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TWENTY-TWO AFRS Melody
Round-Up shows can be accessed through my folder on Mediafire. Click here to access the mediafire folder for AFRS MELODY ROUND-UP shows Thanks to Mike, these can be accessed through the internet archive organization: Click
here to access the Melody Round-Up folder at http://www.archive.org/details/melodyroundupafrs On June 25, 2005 They
Cut Down the Old Pine Tree was sung at the close of the The internet archive at http://www.archive.org has many OTR mp3s for download. Simply type in the name of the radio show you want into their search engine. The PINE RIDGE PROJECT's 128Kbps mp3 encodes of Lum & Abner can be downloaded via this page: http://www.jotemdownstore.org/prp.htm Lower bitrate shows at the
internet archive can be downloaded via this page: Thank you Mike Davis for the links!
Articles:
PARODY
BILLBOARD SHOT:
*Multimedia Presentation* This is an executable file for
Windows operating systems. Sorry Mac users; The authoring program I used
does not compile a file compatible with Mac computers. The file is large
so give it a little time to load up. Clicking on the cards will enlarge
the inset photos. Clicking a second time will return you to the lobbycard.
The <ESC> key will exit the program at any time. download
zipped executable file, @ 7.65MB
Guests: Chester Lauck of
Lum and Abner, Interesting to note: Hy
Gardner asks the contestants if they know "Dinty Doyle".
You'll have to unzip the above mp3 files using
Winzip or Stuffit expander, Extry; MP3 clips for your
answering machine: Answering Machine Message
#3 (293 Kb @ 37 seconds) Need an mp3 player? Free
FreeAir MP3 player available for download |
For "America's Original Classics," unforgettable singers, swing music and OTR, tune in KZQX-LP over the internet at www.kzqx.com! From a low power FM station in Chalk Hill, Texas, comes radio as it used to be, brought to you by station manager Chuck Conrad, who assembles each day's music and programming from scratch - no satellite feeds! Each Sunday from 8:00-9:30 p.m. Central Time, hear OTR classics as well!
A VISIT WITH RADIO HUMORIST CHESTER LAUCK (LUM EDWARDS) at: Studies in American Humor: (http://www.compedit.com/lum_and_abner.htm)
Elephant joke: http://www.thecoffeeplace.com/Jokes/aaaaaaiz.html
"The Golden Age of Radio" is a one-hour program produced by CHS-TV, the video technology and advanced broadcast journalism classes of Carthage High School in Carthage, Texas, led by instructor Donnie Pitchford, known to some as "Uncle Donnie" of the National Lum and Abner Society. This program is part of the KZQX OTR time on Sunday evenings, airing from 8:30-9:30. The students introduce vintage music and offer an OTR segment as well. Program notes may be found on the CHS-TV website at http://www.carthageisd.org while the show may be heard over www.kzqx.com.
Jefro's Old-Time Radio Page: http://angelfire.com/my/otr/page.html
Jot 'Em Down Store
and Museum: http://www.lum-abner.com/
If in Arkansas, be sure to stop
at the Lum 'n Abner Museum and Jot 'em Down Store in Pine Ridge,Highway
88, Phone #870-326-4442
Karla's
Lum and Abner Page: http://x-1.yi.org/missem/Lum&Abner.htm
A superb log and other novelties can be found here.
"Lum And Abner's Wonderful World!": http://www.angelfire.com/ar/lumabner/index.html
Montgomery
County, Arkansas - Postcards: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armontgo/postcards.htm
A series of postcards sprang from the popularity "Lum
and Abner" program.
*New address: National Lum & Abner Society Home Page: http://www.lumandabner.org
Pine Ridge Images: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armontgo/pineridge.htm
"Setting
a Spell with Lum and Abner": http://www.lofcom.com/nostalgia/columns/retro/199908.phtml
An excellent article from the Retro-Views series by radio
historian and columnist Elizabeth McLeod, from August 1999
On-line Newspaper Articles:
Decades
later, 'Lum and Abner' lives on (The Morning Sun - Web posted Sunday, July
30, 2000): http://www.morningsun.net/stories/073000/pri_0730000037.shtml
An exciting new book about Lum and Abner has been released. Click HERE (or choose "Catalog" from the tab at the top of this page) for more info. I'm tidying up this page by moving all products available through Amazon to a separate page.
* Also, watch for the new Nat'l Lum and Abner Society webpage at http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/
* Many dead links have been removed from this page. If I'm missing a good Lum & Abner-related link, please inform me at ajohns at hiwaaay.net
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LUM AND ABNER SCRIPT BOOKS:
Fans, if you haven't seen these script books you've been missing out big
time. The National Lum and Abner Society has been reprinting scripts for
which no audio is currently known to exist. Reading these books is almost
like listening to those rascals themselves. When was the last time you
saw just one original script? IF you found just one you'd have to spend
a ridiculous amount of money to possess it. I've NEVER seen one original
script for sale. These handy volumes collect about a MONTH'S worth of scripts.
They are extremely collectible! People who have them do not part
with them. When these volumes go out of print you may never see them again.
You DON'T have to belong to the NLAS to purchase these books, but members
do get informative slick newsletters and have access to the tape library
as well. No ONE person benefits from sales of the books--but ALL the fans
do. ALL proceeds are put towards the preservation of Lum and Abner shows
and in bringing speakers to the annual conventions. The "ossifers"
of the NLAS don't make a penny and they often throw their own money,
time and talent in to boot. These books would be well worth the money even
if you weren't supporting a great cause. Production value on these volumes
is high. For example: The May 1937 volume "One Spud To To!" has
a two-page preface and introduction to the story-line followed by a facsimile
of an original script page. The next fifty-five pages collects about 18
sequential full-length show scripts in easy-to-read two-column format.
The cover is always superbly illustrated. Uncle Donnie Pitchford has graciously
forwarded a picture of the next issue's cover, due out hopefully around
February, so you can see what you've been missing. The previous volume
is still available but won't be for long. This may be your last chance
to get one before they're sold out and who knows when or if they'll be
able to reprint them later. To the right is a preview of the type of excellent
art-work you've missed if you've never bought a script book; methinks it
is worth the price of admission alone!
For more information on how to order as well as info on other collectable items, check out the NLAS store page at: http://home.inu.net/stemple/Page7.html
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: BUY SOME SCRIPT BOOKS!
If using Internet Explorer, a midi file should start playing when the page opens. The title is "Down On The Old Party Line," written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Elsie Mae Emerson. I've made slight adjustments in the performance of this midi file which can be downloaded by right clicking the following link and choosing "save as": Down_On_The_Old_Party_Line.mid
Here's another related Lum and Abner song:
To download, right click and "save as": O-o-oh_Wonderful_World.mid
Or to view the score and lyrics using the Noteworthy
Composer program, right click and "save as": O-o-oh_Wonderful_World.nwc
Did
You Know?
I'll add to this list as material comes to
mind. If you have any additions let me know.
Abner (Norris Goff) appeared on the Andy Griffith show? In episode 161 (160) "Opie's Job" Norris Goff appears as Mr. Doakes. Opie vies for a job at the grocery store.
"Opie" on the Andy Griffith show received his name in honor of Opie Cates, band leader and actor in the Lum and Abner's half-hour shows?
Norris Goff also appeared on Gomer Pyle as his grandfather?
Lum and Abner appeared on The Jack Benny Show pilot T.V. show on May 8, 1949 with The Andrews Sisters, Isaac Stern and Margaret Whiting?
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff were members of the Order of De Molay, a youth organization designed to benefit fatherless boys?
Chet Lauck was a Barbershopper, belonging to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA)? He also emceed the charter show for the Hot Springs Fun City Chapter, September 17, 1977, with 1,400 people attending in an un-airconditioned auditorium.
Elizabeth Taylor's 33-karat Krupp diamond was once offered to Chet Lauck by Vera Krupp, the actress?
The place where Carole Lombard died in a plane crash was Red Rock Ranch (AKA Bar Nothing Ranch, and more recently Spring Valley Ranch), owned by Chet Lauck? It is now a state park. [Error correction: Previously this page listed Mr. Goff as co-owner of the ranch, duplicating the error of the linked site. Mr. Lauck was the only owner. Thanks to "Uncle Donnie" Pitchford for catching this mistake.]
Grandpa Jones, of "Hee-Haw" and Grand Ol' Opry fame, and banjo-picker extraordinaire, did some of his earliest work in the Lum and Abner house band, "The Pine Ridge String Band" in the early 1930's?
Betty Boyle, a Lum and Abner show scriptwriter, operated a ladies' shop at the famed Desert Inn in Las Vegas?
That Lum and Abner were National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame Honorees in 1983?
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff (incorrectly listed as "M"orris) are listed as Theta Sigma alumni alongside notables such as John Wayne, David Letterman, and Tom Selleck?
Bea Benederet (Betty Rubble of the Flintstones) played Mrs. Wormley on the Lum and Abner Show?
Lum and Abner wrote a song?
Mr. Ludy Wilkie, who has written a fantastic Lum and Abner play in two acts, has sent along these additional bits of interesting trivia gathered from the Jot 'Em Down Journal:
Before the Lum and Abner radio program introduced the "Jot-em-Down Store," there was no such store in America. Three years after its appearance, there were 100 stores which had obtained permission to use that name!
Lum and Abner used the old-fashioned cigar-box type telephone so consistently in their scripts that telephone linemen and engineers throughout the country came to designate that particular type of party-line telephone as "the Lum and Abner line."
In October, 1937, news reports identified Lum and Abner as the only radio stars doing three shows a day. They did three a day, five days a week, for three different listening audiences.
Also, in October 1937, agents of the FBI investigated a threat to kidnap Chester Lauck and Norris Goff of the Lum and Abner show. The threat consisted of a newspaper clipping of a recent $10,000 extortion attempt on actor Wallace Beery. On the clipping were scrawled the words, "You're next!" The clipping was left at the studio where Lauck and Goff did their broadcast.
Lum and Abner were made colonels in Kentucky and Arkansas. In the event of a riot or insurrection, they would have had to go to Arkansas to command a company of milita.
Lum and Abner: was the first marathon charity broadcast on radio; the first program broadcast from New York's Radio City; the first international radio broadcast (Lum and Abner talked across the Atlantic Ocean) and one of the first programs broadcast on what would become the Mutual Radio Network. In 1936 THE RADIO GUIDE listed Lum and Abner as the number four program in popularity--bested only by Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, and Burns and Allen.
