WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 23, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 9:56am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:43pm Arvo Zylo: Howdy!
	8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm asheville jon: Happy Lurker-mas!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Radio listeners!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Arvo and Imaginos! and, Asheville Jon! Let's have some fun tonight!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: The war was over by December 1945, so they are lucky to get paid!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 There were still plenty of people deployed all over, so, the AFRS was still hard at work! And would be for years to come.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Bob and I both like Red Heads...
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 I like redheads and silver foxes
	👻 9:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 I didn't catch the joke about redheads and brunettes....
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:07 Bob goes so fast! He was joking his car would stop when it sees a red head so he can "play" her. (With the other hair colors, the horn plays different songs.)
	👻 9:09pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Nice. I've decided that if I had the chance to be born at any time, I'd probably be born between 1945 and 1955. I'd risk getting drafted and everything.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Hopefully the sound is okay on this one. I did some remastering and sound enhancing on the vocals, to improve things. The original sound is a little muddy, so some of the dialog has lisps and is a little nasal at times.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I like the ad-libbing in this show. You can tell they are BARELY following the script at times.
	9:12pm Imaginos: Nice racing joke
	9:12pm laurapanic: hello from Christmas Eve. I'm wrapping presents to this show its perfect! Love to you all, radio friends.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:12 Laura Panic! Thanks for joining us. That's right; it would be a day later where you are!
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ laurapanic @9:12 Hi All! I am getting stew ready in the crock pot.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 There's a lot of weird jokes all over this show.
	9:15pm Imaginos: Thank goodness they didn't ask her to make sugar plums! Those take three days
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I think we are having salmon for our x-mas dinner. We also roasted a chicken today, so we can pick at it for the next several days. We have piles of chex mix already. Not bad, since our stove died a couple days ago, and the new one arrived yesterday, and and after a visit from an electrician, started working today!
	9:18pm Imaginos: We're having breakfast for dinner including eggs Benedict
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 I do love a good eggs Benedict!
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I guess my shopping days left countdown is off, unless you plan to go out tonight and shop.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of radio from the 40's, there are some racist words used here by Bob. I almost edited this section out, but decided to leave it in anyway. I don't support the racist terms, and the joke here is minimal, at best. I mostly want to point it out to say that there's a fine line, on this show, between "presenting the show as it was" and "editing it for broadcast," and I try to balance that as best I can. Occasionally, the racism of the past shines through. Consider it a commentary on the racism in the real world, today? Or something like that...
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Or you go shopping with River Song
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 If only!
	9:25pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 best babe
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I'm a big Jimmy Durante fan. I love to imagine a time when a real odd dude with an un-conventional look to his face was able to become a huge star. I sort of want that to happen again.
	9:27pm laurapanic: short one gentleman!!! ha!
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Read his "autobiography", Schnozzola
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 I need to read that! I bet it's interesting.
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: "Quail" was slang for "girl" back then.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: "But that is neither Tally, nor ho." I need to remember that one.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "So I Ups To Him!" by "Jimmy Durante" I do appreciate that the past was just as dirty and filthy as the present.
	9:38pm laurapanic: weaponising male incompetence since 1945 (Bob to Dinah). I feel so sorry for Dinah in this dinner arrangement!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:38 Yeah. She and other women on this show get treated poorly. This is a pretty sexist period of radio, too.
	9:40pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	9:40pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 yeh, its a given. Doesn't hurt to highlight and think about it, with a smirk of humour. :)
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I can imagine. Happy holidays! Sleep well, and take care.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Happy holidays to you too
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:40 Indeed. I can't change the past, and I don't want to pretend it didn't happen. But we can talk about it, and enjoy the songs, hopefully!
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: These soldiers sure spend a lot of time thinking about the track.
	9:42pm laurapanic: absolutely I am having a ball! I love the humour of these times, grew up with it. I'm giggling away
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 Well, Bob and Bing, do, anyway.
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: B.O. Plenty was a kind of smelly Dick Tracy Ally.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: This "hillbilly" sketch is... questionably funny?
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: His silly laugh is apparently hilarious to this audience!
	9:47pm laurapanic: no harm in wanting someone to simply shoo the flies
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I want someone to shoo the flies away from me...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Jinx!
	9:48pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 oh my!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: At least after that sketch, you get a song by Judy. I wish the sound was better.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: As a kid who was raised on "The Wizard of Oz," Judy Garland was probably my first crush.
	👻 9:51pm Heather Z: I love Judy Garland so much. This is gorgeous.
	9:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 its exquisite! it made up for the sketch for sure
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:51 She is, objectively, the best.
	9:52pm laurapanic: that last note in spine tingling
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 She really is. What a wonder and a talent!
	9:57pm asheville jon: Still lurking
	9:58pm laurapanic: wrapping all the presents to your show, its a delight!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: I'm working a little craft project and about to open a little craft beer here! Presents wrapping wrapped last night.
	10:04pm laurapanic: lovely weirdos listening to weird old radio shows!
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:04 Those are my peeps!
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll go 5 - 6 minutes over...
	10:07pm Webhamster Henry: Jerry Colonna was made into a cartoon character at Warner Brothers called The Wacky Worm.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:07 I thought his general schtick was familiar. A lot of old Radio and Hollywood personalities were repurposed in cartoons.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: "The fella they all laugh at."
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob & Bing." by "Ed Ga... "Duffy's Tavern" was a very popular show in 1945. Archie was a very popular character, too, and Ed Gardner was associated with Archie for years.
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Well they didn't use any of his catchphrases.. AHHHH YESSS!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I like how they have classical music jokes in this show, and just ASSUME people will get it.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "Just tryin' to win my wings..."
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: In elementary school, we had to interview a relative and I interviewed my dad's mom. The thing I remember most is she told me all about the struggle to find stockings for her wedding in... 43 or 44 because all the silk was being used for parachutes. The stocking jokes sure do land (heh) with me because of that!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:20 All those stories our grandparents told were often tragically true.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Oh, you'll think of something..."
	👻 10:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob again." by "Profes... In Robert McKimson’s “Daffy Doodles” (1946), Daffy Duck goes on a criminal rampage drawing mustaches on billboards and innocent bystanders. He’s arrested and tried, but acquitted by a jury of 12 men who resemble Jerry Colonna.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I wish I remember more of what she said. I didn't record the interview and I'd imagine the paper is lost to time now. I'm glad I remember any of it, though!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:22 Ha! That's great. I should return to my project of trying to see as many of the Warner Bros. cartoons as possible.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: "This is Friday, she wrestles tonight." I mean, she sounds great to me!
	10:24pm laurapanic: this delightful! "don't laugh t me brother, I don't have a band!"
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 This joke doesn't work, as Christmas Day 1945 was a Tuesday.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure how this woman is. Any guesses... David, perhaps?
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Cass Daley! There we go...
	10:27pm laurapanic: googled her, they play on her quirky features, somewhat cruelly
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I'm glad I figured it out. I was listening to this song earlier, wondering who this was. I sort of love her!
	10:28pm Webhamster Henry: Hey Austin & radio listeners did I ever send you this thing I wrote decades ago? nqny.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:28pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 youtube.com...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:28 Excellent! I'll look at that later.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:28 Ooooo! I want to read that.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: I do like that this song is made up of her "sampling" other songs, then giving them the "Weird Al" treatment... in 1945!
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: Very Betty Hutton-y! Even sings a little of "He Says 'Murder' He Says"
	👻 10:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I wondered for years who the insufferable loudmouthed bobbysoxer in Friz Freleng’s “Little Red Riding Rabbit” (1944) was based on!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: This is Frank trying his hand at comedy. He's not bad at it. Not great, but not bad, either..
	10:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:32 .. and she was designed by Hank Ketchem, which is why she kinda looks like Dennis the Menace's Margaret. "I'll do it, but I'll probably hate myself in the morning!"
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: Skinny Frankie joke....
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Before Frank had his "tough guy" persona of the 50's and onward, he was known for being very skinny, and possibly prone to "passing out." This is an interesting document of him sort of toying with the way audiences saw him.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I had some nice clothes and ties that I would wear out at shows as a young man, and I had a hat sort of like one Sinatra would wear. I remember getting called a Sinatra wanna-be, or a "Young Frank Sinatra" by some folks at punk shows when I was young. So I arbitrarily started buying his albums, and trying to figure out who he was, at a time when they were all pretty cheap at thrift stories. To this day I have 20 or so Sinatra LPs, that I collected because of those comments made at shows 30+ years ago...
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Warner Brothers...
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob." by "Mel Blanc / ... Every time I think of Sad Sack, I think of that song by Daniel Johnston, "Sad Sack and Tarzan."
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: The Sad Sack cartoons were B&W funny Army PSA like films!
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 A little more mature than the usual theatre fare.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 Weren't there comic books, too? That's sort of what I remember seeing more of, as a comic collector.
	👻 10:46pm WR: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob." by "Mel Blanc / ... Mel Blanc doing adult humor.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh I'm thinking of Pvt. Snafu . "Systems Normal, All Fucked Up", Sad Sack (of Shit) kind of passed into more innocent usage.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: And Yes Sad Sack was a comic character too. It's had to tell those two miscreants apart.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 That's right! I was trying to remember that word... I think there was a punk band in the late 80's called Snafu, if memory serves.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Ladies love a man in Uniform, even Sad Sack!
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 It was a Harvey publication. It inspired the 1957 Jerry Lewis movie "The Sad Sack".
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Oh, wow! I've never seen that. I think I've seen more Jerry Lewis Telethons than his movies. I should change that.
	10:49pm laurapanic: thanks for this glorious show, Austin. Loved it! heh, the "available" cast....
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Glad you enjoyed it! Like I said, I'll go about six minutes over, for those who want to listen along.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Bah, whatever. I'm sort of not into messages from presidents anymore. Even OG ones.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Well, it's REALLY Christmasy from here on out, so I will understand if you tune out. See ya'll next time! (And, hopefully tomorrow, on Mid-Valley Mutations, if any of you are around!)
	👻 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 As I’ve commented before, the Archie character inspired Daws Butler’s voice of the trenchcoated, deerstalker hatted, feline detective in Hanna-Barbera’s “Snooper and Blabber”.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We'll hear another AFRS show for NYE next week... paired with a NYE episode of Candy Matson, too! That should be fun.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I do love any voicework Daws Butler did. What a voice!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "1945 years ago, when a little child was born." She's talking about Monty Python's Brian, I assume?
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: We don't really get snow here in the Mid-Valley, not at Christmas. If we do, it's in Jan or Feb. But usually, we get a brief "ice storm" for one or two days, and then some lingering "cold weather" afterward, and then back to our regular rain. I would love snow for XMax, but my partner hates it.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Okay, looks like we'll go 4 1/2 minutes over.
	👻 11:01pm WR: ↳ Song: "Message From The President" by "Harry S. Truman" First time to listen to Truman speak. Voice different than what I expected.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show! Goodnight, all!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:01 I like to imagine how novel it must have been to even hear your president's voice on the radio, for the first 20 or so years that radio existed. It didn't happen often at first.
	👻 11:02pm WR: ↳ Song: "Christmas Carol Medley" by "Just About Everyone" Nice all star Medley.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 There have been many recordings of “Five O’Clock Whistle”. Who sang it first? Ella Fitzgerald?
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Happy Holidays, everyone! See ya next time.
	👻 11:04pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 You are forgetting the FDR chats. Have heard several of them. But that was somewhat unique.
	👻 11:04pm WR: Thank you Austin!
	11:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 I dunno! It's weird to hear a non "little Red " version!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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December 23, 2024: The Command Performance Christmas Day Show From 1945!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Command Performance	Christmas Program	25 December 1945	AFRS	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken Carpenter	The Announcer! "The Announcer!" by "Ken Carpenter"			0:02:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Hope	Hosted by... "Hosted by..." by "Bob Hope"			0:02:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe			0:06:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	...comes out for a few quips with Bob...			0:09:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dinah Shore	... comes out too! "... comes out too!" by "Dinah Shore"			0:12:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dinah Shore	Along The Navajo Trail			0:15:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry James	... quips with Bob. "... quips with Bob." by "Harry James"			0:19:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry James	The Two O'Clock Jump "The Two O'Clock Jump" by "Harry James"			0:21:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Herbert Marshall	... comes out and quips with Ken Carpenter...			0:25:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Durante	...comes out to steal the show!			0:25:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Durante	So I Ups To Him! "So I Ups To Him!" by "Jimmy Durante"			0:29:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ginny Simms	... comes out to quip with Bob.			0:33:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ginny Simms	Till The End of Time "Till The End of Time" by "Ginny Simms"			0:33:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Professor Jerry Colonna	... comes out to quip with Bob.			0:37:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johnny Mercer	Camptown Races "Camptown Races" by "Johnny Mercer"			0:39:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johnny Mercer	... comes out to quip with Bob.			0:41:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	... joins the scene. "... joins the scene." by "Bing Crosby"			0:41:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Judy Garland	... makes everyone swoon...			0:42:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
...The Available Cast...	"The Flatbilly Sketch"			0:43:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Long Ago And Far Away			0:48:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Christmas Organ Music "Christmas Organ Music"			0:51:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Professor Jerry Colonna	... comes out to quip with Bob again.			1:05:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pied Pipers	Embraceable You "Embraceable You" by "The Pied Pipers"			1:08:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ed Gardner / Archie	... comes out to quip with Bob & Bing.			1:10:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frances Langford	... comes out to quip with Bob.			1:15:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frances Langford	Baia "Baia" by "Frances Langford"			1:17:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kay Kyser	... comes out to quip with Bob.			1:20:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cass Daley	... comes out to quip with Kay			1:25:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cass Daley	You Can't Blame A Girl For Trying			1:26:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	... comes out to quip with Bob.			1:31:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby	Insult-A-Thon			1:33:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	If I Loved You "If I Loved You" by "Frank Sinatra"			1:39:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
...The Available Cast...	Bob's Holiday Party			1:41:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Blanc / Sad Sack	... comes out to quip with Bob.			1:42:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Mitchell Boys Choir	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town			1:47:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry S. Truman	Message From The President			1:50:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Just About Everyone	Christmas Carol Medley			1:52:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Command Performance Theme Song "Command Performance Theme Song"			2:02:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 9:56am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:43pm Arvo Zylo: Howdy!
	8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm asheville jon: Happy Lurker-mas!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Radio listeners!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Arvo and Imaginos! and, Asheville Jon! Let's have some fun tonight!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: The war was over by December 1945, so they are lucky to get paid!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 There were still plenty of people deployed all over, so, the AFRS was still hard at work! And would be for years to come.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Bob and I both like Red Heads...
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 I like redheads and silver foxes
	👻 9:07pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 I didn't catch the joke about redheads and brunettes....
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:07 Bob goes so fast! He was joking his car would stop when it sees a red head so he can "play" her. (With the other hair colors, the horn plays different songs.)
	👻 9:09pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Nice. I've decided that if I had the chance to be born at any time, I'd probably be born between 1945 and 1955. I'd risk getting drafted and everything.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Hopefully the sound is okay on this one. I did some remastering and sound enhancing on the vocals, to improve things. The original sound is a little muddy, so some of the dialog has lisps and is a little nasal at times.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I like the ad-libbing in this show. You can tell they are BARELY following the script at times.
	9:12pm Imaginos: Nice racing joke
	9:12pm laurapanic: hello from Christmas Eve. I'm wrapping presents to this show its perfect! Love to you all, radio friends.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:12 Laura Panic! Thanks for joining us. That's right; it would be a day later where you are!
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ laurapanic @9:12 Hi All! I am getting stew ready in the crock pot.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 There's a lot of weird jokes all over this show.
	9:15pm Imaginos: Thank goodness they didn't ask her to make sugar plums! Those take three days
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I think we are having salmon for our x-mas dinner. We also roasted a chicken today, so we can pick at it for the next several days. We have piles of chex mix already. Not bad, since our stove died a couple days ago, and the new one arrived yesterday, and and after a visit from an electrician, started working today!
	9:18pm Imaginos: We're having breakfast for dinner including eggs Benedict
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 I do love a good eggs Benedict!
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I guess my shopping days left countdown is off, unless you plan to go out tonight and shop.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of radio from the 40's, there are some racist words used here by Bob. I almost edited this section out, but decided to leave it in anyway. I don't support the racist terms, and the joke here is minimal, at best. I mostly want to point it out to say that there's a fine line, on this show, between "presenting the show as it was" and "editing it for broadcast," and I try to balance that as best I can. Occasionally, the racism of the past shines through. Consider it a commentary on the racism in the real world, today? Or something like that...
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Or you go shopping with River Song
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 If only!
	9:25pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 best babe
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I'm a big Jimmy Durante fan. I love to imagine a time when a real odd dude with an un-conventional look to his face was able to become a huge star. I sort of want that to happen again.
	9:27pm laurapanic: short one gentleman!!! ha!
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Read his "autobiography", Schnozzola
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 I need to read that! I bet it's interesting.
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: "Quail" was slang for "girl" back then.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: "But that is neither Tally, nor ho." I need to remember that one.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "So I Ups To Him!" by "Jimmy Durante" I do appreciate that the past was just as dirty and filthy as the present.
	9:38pm laurapanic: weaponising male incompetence since 1945 (Bob to Dinah). I feel so sorry for Dinah in this dinner arrangement!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:38 Yeah. She and other women on this show get treated poorly. This is a pretty sexist period of radio, too.
	9:40pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	9:40pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 yeh, its a given. Doesn't hurt to highlight and think about it, with a smirk of humour. :)
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I can imagine. Happy holidays! Sleep well, and take care.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Happy holidays to you too
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:40 Indeed. I can't change the past, and I don't want to pretend it didn't happen. But we can talk about it, and enjoy the songs, hopefully!
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: These soldiers sure spend a lot of time thinking about the track.
	9:42pm laurapanic: absolutely I am having a ball! I love the humour of these times, grew up with it. I'm giggling away
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 Well, Bob and Bing, do, anyway.
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: B.O. Plenty was a kind of smelly Dick Tracy Ally.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: This "hillbilly" sketch is... questionably funny?
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: His silly laugh is apparently hilarious to this audience!
	9:47pm laurapanic: no harm in wanting someone to simply shoo the flies
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I want someone to shoo the flies away from me...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Jinx!
	9:48pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 oh my!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: At least after that sketch, you get a song by Judy. I wish the sound was better.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: As a kid who was raised on "The Wizard of Oz," Judy Garland was probably my first crush.
	👻 9:51pm Heather Z: I love Judy Garland so much. This is gorgeous.
	9:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 its exquisite! it made up for the sketch for sure
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:51 She is, objectively, the best.
	9:52pm laurapanic: that last note in spine tingling
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 She really is. What a wonder and a talent!
	9:57pm asheville jon: Still lurking
	9:58pm laurapanic: wrapping all the presents to your show, its a delight!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: I'm working a little craft project and about to open a little craft beer here! Presents wrapping wrapped last night.
	10:04pm laurapanic: lovely weirdos listening to weird old radio shows!
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:04 Those are my peeps!
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll go 5 - 6 minutes over...
	10:07pm Webhamster Henry: Jerry Colonna was made into a cartoon character at Warner Brothers called The Wacky Worm.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:07 I thought his general schtick was familiar. A lot of old Radio and Hollywood personalities were repurposed in cartoons.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: "The fella they all laugh at."
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob & Bing." by "Ed Ga... "Duffy's Tavern" was a very popular show in 1945. Archie was a very popular character, too, and Ed Gardner was associated with Archie for years.
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Well they didn't use any of his catchphrases.. AHHHH YESSS!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I like how they have classical music jokes in this show, and just ASSUME people will get it.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "Just tryin' to win my wings..."
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: In elementary school, we had to interview a relative and I interviewed my dad's mom. The thing I remember most is she told me all about the struggle to find stockings for her wedding in... 43 or 44 because all the silk was being used for parachutes. The stocking jokes sure do land (heh) with me because of that!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:20 All those stories our grandparents told were often tragically true.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Oh, you'll think of something..."
	👻 10:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob again." by "Profes... In Robert McKimson’s “Daffy Doodles” (1946), Daffy Duck goes on a criminal rampage drawing mustaches on billboards and innocent bystanders. He’s arrested and tried, but acquitted by a jury of 12 men who resemble Jerry Colonna.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I wish I remember more of what she said. I didn't record the interview and I'd imagine the paper is lost to time now. I'm glad I remember any of it, though!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:22 Ha! That's great. I should return to my project of trying to see as many of the Warner Bros. cartoons as possible.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: "This is Friday, she wrestles tonight." I mean, she sounds great to me!
	10:24pm laurapanic: this delightful! "don't laugh t me brother, I don't have a band!"
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 This joke doesn't work, as Christmas Day 1945 was a Tuesday.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure how this woman is. Any guesses... David, perhaps?
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Cass Daley! There we go...
	10:27pm laurapanic: googled her, they play on her quirky features, somewhat cruelly
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I'm glad I figured it out. I was listening to this song earlier, wondering who this was. I sort of love her!
	10:28pm Webhamster Henry: Hey Austin & radio listeners did I ever send you this thing I wrote decades ago? nqny.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:28pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 youtube.com...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:28 Excellent! I'll look at that later.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:28 Ooooo! I want to read that.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: I do like that this song is made up of her "sampling" other songs, then giving them the "Weird Al" treatment... in 1945!
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: Very Betty Hutton-y! Even sings a little of "He Says 'Murder' He Says"
	👻 10:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I wondered for years who the insufferable loudmouthed bobbysoxer in Friz Freleng’s “Little Red Riding Rabbit” (1944) was based on!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: This is Frank trying his hand at comedy. He's not bad at it. Not great, but not bad, either..
	10:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:32 .. and she was designed by Hank Ketchem, which is why she kinda looks like Dennis the Menace's Margaret. "I'll do it, but I'll probably hate myself in the morning!"
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: Skinny Frankie joke....
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Before Frank had his "tough guy" persona of the 50's and onward, he was known for being very skinny, and possibly prone to "passing out." This is an interesting document of him sort of toying with the way audiences saw him.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I had some nice clothes and ties that I would wear out at shows as a young man, and I had a hat sort of like one Sinatra would wear. I remember getting called a Sinatra wanna-be, or a "Young Frank Sinatra" by some folks at punk shows when I was young. So I arbitrarily started buying his albums, and trying to figure out who he was, at a time when they were all pretty cheap at thrift stories. To this day I have 20 or so Sinatra LPs, that I collected because of those comments made at shows 30+ years ago...
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Warner Brothers...
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob." by "Mel Blanc / ... Every time I think of Sad Sack, I think of that song by Daniel Johnston, "Sad Sack and Tarzan."
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: The Sad Sack cartoons were B&W funny Army PSA like films!
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 A little more mature than the usual theatre fare.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 Weren't there comic books, too? That's sort of what I remember seeing more of, as a comic collector.
	👻 10:46pm WR: ↳ Song: "... comes out to quip with Bob." by "Mel Blanc / ... Mel Blanc doing adult humor.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh I'm thinking of Pvt. Snafu . "Systems Normal, All Fucked Up", Sad Sack (of Shit) kind of passed into more innocent usage.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: And Yes Sad Sack was a comic character too. It's had to tell those two miscreants apart.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 That's right! I was trying to remember that word... I think there was a punk band in the late 80's called Snafu, if memory serves.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Ladies love a man in Uniform, even Sad Sack!
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 It was a Harvey publication. It inspired the 1957 Jerry Lewis movie "The Sad Sack".
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Oh, wow! I've never seen that. I think I've seen more Jerry Lewis Telethons than his movies. I should change that.
	10:49pm laurapanic: thanks for this glorious show, Austin. Loved it! heh, the "available" cast....
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Glad you enjoyed it! Like I said, I'll go about six minutes over, for those who want to listen along.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Bah, whatever. I'm sort of not into messages from presidents anymore. Even OG ones.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Well, it's REALLY Christmasy from here on out, so I will understand if you tune out. See ya'll next time! (And, hopefully tomorrow, on Mid-Valley Mutations, if any of you are around!)
	👻 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 As I’ve commented before, the Archie character inspired Daws Butler’s voice of the trenchcoated, deerstalker hatted, feline detective in Hanna-Barbera’s “Snooper and Blabber”.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We'll hear another AFRS show for NYE next week... paired with a NYE episode of Candy Matson, too! That should be fun.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I do love any voicework Daws Butler did. What a voice!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "1945 years ago, when a little child was born." She's talking about Monty Python's Brian, I assume?
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: We don't really get snow here in the Mid-Valley, not at Christmas. If we do, it's in Jan or Feb. But usually, we get a brief "ice storm" for one or two days, and then some lingering "cold weather" afterward, and then back to our regular rain. I would love snow for XMax, but my partner hates it.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Okay, looks like we'll go 4 1/2 minutes over.
	👻 11:01pm WR: ↳ Song: "Message From The President" by "Harry S. Truman" First time to listen to Truman speak. Voice different than what I expected.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great show! Goodnight, all!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:01 I like to imagine how novel it must have been to even hear your president's voice on the radio, for the first 20 or so years that radio existed. It didn't happen often at first.
	👻 11:02pm WR: ↳ Song: "Christmas Carol Medley" by "Just About Everyone" Nice all star Medley.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 There have been many recordings of “Five O’Clock Whistle”. Who sang it first? Ella Fitzgerald?
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Happy Holidays, everyone! See ya next time.
	👻 11:04pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 You are forgetting the FDR chats. Have heard several of them. But that was somewhat unique.
	👻 11:04pm WR: Thank you Austin!
	11:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 I dunno! It's weird to hear a non "little Red " version!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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