OW Radio to Trade - Looking to expand the library

[Knowles Noel Shane]

Here is my list of Welles titles to trade. I am looking for anything not on the list, but if you see something you'd really like, I'm sure we can work something out. I can provide tapes of any titles and CD or MP3s of most others. Please contact me at StoreHadji@yahoo.com if interested.

Orson Welles Audio:

Columbia Workshop: (CBS)
Hamlet (9-19-36)
Hamlet (11-14-36)
The Fall of the City (4-11-37)

Les Miserables: (Mutual Broadcasting System)
The Bishop (7-23-37)
Javert (7-30-37)
The Trial (8-6-37)
Cosette (8-13-37)
The Grave (8-20-37)
The Barricade (8-27-37)
Finale (9-3-37)

The Shadow: (Mutual)
Death House Rescue (9-26-37)
Murder By the Dead [originally 10-17-37, contemporary performance featuring Arthur Anderson]
The Temple Bells of Neban (10-24-37)
The Three Ghosts (10-31-37)
Circle of Death (11-28-37)
The Death Triangle (12-12-37)
The Voice of Death (12-26-37)
League of Terror (1-9-38)
Sabotage (1-16-38)
Society of the Living Dead (1-23-38)
The Poison Death (1-30-38)
The Phantom Voice (2-6-38)
The House of Horror (2-13-38)
Hounds in the Hills (2-20-38)
Plot Murder (2-27-38)
The Bride of Death (3-6-38)
Silent Avenger (3-13-38)
The White Legion (3-20-38)
The Hypnotized Audience (6-5-38)
Death from the Deep (6-12-38)
The Fire Bug (6-19-38)
The Blind Beggar Dies (6-26-38)
Power of the Mind (7-3-38)
The White God (7-10-38)
Aboard the Steamship Amazon (7-17-38)
Murders in Wax (7-24-38)
Message from the Hills (7-31-38)
The Creeper (8-7-38)
The Tenor with the Broken Voice (8-14-38)
Murder on Approval (8-21-38)
The Tomb of Terror (8-28-38)
Death Under the Chapel (9-4-38)
Caverns of Death (9-11-38)

The March of Time: (NBC-Blue)
11-18-37
11-25-37
2-17-38
12-11-41 [non-Welles]

The Cradle Will Rock: (Musicraft Records)
Original Cast (Apr 38)

The Mercury Shakespeare: (Mercury Text Records/Columbia Masterworks)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Mar 38)
Twelfth Night (Jun 38)
Julius Caesar (Jul 38)
The Merchant of Venice (Sep 38)
Macbeth (Apr 40)

The Mercury Theatre on the Air: (CBS)
Dracula (7-11-38)
Treasure Island (7-18-38)
A Tale of Two Cities (7-25-38)
The 39 Steps (8-1-38)
I’m a Fool/My Little Boy/The Open Window (8-8-38)
Abraham Lincoln (8-15-38)
The Affairs of Anatole (8-22-38)
The Count of Monte Cristo (8-29-38)
The Man Who Was Thursday (Rehearsal) (9-4-38)
The Man Who Was Thursday (9-5-38)
Julius Caesar (Rehearsal) (9-11-38)
The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (9-25-38)
Hell on Ice (10-9-38)
Seventeen (10-16-38)
Around the World in Eighty Days (10-23-38)
The War of the Worlds (10-30-38)
The Heart of Darkness/Life with Father (11-6-38)
A Passenger to Bali (11-13-38)
The Pickwick Papers (11-20-38)

War of the Worlds Press Conference:
10-31-38 (excerpt)

The Campbell Playhouse: (CBS)
Rebecca (12-9-38) (w/Margaret Sullavan)
A Christmas Carol (12-22-38)
Counselor-at-Law (1-6-39) (w/Aline MacMahon)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1-13-39)
I Lost My Girlish Laughter (1-27-39) (w/George S. Kaufman)
Arrowsmith (2-3-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Green Goddess (2-10-39) (w/Madeleine Carroll)
The Glass Key (3-10-39)
Beau Geste (3-17-39) (w/Laurence Olivier, Noah Beery)
Showboat (3-31-39) (w/Margaret Sullavan)
The Patriot (4-14-39) (w/Anna May Wong)
Private Lives (4-21-39) (w/Gertrude Lawrence)
Wickford Point (5-5-39)
Our Town (5-12-39)
The Bad Man (5-19-39) (w/Ida Lupino)
Things We Have (5-26-39) (w/Cornelia Otis Skinner)
Victoria Regina (6-2-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
Peter Ibbetson (9-10-39) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
Ah, Wilderness (9-17-39) [syndication cuts]
What Every Woman Knows (9-24-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Count of Monte Cristo (10-1-39)
Algiers (10-8-39) (w/Paulette Goddard)
Escape (10-15-39) (w/Wendy Barrie)
Liliom (10-22-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Magnificent Ambersons (10-29-39) (w/Walter Huston)
The Hurricane (11-5-39) (w/Mary Astor)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (11-12-39) (w/Edna May Oliver)
The Garden of Allah (11-19-39) (w/Madeleine Carroll)
Dodsworth (11-26-39) (w/Fay Bainter) [syndication cuts]
Lost Horizon (12-3-39) (w/Sigrid Gurie)
Venessa (12-10-39) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
There’s Always a Woman (12-17-39)
A Christmas Carol (12-24-39) (w/Lionel Barrymore)
Vanity Fair (1-7-40) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
Theodora Goes Wild (1-14-40) (w/Loretta Young)
The Citadel (1-21-40) (w/Geraldine Fitzgerald)
It Happened One Night (1-28-40) (w/William Powell)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (2-11-40) (w/Gertrude Lawrence)
Dinner at Eight (2-18-40) (w/Lucille Ball, Hedda Hopper)
Only Angels Have Wings (2-25-40) (w/Joan Blondell)
Rabble in Arms (3-3-40)
Craig’s Wife (3-10-40) (w/Ann Harding) [syndication cuts]
Huckleberry Finn (3-17-40) (w/Jackie Cooper)
June Moon (3-24-40) (w/Jack Benny)
Jane Eyre (3-31-40) (w/Madeleine Carroll, Robert Coote)

The Jell-O Program (Jack Benny): (NBC)
3-17-40

Charles Shaw Show: (KTSA, San Antonio)
Orson Welles Meets H. G. Wells (10-28-40)

The Sealtest Program (Rudy Vallee):
12-19-40 (w/John Barrymore)

The Free Company: (CBS)
His Honor, The Mayor (4-6-41)

Citizen Kane San Francisco Premiere:
5-28-41 (w/Dorothy Comingore)

Orson Welles Show: (CBS)
9-15-41 (w/Jiminy Cricket, Dolores Del Rio)
9-29-41 (w/Jiminy Cricket)
10-6-41 (excerpt)
10-13-41 (w/Lucille Ball)
12-1-41 (w/Glenn Anders) (excerpt)
12-22-41 (w/Tim Holt)
The Apple Tree (1-12-42)
My Little Boy (1-19-42) (w/Ruth Warrick)

The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre: (CBS)
Between Americans (12-7-41) (w/Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Edward G. Robinson,
Walter Huston)



We Hold These Truths: (all networks)
President’s Bill of Rights (12-15-41)

Cavalcade of America: (NBC)
The Great Man Votes (12-15-41)
Thunder from the Mountains (9-28-42)

Suspense: (CBS)
The Hitchhiker (9-2-42)
The Most Dangerous Game (9-23-43) (w/Keenen Wynn)
Philomel Cottage (10-7-43) (w/Geraldine Fitzgerald)
Lazarus Walks (10-19-43)
The Marvelous Barastro (4-13-44)
The Dark Tower (5-4-44)
Donovan’s Brain (Part 1) (5-18-44)
Donovan’s Brain (Part 2) (5-25-44)
Sorry, Wrong Number [non-Welles, with Agnes Moorehead]

Information Please: (NBC)
9-18-42

The Texaco Star Theatre (Fred Allen): (NBC/AFRS)
10-18-42

Hello Americans!: (CBS)
Brazil (11-15-42) (w/Carmen Miranda)
Christ of the Andes (11-22-42) (w/Edmond O’Brien)
Haiti (11-29-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part One (12-6-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part Two (12-13-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part Three (12-20-42)
Bad Will Ambassador (12-27-42)
Rhythms of the Americas (1-3-43)
Mexico (1-10-43)
Feed the World (1-17-43) (w/Jack Moss)
Romantic Rhythms of the Americas (1-24-43)
Pan-Americanism (1-31-43)

Ceiling Unlimited: (CBS)
War Workers (12-14-42)
Gremlins (12-21-42)
Pan American Airlines (12-28-42)
The Future (2-1-43)

The Grape Nuts Flakes Program (Jack Benny): (NBC)
3-14-43
3-21-43
3-28-43
4-4-43
4-11-43

Reading Out Loud:
9-3-43

Orson Welles Almanac: (CBS)
1-26-44 (w/Groucho Marx, Ray Collins)
2-2-44 (w/Lionel Barrymore)
2-23-44 (w/Hedda Hopper, Nat King Cole)
3-1-44 (w/Victor Moore, Nat King Cole)
3-8-44 (w/Lucille Ball)
3-15-44 (w/Charles Laughton)
3-22-44 (w/Betty Hutton)
3-29-44 (w/Mary Boland )
4-5-44 (w/Dennis Day)
4-12-44 [Kid Ory segment only]
5-17-44 (w/Ann Sothern)
5-24-44 (w/The Wilde Twins) (format changed to Mercury Wonder Show for Servicemen)
5-31-44 (w/Marjorie Reynolds)
6-7-44 (special D-Day broadcast)
6-14-44 (Texarkana Hitler satire)
6-21-44 (w/Martha O’Driscoll)
6-28-44 (w/Lynn Bari)
7-5-44 (w/Lana Turner, Keenan Wynn)
7-12-44 (w/Susan Hayward)
7-19-44 (w/Ruth Tery)

Fifth War Loan Drive: (CBS)
6-19-44 (w/Lana Turner, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger)

The Song of Songs (Which Is Solomon’s): (Decca Records)
8-23-44

In the American Tradition: (Decca Records)
Aug 44

Lux Radio Theatre: (CBS)
Break of Hearts (9-11-44) (w/Rita Hayworth)

Welles for Roosevelt:
Oct 44 (excerpt)

The Chase Sanborn Hour (Bergen and McCarthy): (NBC)
10-30-38 [non-Welles, opposite War of the Worlds]
10-29-44
11-05-44

This Is My Best: (CBS)
Heart of Darkness (3-13-45)
Diamond as Big as the Ritz (4-3-45)

On a Note of Triumph: (CBS)
5-13-45 [non-Welles, with Martin Gable]

Columbia Presents Corwin: (CBS)
The Undecided Molecule (7-3-45) (w/Groucho Marx)[non-Welles]
New York: A Tapestry for Radio (7-10-45)
14 August (8-14-45)

Command Performance: (CBS/AFRS)
Victory Extra (9-2-45) (all networks) (w/Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, President Harry Truman)

No Man Is An Island: (Decca Records)
Aug & Sep 44, Sep 45

Dorris Miller Tribute: (Lear Radio)
12-9-45

The Happy Prince: (Decca Records)
1946 [with Bing Crosby]

Fred Allen Show: (NBC)
3-3-46

Mercury Summer Theatre: (CBS)
Around the World (6-7-46) (original cast with Cole Porter score)
The Count of Monte Cristo (6-14-46)
The Hitchhiker (6-21-46)
Jane Eyre (6-28-46)
A Passenger to Bali (7-5-46) (The Stranger announced as next week’s play)
The Search for Henri Le Fevre (7-12-46)
Life with Adam (7-19-46) (w/Fletcher Markle)
The Moat Farm Murder (7-26-46)
Golden Honeymoon (8-2-46)
Hell on Ice (8-9-46)
Abednego, the Slave (8-16-46)
I’m a Fool/The Tell-Tale Heart (8-23-46)
Moby Dick (8-30-46)
The Apple Tree (9-6-46)
King Lear (9-13-46) (excerpt)

Orson Welles Commentaries: (ABC)
6-23-46
6-30-46
7-21-46
7-28-46
8-4-46
8-11-46
8-18-46
8-25-46

Screen Director’s Playhouse: (NBC)
Spellbound (1948) [non-Welles, with Joseph Cotten]

Lucky Strike Program (Jack Benny): (NBC)
3-28-48 [non-Welles]
4-4-48 [non-Welles]
3-2-52 [non-Welles]

Abraham Lincoln: (Decca Records)
1951 [repeats tracks from No Man Is An Island and In the American Tradition]

The Lives of Harry Lime: (Lang/Worth Syndication) [complete original episodes]
Radio Promos
1. Too Many Crooks (8-3-51)
2. See Naples and Live (8-10-51)
3. Clay Pigeon (8-17-51)
4. Ticket to Tangier (8-24-51)
5. Voodoo (8-31-51)
6. Bohemian Star (9-7-51)
7. Love Affair (9-14-51)
8. Rogue’s Holiday (9-21-51)
9. Work of Art (9-28-51)
10. Operation Music Box (10-5-51)
11. Golden Fleece (10-12-51)
12. Blue Bride (10-19-51)
13. Every Frame Has a Silver Lining (10-26-51)
14. Mexican Hat Trick (11-2-51)
15. Art Is Long and Lime Is Fleeting (11-9-51)
16. In Pursuit of a Ghost (11-16-51)
17. Horse Play (11-23-51)
18. Three Farthings for Your Thoughts (11-30-51)
19. The Third Woman (12-7-51)
20. An Old Moorish Custom (12-14-51)
21. It’s a Knockout (12-21-51)
22. Two Is Company (12-28-51)
23. Cherchez La Gem (1-4-52)
24. Hand of Glory (1-11-52)
25. Double Double Cross (1-18-52)
26. 5000 Pengoes and a Kiss (1-25-52)
27. Dark Enchantress (2-1-52)
28. Earl on Troubled Water (2-8-52)
29. Dead Candidate (2-15-52)
30. It’s In the Bag (2-22-52)
31. Hyacinth Patrol (2-29-52)
32. Turnabout Is Foul Play (3-7-52)
33. Violets, Sweet Violets (3-14-52)
34. Faith, Lime and Charity (3-21-52)
35. Pleasure Before Business (3-28-52)
36. Fool’s Gold (4-4-52)
37. Man of Mystery (4-11-52)
38. The Painted Smile (4-18-52)
39. Harry Joins the Circus (4-25-52)
40. Suzie’s Cue (5-2-52)
41. Vive Le Chance (5-9-52)
42. Elusive Vermeer (5-16-52)
43. Murder on the Riviera (5-23-52)
44. Pearls of Bohemia (5-30-52)
45. A Night in a Harem (6-6-52)
46. Blackmail Is a Nasty Word (6-13-52)
47. The Professor Regrets (6-20-52)
48. The Hard Way (6-27-52)
49. Paris Is Not the Same (7-4-52)
50. Honeymoon (7-11-52)
51. The Blue Caribou (7-18-52)
52. Greek Meets Greek (7-25-52)

The Black Museum: (Lang/Worth Syndication) (1952)
.22 Calibre Pistol
.32 Calibre Bullet
Bathtub
Black Gladstone Bag
Bloodstained Brickbat
Brass Button
Can of Weed Killer
Canvas Bag
Car Tire
Champagne Glass
Claw Hammer
Door Key
Faded Tartan Scarf
Four Small Bottles
French-English Dictionary
Gas Receipt
Glass Shards
Hammerhead
Jack Handle
Jar of Acid
Khaki Handkerchief
Lady’s Shoe
Leather Bag
Letter
Mandolin String
Meat Juice
Notes
Old Wooden Mallet
Open End Wrench
Pair of Spectacles
Piece of Iron Chain
Pink Powderpuff
Post Card
Prescription
Raincoat
Sash Cord
Service Card
Sheath Knife
Shilling
Silencer
Small White Boxes
Spotted Bedsheet
Straight Razor
Tan Shoe
Telegram
Trunk
Two Bullets
Walking Stick
Woman’s Pigskin Glove
Wool Jacket

Sherlock Holmes: (BBC)
The Final Problem (1952) (w/John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson)

Song of Myself: (BBC)
4-12-53

Marc Blitzstein’s Airborne Symphony (Columbia Masterworks)
10-18-66 [with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic]

The Begatting of a President: (Mediarts Records)
1969

This Is Orson Welles: (Harper Audio)
1968-1975 (w/Peter Bogdanovich)

Salvation Army Christmas Album:
Late 70’s

Stokely’s Foods Commercial Session:
Early 80’s

Ray Charles Singers:
I Know What It Is To Be Young (1984)

Japanese Audiobook Sessions: (May 85)
Wakefield
The Red Room
The Secret Sharer
Shredni Vashtar
Riki-Tikki-Tavi
The Happy Prince
Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
The Tell-Tale Heart
Way through the World
Road to Mandalay
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Alan Parsons Project:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1985)

Theatre of the Imagination:
The Mercury Company Remembers (1988) (w/Leonard Maltin, John Houseman)

BBC Arena:
Orson Welles – Storyteller (with Simon Callow) [incomplete] (Sep 1999)

Sci-Fi Channel’s Seeing Ear Theatre:
Orson the Alien! (1999)

Magnificent Ambersons Laserdisc
Commentary by Robert Carringer

Othello Laserdisc
Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Myron Meisel, and Russ Lees

[Knowles Noel Shane]

Why, Jeff, your language filter is removing the word h*e*l*l* from my list. Oh, well. What a dirty, scurvy dog that Welles guy was.

[Wilson]

Yeah, I forgot to remove the filter when I switched servers and re-installed the board. I'll have to do that, since I doubt anyone's sensibilities are being offended.

[Knowles Noel Shane]

I've been converting my old tapes and CDs into MP3s recently. It's certainly a time consuming process and there's a bit of a learning curve to clamber up. One thing I've discovered so far is that the MP3 collections for sale on Ebay are ABSOLUTE CRAP! I guess to ensure small file sizes, the shows are all encoded with a low sampling rate (usually 24kbits.) They sound TERRIBLE! Like a bad cell phone or worse! I've been recording mine at 192 at the least. The file sizes are big (though nowhere near as big as a WAV) but they sound as good as the original tapes. I guess if you want anything done right you have to do it yourself. I have a number of LPs to convert too - haven't gotten around to that yet. I don't know if I'll connect straight from my stereo amplifier or directly from the turntable (though if I do that I'll have to land that ground wire somewhere so it doesn't BUZZ.)
Still, MP3s are POTENTIALLY a great format, and it's nice to have seven hours of shows on a single disc (that's using a CD-R.) Some day I'll upgrade to a DVD burner and that will hold, what, maybe four times as much stuff. I like the convenient storage format, the entire Library of Congress on the head of a pin, but not when it sounds like poo.

[Orson&Jazz]

Knowles Noel Shane,

You have shows on your list I've never even heard of, and many I haven't even heard yet.

I am very interested in hearing them, and owning them on MP3. I have nothing to trade with, since I am technically only a newbie in my adoration of Orson.

Is there any way we can do business?

[Knowles Noel Shane]

Just send me an email. It is an awful lot of stuff, but fits nicely on CD as MP3s. I've been collecting for over twenty years now. Early on I found things at libraries or used record stores. Later I found other collectors online with whom to trade audio cassettes. More recently I picked up some of those MP3 sets off ebay (beware of those - they don't sound as well as they should.) Do yourself a favour and find a copy of This Is Orson Welles. The Career section in the back lists all of the stage, radio, film, and television appearances I've ever heard of. That's the best reference I've ever found for knowing what to look for. :p

[Terry]

Here's an update for the aforementioned burgeoning list. I've been trading online through some of the Yahoo OTR groups (pure instantaneous digital satisfaction - no waiting on snail mail.) Hopefully something here someone would like to trade for:

Black Museum: Shopping Bag
Mercury Theatre on the Air: 39 Steps (Rehearsal)
Ceiling Unlimited: 430201 The Future (really!)
Civil Defense Administration: 561017 Tomorrow
Lux Radio Theatre: 450326 A Tale of Two Cities
510409 The Third Man (non-Welles, w/Cotten)
Orson Welles Almanac: 5-3-44
Silver Theatre: 410330 One Step Beyond
The Danny Kaye Show: 460301 The Wife of Riley
The March of Time: 341005 (maybe not w/Welles)
This Is My Best: 441219 The Plot To Overthrow Christmas
450410 The Master of Ballantrae