WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 25, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, and: Merry Christmas!
	8:45pm Arvo: Good morning Vietnam!
	8:50pm Imaginos: Ahoy! Looking forward to upcoming concert Albert Bouchard is performing on Thursday
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @8:45 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:50 You must be stoked!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Oh I am indeed
	9:02pm BC Sterrett: This is wonderful!
	9:02pm asheville jon: Merry Christmas
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: BC! Thanks for sticking around. Asheville Jon! Hopefully this is a good cap on your holiday.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: The original archived version of this show is mangled. (I've included a reference link in the playlist.) There's skips, repetitions, and all sort of weird artifacts of poor archiving. I made hundreds of edits and changes to THIS version, so there is a little of that kind of stuff, and you can just listen to the show. HOPEFULLY, the artifacts of all the mangling are largely absent from this presentation, but don't be surprised if you hear a weird artifact of that legacy of this recording.
	9:06pm BC Sterrett: This is my kind of radio show :)
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:06 I LOVE old variety shows!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: That I could find, I don't think the first two Elgin Watch Christmas Specials exist in the modern age. But there are a number of these holiday special that Elgin Watches put on, and they were a well loved part of the Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts every year.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "Me, young?" I think I'm going to start telling people I'm 36.
	9:11pm Charles: Jolly!
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:11 Charles! Nice to see you!
	9:12pm Charles: Thank you for your editing work, Austin.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I was caregiver for a gentleman named George Johnson, near the end of his life, and he would just tell me stories all day long. Apparently, as someone who grew up in LA, and lived there in the 30's and 40's, he met Rochester, and would go over to his house to hang out, and swim. Apparently Rochester loved to have pool parties.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 (George's mother was in vaudeville, so I think that was his "in"; he had some other stories that involved vaudeville folks. George told a story about partying with Spike Jones that made me INCREDIBLY jealous.)
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: "Rochester Van Jones!"
	9:16pm BC Sterrett: Great story :)
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: I think there was a minor stream interruption a few minutes back! Hopefully it wasn't that noticable.
	9:17pm BC Sterrett: It's back :)
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: One thing to keep in mind about this broadcast is that, at this time, Don Ameche was at the height of his sex appeal, and people were SWOONING over him at this time. So a lot of people were tuning in for Don.
	9:17pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Yes it was very short. No worries.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: Apparently, the "Swing Wing" was started in 1920, and still exists in some form, today!
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:17 Good to know! I hate that there are any; a pristine copy of this will be uploaded, after the show.
	9:21pm Imaginos: Brings to mind the old show No Time For Sgts.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: These kinds of shows were broadcast on AFRS, who encouraged the kinds of irreverence that you heard on these shows. So the "anti-army" sentiments might seem bold, but were really there by design, to make the military men feel more like they belonged.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 I'll have to check that out! I do love this Carmen medley. On songs like this, I had to do a fair amount of editing, as there were skips. So I would cut out a similar "phrase" and replace the "skipped" part with the right musical phrase. Almost all the songs suffered like that in some way, and needed some repair.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Reasoned Bleatings." I realized some people misunderstood that phrasing.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: There were sentences, jokes, and other "beats" of this show that had to be cut, due to there being no real option to "fix" the line. I did do one "VO" to include the part of a joke that got skipped, but otherwise, there's about three minutes, total, that I had to completely scrap.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I'm a sucker for Gracie Allen, and George Burns is pretty fantastic, too. They were pretty big on radio in these days, so it makes sense they would appear on a show like this. I love her timing. She is HILARIOUS.
	9:32pm Imaginos: Gracie was amazing
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: As a very young man, my family used to think it was funny that I would do a George Burns impression. (I was, like, 12?) My family thought it was great.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: "But I like the first one better." Damn!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: "Volcano Lips Burns"
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: In this era, Frank's reputation was that he was weak and boyish. This was before he re-imagined himself with his "tough guy" image.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I do love George Burns' "Crosby" impression.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: She's doing laps around him, and he's sort of holding his own. It's fascinating to watch, because George certainly outlived her, and he was around, I think his reputation lasted quite a while. But recordings like this prove she was a MASSIVE force in her day.
	9:37pm BC Sterrett: ha ha
	9:39pm Imaginos: I'm getting sleepy. Long cheerful day today.
	9:39pm BC Sterrett: I love this show. I need to tune in more often!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Happy Holidays! Get some sleep, and I'm glad it was a good day!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I did NOT know Ginny Simms before I heard this special. She's got a great voice, and I think she was one of those artists who just got lost in the sea of other excellent vocalists from the same time.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:39 I do enjoy my old time radio. I usually play detective shows and sci-fi from this era. But for the holidays... lean in?
	9:42pm BC Sterrett: Beautiful vocals...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think Bob & Ray used some of the cue music from this special on their show... but maybe it's just very similar.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: There is a fair amount of "cheese" in this variety show, but... I don't mind. These shows reflect the times... and this kind of cheese was what people sort of longed for. (Not everyone... but... many Americans, anyway.)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Are you kidding? About Sirius?"
	9:53pm BC Sterrett: Love this poem
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:53 I did another version last year, so now it's a tradition. I'll have to make sure to include you next year! (I tried to collate all the current folks... but... you know how it? A few people always fall through the cracks.)
	9:55pm BC Sterrett: I'm just on once a month now, unless there is a holiday
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:55 There were other once a month folks, too. It's just hard to keep up with all the changes!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: It was funny: when I found this special, I was having trouble finding a "playlist" of what it actually contained. (Just a vague list of "a few" of the performers.) So part of me wants to finally document everything that's actually in this special, to scratch that itch.
	10:00pm BC Sterrett: Loved her train joke :)
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: It's nice to to hear Carmen to comedy. Clearly, she's good at it... but the singing and dancing is her real talent. Still... I would listen to her host a comedy special.
	10:01pm laurapanic: bit late, and a bit sad as I love the old variety shows!!!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: I think the other great revelation is: Don Amche as a straight man to her comedy! He's also good at it... though I don't think he's known for his comedy.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:01 laurapanic! Thanks for popping in!
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: I love this "Brazil / Chattanooga Choo-Choo" mash up.
	10:03pm BC Sterrett: Wonderful
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: I guess "YouTube" and the Internet has sort of returned entertainment to a "variety show" sort of situation: you see some comedy, you see some music, it's serious, it's funny, it's this, it's that... and then it moves on to the next thing.
	10:08pm BC Sterrett: Been buying some old variety shows on DVD. Good stuff
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: Well, Joseph isn't the best at comedy. But he's trying?
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @10:08 There's a "Flip Wilson / George Carlin" variety show I once saw that I think about all the time. I should track that one down.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: Since it is a holiday: anyone do anything interesting for "XMas"?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I mean, it's Les Paul? What can you say? Just an amazing performer, and very popular with GIs and soliders. I know a DJ who got to interview him in the 90's, and holy cats... how cool is that? Music royalty, if there ever was.
	10:15pm Laura Panic: Our govt TV station used to show these old black and white movies, and I,'d be up in the AM. I can't remember what they were called. But it was basically a film from I think the 30s that just filmed the show from audience POV...There may have been some backstage stuff, but not sure. There were several of these movies. If anyone knows what they were, I'd love it.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:15 Hmmmmm. I'll think on that... I'm not sure offhand.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I don't think I'd ever heard this much of Barbara's comedy before, and holy cats! She's fantastic. I know she was on Bob Hope's show, so I need to do some research.
	10:19pm Webhamster Henry: Hi I was listening on the bus up from NYC and just got i! this is corny, but very of its time! Thanks for the extensive edits!
	10:19pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich just a quiet dsy at home for us. Hot hot hot! Off to the beach soon
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:19 Webhamster Henry! Glad you got home. Enjoy the holiday radio!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:19 Nice. That's a good way to spend a holiday. I had some lasagna and read some comic books. Pretty good day, and I guess it's Christmas?
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Thoughts and Prayers." Oh my.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This section had some of the most extensive edits. And it's a shame, because this is some solid Hope stuff, where he's doing a lot of improvising. I'm glad it's much more listenable, now.
	10:24pm Laura Panic: I jist read back through the comments...wow Austin you did a lot of work to bring this to us , thank you. I love this stuff. I grew up with English grandparents and a great grandmother. This old humour is in my bones, though it was the British version mostly. But not that different.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:24 I'm a sucker for English comedy too, but it is harder to come by in the US. (Or, at least, was back in the day.) These days I can just google even the most obscure thing and find a listen link somewhere.
	10:27pm BC Sterrett: Was that you fixing the audio?
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @10:27 Yeah, that joke was "mangled" in the original version, and it was the only one I knew, so I decided to do some VO.
	10:29pm BC Sterrett: Great work :)
	👻 10:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 It reminded me of the Monty Python animated segue that was censored by a male voice dubbing "gangrene" over Carol Cleveland's "cancer".
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: When I lived in Eugene, OR, there was a kid who did a "Bob Hope" show, where he would dress like hope, do his jokes, and try to improvise like Hope would. And the weirdest part: he would book himself opening for rock / punk / indie bands. It was so weird... I loved it. I wonder what happened to that guy?
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:30 Nice pull! I had forgotten about that. Time for a Python re-watch.
	10:33pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich wild times of trangression!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Of course, Hope and Crosby did a lot of comedy for soldiers, and the "Road To..." movies together, and had a lot of great chemistry together. I love listening to them jab and riff on each other.
	10:35pm Webhamster Henry: So lemme tell you about Descript: Feed it audio, it gets you a simultaneous transcript and when you edit the transcript, it edits the audio. It can also synthesize the missing words in the speaker's voice! www.descript.com
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: These bits where they are going off script and whatnot are amazing.
	10:35pm Laura Panic: Have any of you listened to Bon barth's show on Sheenas on your Thursday night? Its amazing, with big vibes of variety, broadway and rock and roll. I am obsessed.
	10:36pm MHLee: hello again
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 That said, there were a whole lotta scripted jokes!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 Hmmmmmmm.... I have heard about this. I'll need to investigate.
	10:36pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich yeh this is great!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:36 MHLee! Nice to see you again.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:35 I need to tune in more. What I've heard is great.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: sledpress.wordpress.com...
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: "You took my line I'll get J. Edgar Hoover"
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 You see the archetype for all great comedy duos right here.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Look at Crosby's photo... "High Head." So good.
	10:43pm MHLee: Bing is really good. I've played his show on mine at least one
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: When I first listened to this show, I was just convinced I couldn't play this on my show, reasonably. But listening to it now, even with some minor glitches here and there, it sounds pretty good now. I'm glad this version now exists; hopefully I can use dsccript, next time.
	10:43pm MHLee: I've played like a 1908 version of this song
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:43 Bing has a great voice! I think he struggled with the changing times, as he was really good at this crooner stuff, but it wasn't always popular. But his transition to comedy was basically how he saved his career.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: Der Bingle!
	10:45pm MHLee: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 My grandmother (90) thinks sinatra is too much of a punk and likes bings
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:45 Ha! I love it when Grandma's have opinions like that. Hell yea, Grandma! Stick to your guns.
	10:47pm Laura Panic: @MHLee well she is not wrong! Whaf a punk!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Sometimes I think America is always at war, in some way, or another.
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 That, and orange juice!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:47 First concept record! Always breakin' the rules.
	10:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ MHLee @10:45 Clearly, your grandmother is a Rocky Fortune listener.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I've already gained weight this winter. January is going to be Jog-uary, if I'm gonna make it in 2024.
	10:51pm MHLee: Ave maria
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in everyone! And: enjoy the day, even if it's just a regular old day.
	10:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks! that did have an authentic feel!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: And now... some Captain Beefheart!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 25, 2023

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December 25, 2023: The 3rd Annual Elgin Watch Christmas Day Show From 1944!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Elgin Watches & CBS	"The 3rd Annual Christmas Show"	25 December 1944	CBS
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Elgin_National_Watch_Company
For comparison, here's a link to the archived version of this show, skips and repetitions in place: https://archive.org/details/ElginHolidaySpecials4412253rdAnnualElginChristmasShow
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Don_Ameche "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Don_Ameche"			0:02:09 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ginny_Simms "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ginny_Simms"			0:03:20 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Jack_Benny "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Jack_Benny"			0:06:06 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Eddie_%22Rochester%22_Anderson			0:07:07 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Band_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_College			0:18:18 (Pop-up)
	(who was that again?... I'll look it up. )			0:29:35 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Burns_and_Allen "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Burns_and_Allen"			0:30:02 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ginny_Simms "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ginny_Simms"			0:40:16 (Pop-up)
	Don Ameche doing a Scene... "Don Ameche doing a Scene..."			0:43:23 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Carmen_Miranda "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Carmen_Miranda"			0:57:03 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Joseph_Szigeti "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Joseph_Szigeti"			1:03:55 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Les_Paul "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Les_Paul"			1:12:17 (Pop-up)
(Who played Vera Vague)	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Barbara_Jo_Allen			1:16:03 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bob_Hope "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bob_Hope"			1:22:45 (Pop-up)
	wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bing_Crosby "wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bing_Crosby"			1:29:49 (Pop-up)
	Don Ameche reads an editorial. "Don Ameche reads an editorial."			1:46:26 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "Bing Crosby"			1:51:48 (Pop-up)
	Joy To The World / Show Wrap Up. "Joy To The World / Show Wrap Up."			1:54:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, and: Merry Christmas!
	8:45pm Arvo: Good morning Vietnam!
	8:50pm Imaginos: Ahoy! Looking forward to upcoming concert Albert Bouchard is performing on Thursday
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @8:45 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:50 You must be stoked!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Oh I am indeed
	9:02pm BC Sterrett: This is wonderful!
	9:02pm asheville jon: Merry Christmas
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: BC! Thanks for sticking around. Asheville Jon! Hopefully this is a good cap on your holiday.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: The original archived version of this show is mangled. (I've included a reference link in the playlist.) There's skips, repetitions, and all sort of weird artifacts of poor archiving. I made hundreds of edits and changes to THIS version, so there is a little of that kind of stuff, and you can just listen to the show. HOPEFULLY, the artifacts of all the mangling are largely absent from this presentation, but don't be surprised if you hear a weird artifact of that legacy of this recording.
	9:06pm BC Sterrett: This is my kind of radio show :)
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:06 I LOVE old variety shows!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: That I could find, I don't think the first two Elgin Watch Christmas Specials exist in the modern age. But there are a number of these holiday special that Elgin Watches put on, and they were a well loved part of the Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts every year.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "Me, young?" I think I'm going to start telling people I'm 36.
	9:11pm Charles: Jolly!
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:11 Charles! Nice to see you!
	9:12pm Charles: Thank you for your editing work, Austin.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I was caregiver for a gentleman named George Johnson, near the end of his life, and he would just tell me stories all day long. Apparently, as someone who grew up in LA, and lived there in the 30's and 40's, he met Rochester, and would go over to his house to hang out, and swim. Apparently Rochester loved to have pool parties.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 (George's mother was in vaudeville, so I think that was his "in"; he had some other stories that involved vaudeville folks. George told a story about partying with Spike Jones that made me INCREDIBLY jealous.)
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: "Rochester Van Jones!"
	9:16pm BC Sterrett: Great story :)
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: I think there was a minor stream interruption a few minutes back! Hopefully it wasn't that noticable.
	9:17pm BC Sterrett: It's back :)
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: One thing to keep in mind about this broadcast is that, at this time, Don Ameche was at the height of his sex appeal, and people were SWOONING over him at this time. So a lot of people were tuning in for Don.
	9:17pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Yes it was very short. No worries.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: Apparently, the "Swing Wing" was started in 1920, and still exists in some form, today!
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:17 Good to know! I hate that there are any; a pristine copy of this will be uploaded, after the show.
	9:21pm Imaginos: Brings to mind the old show No Time For Sgts.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: These kinds of shows were broadcast on AFRS, who encouraged the kinds of irreverence that you heard on these shows. So the "anti-army" sentiments might seem bold, but were really there by design, to make the military men feel more like they belonged.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 I'll have to check that out! I do love this Carmen medley. On songs like this, I had to do a fair amount of editing, as there were skips. So I would cut out a similar "phrase" and replace the "skipped" part with the right musical phrase. Almost all the songs suffered like that in some way, and needed some repair.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Reasoned Bleatings." I realized some people misunderstood that phrasing.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: There were sentences, jokes, and other "beats" of this show that had to be cut, due to there being no real option to "fix" the line. I did do one "VO" to include the part of a joke that got skipped, but otherwise, there's about three minutes, total, that I had to completely scrap.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I'm a sucker for Gracie Allen, and George Burns is pretty fantastic, too. They were pretty big on radio in these days, so it makes sense they would appear on a show like this. I love her timing. She is HILARIOUS.
	9:32pm Imaginos: Gracie was amazing
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: As a very young man, my family used to think it was funny that I would do a George Burns impression. (I was, like, 12?) My family thought it was great.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: "But I like the first one better." Damn!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: "Volcano Lips Burns"
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: In this era, Frank's reputation was that he was weak and boyish. This was before he re-imagined himself with his "tough guy" image.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I do love George Burns' "Crosby" impression.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: She's doing laps around him, and he's sort of holding his own. It's fascinating to watch, because George certainly outlived her, and he was around, I think his reputation lasted quite a while. But recordings like this prove she was a MASSIVE force in her day.
	9:37pm BC Sterrett: ha ha
	9:39pm Imaginos: I'm getting sleepy. Long cheerful day today.
	9:39pm BC Sterrett: I love this show. I need to tune in more often!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Happy Holidays! Get some sleep, and I'm glad it was a good day!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I did NOT know Ginny Simms before I heard this special. She's got a great voice, and I think she was one of those artists who just got lost in the sea of other excellent vocalists from the same time.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:39 I do enjoy my old time radio. I usually play detective shows and sci-fi from this era. But for the holidays... lean in?
	9:42pm BC Sterrett: Beautiful vocals...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think Bob & Ray used some of the cue music from this special on their show... but maybe it's just very similar.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: There is a fair amount of "cheese" in this variety show, but... I don't mind. These shows reflect the times... and this kind of cheese was what people sort of longed for. (Not everyone... but... many Americans, anyway.)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Are you kidding? About Sirius?"
	9:53pm BC Sterrett: Love this poem
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:53 I did another version last year, so now it's a tradition. I'll have to make sure to include you next year! (I tried to collate all the current folks... but... you know how it? A few people always fall through the cracks.)
	9:55pm BC Sterrett: I'm just on once a month now, unless there is a holiday
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:55 There were other once a month folks, too. It's just hard to keep up with all the changes!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: It was funny: when I found this special, I was having trouble finding a "playlist" of what it actually contained. (Just a vague list of "a few" of the performers.) So part of me wants to finally document everything that's actually in this special, to scratch that itch.
	10:00pm BC Sterrett: Loved her train joke :)
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: It's nice to to hear Carmen to comedy. Clearly, she's good at it... but the singing and dancing is her real talent. Still... I would listen to her host a comedy special.
	10:01pm laurapanic: bit late, and a bit sad as I love the old variety shows!!!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: I think the other great revelation is: Don Amche as a straight man to her comedy! He's also good at it... though I don't think he's known for his comedy.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:01 laurapanic! Thanks for popping in!
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: I love this "Brazil / Chattanooga Choo-Choo" mash up.
	10:03pm BC Sterrett: Wonderful
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: I guess "YouTube" and the Internet has sort of returned entertainment to a "variety show" sort of situation: you see some comedy, you see some music, it's serious, it's funny, it's this, it's that... and then it moves on to the next thing.
	10:08pm BC Sterrett: Been buying some old variety shows on DVD. Good stuff
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: Well, Joseph isn't the best at comedy. But he's trying?
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @10:08 There's a "Flip Wilson / George Carlin" variety show I once saw that I think about all the time. I should track that one down.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: Since it is a holiday: anyone do anything interesting for "XMas"?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I mean, it's Les Paul? What can you say? Just an amazing performer, and very popular with GIs and soliders. I know a DJ who got to interview him in the 90's, and holy cats... how cool is that? Music royalty, if there ever was.
	10:15pm Laura Panic: Our govt TV station used to show these old black and white movies, and I,'d be up in the AM. I can't remember what they were called. But it was basically a film from I think the 30s that just filmed the show from audience POV...There may have been some backstage stuff, but not sure. There were several of these movies. If anyone knows what they were, I'd love it.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:15 Hmmmmm. I'll think on that... I'm not sure offhand.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I don't think I'd ever heard this much of Barbara's comedy before, and holy cats! She's fantastic. I know she was on Bob Hope's show, so I need to do some research.
	10:19pm Webhamster Henry: Hi I was listening on the bus up from NYC and just got i! this is corny, but very of its time! Thanks for the extensive edits!
	10:19pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich just a quiet dsy at home for us. Hot hot hot! Off to the beach soon
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:19 Webhamster Henry! Glad you got home. Enjoy the holiday radio!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:19 Nice. That's a good way to spend a holiday. I had some lasagna and read some comic books. Pretty good day, and I guess it's Christmas?
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Thoughts and Prayers." Oh my.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This section had some of the most extensive edits. And it's a shame, because this is some solid Hope stuff, where he's doing a lot of improvising. I'm glad it's much more listenable, now.
	10:24pm Laura Panic: I jist read back through the comments...wow Austin you did a lot of work to bring this to us , thank you. I love this stuff. I grew up with English grandparents and a great grandmother. This old humour is in my bones, though it was the British version mostly. But not that different.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:24 I'm a sucker for English comedy too, but it is harder to come by in the US. (Or, at least, was back in the day.) These days I can just google even the most obscure thing and find a listen link somewhere.
	10:27pm BC Sterrett: Was that you fixing the audio?
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @10:27 Yeah, that joke was "mangled" in the original version, and it was the only one I knew, so I decided to do some VO.
	10:29pm BC Sterrett: Great work :)
	👻 10:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 It reminded me of the Monty Python animated segue that was censored by a male voice dubbing "gangrene" over Carol Cleveland's "cancer".
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: When I lived in Eugene, OR, there was a kid who did a "Bob Hope" show, where he would dress like hope, do his jokes, and try to improvise like Hope would. And the weirdest part: he would book himself opening for rock / punk / indie bands. It was so weird... I loved it. I wonder what happened to that guy?
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:30 Nice pull! I had forgotten about that. Time for a Python re-watch.
	10:33pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich wild times of trangression!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Of course, Hope and Crosby did a lot of comedy for soldiers, and the "Road To..." movies together, and had a lot of great chemistry together. I love listening to them jab and riff on each other.
	10:35pm Webhamster Henry: So lemme tell you about Descript: Feed it audio, it gets you a simultaneous transcript and when you edit the transcript, it edits the audio. It can also synthesize the missing words in the speaker's voice! www.descript.com
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: These bits where they are going off script and whatnot are amazing.
	10:35pm Laura Panic: Have any of you listened to Bon barth's show on Sheenas on your Thursday night? Its amazing, with big vibes of variety, broadway and rock and roll. I am obsessed.
	10:36pm MHLee: hello again
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 That said, there were a whole lotta scripted jokes!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 Hmmmmmmm.... I have heard about this. I'll need to investigate.
	10:36pm Laura Panic: @Austin Rich yeh this is great!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:36 MHLee! Nice to see you again.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:35 I need to tune in more. What I've heard is great.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: sledpress.wordpress.com...
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: "You took my line I'll get J. Edgar Hoover"
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 You see the archetype for all great comedy duos right here.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Look at Crosby's photo... "High Head." So good.
	10:43pm MHLee: Bing is really good. I've played his show on mine at least one
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: When I first listened to this show, I was just convinced I couldn't play this on my show, reasonably. But listening to it now, even with some minor glitches here and there, it sounds pretty good now. I'm glad this version now exists; hopefully I can use dsccript, next time.
	10:43pm MHLee: I've played like a 1908 version of this song
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:43 Bing has a great voice! I think he struggled with the changing times, as he was really good at this crooner stuff, but it wasn't always popular. But his transition to comedy was basically how he saved his career.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: Der Bingle!
	10:45pm MHLee: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 My grandmother (90) thinks sinatra is too much of a punk and likes bings
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ MHLee @10:45 Ha! I love it when Grandma's have opinions like that. Hell yea, Grandma! Stick to your guns.
	10:47pm Laura Panic: @MHLee well she is not wrong! Whaf a punk!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Sometimes I think America is always at war, in some way, or another.
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 That, and orange juice!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:47 First concept record! Always breakin' the rules.
	10:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ MHLee @10:45 Clearly, your grandmother is a Rocky Fortune listener.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I've already gained weight this winter. January is going to be Jog-uary, if I'm gonna make it in 2024.
	10:51pm MHLee: Ave maria
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in everyone! And: enjoy the day, even if it's just a regular old day.
	10:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks! that did have an authentic feel!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: And now... some Captain Beefheart!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 25, 2023

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