WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 5:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: While "Snow White" is not immediately pegged as a "holiday" film, in olden times, it was often available to be seen in theaters around the holidays, a tradition that was sort of begun in the late 30's, by this appearance on Lux Radio Theater. Afterwards, Disney would make this (and many other films) available for the holidays.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This is sort of referenced in "Gremlins," where "Snow White" is not only playing in the town that the film is set in, but the Gremlins themselves take time out of their movie to watch "Snow White" for a few minutes, too.
	9:05pm Charles: Hello, the flu has not been kind to me these past days. I need to rest but if my coughing doesn't allow me to I'll be glad to be in the caring arms of the Dimestore.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles! Great to see you, and here's hoping that you best this flu, soon.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Gremlins is one of my favorite movies, and since both "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Snow White" are referenced in "Gremlins," it only makes sense that both movies make an appearance in our holiday film line-up for this year.
	9:07pm Charles: Thank you Austin, perhaps Snow White knows of a way for me to fall into slumber.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The voice of Snow White - Adriana Caselotti - had a very short, but fascinating career. Unfortunately, when she met Walt Disney, he was so insistent that the voice of Snow White be utterly unique, that he forced her into a contract where she could not voice other characters after the film was made. While she did appear occasionally after "Snow White" (usually in secret), appearances like this - where she could play the character for Walt - were the only other ways she could make money after that contract.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Her other appearances after "Snow White" are all uncredited: one of the voices in, "The Wizard of Oz," a voice at Martini's in "It's A Wonderful Life," and she plays one of the opera singers in "We Were Dancing." Outside that, and a few roles before she signed with Walt, she was forever associated with the character of "Snow White," until her death in 1997.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Since the film version of "Snow White" is so visual, and the radio version of this story is not, Snow White has a lot more dialog that is not in the film, giving this version of the story a different texture that is like, but adjacent to, the film version.
	9:15pm David in California: Hello, Austin. It sounds like Snow White is talking to Harpo Marx.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:15 David! Lovely to see you in the chat. Harpo might have taken the role, just for fun... but I have a feeling Walt wouldn't enjoy working with him, for some reason.
	9:17pm David in California: Walt wasn't fond of anarchy.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: There were three film version of "Snow White" that had been in wide circulation before Walt's version in 1937: one in 1902, one in 1916, and one in 1933. And the story was well loved on stage, and in books, for years. But Walt's innovation was to turn the story into a musical, and animate it, using the techniques his team had pioneered in the animated shorts they worked on in the decades previous.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:17 Seems like Walt could have used a dose of the Marx Brothers. He gets too stuffy for my tastes, much past the 60's.
	9:28pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I tend to agree. The humor in Disney films of the 60's dates in a way that the Paramount Marx Brothers films don't.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:28 I was thinking about how "Duck Soup" will probably still be good to watch for another 100 years. But a lot of other culture had already aged so poorly as to be nearly incomprehensible.
	9:34pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I agree. The comedy relief in some 30's films, such as Ted Healy in "Mad Love" is just unfunny.
	9:38pm Heather: Hi everyone! Nothing to chime in with but wanted to say hello and I'm enjoying the show!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:38 Hello, Heather! Nice to see you in the chat.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: It's funny how the guest of honor is Walt, and not any of the performers in this episode. And, interesting that he knew the next few movies that were coming... already. It's true that these movies are in production for years... but Disney's vision is so strong, and was unwavering, too.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can sort of tell that Walt wants to host a show, and has lots of jokes and lines that are ready to deploy. I'm sure Cecil B. DeMille was a bit of a model for his future desires.
	9:47pm Heather: I truly know little about Disney except some bad stuff but that interview was funny and charming! I loved it!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "pops" on this recording, that were on the original transcription disc. It's shocking that more discs like this aren't damaged beyond the ability to play all the way through. So much old radio is baring hanging on by a thread. Did my signal drop for a second? Seems like the stream broke for a second on this end.
	9:52pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Yes, the signal did drop for a second.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:47 Disney was as awful as advertised, but also... a true innovator, and genuinely did some incredible things that are remarkable. But also: a pretty terrible person. (See the above comment about him forcing the voice of Snow White into a contract where she couldn't do other voice work afterwards.)
	9:52pm Heather: The signal did drop for a sec but it came right back! These things happen. Tons of people here still don't have internet after last week's winds. Goodness.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:52 That might be the first time my signal has dropped since I upgraded my computer. Though I think that had more to do with service, rather than tech in the Lava Lamp Lounger here.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: I'll try to make sure a clean version get's posted to the sheena archive later.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Fairy Tales are pretty creepy. "I'm going to sit beside her dead body and watch her all the time."
	9:56pm Heather: Right!??! And it gets worse! "Oooo..... a dead girl. I'm gonna smooch her, oh yeah!"
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "I swear, it's a spell... she's not dead... it's a spell..."
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "And I'll cook for you too."
	9:58pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Yesssss.... only a spell. I'm certainly not suggesting I'd be willing to dabble in necrophilia...
	10:12pm Heather: I caught some Barno and Kratoven this evening and they were rocking it!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: We've got a great set of volunteers. I love them all!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Lauren Bacall is so charming in these interviews. She's just the best. I've had a crush on her since forever, but she's really just an impressive person, in everything I've seen and read.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I wanna smoke rolly cigarettes with Lauren Bacall and watch old movies. Sounds like the greatest time in the world.
	10:19pm Heather: Gosh, can you even imagine?? Up on the balcony?
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Van Heflin went on to do the voice of Philip Marlowe on radio for years.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: The only time anyone has ever said I look like a celebrity, they said I looked like Joseph Cotten.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: (I don't see it, but... I was told that once by a musician I was engineering on the radio in 2009 or so.)
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Diana Vreeland is sort of a big deal, for anyone who doesn't know her story: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Heather: I can see that, in his younger Yeats! A big compliment that is, too! Even I've heard her name and you know me with movies and actors!.
	10:24pm Heather: *younger years
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: While ventriloquist acts haven't really survived into the modern age, they were incredibly popular in the vaudeville era of entertainment, and continued into the 1960's in the US. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Charlie McCarthy was so popular, that he even had his own radio show for a period, which seems to sort of hide one of the more impressive things about seeing a ventriloquist act.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Edgar Bergen - the performer who voiced and operated the Charlie McCarthy puppet - has a career dating back to 1922, and Charlie was not his only creation. But it was his most popular, and Charlie was in the public eye until 1978, when Edgar Bergen died.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Charles Laughton was a respected Shakespearian actor, who liked to pretend that he had no sense of humor... and was pretty good at it, too. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is one of my favorite old time radio Christmas stories.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Damon Runyon got his start writing for newspapers, and evolved into a short story writer from there. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:33pm Heather: I'm excited to hear it! That last segment was interesting in that a ventriloquist act shouldn't work since ventriloquism is a visual gag and yet.. totally worked!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Most episodes of The Damon Runyon Theater are like this: some sort of actual criminal element happening, but there's some comedic elements to the presentation, and particularly, the dialog.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Broadway is one of my fave characters.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 As observed in "Radio Days"!
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: I just tuned in and missed "Snow White". Assuming it was not Disney-connected, I wonder if any of the dwarves were referred to by name. The 1965 adaptation in “The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo” named them Axlerod, Bartholomew, Cornelius, Dexter, Eustace, Ferdinand, and George. Similarly, the new Guillermo Del Toro film “Pinocchio” can’t use the Disney-owned name Jiminy; so they name the character Sebastian J. Cricket.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I just bought a copy of that DVD not long ago, and have been meaning to watch it.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 It was Disney-connected... Walt was co-hosting it, with the voice cast joining him.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Oookie has a cold, and is working to raise money for his sick wife... remember when people did that?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: This show is one of the few holiday stories that I'm airing that was originally not aired at Christmas at all.
	10:49pm Heather: It is interesting how there are not any contractions used in this. I have not heard one yet and I have been listening for one.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The turns of phrase are super-old timey. I love it.
	10:51pm Heather: Just caught a "don't"! But still. It is awesome!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I think "Santa" said, "I'm different."
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Broadway and his friends are all super formal, well read, articulate drunks and thugs. I can sort of relate.
	10:53pm Heather: I've heard a few more now.... but there was a long spate of no contractions at all! And yes. These folks sound like a crowd I'd run with well!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: "Guys and Dolls..." that is.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: If you like this, "Guys & Dolls" is a lot like this, but with songs that break up the story.
	10:58pm Heather: I am positive I would love Guys and Dolls. I should make time to see it! Nearly at the top of the hour so I will say now: great show! Had a ton of fun tuning in! I am planning to tune in tomorrow, too!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, Heather! I recommend watching "Guys & Dolls" in segments. The songs give you good breaking points.
	10:59pm David in California: Enjoyed the show very much!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:59 Thank you, David! I did, too.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2022

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December 26, 2022: Holiday Film Fest!: "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs" & "The Damon Runyon Theater"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs"	26 December 1938	NBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Kirby and is Orchestra	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy			1:11:50 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 5	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:11:51 (Pop-up)
Command Performance	"The Christmas Eve Show" Excerpt 4	24 December 1942	AFRS	1:23:18 (Pop-up)
The Damon Runyon Theater	"Daning Dan's Christmas"	14 March 1949	Mayfair Productions	1:29:53 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 5:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: While "Snow White" is not immediately pegged as a "holiday" film, in olden times, it was often available to be seen in theaters around the holidays, a tradition that was sort of begun in the late 30's, by this appearance on Lux Radio Theater. Afterwards, Disney would make this (and many other films) available for the holidays.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This is sort of referenced in "Gremlins," where "Snow White" is not only playing in the town that the film is set in, but the Gremlins themselves take time out of their movie to watch "Snow White" for a few minutes, too.
	9:05pm Charles: Hello, the flu has not been kind to me these past days. I need to rest but if my coughing doesn't allow me to I'll be glad to be in the caring arms of the Dimestore.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles! Great to see you, and here's hoping that you best this flu, soon.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Gremlins is one of my favorite movies, and since both "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Snow White" are referenced in "Gremlins," it only makes sense that both movies make an appearance in our holiday film line-up for this year.
	9:07pm Charles: Thank you Austin, perhaps Snow White knows of a way for me to fall into slumber.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The voice of Snow White - Adriana Caselotti - had a very short, but fascinating career. Unfortunately, when she met Walt Disney, he was so insistent that the voice of Snow White be utterly unique, that he forced her into a contract where she could not voice other characters after the film was made. While she did appear occasionally after "Snow White" (usually in secret), appearances like this - where she could play the character for Walt - were the only other ways she could make money after that contract.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Her other appearances after "Snow White" are all uncredited: one of the voices in, "The Wizard of Oz," a voice at Martini's in "It's A Wonderful Life," and she plays one of the opera singers in "We Were Dancing." Outside that, and a few roles before she signed with Walt, she was forever associated with the character of "Snow White," until her death in 1997.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Since the film version of "Snow White" is so visual, and the radio version of this story is not, Snow White has a lot more dialog that is not in the film, giving this version of the story a different texture that is like, but adjacent to, the film version.
	9:15pm David in California: Hello, Austin. It sounds like Snow White is talking to Harpo Marx.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:15 David! Lovely to see you in the chat. Harpo might have taken the role, just for fun... but I have a feeling Walt wouldn't enjoy working with him, for some reason.
	9:17pm David in California: Walt wasn't fond of anarchy.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: There were three film version of "Snow White" that had been in wide circulation before Walt's version in 1937: one in 1902, one in 1916, and one in 1933. And the story was well loved on stage, and in books, for years. But Walt's innovation was to turn the story into a musical, and animate it, using the techniques his team had pioneered in the animated shorts they worked on in the decades previous.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:17 Seems like Walt could have used a dose of the Marx Brothers. He gets too stuffy for my tastes, much past the 60's.
	9:28pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I tend to agree. The humor in Disney films of the 60's dates in a way that the Paramount Marx Brothers films don't.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:28 I was thinking about how "Duck Soup" will probably still be good to watch for another 100 years. But a lot of other culture had already aged so poorly as to be nearly incomprehensible.
	9:34pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I agree. The comedy relief in some 30's films, such as Ted Healy in "Mad Love" is just unfunny.
	9:38pm Heather: Hi everyone! Nothing to chime in with but wanted to say hello and I'm enjoying the show!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:38 Hello, Heather! Nice to see you in the chat.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: It's funny how the guest of honor is Walt, and not any of the performers in this episode. And, interesting that he knew the next few movies that were coming... already. It's true that these movies are in production for years... but Disney's vision is so strong, and was unwavering, too.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can sort of tell that Walt wants to host a show, and has lots of jokes and lines that are ready to deploy. I'm sure Cecil B. DeMille was a bit of a model for his future desires.
	9:47pm Heather: I truly know little about Disney except some bad stuff but that interview was funny and charming! I loved it!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "pops" on this recording, that were on the original transcription disc. It's shocking that more discs like this aren't damaged beyond the ability to play all the way through. So much old radio is baring hanging on by a thread. Did my signal drop for a second? Seems like the stream broke for a second on this end.
	9:52pm David in California: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Yes, the signal did drop for a second.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:47 Disney was as awful as advertised, but also... a true innovator, and genuinely did some incredible things that are remarkable. But also: a pretty terrible person. (See the above comment about him forcing the voice of Snow White into a contract where she couldn't do other voice work afterwards.)
	9:52pm Heather: The signal did drop for a sec but it came right back! These things happen. Tons of people here still don't have internet after last week's winds. Goodness.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:52 That might be the first time my signal has dropped since I upgraded my computer. Though I think that had more to do with service, rather than tech in the Lava Lamp Lounger here.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: I'll try to make sure a clean version get's posted to the sheena archive later.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Fairy Tales are pretty creepy. "I'm going to sit beside her dead body and watch her all the time."
	9:56pm Heather: Right!??! And it gets worse! "Oooo..... a dead girl. I'm gonna smooch her, oh yeah!"
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "I swear, it's a spell... she's not dead... it's a spell..."
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "And I'll cook for you too."
	9:58pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Yesssss.... only a spell. I'm certainly not suggesting I'd be willing to dabble in necrophilia...
	10:12pm Heather: I caught some Barno and Kratoven this evening and they were rocking it!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: We've got a great set of volunteers. I love them all!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Lauren Bacall is so charming in these interviews. She's just the best. I've had a crush on her since forever, but she's really just an impressive person, in everything I've seen and read.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I wanna smoke rolly cigarettes with Lauren Bacall and watch old movies. Sounds like the greatest time in the world.
	10:19pm Heather: Gosh, can you even imagine?? Up on the balcony?
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Van Heflin went on to do the voice of Philip Marlowe on radio for years.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: The only time anyone has ever said I look like a celebrity, they said I looked like Joseph Cotten.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: (I don't see it, but... I was told that once by a musician I was engineering on the radio in 2009 or so.)
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Diana Vreeland is sort of a big deal, for anyone who doesn't know her story: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Heather: I can see that, in his younger Yeats! A big compliment that is, too! Even I've heard her name and you know me with movies and actors!.
	10:24pm Heather: *younger years
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: While ventriloquist acts haven't really survived into the modern age, they were incredibly popular in the vaudeville era of entertainment, and continued into the 1960's in the US. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Charlie McCarthy was so popular, that he even had his own radio show for a period, which seems to sort of hide one of the more impressive things about seeing a ventriloquist act.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Edgar Bergen - the performer who voiced and operated the Charlie McCarthy puppet - has a career dating back to 1922, and Charlie was not his only creation. But it was his most popular, and Charlie was in the public eye until 1978, when Edgar Bergen died.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Charles Laughton was a respected Shakespearian actor, who liked to pretend that he had no sense of humor... and was pretty good at it, too. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is one of my favorite old time radio Christmas stories.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Damon Runyon got his start writing for newspapers, and evolved into a short story writer from there. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:33pm Heather: I'm excited to hear it! That last segment was interesting in that a ventriloquist act shouldn't work since ventriloquism is a visual gag and yet.. totally worked!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Most episodes of The Damon Runyon Theater are like this: some sort of actual criminal element happening, but there's some comedic elements to the presentation, and particularly, the dialog.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Broadway is one of my fave characters.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 As observed in "Radio Days"!
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: I just tuned in and missed "Snow White". Assuming it was not Disney-connected, I wonder if any of the dwarves were referred to by name. The 1965 adaptation in “The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo” named them Axlerod, Bartholomew, Cornelius, Dexter, Eustace, Ferdinand, and George. Similarly, the new Guillermo Del Toro film “Pinocchio” can’t use the Disney-owned name Jiminy; so they name the character Sebastian J. Cricket.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I just bought a copy of that DVD not long ago, and have been meaning to watch it.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 It was Disney-connected... Walt was co-hosting it, with the voice cast joining him.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Oookie has a cold, and is working to raise money for his sick wife... remember when people did that?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: This show is one of the few holiday stories that I'm airing that was originally not aired at Christmas at all.
	10:49pm Heather: It is interesting how there are not any contractions used in this. I have not heard one yet and I have been listening for one.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The turns of phrase are super-old timey. I love it.
	10:51pm Heather: Just caught a "don't"! But still. It is awesome!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I think "Santa" said, "I'm different."
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Broadway and his friends are all super formal, well read, articulate drunks and thugs. I can sort of relate.
	10:53pm Heather: I've heard a few more now.... but there was a long spate of no contractions at all! And yes. These folks sound like a crowd I'd run with well!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: "Guys and Dolls..." that is.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: If you like this, "Guys & Dolls" is a lot like this, but with songs that break up the story.
	10:58pm Heather: I am positive I would love Guys and Dolls. I should make time to see it! Nearly at the top of the hour so I will say now: great show! Had a ton of fun tuning in! I am planning to tune in tomorrow, too!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, Heather! I recommend watching "Guys & Dolls" in segments. The songs give you good breaking points.
	10:59pm David in California: Enjoyed the show very much!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:59 Thank you, David! I did, too.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2022

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