Tonight on The Golden Age of Radio from 7-9pm over WBAI, 99.5 FM and streaming live at wbai.org, we have our weekly episode of ON STAGE, a Thanksgiving Turkey called MR CHAMELEON, and the JEAN SHEPHERD Thanksgiving Day episode from the week following the JFK assassination. Tonights ON STAGE, featuring Cathy and Elliott Lewis, is a surreal drama about daydreams during a cab ride. Its show #10 “Call Me A Cab” from March 12, 1953. Others in the cast are Shirley Gordon, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, and Peggy Webber. We are reviving an old November tradition with a Thanksgiving Turkey called MR CHAMELEON. As you will hear, over and over, he is a Famous Detective. That the show originates from the Hummert studios that also inflicted Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons onto the world is all the warning you should need. The famous detective MR CHAMELEON investigates crime in disguise. Tonight, “The Perfect Maid Murder Case” from December 21, 1949, starring Karl Swenson in the lead. Sadly(?), only two shows survive out of a five year run of the series. Our main feature tonight is one of the three surviving JEAN SHEPHERD broadcasts from the week following the JFK murder. He declined to use his raucous theme “Bahn Frei” for the week, and was in a reflective mood. We will hear the Thanksgiving night show of Nov 28. 1963, with a discussion of shadows and what they can mean. Shep closes the show reading Haiku. There are several segments of less-than-perfect audio with whistling interference which I have tried to minimize, but I suspect you will barely notice it, being engrossed in the program. I will upload the third of the JFK week shows, “Ugly Americans” (which has never been rebroadcast), to Mixcloud during the week, as well as the Yesterdayusa show from Saturday that featured the first show from the series. Watch for announcements on the Facebook Golden Age promo page.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:16:49 +0000
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