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Transcription Discs - Redux

John D
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Posted 10/29/07 - 06:23:31:	#1
Hi all, I was registered here a while ago but it seems for some reason my account doesn't exist anymore so I had to make a new one. Anyhow... I know this has been asked here before but I figured I would ask again: Does anyone know what became of the actual ET's of the Quiet Please episodes now in circulation? If I understand correctly, based on what I've read both here and elsewhere: at some point in the 1960's, Chappell made reel-to-reel copies of his personal collection of discs and gave these to Cooper's widow. Then, in the 1970's, J. David Goldin of Radio Yesteryear released copies of these shows on cassette (arrgh) taken either from the transcription discs (or, more likely, from the reel-to-reel copies which Cooper's widow had in her possession - I'm not clear on which). It's also my understanding that the majority of encodes of Quiet, Please episodes currently in circulation come from those Radio Yesteryear cassette releases. I'm aware of the one disc listed in the library's holdings at the University of Indiana and the two allegedly held at the Museum of TV & Radio in NYC. But where could the rest of them - the actual discs - be?

monsterwax
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Posted 05/23/08 - 16:26:44:	#2
Gee, you posted this and nobody answered it for months... I'm not sure I know the real answer, but I can tell you the rumors I heard (and others can correct me if I'm wrong). I used to produce a radio drama series at Stanford that played old time radio series to keep a weekly audience tuned in while we created new shows. It was called Mystery Playhouse and it was sponsored by Steve Kelez who ran an OTR tape mail order company, the name of which I can't remember at this exact moment. Anyway, my favorite show was Quite Please and I wanted to play as many of them as I could get my hands on. This was around 1985-1992. Steve only had about 12 or so episodes, including RED AND WHITE GUIDON, THING ON THE FOURBLEBOARD, SHADOW OF THE WINGS, CLARISA, LET THE LILLYS CONSIDER and a few others I'm not sure of... that's all the titles I'm pretry certain about that I can remember right this sec. He told me a similar story about Radio Yesteryear only having these dozen tapes or so (made from the reel to reel copies, I would guess). But he said there was a rumor that Chaple's widow had the actual disks under her bed, but they hadn't been transcribed (or maybe someone was trying to figure out a way to make money off them). Well, it all sounded like an old wives tale to me (no pun intended), but a few years later, almost all the other shows surfaced. I had to assume she or someone else (perhaps after her death) DID get them transcribed, and that's where the missing shows came from. Whatever the source, I was certainly delighted. They are consistantly the best of the best -- not in sound quality, but in writing (and the acting is right good as well). I think everyone would had to agree that Mr. Cooper did the best with the least-- he had no other writers that I'm aware of, a limited acting crew (but very talented ones at that), limited sound effects, and basically an organ for music. The results are stunning and STILL amaze me to this day.

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