GA Russell

A number of radio shows crossed over to TV in the early 50s, many with the radio cast. IMO the best were Dragnet and The Jack Benny Show. Through 1955, many of these shows ran on both radio and TV. The most famously disappointed radio cast was Gunsmoke's (William Conrad, Parley Baer, the guy who played Floyd the Barber, and Georgia Ellis). They all felt really bad that new actors were chosen for the TV series. In addition, the director of the radio Gunsmoke was not chosen to direct the TV show. I forget his name, something like Norman Connall. If I recall the years correctly, Have Gun Will Travel was a big hit on TV its first year, the 1958-59 season. It was decided to add it to radio for the next season, starring my favorite actor John Dehner, and directed by the guy who directed the Gunsmoke radio shows. It was the only show to move from TV to radio of that era. Decades later they made a radio series of The Twilight Zone. I have the entire set of radio shows. It was on for two years. The first year they used the TV scripts from the TV's first season, written by Gene Roddenberry and others. Honestly, they weren't very good. But the second year, they used their own scripts, written for the radio show, often by a woman named Ann Dowd. They were outstanding! The radio director was very proud of the fact that they were able to create shows that were superior to the TV shows. He felt that this proved that he should have gotten the Gunsmoke TV job. The second year of the radio Have Gun is my all-time favorite radio show. My second favorite is the western John Dehner did immediately before that called Frontier Gentleman. A couple of years ago I picked up at Best Buy the DVD set of the first TV season of Have Gun. I should have known that the scripts would seem just as mediocre on TV as they were on radio. The set was a real disappointment. After hearing Year #2 of the radio show, it's a mystery to me why the TV show was so popular when it hit the scene. (By the way, I remember my dad's aunt excusing herself to retire to her bedroom to listen to Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel on the radio in 1960. That got me started on listening to radio shows. I was fortunate enough to listen each week to the last year, 1960-61, the radio Gunsmoke was broadcast.)

I think you people are being silly by treating this as a Repub/Dem partisan issue. The corruption on Wall Street and their bought and paid for politicians of both parties has been obvious for over a decade. The Libertarians/Misesians have been predicting this would happen since the 60s, at least. Ron Paul this spring even based his presidential campaign on the corruption of the Federal Reserve Board. And every media organization I am aware of treated him like a quack. That's nothing new - the only response the Libertarians/Misesians have ever received for their warnings has been derision. I think this meltdown is as good a reason as any to vote third party across the board this November. Let the liberals vote for the Green Party, and the conservatives vote for the Constitution and Libertarian Parties. What a change in Congress we would see then!

Happy Birthday gs!

Happy Birthday Dan!

Ten years ago I had an old, slow computer, and the process of burning a disc would fail when I burned the CD-R at a rate higher than the minimum. My current CD burner is four years old, and I still burn them at the slowest rate, which is 4x. I've had no problems burning or playing at that rate.

I can't say that the name means anything to me, but I remember Please Don't Squeeze My Sharmon.

British Columbia Lions 28....Saskatchewan Roughriders 23 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports Decent game. Buck Pierce had a pretty fair game for the Lions. Michael Bishop never got going for the Riders. The Riders' D kept them in the game.

Edmonton Eskimos 38....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4179511 Great game! Very little defense except for the many interceptions. I think that Ricky Ray threw 4 ints. Casey Printers threw 3 ints in the first half alone. Former Ticat Jason Goss had 3 ints, running 2 back for TDs. Tough loss for the Ticats. They took a 2 point lead with two minutes to go in the game, but couldn't hold on.

Thanks medjuck!

Thanks for the tip, Bruce! I'm glad you said that, medjuck. I would like to read them in the order that they were written/published. Any idea where I might find such a chronological list?

Happy Birthday vibes!

The Als have a player named Imho (pronounced "ee-moe") who had a decent game last night, considering that the Als didn't look very good. No truth to the rumor that next year they'll sign people named Ymmv and Fwiw!

Calgary Stampeders 41....Montreal Alouettes 30 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home The Stamps had a big lead after three. The Als scored 20 points in the fourth to make the score respectable. Considering how much better the Als are than the rest of the East, it looks like we might see an all Western Grey Cup game. Henry Burris passed Peter Liske for team career passing yards, now trailing only Doug Flutie. I had Liske's bubble gum card when he was a rookie with the Jets. The next year the Jets signed Joe Namath, and it was good-bye Liske!

Winnipeg Blue Bombers 39....Toronto Argonauts 9 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4179314 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Milt Stegall entered the game 16 yards behind Allen Pitts' career record for most pass receiving yards. His first catch was a 16 yard TD pass, so that tied the record. His second catch was a 92 yard pass and run TD catch to break the record. Some day, huh? Kerry Joseph stunk the joint out. He threw 3 ints in the first half. I'm sure everyone in the stands was wishing that the Argos hadn't given away Michael Bishop, considering how well he has done in Saskatchewan. Don Matthews had told the players that he didn't owe anyone on the team anything, and that he considered this game to be a tryout for everyone. So I have to think that there will be some changes made before the next game. http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Football/article/497785 ***** I'm now listening to the Stamps-Als game. With the score tied at 10 and less than a minute to go in the half, the Stamps score a TD to take a 7 point lead. The Als go two and out, and the Stamps have the ball on the Montreal 52 with time for one play. Henry Burris heaves it up into the endzone, and Johnson catches it while covered by three guys!

The price here jumped today from $3.63 to $4.19.

As we have discussed before, I was an AFL fan when I was a boy. I had Sherrill Headrick's bubble gum card in 1961 when he played for the Dallas Texans. He was good. I didn't know that his teammates called him "Psycho"! I guess that was the sort of information the announcers of the time didn't pass on to the audience! Here's his LA Times obit: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,4500296.story September 11, 2008 <h2 style="">Sherrill Headrick</h2>Aggressive linebacker Sherrill Headrick, 71, a former Dallas Texans and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, died Wednesday, the Chiefs announced. The Kansas City Star reported on its website that Headrick died of cancer. Nicknamed "Psycho" by his teammates for his aggressive play and personality, Headrick played eight seasons (1960-67) for the Texans/Chiefs franchise in the old American Football League before it merged with the NFL. He was selected to five all-AFL squads and started at middle linebacker during the team's AFL title wins in 1962 and 1966, as well as the first Super Bowl. He spent his final season with the Cincinnati Bengals after the 1968 AFL expansion draft and finished his career with 15 interceptions. He was inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1993. At 6 feet 2 and a shade over 200 pounds, Headrick was small for his position but known for his ability to play through pain and injuries. In his rookie season he collided with a teammate during pregame warmups and, although his neck ached, he played anyway. Two days later doctors discovered he had a cracked vertebra. "That's why they called him Psycho," former Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson said years later. "Who would play with a broken neck?" In recent years he was wracked by debilitating arthritis. Sherrill Darlon Headrick was born March 13, 1937, in Waco, Texas, and was a star at Texas Christian University. He left TCU after three years and played one season of pro ball in Canada before signing with the Chiefs as a free agent. [He is not listed in my CFL Encyclopedia. He may have played in the Ontario league (the Ontario Rugby Football Union, aka the ORFU) like Gino Cappaletti did.]

Two games tonight, and two tomorrow night. Fred Williams Week 12 preview: http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4179225

Gregory Mcdonald was the author of the Fletch books. I read the first one, just called Fletch, about 2000 and really enjoyed it. But when I went to look for more, I found that they were all out of print. About a year ago, I saw at an airport book store one of the later Fletch books in quality paperback, so one of these days I'll try the next book in the series, which I think was called Fletch, Too. Here's part of his LA Times obit: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...30.story?page=1 September 12, 2008 <h2 style="">Gregory Mcdonald</h2>Author of 'Fletch' mystery books Gregory Mcdonald, 71, a former Boston Globe reporter whose best-selling "Fletch" mystery books also were made into films, died of cancer Sunday at his farm in Pulaski, Tenn., according to his manager, David List. "Fletch," published in 1974, was the first in a series of books about an investigative reporter named Irwin M. Fletcher. Actor Chevy Chase portrayed the lead character in the 1985 movie "Fletch" and the 1989 sequel "Fletch Lives." Mcdonald twice won the Edgar Allan Poe Award presented by the Mystery Writers of America and published 26 books, including "Flynn," "Running Scared" and "The Brave." Born Feb. 15, 1937, in Shrewsbury, Mass., Mcdonald graduated from Harvard University in 1958.

Till I figure out what to do, let's try this for the Baja Marimba Band. http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drf...f18442wt49y.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drf...f18443eusx4.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/dri...i67617trjzx.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drg...g18198a1lsg.jpg edit: Well, that's no good. How do I get the image to be large enough to see?

Time's up! The answer is... Baja Marimba Band! As I recall, their first album did not have such a remarkable feature, but these albums did: Rides Again For Animals Only Watch Out! Maybe others as well.

I'm surprised that we haven't had an answer for this yet, especially from TTK! I'll give it a little more time.

BMG/Your Music has had Getz au Go Go since the beginning of the year. Last month it added the new Bossa Nova Albums 5 cd box. This week it has added Getz/Gilberto #2 and SG with Laurindo Almeida. I have added these two to my cart.

All right. Here's another album cover trivia question. What 60s band usually had a man relieving himself on the cover? (I'm going to need help posting the photos. I need to learn how to do that.)

I learned today that a Sonny Rollins dvd will be released October 28 along with a live cd compilation. I expect more details next week.