WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 1, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: meanwhile: i have to make some popcorn!
	9:02pm Krys O.: Saying a brief hey! Must get some sleep. Cheers!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Yeah, grab a snack, and get ready for a fun show!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Vacation. A respite from vocation
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:02 Thanks for all you do, Krys O! Even a brief visit is excellent.
	9:03pm laurapanic: mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Lux Flakes.....
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 They both take a lot of work, unfortunately.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: I've been listening to these radio versions of movies : Screen Director's Playhouse: archive.org...
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 Tasty!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Oh, interesting! I don't know that one very well. Maybe I should dig in for the summer.
	9:04pm laurapanic: an egg in his mouth!
	9:04pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 Don't make the same mistakes as Neil and use soap flakes for lentil soup
	9:05pm Imaginos: Is that "abroad" or "A broad"?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for joining me on my annual summer "break," where I run movies on the radio, and take a break from my usual programming. (Three years in a row, now!) This first week we are featuring one of my favorite actors, Edward G. Robinson! en.wikipedia.org...
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Like Lux, it features original casts and directors (!0 or reasonable substitutions!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I have a feeling those Lentils weren't gonna be that great, unfortunately. I'm not sure Neil was a good cook.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 I've heard a couple, but not many. I know this series much better.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:04 The true sign of a man.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 SPG liked them
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: Fights already ... sheesh!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: This summer, I picked out all shows and stories from the late 30's. There's a lot of 30's radio available to listen to, but often, when people think of the "Golden Age of Radio," they often think of the 40's and 50's. While it was harder to record shows for preservation in the 30's, the stuff we do have from this era is very interesting. So consider these shows a nice slice of late 30's American culture.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08 Yeah. The action gets going fast on this one.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: While I wouldn't say that either of these movies are my favorite Robinson films, I do find parts of the story and performances in these two to be very interesting. For my fave Robinson films, I would say it's a tie with "Double Indemnity" or "Scarlet Street." But I do like "Key Largo," even though he's not the lead.
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: As an experiment, I used some algorithms to take apart this episode of "Lux Radio Theater," so I could do a little production on the "vocal" and "music" tracks. I didn't do a lot, outside of some basic EQ. But I did increase the signal of the "vocal" track by a small amount, as the music was a little overpowering at times as it was broadcast. It's a subtle difference, but I think this version sounds better than the archived one.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Nice to see you in the chat, yerfriendpaul! I hope you are packed! Sounds like the signal broke for a second! Sorry about that.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: We have the most unreliable internet some nights. Stupid Comcast.
	9:17pm Imaginos: Rather sadistic jailor
	9:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Long day.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Here's some more information about the film that this episode is based on. The film version was directed by Howard Hawks, with Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff in the cast. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:19 Sleep well!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Thank you
	9:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Hey Austin! Don’t think I’ve seen this film but, hey, a pre-“Frankenstein” Boris?!!
	👻 9:23pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Hey Austin! I’m letting my wife and son pack first and then I’ll take a crack at it. Gets too chaotic when everyone packs together
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:22 Yeah, the film version rules. Hawks is a master.
	9:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Double Indemnity is as much about Edward G. and Fred MacM.'s near father-son relationship as the complicated scheme!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: In the movie, you get the impression that the story is a critique of prisons, and seems to suggest we should questions some aspects of legal systems. I think that message is a little muddied in this version, and I'm not sure Beverly Roberts is a good in this role as Constance Cummings is.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 Yeah, their back and forth is great. And I grew up on "My Three Sons," so seeing that really blew my mind.
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: Yah yah yah yah yah!!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: The law of the playground. "A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid."
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: This is intense!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: If Edward G. Robinson was badgering me like this, I would cave in a second. I would tell him my entire life story.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: I love that you can hear the local announcer say, "KMX, Los Angeles. The Voice of Hollywood," on this recording. This show was syndicated nationally, but local stations would make announcements like that. Often, we don't get to hear that kind of thing, as we often hear recordings derived from transcription discs. I would love to know the provenance of this recording, as it suggests that it was recorded at home, by a listener.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I was trying to imagine some podcast doing something like this now. Hour-long movie adaptations, with current actors and stars. Seems completely bonkers, but it used to happen. I would love to hear the current schlocky action movies adapted to some radio show by current up-and-coming stars.
	9:43pm Mr Fab: KNX is still on the air! News, traffic, etc. Needs more radio drama.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Was there ever really an Edward G. Robinson role where he ended sentences with “See?” (pronounced more like “shee?”) Or is that just the comedy impression of him?
	9:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 That’s a hilarious idea.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I think he actually said, "See," in "Little Ceaser," but I could be just remembering it that way, because of the parodies. I need to re-watch that one.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: More information about Kid Galahad: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: It is funny to hear Cecil B. DeMille do these hosting bits. He is clearly not a performer, and doesn't seem to know what to do or say on the mic. He clearly wants to be the host, and he is clearly trying. But he is, without a doubt, not a performer, and it shows.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: Similar to what I did with "The Criminal Code," I used some digital audio tools to separate the music and the dialog, and then did some EQing on the tracks to get them to sound a little better. I also separated the Music and the Dialog by a couple db, to help the dialog stand out a little better. I think it sounds a little more clear than in the original broadcast.
	👻 10:13pm yerfriendpaul: I like the use of “choice” as an adjective. Don’t hear that too much if at all anymore
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: Bette Davis plays "Fluff" in the film. While I don't mind this performance, Bette Davis and Robinson together are just fantastic on screen.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Joan Bennett - who plays Fluff in this production - is still a great actor, and you can hear the rapport that her and Robinson have together, even through the radio. A few years later, Robinson and Bennett would act together in "Scarlet Street," where they are both great.
	👻 10:15pm yerfriendpaul: Sheesh! Harsh mockery of the kid’s name
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: "I sort of like you, too." There's some good dialog in this one.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "What do you do?" I need to snip that out and use it for a re-mix.
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:13 That’s some real choice slang.
	👻 10:21pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Mr Fab @10:19 Choice indeed!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I have no idea who the actor is that is playing the "Kid" in this production, I would say he's a bit of a downgrade from the film version. Kid Galahad is probably the least charismatic voice actor in this show, which is not great for the character the story is named after.
	👻 10:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Kid Galahad"" by "Lux Radio Theater" Any listeners who expected a radio version of the 1962 Elvis Presley movie must be disappointed.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:26 Zing.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: I guess the film version of "Kid Galahad" was known as "The Battling Bellhop" on television in the 60's, to keep it distinctly separate from the Elvis Version.
	10:31pm Mr Fab: “Search me” is another phrase that means revising.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Yeah, you don't hear that so often anymore.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: What I like about this story is that this was the "Christmas" episode of Lux Radio Theater in 1937. (The show one week later would be the 26th.) So listeners at home had Christmas on their minds as they listened to this story.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 Karloff has an uncredited speaking part in the 1931 Robinson/Cagney film "Smart Money".
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I feel like Karloff was in a ton of movies in those days.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: Sorry guys, a boxing story is an instant turn-off for me.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 It's certainly not for everyone. I understand.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Kid Galahad"" by "Lux Radio Theater" I strangely haven't seen this movie even though I have it on a library-discarded DVD set (the Edward G. Robinson volume of the Turner Classic Movies Greatest Gangster Films Collection). I saw the other flicks in the set: "The Little Giant", "Larceny, Inc." and "Bullets or Ballots".
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: I usually cut stuff like this bit with the boxers talking, from Lux Broadcasts, as they often put stuff like this in as a way to segue into an ad for Lux. But in this case, I kept it in as it's rather substantial, and I'm sure some boxing nerd is excited to hear this stuff.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 The 1946 Friz Freleng short "Racketeer Rabbit" was my introduction to Edward G.
	👻 10:47pm WR: Even considering Tunney and Dempsey had scripting help, they sound pretty sharp.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Oh, yeah! That's a great one. I think 95% of my introduction to old Hollywood came from cartoon parodies.
	👻 10:48pm yerfriendpaul: Great fighters, no so great radio cue card readers
	👻 10:48pm Heather: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! And now I've got the song Boxing by Ben Folds in my head which is a song I've always liked a lot.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:48 Yeah, that was sort of painful, if you don't care about boxing.
	👻 10:48pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:48 Ha ha, expectations flavoring our reactions?
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:48 I saw Ben Folds and Amanda Palmer at some show my sister took my to. I think everything I know about Ben Folds comes from my sister or from that William Shatner album I love.
	👻 10:52pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I've seen them separately! The Dresden Dolls played that Bug Jar club I've mentioned ages ago. I have some feelings about both acts but they're sure talents and some songs hit home for me.
	👻 10:53pm yerfriendpaul: It’s the age old traditori of athletes with less than stellar acting/speaking skills. It must’ve been extra challenging for these guys since it was recorded live
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I think, because of context, I consider them "Sister Rock." They're fine, but I really associate them with my sister.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:53 Yeah. When the pressure is on, it can be hard.
	👻 10:54pm David Shortell: Do you know “There Goes a Tenner”, Kate Bush’s song about a bank heist? If you listen closely after Kate sings “Both my partners act like actors. You are Bogart. He is George Raft. That leaves Cagney and me”, you can hear an EGR imitator murmur “What about Edward G.?" That almost subliminal line was omitted in Kate Bush’s lyrics book “How to Be Invisible”!
	👻 10:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Sister Rock is an excellent kind of rock!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:54 I don't know that song! I'll have to look it up.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go 2 1/2 minutes over. Sorry!
	👻 10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 youtube.com...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 I usually really like her stuff. I'm sure this will be good. Damn, we lost the signal again for a second. Sorry!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Cecil says that Edward hasn't been on in two years... he was on in January, for the story we heard last hour.
	👻 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, time flies! Thank you Austin! Might not be able to listen next week as I’ll be in Italy with my family on vacation. Take care and hope you get a chance to listen to my Drop in show on the 13th. A bunch of tunes that I pulled together that I like. Good night!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Jesus. Our internet is crap tonight.
	👻 11:01pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @11:00 thanks for the heads up, yerfriendpaul.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @11:00 Very cool!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 1, 2024

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July 1, 2024: Movies On The Radio Double Feature: Edward G. Robinson!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
01 July 2024: Summer Movies One w/ Edward G. Robinson
Lux Radio Theater	"The Criminal Code"	18 January 1937	CBS	0:01:04 (Pop-up)
Lux Radio Theater	"Kid Galahad" ""Kid Galahad"" by "Lux Radio Theater"	19 December 1937	CBS	1:06:56 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: meanwhile: i have to make some popcorn!
	9:02pm Krys O.: Saying a brief hey! Must get some sleep. Cheers!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Yeah, grab a snack, and get ready for a fun show!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Vacation. A respite from vocation
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:02 Thanks for all you do, Krys O! Even a brief visit is excellent.
	9:03pm laurapanic: mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Lux Flakes.....
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 They both take a lot of work, unfortunately.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: I've been listening to these radio versions of movies : Screen Director's Playhouse: archive.org...
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 Tasty!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Oh, interesting! I don't know that one very well. Maybe I should dig in for the summer.
	9:04pm laurapanic: an egg in his mouth!
	9:04pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 Don't make the same mistakes as Neil and use soap flakes for lentil soup
	9:05pm Imaginos: Is that "abroad" or "A broad"?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for joining me on my annual summer "break," where I run movies on the radio, and take a break from my usual programming. (Three years in a row, now!) This first week we are featuring one of my favorite actors, Edward G. Robinson! en.wikipedia.org...
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Like Lux, it features original casts and directors (!0 or reasonable substitutions!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I have a feeling those Lentils weren't gonna be that great, unfortunately. I'm not sure Neil was a good cook.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 I've heard a couple, but not many. I know this series much better.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:04 The true sign of a man.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 SPG liked them
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: Fights already ... sheesh!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: This summer, I picked out all shows and stories from the late 30's. There's a lot of 30's radio available to listen to, but often, when people think of the "Golden Age of Radio," they often think of the 40's and 50's. While it was harder to record shows for preservation in the 30's, the stuff we do have from this era is very interesting. So consider these shows a nice slice of late 30's American culture.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08 Yeah. The action gets going fast on this one.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: While I wouldn't say that either of these movies are my favorite Robinson films, I do find parts of the story and performances in these two to be very interesting. For my fave Robinson films, I would say it's a tie with "Double Indemnity" or "Scarlet Street." But I do like "Key Largo," even though he's not the lead.
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: As an experiment, I used some algorithms to take apart this episode of "Lux Radio Theater," so I could do a little production on the "vocal" and "music" tracks. I didn't do a lot, outside of some basic EQ. But I did increase the signal of the "vocal" track by a small amount, as the music was a little overpowering at times as it was broadcast. It's a subtle difference, but I think this version sounds better than the archived one.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Nice to see you in the chat, yerfriendpaul! I hope you are packed! Sounds like the signal broke for a second! Sorry about that.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: We have the most unreliable internet some nights. Stupid Comcast.
	9:17pm Imaginos: Rather sadistic jailor
	9:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Long day.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Here's some more information about the film that this episode is based on. The film version was directed by Howard Hawks, with Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff in the cast. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:19 Sleep well!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Thank you
	9:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Hey Austin! Don’t think I’ve seen this film but, hey, a pre-“Frankenstein” Boris?!!
	👻 9:23pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Hey Austin! I’m letting my wife and son pack first and then I’ll take a crack at it. Gets too chaotic when everyone packs together
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:22 Yeah, the film version rules. Hawks is a master.
	9:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Double Indemnity is as much about Edward G. and Fred MacM.'s near father-son relationship as the complicated scheme!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: In the movie, you get the impression that the story is a critique of prisons, and seems to suggest we should questions some aspects of legal systems. I think that message is a little muddied in this version, and I'm not sure Beverly Roberts is a good in this role as Constance Cummings is.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 Yeah, their back and forth is great. And I grew up on "My Three Sons," so seeing that really blew my mind.
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: Yah yah yah yah yah!!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: The law of the playground. "A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid."
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: This is intense!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: If Edward G. Robinson was badgering me like this, I would cave in a second. I would tell him my entire life story.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: I love that you can hear the local announcer say, "KMX, Los Angeles. The Voice of Hollywood," on this recording. This show was syndicated nationally, but local stations would make announcements like that. Often, we don't get to hear that kind of thing, as we often hear recordings derived from transcription discs. I would love to know the provenance of this recording, as it suggests that it was recorded at home, by a listener.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I was trying to imagine some podcast doing something like this now. Hour-long movie adaptations, with current actors and stars. Seems completely bonkers, but it used to happen. I would love to hear the current schlocky action movies adapted to some radio show by current up-and-coming stars.
	9:43pm Mr Fab: KNX is still on the air! News, traffic, etc. Needs more radio drama.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Was there ever really an Edward G. Robinson role where he ended sentences with “See?” (pronounced more like “shee?”) Or is that just the comedy impression of him?
	9:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 That’s a hilarious idea.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I think he actually said, "See," in "Little Ceaser," but I could be just remembering it that way, because of the parodies. I need to re-watch that one.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: More information about Kid Galahad: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: It is funny to hear Cecil B. DeMille do these hosting bits. He is clearly not a performer, and doesn't seem to know what to do or say on the mic. He clearly wants to be the host, and he is clearly trying. But he is, without a doubt, not a performer, and it shows.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: Similar to what I did with "The Criminal Code," I used some digital audio tools to separate the music and the dialog, and then did some EQing on the tracks to get them to sound a little better. I also separated the Music and the Dialog by a couple db, to help the dialog stand out a little better. I think it sounds a little more clear than in the original broadcast.
	👻 10:13pm yerfriendpaul: I like the use of “choice” as an adjective. Don’t hear that too much if at all anymore
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: Bette Davis plays "Fluff" in the film. While I don't mind this performance, Bette Davis and Robinson together are just fantastic on screen.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Joan Bennett - who plays Fluff in this production - is still a great actor, and you can hear the rapport that her and Robinson have together, even through the radio. A few years later, Robinson and Bennett would act together in "Scarlet Street," where they are both great.
	👻 10:15pm yerfriendpaul: Sheesh! Harsh mockery of the kid’s name
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: "I sort of like you, too." There's some good dialog in this one.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "What do you do?" I need to snip that out and use it for a re-mix.
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:13 That’s some real choice slang.
	👻 10:21pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Mr Fab @10:19 Choice indeed!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I have no idea who the actor is that is playing the "Kid" in this production, I would say he's a bit of a downgrade from the film version. Kid Galahad is probably the least charismatic voice actor in this show, which is not great for the character the story is named after.
	👻 10:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Kid Galahad"" by "Lux Radio Theater" Any listeners who expected a radio version of the 1962 Elvis Presley movie must be disappointed.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:26 Zing.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: I guess the film version of "Kid Galahad" was known as "The Battling Bellhop" on television in the 60's, to keep it distinctly separate from the Elvis Version.
	10:31pm Mr Fab: “Search me” is another phrase that means revising.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Yeah, you don't hear that so often anymore.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: What I like about this story is that this was the "Christmas" episode of Lux Radio Theater in 1937. (The show one week later would be the 26th.) So listeners at home had Christmas on their minds as they listened to this story.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 Karloff has an uncredited speaking part in the 1931 Robinson/Cagney film "Smart Money".
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I feel like Karloff was in a ton of movies in those days.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: Sorry guys, a boxing story is an instant turn-off for me.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 It's certainly not for everyone. I understand.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Kid Galahad"" by "Lux Radio Theater" I strangely haven't seen this movie even though I have it on a library-discarded DVD set (the Edward G. Robinson volume of the Turner Classic Movies Greatest Gangster Films Collection). I saw the other flicks in the set: "The Little Giant", "Larceny, Inc." and "Bullets or Ballots".
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: I usually cut stuff like this bit with the boxers talking, from Lux Broadcasts, as they often put stuff like this in as a way to segue into an ad for Lux. But in this case, I kept it in as it's rather substantial, and I'm sure some boxing nerd is excited to hear this stuff.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 The 1946 Friz Freleng short "Racketeer Rabbit" was my introduction to Edward G.
	👻 10:47pm WR: Even considering Tunney and Dempsey had scripting help, they sound pretty sharp.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Oh, yeah! That's a great one. I think 95% of my introduction to old Hollywood came from cartoon parodies.
	👻 10:48pm yerfriendpaul: Great fighters, no so great radio cue card readers
	👻 10:48pm Heather: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! And now I've got the song Boxing by Ben Folds in my head which is a song I've always liked a lot.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:48 Yeah, that was sort of painful, if you don't care about boxing.
	👻 10:48pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:48 Ha ha, expectations flavoring our reactions?
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:48 I saw Ben Folds and Amanda Palmer at some show my sister took my to. I think everything I know about Ben Folds comes from my sister or from that William Shatner album I love.
	👻 10:52pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I've seen them separately! The Dresden Dolls played that Bug Jar club I've mentioned ages ago. I have some feelings about both acts but they're sure talents and some songs hit home for me.
	👻 10:53pm yerfriendpaul: It’s the age old traditori of athletes with less than stellar acting/speaking skills. It must’ve been extra challenging for these guys since it was recorded live
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I think, because of context, I consider them "Sister Rock." They're fine, but I really associate them with my sister.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:53 Yeah. When the pressure is on, it can be hard.
	👻 10:54pm David Shortell: Do you know “There Goes a Tenner”, Kate Bush’s song about a bank heist? If you listen closely after Kate sings “Both my partners act like actors. You are Bogart. He is George Raft. That leaves Cagney and me”, you can hear an EGR imitator murmur “What about Edward G.?" That almost subliminal line was omitted in Kate Bush’s lyrics book “How to Be Invisible”!
	👻 10:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Sister Rock is an excellent kind of rock!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:54 I don't know that song! I'll have to look it up.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go 2 1/2 minutes over. Sorry!
	👻 10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 youtube.com...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 I usually really like her stuff. I'm sure this will be good. Damn, we lost the signal again for a second. Sorry!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Cecil says that Edward hasn't been on in two years... he was on in January, for the story we heard last hour.
	👻 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, time flies! Thank you Austin! Might not be able to listen next week as I’ll be in Italy with my family on vacation. Take care and hope you get a chance to listen to my Drop in show on the 13th. A bunch of tunes that I pulled together that I like. Good night!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Jesus. Our internet is crap tonight.
	👻 11:01pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @11:00 thanks for the heads up, yerfriendpaul.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @11:00 Very cool!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 1, 2024

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