Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 8, 2024 Favoriting

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

Monday 9 - 11pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting April 8, 2024: Episode #89

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Artist Track Album Label Year Images Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune  "Rocket Racket"   Favoriting 23 March 1954  NBC   
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Bold Venture  "Revenge Is Sweet"   Favoriting 24 March 1952  Santana Productions   
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Lex Baxter 
April in Portugal   Favoriting
 
 
 
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Unpublished History  Radio in the 1920s (Part 4)   Favoriting Radio In The 1920s  Self-Released  2024 
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The Blue Beetle  "Death Strikes From The East, Part 2"   Favoriting 5 June 1940  Mutual–Don Lee Network   
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X-Minus One  "Skulking Permit"   Favoriting 15 February 1956  NBC Radio   
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi folks! Just back from an eclipse trip. Cloudy, but total!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:55
Wonderful to see you tonight! Thanks for poppin' in.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57
I hope that eclipse was great! Now you can enjoy something else about space...
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:01pm
Imaginos:

Are those headlines in pica or elite?
  9:01pm
Charles:

I was lucky enough to live in an area of totality and it was sunny too!

Ending a great day with a great show!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

This episode seems to has dropped the "Perry Shane" premise, and has gone back to the "Rocky works various part time jobs" gimmick. Given how the premise is pretty thin in this show anyway, I'm sometimes surprised they even try to reference it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
yerfriendpaul:

Hey Austin, everyone!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:01
You never know!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:01
Charles! Thanks for joining us.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02
yerfriendpaul! Hooray!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

This is the second-to-last episode of these series. Since there were 26 episodes, they could play the entire series twice a year, and only have episodes repeat twice a year. Therefore, Rocky Fortune ran on AFRS for YEARS after the final 1954 episode. (Armed Forces Radio Service.) Those episodes were often beefed up with a song from Sinatra's catalog, occasionally songs that related to the stories. Other stations in the US would run Rocky Fortune, too, as Sinatra's fame continues for a long time after this, but since there were no new episodes being made, it was sometimes hard to keep the show on at any given station for very long.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

Rocky references, "Dimension X," a show that was written by George Lefferts, who also wrote "Rocky Fortune." George Lefferts was mostly known for writing Sci-Fi, but Rocky Fortune was his effort to write something a little different.
Avatar 9:08pm
Mr Fab:

Hey Austin! Yeah, i noticed that “Dimension X” reference. Crossover episode!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @9:07
Old time radio synergy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:08
Mr. Fab! Thanks for joining us!

I found a podcast that does a good biography of Sinatra (and of Bogart and Bacall), so I might cut those up and run them as segments on this show.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

Another "From Here to Eternity" reference. I should have kept count, but there are at least six or so now.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

"Chromium Nightmare" sounds like the title of a Gary Wilson song.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

From here on, Rocky has taken off his shoes.
Avatar 9:15pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @9:10
yeah, that was a funny. All those in-jokes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:15
I'm working on a "Rocky Fortune" zine that I might try to release this fall. (Depending on how quickly it comes together...)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
yerfriendpaul:

Lead boots, ha ha
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
yerfriendpaul:

Doesn’t sound like Frank inside the suit, does it?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

While it is fun to hear Sinatra do this show, and I am a big fan, I can tell why no one wanted to keep going. George had other radio work, Frank was getting Hollywood work and was making hit records again, and on the whole, the timing was only good for a limited time. But it is a nice artifact of a period where this kind of experiment could even happen.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:20
Hard to say... might have been another cast member?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @9:23
I think it was. Definitely didn’t sound like him
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Imaginos:

Good episode
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:25
Speaking of: we need to get back to working on your episode. I think Heather is almost ready to get back to work...
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:25
I'm looking forward to it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

This episode is "crackly," but plays all the way through. I did a tiny bit of EQ to make it sound a little better, but for the most part, it is what it is.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

Speaking of endings: we only have four more episodes of "Bold Venture" after this one. I'm also considering a "Bold Venture" zine, but that is on the back-burner.
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:25
We should be able to find Some appropriate piano music for the bar scenes
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:29
Agreed.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

I think the one challenge of this show is that, occasionally - for story reasons - Slate and Sailor are supposed to be fighting, or experiencing some sort of tension. While they try... the fact that they are in love with each other is so clear and evident, that those scenes don't always work.

But it's still nice to hear them talk.
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:36pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:29
Also, I am wondering about door chimes
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

"Bold Venture" had an even longer syndication run after the show wrapped than "Rocky Fortune." There were more episodes, and the "Bogart and Bacall" chemistry was so "in-demand" that stations often wanted to run "Bold Venture" as a regular feature. Their show only had to repeat episodes once every year or so, compared to "Rocky Fortune." Still, the fact that Bogart passed in '57 did have an impact on his popularity on radio and in film.
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:38pm
Imaginos:

Amnesia?
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yerfriendpaul:

Ha ha, dumb animals
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:38
Aren't we all?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:41pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @9:39
Yes indeed
  9:46pm
Charles:

Heads will roOoIll !!

That cracked me up the way he said that along with the tiny stepping sounds.
  9:48pm
Charles:

I dont know if it's the sound effects or what but I keep expecting the three stooges to pop up in this episode.
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:49pm
Imaginos:

↳ Charles @9:48
Strange sfx indeed
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Austin Rich:

This was near the end of the run. I wonder if the FX folks were just getting silly.
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:51pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:50
I think the BV needed a new engine
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:54pm
Imaginos:

If Max Headroom was on radio back then I wonder how many times Edison would be whacked on the head, not including when Bryce Lynch did it
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 10:03pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @9:06
I read that Frank won his "From Here to Eternity" Oscar the same week the final "Rocky Fortune" episode broadcast.
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Imaginos:

Getting sleepy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @10:11
Sleep well.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

I love the idea of "Radio Parties."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:18pm
Austin Rich:

I would throw radio parties if I could.
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Heather:

Next party, I'm making my friends do this game.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:18
I wouldn't. It's a 100 year old game. You could make up something better.
  🎸 ♥ 10:23pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:20
I mean, the one baby shower I ever hosted, I made people play the Poopy Diaper Game so I'm not known for excellent ideas for party games...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:23
Any game people play at a Baby Shower should not be played under any circumstances, Baby's Showering or otherwise.
  🎸 ♥ 10:27pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:25
Oh I agree. When I was planning, someone suggested we play a game where we measure out toilet paper and whoever got closest to fitting the paper around the mom's belly would win. I was aghast and mentioned this was an adoption.

A surprising amount of TP goes into baby shower games....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

I've said this before, but "The Blue Beetle" really skirts the line between content that is racist. (And there's a pro-America line of thought that gets a little weird.) I make no arguments that The Blue Beetle is essential or worth ignoring its' faults, but hearing some of these caricatures and musical parodies is not great, and I wanna call it out. These shows were written by, and performed by, white Americans, and they didn't really know anything about Chinese culture, aside from stereotypes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:27
I try to limit the ways I use TP, and none of those involve parties or games.
  🎸 ♥ 10:31pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:29
I've made a wedding gown of TP at a bridal shower. Probably more than once. Sigh
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:31
I think the number of Wedding Gowns I've made in my life might surprise you.
  🎸 ♥ 10:32pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:31
How many???
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:32
One. And not exactly a gown, but as close as you can get with plastic and you're doing a Laura Palmer riff.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

We'll go about five-ish minutes over, everyone. Sorry about that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Skulking Permit"" by "X-Minus One"
This sort of story has the right blend of comedy and sci-fi that tickles my fancy, and seems like a pre-cursor to something Douglas Adams might write.
  🎸 ♥ 10:37pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:33
That is more than I would have thought!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

Planet New Delaware!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

"I don't know. What's a criminal?"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

<silly music cue>
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:40pm
Austin Rich:

This is the story that "X-Minus One" decided to air the day after Valentine's Day.

I don't know why, but that feels relevant to me.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:41pm
Austin Rich:

No free elections of free speech! How... business as usual?
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: ""Death Strikes From The East, Part 2"" by "The Bl...
As I probably said here before, the only Blue Beetle stories I've read were Steve Ditko's 1967/1968 publications that also featured Ditko's creation, The Question (There should've been a radio series about him!).
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:43pm
yerfriendpaul:

Poor Tom. This is gonna be trouble for him
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:43
I do love those Question stories! I've been trying to track all those down, when I can. I'm a sucker for Ditko's work.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:43
Yeah. Damned if he does...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:43
The 80's Blue Beetle is sort of silly... he quips and references Monty Python.. in the 80's he's like a Batman with a sense of humor, and a less grim costume.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:46pm
Austin Rich:

This story feels like it's a pretty pointed commentary on the need for police.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

We've got about 13 minutes left.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

"It's a utopia! It's subversive!"
  🎸 ♥ 10:57pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:52
I'm staying tuned in! Thanks for the awesome show, as always!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:57pm
yerfriendpaul:

I’d like this village. I love root beer
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah. I think it's a pretty good story.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:01pm
Austin Rich:

Fishing is pretty gristly. I hated killing fish.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:03pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks for listening everyone! See ya next week.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:03pm
yerfriendpaul:

Loved that. Glad Tom didn’t have to kill anyone
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @11:03
Yeah. It just wasn't in him.
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: ""Skulking Permit"" by "X-Minus One"
Skulk is not a word you hear a lot these days. It reminds me of the alter ego of Johnny Hart's titular "B.C." protagonist.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @11:05
I don't hear it often anymore. You are right!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:06pm
yerfriendpaul:

Thanks Austin!
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