Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 15, 2024 Favoriting

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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Favoriting April 15, 2024: Episode #90

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Artist Track Album Label Year Images Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune  "Boarding House Doublecross"   Favoriting 30 March 1954  NBC   
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Bold Venture  "The Runaway Wife"   Favoriting 31 March 1952  Santana Productions   
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Ralph Marterie 

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Unpublished History  Radio in the 1920s (Part 5)   Favoriting Radio In The 1920s  Self-Released  2024 
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The Blue Beetle  "The Sea Serpent, Part 1"   Favoriting 7 June 1940  Mutual–Don Lee Network   
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X-Minus One  "Junkyard"   Favoriting 22 February 1956  NBC Radio   
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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
  8:49pm
Charles:

Putting on a bit of Strange Luck Cologne for the occasion.
Avatar 8:57pm
Imaginos:

↳ Charles @8:49
A bit of Strange Luck cologne wouldn't go amiss. I w wonder if its an Acme product?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

Nice to see you, Charles and Imaginos. Strap In! It's the last episode of... Rocky Fortune!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
yerfriendpaul:

Hey Austin, everyone!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01
yerfriendpaul! Thanks for giving it your all.
Avatar 9:02pm
Imaginos:

Oh no! I hope he regains consciousness after he gets whacjed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

They should have done one where he gets knocked out early on, and all the mobsters ignore his body on the floor for most of the episode.
Avatar 9:03pm
Imaginos:

Old Spice also has some funny things on their labels
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Or it goes into a Sinatra Dream sequence where Rocky is a popular singer!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03
There's still time. If I can find a Sinatra impersonator, I will happily write new episodes!
Avatar 9:05pm
Imaginos:

In other words welcome to the Fringes
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

While there isn't exactly any "closure" to the series, this last episode was written by the creator, George Lefferts, and having Rocky "move out" of his old apartment was as much "ending" as the show got. But most stations just repeated the series, over and over again, until they got tired of re-runs. But Sinatra was so popular, the show retained popularity on the radio for a while. It wasn't until radio dramas started to fade away that stations stopped running Rocky Fortune.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Caspar Milquetoast was a kind of a popular newspaper cartoon!
Avatar 9:07pm
Imaginos:

I wonder if this is like that urban legend where the woman vanished and then they learned she died of the plague
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

On the 25th of March, 1954, "From Here To Eternity," won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Sinatra, who had been on a small career downturn, was suddenly the most in-demand actor and singer around. This 30 March 1954 episode is not only the last one, but one that probably had the best listening audience of the entire series run, as fans were tuning in to hear him act on the radio. While Sinatra was done with radio acting, "Rocky Fortune" was the thing that was the most readily available while Sinatra was working on new movies.
  9:13pm
Charles:

in da garbage u go
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:07
We shall see.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

I like Rocky in the Garbage Can!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:07
Oh! I didn't know that. Thanks for the gloss!
Avatar 9:14pm
Imaginos:

↳ Charles @9:13
Hope the masher truck isn't coming
Avatar 9:16pm
Imaginos:

Close call!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

I missed the chance to have "City Dump #5" as one of the "Strange Luck Cologne" scents.
Avatar 9:19pm
Imaginos:

Button brain! Lol!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
yerfriendpaul:

Button brain. Good insult
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

Rocky almost got knocked out there...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

The second time he's been in a can tonight.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

I can't imagine a can with a person in it - even a person as famously "slight" as Sinatra - would be very easy to move.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
yerfriendpaul:

Nice work, Rocky!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

What exactly does "Button Brain" mean? I've been trying to figure that out.
  9:27pm
Charles:

A very small brain is my guess.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

Notably, Rocky doesn't come back to tell you about next week. Another indicator that this is the final appearance.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:27
The size of a button! Okay, that makes a little more sense.
  9:29pm
Charles:

I'll miss that theme. See ya Rocky.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
WR:

I'm late, how many times did Rocky gets his lights knocked out?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

I decided to bust out the "complete" version of the ending theme music for the "final" episode. The song is called, "I Remember Harlem" by Roy Eldridge, and as near as I can figure, the producers of the show just used the single version of that song for both the opening and closing theme music. It's a beautiful song, but never heard completely in the show. So... there it was!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:29
He didn't get knocked out, but twice he was asked to get inside a garbage can.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

There's only three more "Bold Ventures" after this.

Some sources claim that there really were 78 episodes, and better still, there's a Kickstarter out to remaster all of them. (They claim to have transcription discs?) I don't know the status of the project, but if more Bold Venture episodes are ever released, I'll return to this series, for sure. Until then: I'm going to go with the theory that the "other" episodes were re-runs of stories we've heard, but with a different title.

Prove me wrong!
  9:36pm
Charles:

I wanna talk to you.

It's about me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Venzuelan" << pbpbpbt
Avatar 9:38pm
Imaginos:

Austin, any ideas for piano music for Lost Christobel?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:38
Not yet, but I've been thinking about it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

If they took the padding out of the dialog, it wouldn't hurt so much during the fistfights.
Avatar 9:45pm
Imaginos:

Hmph. You call it a workout tape, I call it Barbarella
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:45
xxx ooo = Barbarella.
Avatar 9:47pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46
Seen it several times
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:47
It is very good.
Avatar 9:49pm
Imaginos:

Shannon and Rocky drive away together in a red Barchetta and meet up with the Continental Operative
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:49
That would be pretty cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

spoon in a bucket of water foley...
Avatar 9:56pm
Imaginos:

I was hoping the hair was a toupee
Avatar 9:57pm
laurapanic:

had a thing. Just joined. To sailors and hula!
  👻 9:58pm
Heather:

Ukulele FTW!
Avatar 9:58pm
laurapanic:

any use of "likey" is probably good old fashioned racism
Avatar 10:01pm
Imaginos:

Lots of hemidemisemiquavers in Caravan
Avatar 10:13pm
Imaginos:

Congrats!
Avatar 10:13pm
laurapanic:

happy anniversary! Radio is such a gorgeous interest to have.
  👻 10:14pm
Heather:

Happy Anniversary!!! Thank you for bringing the great content and keeping it going!!!
Avatar 10:16pm
Imaginos:

Getting sleepy. But looking forward to tomorrow.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @10:13
I've always loved it. I got a radio / tape player for my 10th birthday, and I just remember turning that dial, almost all night long, blown away that you could listen to things that way.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:14
Thank you. And thank you for helping me deliver other content of the podcast variety!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @10:16
Sleep well! There's always another day to hang out in the chat.
  👻 10:17pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:16
It's an honor and a treat to be able to work on stuff with you!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The Sea Serpent, Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle"
With the modern superhero craze in movies, I find listening to these early superhero shows - in many ways, this one is trying to emulate Superman's show - to be fascinating. They are sort of fascist: cops, not happy to follow the law, take fighting criminals into their own hands. They always claim that they are doing it in the name of "the city" or "the people," but there is a very eerie element to them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Feldy:

Hello Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Feldy @10:23
Thanks for joinging us, Feldy!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
yerfriendpaul:

I smell a Scooby Doo episode
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

Java!
Avatar 👻 10:35pm
David Shortell:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:26
Pee-yew.
Avatar 10:36pm
laurapanic:

↳ Austin Rich @10:16
same! secret night time radio business was fun as a kid - so many more stations at night!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @10:36
Exactly! I eventually got a short-wave radio that could tune in stuff from all over the place. I sort of miss that radio.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Austin Rich:

"I checked a few minutes ago."

Because he's in the habit of checking on his booze supply every few minutes?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

"Space Blues" was the illness that was mentioned in the first episode of Dimension X, "No Contact."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @10:42
Major Tom had the space blues
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
yerfriendpaul:

I really love these X-Minus One episodes
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:45
Me too. These stories are so good in a radio form.
  👻 10:50pm
Heather:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:43
And more, I'd wager.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

We're gonna go about 8 minutes over, since I got so chatty during the break.
Avatar 👻 10:50pm
David Shortell:

I see that "Junkyard" was written by Clifford D. Simak. I know him as the author of "Goodnight, Mr. James", which was adapted into "The Duplicate Man" (the only "The Outer Limits" episode that interests me besides the two that Harlan Ellison wrote).
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:50
Simak is prettty good. I'm not sure this is his best story, but it is an odd one.
Avatar 👻 10:52pm
David Shortell:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:43
Better that than the Space Madness that afflicted Ren & Stimpy.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:52
That episode of Ren & Stimpy is pretty good.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ David Shortell @10:52
Ha ha, yes!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Austin Rich:

It's pretty common for X-Minus 1 (and Dimension X) to put a pretty high value on being drunk, and there is a preponderance of stories where drinking is a virtue of some kind.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
yerfriendpaul:

“Here’s mud in your ever-loving intergalactic eyeball!” might be the greatest line ever written!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

"I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech..." was probably based on a real college drinking song from the era, but I can't put a finger to any source material for the rest of the song.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Austin Rich:

"Colossal Hangover."

<dramatic music>
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
yerfriendpaul:

The benefits of heavy drinking
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
yerfriendpaul:

Thank you Austin! Take care everyone!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Austin Rich:

I hope ya'll enjoyed the show. Thanks for sticking around! We'll see you next week.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Austin Rich:

"Turning Alien" was a lesser known Vapors hit.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
yerfriendpaul:

Jeez!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Austin Rich:

Sleep well with that image in your minds!
Avatar 👻 11:08pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @11:05
Is that like the Misfits' "I Turned into a Martian"?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
WR:

Thank you, Austin. Laters.
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