The Anderson Family

OTRR_Maintained_Anderson_Family audio oldtimeradio lumedwards Old Time Radio Researchers Group <blockquote> THE ANDERSON FAMILY From the Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, The Anderson Family was "A 30-minute syndicated program. The Anderson Family told of the funny adventures of an 'average' American family. The cast included Dick Lane, Louise Arthur and Walter Tetley (30 min., weekly, 1948)." Broadcast historian Bob Dunn notes: “Not to be confused with The Andersons, a short-lived 15-minute NBC daytime soap opera (1942). Walter Tetley was in ALL sorts of shows--Buck Rogers, The Great Gildersleeve, Fred Allen, and with Phil Harris and Alice Faye on The Fitch Band Wagon (I always thought it was the Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show) among others. Heck, he was even "Sherman" on the Peabody and Sherman segments of Rocky and Bullwinkle!” Program discs 1-36 were physically cleaned and transferred in 2003, and electronically restored by me as a hobby effort in Natick, MA. These particular vinyl 16” lateral cut transcription disks were once aired by WAYN radio (900AM, 1kW Rockingham, NC) as there is writing by pen on each label listing the date of airing. The programs were produced by Hollywood Broadcasters and published by The Cardinal Company of Hollywood, also creators of such shows as Adventures By Morse, The Johnson Family, and Barnyard Jamboree. The disks were cut by union members of IBEW 45, North Hollywood CA. There are about 15 minutes on each 16-inch disk side at 33RPM, outside start. The first Anderson Family program was recorded in 1947. There are shows at least to 1951 as programs 1-47 are known to have been made; but not all have surfaced in the OTR world yet. My transfer effort seems to have the most programs (36), and the highest quality. Do you know of others? I’d be happy to transfer and restore any Anderson discs you have. Let’s get the full run in the public domain! From my listening, it seems that many of the program’s open and close organ music was recorded on disk and dubbed into the show as a new show was recorded. I am pleased at the wide dynamic range, frequency response and low distortion of most of these recordings. It is listed on some websites that Howard Swart and Herb Lytton wrote these programs. I think Howard’s last name sounds like Schwarz, as I cannot hear the “T” in these recordings. I’d love to learn more about this show series, especially the technical details. After cleaning, I transferred these recordings using a Technics SP10 Mark 2 turntable, Stanton and Shure cartridges, a modified Radio Systems professional phono preamp feeding a Lynx One sound card. Some records were transferred wet, but most were done dry, with the stylus cleaned multiple times during a transfer. A few records were transferred twice, and many skips were edited out. Restoration was painstakingly done using Adobe Audition 3 where the recordings were carefully de-clicked, pops either automatically or manually removed, very slight noise reduction added, stereo to mono conversion and corrective EQ added. No limiting was done. This effort has taken weeks of my time. Please enjoy for private listening, but do not sell or air on a commercial station (noncommercial stations are fine). Do not edit or modify these MP3 files. Finally, let me know what you think! References: 1950 Broadcasting Yearbook: https://worldradiohistory.com/Broadcasting-Yearbook.htm Encyclopedia-of-American-Radio, Luther F. Sies, P25 https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Regulatory/Business/Encyclopediaof- American-Radio.pdf WAYN AM: https://www.wayn900.com DEF GP’s Anderson Family programs: https://archive.org/details/TheAndersonFamily30Episodes/ OTR Cat website: https://www.otrcat.com/p/anderson-family Dan Brown W1DAN 2020-Sept 24 danbrownw1dan at gmail do com. <hr />OTRR Release Information: Series Name: The Anderson Familt Release Status: OTRR Maintained Release Date: February, 2021 Release Version: Version 2102 Number of DVDs: 1 <hr /> From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (OTRR). See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR. </blockquote> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 OTRR; Old Time Radio Researchers Group; Old Time Radio; OTRR Set; OTRR Maintained Set; The Anderson Family; Anderson Family; comedy; Dick Lane; Lane, Dick; Louise Arthur; Arthur, Louise; Walter Tetley; Tetley, Walter; 1940s; 1950s; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; OTRR – 2021-02 The Anderson Family OTRRArchive@yahoo.com 2021-02-22 18:44:56 2021-02-22 18:44:56 <blockquote> OLD TIME RADIO RESEARCHERS GROUP This is a production of the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Group located at <a href="http://otrr.org/" rel="nofollow">Old Time Radio Researchers Website (www.otrr.org)</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1677714482510214/" rel="nofollow">Old Time Radio Researchers Facebook Group</a>, and <a href="https://oldtimeradioresearchers.groups.io/" rel="nofollow">Old Time Radio Researchers Group</a>. It contains the most complete and accurate version of this series in the best sound possible at the time of creation. An updated version will be issued if more episodes or better sounding ones become available. If you are interested in preserving Old Time Radio (OTR), you may wish to join the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Facebook and Groups.io. Relax, listen, and enjoy! <hr />OTRR Definitions: OTRR Maintained Set -- This set contains all known episodes in the best available audio condition with the most accurate dates and titles known to be in general circulation and based on current research at the time of release. Replaces OTRR Certified Accurate and OTRR Certified Complete. OTRR Non-Maintained Set -- A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Maintenance process. Pre-2019 OTRR Definitions: OTRR Certified Accurate -- A series that was "Certified Accurate" indicated that all the episodes were properly identified and labeled based on current information but that the series did not contain all known extant episodes. OTRR Certified Complete -- A series that was "Certified Complete" achieved the highest level of certification available under the OTRR Certified Standards. This certification level implied that all the files in the series were "Certified Accurate" and also indicated that the series was as complete as possible and included all circulating episodes. OTRR Non-Certified -- A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Certification process. Also, beginning in 2019, the version numbers of our OTRR releases changed format -- instead of v1.0 or v2.1, we are now using a version number that reflects the year and month the set was released. The format used is a two-digit year followed by a two-digit month. 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