Listed below are some OTR sites noted in the May 2002 Radiogram column “Information Please” by Barbara J. Watkins, e-mail kinseyfan@hotmail.com.

You can hear Tom Heathwood’s “Heritage Radio Theatre” series on Jerry Haendiges’ OTR site at http://www.OTRsite.com/broadcast. Jerry’s program “Same Time, Same Station” will be available there as well.

Will Hutchins, TV’s Dagwood, and a frequent guest at OTR conventions, has a regular web radio show — GOLDEN MELODY SALOON — which can be heard at http://bostonpete.com/virtualradiobroadcast/

WFUV at Fordham University plays old time radio on Sunday nights, midnight-1AM EST. See their website for schedule: http://www.wfuv.org  For the live broadcast stream: http://www.wfuv.org/wfuvlive.asx

Member Jim Widner writes: “In your recent column you mention collecting stations that stream OTR.  While it is not my creation, if you go to my web site at http://www.otr.com, there is a link part way down that says “Listen to OTR via the web? Here’s a schedule.”  Click on it and it will take you to a schedule of radio stations streaming OTR and their times. It is in no sense complete (and again, not my own creation) but will give you some help you might be looking for.

”Have you thought also of including some of the non-radio stations – web only sites that stream otr?  Some are nearly 24 hours a day if one wants to listen that much. One of the better ones is located at http://www.live365.com/stations/77175  “

Jim also maintains a database of OTR links at: http://www.otr.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/otr/db.cgi?uid=default   There are 550 links listed there. Thanks, Jim.

For Al Jolson fans there is an International Al Jolson Society  website at http://www.jolson.org 

If you’re an AMOS AND ANDY fan you should definitely check out Elizabeth McLeod’s sites on the web. Elizabeth is the foremost scholar on Amos and Andy. She has done and continues to do extensive research on them. Some of the results can be found at: “Amos ‘n’ Andy In

Person” — http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aa.html — a book-length examination of the series’ 1928-1943 serial era, and includes the most complete A&A sitcom log ever prepared.

“Amos ‘n’ Andy By The Numbers” — http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aar.html —  the ratings popularity of the series

“Breach of Promise: The Madam Queen Affair” — http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aabp.html — the complete scripts for the entire “Madam Queen Breach of Promise Case” storyline from 1930-31, covering sixty-four full episodes from 12/27/30 to 3/12/31

“Amos ‘n’ Andy — The First Decade” — http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aasumm.html -

“Amos ‘n’ Andy Illustrated” — http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aapics.html — a gallery of A&A-related photos, artwork, and memorabilia, from 1910 to 1948.

Tuesdays, starting March 19, 2002, NPR’s “All Things Considered” is airing  the Yiddish Radio Project, a series of documentaries about the Yiddish radio programs from the golden age and the people who made them. All that survives from Yiddish radio’s “golden age” in the 1930s and ’50s are a thousand fragile discs, rescued from storerooms and attics. The stories will also available for listening on the website, http://www.yiddishradioproject.org/ featuring the Yid-O-Matic, which pops up in RealAudio to translate the Yiddish sound clips on the site.

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