of time, and are still many of the tensions of the listened to by many of us times. I guess the modern day old-timers as well as newer presentations mirror the days generations today. But, so too of old, because they, too, are many of the older movies accomplish the same thing; and television shows, just in a different matter, with preserved today by modern different values. techniques and enjoyed over I suppose many present and over in reruns and day listeners would consider recordings. the programs broadcast way So it would be fair to say, back when to be corny, and the test of time is in the eye of not nearly as funny as today’s the beholder, or in the case of entertainment. Listeners of radio, the mind and ears of the today might think some of the beholder. To many modern jokes made absolutely no sense and listeners who day listeners, OTR may seem not nearly as exciting, laughed at them were absolute nincompoops for nor as funny, nor as scary nor even as dramatic as laughing at them so robustly. present day modalities, i.e.; television and movies. In like manner, many of today’s viewers of both Take the comedies of today; were our characters movies and television would call our OTR adventure in OTR presented in a different way? In a way I and mystery programs rather bland and even would say yes, in that they were presented in a somewhat boring. That could be, but I would say fashion with which we were all familiar, one would have to have been there to enjoy them representative of the time when the shows were and the other varied presentations offered on OTR broadcast. The comedies of today are also Continued on Page 3 RADIO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO PO BOX 1908, Englewood CO 80150 (303) 761-4139 - Dedicated to the preservation of old-time radio programs, and to making those programs available to our members Old-Time Radio is Alive and Well in Colorado! KEZW 1430 AM “When Radio Was” Weekdays, 6:00 - 7:00 PM Pirate Radio 104.7 FM & www.pirate1047.com - “Radio Memories” (Greeley) Sunday, 6:30 - 12:00 PM KRMA TV Channel 6 Secondary Audio Program (SAP), “Tribute to OTR” Monday, 5:00 - 6:00 AM RHAC Web Site - http://www.rhac.org RHAC Email - [email protected] Hear RHAC on the web, 4th Saturday of every month, at 9:30pm Mountain time at; “OTR From The Rockies” - http://www.yesterdayusa.com/saturdaylive.htm POD-Cast: www.rhac.libsyn.com - Any day, any time! OTR News, Great Shows, Interviews RETURN WITH US NOW... is the official publication of the Radio Historical Association of Colorado, Inc., a nonprofit organization. Cost of membership is $25.00 for the 1st year with $15.00 for renewal. Each member in good standing has full use of the club resources. For further information contact anyone listed below. Any mention of a product in RETURN WITH US NOW... does not constitute an endorsement by RHAC. President: Larry Weide Vice-President: Open Position Secretary: Open Position Treasurer: Maletha King Newsletter: Carol Tiffany 1394 Golf Vista Court N. E., Palm Bay, FL 32905 (321) 733-7782 [email protected] Talking Newsletter B.J. George Email - [email protected] Talking Newsletter egroup - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rwun Membership: Maletha King PO BOX 1908 Englewood, CO 80150 Tape Donations: Bill McCracken Herb Duniven Directors at Large: Herb Duniven LIBRARIES Reference Material: Bill McCracken Logs & Scripts: Open Position Open Reel Tape: Maletha King 900 W. Quincy Ave. Englewood, CO 80110 Cassette Tape: “ “ “ #1 (1-499) David Gatch PO Box 70 Glen Haven, CO 80532 (970) 577-0805 #2 (500-999) “ “ “ “ #3 (1000-2000) Dave Logan 5557 S. Sherman Cir. Littleton, CO 80121 (303) 730-1430 #4 (5001-up) Mika Rhoden 3950 W. Dartmouth Ave. Denver, CO 80236 (303) 937-9476 CD Library: Thomas Woessner 9693 W. Euclid Dr Littleton CO 80123-3192 (303) 936-4643 2010 Convention Schedules At this time we have not been made aware of any upcoming OTR Conventions CREDIT: This publication may, under license, use objects and/or images from one or more of the following: Lotus Wordpro 9.1 and Corel Gallery. These software packages are protected by the copyright laws of the United States, Canada and elsewhere. This publication is copywrited 2010, with all rights reserved. RETURN WITH US NOW... -2- March, April 2010 before making a judgment. In my opinion, today’s adventure and mystery movies and television Ladies and Gentlemen programs are so violent, loud and vile that a young child cannot view them. Easy Aces! Ah, but how I remember crawling in bed at night with all the lights out and the radio down low, Revisiting Radio's Distinctive Laugh Novelty listening to, "I Love a Mystery," "Inner Sanctum by Elizabeth McLeod Mysteries," "Suspense," "Escape" and all the other classic tales of horror, intrigue and suspense. "Distinctive" is an unusual word to use in Were they scary? Well, they were as scary and describing a radio show -- but that was the word exciting as your mind would let you visualize. used for fifteen years in introducing one of the Maybe the radio shows didn't have all of the special medium's true forgotten classics. It was never a effects of today’s entertainment, but you could make ratings success -- and in fact was far more successful up your own special effects. as a syndicated rerun than it ever was as a live show. With a few exceptions, when I do go to the Its creator may be better known as one of the leading movies (seldom) or watch television today, I am not scriptwriters of early television, as a commentator the least bit apprehensive, very seldom held in for such erudite magazines as the Saturday Review suspense, and the sound is so deafening it hurts your of Literature, or even as a dour-voiced essayist over ears. Are there still suspenseful, intriguing and National Public Radio in the 1970s. But make no frightening shows presented today? Of course they bones about it -- in any medium, Goodman Ace was are, but I still love my old radio programs in a brilliant writer, and "Easy Aces" is a show which, comparison. perhaps more than any other of its time, is long overdue for rediscovery. I have gobs of tapes, CD's and records of many, Goodman and Jane Ace many OTR shows and would just as soon listen to them. While driving on a trip, there is nothing that "Easy Aces" was, for most of its run, a fifteen makes the time fly like listening to OTR. minute comedy serial -- and was generally It's not to say the television shows and movies of overshadowed by its many other competitors in that today are not entertaining, because they certainly crowded genre. But it was as unique -- as are. I follow many television shows religiously and *distinctive* -- in that field as a show could possibly enjoy them a great deal, but, oh, how I loved the be. "Easy Aces" had none of the morality-play Golden Age Of Radio growing up. So I guess one melodrama of "Amos 'n' Andy," nor the could argue both yes and no that OTR is timeless. warm-hearted rural nostalgia of "Lum and Abner," It really doesn't matter which side you take, the nor even the baroque absurdity of "Vic and Sade." bottom line is, do you enjoy what you watch or Instead, Goodman and Jane Ace gave audiences a listen to? Today we are able to listen to and enjoy serial that owes its style to the screwball-comedy radio programs broadcast seventy to eighty years tradition of 1930s movies, to the works of ago. comic-strip authors like Harry J. Tuthill ("The Will this hold true with today’s entertainment? Bungle Family") and Sol Hess ("The Nebbs"), and The technology is there to preserve and present it; to whimsical novelists like Thorne Smith we'll just have to wait and see. ("Topper.") In its acerbic take on upper-middle-class RETURN WITH US NOW... -3- March, April 2010 life, "Easy Aces" is the closest radio ever came to a true comedy-of-manners. It's the story of Mr. Ace (his first name was never used), a typical 1930s white-collar type, and his gently-batty wife Jane -- who live in childless domestic harmony in a pleasant suburban bungalow.
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