WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

same list from jeff's thread, with more audio books, and radio stuff at the bottom

THE GENIUS OF OW
9 hrs of programing:
2 calvacades of america 12/15/41 and 9/28/42
information please
5 jack bennys welles hosted
rudy vallee w/welles & barrymore
mercury lincoln
ow almanac 3 short stories 9/29/41
ow almanac lucille ball jo cotten
0w almanac 3/8/44lucille ball
gulf screen guild theater 12/7/41
suspense 9/23/43 ow and keenan wynn
war bond show 6-19-44

scanner is not hooked up or installed, what a paaaaain in the ass it was to type this.

have 3 or 4 hr long bernard hermmann radio documentary
leonard maltin's radio documentary on welles, appeared in threater of the imagination.
the home front radio series about wwII 3 or 4 hrs long
audio book: kafka's the trial 8-hs long.
audio book hernry miller's tropic of cancer. about 4 hrs long. i'm not sure if it's abridged, i've never read the book. i heard some one say once that miller used the word 'cunt' in tropic of cancer too many times, and 'cunt' is nowhere in the audio tapes. but also this person might have been talking out of his butt. does any body know if the word "cunt" appears in the book tropic of cancer? well, abridged or not tropic of cancer on audio tape is nothing short of brilliant. like a playground for an intellectual mind to romp.

issac denizen's babbette's feast, and sorrow acre. babbette's feast is brilliant, and does not have an american type resolutionary ending. very cool.

audio book underboss by sammy gravano
lots of bootleg led zeppelin
lots of live hendrix

a real prize that i lost for 8 years and just found:
the rat pack live at philly cinetrama room, 1964, the 4:am show. the hotel made a recording from the board of the 4am show. they were pressing it up into records to give away as gifts to the hotel guests. the 4am show those guys are not pretending to be drunk. they are drunk and are now thinking about fucking (what a life) sinatra got wind of the record thing, swooped down on hotel with lawyers and body guards, and had all the records destroyed. 3 records survived. my friend, a collector has one of them, made me a copy.

i have more. will tape more inventory

oh, i have some mozart, tchaikovsky,beethoven, bruckner, chopin,verdi's otelo, & la traviata highlights, wagner, bach, frierich, verdi rigoleto & aida. a few very cool, long versions of albinoni's adagio. robert johnson. quite a bit of sinatra, and beatles.

4 or 5 videos of hendrix playing like
tom waits big time
the schmidlin recontructed elvis thing
maybe 10 hrs of organized crime documentaries
the rko story 3 or 4 hrs
hollywood the silent days 8 hrs
the epic that never was, about the unmaking of me claudious

and much more

very interested in trading for classic lit on audio tape, tarkovsky movies, documentaries about filmmakers

have lots of documentaries about filmmakers to offer as trade.


cinema_vortex@yahoo.com

Anyone have a copy of this set who could make me a copy of the interview disc? Can trade numerous radio shows. Also, how is the book in the set? Worth getting the set for? How much detail about Welles' period on the show? Finally, can anyone recommend any other print sources for info and history of the show?

Eight original radio broadcasts with a 60-minute audio visit with the people who brought The Shadow to life! This Limited Edition Collector's Set also includes a 56-page book, "The Shadow - the Making of a Legend." The Isle of Fear Starring Bill Johnstone 10-30-38 * Message from the Hills Starring Orson Welles 05-22-38 * Death Rides a Broomstick Starring Bill Johnstone 03-02-41 * The Face Starring Bret Morrison 09-21-47 * The Destroyer 03-25-45 * The Chess Club Murders 02-23-41 * The Blind Beggar Dies Starring Orson Welles 04-17-38 * The Vengeance of Angela Nolan Starring Bret Morrison (last surviving broadcast featuring an interview with Gertrude Warner) 06-27-54

here is information i got from a site about the shadow chronicles. here is what it contains.

that 56 page book better contain over 50% of orson. that's for sure. since there are not many of his episodes contained. in the sets that i have seen, from radio spirits, it seems that all of them contain only 2 or three episodes. starring him. and the rest of the episodes contain the other guys.

bye now!

I'm not necessarily interested in the book being only on Welles, as he only performed the role for one year, but more in a general history of the show. The stuff I've found so far doesn't give much more than a general summary.

I forget the exact title of the broadcast. It was titled 7 September or something similar. It was a tribute to soldiers killed in ww2. Very moving. I'd like to see if I can find a recording or transscript of it. Any help would be appreciated.
Please e-mail me at kgroves@opf.com. Thanks!

kgro,
You may be thinking of "Fourteen August", a 15-minute program written by Norman Corwin, narrated by Welles, and broadcast Aug. 14th 1945. This program was also presented a few days later in an expanded version called "God and Uranium Were on Our Side", featuring narration by Welles and Olivia DeHavilland.

There was also an episode of Almanac about the D-Day invasion, with Aggie Moorhead's character writing a letter to her unborn son, whose father was overseas. She describes how the factories and restaurants ground to a halt, people couldn't sleep, they were just glued to their radios waiting for news. A chilling and superb broadcast, totally out of character for an otherwise campy and comedic series. I can find the broadcast date if anyone is interested.

I am helping out with the estate sale of my girlfriend's mother. Her mother's uncle "Sidney Smith" was an actor who mostly got small parts in radio, TV, and movies. I have an original hardbound album titled "Mercury Text Records by Orson Welles" and it is of the "Merchant of Venice". This album contains 12, 78rpm records recorded on both sides. In a pocket inside of the front cover there is a "Handbook for Teachers" which contains the cast of characters and a lesson plan. Sidney Smith plays the part of Gratiano.
It is my wish to learn more about this record collection as well as it's approximate value.

Dear PaulB: I should think your text/handbook/record album grouping should be fairly valluable, especially if it contains, as I assume, illustrations by Welles. I notice the text alone is offered by booksellers for $35.

The number of 78, I assume shellac, records suggests these specimens come from early in the educational venture he was encouraged to engage in by his mentor, "Skipper" Hill: a quite rare example, at that, one that will become more valuable if Welles late motion picture version is ever put together.

Good luck.

Glenn

On or around October 11, 1985 NPR presented a tribute to Orson Welles who passed away on October 10. Does anyone have a audiocassette copy or transcript of the program, in particular an interview with Patrick McGoohan with whom Welles worked with on MOBY DICK REHEARSED? I've contacted NPR headquarters and my local NPR station with no luck.

Thank you,

Melissa

Anyone have a copy of the Lady Esther show from 6 October 1941, with "The Black Pearl" and "Annabel Lee" among other things? Can trade any number of other shows for it. Thanks.

Just the excerpt entitled "Ladies and Gentleman, There's a Full Moon Tonight" which you already have. Wish I had the whole thing.

I used to have a cassette of a tribute to radio hosted by Orson Welles. (I remember it was the B side of a This is My Best or Mercury Theater tape which I purchased at the Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention in Cincinnati.

It was a 30-minute program, and Welles spoke glowingly about the freedom and diversity of radio, with the common refrain of "Do you hear me, America?" There are cameos from noted radio actors of the day, and a brief message from Quincy Howe of CBS, who was president of the ACLU at the time. I can't come up with the title. A friend sent me a sound file of what he thought it was, but it was Norman Corwin's We Hold These Truths--I realized it was the wrong thing after about a minute.

If anybody can send me a sound file of the show I am describing, or just its correct title so I can search for it--I'd be grateful!

Thanks in advance!

Has anyone a copy of THE DREAMERS footage? A former moderator of this site promised me a copy and reneged on the agreement. He not only messed me about but a class session on Welles.

Folks-

Our obedient servant is represented several times in an eclectic load of vintage vinyl up on ebay:

Classic Radio Drama, '70's kid's records, and Soundtracks, from Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow to Ed McMahon. Co-starring Greta Garbo and the Barrymores; Sirs Gielgud and Richardson; Bogart, Gable, and Laughton - and including the stars of SPEED RACER doing A CHRISTMAS CAROL!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/2wich/m.html?it ... 7675.l2562

("Lots of jolly sounds," as Wells once said of Welles' work.)

Thanks,
-Craig W.