WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 30, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. Crappy New Blear.
	7:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:13 Ahoy. And yes, this is going to be a very interesting year for all the wrong reasons. Pity J or K can't neuralize certain people.
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:49 If only. I feel like I could use a neuralization.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Q humans ARe diabolical instruments of destruction
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Didn't he end up sort of liking them in the end, though?
	8:58pm Imaginos: Yeah. He did.
	9:00pm Imaginos: But at present we're still a dangerous savage child race
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Agreed!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I did my usual clean-up of this show, and really did as much as I could to improve the overall sound. However, I couldn't get rid of some "pops" in the recording, no matter how hard I tried. Consider it an artifact of the era.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Another party and some New Year's Candy!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: However: you can hear the live audience murmuring behind the live band. All these songs were live, performed on the night in question.
	9:03pm Imaginos: I wonder how many pops are finger snaps
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 There's always room for another piece of Christmas Candy, this time of year.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 One or two, at least.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: As you can hear, they are switching the radio service between different cities, to a local "hitmaker" who can then play one song each, at all the various locations. I can only imagine the technology that was required to do this in 1945, and have it sound anywhere remotely good enough to listen to.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: You can tell that they are really changing to different locations, because the sound of the bands and the sound of the audiences are different from song to song.
	9:09pm Imaginos: My mum was listening from Sydney Australia
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: As you can imagine, a recording like this does not have the best "voices" on it. I used some digital tools to help beef up the announcers, so you could actually sort of hear Count Baisie. (In the original, his voice is all but buried in audience noise.)
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:09 Back then? Or just now?
	9:12pm Imaginos: Back then
	9:13pm Charles: Me, I'm just gonna dance
	9:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @9:13 Jitterbug?
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 A lot of these AFRS recordings are not well documented, so you don't always know what you're gonna get when you listen to them. When I put this on, I had the vague impression that this would be more of a variety show, based on the descriptions I found online. Turns out it's just a "Dance Party," as they were called back then. Which is fine by me; on NYE, why not just get up and dance!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:13 That's the spirit, Charles!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I'm sure some nerd online has probably documented this, but I should read up on how they would actually do shows like this back in 1945. It seems so bonkers to me that they would just switch back and forth between cities with such ease in 1945, but maybe it was really hard, and they're making it sound easy? Or maybe it was easy back then, and I just don't realize...
	9:18pm Mr Fab: Hey, Austin! This is great. One of those bands, I think the Count Basie one, was introduced as playing at the Coconut Grove, at the Ambassador hotel in LA. Very famous spot, the real hip place to be for years. Although Robert Kennedy getting assassinated there was no fun.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 Mr. Fab! I have always wanted to visit the Coconut Grove. I'll have to make that a priority when I'm in LA next.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Sorry, it closed a long time ago. It’s a school now. But I think they preserved the area where RFK was killed.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:20 Yeah, I thought there was something you could still visit. I feel like a lot of places I wanted to visit are just addresses now.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Might be fun to Google Earth them and see what's there
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: I've only been to LA once, and I didn't get to do much when I was there. (I think I played one show, we ate before and after, and then had to leave.) So next time I wanna just hang out. I've been to Anaheim more times, when I'm down that way; my wife is a big Disney fan.
	9:26pm Imaginos: A little sleepy. Was sick for three days. Felt better today, but worn out
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I'm sorry you've been sick! That is never fun. Glad to hear you are on the mend. Sleep well, and we'll see each other online, soon enough.
	9:27pm Imaginos: K
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I have to imagine that it was pretty cool to hear all of these acts, LIVE, in one night, in one hour! That must have been a bit of a novelty in 1945
	9:36pm Christina in Canada: what a delightful surprise on a soaker of an vening. Just the beats for mulled wine at the fireside. Hello all!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Christina in Canada! Thanks for tuning in. I'm glad you have mulled wine. That sounds delightful.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tampico" by "Stan Kenton & His Orchestra" I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks.
	9:41pm Christina in Canada: I have not heard "Tampico" for decades!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @9:41 I hadn't heard it in a long time, but after preparing this show, it's been stuck in my head!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Isn't this the tune that Monty Python turned into that song, "Oliver Cromwell"? (Or am I confusing that with something else?)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: I feel like there might be enough songs about Robin Hood that I should consider trying to do a show around that theme. I think I could pull it off.
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: Jumping from time zone to time zone...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 "The Time Zone Jump" is the only song we haven't heard yet.
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Imagine producing a show with more than a dozen top-flight big bands in it
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 And having to make sure they all start a specific song at a specific time during the hour. It's just an incredible document.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 I also imagine that each of these bands carried their own shows, where they played live to a radio audience, in their own home towns, which was very common in the 40's.
	10:01pm Christina in Canada: We used to hear Guy Lombardo at midnight NYE up here as an annual tradition. Until Guy went bye bye
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Some party!
	10:05pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. Fab: the Guy Lombardo of Sheena's
	10:09pm Christina in Canada: Grateful fofr Mr. Fab. My late husband also had the Criswell avatar on some forums, and since learning Mr. Fab brought Sheena's Jungle Room to us I am levels more grateful
	10:10pm Christina in Canada: An unpopular opinion I have about Dick Powell is that he was the best Philip Marlowe.
	10:18pm Christina in Canada: Hang in there, Austin
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:18 Thanks Christina. I feel like I've just been battered on every front this year.
	10:20pm Christina in Canada: It's a new moon, a year-end. some people write down their troubles on a sheet and burn the paper.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:20 I wonder if that works? I've never tried...
	10:22pm Christina in Canada: Oddly, yesterday I read an Ellery Queen story about the 1940 World Series where a retired pitcher died from eating a poisoned hot dog in the stadium box above the Giants dugout.
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: This is like one of those Clay Pigeon show radio features...
	👻 10:25pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Hi Rich and folks. Have been listening while heating up soup etc. Regarding the multi-location broadcasts: There were special telephone circuits that connected the various radio network stations. Local lines to the local station would be used to connect the performance locations. Regular programs would be from single location and fed via the network to other stations. Something like the NYE broacasts took days of prep by technicians at each location and scripted coordination on the nights of the broadcasts. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: When you listen to recordings from 70ish years ago, a lot of the hard consonants sound "rounded off," and a lot of words sound a little "mushy." So, when you use software to improve the voices of shows like this, they can only be as good as the mushy versions of these preserved recordings. I try to balance the improved recordings as best I can so the voices still sound natural, but occasionally the words sound a little muddled, as much as they do on the original recordings, anyway.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:25 Oh, damn! Thanks for the background info. I'll have to look at that map a little more, later.
	10:28pm Christina in Canada: I'm sorry, Austin. I hope you're being kind to yourself and have people to talk to. Pat yourself for surviving the year.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:28 Thanks Christina. I don't have many people to talk to IRL, but I am married, and I have three cats, and I love them with all my heart. It's not much, but it's something.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about three minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone! At least there's nothing on after me so I can go long.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""NC9-8012"" by "Candy Matson" One of my all-time favorite detective shows, and sadly, one of the worst documented shows, too. There's only about 20 episodes that survive today, in spite of there being many, many more broadcast back in the day.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: Christmas Candy to ring out the year! Absolutely perfect!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Candy tries to romance the police officer when she's not working, but he's a little dim, and never seems to realize that Candy is into him. I think he's bad for her, personally. I mean, he is a cop...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:33 Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon, Heather. Thanks for poppin' in.
	10:35pm Christina in Canada: Cats are fabulous, Austin. Feed them and keep them warm and they'll listen.
	👻 10:36pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I was only a little late but I've been tuned in since and loving the show, as always!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:35 A new one adopted us a couple months ago, who was living outdoors, had some health problems, etc. We took him to the vet, got his earmites and fleas treated, and started feeding him consistently. He has improved so much! We named him Leander, and he's wonderfully affectionate.
	10:38pm Christina in Canada: Cranston Flying Service. I listened to some 'The Shadow' episodes from YouTube. Cranston, before he was Cranston or The Shadow, was a pilot.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I do like how Candy is rude when she wants to be, and is direct when she needs to be. I'm sure in 1949, this was a little disconcerting for some men, which this show certainly plays with on a regular basis.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:38 Ha! I missed that reference! That's hilarious. I love it!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:36 Thanks. That certainly means a lot.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:38 I should listen to more of The Shadow. I've heard about a dozen, but I don't know the show well.
	10:41pm Christina in Canada: The Shadow is one of my comfort reads and listens.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: You can tell that Candy Matson was broadcast live, as Natalie Masters flubs lines here and there, and has a few issues with some of the tongue-twister dialog. It's sort of charming to know these actors actually were standing around microphones, reading from scripts, rolling with the mistakes in the moment.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:41 I've probably read more Shadow comics than listened to shows. I have a soft spot for that early 70's Shadow comic series, mostly because I read it as a kid.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Candy likes to drink, and is more than open about it.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Candy's friend, Rembrandt Watson, is the first openly gay character in a radio show. If you listen to all of the Candy episodes, you'll be surprised at what Watson says...
	👻 10:44pm WR: Candy Matson with her pants down? Oh my. Of course she want to avoid that.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is an "ex-drunk," and always poor. He's one of my fave characters. He's in a relationship with "Diogenes Murphey," though they keep it a little on the DL in this show.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I do like that Candy has her own Watson. She is the Sherlock of her time.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I wanna know what it was like to see this voice actor do the voice of the parrot live during this show.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The only unbelievable part of this story is that Candy - a seasoned detective - wouldn't be able to remember the phone number the parrot had memorized. She's better than that!
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: Is this a sort of... POLLY GRAPH?!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 "Polly wanna clue-number?"
	👻 10:51pm WR: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 -RIMSHOT / cymbal splash
	👻 10:52pm Heather Z: ↳ WR @10:51 You know I've got that look on my face and I'm nudging the air going, "eh?? Eh??"
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: St. Swithun's Day? en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I know how Candy feels. I haven't slept well the last few days.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: This is one of my favorite endings of a Candy episode.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: This is where Candy kicks some ass.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: I'd be scared to death in a plane like this! Good thing Candy's got it handled.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: This is a real adventure!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Candy just knocked a guy out after nearly being killed in an airplane (watching another man get killed), and then landed a plane via radio. All in a day's work...
	10:59pm Christina in Canada: These episodes can be object lessons in resilience and coping skills.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: She was airsick the whole time she was doing all of that? What a champ!
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Happy New Year, everyone! We'll see ya next time, when we'll be back to our regular shows! No more holidays for a while...
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: She did it!! It's near that time so thank you, Austin, for a whole year of terrific radio! I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. See ya in 2025.
	👻 11:01pm WR: HNY! All!
	11:02pm Christina in Canada: Happy New Year to everyone. thank you, Austin.
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: She should have put in for a pilot's license!
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: I wish all our mal de mer and nausea expectorations had soaring organ notes.
	11:03pm Webhamster Henry: I missed Candy! good script too!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:03 Yeah. She is the best.
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: DUDLEY MANLOVE
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @11:03 Best announcer name in San Francisco EVER!
	11:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Christina in Canada @11:03 Yup! Eros from Plan 9 from Outer Space

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 30, 2024

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December 30, 2024: The Armed Forces Radio New Year's Eve Dance Party, 1945!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Armed Forces Radio Service	New Years Eve Radio Dance Party	31 December 1945	AFRS	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry James & His Orchestra	The Sad Sack			0:01:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie & His Orchestra	One O'Clock Jump			0:04:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Freddy Martin and His Orchestra	Warsaw Concerto			0:09:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Woody Herman & His Orchestra	Woodchopper's Ball			0:12:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra	Drum Boogie			0:16:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Henry King & His Orchestra	Just As You And I			0:21:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	Accentuate the Positive			0:25:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra	I Got Rhythm			0:28:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Les Brown & His Orchestra	Twilight Time			0:33:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra	Little Jazz			0:35:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra	Tampico			0:38:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	Song of India			0:41:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Carmen Cavallaro & His Orchestra	Chopin's Polonaise			0:45:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Prima	Robin Hood "Robin Hood" by "Louis Prima"			0:48:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Gotta Be This Or That			0:52:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Let The Zoomers Drool.			0:54:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians	Auld Lang Syne			0:59:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Boston Pops	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Boston Pops"			1:01:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bill Sterns	"Sports Newsreel w/ George Raft"	31 December 1948	NBC	1:17:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Candy Matson	"NC9-8012" ""NC9-8012"" by "Candy Matson"	27 December 1949		1:31:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. Crappy New Blear.
	7:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:13 Ahoy. And yes, this is going to be a very interesting year for all the wrong reasons. Pity J or K can't neuralize certain people.
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:49 If only. I feel like I could use a neuralization.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Q humans ARe diabolical instruments of destruction
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Didn't he end up sort of liking them in the end, though?
	8:58pm Imaginos: Yeah. He did.
	9:00pm Imaginos: But at present we're still a dangerous savage child race
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Agreed!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I did my usual clean-up of this show, and really did as much as I could to improve the overall sound. However, I couldn't get rid of some "pops" in the recording, no matter how hard I tried. Consider it an artifact of the era.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Another party and some New Year's Candy!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: However: you can hear the live audience murmuring behind the live band. All these songs were live, performed on the night in question.
	9:03pm Imaginos: I wonder how many pops are finger snaps
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 There's always room for another piece of Christmas Candy, this time of year.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 One or two, at least.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: As you can hear, they are switching the radio service between different cities, to a local "hitmaker" who can then play one song each, at all the various locations. I can only imagine the technology that was required to do this in 1945, and have it sound anywhere remotely good enough to listen to.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: You can tell that they are really changing to different locations, because the sound of the bands and the sound of the audiences are different from song to song.
	9:09pm Imaginos: My mum was listening from Sydney Australia
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: As you can imagine, a recording like this does not have the best "voices" on it. I used some digital tools to help beef up the announcers, so you could actually sort of hear Count Baisie. (In the original, his voice is all but buried in audience noise.)
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:09 Back then? Or just now?
	9:12pm Imaginos: Back then
	9:13pm Charles: Me, I'm just gonna dance
	9:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @9:13 Jitterbug?
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 A lot of these AFRS recordings are not well documented, so you don't always know what you're gonna get when you listen to them. When I put this on, I had the vague impression that this would be more of a variety show, based on the descriptions I found online. Turns out it's just a "Dance Party," as they were called back then. Which is fine by me; on NYE, why not just get up and dance!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:13 That's the spirit, Charles!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I'm sure some nerd online has probably documented this, but I should read up on how they would actually do shows like this back in 1945. It seems so bonkers to me that they would just switch back and forth between cities with such ease in 1945, but maybe it was really hard, and they're making it sound easy? Or maybe it was easy back then, and I just don't realize...
	9:18pm Mr Fab: Hey, Austin! This is great. One of those bands, I think the Count Basie one, was introduced as playing at the Coconut Grove, at the Ambassador hotel in LA. Very famous spot, the real hip place to be for years. Although Robert Kennedy getting assassinated there was no fun.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 Mr. Fab! I have always wanted to visit the Coconut Grove. I'll have to make that a priority when I'm in LA next.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Sorry, it closed a long time ago. It’s a school now. But I think they preserved the area where RFK was killed.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:20 Yeah, I thought there was something you could still visit. I feel like a lot of places I wanted to visit are just addresses now.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Might be fun to Google Earth them and see what's there
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: I've only been to LA once, and I didn't get to do much when I was there. (I think I played one show, we ate before and after, and then had to leave.) So next time I wanna just hang out. I've been to Anaheim more times, when I'm down that way; my wife is a big Disney fan.
	9:26pm Imaginos: A little sleepy. Was sick for three days. Felt better today, but worn out
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I'm sorry you've been sick! That is never fun. Glad to hear you are on the mend. Sleep well, and we'll see each other online, soon enough.
	9:27pm Imaginos: K
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I have to imagine that it was pretty cool to hear all of these acts, LIVE, in one night, in one hour! That must have been a bit of a novelty in 1945
	9:36pm Christina in Canada: what a delightful surprise on a soaker of an vening. Just the beats for mulled wine at the fireside. Hello all!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Christina in Canada! Thanks for tuning in. I'm glad you have mulled wine. That sounds delightful.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tampico" by "Stan Kenton & His Orchestra" I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks.
	9:41pm Christina in Canada: I have not heard "Tampico" for decades!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @9:41 I hadn't heard it in a long time, but after preparing this show, it's been stuck in my head!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Isn't this the tune that Monty Python turned into that song, "Oliver Cromwell"? (Or am I confusing that with something else?)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: I feel like there might be enough songs about Robin Hood that I should consider trying to do a show around that theme. I think I could pull it off.
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: Jumping from time zone to time zone...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 "The Time Zone Jump" is the only song we haven't heard yet.
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Imagine producing a show with more than a dozen top-flight big bands in it
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 And having to make sure they all start a specific song at a specific time during the hour. It's just an incredible document.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 I also imagine that each of these bands carried their own shows, where they played live to a radio audience, in their own home towns, which was very common in the 40's.
	10:01pm Christina in Canada: We used to hear Guy Lombardo at midnight NYE up here as an annual tradition. Until Guy went bye bye
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Some party!
	10:05pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. Fab: the Guy Lombardo of Sheena's
	10:09pm Christina in Canada: Grateful fofr Mr. Fab. My late husband also had the Criswell avatar on some forums, and since learning Mr. Fab brought Sheena's Jungle Room to us I am levels more grateful
	10:10pm Christina in Canada: An unpopular opinion I have about Dick Powell is that he was the best Philip Marlowe.
	10:18pm Christina in Canada: Hang in there, Austin
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:18 Thanks Christina. I feel like I've just been battered on every front this year.
	10:20pm Christina in Canada: It's a new moon, a year-end. some people write down their troubles on a sheet and burn the paper.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:20 I wonder if that works? I've never tried...
	10:22pm Christina in Canada: Oddly, yesterday I read an Ellery Queen story about the 1940 World Series where a retired pitcher died from eating a poisoned hot dog in the stadium box above the Giants dugout.
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: This is like one of those Clay Pigeon show radio features...
	👻 10:25pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Hi Rich and folks. Have been listening while heating up soup etc. Regarding the multi-location broadcasts: There were special telephone circuits that connected the various radio network stations. Local lines to the local station would be used to connect the performance locations. Regular programs would be from single location and fed via the network to other stations. Something like the NYE broacasts took days of prep by technicians at each location and scripted coordination on the nights of the broadcasts. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: When you listen to recordings from 70ish years ago, a lot of the hard consonants sound "rounded off," and a lot of words sound a little "mushy." So, when you use software to improve the voices of shows like this, they can only be as good as the mushy versions of these preserved recordings. I try to balance the improved recordings as best I can so the voices still sound natural, but occasionally the words sound a little muddled, as much as they do on the original recordings, anyway.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:25 Oh, damn! Thanks for the background info. I'll have to look at that map a little more, later.
	10:28pm Christina in Canada: I'm sorry, Austin. I hope you're being kind to yourself and have people to talk to. Pat yourself for surviving the year.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:28 Thanks Christina. I don't have many people to talk to IRL, but I am married, and I have three cats, and I love them with all my heart. It's not much, but it's something.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about three minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone! At least there's nothing on after me so I can go long.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""NC9-8012"" by "Candy Matson" One of my all-time favorite detective shows, and sadly, one of the worst documented shows, too. There's only about 20 episodes that survive today, in spite of there being many, many more broadcast back in the day.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: Christmas Candy to ring out the year! Absolutely perfect!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Candy tries to romance the police officer when she's not working, but he's a little dim, and never seems to realize that Candy is into him. I think he's bad for her, personally. I mean, he is a cop...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:33 Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon, Heather. Thanks for poppin' in.
	10:35pm Christina in Canada: Cats are fabulous, Austin. Feed them and keep them warm and they'll listen.
	👻 10:36pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I was only a little late but I've been tuned in since and loving the show, as always!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:35 A new one adopted us a couple months ago, who was living outdoors, had some health problems, etc. We took him to the vet, got his earmites and fleas treated, and started feeding him consistently. He has improved so much! We named him Leander, and he's wonderfully affectionate.
	10:38pm Christina in Canada: Cranston Flying Service. I listened to some 'The Shadow' episodes from YouTube. Cranston, before he was Cranston or The Shadow, was a pilot.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I do like how Candy is rude when she wants to be, and is direct when she needs to be. I'm sure in 1949, this was a little disconcerting for some men, which this show certainly plays with on a regular basis.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:38 Ha! I missed that reference! That's hilarious. I love it!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:36 Thanks. That certainly means a lot.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:38 I should listen to more of The Shadow. I've heard about a dozen, but I don't know the show well.
	10:41pm Christina in Canada: The Shadow is one of my comfort reads and listens.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: You can tell that Candy Matson was broadcast live, as Natalie Masters flubs lines here and there, and has a few issues with some of the tongue-twister dialog. It's sort of charming to know these actors actually were standing around microphones, reading from scripts, rolling with the mistakes in the moment.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @10:41 I've probably read more Shadow comics than listened to shows. I have a soft spot for that early 70's Shadow comic series, mostly because I read it as a kid.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Candy likes to drink, and is more than open about it.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Candy's friend, Rembrandt Watson, is the first openly gay character in a radio show. If you listen to all of the Candy episodes, you'll be surprised at what Watson says...
	👻 10:44pm WR: Candy Matson with her pants down? Oh my. Of course she want to avoid that.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is an "ex-drunk," and always poor. He's one of my fave characters. He's in a relationship with "Diogenes Murphey," though they keep it a little on the DL in this show.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I do like that Candy has her own Watson. She is the Sherlock of her time.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I wanna know what it was like to see this voice actor do the voice of the parrot live during this show.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The only unbelievable part of this story is that Candy - a seasoned detective - wouldn't be able to remember the phone number the parrot had memorized. She's better than that!
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: Is this a sort of... POLLY GRAPH?!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 "Polly wanna clue-number?"
	👻 10:51pm WR: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 -RIMSHOT / cymbal splash
	👻 10:52pm Heather Z: ↳ WR @10:51 You know I've got that look on my face and I'm nudging the air going, "eh?? Eh??"
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: St. Swithun's Day? en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I know how Candy feels. I haven't slept well the last few days.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: This is one of my favorite endings of a Candy episode.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: This is where Candy kicks some ass.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: I'd be scared to death in a plane like this! Good thing Candy's got it handled.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: This is a real adventure!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Candy just knocked a guy out after nearly being killed in an airplane (watching another man get killed), and then landed a plane via radio. All in a day's work...
	10:59pm Christina in Canada: These episodes can be object lessons in resilience and coping skills.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: She was airsick the whole time she was doing all of that? What a champ!
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Happy New Year, everyone! We'll see ya next time, when we'll be back to our regular shows! No more holidays for a while...
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: She did it!! It's near that time so thank you, Austin, for a whole year of terrific radio! I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. See ya in 2025.
	👻 11:01pm WR: HNY! All!
	11:02pm Christina in Canada: Happy New Year to everyone. thank you, Austin.
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: She should have put in for a pilot's license!
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: I wish all our mal de mer and nausea expectorations had soaring organ notes.
	11:03pm Webhamster Henry: I missed Candy! good script too!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:03 Yeah. She is the best.
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: DUDLEY MANLOVE
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @11:03 Best announcer name in San Francisco EVER!
	11:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Christina in Canada @11:03 Yup! Eros from Plan 9 from Outer Space

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 30, 2024

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