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All And Everything => Watcha ... ? => Topic started by: josemas on February 10, 2011, 03:55:57 PM
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Narf recently made the suggestion that someone start a topic along these lines and since no one else has jumped on it I reckon I might as well get it goin'!
I figure I'll mainly be talking about OTR episodes I've been checking out but the column title is open enough that I guess we can chime in about music or any other notable audio experiences.
Anyway without further ado here's what I've been getting into recently regarding OTR (Old Time Radio).
I listened to a collection of The Burns and Allen Show from Radio Spirits that I checked out of the library which contained all of the surviving episodes of the 1940 "Gracie Allen for President" sequence. Also included were a couple of appearances that Gracie made on other radio shows (The Jack Benny Show and Fibber McGee and Molly) during the course of her "campaign."
I find that the more I read about history the more I enjoy many of these old comedy and variety shows because now I'm "getting" many of the topical references that went over my head when I was younger.
I also listened to a couple of Radio Spirit collections of The Shadow that the library recently got in. Both collections had a number of episodes that I had never heard before including some neat early Orson Welles episodes that only turned up in the last few years.
Another set that I recently started is a neat Radio Spirits collection The Green Hornet: Spies and Rackets that contains quite a few rare Hornet episodes. There are 20 episodes (on 10 discs) containing a nearly complete run of wartime episodes from May to October 1944. I'd only heard a couple of the episodes on this collection before and was under the impression, that like a number of wartime shows, many were considered lost. I don't know where they tuned these up but I'm glad they did. One that occasionally cracked me was the episode "Dope Versus the War Effort" (June 20, 1944) where the actor playing the "dope fiend" seems to have taken his cue from Dave O'Brien's giggling over-the-top performance in the cult classic movie Reefer Madness.
Besides the above collections I've also been going to my favorite OTR site- The Old Time Radio Researchers Group- to listen to shows from their OTRR library.
http://www.otrrlibrary.org/
The site is kind of like GAC and DCM in that it collects PD OTR and makes it available for others to listen to. They've currently got over 61,000 episodes on hand (which at one episode per day should only take me about a zillion years to get through)!
I've been checking out some of the early episodes of the 1950-1952 NBC series Night Beat starring Frank Lovejoy as investigative reporter Randy Stone. I like the episodes I've heard so far.
Also because I like to listen to musical shows while working on the computer I've recently been listening to several 1933 episodes of The Kraft Music Hall when it was being hosted by the King of Jazz himself, Paul Whiteman. In fact one episode is just finishing up right now as I type this.
Anyway I'm always looking for suggestions about other shows that might be of interest so feel free to chime in.
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Joe
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I haven't done it in ages, but back in the 90's I was collecting a lot of tapes of radio shows, or "books-on-tape", mostly of SHERLOCK HOLMES. In addition to his famous radio show of the 40's, Basil Rathbone also did some dramatic readings in the early 60's. The slightly bizarre thing about this is, as the stories are "narrated" by Dr. Watson, this means Rathbone was "doing" Dr. Watson. On the first set (2 stories, "The Speckled Band" and "The Final Problem") he read everything in his regular voice. But on the later ones, he did "voices". His voice for the narrator was slightly different than that of Holmes, but when he did Watson, he did an amazing impression of Nigel Bruce! (For him, who else?)
Along the same lines, Christpher Lee did a reading of "THE VALLEY OF FEAR", one of the stories Jeremy Brett never got around to. This was somewhat mind-blowing, as Lee did multiple voices throughout the entire book, with various accents, and if you didn't know it was ALL HIM, you'd never guess. (He was that good!)
The other year some fan sent me (in trade for some rare TV soundtrack music), a disc with a large number of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P.Lovecraft stories. Some were dramatic readings, a couple, I believe, were old radio shows. A few of them were read by Vincent Price!
A few months back, I downloaded a LONE RANGER radio episode, entitled "Ghost Riders", about a gang of crooks whose gimmick was very similar to that of US Marshal Rex Fury's (the original western GHOST RIDER).
I've also got on my computer (but haven't gotten to listening yet) a book-on-tape of DR. NO. I read the book back in the 70's, and always felt it was vastly superior to the movie, which unfortunately eliminated most of the mystery in the first 10 minutes, and cut out all the heavy-duty "weird" stuff near the end of the story. The newspaper strip did a more faithful adaptation, so I'm looking forward to enjoying the book again. Over the years, the movie has steadily grown on me, it's now one of my favorites, mostly because Connery is SO GOOD in it. But it still doesn't touch the book.
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An awful lot of really good free entertainment out there. When I'm puttering about in the basement or garage, I find that an episode of "The Whistler" or "Escape" is the perfect companion. For the drive to work, "The Shadow", "The Saint" or "Terry and the Pirates" can make the travel time fly by. In the U.S., we had "CBS Mystery Theater" up until the 1980s or so- some very well-written and performed plays. Several of these are available at the Internet Archive. A few years ago, PBS did an homage to old time radio with a broadcast of "The Lost World" starring John DeLancey ("Q" from Star Trek). This television broadcast was set in a studio with the actors reading from scripts, sound effects people with tables full of fun and noisy stuff, and, I believe, there was a live audience. Lotsa fun! Cheers, Bowers
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The Saint with Vincent Price, some of the best stuff available on archive.org
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I do not think I have listened to The Saint yet. So much free stuff to watch, read and listen to
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I heard a few episodes of THE SAINT decades ago. I would never have pictured Vincent Price for that role... and yet, if I ignore what he looks like, and just listen to his voice and personality, he actually comes CLOSER to the character in the book than probably every other actor who's ever played the part! (Must be the writing.)
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I do not think I have listened to The Saint yet. So much free stuff to watch, read and listen to
You should give it a try when you have the time. It may be a little more gothic than the rest of the series but "The Hawthorn House Mystery" would be a great episode to start with I think.
http://www.archive.org/details/TheSaintVincentPriceOTR
I heard a few episodes of THE SAINT decades ago. I would never have pictured Vincent Price for that role... and yet, if I ignore what he looks like, and just listen to his voice and personality, he actually comes CLOSER to the character in the book than probably every other actor who's ever played the part! (Must be the writing.)
One of the reviewers on archive.org said as much about getting the characterization right. Unfortunately I've only had the chance to read one Saint story and that years ago, so I couldn't comment on faithfulness to the source. While the writing is superb (in all the episodes I've listened to) I wouldn't downplay Vincent Price's natural charisma and sheer acting talent when considering what makes The Saint so rich on radio. If I recall correctly there are some episodes with another man playing Simon in the list, might make for an interesting comparison.
I know what you mean about Price not matching the ST image though, maybe I'll read some of the comics available on the site to make him look more like he was originally intended in my minds eye. :) One of the cool little things you'll notice at the end of some episodes is the announcer advertising the comic books.
PS- Duplicate episodes are included in the archive.org upload, so you might want to try and find a list of those as the names are (slightly) different. Since I noticed at least one or two instances where a bright and clear episode also had a muffled and inferior version uploaded. And you'd of course want to listen to the former given a choice.
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Price had a voice made for radio as did Wells and others
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If I recall correctly there are some episodes with another man playing Simon in the list, might make for an interesting comparison.
That could well be Tom Conway, who played The Falcon in the movies and who was the brother of George Sanders (who played both The Saint and The Falcon in the movies).
Conway played The Saint on radio in the early 1950s, taking over the role from Price. Back in the 1940s Conway had also taken over the role of Sherlock Holmes on radio when Basil Rathbone left the series.
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Joe
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I listen occasionally to OTR and I got a new laptop recently and installed a Zone Alarm firewall which gave me a radio button on the bar with umpteen choices. I also have some Green Hornet and Shadow episodes that I enjoy but my favourite is Journey Into Space, the set of BBC radio serials by Charles Chilton. There are 3 different stories; Operation Luna; The Red Planet; The Earth in Peril. All in 1/2 hour episodes. A classic of radio S.F. I've listened to these so often that I almost know them by heart. These stories feature the adventures of Jet Morgan, Doc, Mitch and Lemmy and were made in the 1950's. I don't think they are free anywhere. But BBC Radio 7 still broadcasts reruns.
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My son listens to Journey Into Space annually.
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Got through a few more episodes of The Green Hornet from that war time Radio Spirits collection. The Hornet's just been tackling regular crooks in the latest couple of episodes I've listened to but the PSAs are vintage WWII.
Moved from 1933 into 1934 on the Kraft Music Hall episodes. Paul Whiteman is still the host. Not sure exactly when Bing Crosby took over as host. I think he was still with Whiteman's Rhythm Boys at this time.
Found 4 episodes of the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors which proved to be great examples of early 1930s Jazz club band music.
Another Radio Spirits collection that I recently started is the comedy series Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden. I've only listened to a few scattered episodes of this series about a high school teacher over the years so am enjoying getting into it in a more detailed manner. In addition to Arden (who's quite good with the ad libs when lines are blown) the series also features the very capable Gale Gordon (The Lucy Show on TV), Richard Crenna (The Real McCoys on TV) and Jeff Chandler.
Also got a few more episodes of Night Beat starring Frank Lovejoy (as reporter Randy Stone) under the belt. Some of the episodes have a nice noirish quality to them.
Finally, after only finding only one episode of the 1950s Louisiana Hayride to listen to, I started listening to a vintage country music series from the mid 1940s- Hollywood Barn Dance. I like the country-boogie-woogie mix from this period although the humor bits between the singing are pretty lame. They seem to feature one B-movie cowboy star each week. Jimmy Wakely (who also had his own DC comic-some nicely illustrated by Alex Toth) guested and sang on a couple of episodes before he had to go off on location to shoot his next picture.
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Joe
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I have listened to and enjoyed a few scattered episodes of Our Miss Brooks.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the long running Johnny Dollar. Some of the eariest OTR that I listened to. His expense reports are even more interesting when comparing to current costs. His tipping of a dollar was rather extravagent for the time.
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I have listened to and enjoyed a few scattered episodes of Our Miss Brooks.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the long running Johnny Dollar. Some of the eariest OTR that I listened to. His expense reports are even more interesting when comparing to current costs. His tipping of a dollar was rather extravagent for the time.
I listened to a good number of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar shows some time back. The earlier half hour eps were okay but IMHO just routine for the most part. However when it went to a fifteen minute Monday-Friday format with each storyline running a solid week the show had more time to devote to characterization and more complex plots and got a lot better.
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Joe
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I just ran across a series I hadn't heard of before called "The Price of Fear" starring (of course) Vincent Price. This evidently was broadcast by BBC in the '70s. Found ten episodes on Radiolovers.com, and they're really quite good. Cheers, Bowers
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gotta check that out thanks Price is always awesome
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The PSAs on the Green Hornet episodes (from the Summer/Fall of 1944) that I've most recently been listening to are interesting in that they all show the man power shortage in the US at this time, caused by having so many men in the armed services.
Some examples are pleas for women to join the WACS (so as to free up men for other tasks), appeals to civilian men (with non essential jobs) to join the Merchant Marine and appeals to anyone to help any and all farmers bring in their crops (IIRC, I think we got a lot of help from migrants from Mexico to help with that last one during the war).
Interesting stuff.
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Joe
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http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/scifi.html
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Finished that Radio Spirits collection of The Green Hornet (or "The Harnet" as Irish newspaper man Mike Axford calls him). Lots of war time spies and saboteurs in those final episodes. The last episode I listened to had a PSA that indicated that gas rationing had gotten to the point in the Fall of 1944 that many Americans were going to have no choice but to car pool.
Only have about a half dozen episodes of Our Miss Brooks to go in that collection. Really like the cast on this one- Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna. They really make the show work.
Just started another Radio Spirits collection I got from the library-Gangbusters! This one had a really long run on radio (1935-1957) and it's easy to see after listening to just a couple episodes how shows like these had an influence on the crime comics that came out in their wake.
Off the internet I'm still listening to episodes of vintage 1940s country music on Hollywood Barn Dance and also found a show that has some good Dixieland Jazz from the mid 1950s Jazz Band Ball.
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Joe
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Just wondering if anyone else is having problems trying to download old radio programs from the usual sources. All my sites worked fine last week, but this week every time I attempt to burn a disc, I get a message something to the effect of " too many errors or someone may have rights to this program". I can understand getting a few of these, but I get this message for every program on every site I've tried. I'm wondering if Windows snuck in an anti-burning program on one of it's upgrades or if the PD Police are out in force? Then, again, it just be my computer messing up! Please let me know if anybody else is having these problems. Cheers, Bowers
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I do not burn mine to disk so I would not know. I use an mp3 player
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I don't burn discs either but have had no problem accessing OTR programs for listening to this past week.
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Joe
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I have no problems downloading programs for listening, just can no longer burn them to disc. Pity, because I really enjoyed playing them in the car. Really nice for long vacation drives. Cheers, Bowers
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Finished up that collection of Our Miss Brooks and then found another at the library. I'll be well versed in this show by the time I finish it.
For musical enjoyment I'm still listening to episodes of Hollywood Barn Dance and Jazz Band Ball but only have a few more episodes of each left to go before I have to move on to something else.
Found one episode of a show from 1949 hosted by Vincent Price called The 13th Juror that took a look at Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth and questioned whether the man that was killed was really Booth. Interesting.
Recently started listening to the 39 episode Tarzan serial "The Diamond of Asher" from 1935. I figure at the rate I'm going I'll be through it in 2 or 3 months.
Almost finished with that collection of Gang Busters I started last month and it has got me interested in listening to other crime shows such as Calling All Cars, Crime Does Not Pay, Thrills of the Highway Patrol and Call the Police.
After listening to a number of these I got to wondering. These shows preceded, influenced and ran concurrently with crime comics books (just as the various suspense/horror radio shows did with horror comics) but it seems I've read little that suggested that parents and politicians were also up in arms about such shows which you know kids must have been listening to just as much as they read comics.
What gives with that? Why were comics taking most of the heat?
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Joe
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I guess a picture is worth a thousand words. The sight was worse on the poor little darlings than the sound.
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Finished up that Gang Busters collection and all the episodes of Thrills of the Highway Patrol and Call the Police that I could find. Still listening to Calling All Cars (there's tons of episodes of this series available).
Nearly finished with that second Our Miss Brooks collection.
About a third of the way through the Tarzan serial "The Diamond of Asher" and thinking of checking out some episodes of Chandu.
On the musical front I recently listened to an episode of Jazz International from 1960.
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Joe
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Listened to some XM Christmas in July episodes of various shows on our annual trip to PA and back
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OST from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".
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Downloaded several episodes of "The Avenger" OTR program for our trip to California. The Avenger is sort of a Shadow knock-off, and these episodes really weren't all that great. Predictable scripts and a so-so cast made these pretty boring. (Good thing the airline served complimentary beer and wine all the way home- Go Skyways!) On the other hand, the Avenger pulp stories written by Paul Ernst were actually very good. Cheers, Bowers
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I have all or nearly all the Avenger paperbacks and enjoyed them even more than Doc Savage
I did not like the OTR
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I couldn't agree more, Narf! Cheers, Bowers
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I have all or nearly all the Avenger paperbacks and enjoyed them even more than Doc Savage
I did not like the OTR
I remember being very disappointed too when I first listened to The Avenger radio series. I was expecting something along the lines of the pulp stories and instead got The Shadow knock-offs (as Bowers so aptly labeled them).
A real missed opportunity.
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Joe
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Ghostland Observatory the Robotique Majestique album. These guys are so unique and different. You'll either love them or hate them. I saw some concert footage on PBS one night and I was hooked. Definitely worth checking out, you may not like it, but if you do, you will certainly love them.
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Finished up that second Our Miss Brooks collection, listened to a few more episodes of Calling All Cars from 1934, am about half way through the Tarzan radio serial "The Diamond of Ashir" and started listening to the first Chandu serial storyline from 1948.
Also started a collection of Literary Classic adaptations-
A couple episodes of NBC half hour show Author's Playhouse from 1944-which did a fine job adapting some H. G. Wells short stories.
A Mercury Theater episode of "A Tale of Two Cities" (1938) -Mercury, under the helm of Orson Welles and with it's hour long format consistently did some of the best adaptations of these types.
A Lux Radio Theater take on "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1939)- Lux did adaptions of movies and since the movies that adapted classics sometimes took liberties---well you get the point. Still the show had great production values with host Cecil B. DeMille and many top Hollywood stars appearing on the show over the years making it almost always entertaining.
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Joe
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Mercury/Campbell Theater and Lux Theater did, indeed, do some very good adaptations of the classics. I haven't heard the Author's Playhouse series yet, but I plan to remedy that situation very soon- thanks for the tip. I've been listening to "Charlie Chan"- good but not great. Also collecting more episodes of "The Creaking Door", which is similar to "Suspense" but without the big-name guest stars. Cheers, Bowers
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Almost through with the Tarzan serial "The Diamond of Ashir" which I've been listening to this Summer. The second half had the action picking up with Tarzan battling prehistoric creatures. Also continuing along with my 1948 Chandu serial-about a dozen episodes into it now.
Finished up that collection of literary classics with The Lux Radio Theatre-"Les Miserable" and a couple Studio One adaptations, "The Return of the Native" and "Wuthering Heights". I had just recently watched the Studio One television adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" and it was interesting to note that both adaptations seemed to be based more on the MGM movie version than on the Emily Bronte book. Go figure.
Started a Jack Benny collection called The Gang's All Here that concentrates on the entire cast of the show so while there are a good half dozen or so episodes of the Jack Benny Program there are also episodes of various other shows that showcased the supporting cast.
Also just started a Lum 'N Abner collection. The few scattered episodes of this show that I've heard over the years never really grabbed me. We'll see how I do with a more concentrated dose.
For musical enjoyment I've been listening to episodes of G. I. Jive- a series that started during WWII which was broadcast to the servicemen overseas. Lots of good swing, boogie-woogie and popular music of the era.
And finally I checked out some vintage BBC radio shows. From the war years I listened to The Will Hay Programme and episodes of Tommy Handley's I.T.M.A. (It's That Man Again). From the 1950s I sampled Life With the Lyons (a sort of Ozzie and Harriet with Americans Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and their real life children playing themselves) and Hancock's Half Hour (Sid James always cracks me up in this later one).
Come October I plan to be sampling a variety of horror/suspense/mystery programs.
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Joe
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Well I ended my September OTR listening by finishing my Tarzan serial, "The Diamond of Ashir" and checking out a few more vintage BBC shows such as Bandwaggon with Arthur Askey and the wartime Merry Go Round which featured Much Binding in the Marsh (which would spin off into it's own show after the war).
Come October I began piling on the thrillers with episodes of such shows as Suspense, The Creaking Door, Lights Out, Weird Circle, Inner Sanctum, The Sealed Book, Quiet Please, The Witch's Tale, Creeps By Night, The Whistler, The Haunting Hour, and The Strange Dr. Weird.
Still working my way through that Lum & Abner collection and the collection featuring the supporting cast of the Jack Benny Show in the various other shows they appeared on. One of the most interesting of the later was a one man, no budget show that Mel Blanc did for the AFRS during WWII called Are You a Genius? Mel's "guests" on the two shows featured were Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny.
Musical OTR has consisted of episodes of G. I. Jive (1940s) and Country Hoedown (1950s) lately.
And finally I'm still squeezing in episodes of my 1948 serial Chandu the Magician here and there.
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Joe
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I note the mention of old BBC radio shows and wondered if any of you can get BBC Radio 4 Extra online. If so, they run vintage and more recent BBC comedies, serials and one offs. Here, every evening we get one of the following:- Hancock; Goon Show; Men From The Ministry; Navy Lark; Round The Horne. And, regularly, a Paul Temple serial (either an original or one of the excellent recent remakes.) Lots more.
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I've listened to a number of BBC radio shows at BBC Radio 4 Extra, Paw. Mostly comedies. A very good source for sampling some of their output.
I haven't tried any of the Paul Temple serials yet but your championing of it has me curious to give it a go.
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Joe
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Finished up October with more OTR spookers including episodes of Dark Fantasy, Strange Adventure, Cabin B-13, Obsession, Appointment with Fear, Hall of Fantasy, The Hermit's Cave, The Unexpected, Mystery in the Air, and a neat 13-part adaptation of Frankenstein from 1938.
Finished up my Jack Benny and co. collection with episodes of A Day in the Life of Dennis Day, Fitch Band Wagon, and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.
Also finished up my lengthy collection of Lum & Abner episodes from 1942. I will admit that finally after getting to listen to a long consecutive run of these episodes the show did begin to grow on me. Even if the main characters often come across as a rural/small town version of Dumb and Dumber.
Paw's mention of Paul Temple and Sexton Blake had peaked my interest in those characters.
Upon doing a bit of searching I found a collection of Sexton Blake radio episodes from 1967 and have listened to the first couple of those (very 1960ish music on these).
Also caught the last three episodes of an 8-part Paul Temple serial on BBC Radio4. The lengthy format gives these plenty of room for plotting and character development. Now I'm hoping to catch one from the beginning.
And finally I managed to squeeze in a few episodes of the Chandu the Magician serial.
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Joe
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I am always amazed at how many OTR I have not tried that sound good. I guess I like to listen to what I know I like. Listened to Whistler on the way back from Thanksgiving in Alabama. Still one of my all time favorites.
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I'm currently listening to "The Kraken Wakes", a multi-chapter 1965 CBC production. Really quite good. I believe BBC also did an excellent version. I found one episode of "Tales of Fatima" starring Basil Rathbone as... Basil Rathbone! The actor plays himself as a mystery buff helping the police solve crimes. Fatima seems to be a mysterious spirit/voice who gives the listener a cryptic clue to solve the mystery, and is also the brand name of the cigarette company that sponsored the program. Played very light-heartedly and lots of fun. The only episode I could find was "Time to Kill". Anyone know where I can find some more? Cheers, Bowers
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Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, the remake of the lost 1949 radio production. The writer, Francis Durbridge, had a very successful formula formula, "Everybody is lying, nothing is as it seems"
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The other day I finally got around to listening to the BBC radio adaptation of DR. NO. It really brought back memories, as I read the novel around 37 years ago!!! One thing that generaly bugs me about the movie is that they removed any sense of "mystery" in the first 10 minutes. Bond walks into M's office and is asked, "What do you know about toppling?" In the novel, this isn't even mentioned until the dining room scene. The whole book up to that point is one big MYSTERY! What is this weird Chinaman doing on that island? Why is he so OBSESSED with total secrecy, isolation and security? Bond has NO IDEA... until the guy TELLS him.
It's rather funny how the baddie's entire scheme comes to light as a result of investigations and complaints related to The Audobon Society. Yep, those damned birds. World domination derailed by nature-lovers!!
I also like the way that Honey did NOT need rescuing in the book, she got free herself, and she helped Bond get out of the giant octopus pen. Whatta girl! Honeychile Rider was my favorite of all of Fleming's "Bond Girls", though I must confess, the voice of the actress in this did nothing for me. (But the, neither did Ursula Andress... SHE was way sexier in WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT.)
I found it a bit humorous that "the armorer" had a pronounced Scottish accent.
I didn't know ANY of the actors involved in this thing... except for one. David Suchet did the voice of Dr. No. And it was IMPOSSIBLE to tell. The voice, the accent, the inflection, the performance, it was all positively one of the SICKEST, most GROTESQUE things I have ever run across in a radio or audio drama. I always figured Fleming's Dr. No was somewhat like Fu Manchu (as I said, it's been ages since I read it, apart from the newspaper comic-strip version), but the character Suchet created was just in a weird, warped, perverted class of his own. This is a guy who genuinely DESERVED to be killed by being buried under a mountain of BIRD S***!!! ;D
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Found out that my local library had a number of the BBC releases of the Paul Temple radio series and listened to the complete Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case from 1954. I look forward to listening to more of these.
Squeezed in a couple more episodes of the 1967 BBC Sexton Blake series and the Chandu the Magician serial, the first episode of MGM's Good News series (from 1937) that promoted their current films and the last few episodes of Creeps By Night that I could find.
Mostly however I've been working my way, for the first time, through the perennial Christmas favorite (from 1937) The Cinnamon Bear. Lotsa' fun. Not sure if I'll have it finished by Christmas though.
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Joe
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Finished up The Cinnamon Bear serial shortly after Christmas. For those who've never heard it, it is a 26 episode kid's serial designed to be run between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Lots of wacky characters. Fun in the way that L. Frank Baum's Oz stories are. It was a perennial Holiday favorite for many years on OTR.
Got back into my Chandu the Magician serial after the Holidays, squeezed in a couple more episodes of the 1960's Sexton Blake show (really enjoying these) and finally ran across an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater which is an OTR show that I actually remembering hearing first run. The episode was an adaptation of Dracula (actually it just adapted one part of the book) with a much too old Mercedes McCambridge as Mina Harker. The show was from May 1974 and was preceded by 15 minutes of news which was almost exclusively Watergate related. Nixon was in real trouble by this time and would resign a few months after this broadcast.
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Joe
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I've also been catching up on episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater. What an excellent program it was! My favorite episode was about some malicious shadows closing in on a small group with only a sputtering candle to keep them at bay. (Similar to A. Merrit's novel "Creep, Shadow, Creep".) Wish I could find the name of that program. The wife and I were listening to this one while driving past some very strange and impressive rock formations under the light of a full moon. Shadows everywhere! What a powerful medium radio can be. Cheers, Bowers
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I just finished watching THE GANGSTER CHRONICLES (1981) for the first time since the 80's. One thing I can't figure is, WHY did they replace narrator E.G. Marshall halfway thru the mere 13 episodes? (I first encountered Marshall listening to THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE in the early 70's.)
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Well this past month I got through another week's worth of Chandu the Magician, the very first episode from the 1967 Sexton Blake series (I've been listening to these in no particular order and just happened to get that one this go-round), the first three CBS Radio Mystery Theater episodes (from January 1974), and a few 1937 episodes of the comedy-variety show Shell Chateau then being hosted by comedian Joe Cook.
Finally I tracked down that neat six-part 1965 CBC adaptation of The Kraken Wakes that Bowers recommended awhile back. I really like this approach where they get a number of half hour episodes to adapt a book rather then trying to cram it into one hour (or even half hour) episode.
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Joe
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Where did you find Kraken Wakes Joe it sounds good
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It's available at the Internet Archive.
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Joe
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If that's an adaptation of the John Wyndham story, I fancy it. Read the book many years ago. I'll have a look on Internet Archive. Ta.
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I was out for lunch today with a crowd of blokes I went to school with and we were talking about old t.v. shows. Somebody mentioned theme tunes and this site, but, I warn you, it's addictive.:-
http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php
Some of you wont have heard some of the British show themes. Try The Sweeney and ancient children's programme, Bill & Ben. So much nostalgia.
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I was out for lunch today with a crowd of blokes I went to school with and we were talking about old t.v. shows. Somebody mentioned theme tunes and this site, but, I warn you, it's addictive.:-
http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php
Some of you wont have heard some of the British show themes. Try The Sweeney and ancient children's programme, Bill & Ben. So much nostalgia.
Paw, I've been to the site several times now and it has the theme music/songs for tons of old TV. Many that I had not seen in years. Lots more that I never even heard of. A very fun, nostalgic site.
Thanks for providing the link.
Joe
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Still listening to a number of the same shows this past month-another week of Chandu the Magician, a couple more CBS Radio Mystery Theaters, and another Sexton Blake.
Finished up the 1937 episodes of Shell Chateau that I had tracked down and started listening to episodes of another comedy-variety show from that same year The Chase and Sanborn Hour who's highlight, for me anyway, was the comedy routines of W. C. Fields (often with Bergen and McCarthy).
After listening to that CBC serial of The Kraken Wakes last month I went looking for something similar and found a six-part BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids from 1960. Good stuff!
Finally in the days leading up to St. Paddy's day I found myself listening to episodes of Beat the Band, Burns and Allen, The Lux Radio Theater and Have Gun Will Travel that all had a St. Patrick's Day (or at least an Irish) theme to them.
Best
Joe
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Haven't listened to too much OTR this past month. Squeezed in a couple of episodes of the CBS Mystery Theater but took a break from Chandu and Sexton Blake.
I started this month by listening to April Fool's Day episodes of Blondie, The Mel Blanc Show and My Favorite Husband as well as the famous Frankenstein Castle hoax that was played on Armed Forces Network broadcaster Carl Nelson back in 1952.
The one lengthy bit of OTR I did listen to was the six-part BBC serial of Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery from 1965.
Best
Joe
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There are only a few episodes available but ARCHIE is pretty good OTR
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Wile looking through the Internet Archives OTR collection, I ran across a CBC series from the 1980s called "Nightfall" with some pretty good episodes. Am currently listening to another Wyndham adaptation, "The Chrysalids", in three parts. I believe this is the third multi - part radio presentation of his work I have found on the archive. His stories do seem to adapt well for radio. Also found "Five-Minute Mysteries"- very short and fun for the armchair sleuth. "Screen Guild Theater" also has some very good movie adaptations, many with the original stars. Cheers, Bowers
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And what would the Chrisalids be? SciFi?
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Yes, sci-fi, indeed. Cheers, Bowers
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This past month in addition to more CBS Mystery Theaters episodes I squeezed in a couple examples of radio variety shows from the 1930s and 40s- Jack Haley's Log Cabin Jamboree and Chesterfield Supper Club.
Another one I really enjoyed some episodes of were AFRTS transcriptions of Alan Freed's Rock and Roll Dance Party which featured live performances of popular singers and groups of the mid 1950s. Despite the show's title not all of the performers were Rock and Roll singers so Tony Bennett and Count Bassie sometimes shared airtime with Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Laverne Baker, The Platters, The Robins and more. Looking forward to listening to more of these.
Finally found a site that had all of the episodes of a series I have heard scattered episodes of since I was a teenager. The Golden Age of Radio featured not only clips from a wide avriety of shows but also interviews with many performers, writers, directors, producers, etc.. who actually worked in OTR. After a few specials in the 1960s the show became a monthly staple in 1970 running into 1977. Check it out.
http://www.goldenage-wtic.org/log.html
Best
Joe
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Thanks for this great link, Joe. I'm listening to program 45 (interview with Himan Brown) while I'm writing this. Fabulous program and , at least in this episode, some download links to some actual OTR shows. Cheers, Bowers
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My OTR listening has been pretty light this past month. Squeezed in some Memorial Day episodes of Cavalcade of America, Anthology, Raymond Gram Swing, Against the Storm, and The Great Gildersleeve and around Father's Day I listened to some episodes of Father Knows Best, A Date with Judy, Dragnet and The Aldrich Family that all concentrated on Dads.
Best
Joe
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Brian Burnett on Radio Scotland. His evening show each night has a theme and listeners call in their record preferences connected to the theme. Great one tonight - 4th. of July. Excellent selection of tunes to celebrate your holiday. Folk calling in from all over the world.
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We traveled some eight hours to Virginia so my wife can visit Civil War sites. Unfortunately she does not like OTR. I got XM radio just for the week to listen while traveling. While she slept I was able to listen to some Sam Spade and a Detective movie type story. Most of the time Foxnews.
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Again rather light on my OTR listening this past month. Squeezed in some Fourth of July episodes of Meet the Meeks, Our Miss Brooks, Calling All Cars and You Are There during the first week.
Other than that only a couple of episodes of the excellent Golden Age of Radio series that I've mentioned before.
Best
Joe
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I like listening to a variety of musical styles, but especially smooth jazz and prog rock. This last weekend I picked up a few classical offerings, including Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann. Also, J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, although they only had the first disc with the first three concertos, but not the second disc with 4, 5, and 6.
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I just recently discovered youtube (I'm relatively new to computers) and have been listening to a lot of Dr. Demento stuff, like ELVIS IS EVERYWHERE by Mojo Nixon, MY NAME IS LARRY by Wildman Fischer, STAR TREKKIN' by The Firm, PENCIL NECK GEEK by Classy Freddie Blassie, and many others - it is to laugh!
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I'm very surprised to see so much OTR mentioned here. Not sure why, exactly, I suppose it fits into the whole GA comics thing pretty neatly.
My wife tells me [and I agree] that I was born in the wrong decade. Seems all my interests lie in a much older pop culture era: GA Comics, Pulps, OTR, B Westerns, etc.
As for my recent listening, I've been playing a lot of Red Ryder, Roy Rogers, and Our Miss Brooks shows.
I'm a comics letterer by trade, so I tend to set up a playlist in the morning and go through it while I work on the pages. It's always a mixed bag: Richard Diamond, The Saint, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Archie, Burns and Allen, Texas Rangers, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Black Museum, Blondie, Bob Hope, Blue Beetle, Boston Blackie, Green Hornet, This is your FBI, etc....
My top two favorites, though, are Dragnet and Gunsmoke. Wonderful programs. Was kind of a surprise to find that William Conrad was Marshall Dillon at first, though. Listening to all that OTR it's clear that Will Conrad was a very busy man. His distinctive voice can be heard on dozens of shows over time...often playing a badman.
Kurt Hathaway
khathawayart@gmail.com
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We listened to several OTR episodes on XM traveling to PA for a quick visit to family. I enjoy listening to Greg Bell telling interesting tidbits. Conrad used pseudonyms to do shows outside his contract. Like anyone listening did not know that it was him :)
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Oh, I wanted to alert those unfamiliar with the wonders of OTR that a lot of free shows can be had at:
http://zootradio.com/joomla/
There are other places online, too--and if you're short of time to Download files, there are plenty of cheap collections for sale on ebay. That's how I started. I think it was my sudden interest in pulps about 12 years ago that led me to the Shadow radio show...then to other OTR.
Another source is OTR podcasts thru iTunes. Subscribe to any of several offerings, and they download to your iTunes library and you can listen at your leisure. There are Western-themed podcasts, Sci-Fi, Detective, Suspense, etc...
That's a good way to get started.
Kurt Hathaway
khathawayart@gmail.com
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Do you know a job that William Conrad had that was a hoot? He was the narrator in the Rocky the Flying Squirrel cartoons.
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I had forgotten about that Robin. Rocky was a high class act.
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I have listened to an eclectic bunch of shows in recent weeks including episodes of 21st Precinct (good police procedural along the lines of Dragnet), The Amazing Mr. Malone, The Bing Crosby Show (funny episode with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall guesting), The Clyde Beatty Show (trouble at the circus), Crazy Hillbillies (the advertisers sounded like nothing more than snake oil salesmen), The Hardy Family (Mickey Rooney and co. bring their screen series to the airwaves), Hollywood Byline (an unedited transcription-interesting), Jill Cody Sings, MGM Theatre, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's Own Program (short-lived 15-minute show featuring the first lady) , Suspense, That's Rich, This is the Story, Time Out, and High Adventure.
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I don't know anything about Crazy Hillbillys or Mr Malone. Are they worth checking out?
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Crazy Hillbillies is a country-western music show so it depends om how you feel about vintage C-W music. The Amazing Mr. Malone is a criminal lawyer who is always solving mysteries to clear his clients. The ones I've heard have all been good.
Best
Joe
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Thanks I may give Malone a try ;)
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I've been copying more music to my computer, lately, to convert into mp3's. Stuff like Elvis (especially "Kentucky Rain"), Heat's Dog & Butterfly, The Fifth Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" (remember that one?), Lindsey Buckingham's "Trouble", Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus", and more.
I dug out my old "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball", a record of an event to benefit Amnesty International. It's from 1981, and several British musicians volunteered to perform at it. The record captures some of these performances by Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Claption and Jeff Beck, Bob Geldof, and Donovan. The Phil Collins and Sting peformances are especially interesting. Phil doing "In The Air Tonight" with just himself on piano. I especially love Sting's haunting version of "Message In A Bottle", as it's just him accompanying himself on guitar, no bass guitar, keyboards, or drums. And now I've got it recorded on the computer!
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I was writing a short piece for Mass Observation last night and, as usual, I like a little music as background and I've recently been re-listening to EST
Obituary piece here:-
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29803#.UImKVYb3s3w
so I dug out tuesday wonderland and it was great - what a noise. So sad he's gone.
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Pardon my ignorance Paw but what would a short Piece for Mass Observation be? Does Catholic mass have a lay spokesman or.....?
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Now that's funny. No ignorance displayed at all. I sometimes forget that most of you are thousands of miles away in foreign countries and what I take for granted could be odd or unknown to you. Mass Observation is nothing to do with religion, apart from directives that might ask writers to consider some aspect of it. It encompasses everyday life and anonymous views and opinions of everyday life and events.
This is what it's about:-
http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm
The archive is based at the University of Sussex, not that far from Mark.
Actually, I hoped my post might interest others in the music of e.s.t. but I understand that jazz isn't to everybody's taste. Ah well.
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In jazz, I generally go for smooth jazz, like Bob James and Brian Culbertson, but I have run across some more interesting stuff from the Pat Matheny Group, and Ben Allison and Medicine Wheel.
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That's all news to me as well. I have never heard of it before, will have a good sniff around. And yes it is right on my doorstep, but again that is just the instigators it's a virtual world:)
But Paw what happens after the referendum? Will you still be able to contribute?
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I've been copying more music to my computer, lately, to convert into mp3's. Stuff like Elvis (especially "Kentucky Rain"), Heat's Dog & Butterfly, The Fifth Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" (remember that one?), Lindsey Buckingham's "Trouble", Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus", and more.
I dug out my old "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball", a record of an event to benefit Amnesty International. It's from 1981, and several British musicians volunteered to perform at it. The record captures some of these performances by Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Claption and Jeff Beck, Bob Geldof, and Donovan. The Phil Collins and Sting peformances are especially interesting. Phil doing "In The Air Tonight" with just himself on piano. I especially love Sting's haunting version of "Message In A Bottle", as it's just him accompanying himself on guitar, no bass guitar, keyboards, or drums. And now I've got it recorded on the computer!
Hey, macsnafu (great name!), did you ever see the video of Paul McCartney and Rockestra from the first Secret Policemen's Ball? I always got a kick out of the faces Pete Townshend made in that one, I heard he had a pretty good buzz on, booze, I think. The music ("Lucille") was excellent, too!
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Hey, paw, I don't know if it qualifies as jazz, but I was always partial to MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW, by Kenny Ball (and his Orchestra? Something like that). It's on youtube, I think just punching in Kenny Ball as the artist works good enough. I always liked that one.
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Mark, of all the problems about an indie Scotland, contributing to M.O. is right up there along with, would we still be in the EU? What do we do with those nuclear subs? What currency would we have? etc. and blah, blah, blah. But as we always, historically, had closer relations with France than England, we should at least be able to get a decent bottle of wine.
Unca Robin, Midnight in Moscow was a huge hit in the U.K. and I think we had the 45 at one time. Here's his site (and it's..........and his Jazzmen):-
http://www.kennyball.co.uk/
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Being an old codger, I regularly go back to the music I knew in the '60's and one of my all time favourite bands were The Pretty Things - not to everyone's taste, but there we are. Here are The Pretty Things, in a later incarnation, 1998, it says, playing at Abbey Road. Arthur Brown does the introduction (and how cool is that?) and Dave Gilmour guests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VczOqfnVyB8
And here are the old codgers in Germany with the amazing Dick Taylor, in the glasses, still givin' it laldy:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTCMr4RNIw&feature=related
Other bands that were just sooooo good were The Small Faces that I mentioned on CB+ ages ago.
This is them with the lovely P.P. Arnold. Miming but it's great to see them .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKZoFRpZCI
Here's Afterglow:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUyipjXgfo
And, Song of a Baker, with Plonk exercising his tonsils:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYgctXpajs&feature=related
You will probably never have heard this version of Walking the Dog:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npUoNwvRNs
Hope someone out there enjoys this but I hate to tell you, there is more.
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Believe it or not the Pretty Things are one of those groups that I've read about in other people's biographies and such, but never actually HEARD anything by. Thanks, paw, I'll definitely give them a listen!
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Hey, macsnafu (great name!), did you ever see the video of Paul McCartney and Rockestra from the first Secret Policemen's Ball? I always got a kick out of the faces Pete Townshend made in that one, I heard he had a pretty good buzz on, booze, I think. The music ("Lucille") was excellent, too!
No, I've never seen any video from the events. I just have vinyl records from the events. But maybe it's on the internet now--I'll see if I can Google. it.
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As I write this, the last few overs of the first day of the first test. England v. India in India. Great stuff and England looked as if they were getting stuffed till Swan stepped up and took wickets. you can listen on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra/
but remember the time difference.
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My current listening pleasure is High Tide and and another band called the Tree's both from the UK around the end of the '60's beginning of the '70's and a bit of the listening to the Hawkwind tribe mid to late 70's. O yea King Crimson in their Wetton & Cross days.....
RB
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Plenty of variety in my OTR listening this past month or so. Some shows were tied around such holidays as Halloween, Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving but otherwise my choices were pretty random.
Shows listened to- X Minus One, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Command Performance, Escape, Fibber McGee and Molly, Suspense, The Black Mass, Lights Out, Mystery Playhouse, New Theatre, 2000 Plus, Strange as it Seems, Waltz Time, We the People, The Whistler, Five After Five, Texaco Star Theatre, In Person, Dinah Shore, Land of the Free, Mystery House, Squad Cars, Town Hall Tonight, Arch Oboler's Plays, Beyond Midnight, The Devil and Mr. O, Drop Dead, Weird Circle, Inner Sanctum, Quiet Please, Cavalcade of America, CBS European News, Forbidden Cargo, Vallee Varieties, Our Miss Brooks, Good News of 1938, Meet the Menjous, Pick and Pat, Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour, Challenge of the Yukon, The Story Behind the Headline and some presidential speeches by Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson plus a couple of V-Disk recordings.
Best
Joe
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Just Volume #'s 75 through 77 of The Day After the Sabbath anthology series this evening.....to go along with the start of my Shadowmen series reading.....
Richard
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A late start to the Shadowmen series wanted to wait until I had the first volume. I have chosen my listening muse to be a little Jane from Germany,.....
RB
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What a cool looking Superman
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That is Argoman from Italy......sometimes I miss Good Guys & Gals for sharing such stuff,.....
RB
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Have a look at Superargo here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5PZmm_XPg&playnext=1&list=PL1084ED3372038DDD
And here's Puma Man:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVsAuBzshnc
and it's as bad as I remember.
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I liked the two Superargo movies.....for what they were.....and for their time. I DL'd the Puma Man from You Tube & burned it and you're right it's pretty terrible...so terrible it's fun...and funny in its own weird way. Watched Avenger X (Mr. X in the Movie) and had to say I was pretty dissapointed in the whole affair. More a spy/crime type thriller or along the lines of a good version of Diabolik (well maybe not such a good comparision) and Mr. X is seen seldom in costume.
On another note it was a banner day for movies showing up. Besides Avenger X showing up we also received Super, Kick Ass, Paperman, Double D Avenger (yes its worse that its title suggests!), Supersonicman/War of The Robots Double Feature (I had Supersonic Man on VHS now on DVD.), and the book Tales of the Shadowmen Volume # 3. With more goodies to come. Since between books & DVD/VHS I have purchased 36 items and I greedly await them all! heehhhehehee
RB
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Richard, your Shadowmen book. There was a British Shadowmen comic years ago with art by a wee Scottish bloke called Andy Hope. No chance this is the same? Curious to know as I knew him and he disappeared to USA to get married and we never heard from him again. Or was all that just an excuse to get away from us here?
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Check this out:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/14/andrew-hope-returns-to-comics-after-twenty-years-with-a-new-marvel-project/
perhaps this will tell the tale
Richard
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Wee Andy Hope, would you Adam and Eve it? How amazing. Thanks for the information, Richard, there are a few folk who should know about this but they probably do as I'm always at the coo's tale.
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you are very welcome Mr. Broon.
Kindly
Mr Goldenage
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Wee Andy Hope, would you Adam and Eve it? How amazing. Thanks for the information, Richard, there are a few folk who should know about this but they probably do as I'm always at the coo's tale.
Adam and Eve it? Coo's tale? I'm confused as usual. I hardly understand the slang on THIS side of the pond as it is!
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Welcome back Robin we have not heard from you in awhile. I am also confused by the expression Adam and Eve it
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If I'm not mistaken "Adam and Eve" is Cockney slang for "Believe".
Some of their rhyming slang, IIRC.
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Joe
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Correct rhyming slang!
One of the few that is actually used nowadays.
Anyway I am going down the apples and pears to make myself a cup of rosie lee. Feel a bit thirty after the ruby (murray) I had last night.
"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." attrb George Bernard Shaw
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language
Oscar Wilde
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Yeah, I got it right. We don't use that rhyming slang in Scotland but hear it regularly on tv. As for your ruby, Mark, in central Scotland, around Cumbernauld, we called it a Gordon, after a provost, Gordon Murray.
Coo's tale, however is very Scottish and refers to the tale of the cow which always brings up the rear, very appropriate as I'm usually last to find out stuff.
By the way, I was at Andy's wedding, all those years ago.
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SO I got the right Andy then I take it?
RB @ Work
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Yes, indeedy. There was a big fan scene in Glasgow years ago and a lot of young and not so young Scottish creators coming up. Andy was one of them and some of us thought he had potential. Glad he's back with one of the big boys. Scottish creators around that time incl. Morrison, Alan Grant, John Wagner, Dom Regan (who is very good but has never realised his full potential), Cam Kennedy, Jim Baikie. Mark Millar I think was still not quite into it but my memory is failing me on that. And folk like Sandy Calder were still very much at work. Quite a few more but I'd need a lie down in a dark room to help me remember. A couple of years later it was Frank Quietly's time, of course. He gave me one of his pages for The Greens from Electric Soup and it's excellent.
Here's a bit about Vincent from Down The Tubes blog:-
http://www.downthetubes.net/features/interviews/artists/frank_quitely_0508.html
And here are a couple of Greens pages:-
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd212/Fjordy/Urban%20Glasgow/greens004.jpg
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd212/Fjordy/Urban%20Glasgow/green005.jpg
And a page of joke strips:-
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd212/Fjordy/Urban%20Glasgow/FQ001.jpg
More Greens here:-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24465107@N00/sets/72157624427251797/
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Thanks Paw.....those were all very interesting. As a scribbler of dubious line work once in a while I always like to look at other peoples work.
RB
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OTR listened to over the Holidays included 33 Half Moon Street, Adventurer's Club, Dragnet, Lux Radio Theatre, Campbell Playhouse, Kraft Music Hall, The Jack Benny Show, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Weird Circle, The Six Shooter, The Bob Hope Show, Rocky Fortune, Suspense, Boston Blackie, Lights Out, Ambassadors of Melodyland, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Alan Young Show, Our Miss Brooks, Gunsmoke and the 26 part Christmas serial Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon from 1938.
Best
Joe
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New Year's Day ,as I was taking down and boxing up my holiday nutcraker display (about 300 or so), I decided it was time for some blues. B.B. King, Albert King, Jonny Lang ( highly underrated), and one of my all-time favorites Gary Moore. This guy died way too soon. Cheers, Bowers
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Hey, Bowers, that's a nice playlist and I know s.f.a. about Jonny Lang but I'll look him up. Ta.
While cooking the other night, I fancied some tunes ( the radio news was seriously depressing) But rather than my usual Dr. Feelgood or Small Faces, I dug out Jay and the Americans greatest hits c.d. Forgotten how good it was, simply good pop music. But I'm always surprised that the c.d. is greatest hits and doesn't include, "Living Above Your Head", which is a much better version than the Walker Bros. attempt.
You're right about Gary Moore.
Have you tried Mick Green from The Pirates? Not blues but exciting RnB stuff. He checked out recently and it was a great loss. Sounded like there were 2 guitarists on the stage.
And my favourite player has to be Peter Green (no relation) With John Mayall and Early Fleetwood Mac, when they were good, of course.
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Holy Cow, Paw! How could I not have heard of this guy or the Pirates? Just looked up some of his stuff on You Tube- "Lonesome Train" and a TV jam with McCartney. This guy was a beast! "Living Above your Head" was, indeed, one of Jay's better songs, but oddly enough it never got much airplay on Top 40 format stations over here. Dead-on about Mayall and early Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's "Jumping at Shadows" still blows me away. Cheers, Bowers
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OK, I found Jonny Lang and I have a lot of catching up to do. Ta. Glad you "found" Mick Green. As you probably know by now, Wilko from Dr. Feelgood lists M.G. as a huge influence on his style. Sorry if I'm teaching my granny how tae sook eggs but, if you haven't got there yet, have look and listen to this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSx700tJ5Q
And here on ToTP:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSx700tJ5Q
And talk about stripped down RnB? Try this - what a great riff.:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nyeSGaBcrA
Sound quality is poor but a pal saw them live in this line-up and he still raves about it.
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It may be of interest for some here to know that there was a live version of Peter Green and the original members of Santanna (yes, the singer, too) playing "Black Magic Woman" at a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony, which is on DVD. MAYBE it's on youtube, too, but I don't know for sure on that one.
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Always glad to get links, Paw! Wilko RULES! I remember hearing a little Dr. Feelgood long ago, but I had really forgotten how good and raw they could be. Great music and great memories. Still looking for that Peter Green/ Santana gig, unclerobin. Cheers, Bowers
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Unca Robin, sorry, I forgot about your mention of Peter Green and Santana but, hopefully not too late, I found it here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMy16GzKQgo
I was never a big Santana fan and thought his band sometimes looked like a showband. Mind, Carlos was playing rather well on this one. It's just a bit flash imo.
So here's how it should be done, live:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y
I saw this line up of Fleetwood Mac at the Greens, Glasgow, long time ago, obviously. What a night.
Bowers, did I post the Pretty Things with Dave Gilmour guesting and intro by the wonderful Arthur Brown? If not, you might enjoy this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y
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Yet another great band you've introduced me to, Paw. Pretty Things earlier stuff like "Come See Me" and "Don't Bring Me Down" reminds me a lot of the Standells and The Seeds. Love it all! At the time it was pretty hard to find Brit music except for the biggies and a lot of "one-hit wonders". This was pre-FM and Top 40 had a lock on the radio. We were bombarded with way too much Motown and middle of the road pop. Luckily, we lived not too far from the Canadian border and could often go up for a weekend of dancing in the clubs and buying some great stuff in the record shops. Vancouver was an 18 year-olds dream! (Sure was murder on the paycheck!) Thanks again for the links! Cheers, Bowers
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In them days, here in Vancouver, even my older brother was too young to go to the nightclubs. But every weekend he would go to Kelly's record store and come home with a bunch of 45s. Lots of British Invasion bands--I swear he knew about these groups before anybody else in our area.
The closest we came to the club scene was watching shows like Club 6, Music Hop, and Let's Go on the TV. I remember that a featured girl on Let's Go was a teen named Susan Pesklevits. On that show she met Terry Jacks, they got married and became the Poppy Family. Susan Jacks is probably best known for "Which Way You Goin' Billy."
Right now though, I'm listenin' to the Andrews Sisters. My parents loved this trio--had some of their 78s--when I was a kid, I'm sad to say I never fully appreciated that. But wow, the Andrew Sisters were the bomb. RIP Patty.
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Welcome to the gang, Jimmm! Always good to hear from a northern neighbor- Cheers, Bowers
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In the early '60's, in Scotland it wasn't easy to hear rock and roll. Late'50's as well. There was BBC radio which had shows where corny singers covered pop songs and record shows with a lot of light entertainment type music. But there was also Radio Luxemburg which could be found on medium wave on 208 and they played pop music. It was a revelation the first time I found it on my wee transistor radio. They did a top twenty show at 11 pm. when I should have been sound asleep but, like thousands of others, I was listening under the blankets. The sound was always fading away and coming back but that was where I heard Duane Eddy, The Kinks and all the rest for the first time.
But BBC tv did a show called the 6.5. Special with occasionally, Vince Eager, Tommy Steele.
Listen, forget all this stuff and listen to The Big Three - very early Mersey Beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfQ-hm3APs
Brian Griffiths was a great guitarist and they were hard as nails. Epstein ruined them. Much better live than on record. Brian Griffiths now lives in Canada.
Here's the recording of Peanut butter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4F1P1glISc
This is 1963 for goodness sake.
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Paw that is SO COOL! I probably shouldn't, but what the hell here are the lyrics. (I like crunchy no added salt or sugar .. bit difficult to find)
There's a food goin' around
That's a sticky, sticky, goo
(Peanut, peanut butter)
A-well, it tastes real good
But it's so hard to chew
(Peanut, peanut butter)
All my friends tell me
That they dig it the mo-ho-ost
(Peanut, peanut butter)
Early in the morning
When they spread it on to-oh-oast
(Peanut, peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter,
Chunky, peanut butter, too
'Come on now, take a lesson, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Open up your jaw, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Spread it on your cracker, now!'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
'Stop, now'
(Peanut, peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter,
Chunky, peanut butter, too
We-eee-ell
I went to a dinner
And-a what did they e-e-eat?
(Peanut, peanut butter)
A-well, I took a big bite
And it stuck to my te-e-eeth
(Peanut, peanut butter)
Now, ev'rybody looks
A-like they've got the mumps
(He loves peanut butter)
Eat his peanut butter
In-a great big hunk
(He loves peanut butter)
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter
Chunky, peanut butter, too
I like peanut butter
Creamy, peanut butter
Chunky, peanut butter, too.
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Pure gallus, big man. Now we can all jump around and shoogle oor wallies along with the band. Well done but I prefer my peanuts in a satay sauce, now that's tasty.
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Omigosh! This was one of our favorite cruisin' songs! Didn't know it was from a Brit band. Cheers, Bowers
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As with an absurdly high number of these, I've never heard the original version of "Peanut Butter". But I do have a cover by THE KAISERS, a band from Edinburgh, Scotland, who do the most UNCANNILY accurate early-Beatles impression you can imagine.
Their 1st studio album, SQUAREHEAD STOMP (1993) actually sounds so raw, you'd swear it was recorded at The Cavern Club (or maybe even the Star Club, heh), but it was actually done in London's Toe Rag Studio, under the supervision of producer Liam Watson, whose specialty is "lo-fi". He was also the producer for The Neanderthals, a "frat rock" style band which included Eddie Angel (of Los Straitjackets) among its members.
Their sound evolved on their later albums so it was cleaner & smoother, more like The Beatles' '63-'65 era. But their early stuff is a blast-- they do a version of "Money (That's What I Want)" that's downright BRUTAL! (Very powerful)
Pop radio may have gone to HELL in the last 20 years, but since the mid-90's I've never had a shortage of wonderful, FUN new stuff to listen to... even if a good amount of it might be described as "retro" in style. As my best friend likes to say, "Good is good."
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"Kaiser George" (George Miller) later went on tour with Los Straitjackets. I saw LS many times, including that particular tour. The results can be found on their TWIST PARTY! CD. They also shared the stage with The World Famous Pontani Sisters (that's the official name of their act), a trio of dancing girls devoted to the revival of "burlesque" and "glamour". TWIST PARTY! comes with a bonus DVD to showcase the girls' talents.
There's great stuff out there these days-- but you really have to LOOK for it. You can't depend on radio or TV anymore. (It's just like comics. Marvel & Dc have become a wasteland. It's all the tiny, obscure companies that are doing the really fun stuff worth searching out.)
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Recent music listened to:
The Andrews Sisters and Friends (after hearing of the recent passing of Patty Andrews) which includes 26 songs that they did between 1944-1952 with such singers as Bing Crosby, Desi Arnez, Carmen Miranda, Dick Haymes, Red Foley and others.
Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire: Live! and Jerry Lee Lewis: Live in Concert which don't give recording dates but which I'd guess as being from the early 1980s. I saw the Killer in concert back in 1986 and he sounded similar to this.
Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings Excellent collection of 40 of the Queen of Country Music's recordings from 1949-1959 including numerous hits.
Lonnie Donnegan: The Essential Recordings From the same company (Primo) is another great collection. This one featuring 40 of the Skiffle King's songs from 1955-1961. His tapping into American Folk, Blues and Country songs certainly influenced the Beatles, Stones and others who were to follow in a few years.
OTR this past month included episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, The Jack Benny Show, The Alan Young Show, Our Miss Brooks, Gunsmoke, The Whistler, Burns and Allen, Calling All Detectives, Cloud Nine, Songs by Sinatra, The Eternal Light, G. I. Journal, Suspense, Here's to Veterans, Heroes of the Merchant Marine, It's Maritime, Checkerboard Fun Fest, Claudia, Doorway to Life, Escape, The Doris Day Show, Dimension X plus speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (on the eve of WWII) and Charles Lindbergh (to an America First group as he attempts to keep America out of the war). Highlights of this month's OTR though were the four-part Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future (an adaptation of Voyage to Venus) and my beginning of Box 13 (a 52 episode series from 1948 starring Alan Ladd) and The Lives of Harry Lime (a 52 episode series from 1951 starring Orson Welles). I plan to listen to an episode a week of these last two throughout this year.
Best
Joe
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Where did you locate Dan Dare? I was not aware of an OTR
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Otr this past month included episodes of Intrigue, The New National Guard Show, Phyl Coe Mysteries, Memories of Hawaii, Words at War, The Jack Benny Show, Let's Go to Town, The Life of Riley, Let George Do It, four more episodes each of Box 13 and The Lives of Harry Lime plus presidential speeches by Richard Nixon (I am not a crook) and Bill Clinton (Air attack on Iraq).
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Joe
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All of Canada is in mourning for the passing of our troubadour--Stompin' Tom Connors--who died a few days ago. A great man and a great Canadian.
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OTR this past month- Five more episodes each of The Lives of Harry Lime and Box 13 plus Lux Radio Theater (South African version), Command Performance, Hallmark Playhouse, Men at Sea, Academy Award Theater, The Sammy Kaye Show, Masters of Melody, Cavalcade of America, Screen Guild Players, The Bing Crosby Show, Frank Singister News and Comment (WWII news from July 1944) and a special- America Salutes the President's Birthday (also from 1944).
Music- Recently listened to the CD collection- Ike Turner: Rock-A-Bucket While much better known for his work with his wife, Tina, in the 1960s and 70s this excellent forty song collection shows Turner working in the 1950s as a seminal rock and roll artist and R & B performer, both with his own band and as a session magician for such greats as Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Little Milton and others. Recommended.
Best
Joe
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It's Canada Day up Canada Way on the First Day of July. Time to crank up the Canadian tunes.
Listenin' to "Sweet City Woman" by the Stampeders--such memories, family road trip across the prairies, stoppin' in Calgary to visit an aunt, goin' to the Stampede, wearing cowboy hats.
My thoughts are with the people of Calgary and all those in southern Alberta and south-eastern BC as they get back on their feet after the floods. The whole country is with you guys.
I'm sure Stompin' Tom would have a song about that if he was still around.
Time for some Anne Murray--Snowbird--or maybe the Bells--Fly Little White Dove Fly.
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Happy Canada Day, neighbor! Definitely wishes and prayers go out to the flood victims. Think I'll put on some Collectors- "Grass and Wild Strawberries"- (Thanks to You Tube!) Cheers, Bowers
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Ozzie Nelson -- HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE (songs from 1937-42)
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I downloaded some Dan Dare files in audio and early comic pages at the Internet Archive. Haven't gotten into these yet. I liked the style of the early comics, these look more like water color paintings.
Otherwise I've just been checking out songs from the good old days, the Doors, Santana, etc. Great instrumentals.
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Are the Dan Dare complete stories?
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I have started listening to a big (10 CD) collection of Bing Crosby. It contains about 250 recordings of his made between the mid 1920s and the mid 1950s. Interesting to listen to his evolution as a singer as well as the changing tastes in popular music of the era.
As to OTR, I've reached the halfway point in my weekly journey through episodes of Box 13 and The Lives of Harry Lime. Also squeezed in some episodes of the Lonesome Gal (featuring a very sultry voiced singer), Let's Go with Music, The Voice of the Army and the Kraft Music Hall (Bing Crosby again).
And to coincide with the release of the new Lone Ranger movie on July 4th I listened to four vintage 1930s episodes of the radio series.
Best
Joe
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I got a nice box set of BONANZA CDs in the mail yesterday. I wasn't expecting such a good looking product. This will be a birthday present for my father, but first I am going to rip all the songs onto my computer, so i have them. It came in a huge mailing box from amazon--and I was surprised, because I was just expecting a small package of CDs. But it has a nice booklet with pictures of the boys recording. And it also has a small envelope from "Hop Sing"--with Chinese writing on it. Looking inside, it's rice. I'm not sure if that's racist or not. But this is the kind of thing my father would think is funny. So I think he'll like it when I finally give it to him. They even make the CDs look like old-timey records--I just hope my father doesn't try to play them on his turntable.
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I've also got "Schnucki, ach Schnuki" stuck in my head. This is the song they sing in the final episode of MEISTER UND SEIN PUMUCKL, so I was listening to it for my blog. The tune sounds familiar, and the subject is American. Different places in the U.S. are mentioned. It's about a Native American who sees this beautiful girl and he asks her to go away with him. The funny thing is the way it's sung is with such a thick accent--sounds like a southern German or Austrian accent--so despite its content, it's really very specific to a certain region of Europe.
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Are the Dan Dare complete stories?
Not sure. I've had a bit of eyestrain lately and the watercolor style of the artwork is not that great for a PC screen, so I've only read the first page so far. It looks to be a complete story.
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Not what I've been listening to, but what I will soon be listening to! Every Labor Day extended weekend, our city , Spokane, WA, holds a four or five day celebration of food and music called "Pig-Out in the Park". Lots of local musicians , but we always get a pretty good fossil-rock band as a bonus. In the past, we've had The Rascals, Grass Roots, Jr. Cadillac, and lots more. This year, it's The Zombies! These days you just can't tell what version of a band will show up, but this gig is up on their official website, so we'll get at least one or two original members. And the best part is- it's FREE! If you happen to be in the neighborhood, please consider this your invitation to plunk your lawn chairs down in the Clock-Tower Meadow Friday the 30th, 9p.m. Cheers, Bowers
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some japanese psychedelicia from youtube
playwise-getting through a bbc production of a room with a view.
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Not what I've been listening to, but what I will soon be listening to! Every Labor Day extended weekend, our city , Spokane, WA, holds a four or five day celebration of food and music called "Pig-Out in the Park". Lots of local musicians , but we always get a pretty good fossil-rock band as a bonus. In the past, we've had The Rascals, Grass Roots, Jr. Cadillac, and lots more. This year, it's The Zombies! These days you just can't tell what version of a band will show up, but this gig is up on their official website, so we'll get at least one or two original members. And the best part is- it's FREE! If you happen to be in the neighborhood, please consider this your invitation to plunk your lawn chairs down in the Clock-Tower Meadow Friday the 30th, 9p.m. Cheers, Bowers
Watch yourself bowers, I heard that there can be some lighting storms coming through on Sunday evening. Enjoy yourself for all the stuff going on there.
Geo
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The Day After The Sabbath Vol. # 90.... great stuff......
http://www.aftersabbath.com/
Richard
and now Vol. # 91 was just posted I see.... O goodie!
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My son has been listening to all the episodes of OUR MISS BROOKS. I have heard a few but he says I must listen to them they are hilarious. It has become one of his favorite OTR's.
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Well, I downloaded a lot of the tunes I didn't have from the Beach Boy's "Made in California" box set, mostly live stuff and previously unreleased material.
And the last three SLOAN albums.
Now to actually listen to them.
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Heres a few songs that always make me feel good.
"Sultans of Swing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc
"Play that Funky Music"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRr2kf84V2M
"Apeman"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4
"In the Summertime"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0
"Dancing in the Moonlight"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8
And speaking of moonlight, in honor of Halloween
"Werewolves of London"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
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IMHO music is meant to make you feel good. I do not understand Screomo listeners at all
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lately I haven't got much OTR in beyond my weekly episodes of Box 13 and The Lives of Harry Lime but did squeeze in episodes of Our Miss Brooks, Philco Radio Time (Bing Crosby), Shorty Bell, Cub Reporter (Mickey Rooney) and Stars Over Hollywood (Ronald Reagan).
On the music side I've most recently been listening to a four CD set of well over a hundred songs from the British Hit Parade of September-December, 1961. Features songs by the likes of Cliff Richards, Duane Eddy, Connie Francis, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billy Fury, Del Shannon, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Helen Shapiro, the Temperance Seven, Charlie Drake, Nina & Frederick, the Everly Brothers, Jon Leyton, Bobby Darin, Haley Mills, Ray Charles, Dion, Frankie Vaughan, Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, Henry Mancini, the Tokens, Gary Miller and quite a few more.
Best
Joe
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Saw a couple of really excellent concerts on PBS last week. One was "Hugh Laurie Live at the Queen Mary". This concert featured a slightly different (and larger) version of The Copper Bottom Band, and TWO excellent female vocalists. One was Gaby Moreno who did a duet version of "Kiss of Fire" with Laurie. I didn't get the other vocalist's name, but she was incredible. She also appeared on the New Orleans concert. Laurie is , of course, the front man but he didn't try to hog the show, letting the singers and the band shine on their own. The other concert was "Joe Bonamassa at The Beacon Theater". Bonamassa has sort of flown under the radar for a long time, and has just recently started getting the attention he deserves. On YouTube you can see this guy laying down some riffs when he was only twelve and thirteen! Absolutely one of the best bluesmen around! Guests included the almost Joplinesque Beth Hart. Her version of "I'll Take Care of You" sent shivers down my spine. Also guesting were Paul Rodgers and John Hiatt. Both concerts well worth watching if they come around again. Cheers, Bowers
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Finished up my 52 week runs of both Box 13 and The Lives of Harry Lime just before the New Year. Also squeezed in a number of vintage OTR Christmas shows around the Holidays. I'm gonna concentrate on shorter runs of shows this year. Have a few episodes of Gasoline Alley and the Gracie Fields Show coming up soon.
On the music side of things I found another CD of vintage British Hit Parade (April-September 1961) at the library and have been listening to that this week. Songs by the likes of Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, Helen Shapiro, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Petula Clark, Chubby Checker, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Benny Hill, Gene Vincent, Roy Orbison, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Shirley Bassey, Neil Sedaka, the Shadows, Gary "U. S." Bonds, Lonnie Donegan, Jan & Dean, Jo Ann Campbell, Billy Fury, Johnny & the Hurricanes, the Marcels, Matt Munro, Tommy Cooper, Duane Eddy, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, the Highwaymen, Bobby Darin, the Ventures, Cliff Richard, the Velvets and quite a few more. These are interesting time capsules of the era in their own way.
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Joe
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What a line-up! I have some of those on 45 vinyl. Loved U.S. Bonds and still am a huge fan of The Ventures. The one name that stands out like a sore thumb is Tommy Cooper. I haven't a clue what he recorded that got into the British charts. One of the funniest men ever, but a pop hit! I bet The Marcels entry is Blue Moon.
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The Tommy Cooper song in the collection is Don't Jump Off the Roof Dad. I haven't listened to it yet but I imagine its played for laughs. Apparently it was his only recording to chart.
The Marcels tune in this collection is another reworking of an old tune-Summertime which was their followup to Blue Moon.
Gary "U.S." Bonds is represented by Quarter to Three and the Ventures by a reworking of Lullabye of the Leaves.
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Joe
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Listened to some 1945 episodes of Night Editor recently. Each one tells a little human interest story. Musically I've been bouncing back and forth between some vintage Bluegrass and Doo Wop lately.
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Joe
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Just finished listening to an album from the Cactus Blossoms. They're a coupla brothers who perform old time country and western. I first heard them on NPR (where they appeared on Prairie Home Companion).
OTR listened to the last month or two included episodes of Perry Mason, Oklahoma Roundup, Plantation Jubilee and Old Kentucky Barndance.
I've also started working my way through Orson Welles' Radio Almanac (a WWII era variety show he did for a while in 1944) and some early episodes of the cop show Broadway is My Beat which ran from the late 1940s into the mid 1950s.
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Joe
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Let me share some 80s albums I still listen to:
A-ha - Hunting High and Low
Care - Diamonds and Emeralds
Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin
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A-Ha. The one track I know and still enjoy hearing is Take On Me.
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The Puppini Sisters - A swing revival group, very similar to The Andrews Sisters. They even do some of their big hits.
Lindsay Sterling, Black Violin, Piano Guys.
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Uh.....................I guess I'm the only hard rock/metalhead/prog frog here then eh? Listening to "the Day After The Sabbath Vol # 101" & "The Doom That Time Forgot Vol # 9. Both can be found @
www.thedayafterthesabbath.com
the resident psychedelic punkaroo....
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Very little OTR recently. Just a few more episodes of Broadway is my Beat and Orson Welles' Radio Almanac including the D-Day broadcast which I listened to appropriately on the 60th anniversary of that historic event.
Musically I most recently listened to a live concert by The Weavers recorded at a Carnegie Hall performance on Christmas Eve 1955.
Best
Joe
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A-Ha. The one track I know and still enjoy hearing is Take On Me.
Yeah, that's so iconic, though there's really a lot more they've got that gives a good listen.
Also listening to Dream by P. Lion.
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Very little OTR this month. Just some of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.
Just finished listening to a CD entitled Rev. Louis Oversteet with his sons and the congregation of St Luke's Powerhouse Church of God in Christ. This was recorded live here in Phoenix back in 1962 but the the Reverend had his beginnings in the South. Listening to the album it's very easy to see the influence these sort of Gospel singers had on the Rock 'n Roll singers of the 1950s such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.
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Joe
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Not sure where to post this, but have mercy on me, I'm a newby. Not OTR, but OTT (television). I got a DVD on ebay recently of Vol. 1 of The Third Man, a TV series that ran for 8 years based on the classic Graham Greene novel and Orson Welles as Harry Lime film. The series starred Michael Rennie (aka Klaatu) as Lime, and has a noir feel with international intrigue type settings. Good stuff, I'm surprised I never heard of it before. Maybe my parents kept it from me.
I am an OTR fan, and go to sleep to it every night. Right now I'm into Barry Craig detective stories.
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This show used to be run on local TV here, many years back in my younger days. In fact, I think I saw it before I even knew about the movie. As I recall, this Harry Lime is not quite the cad he was as played by Welles in the original film. That really screwed me up when I later came to watch the movie and discovered a very different character.
The theme music was the main thing that caught my interest--but back in those days I found such shows as this and THE SAINT kind of boring. It was all so much intrigue above my head.
I've also heard THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY LIME on the radio from time to time, with Welles narrating and voicing the main character.
You can do a Third Man tour if you're ever in Vienna. Although when I showed up for the tour one day in Vienna no one arrived--waited all day with no luck. Maybe next time I'm there.
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Jonathan Harris adds nice support to the Third Man television series too. I gather that the series moved back and forth between Britain and America filming the show in bits and spurts.
I listened to the entire run of the radio show this past year. Welles plays the character as a real rascal in it. Not nearly as dark as the film.
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Joe
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Richard, you're not alone. I'm a huge fan of Atomic Rooster, trio/later 4 piece, wth the late, wonderful Vincent Crane as keyboard genius. For those who don't know what I'm blethering on about, think back to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and the colossal hit, "Fire". Well, the Rooster came out of that.
Fire:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
Sample of Atomic Rooster:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipOgNytdqY
And:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglDOOaTkPw
These should be played really loud, so youtube doesn't show them off to their best.
Mind, a bit of Motorhead goes down well too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4
Saw an episode of Third Man the other night. A bit disappointing apart from Roger Delgado. But malaprop rates it so I'll look up some other episodes and give them a go.
I think I mentioned Dial 999 ages ago, but I go back to it now and then. A good police procedural with Robert Beatty as a Canadian copper attached to Scotland Yard. An episode with Hartnell and Troughton:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkpwPjakVmc
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What am I listening to? What else? The great new old-time programs newly posted here! Surprised to see the depth of downloads available. I'm starting off with Jungle Jim, one of my favorite GA comic strips. Never cared for the Weismuller TV or film versions, but I do enjoy the radio episodes. I haven't found so many episodes in sequence in one place before. Thanks, Mark! Cheers, Bowers
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I have been listening to them as well. I am very impressed by the general quality for these mass produced shows. Terry and the Pirates is rip roaring fun. The Mysterious Traveler is a tad predictable, but very well acted (also great sound quality). Ellery Queen one minutes are very silly and the one minute Ripley's I think so far I have half believed one! lol
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I have listened to some Terry and the Pirates before and was very impressed
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There used to be a radio station here that broadcast old radio shows each week at night. And I made a habit of listening to them. The downside is that I always fell asleep and usually missed the end of a story.
I think I shall do the same thing with the radio shows available on CB+, although I will probably drift off to sleep before I get to the end. On the one hand that's bad, on the other hand that's good.
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About the only OTR I've listened to recently has been some episodes of Hank Williams Health and Happiness shows from 1949.
Some CDs listened to lately
Get Your Soul Right: The Gospel Quartets and the Roots Of Soul Music- An excellent 3 Disc-90 Track set from out of London England Features songs recorded between 1949-1962 by such groups as the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Soul Stirrers, Staple Singers, Gospelaires, Dixie Hummingbirds, Clefs of Calvary, Spirit of Memphis Quartet, Pilgrim Travelers, Mahalia Jackson and others. Really shows the sort of influence Gospel singers had on 1950s Rock n' Rollers and the Soul Singers of the 1960s.
Our local library has a little shop by the entrance where they sell discards and donated items to raise money for the library. I usually stop by it every time I'm at the library and browse the books, magazines, CDs and DVDs. Most CDs sell for only a buck (with multi-disc sets going for a little more). I can get some real bargains here and also sample things I normally wouldn't without risking much financially. The following were all picked up at this shop.
Harlem in My Heart- Elizabeth Welch Another fine British collection containing 21 tracks recorded between 1928-1943 and featuring Welch, who is a fine bluesy, Jazz singer.
Bywater Dance- Mary Flower A 14 track album from Memphis, TN Flowers is an accomplished Mississippi blues, ragtime musician who has several albums out. I am certainly up for checking more of them out after listening to this one.
The Morning Glory Ramblers- Norman and Nancy Blake from Nashville, TN comes this 17 track album of old-timey country, gospel, and bluegrass numbers. This couple has been recording for a couple of decades or so and Id certainly enjoy seeing them perform live.
Your Hit Parade Picked up volumes for 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, and 1952- Each of these Time-Life collections has 24 tracks each and features some of the popular hits from that particular year. Many of the popular singers of the era are represented such as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Perry Como. Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford, Doris Day, the Andrews Sisters, the Ink Spots, Johnnie Ray, Margaret Whiting, the Ink Spots and more.
You can see things beginning to change during these years between the end of WWII and the coming of Rock n' Roll. The Big Bands, so popular during the swing era. are all over the hits of 1946 and 47 but by 1952 they are only represented by a couple of entries.
I gotta admit that the 1950 album is my favorite as it contains two of all time favs- the Weavers' Goodnight Irene and Patti Page's haunting, heartfelt rendition of The Tennesssee Waltz.
Best
Joe
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This morning, I listened to the first episode of SUSPENSE that they have on OTR, which adapts THE LODGER (a Hitchcock movie based on the novel of the same name).
The funny thing is "Alfred Hitchcock" comes on at the end. But it doesn't sound like the Alfred Hitchcock we know from movies and TV. I guess his voice could have changed over the years, but I was wondering if in fact they had hired a voice actor to play Hitch rather than the man himself.
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Matching Mole Live @ The BBC (1976?)......& Budgie Live in Houston 1985
Richard
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Budgie! Is this the Welsh heavy rock band, by any chance?
A friend gave me 2 Dr. Feelgood albums last week so, when Linda is out, I've been jumping about to that - to the detriment of my old knees!
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I'm having trouble commenting directly on the radio show pages, so I'm posting here. First I want to say what a great idea it was to host an OTR collection here. Thanks for all your hard work!
So far I've been scatter-shotting around sampling shows I haven't heard before.I finally listened to a "Space Patrol" episode and was surprised to find it was pretty good. Definitely better than the TV show because there are no budget restrictions! (Digression: in my opinion the TV "Space Patrol" is space-miles better than "Space Cadet." In the episodes I I've seen "Space Patrol"'s producers and directors seem to try everything they can to make live-cheap TV look exciting. "Space Cadet," on the other hand, always plays it safe and ends up rather boring.)
As a lifetime "Terry and the Pirates" strip fan I was interested in hearing the radio version. I tuned in "Terry Nurses the Dragon Lady" and was pleasantly surprised. The sound effects aren't so hot but Terry is convincing and it's great to hear that so many of the strip characters appeared in the show. The one sour note is the Dragon Lady--she sounds like an old lady!
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terry was a well written show that I enjoy
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Having finished with THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER on this site (although I slept through some of them), I've moved over to OTR for THE WHISTLER, SUSPENSE and X-MINUS ONE. These are all programs I used to hear on radio, but not so frequently. When you hear one right after another they get quite redundant. On THE WHISTLER there's an obsession with inheriting madness in the family.
I think the prime of THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER was in the first half of the '40s. Once it got into the '50s, science fiction became prevalent and it's hard to make that work with a mysterious man who is telling you tales on a train.
I remember that X-MINUS ONE had some really good science fiction stories--but I haven't gotten that far with it in my present listening. It's a lot like the EC and DC science fiction anthologies from the '50s.
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But the Whistler had some great writing and mostly good stories. I was reading a lot of Andrew Klavan but he took sorta the same turn with the brain.
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I expect that THE WHISTLER got better as it went along. The madness in the family thing is in the first episodes that I heard and diminishes as the season goes on, but then there's repetition of other themes. Inheriting money and paying off debts is very common. Usually four thousand dollars that someone owes to a mobster--and he gave them a rubber cheque.
Then at the end of that season, there was something like a clip show, where some guy has to plan a murder and he works back from the end to the beginning to figure it out. This plays scenes from an earlier episode but in reverse order. And the twist at the end is that this guy is a writer plotting a murder story. Quite clever.
Over on SUSPENSE, a nice version of "The Hitch-Hiker" with Orson Welles and all the Mercury Theater players--I've heard this one before. That is in the trial season for SUSPENSE which ends with the very good "One Hundred in the Dark"--quite an elegant piece of writing, but not too high brow I guess, because SUSPENSE returned for a full season the following year.
I wish I could find a listing of actor credits for these shows. Sometimes the actors are identified, but not always. Some voices are recognizable, others I know I've heard before but I can't place them. The main actor for "The Devil in the Summer House" on SUSPENSE does a tour do force performance--as an old man who is world weary and recalls days of youth thirty odd years ago.
Edit: I found this actor's name. He's Martin Gabel, who was a Mercury Theater player. Gabel married Arlene Francis. In addition to radio work, he had a long career on the stage and in film.
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On one of these programs--I can't remember which now, unfortunately--there was an announcement encouraging paper recycling. Not unusual, but as I remember the announcer explaining it, the paper could be used inside bombs. Which I've never heard before. I know that it was used for packing bombs, but apparently it could be used as a kind of incendiary device. Which makes some sense. But I've never heard this before and I can't find any info online to back it up.
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Jimm, I found the episode "Devil in the Summer House" on the net. An excellent script by John Dickson Carr, and Martin Gabel was very, very good as Mr. Parker. "Suspense" is one of my favorite series- usually excellent writing and great actors, some quite big names. Generally pretty easy to find. Cheers, Bowers
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It's good to see that more radio shows have been added here--including SUSPENSE and THE WEIRD CIRCLE.
You know, there are so many old radio shows to listen to and old comics to read--I wonder why I bother with anything from the 21st century. I could listen to classic radio and read classic comics for the rest of my natural life and be quite content.
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Just rediscovered number 55 on this list of Mysterious Traveler episodes.
http://www.otr.net/?p=mtrv
"Behind the Locked Door".
You'll find story elements that have appeared in some of the more terrifying horror films of our day.
"Poltergiest", "the Cave", "the Descent" and the older film "the Mole People" all have a strong relationship to this old horror story.
Perhaps this story was itself influenced by the Morlocks of H G Wells "the Time Traveler".
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Jimm Kelly I'm with you, classic comics rule! There's plenty here, that's for sure!
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With Thanksgiving coming up this week here in the States I thought I'd post this link to a group of Thanksgiving OTR shows at archive.org
https://archive.org/details/100OtrThanksgivingHolidayShows
Enjoy
Joe
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Hi! I also am an otr fan. I listen through the internet archive site. Which is how i came across this one. I especially love listening to The Jack Benny Program. Which is why I would to ask if anyone has old J B comics they could upload i would be forever greatful! Thanks in advance.AboutWilliam Conrad, he had a voice that was the epitome of all radio actors. He performed over 8,000 different roles on the radio. Only a few of which he was the star. Gunsmoke,for one.I also remember a role he played on the Johnny Dollar program that stands out in my mind. Though the title escapes me at the moment.
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The only thing I can find for Jack Benny at www.comics.org is in True Comics 69 a Fred Allen feature in Real Life Comics 42 not yet on CB+ but available in the JVJ collection for future uploads.
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I've seen this girl sing 26 times... but it's been awhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJb5mfuPMF0
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That's pretty good, thanks.
I stumbled on some youtube films of XPT, being former (and current) members of The Pretty Things doing some of the PT tunes. The new version of Sickle Clowns is excellent, especially Pete Tolson on guitar.
youtube.com/watch?v=qAldg0D2N8o
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As we all know, Wilko was seriously ill and didn't expect to see 2015 but good things do sometimes happen and according to the doctors, he has made an amazing recovery. Here he is on Jools New Year show on BBC. Starts about about 1.18.00:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04wlgks/jools-annual-hootenanny-2014
Apologies if you can't access this outside UK.
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Motown: 16 #1 Hits from the Late 60s-
Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips-Great Stuff!
Sweet Soul Music-
Two disc collection containing 50 songs from the 60s. Lots of great artists here-James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Solomon Burke, Ray Charles, Esther Phillips, the Supremes, the Miracles, the Drifters, Lavern Baker, the Isley Brothers, Ben E. King, Sam Cooke, Little Eva, the Cookies, the Marvelettes, Arthur Alexander and more. Some big hits and some that didn't go so high on the charts. All worth a listen.
Best
Joe
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Jimmm Kelly:
"It's good to see that more radio shows have been added here--including SUSPENSE and THE WEIRD CIRCLE.
You know, there are so many old radio shows to listen to and old comics to read--I wonder why I bother with anything from the 21st century. I could listen to classic radio and read classic comics for the rest of my natural life and be quite content."
UH HUH!
I've been listening to THE WEIRD CIRCLE and THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (both elsewhere), so far for the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and posting direct links to them at the appropriate pages of my blog. Also, dramatic readings of same by Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price!
Just noticed SUSPENSE the other day, and plan to go thru those as well, once I polish off the last CBS episode.
One of the most interesting adaptations of "A Cask of Amontillado" was on the TV series of SUSPENSE, with Bela Lugosi as a Fortunato who was involved with the Italian Fascists in WW2 and planned to murder Montressor-- so the murder in this version of the story was actually in self-defense! Several different versions of "Amontillado" (in comics and elsewhere) have epilogues added where the killer winds up NOT getting away with his crime-- as he very much DOES in the Poe original.
HEY! It just occured to me-- would the CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED version of "Amontillado" have been FORBIDDEN by the Comics Code because the killer GOT AWAY with his crime at the end???
Ironically, both the EC and Warren versions, the killer winds up dead by the end (while in the Roger Corman and CBS Radio versions, he's caught by the police)
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Thanks for pointing out that SUSPENSE has been posted here. I ran across the Raymond Burr PIT & THE PENDULUM on Youtube by accident the other day. Great version. There was a link to the Jose Ferrer version on that page... EVEN BETTER!!!! But-- 2 days in a row, in different places, an "ERROR" cropped up on that one. Still haven't been able to hear the whole thing.
Today, I learned SUSPENSE did the same story 4 times over the years-- using the SAME script all 4 times, with different casts-- Henry Hull, Jose Ferrer, Vincent Price, and Raymond Burr.
Just heard the Henry Hull version from 1943-- and added a direct LINK to it at my blog.
Gonna save myself some trouble and go down the entire list HERE!!
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Just listened to 2 more radio shows I've never heard before:
FAMILY THEATER -- A show created with the goal of promoting family stability through prayer; the story I heard was "THE GOLD BUG" (10-5-49), w/ Howard McNear & Steven McNally.
INNER SANCTUM THEATER --I've heard of this for decades, but never heard it until just now. It was created by Himon Brown, who much later directed apparently every episode of THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER, and reused the "creaking door" opening and closing bit, as well as "Pleasant dreams... hmm?" The story I heard was "THE TELL-TALE HEART" (8-3-41), with Boris Karloff & Everett Sloane. A VERY "different" twist on this story, which I will not blow for anyone who wishes to hear it "cold".
As it turns out, INNER SANCTUM, hosted by "Raymond" (this was mentioned in a "WKRP" episode!) tended to be a mix of spooky drama with light-hearted humor (at least in the "host" sections-- clearly the inspiration for EC's horror comics and countless other such series). Gee, just my thing!
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The last ten days-
James Brown-5 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Rare and Live Tracks- (89 tracks-4 discs)
Nickel Creek-Nickel Creek- (12 tracks)
Nickel Creek-This Side- (13 tracks)
Jimmy Wakely-1942-1952- (28 tracks)
James Taylor- Best Live- (12 tracks)
Elton John-Greatest Hits-(11 tracks)
Diana Krall-When I Look in Your Eyes- (13 tracks)
Red Smiley and the Bluegrass Cutups-(21 tracks)
Red Smiley and the Bluegrass Cutups Vol 2-(20 tracks)
Mac Wiseman Sings Old Time Country Favorites -(21 tracks)
Great Songs of 1931-(25 tracks)
Great Songs of 1932-(25 tracks)
Great Songs of 1952-(26 tracks)
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I just downloaded all available episodes of "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre". Should be some good listening ahead for these cold nights.
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Have listened to 1 episode each so far of PHILIP MARLOWE and SAM SPADE. The SPADE ep. was a sequel to "The Maltese Falcon", and featured a cameo by Marlowe, when Spade called him on the phone to ask about a mutual client.
The first 3 MARLOWE eps. all seem to be the SAME episode. Unless I'm confused, "Who Shot Waldo?" sounds like an inferior recording of "Red Wind". I see there's 2 different versions of "Red Wind", but the first 2 listings seem like the SAME recording.
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Thanks I will investigate!
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I've been telling people there's so many comics at this site, I could find enought to read and never have to BUY a new comic for the rest of my life.
But with radio (as my Dad always said), I can do something else WHILE listening! And have begun doing so. :)
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Listened to the PHILIP MARLOW episode "The King In Red" today. Previously saw the Powers Booth TV episode of this. Fun bit: while Marlowe is played by Van Heflin, the murder victim in this one is played by Gerald Mohr!
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Recent CDs listened to-
Doris Day- Bewitched- 25 Favourite Songs
Fiddling Buck Ryan with Don Reno & Red Smiley (20 tracks)
Country Hit Parade 1950 (25 tracks)
Sixty Minute Man: The Madison Records Story 1958-1961 (2 discs 40 tracks)
Johnny Cash Vol 2- Five Classic Albums plus Bonus Singles (4 discs 66 tracks)
Best
Joe
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More recent CDs listened to-
Maurice Chevalier- Early Movie Hits (14 tracks)
I Dig 'Em All- The Swan Records Story 1957-1962 (2 discs 50 tracks)
Great Songs of 1951 (26 tracks)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers- The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 plus Lewis Lymon and the Teenchords (4 discs 81 tracks)
The Essential Artie Shaw (2 discs 38 tracks)
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LITTLE RICHARD GREATEST HITS LIVE Okeh records. The 1967 re-re-re-release of his 50's hits. Larry Williams and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson are along for the ride. Recorded 'live'...but really in studio with a yelling audience...amazing set. You can nearly feel the sweat and Little Richard is full of strange, nearly mystical asides between songs. He slams through his songs in something like 35 min even includes a Jimmy Reed number. Oh, my soul.
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Lots of CDs listened to the last couple of weeks-
Bethany & Rufus- 900 Miles (10 tracks)
Go Go's- Greatest Hits (14 tracks)
Essential Rockabilly- The Capitol Story (2 discs 40 tracks)
Elvis: The King of Rock 'N' Roll- The Complete 50's Masters (5 discs 140 tracks)
The Best of Marvin Gaye Vol 2- The '70s (11 tracks)
Running Scared- The Monument Records Story 1958-1962 (2 discs 40 tracks)
The Maddox Brothers and Rose- Live- on the Radio (38 tracks)
Tony Bennett- Playin' with My Friends-Bennett Sings the Blues (16 tracks)
Blue Grass- Hit Festival (10 discs 200 tracks)
Let's Stick Together- The Fury Records Story- 1957-1962 (2 discs 50 tracks)
Sam Cooke- 8 Classic Albums plus Bonus Singles (4 discs 98 tracks)
Ding Dong Presents Vol 1- Rabbit Action & Rock-A-Billy Blues (2 discs 28 tracks)
Ding Dong Presents Vol 2- Rock Bop Boogie & Rock and Roll Pills (2 discs 27 tracks)
Great Songs of 1953 (27 tracks)
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I listened to "The Third Reich 'n' Roll" by The Residents yesterday. It simply never gets old. You have never heard covers of Classic 60's hits quite like this. The album consists of 2 long tracks. Highly recommended to adventurous music listeners.
Fun fact: For any Hip Hop fans out there, this album is said to have one of the first known James Brown samples ever on record. Mr. Brown is probably the most sampled artist ever. 🎧
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Right now I'm listening to The Sundays though. 😍
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New to me, elGiron and I'll give your suggestions a try. Unfortunately, I seriously dislike hip hop, so I'm not going anywhere near that.
Don't know if this will appeal but as a huge Pretty Things fan, I've been enjoying this track, especially as the excellent Pete Tolson is on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAldg0D2N8o
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You're very welcome, sir. No worries about Hip Hop. I'm not talking about what's on the radio, btw 😎 I've heard of The Pretty Things, but never any of their stuff.Thanks for the link! Right now I'm listening to a group called The Van Dykes. All you need is some "Confidence".
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Me? I'm listening and CD'ing (burning) the NWoBHM bands as we speak. Just love that stuff.
Mr_Goldenage
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Miles Daivs SKETCHES OF SPAIN
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Recent CDs listened to-
The Boxcars (13 tracks)
Goldfinger:James Bond Themes-John Cacavas/London Symphony Orchestra (10 tracks)
The Best of Ray Charles Live (10 tracks)
The Sullivan Years:Rhythm & Blues Revue (13 tracks)
A Proper Introduction to Maddox Brothers and Rose: That'll Learn Ya Durn Ya (30 tracks)
Jimmy Swan- Honky Tonkin' in Mississippi (30 tracks)
The Platters: The Magic Touch-An Anthology (2 discs 50 tracks)
Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden (22 tracks)
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Been listening to some old NW garage and club bands on YouTube. Found a lot of my old favorites such as The Surprise Package, Viceroys, Don and the Goodtimes, The Sonics, The Wailers (not Bob Marley), Merilee and the Turnabouts, and a whole lot more. I'm really surprised so much of this obscure stuff is available. Cheers, Bowers
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After recently watching "Monty Walsh" for the first time in many years I began looking up old Mama cass recordings.
I saw Mama Cass at the very first full scale modern music concert at Stokely Athletic Center in Knoxville Tennessee many many many years ago.
It was only by chance that Mama Cass showed up, the concert was Leon Russel's Circus album concert. Mama Cass's airliner had made a stop over in Knoxville and she had a few hours to kill when the flight was delayed. she heard of this ground breaking concert and showed up unannounced and strolled over and sat on Leon Russel's lap , which had to have been a shock for Leon. They did a couple of impromptu numbers.
When she strolled in she reminded me of a Spanish galleon under full sail.
"the Good Times Are Coming" is a great song.
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Some more CDs recently listened to-
Jessie Matthews- A Centenary Celebration (2 discs 56 tracks)
Alice Faye- On Screen & Radio 1932-43 (23 tracks)
Alice Faye- Got My Mind on Music (2 discs 62 tracks)
Dressed to Impress- Roots of R & B (22 tracks)
Keep a Dollar in Your Pocket- More Roots of R & B (22 tracks)
Irish Favorites Volume Two (10 tracks)
The Best of John Denver (10 tracks)
Hit Parade 1961 ( 25 tracks)
Hit Parade 1962 (25 tracks)
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While I was ironing my shirts this afternoon, musical accompaniment was Jay and the Americans Greatest Hits. Starting with the sad, "She Cried", I ironed on through Only in America; Come a Little Bit Closer; Sunday & Me; the amazing Cara Mia; Walkin' in the Rain; Let's Lock the Door; This Magic moment. Then I enjoyed them all over again. The problem with this cd is that it doesn't include Living Above Your Head, which I think is one of their best - up there with Cara Mia. Living Above Your Head was covered in the UK by The Walker Brothers, who had a hit with it. Oddly, they were Americans but had a career here. Their version is available on youtube:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-CXkhik9iI
I've now heard Jay Black's version of the Roy Orbison big builder, Runnin' Scared, and it's awfy good.
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More recently listened to CDS-
Mills Brothers- Boog-It (19 tracks)
James Brown- Number 1's (19 tracks)
Salamander Crossing- Bottleneck Dreams (12 tracks)
Judy Garland- Over the Rainbow (17 tracks)
Judy Garland- Collector's Gems From MGM Films (2 discs 46 tracks)
Constant Sorrow- Bluegrass From Root to Flower (3 discs 76 tracks)
Big Boss Man- The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1961 (2 discs 50 tracks)
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The wife and I had to drive over to the coast last week, so we burned several mysteries to take along. They sure come in handy when driving through mountain passes with no radio reception. The most memorable were "Sorry, Wrong Number" ( the wife had never heard it before) and "Three Skeleton Key" (the wife never wants to hear it again!). As the announcer said, "You probably don't know Three Skeleton Key by this name- it's usually just called "the one about the rats"." Vincent Price was chilling. Cheers, Bowers
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Some classic OTR there, Bowers. I have heard various versions of Three Skeleton Key over the years. It must have been very popular with audiences for them to keep redoing it.
I've been working on several projects around the house this long weekend thanks to some storm damage this past week that sent a neighbor's shed hurtling through the air where it ripped off part of my carport roof and then jammed between the carport and our rear cottage. I won't even mention to the damage to the fence (which I just started addressing yesterday).
Anyway I've had plenty of time to listen to a ton of tunes while working so here's some of the CDs I've played-
Keely Smith-Vegas '58-Today (20 tracks)
B. B. King- Live in Cook County Jail (8 tracks)
B. B. King- Live at the Regal (10 tracks)
Chicas!-Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974 (24 tracks)
Flower Power- Groovin' (2 discs 34 tracks)
The 5 Royals' The Complete Singles 1952-1962 (4 discs 99 tracks)
Wynonie Harris-Jump My Blues-The Definitive Collection (2 discs 50 tracks)
Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies-Briefly on the Street (12 tracks)
The Sisters Anthology (2 discs 38 tracks)
The Yardbirds- Smokestack Lightning (2 discs 40 tracks)
Judy Garland- The Absolutely Essential Collection (3 discs 60 tracks)
Country Gals- The Absolutely Essential Collection (3 discs 60 tracks)
Country Guys- The Absolutely Essential Collection (3 discs 60 tracks)
Rockin' Bones- Red Hot Rockabilly (3 discs 75 tracks)
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There seems to be a problem with SAM SPADE #149-- 2 different episodes seem to be inter-spliced together on this. It starts out with the previous episode, then jumps to the current one, then back and forth again.
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some public domain radio plays and audio books on youtube.
Just finished "Who Goes There" the radio play being a bit more like the 1982 "the Thing" movie than like the original published story.
Also "at the Mountains of Madness" in a very faithful audiobook reading.
Others I listened to recently were "the Wendigo" audio book, Forbidden Planet caltrex radio play, "Earth Abides" radio play which unfortunately was missing the ending, and several lesser but enjoyable thrillers from the radio mystery theatre.
Also cleaned up an old belt mount tape cassette player I found in the store room and got it running, and dug out my collection of "the Shadow" radio plays to test it.
The tape player had been discarded twenty plus years ago when it began to drag and run down its batteries too fast. I cleaned the spindles with 90% rubbing alcohol and it now plays fine. To avoid using up expensive batteries I am using a set of rechargeable AA batteries I bought with charger many years ago but never got around to using till now.
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Just the other week, I finally saw HORROR EXPRESS (1972), which, surprisingly, was an adaptation of "Who Goes There?", which I believe was much closer to the source material than any of the other movies based on the same story... in spite of the setting and era being completely different!
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Latest CDs listened to-
Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Eight Classic Albums (4 discs 86 tracks)
Frankie Lane- I Believe (2 discs 34 tracks)
Jackie Wilson- Heroes Collection (2 discs 50 tracks)
Reel Big Fish- Why Do They Rock So Hard? (16 tracks)
Spade Cooley- The Essential Recordings (2 discs 40 tracks)
Frank Sinatra- The Legend (6 discs 150 tracks)
Then- 1955 (28 tracks)
Diana Krall- Live in Paris (12 tracks)
The Grand Ole Opry Story (4 discs 100 tracks)
The Wranglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore- Heirloom Music 14 tracks)
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couple of homemade Metal/Hard rock Mix CDs -
Amon Amarth
Metallica
Devildriver
Judas Priest
Five Finger Death Punch
Black Sabbath (Heaven & Hell w/ Dio & w/ Ozzy)
Drowning Pool
Iron Maiden
Pantera
Blanche Deveraux (Local Band, Ohio)
Led Zeppelin
Def Leppard
Dio
Jimi Hendrix
Red Hot Rebellion (Local band, Ohio)
Motorhead
Scorpions
Sea of Souls (Local band, Virginia)
The Metal by Tenacious D (Jack Black)
Triumph
Immigrant Song Cover by Trent Reznor/Karen O from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack
Trivium
"In Time" from The Punisher soundtrack
This gives you a Idea of my internal "soundtrack" in my head it's usually Metal/Hard rock or TV/Movie theme music
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CDs listened to the last few weeks-
Etta James- Four Classic Albums Plus Singles (4 discs 79 tracks)
Bo Diddley- The Absolutely Essential Collection (3 discs 60 discs)
Hit Parade 1941 (25 tracks)
Steelin' It- The Steel Guitar Story (4 discs 100 tracks)
Johnny Cash- 8 Classic Albums (4 discs 118 tracks)
The Serious Reggae Album Vol One (12 tracks)
The Serious Reggae Album Vol Two (11 tracks)
The Serious Reggae Album Vol Three (12 tracks)
The Real Blues Brothers Vol 2 (19 tracks)
Greatest Folksingers of the Sixties (24 tracks)
All-Time Gospel Greats (10 tracks)
R & B: The Definitives (3 discs 42 tracks)
Roy Brown- Good Rockin' Man- The Definitive Collection (2 discs 50 tracks)
The Fontaine Sisters- Classic Hits & Golden Memories (3 discs 42 tracks)
The Cruisin' Story- 1962 (2 discs 50 tracks)
The Dells- Oh, What a Night (10 tracks)
Marilyn Monroe- With Love (14 tracks)
Country Classics Vol 1- Honky Tonk Angels (20 tracks)
Country Classics Vol 2- From a Jack to a King (20 tracks)
Sammy Davis Jr.- Seven Classic Albums (4 discs 81 tracks)
Dean Martin- That's Amore- A Selection of Singles & EP's 1946-1962 (4 discs 71 tracks)
Tony Bennett- Chicago (10 tracks)
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Once again josemas, a great list.
For me, my music listening has included The Groundhogs best of album. I saw them live, supporting The Stones way, way back at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. About as loud as I can remember hearing. It seemed as if the back wall had been built by Messrs. Marshall. McPhie was on form and Cherry Red was hard as nails.
I read an article about them recently and that's what made me dig out their old albums. All c.d's now.
Also it's The Pirates turn again with Do The Dog a perennial favourite.
Mixed in with that subtle as a brick stuff there's been a bit of Frankie Ford and SeaCruise, Gene Chandler and Duke of Earl, some Johnny and the Hurricanes, Sounds Incorporated - there's a great video on youtube with Sounds Incorporated backing Little Richard when he was in the UK on tour - and a lot of early '60's British pop.
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CDs listened to the last coupla' weeks-
Songs That Got Us Through WWII- (18 tracks)
The Dean Martin Show (4 discs 68 tracks)
More Surf Legends (and Rumors) (28 tracks)
Classic Country Collection- Smithsonian Collection Vol 4 (22 tracks)
Let Me Tell You About the Blues-West Coast Blues (3 discs 75 tracks)
60s Rock Bands-Wild Thing (20 tracks)
Absolutely the Best Gospel Vol 2 (13 tracks)
The Cruisin' Story-1955 (2 discs 50 tracks)
60s Rock-N-Roll Vol 1 It's My Party (20 tracks)
60s Rock-N-Roll Vol 2 Tossin' & Turnin' (20 tracks)
Bob Marley- Reggae (10 tracks)
James Brown Live- Please, Please, Please (10 tracks)
50s Pop Vol 1- Hey There (20 tracks)
Legends- For Your Love (18 tracks)
Legends- Pluggin' In (20 tracks)
Legends- Gimme Some Lovin' (18 tracks)
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Some vintage WWII era OTR on Veteran's Day-
The Glenn Miller Army-Airforce Orchestra from New York City, Dec 18, 1943.
The Ozzie Nelson Orchestra from Akron, Ohio, July 26, 1943.
and some recent CDs listened to-
Cliff Richard- Cliff Rocks (3 discs 51 tracks)
Aretha and Reverend Franklin- Never Grow Old (10 tracks)
Amy Winehouse- Back to Black (10 tracks)
Dean Shostak and Friends- Colonial Fair (23 tracks)
70s Heavy Hitters- Summer Love (10 tracks)
60s Soul- Tell It Like It Is (20 tracks)
The Sound of Music- The Original Broadway Cast (17 tracks)
Bobby Darin- Eight Classic Albums (4 discs 98 tracks)
Loafers' Glory (13 tracks)
Uncle Earl- Waterloo, Tennessee (16 tracks)
Lonesome Whistle- An Anthology of American Railroad Songs (4 discs 100 tracks)
The London American Story 1958 (2 discs 50 tracks)
The London American Story 1959 (2 discs 50 tracks)
plus in the last few days as the Christmas season gets going-
Jingle Bell Rock (10 tracks)
Christmas Hits of the 1950s (2 discs 50 tracks)
Classic Christmas Vol II (12 tracks)
Ray Charles- The Spirit of Christmas (11 tracks)
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Recently I've been enjoying episodes of All-Star Western Theater from our CB+ OTR section. It combines Western-B-movie-style musical numbers with short dramatic productions. The topliner band is Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, who appeared in a lot of Roy Rogers movies. Their sound is similar to the Sons of the Pioneers except that they feature more harmony singing and fewer solos than the Sons. It's a fun show with guest stars like Tex Ritter and Jimmy Wakeley. The show was produced in Los Angles before a live audience. I'm surprised how often the actors fluff lines.
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I recently sampled several episodes of The Avenger in our OTR section. The show has nothing to with Richard Benson, putty-faced master of disguise from the pulp magazine. If it weren't for the fact that Walter Gibson wrote the show I'd wonder if Street & Smith had anything to do with it.
The Avenger is a bargain-basement Shadow imitation. The show even begins with a filtered voice delivering a variation of the "weed of crime" line: "The road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets! Crime does not pay!" This awkward speech typifies the show. In terms of acting and production it's fine, but the writers don't seem to know what to do with the character.
The Avenger is biochemist Jim Brandon, who often helps the police with tough cases. In the beginning he boasts two crime-fighting inventions: the Diffusion Capsule, granting him invisibility, and the Telepathic Indicator. The Indicator is a laboratory machine that picks up random "thought flashes" from people in distress. The trouble is the Indicator can't reveal things like names, places, or the nature of a crime without spoiling the story. So most of the time Jim and Fern, his Margo Lane, go into the outside world, stumble across the relevant crime, and solve it. Afterwards they work out what the telepathic message had to do with things. The scriptwriters obviously knew they had a dud. After the first couple of episodes the Indicator appears less and less. A dozen episodes in, it vanishes altogether and the show opening credits Jim with only one invention.
The Diffusion Capsule cloaks Jim in "the black light of invisibility." I'm still not sure how that works, although the first episode gives a complicated pseudo-scientific explanation. You'll have to ask the Phantom Lady. When a sound-effects man pops his cheek and says "Whoosh" Jim becomes The Shadow, I mean The Avenger. Unlike The Shadow, The Avenger doesn't get much out of his invisibility. Mostly he eavesdrops on suspects. One time all he does is scare a murderer into running outside so the cops can nab him.
I'm not saying the show is a stinker. It's quite listenable. It just works better as a generic amateur-detective show than as a super-power show.
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I dunno, Crash- I'd call it a stinker! Well, maybe that is a bit harsh. Last time we flew down to LA, I filled my MP3 player with Avenger episodes, and I just couldn't finish them. After the first two, they all started to sound the same. Cheers, Bowers
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I tried an episode it was not the pulp character so I tossed it to the curb. I found the Avenger pulps more interesting than the Shadow. His putty face was a cool idea to me.
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Eye surgery has reduced the length of time I can stare at screens, so I've been doing a lot of listening, alternating my indispensable internet radio station, Radio Dismuke, with OTR programs from the CB+ library. I've been going down the list sampling shows I haven't heard. Among them:
Buck Rogers: I managed to make it through 2-1/2 of these. The production values are adequate, but Buck's gosh-wow voice sounds like a Bob and Ray parody. (The earnest child actor pushing Popsicles is also something to behold.) The episodes are excessively padded. It's worth listening to episode 3 just to hear the cast rattle out "gyro-cosmic relativator" without missing a beat.
Charlie Chan: Another dud. A massively-confusing serial. It piles up lots of red herrings and dead ends, and understanding what happens in each episode counts on your having memorized previous installments. Chan's voice is incredibly irritating, though I like the way he says, "Thang kyoo......verymuch."
The Comic Weekly Man: Definitely for little kids but fun. Hear what was in the Sunday Funnies circa 1950. Flash Gordon without Mac Raboy is rather stuffy. Dick's Adventures is actually interesting when read aloud with sound effects, something it never was as a comic strip. The Comic Man has his hands (mouth?) full describing the fall-over-backward payoff panels in gag strips like Blondie and Snookums. The voice of Little Miss Honey sounds exactly like Elmo, except she doesn't refer to herself in third person.
Crime Does Not Pay: True crime isn't my cup of tea so I only listened to one of these. Good acting and reasonable production values. Just like in the comics, the closing "crime does not pay" lecture sounds hypocritical following half an hour of glorifying killers.
Dan Dunn: Like the comic, generic and ho-hum. Heard one episode; didn't feel like trying the other.
Dr. Kildare: The hospital drama (why did a happy young man attempt suicide?) is mixed fifty-fifty with character comedy revolving around Dr Gillespie. The comedy is aggravating, the drama okay. I've never seen any Kildare movies and I have only vague memories of the 60s TV show. I don't remember Gillespie being such a curmudgeon as he is here. Worse, every time Lionel Barrymore opens his mouth I hear Mr Magoo.
Casey, Crime Photographer: A definite hit. Rough going in the earliest episodes because of poor sound quality, but worth sticking with it. Lively stories and a great performance by Staats Cotsworth as Casey. The actress playing his sidekick Ann is also excellent but she isn't credited (Jan Miner, maybe?). Good production values. Like many OTR shows the mysteries aren't always mysterious, but the overall package is good enough to make me want to revisit the Blue Note Club. I will however be skipping past the unctuous advertisements for Anchor Hocking Glass.
Thang kyoo....verymuch, CB+, for lightening the burden of my recuperation.
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I mainly listen to anthology programs--usually of the suspense variety. I'm always searching for more.
SUSPENSE, THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER, THE WHISTLER, ESCAPE, THE INNER SANCTUM, THE WEIRD CIRCLE, SLEEP NO MORE.
A few months back I listened to a radio program made in South Africa in the '60s called BEYOND MIDNIGHT. However most of the stories were set in England. It was really good--but not that many episodes available on OTR. And the weird ads somehow fit with the feeling of the program.
Lately another program I've added to my listening is THE CLOCK from Australia. Made in the 1940s it tries to sound like an American or British program--often with entertaining results. There were a few episodes made in America, but I skip those because they're just not as good. Sadly not many episodes.
There's another show I sometimes check out called THE UNEXPECTED. This is only 15 minutes, so there's not enough time for the stories to really build suspense. The kinds of stories vary widely--and they seem to be abbreviated versions of what you might hear on SUSPENSE. The unexpected twist at the end is often all too expected and contrived.
And one of my favourites lately is THE BLACK MUSEUM made in Britain, but with Orson Welles doing the narration. The joy of this program is listening to Welles' voice. He must've worked over his scripts to give each syllable the right intonation. The way he says "murder" is absolutely astounding. And when he's in the Black Museum, I feel like he's really in this place, walking through it's corridors--that the objects he holds in his hands are real objects. Yet it's all illusion created for the radio! But this one also doesn't have that many episodes and I've just about run through them all.
Sometimes I like to check out DIMENSION X or X MINUS ONE for good science fiction from the 1950s. And another program I've found--although I've only listened to a couple of episodes--is LET'S PRETEND, a program for children that retells fairy tales and legends.
What complicates this is that I often fall asleep while listening to these radio programs, so I will miss the ending. Gives a whole new meaning to lights out.
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Still spending a lot of time with my eyes closed...love the CB+ OTR section.
Moving down the list I tried Chandu the Magician. It's a bit hokey but I really got into it. I started at random in the middle of an adventure and followed it compulsively until--the run of shows ended before the story did. Not fair!
The voice work is quite good. It's great that when they need a background crowd, it's really a crowd, not just a couple of sound men. There's even a Desert Song-style musical number! Sound effects are weak, though. I'm going to try another storyline but first I'll check to see that we have the conclusion.
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I don't usually listen to radio shows, the only one lately has been Geek Or Die on a French radio, because they're talking about US-inspired comics in France, and my work will be featured on the next show. ;)
I usually listen to music. My last albums listened to: Therion - Secret of the Runes (symphonic metal), Indochine - Alice & June (pop-rock), Therion - Les Epaves (old French pop songs turned into metal).
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Continuing my trek through the CB+ OTR section I encountered Perry Mason. His is an interesting case (ha ha). To this day I enjoy watching the Raymond Burr TV reruns. Researching the show on Wikipedia I discovered that creator Erle Stanley Gardner hated its radio incarnation. In fact after a while Mason and his crew were removed from the show, which morphed into the successful soap opera Edge of Night!
Given that background I wasn't surprised to find that the radio Mason displays the characteristic soap opera paradox: urgent, almost hysterical individual scenes are overlaid upon a larger story arc that unfolds with glacial speed. The acting was good and the whole thing was entertaining enough that I listened to quite a few episodes. I quickly saw why attorney-turned-author Gardner hated the show. There's hardly any courtroom time, and the outer-world action gets pretty silly. I'm no expert on the law, but even I question some of the "facts" presented here. Most notably: Mason is accused of having broken the law in his quest to help his client, who is on trial for murder. Therefore Mason is required to stand trial alongside his client--literally, in the same trial--even though she's accused of murder and he of meddling with witnesses. Huh???
After awhile my interest waned. It was frustrating to hear the story in ten-minute snippets, and when the CB+ run skipped ahead a couple of months I gave up.
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It's not listed among the CB+ offerings, but I highly recommend searching out and sampling OTR episodes of LIGHTS OUT (EVERYBODY). The Archer Oboler episodes, at least. Those are the only ones I've found--so I don't know what the Wyllis Cooper LIGHTS OUT was like--but Oboler was some kind of difficult genius, who must've been hell to live with (as with all geniuses) but what a mind! The guy tried to do just about everything you could imagine with the form. Every episode is a completely new experience.
I was listening to an episode the other night--as I drifted to sleep--where you hear the thoughts of the central character and the contrast between what he thinks and what he actually says. It's brutally honest.
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What, more OTR? Have Gun, Will Travel is an unqualified hit. One of my favorites so far. I followed the TV show faithfully when I was a kid, never suspecting the existence of a parallel radio series. I was surprised to learn that the TV show came first, and the radio show adapted many TV episodes. Among the writers was a certain Gene Roddenberry!
I was a big Richard Boone fan, but John Dehner is equally good as the radio Paladin. In fact the casts of all the shows are top-notch (with the exception of Ben Wright's embarrassing performance as Hey Boy, Paladin's stereotypical Chinese houseboy).
I read that Have Gun was one of the last continuing-character radio series. It's interesting how modern the show sounds. Part of it is because the scripts are a little more adult and "edgy" (by 1958 standards) than earlier series. However I think the biggest difference is improved technology. Even the best Golden Age shows suffer from lack of advanced audio mixing equipment. That's why recorded sound effects in GA shows always have that hollow sound. A mike was set up in front of a record player speaker. In Have Gun music and effects are obviously patched directly into the master board. They have the same strength and clarity as the dialogue, which makes the final product much slicker.
One marginal note: at the beginning and end of each episode we get a scene at the Carlton Hotel featuring Paladin's "amusing" encounters with female guests. Today many of these scenes are downright creepy. Suave, debonair Paladin comes off like a stalker or even a sexual predator. Tastes sure do change.
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I've been listening to a program called "Zero Hour". It ran from 1973-74 on Mutual Broadcasting. Hosted by Rod Serling, it consisted of a five part story each week, one episode per night. After the first 13 stories, the format was changed to individual stories every night with a different guest star performing in all the programs of that week. Evidently the show never found an audience- I know I never heard of it! Overall, it's not the best of radio fiction but some of the stories are really quite good. Serling's intros and the strange commercials, such as the father-son bonding over Red Man Chewing Tobacco, give it a definite 70's feel. Can be found at the Old Time Radio Researchers Library. Cheers, Bowers
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Bowers, I'm very interested to learn about Zero Hour. I wonder why I missed that show in the 70s. I've been interested in radio drama since my grade school days (long story) so I was excited when one radio network (CBS?) brought back several OTR series. This must have been in the middle or late 60s. They broadcast a five-evening strip: The Shadow, The Green Hornet, The Sealed Book, Famous Jury Trials, and one I can't remember.
Until I read your post I'd completely forgotten another attempt at an original modern series: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I looked it up on Wikipedia and was surprised to find the show lasted as long as it did (1974-1982). It was produced by Himan Brown, a big name in Golden Age radio. The series ran five nights a week, each episode an hour long. In the beginning, when I was listening regularly, the shows were all horror-suspense tales in the Inner Sanctum vein. Apparently later it branched out into science fiction and classic story adaptations.
I had great hopes that Radio Mystery Theater would usher in a new generation of technically sophisticated shows with up-to-date scripts. Was I ever disappointed! The series sounded as if the previous three decades had never happened. The same old "shock" endings, unctuous host, creaking door, etc. Worse, the old-fashioend stories were half-hour plots (maybe 15 minutes) padded outrageously to fill an hour. Sad. A missed opportunity.
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Crash, I also was surprised to hear of this show. A co-worker read a book by Serling's daughter which mentioned the series and, knowing I'm an OTR buff, asked me if I knew anything about it. After a bit of searching we found it. Being a fan of Radio Mystery Theater, I was always on the lookout for any shows of this type on the radio. A Wikipedia article seemed to be of the opinion that the producers just didn't try very hard to promote or sell the series. Possibly they thought Serling's name alone would make the series a hit. Cheers, Bowers
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As long as we're talking about modern-day radio drama, I wonder if anyone here is/was a fan of Thomas Lopez' ZBS productions, for example The Fourth Tower of Inverness and Ruby, The Galactic Gumshoe. I listened to many of these in the 70s. I found the story ideas very interesting, but the scripts were overly talky and moved slowly. On the other hand, Lopez created some of the finest sound designs ever, mixing dialogue, sound, and music brilliantly.
I wish more audio producers would have followed his lead in exploring the potential of carefully-produced audio storytelling. The only series that came close technically was NPR's gigantic Star Wars adaptation. Which makes sense, because they had the resources of Lucasfilm behind them. (Like Lopez' work this too was talky and slow-moving).
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I remember listening to some of the Star Wars radio dramatization (and some others) when I was a kid in the late 70's.
I'd love to get ahold of copies of that.
Of a similar vein, but live on stage, is Intergalactic Nemesis A live Graphic Novel stage show. We saw it in Dayton a couple years back and it was awesome.
http://theintergalacticnemesis.com/
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And we can't forget CBC's sci-fi/ horror series "Nightfall". Ran from 1980-1983 and should still be up at Internet Archive and also OTRRL. I've heard the three-parter "The Chrysalids"by John Wyndham and it was pretty good. Also what about BBC's "Hitchhiker's Guide"? I think I heard it on NPR. If I recall, this one quit following the book after awhile and took off on it's own. I never did hear any of the "Star Wars" broadcasts. Cheers, Bowers
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Bowers, PM sent
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I'm a guest and historical advisor on a show called the Midnight Metal Madness hours on Friday nights on KKBL 95.9 and on the Mix Cloud as well. So Every other Wednesday night we do the "taping" (actually using Magix Audio Lab) and typically present 24 or 25 songs per show. That is what I am currently listening to and preparing songs, history on bands and other info during the week. FYI
Mr_MusicMan AkA Richard Boucher
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Gentlemen, you have no idea how much I appreciate this thread. My hard drive crashed about a month ago and I lost about 500 gbs of stuff. Data recovery would have been ridiculously expensive so I just got another computer and am starting over. I had well over half of my comics, books, and music backed up, but none of my OTR. Your kind suggestions are a big help in reconstructing my library. A big "Cheers" to ya- Bowers
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unfortunately we Don't have the Metal "Horns" emoticon on here (Mark, get on that please!) if we did I'd fill the post with them.
Always been a Metal/Hard Rock fan. I've been diving deep into Amon Amarth and other death metal bands like Devil Driver and ExMortus of late.
I'm a guest and historical advisor on a show called the Midnight Metal Madness hours on Friday nights on KKBL 95.9 and on the Mix Cloud as well. So Every other Wednesday night we do the "taping" (actually using Magix Audio Lab) and typically present 24 or 25 songs per show. That is what I am currently listening to and preparing songs, history on bands and other info during the week. FYI
Mr_MusicMan AkA Richard Boucher
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I can't say I'm into old time radio, although I listened to a Superman episode that was decent. I used to listen to rock all the time, then I got bored and discovered Japanese idol pop music. Yeah, this music isn't for everyone. You need to be open minded about listening to songs not sung in your native language. Then you need to get past the the whole cutesy bubblegum pop image. So....I'm listening to Candy Kiss, Caramel Ribbon, Prizmmy, Yuka Wada, SunRisa, CRUiSE!, amorecarina, PARLISH, Michinoku Sendai ORI HIMETAI and some other groups no one but me has heard if. 😀
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I can't say I'm into old time radio, although I listened to a Superman episode that was decent. I used to listen to rock all the time, then I got bored and discovered Japanese idol pop music. Yeah, this music isn't for everyone. You need to be open minded about listening to songs not sung in your native language. Then you need to get past the the whole cutesy bubblegum pop image. So....I'm listening to Candy Kiss, Caramel Ribbon, Prizmmy, Yuka Wada, SunRisa, CRUiSE!, amorecarina, PARLISH, Michinoku Sendai ORI HIMETAI and some other groups no one but me has heard if. 😀
I can relate to the boring ass Rock music problem, Crimson. Been there, done that. Which brings me to why I decided to post. I listen to "Meet The Residents" all year round, and heavily during December. It's Christmas, but ain't nobody raisin' much of a fuss... nobody, but ME! (https://mvdb2b.com/i/300dpi/MVD5139LP.jpg)
You'll definitely need an open mind to listen. Oh! And the only Japanese idol music I listen to are the Boredoms...
8)
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Cuurently listening to Hawkwind's "It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous".
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Just found a 70's radio series I didn't know existed, "The Devil and Mr. O". Hosted by the famous head writer and director of "Lights Out", Arch Oboler. It featured transcribed episodes from 1942-43 with new introductions and narration by Oboler. Also contains contemporary commercials. I just finished "Paris Macabre", and the story was fresh as ever.
Oboler started out writing pulp stories and went on to become the king of horror radio. His gruesome sound effects were superb! In the early 50's, he helped introduce 3D movies with his box-office hit "Bwana Devil".
Episodes are available at The Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library. No registration needed, just jump right in and download! Cheers, Bowers
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never heard of before thanks
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Been listening to audio book stories by Clark Ashton Smith, one seriously strange dude.
His stories have H P Lovecraft reeling on the ropes and some are like the occasional back story of Conan Novels, the legends behind the supernatural circumstances Conan ends up facing.
No doubt he greatly influenced many of the more commonly known authors of the macabre and supernatural but is almost unknown to younger readers.
His stories range from the distant dark mists of the past to centuries or more in our future, from demon haunted palaces of lost civilizations, both human and alien, to barren frozen asteroids and planets with hidden deadly dangers. There are even stories with a humorous ending, despite the requisite bloodshed and madness.
Till now I'd only read possibly three of his stories, now I found 64 public domain downloads, stories I never knew existed.
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I've been binging on Paul Temple radio serials recently and just finished Paul Temple and the Gilbert Affair. This isn't the original radio broadcast as the episodes have been deleted, but it's a vey faithful full cast re-creation with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as PT and Steve. This has been on BBC radio and it's a terrific 10 part thriller.
Most of the Paul Temple radio serials have been released on cd, either the originals as broadcast decades ago or high quality re-ceations featuring the original music and sound effects where they're available. Can't recommend them highly enough.
There are also some narrated versions and I recently listened to one of them narrated by Anthony Head. Great for passing the time on the bus into Edinburgh.
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Hi, Paw. Good to be back. Found several Paul Temples at OTRR and I'll give them a try. Cheers, Bowers
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I'm recovering from another "eye procedure" (the last, I hope!) and spending a lot of time with my eyes closed. So I put on some old time radio.
It's been years since I've listened to The Shadow. I'd heard only a couple of the Orson Welles shows, so that's where I started. I was surprised to discover how different The Shadow was in those early years. His abilities and operating style changed a lot between these shows and the classic 40s series.
The biggest difference is that The Shadow is a much more public figure. Everyone, crooked or honest, seems to have heard about him. They all know he's an ordinary person using hypnosis to make himself invisible. The Shadow makes several public appearances. In one episode he talks to the Board of Directors of an opera company. Later in the same episode he addresses an entire theater audience, giving a florid speech denouncing crime. Knowing The Shadow is a real man, crooks don't have the supernatural fear of him they have in later episodes. Several criminals try to trap, grab, or shoot him, though of course it never works. The scripts use a lot of "invisible man" gimmicks like self-opening doors and floating objects.
The Shadow's relationship with Margo Lane is also different. She takes a more direct part in his missions. She's his designated driver; Shrevvy the comical cabbie is thankfully absent. The Shadow summons Margo using a portable short-wave radio. Unfortunately Margo can be rather stupid. Lamont Cranston enters a criminal hideout as the Shadow. Fearing he's in trouble, Margo bangs on the door and calls Lamont by name, thus telling the crooks The Shadow's secret identity. The Shadow escapes this situation using an ability he lost over time: he hypnotically compels one of the bad guys to attack the other.
The writers seem not to have decided just what Cranston's mental powers are. In one show he establishes a mental link with a missing scientist. In another he claims to read a criminal's mind, though this may be a bluff.
On the balance the Welles Shadows are pretty good. Orson Welles (just 22 years old!) makes a good Shadow and an acceptable Lamont Cranston. His Lamont is marred by a tendency to deliver his lines in a rushed mumble. It's an annoying habit that worsened over time. In the 1950s Harry Lime shows Welles seems impatient to finish the job so he can rush home to some Paul Masson wine. He barely gives the other actors time to finish their lines before hurrying into his next speech. Agnes Moorehead makes a good Margo Lane. The supporting cast is also fine.
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"The scripts use a lot of "invisible man" gimmicks like self-opening doors and floating objects."
An invisible man on the radio is as hard to pull off as a ventriloquist act.
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It isn't hard at all to do an invisible man on radio!
"Hey, what was that noise? The door...opening by itself!"
"Wha--a gun floatin' in midair!"
"The paper...something yanked it right out of my hand!"
Not as elegant as the movies, I'll admit.
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Have you heard any of the Damon Runyon Theater? https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3287 a recent discovery on my part
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I wanted to recommend another program I sampled during my closed-eye phase. I'd never heard of Rogue's Gallery, starring Dick Powell. The Wikipedia entry calls the show a sort of run-up to Powell's better-known program, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Detective Richard Rogue is a skirt-chasing private investigator who confronts the usual mix of murder, mayhem, and femmes fatales.
Though the Richard Rogue character has a tough edge, the scripts are lighter in tone than those of typical hardboiled detective shows. Dick Powell is perfect in the role, tempering a breezy, jokey delivery with just the right amount of roughness.The supporting cast is also excellent. A full musical score by Leith Stevens lends an extra touch of class. My only complaint with the production is the almost complete absence of sound effects. I suspect the producers figured that Powell's detailed narration tells everything we need to know, so we don't need sound effects. Wrong. The result sounds unfinished.
There is one aspect of Rogue's Gallery that baffles me. This is Eugor (pronounced Yugor), a cackling gremlin who appears in Rogue's head whenever the detective is knocked on the bean--which is constantly. The unconscious Rogue imagines himself transported to "Cloud Eight," where smart-ass Eugor berates him, discusses the plot, and offers advice. Then Rogue is returned to consciousness and goes on with the story. The whole thing is beyond weird. It seems we're supposed to believe Eugor is a product of Rogue's imagination. However the creature seems to be privy to things Rogue couldn't know. In one show both Rogue and a crook are knocked out. Eugor looks over at "Cloud Nine," sees the crook there, and tells Rogue that the man is still unconscious. To me the gimmick is a total misfire.
Still, the rest of Rogue's Gallery is strong enough that even giggling Eugor can't tank it. I recommend it.
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Been there, seen it, done it! Dick Powell is great!
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Anybody out there like to multitask?
Read comics and listen to music at the same time? Or anything else at the same time/
I'm a fan of early 60's ( pre beatles) guitar and surf instrumental bands.
I only recently came across Japan's Takeshi Terauchi who is as good a guitar wizard as anything I have heard in this genre.
There is quite a lot of his music and bands on Youtube. Start with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSJ0HVwpzc
What comic might you read while listening to this style of music?
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O.K., impressed. As a fan of The Ventures, Shadows (early stuff) and some other guitar bands, I thoroughly enjoyed this lot. Here are a couple of British bands you might not have heard - and not necessarily all guitar.
Group X from 1963;_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPGMokiOTUc
Nero and the Gladiators from 1961:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL-hRKqqRLU
Bert Weedon from 1961:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtctpGkleLA
Swedish group The Spotnicks from 1963:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsR7wf5uRc
The Dakotas from 1963:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEcWLYrDuc&index=57&list=PL147A9E72762254A1
and for a bit of fun, Lord Rockingham's X1 from 1958, with Hoots Mon:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM
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Glad you liked it. The only band on your links I'm not familiar with is Nero and the Gladiators. Have to check them out. In the meantime I came across a Polish band Tajfuny who at their best are something special. Can't find a whole album on Youtube but this link will get you to a number of their tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ip0RAd4sE
They can be very melodic and sweet. There is a greatest hits album, Tajfuny - Z Archiwum Polskiego Radia Vol 7 , Which I think is the Polish equivalent of a BBC collection. I think 'Tajfuny' means 'Typhoon' an apt name for this type of group.
Cheers
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After being completely hooked on "independant" news this year, the last several weeks, partly to take a break, I've been doing my best to plow through as many episodes of THE GREEN HORNET radio show as I can.
I've noticed something rather odd. Quite a few episodes in late 1945 sound like they might have been RERUNS of much-earlier stories. These are not episodes I've heard at the top of the list, either. What clues me in to this are lengthy and repeated references and descriptions about Britt Reid's father, what he hoped his son would do, Mike Axford being hired as Britt's live-in bodyguard while trying to also become a reporter, and so on. The presence of city editor Donegan has also increased dramatically, and any references to the war have vanished.
All this leads me to believe I'm now listening to the EARLIEST episodes of the show, not the latest.
Does anyone have any access to what might be a complete episode guide to the series? Such a list might allow me to cofirm this, one way or the other.
It occurs to me that, if the episodes I think are reruns turn out to be that, the chronological list here at the site could be re-arranged to put the "later" episodes where they actually belong (if earlier dates for those stories can be found).
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Speaking of "multi-tasking"-- listening to news shows or old-time radio is a perfect thing to do while I'm either doing Photoshop (TONS of this in front of me), or pencilling / art in general.
On the other hand, if I'm ever writing or posting reviews, anything with talking gets in the way. So, for those things, it's MUSIC!
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I am pretty much the same. Editing pictures, scanning or fixing stuff I listen to OTR or audiobooks. If I need to concentrate it is silence.
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Prof, have you tried OTTR Library? Old Time Radio Researchers Library is an invaluable site to OTR buffs. An enormous collection of both domestic and foreign programs, including some very obscure gems you can find nowhere else. Free downloads (up to 10 gb per month), no usernames or passwords required. Trying to download an entire series at once is not allowed as they don't like the for-profit leeches and their server can only handle 50 logins at one time. Not following the rules gets you kicked off.
Their "Green Hornet" collection is similar to the CB+, but has more of the 1952 episodes. Some of the radio anthology series, such as "Suspense" did repeat some scripts over the years, albeit with different casts. The episodes you mention might even be recycled scripts. Since people couldn't binge-listen back then the writers could easily get away with it! Cheers, Bowers
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I like OTR episodes which were redone with a different cast. You get a glimpse at how different actors interpret the same character. As a Philip Marlowe fan I enjoyed hearing both versions of the "Red Wind" adaptation, one with Van Heflin as Marlowe and the other with Gerald Mohr. The scripts were basically identical although a few lines differed.
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"Quite a few episodes in late 1945 sound like they might have been RERUNS of much-earlier stories."
Could be that scripts already written for that period were behind events. The War was basically over so stories involving ongoing conflict were no longer relevant and the scripts would have to be rewritten. As a stop gap older prewar scripts were dusted off.
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While I've been searching out the files Wiseman sent me - I seem to have misplaced them :-[
I've been listening to the new Wilko Johnson album, "Blow Your Mind". You really need to play this loud but this youtube entry will give you a flavour. Although the reproduction here is a bit flat and low, hopefully it will tempt some of you to buy the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89eLsfPL0-g
And here's Wilko in the mid '70's, live, with the great Lee Brilleaux dishing it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHm7uIC84YM
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Here is a little gift for you all I just found elsewhere.
https://www44.zippyshare.com/v/YvHMGCYM/file.html
Adventures Of Superman - Music From The Original 1950s Television Series
Enjoy!
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This not only reminds me of my youth, but it reminds me how old I am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfRZlSSzrS8
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Something a bit different, which might not appeal to all of you. I've banged on before about 2 piano trios that I love. Difficult to get over the beauty of 7 Days of Falling and the sheer dynamism of GoGo Penguin, but if you listen, well...................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KXq6RJ0PA
and here's GoGo Penguin. Jaws should drop:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UokxELNWkJ4
OK, this should be heard on good equipment, but you get the idea.
And this is Poppy Ackroyd:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77d5O1b8bqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kVp41oP7zE
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Something a bit different, which might not appeal to all of you. I've banged on before about 2 piano trios that I love. Difficult to get over the beauty of 7 Days of Falling and the sheer dynamism of GoGo Penguin, but if you listen, well...................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KXq6RJ0PA
and here's GoGo Penguin. Jaws should drop:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UokxELNWkJ4
OK, this should be heard on good equipment, but you get the idea.
And this is Poppy Ackroyd:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77d5O1b8bqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kVp41oP7zE
Quite nice piano playing, and good listening music.
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Something a bit different, which might not appeal to all of you.
Definitely appeals to me. Thank you.
I like live performance,
Like this one.
Poppy Ackroyd Qbus Club Leiden the Netherlands November 23 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYx8B8oSEYs
Cheers!
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Something a bit different, which might not appeal to all of you.
Definitely appeals to me. Thank you.
I like live performance,
Like this one.
Poppy Ackroyd Qbus Club Leiden the Netherlands November 23 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYx8B8oSEYs
Cheers!
Good stuff! Coincidentally, she is performing in Leiden, where my 2 favourite comic book shops are, only 8 km away from me, and where I've bought 90% of all the comic books I've bought since 1988, when my favourite shop in Den Haag went under new management, and sold only current issues from then on.
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My wife and I have been to Leiden a few times. Lovely town. In fact on our bookcase there is a picture of us sitting on a bench in front of the park with the windmill, on the way from the station into town.
I've spent a fair bit in Leiden comic shops, Stripwinkel Dumpie, I think, and Mevrouw Kern?
We've been to Den Haag a few times and I found a couple of wee comic shops outwith the city centre - and spent too much in them -which had some beeldverhaals. Most interesting in one of the shops for me were 2 Spot Morton issues by Georges Mazure. The guy in the shop thought they were by Alfred, but I gently put him right. ;D
I seem to remember that Mevrouw Kern had an original Rikki Visser book but it was too expensive for me and I stuck to the reprints/facsimiles. I'd like De Zwarte Schaduw, but I haven't seen a reprint.
The only letdown for me in Leiden - no trams. I do like trams. ::)
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My wife and I have been to Leiden a few times. Lovely town. In fact on our bookcase there is a picture of us sitting on a bench in front of the park with the windmill, on the way from the station into town.
I've spent a fair bit in Leiden comic shops, Stripwinkel Dumpie, I think, and Mevrouw Kern?
We've been to Den Haag a few times and I found a couple of wee comic shops outwith the city centre - and spent too much in them -which had some beeldverhaals. Most interesting in one of the shops for me were 2 Spot Morton issues by Georges Mazure. The guy in the shop thought they were by Alfred, but I gently put him right. ;D
I seem to remember that Mevrouw Kern had an original Rikki Visser book but it was too expensive for me and I stuck to the reprints/facsimiles. I'd like De Zwarte Schaduw, but I haven't seen a reprint.
The only letdown for me in Leiden - no trams. I do like trams. ::)
Yes, Dumpie, Leidse Stripshop, and Mevrow Kern were my favourites. I used to spend hours there flipping through the 2nd hand comics. I drew an advert banner for one of them 1n 1990.
My favourites in Den Haag were Panda and Haagse Stripshop. Both are long gone now. Dumpie in Leiden is the only decent one left.
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A couple of New Year's songs:
The Cameos(1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8FS41_rM8
The Orioles (1949):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqw0-SKVsZ0
Freddie Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJUMUgnxO0
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Way back in the '60's, I heard a song, loved it, forgot what it was - apart from one line, forgot about it for a few years. Every now and then a wee blast of that line came into my head. I couldn't find the song again. A couple of weeks ago, quite by accident and while on you tube, I clicked a link and there it was:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxEc0-J3P3k
Steamhammer were really good, how could I forget them. "....like a circle round the sun".
Now I'm dipping in and out of this little lot:-
https://www.youtube.com/user/Sids60sSounds/videos
Even the Vernons Girls are on here - not saying it's good - actually it's, well..... - but that is extraordinary.
Lots of B Sides.
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thanks Paw, you've made my morning!
My recommendations faves from that little lot.
Annette & The Beach Boys - The Monkey's Uncle - 1965 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8xlPMNmdA
Carter Lewis & The Southerners (Jimmy Page) - Easy To Cry - 1964 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kt8zPAABiE
The Aquanauts - Rumble On The Docks - 1963 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZrU6PCqIM
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Jealous Girl - 1964 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqf0U7NDAo
Pretty sure I saw Johnny Kidd and the Pirates when they revived for a while back in 1977.
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Johnny died in '66 - but the Pirates have continued in one form or another ever since:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Kidd_%26_the_Pirates
I still get a tinkle down my spine when I hear that guitar break in Shakin' All Over
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The Vernons Girls (named after a football pools syndicate) were much underrated - well, not that much, I guess.
One of them married Marty Wilde and is thus the mother of jaw-dropping Kim Wilde - another married Joe Brown and is thus the mother of the soulful smoky-voiced Sam Brown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0XuyUzpTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lGQwOuiVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8PH8cpLbxA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vernons_Girls
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Don't get me started on The Pirates. I'm a huge fan. Mick Green, arguably the finest, most exciting guitarist to grace a sweat drenched stage, died in 2010. More recently, Frank Farley passed away.
I was always a fan of Johnny Kidd and The Pirates. Like Atomic Rooster there were many variations in the line-up, both before Kidd's death and afterwards.
Mick Green didn't play the riff on Shakin' All Over, that was Joe Moretti.
There are many videos available an their albums can be bought.
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No posts on this thread for a while.
Here are a few variations on the theme for the UFO Tv series.
UFO THEME @ MIKE PAINTER & THE FAMILY SHAKERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9plUJSZxYo
Theme from UFO - Locked Horns Jazz Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs0PFvc4rgE
U.F.O. Shado - New Project Funk Orchestra & Marco Pierobon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FIk9GrXfk
If I was a school music teacher I would have my students form a band and play this stuff.
Then there is this
Captain Scarlet Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ejHcZv3f-k
We didn't know, when we were watching these shows, that we were also getting a music education.
Those sneaky Adults!
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Oh yes, I enjoyed that. Ta.
I've been absorbing - it's the only word for it - the new album from GoGo Penguin.
Try this:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulvwhkvABE
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Thumbs up for the new Barenaked Ladies video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7JbuuIqhdU
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I've been listening to the Mills Brothers recently, amazing music. This is my favourite song from them:
https://youtu.be/ThZgBY3s4Xg
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A wonderful group, The Mills Brothers. My personal favorite is their a capella version of "Caravan." This excerpt from an old soundie shows them at the top of their "human orchestra" form (though the sets, costumes, and acting are a bit cringeworthy).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14QEoEIvUuk
Near the end you'll also see a tiny bit of vintage break dancing. Speaking of dancing, another favorite team from that period are the acrobatic dancers The Nicholas Brothers. Here's an excerpt from Stormy Weather, where they dance "The Jumpin' Jive" for Cab Calloway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQOfyR75vY
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Those Nicholas Brothers were amazing! I've never seen something like that! Such a talent.
Here's another of my favourite songs from the immortal Hank Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiPxg85lEas
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The Nicholas Brothers Story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmJowrBwOY
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I'm recently listening to The Box Tops (one of my favourite 1960s bands) and here's one of my favourite songs by them, with a lovely harmonica riff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNmW09EA4c4
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I saw The Box Tops in August 1968 with the Beach Boys in Spokane, WA. Such an underrated band. Our city was the the "dress rehearsal" for most of the West coast tours. We got The Doobie Brothers, Eagles and even Led "Zeffelin" (they misspelled the name on all the ads!) before anyone even knew who they were! Lotsa great (and cheap!) concerts back in the day. Also much more relaxed- we got into a Moody Blues show just by helping the roadies carry their stuff inside. Such a great time to be young! Cheers, Bowers
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Apart from The Letter, I don't know much about them. It was a big hit here.
Although I grew up in a small town in Central Scotland, it was between Glasgow and Edinburgh, so we could get to concerts. Edinburgh had The Place and a group of us pitched up when Taste were in the bill. We were all big Rory Gallagher fans.
One of the great venues in Glasgow was The Maryland Blues Club and a small group of us were privileged to see Muddy Waters there. Not long after we saw John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor and Henry Louther.
Oddly, despite the fact that The Poets were a local band, I never saw them live. They played the town hall but it was too rough, lots of gang trouble locally at that time. To be avoided at all costs.
Lots of great memories, plus I ran for the local barriers and could easily outpace the gang guys - Tongs, Toi, Team, Young Team.
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Wow Bowers, that's awesome! I love also the Eagles and the Beach Boys!
I'm fairly young so I didn't have the chance to ever go to one of their concerts while they were still active. I'm not american too, so it's more difficult to go to an american band's concert.
That must have been such a great experience.
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Thanks, FraBig! It's always interesting to hear a younger opinion of "Geezer Rock"! Lotsa great stuff out there if you look. Also liked your pick for the reading group- glad you joined up! Cheers, Bowers
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Bowers said,
It's always interesting to hear a younger opinion of "Geezer Rock"!
Well there is about a ten year gap between the Beach Boys and the Eagles, and a lot of music under the bridge between them. The Beach Boys were big in OZ, we are a summer and beach kind of place anyway.
The Eagles for me was a different story.
I spent 1977 in London being saturated with Punk and New Wave bands, - Elvis Costello, Iam Drury, Boomtown Rats, Buzzcocks, even saw the Voidoids once and the Slits twice. And many more. From that perspective the Eagles were passe, sneered at in London. Only got to hear them when I got back to OZ.
I was already aware of Joe Walsh, tho, having loved his work for his previous band, James Gang.
Here is 'the Geezer' performing their best number live.
Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFaZbEWOO0
Never get tired of this one!
Enjoy!
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Thanks Bowers! Glad you appreciated my choice! ;D
I'm also a great country music fan, my favourite artists are John Denver (I listened to all of his discography, and he's the greatest of all time for me), Hank Williams Sr. (truly a legend) and Jimmie Rodgers (a pioneer, and even if he lived almost 100 years ago, he can still be very enjoyable).
Here's one of my favourite John Denver's songs:
https://youtu.be/7ljRquL8-uc
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FraBig, there were SO many country-rock bands in the 70's. Some were just playing with the genre, but others made it their own. You might enjoy POCO- they can do both ballads and bluegrass with amazing harmonies. Their bassist, Tim Schmitt, is now with the Eagles. Also Roger Mc Guinn's (from the Byrds) ballad "Chestnut Mare", which was a hit over here. Some others are New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pure Prairie League, and if you want hard-core retro, The Flying Burrito Brothers. An article about the Burrito's Gram Parsons bizarre "funeral" is here https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gram-parsons-the-mysterious-death-and-aftermath-204652/ Oh, those bizarre 70's! Cheers, Bowers
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Thanks Bowers! I'll check those out! ;D
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Ah well now,you see, I don't enjoy traditional c&w. What I really like is Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, Dave Alvin, Lucinda Williams and a few others.
I mentioned GoGo Penguin and posted a link but I ask me it didn't tickle anyone's fancy. I've been listening to their new album while writing an article.
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I was a big fan of all of the bands and artists bowers mentioned when they were fresh back in the day. Talking my language.
Here is a number from an Australian band who worked in the same genre.
The Dingoes Way Out West 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919phJQtlK8
The song below was something of a theme song for me at that time, which gives you an idea of my state of mind then.
the Dingoes - the last place that I ever want to be is home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzPTOULR_s
Great Album if you can track down a copy.
I mentioned GoGo Penguin and posted a link but I ask me it didn't tickle anyone's fancy. I've been listening to their new album while writing an article.
Oh, It definitely tickled my fancy. Currently I am more and more attracted to Jazz - of all kinds. Especially Jump Blues. Also soundtracks.
Also listening to Chopin. Go figure!
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In my Internet surfing I just came across this page.
Here we have links to Youtube videos of music acts playing comic book related songs.
Canciones con personajes de c?mic
https://rockologia.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/canciones-con-personajes-de-comic/
Not all of these are to my taste, and probably won't be to the taste of some of you.
This is by no means a complete list of possibles.
Here is one I remember from back in the day.
Mother Earth - Marvel Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_GvtYlbj20
Enjoy!
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SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT (Live in San Diego / 1988)
I've had their CD for decades... but this is the first time I got to SEE them play!
Max Allan Collins (keyboards)
Steve Leialoha (guitar)
Miguel Ferrer (drums)
Bill Mumy (guitar)
dancing in the crowd: Trina Robbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhdllAcH_4
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SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT (Live in San Diego / 1988)
I've had their CD for decades... but this is the first time I got to SEE them play!
Max Allan Collins (keyboards)
Steve Leialoha (guitar)
Miguel Ferrer (drums)
Bill Mumy (guitar)
dancing in the crowd: Trina Robbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhdllAcH_4
Is that the same Billy Mumy who played the young boy part in The US Lost in Space TV series in the early 1960s, and was a child actor in several US-produced feature films in the mid-to-late 1950s?
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Yep!
Bill Mumy actually scripted a Lost in Space comic in the 80's.
http://www.billmumy.com/mumy/comics/lis/
I think what we are looking at there is most of the cast of Lost in Space with the comic.
And here are the other comics Bill wrote
http://www.billmumy.com/mumy/comics/
Lost in Space Exclusive: Bill Mumy Visits The Jupiter 2 ? Robot Surprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR_TBlE0Bho
He's had an active career since LIS finished.
Interesting guy!
Cheers!
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Bill Mumy pretty much split his time between acting and music. He's been in a lot of bands over the years.
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"I CAN'T cover up a murder. Not even for a FIVE dollar bonus."
--Philip Marlowe (Ed Bishop) / "The Lady In The Lake"
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In posting to the Ron Turner book featured in the Reading Group, I came across this.
The Dukes Of Mumbai, Joe 90 Theme, Quarrington Road Street Party, Bristol 220913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9MlhHp9ss
None of you Gerry Anderson Fans have mentioned Joe 90 yet?!
One of the strengths of the Anderson shows was the theme music.
Joe 90: Season 1 Episode 1 - The Most Special Agent (Full Episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boL2xqSrhTU
Cheers!
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I just finished listening to the whole BBC Philip Marlowe series with Ed Bishop again, where they adapted all the novels. He's good in these, but the stories are WAY more downbeat and depressing than the Gerald Mohr radio series (which I believe were all new stories), and "The Big Sleep" (the 1st) is the only one that's really COHERENT. This is a knock on Chandler, not the radio shows.
The MOST incoherent has to be "The Little Sister". That one sneaks up on you, as the first 2 parts seem to make sense, but when you get to the 3rd, it's like Chandler suddenly decided to just DUMP all this crap on you, and it's too damned complicated for it to make sense to anyone, no matter how much you're trying to pay attention. The radio version is WAY more coherent than the James Garner film, but still managed to be a complete mess. The weird thing is, comparing movie to radio version, in the movie version, the older sister (the movie star) is more likable, while the younger sister is a horrendously unlikable character. In the radio version, the movie star exhibits no likable aspects at all, while the younger one SEEMS nicer... until halfway thru, when you find out she sold out her brother to get killed FOR MONEY, which we know her family will fight over. YEESH.
"The Long Goodbye" slowly becomes more complex as it goes, and I get the feeling it might make more sense if I listen again. The problem is, Marlowe's relationship with the police is so HORRIBLE in these stories, and even when his "old friend" Bernie Ochs turns up, that old friendship turns sour by the end. The one even vaguely nice thing is when you suddenly find out, right near the end, that one of the characters actually faked their own death... TWICE! --and is still alive after it's all over.
It's pretty obvious there's 2 reasons why Gerald Mohr's my favorite Marlowe. HE's one-- the writing on his show is the other.
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I don't know Chandler from the radio shows, but I have read everything he ever wrote, and most more than once. There are a very few writers that have the effect on me that if I pick up one of their books, no matter how many times I have read it, If I start it again, I am compelled to read it again cover to cover. And enjoy it just as much. Chandler is one of those.
Late in life, I picked up a copy of the short story collection, 'Trouble is my business' and in terms of my fiction reading it changed my life. Stories like 'Red Wind' and 'Goldfish' are more like poetry than prose. Superbly composed, superbly atmospheric. Thank you. Thanks to your post I have found this which I was never aware of.
PHILIP MARLOWE Private Eye - S1E6 - Red Wind - Powers Boothe - 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vbdWSw0w4s
This is not the best television version tho.
In fact this one is a mash-up of several Marlowe stories.
This one is the best. With Danny Glover of all people as Marlowe. But all the dialogue is pure Chandler, unlike most adaptions.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394558/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
That was an episode of a Noir TV series called 'Fallen Angels'
This was part of a series of reverent adaptations of classic hard-boiled detectives.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105994/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
Just look at that list of directors, writers and actors. definitely a labour of love. I have some of the episodes, but only some. I'll have to look for a DVD collection.
Christopher Lloyd , incidentally does a great job as The Continental Op
Chandler wrote relatively few stories, because he was never satisfied with his own work. So he took early stories and continually rewrote them and the ones he was nearly satisfied with became Marlowe stories.
Quote from Chandler:-
'When I first went to work in Hollywood a very intelligent producer told me that you couldn't make a successful motion picture from a mystery story, because the whole point was a disclosure that took a few seconds of screen time while the audience was reaching for its hat. He was wrong, but only because he was thinking of the wrong kind of mystery. "
"As to the emotional basis of the hard-boiled story, obviously it does not believe that murder will out and justice will be done - unless some very determined individual makes it his business to see that justice is done. The stories were abut the men who made that happen. They were apt to be hard men and what they did, whether they were called police officers, private detectives or newspaper men, was hard, dangerous work"
"The demand was for constant action, If you stopped to think, you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. This could get awfully silly, but somehow it didn't seem to matter. A writer who isn't afraid to overreach himself is useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong."
Raymond Chandler.
'Little Sister'? Read it many times, makes perfect sense. But, like Shakespeare in Hamlet, in between the introduction and the finale, the writer uses it as a platform, to go all over the place, create characters and make points and do some great writing. Both could be reduced to 10 minute short stories if the plot was the point. But the quotes.
Damn you! I have much to do today, and now I'm on a Chandler Jag!
Some episodes of 'Fallen Angels' here, and as your ears will tell you, the soundtracks are great too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjm1PtVmiAs&list=PLP7_eREdOsFxH-uKmHNL6juaBMlC2ba9d
And here's Christopher Lloyd as The Continental Op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8G5cuTNlD0&list=PLP7_eREdOsFxH-uKmHNL6juaBMlC2ba9d&index=14
Cheers!
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There's a long-running joke, that Howard Hawks' "THE BIG SLEEP" is "The only mystery where NOBODY ever figure out whodunit". Well, I admit I had to watch it 6 TIMES before it even began to make sense, and a few scenes, like the one where he's talking in circles with Joe Brody keeps trying to put me to sleep.
But this was after I'd seen the Robert Mitchum film (which made PERFECT sense!!!) and, read the novel (DITTO! --except for one minor addition the Mitchum film made, which PLUGGED a notorious plot hole so neatly it's amazing nobody ever did it earlier).
But just about every other Marlowe film I've seen has been various degrees of messes. And THE LITTLE SISTER with James Garner... dammit, I've seen that 6 times and STILL can't follow it from start to finish. I'm sorry, but... F*** you, Chandler!
There's a TON of Gerald Mohr radio shows at that same website, on the other page. I think it's criminal he never played Marlowe in a movie or TV series. He's better than Bogart!
I loved the 1st short season of the TV series that ran on HBO with Powers Booth. The UK producers made a fatal mistake-- UK money to make a series in Hollywood. Instead of the usual reverse. They went broke after only 5 episodes. Took 'em years to raise more money, then did it on the cheap in Canada. Those were too dark & depressing for me.
The radio version of "Farewell My Lovely" revealed why the 3 movies were liek 3 different stories-- each focused on different parts. GEEZ. I've watched the Dick Powell version over and over and still can barely follow the last act. Too much talking way too fast. Crazy enough, MY favorite version of that story is the one with George Sanders. YEAH, really.
"NO, NOT THE MOOSE!!!" -- Allan Jenkins
I can't go 6 months without watching both the Bogart & Mitchum versions of "THE BIG SLEEP" as a double-feature. LOVE 'em both. Especially Mitchum.
Which is funny, since I HATE Mitchum's "FAREWELL MY LOVELY".
I can appreciate style and social commentary... but if you're writing a murder mystery, DAMMIT, the mystery plot SHOULD make sense. Otherwise... the writer's GOT PROBLEMS.
1948-1951 radio shows
http://www.enteringthemindseye.com/philipmarlowe.html
1977-78 and 1988 radio shows
http://www.enteringthemindseye.com/philipmarlowe2.html
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2 YouTube concerts for your enjoyment.
First for all you blues/folk fans out there, and I know some of you are. And especially for any John Martyn fans among you. I think Dom Martin is a Scot, so some of you may already be aware of him, but I'm no expert on accents.
https://www.dommart.in/
Holohan's Live Presents - Dom Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vwDgXcWVU
Listening to it now and really enjoying it.
Also,
I seem to recall a thread about 'O Brother Where art thou' Bluegrass and ALISON KRAUSS. Can't find it right now, but here is a wonderful concert of Robert Plant and Alison that I've been meaning to post.
Robert Plant and Alison Krause 2008 Night 1 Live from the greek theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1JZGT5BMbU
Not the concert I was looking for but just as good.
If you haven't heard their two albums, you are really missing something.
Absolutely their best number
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Please Read The Letter live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr4v-bq87Yo
[Go-written by Jimmy Page, believe it or not!]
And if you only know Plant from Zeppelin you will be probably surprised.
Enjoy your weekends!
I thought
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SPOOKY! I can't believe this is 30 years old...
Kevin Johnson & The Linemen: "House Of Goin' Gone" (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blEEbQ3mpMI
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from tonight's movie:
3 of my FAVORITE minutes in the entire history of film.
"MEGLIO STASERA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paWt-vWYbyU
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from tonight's movie:
3 of my FAVORITE minutes in the entire history of film.
"MEGLIO STASERA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paWt-vWYbyU
I second that emotion.
Glad you posted this I'd just been thinking of this song.
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Something for Paw!
The Angry Brians: It's A Long Way To The Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWN0soPjEY
The Angry Brians: Danny Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP9dU6Oy08g
The Angry Brians: We Came To Fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMw3kygUnE
cheers!
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Richard Delvy: "THE GREEN SLIME" (1969 / full-length song!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGGvlTgfIw
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RIP Wilko Johnson
Wilko Johnson Obituary: My Memories of Wilko Johnson RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSi9ulH6GI
Riot in cell block Number Nine (Live) (2005 Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4jRbiXZ6KI
Ian Dury with Wilko Johnson - Sweet Gene Vincent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZ1KLkKh0g
Dr.Feelgood 【She Does It Right】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHm7uIC84YM
Dr.Feelgood 【Boom Boom】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snujJcogP4Y
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (Live) (2005 Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrMhXQ1XUlk
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RIP Wilko Johnson
:'(
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For Paw [in particular]
Tribute to Wilko Johnson in French.
A tribute to Wilko by Patrick Higgins who wrote two books about him:
https://monstres-sacres.blogspot.com/2022/11/wilko-johnson-in-memoriam.html
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Thanks Panther. I'm sending the link to my friends in the French group. Practice and enlightenment.
The last couple of days while I've been trying to write, Wilko and Dr Feelgod have been charging along on the stereo.
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Burt Bacharach having just passed and some dialogue about Elvis Costello happening in the reading group,
I thought I would post these as a tribute to Burt.
Marlene Dietrich, Burt Bacharach [arranger] - One for My Baby (Live In Rio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1kROMG7eI
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach Live @ The Royal Festival Hall - London / 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZ-D3Yw6C4
(Burt is on the keyboard.)
A Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-r20ZDo0SY
cheers!
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I heard Mott the Hoople on the radio today, All The Young Dudes. Not my favourite, so I checked youtube for my favourite MtH track - Roll Away The Stone. The audience reaction is distinctly cool:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyJHh451Y4
Such a great song. One guy seems to be tapping his foot. Underwhelmed doesn't cover it.
And while I'm at it, when young and cutting about the West of Scotland, music kept me sane. Some of the others I hung about with were soul fans. I still go back to Sam & Dave, certain Otis tracks,:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcyTB4GIKg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3BhEikz6E
Please play loud!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHaMV_eXko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0cpvfpdg4
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Burt Bacharach having just passed and some dialogue about Elvis Costello happening in the reading group,
I thought I would post these as a tribute to Burt.
Marlene Dietrich, Burt Bacharach [arranger] - One for My Baby (Live In Rio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1kROMG7eI
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach Live @ The Royal Festival Hall - London / 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZ-D3Yw6C4
(Burt is on the keyboard.)
A Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-r20ZDo0SY
cheers!
Burt Bacharach and Hal David are one of my favourite songwriting teams, along with Ivy Hunter and Mickey Stevenson, and Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Here are some of my favourite songs by them that weren't in The Bacharach-David Tribute, or are less well known, or great versions by artists not as well known for singing those songs:
Rain From The Skies - Adam Wade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcIIOxnkew
You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength - Gloria Lynne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5s5vQeb3bs
The Last One To Be Loved - Lou Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCNn0r_IGgs
It's Love That Really Counts In The Long Run - Marlina Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG-N7DI_wOA
I Could Make You Mine - The Wanderers (featuring Ray Pollard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MppSF8NIISM
I Cry Alone - Ruby And The Romantics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiznL9WAvFQ
I Just Don't Know What to With My Myself - Tommy Hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwhpbfBsoUA
This Empty Place - Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbupUtOyncs
If I Never Get To Love You - Lou Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRr1ZoavLj4
Let The Music Play - The Drifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ayp3zfujHY
Baby It's You - The Shirelles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKgkDxnG9Z8
Another Tear Falls - Marv Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLi7RiCR1SY
I Smiled Yesterday - Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01THpM5oVs
I Wake Up Crying - Chuck Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_BgWmi7EE
Kentucky Bluebird(Message To Martha) -Lou Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvo6HcG-rVI
Any Old Time of The Day - Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBvQUsv4DuA
Somebody Else's Sweetheart - The Wanderers (Featuring Ray Pollard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7fi-2OpUSk
In the Land Of Make Believe - The Drifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8ivwbLzIw
Here I Am - Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clzJAIp1ScU
Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) - Chuck Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AYI-_makRY
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Robb,
thanks for those links. I will probably be reposting some of them on a music site I frequent.
Re that tribute concert I posted.
I found it disappointing.
Somehow there was a lack of vigor and energy from the Orchestra.
Made me realize just how good an arranger and orchestra leaded Burt was.
When he arranged and conducted, the featured artist lifted and he got the best out of them.
That Diedrich number was from a live album. She did a tour and Burt was her arranger and accompanist.
She couldn't say a bad word about him.
Cheers!
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Paw!
I was wondering what your opinion was of the Rezillos. I assume you heard them in Scotland at least once?
The Rezillos - (My baby does) Good Sculptures @ Gordo Freak Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHy44DvPBOs
I see they have had a reunion,. In 2022?
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I enjoyed their stuff but never saw them live. I was acquainted with Joe Callas, who went on to the Human League. Been in his wee studio in Edinburgh. The acquaintance was brief as I met him through the bloke who ran FP. The business side of that still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Paw,
surely you know that :) : After his time with Mott The Hoople, Ian Hunter performed under his own name and gave great concerts.
In 1980 he was in Germany, in the Grugahalle Essen, as part of a "Rockpalast Nacht". The great Mick Ronson, who unfortunately died much too early, was a brilliant guest star in this concert.
Ian Hunter Band feat. Mick Ronson live at Rockpalast Germany, 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOD17bBrSg&ab_channel=WDRRockpalast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOD17bBrSg&ab_channel=WDRRockpalast)
Rockpalast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockpalast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockpalast)
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Robb, Panther,
thanks for the Burt Bacharach Links. :)
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I found myself once again enjoying the video for Caro Emerald's That Man. From what everyone has written here I gather I'll be the only one who likes this bouncy Dutch group. Watch the video anyway...it's a clever homage to Saul Bass, Hitchcock movies, and even a vintage arcade game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFA6dEwWOb4
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From what everyone has written here I gather I'll be the only one who likes this bouncy Dutch group.
Crash, what on earth makes you think that?
This tune reminds me of something else - I can't remember what that it is.
That's basically electroswing.
The Hot Sardines - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-XIKt-ADs
All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox European Tour Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk
The blonde is Morgan James - vocals - who has released a cover album of the Beatles White Album. Absolutely Brilliant.
Swing City. I Wanna Be Like You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKRLmtq7CE
There was a modernistic swing revival at the end of the 90's and into the 21st century. It died down but it's still out there.
Posted this because I love it!
Barbie Girl Vintage Beach Boys Style Aqua Cover ft Morgan James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQUqg0jraU0
Morgan James was on YouTube constantly during Lock-down. Many amazing covers.
enjoy!
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Any Studio Ghibli fans out there? Sure hope so!
Moments of Ma in Studio Ghibli Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlmVFm9g8ng
Cover of Merry go Round of Life from Howl's Moving Castle Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli film, performed by Grissini Project.
Howl's Moving Castle - Merry go round of Life cover by Grissini Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6qIzKxmW8Y
Kiki's Delivery Service - A Town With An Ocean View // GRISSINI PROJECT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUghW1KKpG0
My Neighbor Totoro - Tonari no Totoro // Grissini Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDCgwqJ0us
Princess Mononoke - The Legend of Ashitaka // Grissini Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98w0e0i9nv8
Enjoy!
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Here is a great concert!
Major Holley’s Salute to Louis Jordan at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 10-07-1981 • World of Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPrvR7J4JFs&ab_channel=WorldofJazz
Warning! Tap-Dancing!
cheers!
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OK, I listen to all sorts of music. I dislike rap, hip-hop. Certain C&W really appeals if it's Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, even a bit of Robert Earl Keene. But I really like a bit of noise. Stuff that charges along.
So, as a big Chris Farlowe fan I suggest this, the B-side to Ride on Baby. What a racket. Please play loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-DD_ZgZ0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-DD_ZgZ0s)
While I'm at it, I've mentioned this next one before but you can't get too much of a good thing. Small Faces and P.P. Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo)
And here's Plonk Lane giving it laldy:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22iu_TQ6Vo0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22iu_TQ6Vo0)
One more 'cos it's stunning:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4KOqY6HEY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4KOqY6HEY)
In a week or two I'll be back to EST and GoGo Penguin
Actually, please play all these loud. You might not like them but there's energy, excitement, talent and sheer enjoyment.
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Good stuff!
Thanks Paw.
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Thanks from me too, Paw! Always loved Small Faces- hadn't heard the extended "Afterglow of Your Love" before. Couldn't get the the Chris Farlowe B-side though. Could you give us the title, please? Cheers, bowers
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wri-vj3B5OY
That should be it. Fingers crossed.
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Got it, Paw! Chris Farley just wasn't very well known over here and I believe it was you who introduced me to his work- thanks! Cheers, bowers
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Some live performances from my favourite Bluegrass musician of all time: Tony Rice!
- Ten Degrees and Getting Colder:
https://youtu.be/nikO4Yls52Y
- Nine Pound Hammer:
https://youtu.be/HfaclUfJuI4
- Why You Been Gone So Long:
https://youtu.be/tONjW0-Ok_4
- Old Home Place:
https://youtu.be/gK0iMLvCfFM
- Never Meant To Be:
https://youtu.be/KWT1Z0g2pUY
- Some Old Day:
https://youtu.be/FVRB6yFsIew
- I'll Stay Around:
https://youtu.be/5BVLemDIiUU
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I'm currently in the process of organizing all my books, videos, pulps, toys and games, comics, and other ephemera located in my "Basement of Doom". Hasn't had a proper going-over in years and what better to listen to than some old-time radio? Starting with "The Blue Beetle" (I want to hear a Kooba Cola commercial) and then on to "The Green Hornet"! Also been working on "The Scarlet Pimpernel"- fun, but with a strange sense of continuity. One episode has everyone knowing Sir Percy is the Pimpernel and in the very next episode, nobody knows! The lead actor, Marius Goring, must have insisted in his contract that the announcer use his name at least twice in all the intros, as well as his most famous screen credit! Annoying, but Goring was a bit of a ham. Wish me luck, guys! Cheers bowers
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Astrud Gilberto
[29 March 1940 - 5 June 2023]
Astrud Gilberto - FLY ME TO THE MOON - 1964 - Stereo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldt_ylbAqe4
Astrud Gilberto - Corcovado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srw5FRm5eA&list=RDEMTx-WnvUgTkmyPWQAINVyQg&start_radio=1
&rv=ldt_ylbAqe4
Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (1964) LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdaFQhS86E
Call Me · Astrud Gilberto · Walter Wanderley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhRz8CNDfmI
ASTRUD GILBERTO - ÁGUA DE BEBER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JHPGWFGiA
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Paw,
to cheer you up!
GoGo Penguin - Jazz à la Villette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7LmhOEnIs4
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Wonderful Panther. Thank you. I've listened to and watched this performance. Uplifting.
I'm testing negative now. Due to my good immune system or a blast of The Groundhogs followed by a wallow in the sheer quality of GoGo Penguin?
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Re-acquainted with some 1972 Denny Laine tunes:
Destiny Unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVTRDk7u6i4&t=89s
Baby Caroline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVTRDk7u6i4&t=242s
and, my favorite:
Sons Of Elton Haven Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVTRDk7u6i4&t=812s
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Paw.
congratulations on the new Avatar. An Egmont cover, I think?
To celebrate,
see if you like the music of Jazz Guitar wonder-kind Kurt Rosenwinkel.
Live From Emmet's Place Vol. 105 - Kurt Rosenwinkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe8VP054kKE
Listening to this as I type.
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Thanks for the link AP.
Not Egmont. Detail from Charlton # 74 cover. The late, great Don Newton
I did look at a lot of Felmang covers but decided on Charlton.
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In 1972, Groucho Marx performed for the last time on stage. He talked about family and career memories, as well as sang songs. It was hosted by Dick Cavett at Carnegie Hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_HIpir584&ab_channel=PrincessBunhead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_HIpir584&ab_channel=PrincessBunhead)
Wikipedia:
'An Evening With Groucho' is the title of a 1972 compilation recording of the one-man show by American comedian Groucho Marx, edited from three separate performances: New York City's Carnegie Hall, C.Y. Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University, and Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, California. With the Carnegie Hall show’s introduction by Dick Cavett, the resulting performances were released as a double album by A&M Records. Marx shared family and show business stories and performed songs from Marx Brothers stage shows and movies. Marvin Hamlisch performed an opening overture and accompanied Groucho on the piano. A numbered, limited edition edited single picture disc edition was released in 1978, and a compact disc version was later briefly available.
In 2018, the recording was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant".
(By the way, I am one of the happy owners of the CD. 8) )
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the resulting performances were released as a double album by A&M Records.
I owned that. Good memories.
This is too good not to share.
Bohemian Catsody - A Rhapsody Parody Song for Every Cat Queen and King!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXezLv_5RaY
Funny? Or Scary?
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This is too good not to share. Funny? Or Scary?
All my pen pals and I love it !!! ;D ;D
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POP.
Baby Jane (not the Dr Feelgood stormer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxl2r6GuL2w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxl2r6GuL2w)
Here comes My Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwVwKimw70 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwVwKimw70)
And as a picture of you is in that last tune, here's the real one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-EFKv1qn8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-EFKv1qn8)
What Kind of Love is This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjL89_K4b4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjL89_K4b4)
Feel like dancin' yet? Well - The Cha Cha Cha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jT2UDoF0dw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jT2UDoF0dw)
More of the great Bobby Rydell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlW_baBL3wY
( Could have been one for Jay and The Americans)
Just the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL7t22rypew&list=PL7971024A1ED55A4A&index=28
Hope you enjoy them.
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Wow! The Trems, Bobby, Joe Brown and Dusty! Loved 'em all- what a great time to be a teen. Thanks for the memories, Paw! Cheers, bowers
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Danke Paw. 8)
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Blake's 7 Theme and Title Sequences
Dudley Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGBFrdcfzY
[All Title Sequences from the BBC TV SF classic, Blake's 7 Theme by Dudley Simpson]
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Leaving here a less known Grateful Dead song, which is just as amazing as Friend of the Devil, Althea or their other more famous tunes.
The Golden Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjQcCNUva6Y
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Leaving here a less known Grateful Dead song, which is just as amazing as Friend of the Devil, Althea or their other more famous tunes.
Very fine, thank you. I mostly like 'Friend of the Devil' from the LP 'Dead Set' (1980) and 'Althea' from the 'Rockpalast' concert in Germany (1981).
As is well known, every Grateful Dead fan (DeadHead) is always looking for his personal favorite version of a Dead song, I am sure that I have now found my favorite version of 'Fire On The Mountain'. Although the DVD has been on my shelf for years, I recently saw the 'Winterland' concert for the first time. :-[ ;D
On New Year's Eve 1978, the legendary 'Winterland Arena' in San Francisco, where the Dead often performed, closed, so it was almost a given that the last concert in the hall would be given by the Dead. It started around midnight and lasted about 6 hours, quite a normal concert length for the Dead when they were in the right mood to play. ;D 8)
At around 6 a.m. the Dead left the stage and left it to the audience with the words: "Who wants can play - we go to breakfast . . ." ;D
Grateful Dead - Fire On The Mountain - The Closing Of Winterland Concert, 12-31-78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxsL9G9r6g&ab_channel=lndifference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxsL9G9r6g&ab_channel=lndifference)
P.S.
I'm currently reading the wonderful book 'An American Odyssey: Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead' by Rock Scully and David Dalton in the German-language edition of an Austrian publisher from 1996. The book now costs up to €90 in used bookstores, I got it for €40 (with CD) and it's a large joy reading the book and at the same time listening the Dead music or see an Dead DVD. :)
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Great stuff indeed, Comickraut! At different times, some members of the Dead (including Jerry) as well as Spence Dryden from Jefferson Airplane played in a country-rock spinoff group called New Riders of the Purple Sage. Definitely a party band and SO great live! Here's a taste...
Panama Red- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9G0emfp87E
Henry- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECE76POso7Q
Last Lonely Eagle (Jerry on pedal guitar) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IruegBOCxE
Cheers, Bowers
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Interesting, I've never heard of them, Bowers. I'll check them out!
I'm not a huge Deadhead, I just really like their music, so I'm not much of an expert on the various live versions of their song like you are, Kraut. But I do know that a great part of their greatness were their live concerts.
As for my favourite songs by them, I like Alabama Getaway, Shakedown Street, Fire on the Mountain, Hell in a Bucket, Touch of Grey, Truckin', Brown Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed, U.S. Blues... and obviously the ones I mentioned above: Friend of the Devil, Althea and The Golden Road.
I'm overall more of a country music guy (traditional country, bluegrass and texas swing), but they're one of the non-country bands I really enjoy listening to.
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Fra, if you like more traditional CW music with a touch of swing, then you might like the group Asleep at the Wheel...
Somebody Stole His Body- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnVcagsEPQo
Boot Scoot Boogie- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Z0w0bajGA
Get Your Kicks on Route 66- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9FzAnFPhJs
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Interesting! I never heard of them but they definitely make great music. Some great western swing right there! Thanks, Bowers!
Here are some of my favourite western swing tunes:
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Ida Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbZ8dp2AIw
- Red Steagall: Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC4U5hEOE2Y
- Tex Williams: I Got Texas In My Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YipH0ENXw6g
- Hank Thompson: Six Pack To Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_2m-p5GpqY
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Thanks, FraBig! Some of the best fathers of western swing! I knew about Tex Williams but had never heard his stuff. Great stuff. Cheers, bowers
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Bowers,
I sent you a PM. Did you get it?
cheers!
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I'm not a huge Deadhead, I just really like their music, so I'm not much of an expert on the various live versions of their song like you are, Kraut.
Too much honor :D. I call myself a Deadhead, even though I've never seen them live and there are years when I rarely listen Dead music, which is completely fine for me personally. But now and then I listen a lot of Dead music for weeks and that's the case right now and then I'm also looking for all kinds of versions of my Dead favorite songs.
Music is a very important part of my life and these are my favorites:
The Beatles and then in no particular order, the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Latin Quarter and the Stones. Not forgetting, of course, my beloved Beethoven. :)
I'm at home in all areas of music, only rap, hip hop, house and other modern music, as important as it is, are not my personal cup of tea, but that doesn't matter, the music universe is so big that everyone can find something for themselves.
Mike :)
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That's pretty cool, Mike! I also have some favourite artists that I listen to periodically.
My absolute favourite is John Denver, then it comes Tony Rice (awesome bluegrass guitarist), Jimmie Rodgers (the father of country music), Hank Williams, Elvis Presley (mostly his 1950s songs) and others. I enjoy the Beatles and the Beach Boys, the Grateful Dead, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many other bands, but I don't listen to them as frequently.
I have also a soft spot for Doo-Wop music, and I really like the Platters and the Mills Brothers.
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From Brazil - Guitar Blues Rock as it shoud be played.
HEY JOE - NUNO MINDELIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFiv6VCK1E
Nuno Mindelis - Ao Vivo - Blues para o Brasil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-UFM7DzShk
NUNO MINDELIS - BIRIM BIRIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCXAHYm3PyU
NUNO MINDELIS - CABINDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9hLM04XRk
Nuno Mindelis | Funky Mama (Danny Gatton) | Instrumental Sesc Brasil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htslRSu174w
Nuno Mindelis - I know what you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAHfLuthxcg
Nuno Mindelis - Show 6º Festival de Blues e Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8URrOH7IrI
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Well, since you mention guitar as it should be, how about this? Link Wray, it's all over now Baby Blue:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAKGAEYBu8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAKGAEYBu8)
Or:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE9HvSdcaL4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE9HvSdcaL4)
The Wind cries Mary:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIOgqneBedg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIOgqneBedg)
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Well, since you mention guitar as it should be, how about this? Link Wray,
Now that's one-up-manship!
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the Poets -Wooden Spoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCzbVBCSl4
the Poets- in Your Tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQyvfWjRbsU
the Poets - That's the Way It's Got to Be (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM5-zF85LE
the Poets - I Am so Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fluAC7-M5o
the Poets I'll Cry with the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQ1z-ZaXyw
Beat from Scotland
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Between Panther and Paw, I've just reached a state of nirvana. Omigod- such great stuff! Panther, Nuno Mandelis is just plain incredible. How did you find them? And thanks for reintroducing me to The Poets. I think Paw mentioned them, and I got hooked. I wish I'd known about them in my younger days! And Paw, thanks for the Link Wray link- he was a true power-chord pioneer. Sadly, he's not very well remembered today. Cheers, bowers
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An early Dire Straits concert. :)
Dire Straits - 1979.02.16 - Rockpalast Concert / WDR Studio Cologne) - Full Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCR_M9nscg&ab_channel=KnopflertkUnlimited (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCR_M9nscg&ab_channel=KnopflertkUnlimited)
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Many, many thanks for the Dire Straits concert.
Here, I heard this on the radio and it brought back memories. Great stuff from Dave Edmunds:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4TzjRFfsJs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4TzjRFfsJs)
And then there's this. So good:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxGCxoNTMw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxGCxoNTMw)
Completely different, Eddie and The Hot Rods:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK8pAfhC4Rk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK8pAfhC4Rk)
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Le notti dei Teddy Boys (Rock cantato) (Remastered 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7tAgC-q7E
From Italian [B ?] movie 'Le notti dei Teddy Boys'
This is ridiculous! But Brilliant.
enjoy!
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Cool, Panther! I've never watched that movie but that song is pretty fun.
Speaking of Dire Straits, here's an awesome rendition of Money for Nothing, featuring Sting, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CB9OrGZ7-c
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Many, many thanks for the Dire Straits concert.
You're welcome :) and thanks for Dave Edmunds, unfortunately at some point you didn't hear much from him anymore, just like it was with Steve Miller, as I just remember. But I have CDs and DVDs of these artists and I also prefer listening to the old pieces.
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Adventures by Morse: The City of the Dead
As I've said before, my appreciation for Old Time Radio was born in my elementary school days, when chronic headaches sent me to bed early to lie in a darkened room listening to our old Silvertone AM clock radio. There was a minor nostalgia fad going on and several radio stations broadcast OTR shows in the evenings. I was introduced to The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Suspense, Have Gun Will Travel, and more. The cream of the crop was I Love a Mystery.
The serial was broadcast by some far-distant station. My memory says it was in central Canada, but I could be wrong. Listening gave me the full Golden Age experience. Huddled close to the speaker, bathed by the pale green clock back light, I strained to hear through the static, constantly adjusting the tuning knob as the signal faded in and out. I'll never forget that thrill. The serials were "Bury Your Dead, Arizona" and "The Temple of the Vampires." The finest mind candy!
(https://i.etsystatic.com/26348120/r/il/d9d0a8/5540238189/il_794xN.5540238189_7d2r.jpg)
(Ours was red and didn't have the day/date)
While I've never been a full-on OTR collector, I've revisited ILAM occasionally. Some of the glamour has rubbed off as older me recognizes the clunky parts. Now here I am again thanks to Covid. Stuck at home with no energy and nothing to do I spend hours staring at a stupid screen. I turned to audio drama to ease my eye strain. I decided to renew my acquaintance with Carleton E Morse by listening to Adventures by Morse, an "ILAM in everything but name" which Morse launched following the cancellation of the original program. The entire series (52 episodes) is here on CB+.
The show was packaged in groups of 13 episodes: one ten-chapter story followed by a three-chapter story. These were syndicated to local stations. Morse ran the operation himself, sending out transcriptions (phonograph records) to subscribing stations who returned them after use. Consequently, unlike most OTR shows, the entire run of Adventures by Morse still exists in complete high-quality form. I started at the top, with The City of the Dead.
Captain Bart Friday stands in for ILAM's Jack Packard. It seems his cantankerous elderly father is "mayor" of The City of the Dead, a remote cemetery that has long since ceased getting new residents. The mayor and his friend, a country doctor who retired when the last of his patients moved into The City of the Dead, are beset by grave robbers, a bell ringing in a decaying church that has no bell, and a young couple stranded nearby when their car is hijacked. Captain Friday must sort everything out while dodging a murderous figure with animal-like claws, finding and losing several stray corpses, and being stymied at every turn because none of the others will tell the truth about what they know.
It's a typical Carleton Morse setup. He had a knack for keeping a large cast moving in a complicated story without losing the audience. All the mysteries are satisfactorily explained in the end. Unfortunately all the explanation is condensed into a final-episode lecture. I presume this was because Morse didn't want to spread the solution over two episodes. That's too bad because some of the information comes from someone we never meet. It would have been better to have heard it first hand.
Overall I enjoyed the story with a couple of exceptions. My biggest gripe is the overuse of the "we haven't time for that now" trope in which Friday refuses to answer a key question so he can get on with the story. This clumsy withholding of information was unfortunately a common shtick in OTR adventure serials. The acting is generally good though the young man needs more training and his girlfriend spends too much time crying and moaning. Sound effects are adequate.
"The City of the Dead" was worth the time spent listening despite some maddening padding in spots. By the way, in this storyline Friday's drawling sidekick Skip Turner, a clone of ILAM's Doc, doesn't appear. He shows up for the first time in the following 3-parter.
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Adventures by Morse: A Coffin for the Lady
This is the three-part adventure which followed the 10-part "City of the Dead." It's unrelated to the longer story. Captain Friday, this time with his cornpone-mouthed sidekick Skip Turner, investigates shady dealings on Canada's northern coast. It's an efficient, satisfying tale. Being only three episodes there's no padding and things move at a good clip. Unfortunately the whole thing is almost torpedoed by an international cast of graduates from the Dick van Dyke School of Authentic Accents. Migawd, they're terrible! Also, Skip Turner is something of a jerk.
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Adventures by Morse: The Cobra King Strikes Back
Now this is more like it! Friday and Skip accompany an archaeological expedition into the Cambodian jungle, searching for a temple-city similar to Angkor Wat. They run into way more than they expected. This is Morse doing what he does best: full-throated over-the-top fantasy adventure. Starting on a historical note, the story soon spins off into a completely bonkers mash-up of snakes, gorillas, menacing priests, and lycanthropy.
Although one of the cast offers a welcome admonition not to lump all "Orientals" together, the story is a bit too heavy on the "Mysterious Orient" stuff. Setting that aside, it's a great ride. The huge final battle, during which the good guys are hanging from ladders on the walls inside a hollow mountain, in near-total darkness, fighting off an assault by a crowd of howling beast-men, is an imaginative feast.
One of Morse's trademarks was to have characters paint elaborate verbal pictures of the show's exotic locales. This makes for some very unrealistic dialogue, but if you accept the writing style you're treated to some vibrant images.
The sour note in all this is Skip Turner. The comic-relief hot-pants "ladies' man" is an old cliche, but Skip takes it to the limit and beyond. No matter how dire the straits all the can think of is ogling women. It's super-annoying.
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Adventures by Morse: The Girl on Shipwreck Island
It's fashionable today to wave off questionable content in old-time media by saying, "It's just a product of the time." Well, I can't believe that there weren't people in 1944 who were offended by this preposterous pile of rubbish. Spoilers ahead, because I want to save you the pain of listening to it.
This three-parter finds Friday and Skip making an emergency landing on a tiny Pacific island. As they work on their plane they discover the remains of a yacht driven aground by a storm. Soon they discover the Girl in the title, dodge bullets, and start piling up the bodies. Thereupon hangs a plot that reads like a parody of those old "men's sweat" magazines. During the two months since the shipwreck, the woman, a feisty British ladies' maid, has been living on one side of the island, holding off the other survivors, all men. In the meantime these men are hunting and killing each other. Why? Because each wants to be the last man alive so he can "have" the woman to himself.
Our heroes try to get the woman to come with them on their now-repaired plane. Half the time she's willing, but the other half of the time she'd rather stay. In fact she rather likes the attention! Finally it's down to our boys and Pirate Manuel fighting for possession while the lady herself takes a powder. It turns out that all this time she's been hiding a secret ally, another man who has befriended her and helps protect her honor. Once Pirate Manuel is vanquished, the secret helper prepares to execute Friday and Skip because--wait for it!--he is in fact obsessed with the girl himself and wants to be stranded on the island with her forever so he can "play her like a violin."
Perched atop this claptrap is Skip Turner's "comical" personality. No matter how dangerous the situation, no matter if the woman has just been kidnapped and traumatized, all Skip can talk about is getting his hands on her. He badgers her to the point that I longed for her to run a boot up his manly limbs and rearrange the family jewels.
Once more ethnic accents prove the downfall of the Adventures by Morse troupe. The character named Cockney and the shipwrecked maid share Liza Doolittle accents while Pirate Manuel works on his Alfonso Bedoya. There is one saving grace: the talking parrot, which sounds like some guy striving unsuccessfully to imitate a parrot, turns out to be some guy striving unsuccessfully to imitate a parrot. This mess of a story was so wretched that I lost my urge to listen to the rest of the series. Maybe another time.
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Crash, I just finished "City of the Dead" about a month ago! Love listening to OTR while puttering around the basement. I agree the second entry, "A Coffin for the Lady", wasn't up to the standard of the first show. I found it annoying and more than a bit boring. Wasn't going to listen to any more of them, but your critique of "The Cobra King Strikes Back" piqued my interest, so I guess I'll give it a try! Cheers, bowers
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Some soundtracks - obviously with Prof in mind
But I do love this stuff.
I put it on in the background while reading appropriate books.
Gill Melle is surprisingly good.
Brings back memories of the shows.
There is also his soundtrack for the Andromeda Strain. on YouTube
Columbo Short Fuse: Opening Credits (Gil Mellé) 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWIsM8k-G0g
Columbo ~ Short Fuse 1972 music by Gil Mellé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkJPim9Fj3s
The music of Night Gallery (1969 1973) ~ Bits and Pieces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QemplarETKc
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (Original TV Soundtrack) - Gil Mellé [album]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4K7RP777Zk
enjoy!
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I'm a huge Tony Rice fan, and it happens a lot of his songs are Gordon Lightfoot covers. I've been recently exploring more of Lightfoot's discography and he surely was an awesome songwriter. Here's one of my favourites among his tunes:
Carefree Highway
https://youtu.be/mys5G8ZqjrE?si=kkObVN8cEu5qiWFX
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Here's another favourite of mine by Gordon Lightfoot. Been listening a lot to him recently.
Endless Wire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTWqQ3gLl88
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Yeah, Mr. Lightfoot was definitely one of a kind! He sang what he felt and took us all along for the ride.
I'm currently burning a new batch of CDs for the car. A mix of all my favorite country-rock, bluegrass, Celtic folk and instrumentals, and whatever else I can find to feel the joy! I played a lotta blues and retro-rock during the Fall and Winter, and I don't care what the calendar says- I'm welcoming Spring early!
I also found some OTR programs I'm really enjoying. Two series featuring John Creasey's creation, that dapper amateur sleuth, "The Toff". I liked the books and was pleasantly surprised to find the recordings were very well done, with great sound and production values.
Hope everyone is safe and well! Cheers, bowers
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This fall and winter I've been listening a lot to the Grateful Dead, Jim Croce and obviously Lightfoot. I don't know what I'll be listening to in spring, but I'm open to new genres and some change.
Today I finally managed to listen to the most recent John Denver album "The Last Recordings", which I have bought on CD. They released it this year but it's a collection of some of his most icomic songs as he recorded them in his last recording session in 1996, shortly before he tragically died in that plane crash. I found it wonderful, some songs are even better than their original recordings.
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The BetterDays was a British RnB group in the 60's who were known from gigs but never released much but by many are considered the equals of the Animals or the Stones.
The Betterdays - Don't Want That - 1965 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2MPgQ4_4Do
The Betterdays Route 66
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcA5UUSkVtg&list=OLAK5uy_mDvikabSqdECkQ3y3xa6LmmfJRzSCqAVA&index=29
The Betterdays Don't Start Me To Talking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?=OsPx0uABTYA&list=OLAK5uy_mDvikabSqdECkQ3y3xa6LmmfJRzSCqAVA&index=31
There has now been an anthology released. It's worth getting hold of.
Enjoy!
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Great stuff, Panther! Takes me back to the days of smoke-filled bars and elbow-to elbow dance floors! Happy times, indeed. Cheers, bowers