WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 11, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm wenzo: Good cough weeze hello
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:01 Oh no! I hope you're okay, wenzo! Fortunately, the Digital Salon is open to all!
	9:01pm wenzo: Happy Veterans Day
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us tonight.
	9:02pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! Norman Corwin did an end of the war program: On a Note of Triumph.
	9:04pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:01 On behalf of my late father and all Veterans, thank you
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Victory Extra (Part 1)" by "Command Performance" We've played some AFRS broadcasts before. AFRS was a radio service for Military Bases, and was usually only heard on base, or nearby. But in the years since, most of the AFRS broadcasts also made it out into other Old Time Radio Collector hands, and there were some stations in the US who would air AFRS broadcasts. This was a very popular show, when it aired, and it was re-aired, often.
	9:04pm asheville jon: Hey, it's working tonight. Yay!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 Thanks for joining us tonight!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Anytime
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:04 Yeah, we had some real web issues last week, when we were supposed to be on. Sorry about that everyone!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I'm usually anti-war, and anti-government, but I'm pro-veteran. Most of them didn't want to serve, were drafted, and then had to deal with the life they were left with, afterwards. It's terrible what many of them went through after returning home.
	9:10pm laurapanic: so much content for this theme, I bet! Hi Austin!
	9:10pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 this is a fair and kind view.
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 The veterans from many wars were expected to give life and limb (literally) for their country, but when they were in need the country failed them
	👻 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Jimmy Durante!! Inka Dinka dooooo!!
	9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 The Man Who Came to Dinner
	9:14pm Imaginos: Dan Ackroyd does a passable Durante.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: WWII had ended in Europe in May, and the official end of the war wasn't until the 2nd of September, 1945. But on August 6th and 9th of 1945 we dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and it was clear that the war was over, after that. While Japan wouldn't surrender until the next day, and they wouldn't officially surrender until the 2nd, for diplomatic reasons. Of course, the people running radio for the war effort knew what had happened, and began celebrating on air on the 14th, as soon as it was obvious to everyone.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Laura! There are so many old radio shows I could have played, but this one seemed on point.
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: Nice to be flubbing these cheezy lines!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 When I was helping teach some classes in College, as a teacher's assisstent, we had a lot of veteran students, and it gave me a better insight into what they had to go through.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Webhamster Henry! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon. I can only imagine how quickly they turned around these scripts, so I'm always impressed that they can land any of these jokes.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 Oh? I've never seen or heard it.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 I am a sucker for anything Durante does. What a showman!
	9:19pm laurapanic: I used to see a lot of these kinds of shows as movies, when our national broadcaster showed really old black and white stuff overnight. Such good times. But I can't seem to find them now as I can't remember what they were called and what to search for. Olde variety/vaudeville style shows but they were released as films....
	👻 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 It’s true!! Feel the same!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This song that Jose Iturbi plays is forever associated with the Monty Python song that they sing to this music, telling the story of Oliver Cromwell's life story.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Durante was in the original but Ackroyd impersonate him in My Stepmother Is n Alien
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:19 I saw some of that stuff in college, I'm trying to remember what those were. It does remind me of late-night TV, here in the states, when I was growing up. You would just see all sorts of stuff at night, and it often didn't seem to make a lot of sense.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Oh, I've never seen that. I should check it out, finally.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do love me some Burgess Meredith.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 So do i
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: As usual, I did a fair amount of digital clean-up on this show, to try and improve the sound. There's still a lot of clicks and surface noise, but I think it sounds a little better than it did originally.
	👻 9:25pm David Shortell: I was expecting that tonight we’d hear the dramatization of Theodore Sturgeon’s “The Stars Are the Styx” which was scheduled for last week’s aborted broadcast. Obviously not though. Too bad, because I had prepared by reading that 1950 story from the eponymous 1979 collection whose cover painting was displayed in the chat last week (Charon, painted with Sturgeon’s face, rows a boat full of dead people as a 3-headed bulldog watches on a bank). It was stored in the county library headquarters’ extension and hadn’t been borrowed since 2001. It was likely to be discarded during the next inventory, but I may have forestalled that.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:25 Oh, that story will air next week. So it will be heard! But I wanted to acknowledge the holiday, as there are so few Monday holidays.
	👻 9:30pm yerfriendpaul: Love the trash talk!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: I imagine that it wouldn't be that hard to get a whole bunch of current celebrities to show up for one of these, as it was celebrating the end the war. This back and forth between Bing and Frank is great. Bing was clearly a hero to Frank, and I bet they loved to do this stuff on the air.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: Alternate lyrics: I'm a stooge for Ski-nose!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I was trying to figure out what that was a reference to. Probably some product from the era?
	9:34pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 exactly...
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: The House I Live In was Franks Oscar winning short. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 I just forlornly trawl Tubi for its black and white goodness.....
	9:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Australian Tubi isn't as good as US Tubi from what I gather.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 I haven't seen that since college. I bet it's on YouTube somewhere...
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:35 I wonder? You need one of those VPN services so you can "pretend" you're in the US, for "work" reasons.
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Ski-nose is Bob Hope!
	👻 9:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 Yes. Bing's reference to Bob Hope's sloping proboscis.
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: I love actor roll calls!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 Oh, of course! It's hard to remember all the celebrity jokes that were relelvant in 1945!
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 It's a good thing I'm 201 years old!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Roll Call Song with All The Stars!" I'm gonna have to listen back, and make a list of everyone in this Roll Call.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 I do sometimes wish that I would live super-long. There's so much to do...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 You young whippersnapper
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:35 I have had a lot of luck just searching, "Old Movies" in YouTube. A lot of classics are free, or wind up there temporarily until someone notices, and takes it down. I watching a shocking amount of Hitchcock on YouTube.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 If most people were immortal their general attitude would be that there's no rush to get things done
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 I don't want most people to be immortal. I just want to live a super long time. Those long-term financial investments could finally give me the bank account to travel!
	👻 9:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Such as that bit from Bob Clampett’s 1944 short “The Old Grey Hare”, where an elderly Elmer Fudd awakens from a Rip Van Winkle slumber in 2000 and reads the newspaper headline “Bing Crosby's Horse Hasn't Come In Yet!"
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I don't want them to either
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: An astonishing number of these old radio Variety Shows don't have very detailed information as to who was in them. While I can't get as detailed as I'd like, at least listening back I can make a "general" playlist.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 Those Clampett cartoons are just the best.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I mean, those red heads... swoon.
	9:51pm Imaginos: Going to turn in soon. Gotta be up ridiculously early to feed the cat
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Sleep well! Sometimes sleep is the only place we can get some peace.
	9:52pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Thanks
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: Damn, we lost connection for a second, during Cary Grant's VO!
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Uh oh - stream hiccup!
	👻 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Luckily it came back after a second
	9:56pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 yes I use youtube a lot also
	👻 9:57pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 Everyone should read Drew Friedman’s 1984 one-page strip "Jimmy Durante Boffs Young Starlets".
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "VJ Day Special [Excerpts]" by "Command Performance" Now, here's a few excerpts from the actual September 2nd Broadcast. Some of it was a repeat of the things they did on the 14 August show, so I have edited this one down to just the best bits.
	👻 9:58pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks for playing this Austin. I bet my Dad listened to this broadcast. His 3 older brothers all served in the war. Thankfully they all returned.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:58 That is something to be thankful for!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:56 Hell yeah! Free entertainment! Don't pay for streaming...
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: My Dad served a few years later during peacetime. He played in Army band.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 His comics are just incredible!
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 I just got "Schtick Figures" (and got Icons of Underground Comix previously)
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:01 Nice!
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: I think about that "Tor's Nightmare" comic he did so often.
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: I remember this tune from MASH
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:59 Army bands are pretty cool. Lot of talent in those bands, often.
	10:03pm JM in Texas: Howdy! I’ve been listening since Frank & Bing, thoroughly enjoying tonight’s show. Thanks Austin for all the effort that makes shows like this possible, it’s appreciated!!!
	👻 10:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Message About Peace" by "Bob Montgomery" Is this the actor Robert Montgomery who starred in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Night Must Fall” and “Here Comes Mr. Jordan”?
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:03 JM in Texas! So good to see you in the Digital Salon!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:03 I was gonna try to figure out who he was, actually. I suspect you might be right!
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: My hometown church used to sing this on Sundays
	👻 10:07pm yerfriendpaul: Is that FDR’s voice?
	👻 10:07pm yerfriendpaul: Or the next president?
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 I believe so.
	👻 10:08pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 Truman, president since April 12.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 No, you were right. The next guy...
	👻 10:09pm yerfriendpaul: Ahh, ok. I didn’t think it was FDR. I’m so used to hearing his sound bites that I was confused there for a second. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Truman’s voice
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: (This is when I reveal that history is not my strong subject, but give me some time, and I find someone to tell me, and I'll get the story right. Eventually.)
	10:12pm asheville jon: (lurking)
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: So much God. Sheesh.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Yeah, as a non-believer, that's the part I don't like so much. But then you get a Lena Horne song, and it gets so much better...
	10:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Lena was a class act!
	👻 10:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 I wonder if Burgess bought those newsstand copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 and Journey Into Mystery #83 when he had the chance. reddit.com...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:19 Woah! I do hope he did...
	👻 10:20pm yerfriendpaul: I can’t get over the live orchestra in the studio. Incredible!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:19 I have a record of her's somewhere here in the lounge, and I do enjoy it. I should try to find that... it's a mess in here.
	10:21pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 She did a fun autobiographical one woman show late in her carer.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21 I need to see that. I remember Corina Longworth talked about it on her podcast, and I should finally see it.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: When I was caregiving for George - who served in WWII, in the Pacific Theater - he LOVED to listen to old radio. His mom performed in Vaudeville, and his family knew Laurel and Hardy, so he really loved this kind of thing.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles" This is one of the gems of this broadcast.
	10:28pm Webhamster Henry: If you can get yourself to the FDR museum in Hyde Park NY, it's excellent.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:28 Ooooo. Yeah, lots of reasons to go to NY, someday.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I should say: you can hear George's voice during the intro music for most episodes of MVM on Tuesdays. And the Lava Lamp Lounge is currently in George's old bedroom!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: I do love Danny Kaye. He's so wonderfully weird. I also love that the movie Tron stole a joke from this routine.
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: This sure sounds like Sylvia Fine Lyric...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I am of the opinion that Christmas hasn't really happened until you see Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby try to woo the Haynes sisters...
	👻 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: Danny Kaye was one of my Dad’s favorites
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:39 He did a lot of children's records. Some are better than others, but usually his charm manages to keep you listening. His Charisma is just dreamy...
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 Did she usually write his stuff?
	👻 10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles" Orson’s final (I think) film role was a villain’s voice in the animated “The Transformers: The Movie”. faroutmagazine.co.uk...
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I saw that in the theaters as a kid. That might have been the first Orson Welles movie I saw. Eric Idle is also in that film, as is a Weird Al song.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 And Frank Welker does a voice, because it's an animated film and he was alive at the time. (He has more voice credits than almost any person.)
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: It's been nice to be back on Mondays! It's been three weeks, and while I wouldn't trade the reason I missed this show for almost anything, I am VERY happy to be back in the swing of things again.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: (I didn't choose to miss last week, but Com-Crash did.)
	👻 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Good to have you back, Austin!
	10:48pm Kyle Cook: ↳ Song: "Tico Tico" by "Carmen Miranda" Loving the Chico Chico!
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: [Tico Tico] Ti in Portuguese is pronounced close to "Ch"
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:48 Thanks for the tip.
	10:49pm Webhamster Henry: Obrigado!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kyle Cook @10:48 Kyle! Love to see you in the Digital Salon!
	10:49pm Mr Fab: Austin! Did family stuff on our day off, so only tuned in about five minutes ago. But so psyched you found another version of the song “San Fernando Valley“. As a Valley boy, always happy to hear it. And of course, it predates Frank n Moon Unit by decades.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 Mr. Fab! Family Stuff is always the most important.
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: Distinction! Ha ha!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Individual knives and forks!
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Did you ever read Harlan Ellison’s "Paladin of the Lost Hour"? Danny Kaye’s 2nd last acting job was a TV adaptation of that.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 I have not! I was thinking, since we have a bunch of his books at work, that I should read more of him. I'm painfully under-read with his stuff.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Though my 2025 goal is to start over re-reading all of William Gibson's books in order. That might take a while...
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Gotta love those Christmas songs you hear on the radio... in August. (When this originally aired...)
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I might have accidentally played the first Christmas song of the season on Sheena's this year. Sorry 'bout that!
	👻 10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Claudette Colbert & Archie of Duffy's Tavern" "Duffy's Tavern" was a great long-running radio sitcom. The TV version didn't do as well. Daws Butler imitated Ed Gardner when voicing the Hanna-Barbera character Super Snooper.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 I've been meaning to listen to it more. I think I only know it by reputation.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening everyone! We'll actually end on time tonight!
	10:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the 2 hour special!
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Truly a bygone era. Very grateful to be hearing this. Thank you, Austin
	11:00pm Kyle Cook: Play Ball!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Have a good night everyone!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 11, 2024

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November 11, 2024: Our Veteran's Day Special!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Command Performance	Victory Extra (Part 1)	14 August 1945	AFRS	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	...hosting... "...hosting..." by "Bing Crosby"			0:03:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	"Avi Maria" ""Avi Maria""			0:04:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dinah Shore	I Walk Alone "I Walk Alone" by "Dinah Shore"			0:08:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bette Davis & Jimmy Durante	"Bette Davis & Jimmy Durante"			0:10:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jose Iturbi	"Jose Iturbi"			0:14:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lionel Barrymore	"Lionel Barrymore"			0:17:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marlene Dietrich	"Marlene Dietrich"			0:22:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Burgess Meredith	"Burgess Meredith"			0:23:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ginny Simms	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To			0:26:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby	"Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby"			0:28:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	What Is America To Me?			0:33:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Roll Call Song with All The Stars! "Roll Call Song with All The Stars!"			0:37:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Janet Blair	What Is This Thing Called Love?			0:40:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
William Powell	"William Powell"			0:43:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	San Fernando Valley "San Fernando Valley" by "Bing Crosby"			0:43:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry von Zell	"Harry von Zell"			0:46:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lucille Ball	"Lucille Ball"			0:46:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The King Sisters	Shoo Shoo Baby "Shoo Shoo Baby" by "The King Sisters"			0:49:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cary Grant	"Cary Grant"			0:52:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Montgomery	Message About Peace			0:52:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Over There (Instrumental) "Over There (Instrumental)"			0:55:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Command Performance	VJ Day Special [Excerpts]	2 September 1945	AFRS	0:56:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	...hosting... "...hosting..." by "Bing Crosby"			0:57:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	A Long Medley of Songs "A Long Medley of Songs"			0:58:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Oh Lord, Keep Us Free "Oh Lord, Keep Us Free"			1:04:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The President of The United States	President's Message			1:05:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Command Performance	Victory Extra (Part 2)	14 August 1945	AFRS	1:13:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Over There (Instrumental) "Over There (Instrumental)"			1:14:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	...hosting... "...hosting..." by "Bing Crosby"			1:15:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Loretta Young	"Loretta Young"			1:15:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lena Horne	The Man I Love "The Man I Love" by "Lena Horne"			1:16:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	A Word About AFRS... "A Word About AFRS..."			1:21:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johnny Mercer	GI Jive "GI Jive" by "Johnny Mercer"			1:22:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles	"Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles"			1:26:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lena ...	"Lena ..."			1:30:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Danny Kaye	What Do You See? "What Do You See?" by "Danny Kaye"			1:33:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marilyn Maxwell	I've Got Rhythm "I've Got Rhythm" by "Marilyn Maxwell"			1:41:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Herbert Marshall	"Herbert Marshall"			1:43:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Carmen Miranda	Tico Tico "Tico Tico" by "Carmen Miranda"			1:46:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Claudette Colbert & Archie of Duffy's Tavern				1:47:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Greer Garson	"Greer Garson"			1:53:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "Bing Crosby"			1:54:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Orson Welles	"Orson Welles"			1:56:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Our National Anthem "Our National Anthem"			1:58:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm wenzo: Good cough weeze hello
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:01 Oh no! I hope you're okay, wenzo! Fortunately, the Digital Salon is open to all!
	9:01pm wenzo: Happy Veterans Day
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us tonight.
	9:02pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! Norman Corwin did an end of the war program: On a Note of Triumph.
	9:04pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:01 On behalf of my late father and all Veterans, thank you
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Victory Extra (Part 1)" by "Command Performance" We've played some AFRS broadcasts before. AFRS was a radio service for Military Bases, and was usually only heard on base, or nearby. But in the years since, most of the AFRS broadcasts also made it out into other Old Time Radio Collector hands, and there were some stations in the US who would air AFRS broadcasts. This was a very popular show, when it aired, and it was re-aired, often.
	9:04pm asheville jon: Hey, it's working tonight. Yay!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 Thanks for joining us tonight!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Anytime
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:04 Yeah, we had some real web issues last week, when we were supposed to be on. Sorry about that everyone!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I'm usually anti-war, and anti-government, but I'm pro-veteran. Most of them didn't want to serve, were drafted, and then had to deal with the life they were left with, afterwards. It's terrible what many of them went through after returning home.
	9:10pm laurapanic: so much content for this theme, I bet! Hi Austin!
	9:10pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 this is a fair and kind view.
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 The veterans from many wars were expected to give life and limb (literally) for their country, but when they were in need the country failed them
	👻 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Jimmy Durante!! Inka Dinka dooooo!!
	9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 The Man Who Came to Dinner
	9:14pm Imaginos: Dan Ackroyd does a passable Durante.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: WWII had ended in Europe in May, and the official end of the war wasn't until the 2nd of September, 1945. But on August 6th and 9th of 1945 we dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and it was clear that the war was over, after that. While Japan wouldn't surrender until the next day, and they wouldn't officially surrender until the 2nd, for diplomatic reasons. Of course, the people running radio for the war effort knew what had happened, and began celebrating on air on the 14th, as soon as it was obvious to everyone.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Laura! There are so many old radio shows I could have played, but this one seemed on point.
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: Nice to be flubbing these cheezy lines!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 When I was helping teach some classes in College, as a teacher's assisstent, we had a lot of veteran students, and it gave me a better insight into what they had to go through.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Webhamster Henry! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon. I can only imagine how quickly they turned around these scripts, so I'm always impressed that they can land any of these jokes.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 Oh? I've never seen or heard it.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 I am a sucker for anything Durante does. What a showman!
	9:19pm laurapanic: I used to see a lot of these kinds of shows as movies, when our national broadcaster showed really old black and white stuff overnight. Such good times. But I can't seem to find them now as I can't remember what they were called and what to search for. Olde variety/vaudeville style shows but they were released as films....
	👻 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 It’s true!! Feel the same!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This song that Jose Iturbi plays is forever associated with the Monty Python song that they sing to this music, telling the story of Oliver Cromwell's life story.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Durante was in the original but Ackroyd impersonate him in My Stepmother Is n Alien
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:19 I saw some of that stuff in college, I'm trying to remember what those were. It does remind me of late-night TV, here in the states, when I was growing up. You would just see all sorts of stuff at night, and it often didn't seem to make a lot of sense.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Oh, I've never seen that. I should check it out, finally.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do love me some Burgess Meredith.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 So do i
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: As usual, I did a fair amount of digital clean-up on this show, to try and improve the sound. There's still a lot of clicks and surface noise, but I think it sounds a little better than it did originally.
	👻 9:25pm David Shortell: I was expecting that tonight we’d hear the dramatization of Theodore Sturgeon’s “The Stars Are the Styx” which was scheduled for last week’s aborted broadcast. Obviously not though. Too bad, because I had prepared by reading that 1950 story from the eponymous 1979 collection whose cover painting was displayed in the chat last week (Charon, painted with Sturgeon’s face, rows a boat full of dead people as a 3-headed bulldog watches on a bank). It was stored in the county library headquarters’ extension and hadn’t been borrowed since 2001. It was likely to be discarded during the next inventory, but I may have forestalled that.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:25 Oh, that story will air next week. So it will be heard! But I wanted to acknowledge the holiday, as there are so few Monday holidays.
	👻 9:30pm yerfriendpaul: Love the trash talk!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: I imagine that it wouldn't be that hard to get a whole bunch of current celebrities to show up for one of these, as it was celebrating the end the war. This back and forth between Bing and Frank is great. Bing was clearly a hero to Frank, and I bet they loved to do this stuff on the air.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: Alternate lyrics: I'm a stooge for Ski-nose!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I was trying to figure out what that was a reference to. Probably some product from the era?
	9:34pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 exactly...
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: The House I Live In was Franks Oscar winning short. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 I just forlornly trawl Tubi for its black and white goodness.....
	9:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Australian Tubi isn't as good as US Tubi from what I gather.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 I haven't seen that since college. I bet it's on YouTube somewhere...
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:35 I wonder? You need one of those VPN services so you can "pretend" you're in the US, for "work" reasons.
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Ski-nose is Bob Hope!
	👻 9:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 Yes. Bing's reference to Bob Hope's sloping proboscis.
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: I love actor roll calls!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 Oh, of course! It's hard to remember all the celebrity jokes that were relelvant in 1945!
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 It's a good thing I'm 201 years old!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Roll Call Song with All The Stars!" I'm gonna have to listen back, and make a list of everyone in this Roll Call.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 I do sometimes wish that I would live super-long. There's so much to do...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 You young whippersnapper
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:35 I have had a lot of luck just searching, "Old Movies" in YouTube. A lot of classics are free, or wind up there temporarily until someone notices, and takes it down. I watching a shocking amount of Hitchcock on YouTube.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 If most people were immortal their general attitude would be that there's no rush to get things done
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 I don't want most people to be immortal. I just want to live a super long time. Those long-term financial investments could finally give me the bank account to travel!
	👻 9:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Such as that bit from Bob Clampett’s 1944 short “The Old Grey Hare”, where an elderly Elmer Fudd awakens from a Rip Van Winkle slumber in 2000 and reads the newspaper headline “Bing Crosby's Horse Hasn't Come In Yet!"
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I don't want them to either
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: An astonishing number of these old radio Variety Shows don't have very detailed information as to who was in them. While I can't get as detailed as I'd like, at least listening back I can make a "general" playlist.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:45 Those Clampett cartoons are just the best.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I mean, those red heads... swoon.
	9:51pm Imaginos: Going to turn in soon. Gotta be up ridiculously early to feed the cat
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Sleep well! Sometimes sleep is the only place we can get some peace.
	9:52pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Thanks
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: Damn, we lost connection for a second, during Cary Grant's VO!
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Uh oh - stream hiccup!
	👻 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Luckily it came back after a second
	9:56pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 yes I use youtube a lot also
	👻 9:57pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 Everyone should read Drew Friedman’s 1984 one-page strip "Jimmy Durante Boffs Young Starlets".
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "VJ Day Special [Excerpts]" by "Command Performance" Now, here's a few excerpts from the actual September 2nd Broadcast. Some of it was a repeat of the things they did on the 14 August show, so I have edited this one down to just the best bits.
	👻 9:58pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks for playing this Austin. I bet my Dad listened to this broadcast. His 3 older brothers all served in the war. Thankfully they all returned.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:58 That is something to be thankful for!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:56 Hell yeah! Free entertainment! Don't pay for streaming...
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: My Dad served a few years later during peacetime. He played in Army band.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 His comics are just incredible!
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 I just got "Schtick Figures" (and got Icons of Underground Comix previously)
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:01 Nice!
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: I think about that "Tor's Nightmare" comic he did so often.
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: I remember this tune from MASH
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:59 Army bands are pretty cool. Lot of talent in those bands, often.
	10:03pm JM in Texas: Howdy! I’ve been listening since Frank & Bing, thoroughly enjoying tonight’s show. Thanks Austin for all the effort that makes shows like this possible, it’s appreciated!!!
	👻 10:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Message About Peace" by "Bob Montgomery" Is this the actor Robert Montgomery who starred in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Night Must Fall” and “Here Comes Mr. Jordan”?
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:03 JM in Texas! So good to see you in the Digital Salon!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:03 I was gonna try to figure out who he was, actually. I suspect you might be right!
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: My hometown church used to sing this on Sundays
	👻 10:07pm yerfriendpaul: Is that FDR’s voice?
	👻 10:07pm yerfriendpaul: Or the next president?
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 I believe so.
	👻 10:08pm David Shortell: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 Truman, president since April 12.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:07 No, you were right. The next guy...
	👻 10:09pm yerfriendpaul: Ahh, ok. I didn’t think it was FDR. I’m so used to hearing his sound bites that I was confused there for a second. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Truman’s voice
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: (This is when I reveal that history is not my strong subject, but give me some time, and I find someone to tell me, and I'll get the story right. Eventually.)
	10:12pm asheville jon: (lurking)
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: So much God. Sheesh.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Yeah, as a non-believer, that's the part I don't like so much. But then you get a Lena Horne song, and it gets so much better...
	10:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Lena was a class act!
	👻 10:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 I wonder if Burgess bought those newsstand copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 and Journey Into Mystery #83 when he had the chance. reddit.com...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:19 Woah! I do hope he did...
	👻 10:20pm yerfriendpaul: I can’t get over the live orchestra in the studio. Incredible!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:19 I have a record of her's somewhere here in the lounge, and I do enjoy it. I should try to find that... it's a mess in here.
	10:21pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 She did a fun autobiographical one woman show late in her carer.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21 I need to see that. I remember Corina Longworth talked about it on her podcast, and I should finally see it.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: When I was caregiving for George - who served in WWII, in the Pacific Theater - he LOVED to listen to old radio. His mom performed in Vaudeville, and his family knew Laurel and Hardy, so he really loved this kind of thing.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles" This is one of the gems of this broadcast.
	10:28pm Webhamster Henry: If you can get yourself to the FDR museum in Hyde Park NY, it's excellent.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:28 Ooooo. Yeah, lots of reasons to go to NY, someday.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I should say: you can hear George's voice during the intro music for most episodes of MVM on Tuesdays. And the Lava Lamp Lounge is currently in George's old bedroom!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: I do love Danny Kaye. He's so wonderfully weird. I also love that the movie Tron stole a joke from this routine.
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: This sure sounds like Sylvia Fine Lyric...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I am of the opinion that Christmas hasn't really happened until you see Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby try to woo the Haynes sisters...
	👻 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: Danny Kaye was one of my Dad’s favorites
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:39 He did a lot of children's records. Some are better than others, but usually his charm manages to keep you listening. His Charisma is just dreamy...
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 Did she usually write his stuff?
	👻 10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Edward G. Robinson & Orson Welles" Orson’s final (I think) film role was a villain’s voice in the animated “The Transformers: The Movie”. faroutmagazine.co.uk...
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I saw that in the theaters as a kid. That might have been the first Orson Welles movie I saw. Eric Idle is also in that film, as is a Weird Al song.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 And Frank Welker does a voice, because it's an animated film and he was alive at the time. (He has more voice credits than almost any person.)
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: It's been nice to be back on Mondays! It's been three weeks, and while I wouldn't trade the reason I missed this show for almost anything, I am VERY happy to be back in the swing of things again.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: (I didn't choose to miss last week, but Com-Crash did.)
	👻 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Good to have you back, Austin!
	10:48pm Kyle Cook: ↳ Song: "Tico Tico" by "Carmen Miranda" Loving the Chico Chico!
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: [Tico Tico] Ti in Portuguese is pronounced close to "Ch"
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:48 Thanks for the tip.
	10:49pm Webhamster Henry: Obrigado!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kyle Cook @10:48 Kyle! Love to see you in the Digital Salon!
	10:49pm Mr Fab: Austin! Did family stuff on our day off, so only tuned in about five minutes ago. But so psyched you found another version of the song “San Fernando Valley“. As a Valley boy, always happy to hear it. And of course, it predates Frank n Moon Unit by decades.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 Mr. Fab! Family Stuff is always the most important.
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: Distinction! Ha ha!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Individual knives and forks!
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Did you ever read Harlan Ellison’s "Paladin of the Lost Hour"? Danny Kaye’s 2nd last acting job was a TV adaptation of that.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 I have not! I was thinking, since we have a bunch of his books at work, that I should read more of him. I'm painfully under-read with his stuff.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Though my 2025 goal is to start over re-reading all of William Gibson's books in order. That might take a while...
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Gotta love those Christmas songs you hear on the radio... in August. (When this originally aired...)
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I might have accidentally played the first Christmas song of the season on Sheena's this year. Sorry 'bout that!
	👻 10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Claudette Colbert & Archie of Duffy's Tavern" "Duffy's Tavern" was a great long-running radio sitcom. The TV version didn't do as well. Daws Butler imitated Ed Gardner when voicing the Hanna-Barbera character Super Snooper.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:56 I've been meaning to listen to it more. I think I only know it by reputation.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening everyone! We'll actually end on time tonight!
	10:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the 2 hour special!
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Truly a bygone era. Very grateful to be hearing this. Thank you, Austin
	11:00pm Kyle Cook: Play Ball!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Have a good night everyone!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 11, 2024

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