WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Thanks for joining us in the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Quiet tonight
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:02pm Imaginos: That's better
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: No Lum & Abner!? Oh well...
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us.
	👻 9:04pm yerfriendpaul: Don Ameche from Trading Places, right?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:04 Thanks the one!
	9:04pm Maulydaft: Listening from Canada - already had the stuffed seitan. I salute you all with a huge Dandy marshmallow (aka they MUST be put on sweet potato dishes!) :D
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:04 I'm a big Sweet Potato Fan. Of course you need the Marshmallow!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:04 Also: I received your package in the mail! Thank you.
	9:06pm Imaginos: Skip?
	9:06pm Maulydaft: Well that was quite the song! :o
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: Oh yes, sweet potato with marshmallows is delicious! Looking forward to that on Thursday
	9:07pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 OH great! You were lucky: I sent it before our strike! Who knows when that will be resolved.
	9:09pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 I do believe that most Canadians and UK dwellers are horrified by marshmallows on anything that's supposed to be savoury... but I had two American aunts that would make that all the time and I just LOOOOVED it! It was like the most amazing dish human beings ever concocted! :D
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Looks like I lost connection for a second! Sorry about that.
	9:09pm Imaginos: That size cast would be Busby Berkeley
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: As you can hear, the recording of this show is not great. I used a number of tools to clean it up, and did a little editing to cut out a few skips and other bits that didn't age well. Hopefully this version sounds a little better, in spite of some bits that are a little crinkly and noisy. In particular, I had to cut a couple bits of Don Ameche's hosting, as one section was mangled. And I had to use AI to repair a section of an Elgin Watch Commercial that was mangled, too. More on that later...
	👻 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: Jimmy Durante! Fantastic!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:11 One of my all time favorite performers.
	9:12pm Imaginos: It s fun enough to forgive the oopsies
	9:12pm David The Splatter: ↳ Song: "Jimmy Durante" Ah cha cha chaaaa...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Jimmy Durante is one of those acts that feels permanently rooted in the past. I can't imagine a modern version of him, no matter how much I wish there were.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I won't get a talk break during this show. So: it's all chat this week!
	9:15pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 yeah we prefer the "person next door" comedy personality these days
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Political Joke!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Damn, we're having connection issues tonight. Sorry about that! I'll post a clean version of this to the archive later.
	9:16pm Maulydaft: Ok... what is the story of "I'm feeling mighty low"... I think it got lost/lost on me over the decades...
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 If you want to use anything I send you on MVM feel free
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:15 I like the wacky weird personalties of yor. What would you say Durante did? Music? Comedy? Acting? Radio? Everything? He seems too skilled to be a modern act.
	9:17pm David The Splatter: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I've only ever heard it in Looney Tunes.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I'll have to do some research.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Durante was pure talent
	9:18pm Maulydaft: ↳ David The Splatter @9:17 YES!
	👻 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: Love how they work around the flubs!
	9:20pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I can't think of anyone modern that can do all that, unless you count podcasts as radio.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that Durante is not a conventionally attractive person. He's got his own charm and charisma, but he was not conventionally handsome. And yet: he was a huge star! These days, if you are a comedian, you also have to be handsome. There's no unusual faces in the entertainment world anymore.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Commercial" The commercials in this production are sort of integrated into show in a way that I didn't want to cut or ruin. So, all the "ads" are left in. Some are part of the show, with SFX and other bits, even.
	9:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 yeah it's kind of bizarre! But I did discover Fluffy a few months ago.
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Same thing can be said for music, right? Think of all the insanely talented people who have it so much harder nowadays just because they don’t have the lame beauty standards of today
	👻 9:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "It's A Grand Night For Singing" by "Alan Jones" Alan Jones! He replaced Zeppo as "the boy who gets the girl" when the Marx Brothers left Paramount for MGM.
	9:25pm Maulydaft: Dean Stockwell was "well known" enough to mention then! :o
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:25 yeah very true
	9:26pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. But looking forward to tomorrow
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I had never heard of Mary Jane Smith before this. But: she's got a good voice!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 Sleep well! And yes, I'll see ya in the Digital Salon tomorrow!
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 It almost sounds like a fake name! :D
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:25 I sort of miss all the weird, interesting faces you used to see. People can be beautiful and not look conventionally attractive. But I guess our culture doesn't agree...
	9:28pm David The Splatter: My laundry just finished and I must grab it. I'll catch the archive tomorrow, thank you Austin!
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: Hi folks! A bit of variety tonight!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: On one Elgin commercial, the tape had a huge "hole" in the song. The tape had worn away, and the archivist just left the recording as is. I decided to use suno.com to create "new verses" of the commercial ad, and then cut in a bit from one of the new verses to repair the broken bit of the ad. Let me know if you can tell which one...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 Webhamster! The digital Salon is hoppin' now!
	👻 9:31pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Calypso Music"" by "Sir Lancelot" I recognize his voice from "Brute Force" (1947). He sang all his lines.
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Taming Suno is not easy!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:31 I don't know that. So much to see and hear...
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 It did take a fair amount of work. Well, some time to get it all to sound right, anyway.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I had to include that vintage 40's DJ doing the "Los Angel-es" ID.
	👻 9:35pm yerfriendpaul: Loving these shows, Austin! Last week and this week. So good!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:35 Thanks yerfriendpaul! I have a soft spot for these variety shows. All December is "re-runs for X-Mas." Stuff you've probably already heard... again!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... becomes President..." by "Vera Vague" Vera Vague is Barbara Jo Allen. Vera is a character she would do, a gal who was very forward and loves to hit on every man she meets. I sort of love her.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Damn, we are having terrible connections tonight. I'm so sorry.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: Oh no! Vera, it still hasn't happened! Even if we should have...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... becomes President..." by "Vera Vague" For some reason, I remembered her hitting on Don more. Oh well... I wish this skit didn't hurt so much. President jokes don't land so well after this last election...
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: Hah media characters winning presidencies was a joke back then.
	👻 9:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Impersonations..." by "Larry Storch" Larry's mostly remembered for comedy, but I recently saw him give a shocking performance as a cold-blooded character in this 1962 Alfred Hitchcock Hour: barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:43pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Agree!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:43 Ooooo, I need to see that!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:43 Yeah. When I reviewed this skit back at the end of summer, I was sort of hoping this skit would be more in celebration...
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: I love the overly flowery comedy speak of Durante.
	👻 9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:04 You must be a youngster. Don used to be most famous for "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell"!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 I think I mostly know him from hosting Elgin specials, at this point.
	👻 9:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 David, let me thank you for calling me a youngster! That hasn’t happened in quite some time, ha ha
	9:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 This kind of humor was just waiting for Stan Freberg to obliterate.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: All us old folks need be be thought of as young sooner or later.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 Very true. Maybe I would like him better now? I never gave him much of a chance, and sort of assumed he was like some sort of NPR comedy or something. I was - and am - probably wrong.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Commercial" by "The Page Cavanaugh Trio" This it the commercial that I used suno.com to repair the missing segment of it. Hopefully, you didn't really notice, given that the tape sounds a little warbled anyway.
	9:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 The whole run of his show is in archive.org. So if you are just used to his records, you can hear the bits in their original context
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:52 I can't say I've heard anything in 30 years or so, so it would all be new to me.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: Damn, more disconnections! I haven't had this much trouble in ages.
	👻 9:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Stan Freberg entered radio at the end of its Golden Age. I believe he filled the CBS timeslot made vacant when Jack Benny left for television. I still have the 1999 Rhino CD boxset “The Stan Freberg Collection 1951-1998” which includes a VHS tape of the TV ads he wrote!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:58 I seem to recall seeing that for sale, back in the day. I should finally give him a chance. You know how it is when you're young: you think you know better, and you write-off most of the culture of the past at first. ("What about the art of MY generation?") Now I could give a shit about my generation.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Medley" by "The Doctors of Harmony" This makes me want to listen to The Mills Brothers, who I think do this kind of thing VERY well.
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: Is that The Wizard?
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:02 Totally!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: Tuned in and loving the show. So good! And! The Mills Brothers must be trending right now. I was just talking about then the other night!
	👻 10:03pm yerfriendpaul: That voice is so recognizable!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... A Thanksgiving Greeting..." by "Frank Morgan" Another comedian that I find absolutely fantastic, but I can't imagine him being a success these days. Again: looks weird, loves that flowery nonsense, and is mostly a personality based around drinking and chasing women. But I just love him so much!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:03 I have a bunch of Mills Brothers albums. When I first started buying records, they were cheap and everywhere, you I could get a good collection easily.
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: Diversified audience? All kinds of white people.
	👻 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: Love the Mills Brothers! I played “Be My Life’s Companion” on my show last Thursday. Such great harmonies
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:06 Yeah. Maybe some diversity in the performers... but yeah...
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:06 They are very soothing to me. Just love those records.
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Jack Benny is so great!
	👻 10:11pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 I don't have enough of theirs and need to remedy that. Every time I hear them, they really are soothing, like you say. A friend recently gave me a record player. Time to get to the flea markets and see what's what!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: Damn! What is wrong with the internet today!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "More Violin..." by "Jack Benny" One of the problems with Jack's jokes is that he can really play violin very well. But most of the jokes around his character is that he can't play well. He has to pretend he can't play as well as he actually can... which is sort of hard to do unless you're REALLY good.
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: My Dad loved Jack Benny so much and he would say something similar. My Dad was a musician too and he knew Benny was talented but played like he didn’t know as much as he did
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "More Violin..." by "Jack Benny" While I know that Yehudi is not really a comedian, he's holding his own with Benny, which is not easy.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 I've grown to like him more as I get older, but as a kid, I didn't really get him. Now I like him better. Well, crap. Do I even have any internet here tonight? What the hell...
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: The dropouts add to the variety and simulate “radio skip”
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 It's so annoying! I think Com-Crash is intentionally getting worse and worse.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Skit" by "Mr. Kitzel" Mr. Kitzel was a character played by Artie Auerbach on Jack Benny's show.
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 Daws Butler and June Foray also acted on the Stan Freberg Show. They’d all worked in Warner Brothers cartoons, though they weren’t credited like Mel Blanc. Stan voiced such characters as Chuck Jones’ Baby Bear and Robert McKimson’s Pete Puma. He acted all the parts (and sang the narration) in the 1957 Friz Freleng short “Three Little Bops” that was scored by Shorty Rogers!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Scene with Don Ameche" by "Elliot & Cathy Lewis" Elliot & Cathy had a radio show called, "On Stage." en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: Stan and Daws did the original Time for Beany (and Cecil) puppet show! Read Stan’s autobiography, it’s pretty funny!
	👻 10:24pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, a shift in tone for the show, right?
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Daws and June are totally a draw for me! I will have to listen, now.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:24 Yeah. A little bit of radio whiplash!
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Oh jeez!!
	10:29pm Webhamster Henry: That Elgin watch is hypnotic
	👻 10:30pm yerfriendpaul: I’m waiting for the inevitable. Linda’s gonna buy the farm!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is the kind of weirdness that I like about these variety shows. Sooner or later, there's some scene like this, that is tonally so out of place... and it really sort of shakes up the entire show in a strange way.
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: It’s interesting when you can hear the audience members coughing/making noise during the quiet parts
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: Wow. Phew. Wow.
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: Bathroom break routine…
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 It shows how "live" these shows were.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Totally!
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Totally! I don’t understand how anyone felt that would be a good thing to include
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 Elgin probably sponsored their show….
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 And then, have a commercial right afterwards!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I do love that you would just hear opera and operatic voices on the radio in the old days. That never happens, except on classical stations. But it used to happen on NBC and CBS! Mixed in with jazz and comedy!
	👻 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Yes, I had that thought too!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Even as recently as the 60's, you would have essentially "formatless" music stations, that would play songs from any genre by any kind of artist back to back to back. It's isn't until the 70's that you start to find radio stations that really specialize in one kind of music, and only played that. It was an innovation in the 70's, but I think it set back music a couple decades.
	10:41pm Webhamster Henry: The Mean Widdle Kid is here
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41 I'm getting flashbacks of the kids that would wander into the mall when I worked there in the late 90's / early 00's.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Irwin had a fun article to that effect in the WFMU LCD. Which is coming back!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 I heard a rumor like that on Slack! Very cool.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "A Thanksgiving Scene..." by "Red Skelton" "Red Skeleton"? Is that Captain America's archenemy?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Whoops! Nice catch. Spell check is not smart enough for my tastes.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid Red Skelton was still performing, but he would do these long silent clown routines that I found completely befuddling.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Gotta slip in that pro-American sentiment.
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Yep.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Gotta. Hm.
	10:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Kind of a super patriot during the Nixonian 60s-70s
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: At this point in my life I find almost all pro-American sentiments to be revolting. Which is what we all should be doing: Revolting.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 (This is a revision of a joke that I stole from myself; my first band, Cathead, had an album called, "The Youth of America are Revolting (And They Don't Like The Government, Either)" )
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Those are good ones! Sadly, I guess, but still good!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "...Elgin Scene..." by "Clem Kadiddlehopper" While the announcer mentioned this, and I think it might be obvious, Clem is played by Red Skelton.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: This is the end! Thanks everyone. Hopefully you have a good holiday!
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: The symbol of plenty because the rest of the world was bombed to ruins.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show, Austin! Do have a lovely holiday to all who celebrate!!
	👻 10:57pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you very much, Austin! Loved the show. Thanks for all the work you put into it! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:57 Hopefully a pristine version will be posted to the archive soon.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Scene with Don Ameche" by "Mary Jane Smith" I can’t find any information on who this Mary Jane Smith was! There is a modern Swedish singer named Maria Jane Smith. And a 70’s Doctor Who companion called Sarah Jane Smith.
	10:58pm Webhamster Henry: Cue every race color and religion’s Christian organ
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Maybe? www.imdb.com...
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 & Lord’s Prayer
	👻 11:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I think so. She was 15 on this program.
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Next time, let’s hear the cancelled Lum & Abner
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024: Our Thanksgiving Special! (2024)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Hour 1 "Hour 1"
Elgin Watches & NBC	The 6th Annual Thanksgiving Show	27 November 1947	NBC
Don Ameche	...hosting... "...hosting..." by "Don Ameche"			0:03:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Jones	It's A Grand Night For Singing			0:04:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gary Moore & ...	"Gary Moore & ..."			0:07:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Durante	"Jimmy Durante"			0:11:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Elgin Commercial "Elgin Commercial"			0:22:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Jane Smith	Scene with Don Ameche			0:24:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Jane Smith	Opera Piece "Opera Piece" by "Mary Jane Smith"			0:25:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sir Lancelot	"Calypso Music" ""Calypso Music"" by "Sir Lancelot"			0:29:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sir Lancelot	Elgin Ad "Elgin Ad" by "Sir Lancelot"			0:30:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Larry Storch	Impersonations... "Impersonations..." by "Larry Storch"			0:31:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Margaret Whiting	Sings... "Sings..." by "Margaret Whiting"			0:35:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Vera Vague	... becomes President...			0:38:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Page Cavanaugh Trio	‎Ok'l Baby Dok'l			0:47:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Page Cavanaugh Trio	Elgin Commercial			0:50:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Sweeney & Hall March	...skit about driving to the studio...			0:52:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Doctors of Harmony	Medley "Medley" by "The Doctors of Harmony"			0:58:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hour 2 "Hour 2"
Frank Morgan	... A Thanksgiving Greeting...			1:02:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Yehudi Menuhin & Yaltah Menuhin	Violin Playing with Piano.			1:07:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Benny	More Violin... "More Violin..." by "Jack Benny"			1:09:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mr. Kitzel	Elgin Skit "Elgin Skit" by "Mr. Kitzel"			1:20:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elliot & Cathy Lewis	Scene with Don Ameche			1:23:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Elgin Watch Ad "Elgin Watch Ad"			1:33:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Jones & Mary Jane Smith	Duet			1:35:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Red Skelton	A Thanksgiving Scene...			1:39:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Yehudi Menuhin & Yaltah Menuhin	Another Song			1:50:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Clem Kadiddlehopper	...Elgin Scene...			1:53:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Don Ameche	's finally message about Thanksgiving			1:57:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Jones	A Final Song... "A Final Song..." by "Alan Jones"			1:58:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Thanks for joining us in the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Quiet tonight
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:02pm Imaginos: That's better
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: No Lum & Abner!? Oh well...
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us.
	👻 9:04pm yerfriendpaul: Don Ameche from Trading Places, right?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:04 Thanks the one!
	9:04pm Maulydaft: Listening from Canada - already had the stuffed seitan. I salute you all with a huge Dandy marshmallow (aka they MUST be put on sweet potato dishes!) :D
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:04 I'm a big Sweet Potato Fan. Of course you need the Marshmallow!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:04 Also: I received your package in the mail! Thank you.
	9:06pm Imaginos: Skip?
	9:06pm Maulydaft: Well that was quite the song! :o
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: Oh yes, sweet potato with marshmallows is delicious! Looking forward to that on Thursday
	9:07pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 OH great! You were lucky: I sent it before our strike! Who knows when that will be resolved.
	9:09pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 I do believe that most Canadians and UK dwellers are horrified by marshmallows on anything that's supposed to be savoury... but I had two American aunts that would make that all the time and I just LOOOOVED it! It was like the most amazing dish human beings ever concocted! :D
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Looks like I lost connection for a second! Sorry about that.
	9:09pm Imaginos: That size cast would be Busby Berkeley
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: As you can hear, the recording of this show is not great. I used a number of tools to clean it up, and did a little editing to cut out a few skips and other bits that didn't age well. Hopefully this version sounds a little better, in spite of some bits that are a little crinkly and noisy. In particular, I had to cut a couple bits of Don Ameche's hosting, as one section was mangled. And I had to use AI to repair a section of an Elgin Watch Commercial that was mangled, too. More on that later...
	👻 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: Jimmy Durante! Fantastic!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:11 One of my all time favorite performers.
	9:12pm Imaginos: It s fun enough to forgive the oopsies
	9:12pm David The Splatter: ↳ Song: "Jimmy Durante" Ah cha cha chaaaa...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Jimmy Durante is one of those acts that feels permanently rooted in the past. I can't imagine a modern version of him, no matter how much I wish there were.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I won't get a talk break during this show. So: it's all chat this week!
	9:15pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 yeah we prefer the "person next door" comedy personality these days
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Political Joke!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Damn, we're having connection issues tonight. Sorry about that! I'll post a clean version of this to the archive later.
	9:16pm Maulydaft: Ok... what is the story of "I'm feeling mighty low"... I think it got lost/lost on me over the decades...
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 If you want to use anything I send you on MVM feel free
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:15 I like the wacky weird personalties of yor. What would you say Durante did? Music? Comedy? Acting? Radio? Everything? He seems too skilled to be a modern act.
	9:17pm David The Splatter: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I've only ever heard it in Looney Tunes.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I'll have to do some research.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Durante was pure talent
	9:18pm Maulydaft: ↳ David The Splatter @9:17 YES!
	👻 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: Love how they work around the flubs!
	9:20pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I can't think of anyone modern that can do all that, unless you count podcasts as radio.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that Durante is not a conventionally attractive person. He's got his own charm and charisma, but he was not conventionally handsome. And yet: he was a huge star! These days, if you are a comedian, you also have to be handsome. There's no unusual faces in the entertainment world anymore.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Commercial" The commercials in this production are sort of integrated into show in a way that I didn't want to cut or ruin. So, all the "ads" are left in. Some are part of the show, with SFX and other bits, even.
	9:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 yeah it's kind of bizarre! But I did discover Fluffy a few months ago.
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Same thing can be said for music, right? Think of all the insanely talented people who have it so much harder nowadays just because they don’t have the lame beauty standards of today
	👻 9:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "It's A Grand Night For Singing" by "Alan Jones" Alan Jones! He replaced Zeppo as "the boy who gets the girl" when the Marx Brothers left Paramount for MGM.
	9:25pm Maulydaft: Dean Stockwell was "well known" enough to mention then! :o
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:25 yeah very true
	9:26pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. But looking forward to tomorrow
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I had never heard of Mary Jane Smith before this. But: she's got a good voice!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 Sleep well! And yes, I'll see ya in the Digital Salon tomorrow!
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 It almost sounds like a fake name! :D
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:25 I sort of miss all the weird, interesting faces you used to see. People can be beautiful and not look conventionally attractive. But I guess our culture doesn't agree...
	9:28pm David The Splatter: My laundry just finished and I must grab it. I'll catch the archive tomorrow, thank you Austin!
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: Hi folks! A bit of variety tonight!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: On one Elgin commercial, the tape had a huge "hole" in the song. The tape had worn away, and the archivist just left the recording as is. I decided to use suno.com to create "new verses" of the commercial ad, and then cut in a bit from one of the new verses to repair the broken bit of the ad. Let me know if you can tell which one...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 Webhamster! The digital Salon is hoppin' now!
	👻 9:31pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Calypso Music"" by "Sir Lancelot" I recognize his voice from "Brute Force" (1947). He sang all his lines.
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Taming Suno is not easy!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:31 I don't know that. So much to see and hear...
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 It did take a fair amount of work. Well, some time to get it all to sound right, anyway.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I had to include that vintage 40's DJ doing the "Los Angel-es" ID.
	👻 9:35pm yerfriendpaul: Loving these shows, Austin! Last week and this week. So good!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:35 Thanks yerfriendpaul! I have a soft spot for these variety shows. All December is "re-runs for X-Mas." Stuff you've probably already heard... again!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... becomes President..." by "Vera Vague" Vera Vague is Barbara Jo Allen. Vera is a character she would do, a gal who was very forward and loves to hit on every man she meets. I sort of love her.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Damn, we are having terrible connections tonight. I'm so sorry.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: Oh no! Vera, it still hasn't happened! Even if we should have...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... becomes President..." by "Vera Vague" For some reason, I remembered her hitting on Don more. Oh well... I wish this skit didn't hurt so much. President jokes don't land so well after this last election...
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: Hah media characters winning presidencies was a joke back then.
	👻 9:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Impersonations..." by "Larry Storch" Larry's mostly remembered for comedy, but I recently saw him give a shocking performance as a cold-blooded character in this 1962 Alfred Hitchcock Hour: barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:43pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Agree!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:43 Ooooo, I need to see that!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:43 Yeah. When I reviewed this skit back at the end of summer, I was sort of hoping this skit would be more in celebration...
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: I love the overly flowery comedy speak of Durante.
	👻 9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:04 You must be a youngster. Don used to be most famous for "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell"!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 I think I mostly know him from hosting Elgin specials, at this point.
	👻 9:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 David, let me thank you for calling me a youngster! That hasn’t happened in quite some time, ha ha
	9:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 This kind of humor was just waiting for Stan Freberg to obliterate.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: All us old folks need be be thought of as young sooner or later.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 Very true. Maybe I would like him better now? I never gave him much of a chance, and sort of assumed he was like some sort of NPR comedy or something. I was - and am - probably wrong.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Commercial" by "The Page Cavanaugh Trio" This it the commercial that I used suno.com to repair the missing segment of it. Hopefully, you didn't really notice, given that the tape sounds a little warbled anyway.
	9:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 The whole run of his show is in archive.org. So if you are just used to his records, you can hear the bits in their original context
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:52 I can't say I've heard anything in 30 years or so, so it would all be new to me.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: Damn, more disconnections! I haven't had this much trouble in ages.
	👻 9:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Stan Freberg entered radio at the end of its Golden Age. I believe he filled the CBS timeslot made vacant when Jack Benny left for television. I still have the 1999 Rhino CD boxset “The Stan Freberg Collection 1951-1998” which includes a VHS tape of the TV ads he wrote!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:58 I seem to recall seeing that for sale, back in the day. I should finally give him a chance. You know how it is when you're young: you think you know better, and you write-off most of the culture of the past at first. ("What about the art of MY generation?") Now I could give a shit about my generation.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Medley" by "The Doctors of Harmony" This makes me want to listen to The Mills Brothers, who I think do this kind of thing VERY well.
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: Is that The Wizard?
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:02 Totally!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: Tuned in and loving the show. So good! And! The Mills Brothers must be trending right now. I was just talking about then the other night!
	👻 10:03pm yerfriendpaul: That voice is so recognizable!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... A Thanksgiving Greeting..." by "Frank Morgan" Another comedian that I find absolutely fantastic, but I can't imagine him being a success these days. Again: looks weird, loves that flowery nonsense, and is mostly a personality based around drinking and chasing women. But I just love him so much!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:03 I have a bunch of Mills Brothers albums. When I first started buying records, they were cheap and everywhere, you I could get a good collection easily.
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: Diversified audience? All kinds of white people.
	👻 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: Love the Mills Brothers! I played “Be My Life’s Companion” on my show last Thursday. Such great harmonies
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:06 Yeah. Maybe some diversity in the performers... but yeah...
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:06 They are very soothing to me. Just love those records.
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Jack Benny is so great!
	👻 10:11pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 I don't have enough of theirs and need to remedy that. Every time I hear them, they really are soothing, like you say. A friend recently gave me a record player. Time to get to the flea markets and see what's what!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: Damn! What is wrong with the internet today!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "More Violin..." by "Jack Benny" One of the problems with Jack's jokes is that he can really play violin very well. But most of the jokes around his character is that he can't play well. He has to pretend he can't play as well as he actually can... which is sort of hard to do unless you're REALLY good.
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: My Dad loved Jack Benny so much and he would say something similar. My Dad was a musician too and he knew Benny was talented but played like he didn’t know as much as he did
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "More Violin..." by "Jack Benny" While I know that Yehudi is not really a comedian, he's holding his own with Benny, which is not easy.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 I've grown to like him more as I get older, but as a kid, I didn't really get him. Now I like him better. Well, crap. Do I even have any internet here tonight? What the hell...
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: The dropouts add to the variety and simulate “radio skip”
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 It's so annoying! I think Com-Crash is intentionally getting worse and worse.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Elgin Skit" by "Mr. Kitzel" Mr. Kitzel was a character played by Artie Auerbach on Jack Benny's show.
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 Daws Butler and June Foray also acted on the Stan Freberg Show. They’d all worked in Warner Brothers cartoons, though they weren’t credited like Mel Blanc. Stan voiced such characters as Chuck Jones’ Baby Bear and Robert McKimson’s Pete Puma. He acted all the parts (and sang the narration) in the 1957 Friz Freleng short “Three Little Bops” that was scored by Shorty Rogers!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Scene with Don Ameche" by "Elliot & Cathy Lewis" Elliot & Cathy had a radio show called, "On Stage." en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: Stan and Daws did the original Time for Beany (and Cecil) puppet show! Read Stan’s autobiography, it’s pretty funny!
	👻 10:24pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, a shift in tone for the show, right?
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Daws and June are totally a draw for me! I will have to listen, now.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:24 Yeah. A little bit of radio whiplash!
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Oh jeez!!
	10:29pm Webhamster Henry: That Elgin watch is hypnotic
	👻 10:30pm yerfriendpaul: I’m waiting for the inevitable. Linda’s gonna buy the farm!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is the kind of weirdness that I like about these variety shows. Sooner or later, there's some scene like this, that is tonally so out of place... and it really sort of shakes up the entire show in a strange way.
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: It’s interesting when you can hear the audience members coughing/making noise during the quiet parts
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: Wow. Phew. Wow.
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: Bathroom break routine…
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 It shows how "live" these shows were.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Totally!
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Totally! I don’t understand how anyone felt that would be a good thing to include
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 Elgin probably sponsored their show….
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 And then, have a commercial right afterwards!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I do love that you would just hear opera and operatic voices on the radio in the old days. That never happens, except on classical stations. But it used to happen on NBC and CBS! Mixed in with jazz and comedy!
	👻 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Yes, I had that thought too!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Even as recently as the 60's, you would have essentially "formatless" music stations, that would play songs from any genre by any kind of artist back to back to back. It's isn't until the 70's that you start to find radio stations that really specialize in one kind of music, and only played that. It was an innovation in the 70's, but I think it set back music a couple decades.
	10:41pm Webhamster Henry: The Mean Widdle Kid is here
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41 I'm getting flashbacks of the kids that would wander into the mall when I worked there in the late 90's / early 00's.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Irwin had a fun article to that effect in the WFMU LCD. Which is coming back!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 I heard a rumor like that on Slack! Very cool.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "A Thanksgiving Scene..." by "Red Skelton" "Red Skeleton"? Is that Captain America's archenemy?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Whoops! Nice catch. Spell check is not smart enough for my tastes.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid Red Skelton was still performing, but he would do these long silent clown routines that I found completely befuddling.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Gotta slip in that pro-American sentiment.
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Yep.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Gotta. Hm.
	10:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Kind of a super patriot during the Nixonian 60s-70s
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: At this point in my life I find almost all pro-American sentiments to be revolting. Which is what we all should be doing: Revolting.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 (This is a revision of a joke that I stole from myself; my first band, Cathead, had an album called, "The Youth of America are Revolting (And They Don't Like The Government, Either)" )
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Those are good ones! Sadly, I guess, but still good!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "...Elgin Scene..." by "Clem Kadiddlehopper" While the announcer mentioned this, and I think it might be obvious, Clem is played by Red Skelton.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: This is the end! Thanks everyone. Hopefully you have a good holiday!
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: The symbol of plenty because the rest of the world was bombed to ruins.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show, Austin! Do have a lovely holiday to all who celebrate!!
	👻 10:57pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you very much, Austin! Loved the show. Thanks for all the work you put into it! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:57 Hopefully a pristine version will be posted to the archive soon.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Scene with Don Ameche" by "Mary Jane Smith" I can’t find any information on who this Mary Jane Smith was! There is a modern Swedish singer named Maria Jane Smith. And a 70’s Doctor Who companion called Sarah Jane Smith.
	10:58pm Webhamster Henry: Cue every race color and religion’s Christian organ
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Maybe? www.imdb.com...
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 & Lord’s Prayer
	👻 11:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I think so. She was 15 on this program.
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Next time, let’s hear the cancelled Lum & Abner
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 25, 2024

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