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Title: The Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern by Ron Lackmann, Ronald W. Lackmann, Norman Corwin ISBN: 0-8160-4077-X Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Errors in book detract from its value
Comment: Nice photos, but how much faith can you put into the text when simple errors stick out like sore thumbs
For instance:
Man Called X: Ken Thurston did not have a girlfriend and had nothing to do with the Cafe Tamborine (that was an entirely different program.)
Jack Moyles did NOT replace Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune. That series ended when Sinatra left it. Moyles DID star in Rocky Jordan, an entirely different show.
It is little things like this and make the book suspect for me. How many more errors are in this book? What can one take as fact and not with a grain of salt?
Excellent concept, faulty execution. I would not buy this book again and am considering returning my copy for credit. I do not consider this book to be a valuable reference item. Casual reading yes...reference work...no
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Job Ron Lackmann
Comment: This book, The Encyclopedia of American Radio, is an excellent, comprehensive compilation of facts and photos relating to radio shows and personalities of the past that were part of Radio's Golden Age...the thirties, forties and fifties. It is a very fond look back at those days when we all gathered around the family radio and listened to such great shows as The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The Lux Radio Theater, Jack Benny, et al. The amount of information given in this book is vast and the Appendices, which lists hundreds of dramatic anthology shows and personalities not given separate entries in the book, is extensive. An amazing achievememnt and it is Fun to read and not dull, which is more than I can say for other less well written Radio Encyclopedias that have been published in the last few years. Congratulations, Mr. Lackmann, for a job well done.
Rating: 5
Summary: A diversified book about Old Time radio
Comment: Ron Lackmann's Encyclopedia of American Radio is a wonderfuul and useful book about Old Time Radio. It is the only book I have found on the subject that gives both show descriptions and biographies of many major radio personalities. I have found other books that are filled with far many more errors than are found in this book, and yet those books seem to get favorable reviews from certain somewhat bitter people. I have been told that authors writing for vanity publishers often write favorable reviews for their own books on similar sujects and nasty picky criticisms of other people's books on similar subjects in order to undermine work done by others. How awful. I found the illustrations in Lackmann's Radio Encyclopedia especially nostalgic and very provocative of a time gone by. I understand the bvook won the POpular Culture award as Best Reference book for 1997...which was well deserved. The extensive APPendices is also most impressive.
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Title: Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age by Leonard Maltin ISBN: 0451200780 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Raised on Radio: In Quest of the Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Amos "N" Andy, the Shadow, Mary Noble, the Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bill Stern, Our Miss b by Gerald Nachman ISBN: 0520223039 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 23 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning ISBN: 0195076788 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Big Broadcast 1920-1950 by Frank Buxton, Bill Owen, Henry Morgan, William Hugh Owen ISBN: 0810829576 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: 27 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Great Radio Heroes by Jim Harmon, Frank Bresee, Richard A. Lupoff ISBN: 0786408502 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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