WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 5, 2022

Listener comments!
	7:54pm Arvo: Good Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Arvo! I don't start for another hour, but it's good to see you early!
	9:01pm Charles: Jolly!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: I hope everyone has their Lux Soap! Time to do the laundry, as we listen!
	♥ 9:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍿
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see ya'll in the chat, Charles and Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! Great to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: I was just reading your e-mail about your Bryce Lynch story. I'm so behind on my e-mail...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I guess so. I figured you'd be busy at the book store with the holiday orders.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Lux Radio Theater was an hour long show, that was on NBC for YEARS, and re-enacted currently popular films, usually with as much of the original cast as possible. We've heard a couple Lux episodes on the show before, but it's probably only going to air on Dimestore Radio Theater for special occasions.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There were 927 episodes made over 21 "series." From 1934 to 1955.
	9:08pm Charles: I was just about to write how I enjoy these special features in part because they're on more rarely. Feels extra special.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm trying to remember if Kitty Foyle was one of them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: Cecil B. DeMille took over hosting Lux Radio Theater in 1936, and quit hosting in 1945. He was the most high profile host, There were four other hosts over the run of the show, but this program is still associated with Cecil.
	♥ 9:12pm MHLee: How much have i missed
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Most of the episodes were adapted from their screenplays by George Wells & Sanford Barnett, but usually, the scripts stick pretty close, save for cutting scenes and editing the content to fit into an hour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Often, successful movies would get adapted for radio a number of times, either in hour long versions, 30 minute versions, and in some cases, 15 minute versions. Sometimes, actors would be invited on to play out a single scene from a popular movie on a variety show. Radio was the next best thing, if you couldn't afford to got to the movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Over the course of the series, the show was directed by Antony Stanford, Frank Woodruff, Sanford Barnett, Fred MacKaye, Earl Ebi, and Norman Macdonnell. However, in some cases, guest directors would come in and do the job, like we'll see in another holiday episode coming later in the season.
	9:16pm Charles: Dimestore is a peach of a show, a peach of a show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: Thanks Charles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: I do enjoy my old radio shows.
	♥ 9:18pm MHLee: I recognized that little snip of piano
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: OTR is quite fun to listen to. It forces you to use your imagination.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: What was it, MHLee?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: I agree, Imaginos. I think you have to engage with it more, and as a result, it draws you in more.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. The only show nowadays that does that is Bandersnatch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: A TV version of the program, Lux Video Theater, was launched in the 50's, and overlapped a little with the radio show. The TV version was only 30 minutes, and I don't think it was always film adaptations, though I haven't seen it, so I have no real clue what that show was like. But it was another outlet for the stars of Hollywood to promote their work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: From all the old movies I've watched, and of course because of Wizard of Oz, I grew up with a BIG crush on Judy Garland. I have NO idea how these leading men aren't just throwing themselves at her.
	♥ 9:22pm MHLee: At Austin, I'm looking through the album on hundred songs, I'm pretty sure it's on austin
	9:22pm Mr Fab: Ah, thanks for clearing up that mystery. I thought it was playing the actual film. I didn’t realize that they made radio adaptions out of movies. I just remember the paperback book or comic film adaptations, ha.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Can you imagine a comic book adaptation of old musicals?
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: One thing that contextually helps with following the "slower" pace of "Meet Me In St. Louis" is that it is set in 1904. And, I believe it was based on a stage show that had been around for years, so I believe the story was well known... for audiences in the 40s.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: (And it makes the awful stuff the little girl does seem VERY wild.)
	9:24pm wenzo: Hey Austin, been listening to you in the archives a bunch, thanks for doing this show!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Wasn't "Heavy Metal" a comic book adaptation of music?
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Thanks wenzo! I do enjoy programming this one.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: I read plenty of paperbacks and comic book adaptations. It was my bread and butter as a kid.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yes. Among other things. Heavy Metal took the phrase "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" very seriously.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This is certainly taking a dark turn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: Since it's only the 5th of December, and this movie is sort of set, "throughout the year," we will "ease" our way into holiday stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: See, Imaginos? It's all a joke! A horrific, potentially lethal joke!
	♥ 9:30pm WR: Have been listening for about 20 minutes and have no idea what I am hearing.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: I didn’t think that “Heavy Metal” comics literally had anything to do with music. Was more Franzetta type fantasy
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thank goodness.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: Ahem. Can Judy Garland beat me up someday?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The early editions had a series that featured aliens that were a parody of The Beatles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: "Heavy Metal" is totally more Frazetta fantasy than actual heavy metal... I guess because the stories are sort of like what some metal songs are about. There were a lot of music references, and characters named after songs, lyrics quoted, etc. So it was as close to music as you can get in a comic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: WR: hopefully it'll start to make sense!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'd like to see an edition of HM that focuses on the Soft Doctrines.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've got a few cheaper collections, but there are so many back issues, and the older ones are really hard to find... occasionally I get a few issues here and there, but really, I've read maybe a fraction of what they've published.
	♥ 9:37pm WR: Should remember that "Heavy Metal" was primarily a USA version of Métal hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") en.wikipedia.org... Great Xmas Sheena holiday story.
	9:38pm Arvo: Stab me with hot pokers!
	9:38pm Mr Fab: WR, I’m that way with every episode of “Chandu.” Apparently it’s a story that’s been running for months, they never do a “previously on” recap, and I can’t listen to every moment of it. So it’s basically nice organ music and some cool stand-alone scenes for me.
	♥ 9:39pm MHLee: The song was Under the Bamboo Tree from 1902
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Way to go, MHLee! That's rad!
	♥ 9:39pm MHLee: I kept skipping it because I didn't think it would be that old
	♥ 9:40pm MHLee: Judy Garland actually comes up singing it when you search it google
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: The good thing about Chandu is that nothing really happens, so usually, the story has only advanced about an inch every month or so. Really, it's just good organ music and FX.
	♥ 9:40pm MHLee: From this very musical lol.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: So, the last 20 minutes of the story is "Christmas" themed. Not sure if that makes this officially a "Christmas" movie, but... I like it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: The kid is the best part of this movie.
	♥ 9:44pm MHLee: This kid is wild lol
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: I mean: she's like most kids I knew when I was a kid.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: You can tell this story is set in 1904, because not having a suit is preventing him from going to a dance.
	♥ 9:46pm MHLee: Oh did I miss that it was set in 1904? That makes under the bamboo tree a good choice for inclusion
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I think they cut a bunch of stuff from the end of the story for this presentation, because suddenly all the problems are resolved moments after they are introduced.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: They only mention it was set in 1904 during the introduction before the story starts.
	9:47pm Mr Fab: Too bad Lux Interior didn’t host this show. I mean, It was named after him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: I've been trying to figure out how to do some Lux Radio / Lux Interior cut ups, but I just haven't done the legwork to make it work. Yet.
	♥ 9:51pm MHLee: Honestly I love the crooning romance christmas songs
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: Listening to Judy sing Christmas songs makes me realize why I associate Wizard of Oz songs with Christmas, too. It's her voice... it's just nostalgic and wonderful.
	♥ 9:52pm MHLee: The snowmen deserved to die
	♥ 9:54pm MHLee: Tudy is still alive. Younger than my grandmother.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: I was wondering about that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: There's the second reference to the date.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Can you imagine seeing electricity for the first time? Lightbulbs turning on, for the first time?
	♥ 9:56pm MHLee: It would be shocking.
	♥ 9:56pm WR: Yes, MHLee, 1904, the year of the World's Fair being in St. Louis
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That had to be spectacular.
	♥ 9:57pm MHLee: To be honest that was half the attraction to most of the "Luna Parks" of the era
	♥ 9:57pm MHLee: There were so many Luna Parks but I think none still operate
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: Margaret undermines my VO count down. Oh well...
	♥ 10:00pm MHLee: Norman is no longer a very common name but there are three in my family
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Lux Interior's band was called "the Cramps". I wonder if you could work that into your cutups.
	♥ 10:04pm MHLee: I've only heard of it because Jan played a Spike Jones broadcast from it
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: We're only 1/5th of the way into Bogart's biography and he's been married three times, and already has a thirst for alcohol stronger than anyone I know.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: When men were men…
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine what a night at the bar with Bogart and John Huston must have been like.
	10:19pm Heather: Hi everyone! I've been tuned in doing a little craft project here! Awesome show. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas get me every time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Heather! I suspected you might be lurking...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh.... domestic violence, glamorized so much by these old guys.
	♥ 10:20pm MHLee: That's umm a lot to process with the laughing there
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: Though, by all reasonable accounts, Mayo sounded like she was pretty violent herself. Though I can only imagine that you'd have to be able to keep up with Bogart.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: AFRS Broadcasts, with very few exceptions, were not heard in the United States, except on military bases. AFRS Broadcasts were not like the mono, high-quality broadcasts that most people were familiar with, but were shortwave broadcasts, often only for one military base or one small area, and were much more informal, hosted by a couple of local military folks, and relying a lot of pre-recorded material. "Command Performance" was very popular, because they answer letters from soldiers who would write in, which really won over GIs.
	♥ 10:23pm MHLee: They remind of the disney animators talking about stuff... they always say wild stuff and laugh it off... and ot's like "Oh yeah Walt was a bastard, love it"
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: We get to hear Walt himself on Lux Radio Theater in a few weeks.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: Listening to so much old radio, I'm a sucker for Bob Hope. Those Road To... movies are hilarious.
	♥ 10:25pm MHLee: Have you ever watched the youtube channel defunctland?
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Hope is timeless.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Is that the old Disney Attractions that are shut down, MHLee?
	♥ 10:26pm MHLee: Covers the rise and fall of amusement parks, history of muppets, disney, looney tunes, etc
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: I think I've seen some links to it, but haven't watched any yet. Would recommend?
	♥ 10:27pm MHLee: Was reminded up it between the disney animators and the electric lights on luna park
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: I'm also a sucker for the Andrews Sisters, but I mean... come on! Who isn't?
	10:27pm Mr Fab: I used to watch any Road movie that came on tv when I was a kid. “Road to Morocco” was my fave. The surreal “Moonlight Becomes You” scene is great (and good tune, too)
	♥ 10:27pm MHLee: It's a very good production, has plenty of clips of interviews
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: "Road To Morocco" is the one that I own still! Time for a re-watch.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favourite song from way back then is "Don't Bring Lulu".
	♥ 10:28pm MHLee: Funny, I think I've always heard the Frank Yankovic version
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: I think this was a standard, so everyone probably did it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: Was this the clip you were talking about earlier? I'm sure Jan has played this.
	♥ 10:30pm MHLee: I have a few early versions of Don't Bring Luli... I think the Happiness Boys and Billy Murray who is probably the original version
	♥ 10:30pm MHLee: I think it was a different episode, but I didn't catch every episode
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I talked too long, so it looks like I'll go over by thee of four minutes. Sorry everyone... it's a Christmas miracle, I guess?
	♥ 10:33pm MHLee: 10-27 and 10-17-42 were the ones
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Ahh! I'm sure Jan will be happy to know there's some Christmas material for them to use.
	♥ 10:33pm MHLee: I don't think he's played the christmas one yet
	♥ 10:35pm MHLee: 1000 dollars is steeep
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I was thinking that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: The "gimmick" for this show was that he was offering listeners a "glance" into his "gallery" of cases. Though I think even that gimmick isn't precisely mentioned each show.
	♥ 10:39pm MHLee: "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes"
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: Another "gimmick" for this show - which won't really make sense unless I explain it up front - is that once an episode, Rogue usually gets knocked unconscious or is drugged, and is visited by a hallucination, Eugor, who gives Rogue clues to cracking the cases, sort of like a split personality. Except, in this episode, he isn't knocked unconscious... and they only address it at the end, so fans won't get upset that Eugor doesn't appear. Yeah... it's ridiculous, for such a serious show. Old radio was like that...
	♥ 10:42pm MHLee: Dick Rogue
	♥ 10:42pm MHLee: Very puny
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Lot of "Princeton vs. Harvard" references in our shows today, a rivalry that, as a west coaster, I do not understand.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of Dirk Gently and Gilks.
	♥ 10:45pm MHLee: The cop was in the right there lol.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: According using inflation as our guide, $1000 in 1945 would be worth about $16,556.22 in 2022. A $1000 retainer is a NICE chunk of cash for Rogue, a a BIG motivator for someone who admits to being "broke" at the beginning of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I do love Dirk Gently stories.
	♥ 10:48pm MHLee: He's a nasty guy
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: A lot of "domestic violence" talk in the shows I picked today. Should have put a warning on this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: According to The Salmon of Doubt, he was supposed to get involved with a case with a cat named Gusty Winds.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: I read that. I would have liked to read that third Gently novel, but he never finished it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if it was a crossover. That ginger sounded a lot like a certain towel toter.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: Oh, I guess he does get hit. But he "hangs onto consciousness." That's right.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Usually this would be where Eugor... Rogue backwards... would appear.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks again for indulging me, everyone! See ya'll again tomorrow night... and next week!
	♥ 11:01pm MHLee: Thanks Austin
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Here's your moment where knowing about Eugor pays off...
	♥ 11:02pm MHLee: Man parties
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: $10,000 is his final pay. In 1945 money... he had a VERY nice vacation.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thanks again for a great show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks Imaginos and MHLee!
	11:03pm Mr Fab: Thank Austin, you lovable rogue, you!
	11:03pm Heather: Awesome show!! Good night all!
	♥ 11:04pm MHLee: Thanks Austin

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 5, 2022

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December 5, 2022: Holiday Film Fest!: "Meet Me In St. Louis!" & "Rogue's Gallery"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"Meet Me In St. Louis"	2 December 1946	NBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Kirby and is Orchestra	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy			0:59:30 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 2	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:12:03 (Pop-up)
Command Performance	"The Christmas Eve Show" Excerpt 1	24 December 1942	AFRS	1:22:33 (Pop-up)
Rogue's Gallery	"Fortune In Furs"	20 December 1945	NBC	1:31:58 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:54pm Arvo: Good Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Arvo! I don't start for another hour, but it's good to see you early!
	9:01pm Charles: Jolly!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: I hope everyone has their Lux Soap! Time to do the laundry, as we listen!
	♥ 9:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍿
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see ya'll in the chat, Charles and Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! Great to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: I was just reading your e-mail about your Bryce Lynch story. I'm so behind on my e-mail...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I guess so. I figured you'd be busy at the book store with the holiday orders.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Lux Radio Theater was an hour long show, that was on NBC for YEARS, and re-enacted currently popular films, usually with as much of the original cast as possible. We've heard a couple Lux episodes on the show before, but it's probably only going to air on Dimestore Radio Theater for special occasions.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There were 927 episodes made over 21 "series." From 1934 to 1955.
	9:08pm Charles: I was just about to write how I enjoy these special features in part because they're on more rarely. Feels extra special.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm trying to remember if Kitty Foyle was one of them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: Cecil B. DeMille took over hosting Lux Radio Theater in 1936, and quit hosting in 1945. He was the most high profile host, There were four other hosts over the run of the show, but this program is still associated with Cecil.
	♥ 9:12pm MHLee: How much have i missed
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Most of the episodes were adapted from their screenplays by George Wells & Sanford Barnett, but usually, the scripts stick pretty close, save for cutting scenes and editing the content to fit into an hour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Often, successful movies would get adapted for radio a number of times, either in hour long versions, 30 minute versions, and in some cases, 15 minute versions. Sometimes, actors would be invited on to play out a single scene from a popular movie on a variety show. Radio was the next best thing, if you couldn't afford to got to the movies.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Over the course of the series, the show was directed by Antony Stanford, Frank Woodruff, Sanford Barnett, Fred MacKaye, Earl Ebi, and Norman Macdonnell. However, in some cases, guest directors would come in and do the job, like we'll see in another holiday episode coming later in the season.
	9:16pm Charles: Dimestore is a peach of a show, a peach of a show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: Thanks Charles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: I do enjoy my old radio shows.
	♥ 9:18pm MHLee: I recognized that little snip of piano
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: OTR is quite fun to listen to. It forces you to use your imagination.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: What was it, MHLee?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: I agree, Imaginos. I think you have to engage with it more, and as a result, it draws you in more.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. The only show nowadays that does that is Bandersnatch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: A TV version of the program, Lux Video Theater, was launched in the 50's, and overlapped a little with the radio show. The TV version was only 30 minutes, and I don't think it was always film adaptations, though I haven't seen it, so I have no real clue what that show was like. But it was another outlet for the stars of Hollywood to promote their work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: From all the old movies I've watched, and of course because of Wizard of Oz, I grew up with a BIG crush on Judy Garland. I have NO idea how these leading men aren't just throwing themselves at her.
	♥ 9:22pm MHLee: At Austin, I'm looking through the album on hundred songs, I'm pretty sure it's on austin
	9:22pm Mr Fab: Ah, thanks for clearing up that mystery. I thought it was playing the actual film. I didn’t realize that they made radio adaptions out of movies. I just remember the paperback book or comic film adaptations, ha.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Can you imagine a comic book adaptation of old musicals?
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: One thing that contextually helps with following the "slower" pace of "Meet Me In St. Louis" is that it is set in 1904. And, I believe it was based on a stage show that had been around for years, so I believe the story was well known... for audiences in the 40s.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: (And it makes the awful stuff the little girl does seem VERY wild.)
	9:24pm wenzo: Hey Austin, been listening to you in the archives a bunch, thanks for doing this show!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Wasn't "Heavy Metal" a comic book adaptation of music?
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Thanks wenzo! I do enjoy programming this one.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: I read plenty of paperbacks and comic book adaptations. It was my bread and butter as a kid.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yes. Among other things. Heavy Metal took the phrase "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" very seriously.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This is certainly taking a dark turn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: Since it's only the 5th of December, and this movie is sort of set, "throughout the year," we will "ease" our way into holiday stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: See, Imaginos? It's all a joke! A horrific, potentially lethal joke!
	♥ 9:30pm WR: Have been listening for about 20 minutes and have no idea what I am hearing.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: I didn’t think that “Heavy Metal” comics literally had anything to do with music. Was more Franzetta type fantasy
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thank goodness.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: Ahem. Can Judy Garland beat me up someday?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The early editions had a series that featured aliens that were a parody of The Beatles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: "Heavy Metal" is totally more Frazetta fantasy than actual heavy metal... I guess because the stories are sort of like what some metal songs are about. There were a lot of music references, and characters named after songs, lyrics quoted, etc. So it was as close to music as you can get in a comic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: WR: hopefully it'll start to make sense!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'd like to see an edition of HM that focuses on the Soft Doctrines.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've got a few cheaper collections, but there are so many back issues, and the older ones are really hard to find... occasionally I get a few issues here and there, but really, I've read maybe a fraction of what they've published.
	♥ 9:37pm WR: Should remember that "Heavy Metal" was primarily a USA version of Métal hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") en.wikipedia.org... Great Xmas Sheena holiday story.
	9:38pm Arvo: Stab me with hot pokers!
	9:38pm Mr Fab: WR, I’m that way with every episode of “Chandu.” Apparently it’s a story that’s been running for months, they never do a “previously on” recap, and I can’t listen to every moment of it. So it’s basically nice organ music and some cool stand-alone scenes for me.
	♥ 9:39pm MHLee: The song was Under the Bamboo Tree from 1902
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Way to go, MHLee! That's rad!
	♥ 9:39pm MHLee: I kept skipping it because I didn't think it would be that old
	♥ 9:40pm MHLee: Judy Garland actually comes up singing it when you search it google
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: The good thing about Chandu is that nothing really happens, so usually, the story has only advanced about an inch every month or so. Really, it's just good organ music and FX.
	♥ 9:40pm MHLee: From this very musical lol.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: So, the last 20 minutes of the story is "Christmas" themed. Not sure if that makes this officially a "Christmas" movie, but... I like it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: The kid is the best part of this movie.
	♥ 9:44pm MHLee: This kid is wild lol
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: I mean: she's like most kids I knew when I was a kid.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: You can tell this story is set in 1904, because not having a suit is preventing him from going to a dance.
	♥ 9:46pm MHLee: Oh did I miss that it was set in 1904? That makes under the bamboo tree a good choice for inclusion
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I think they cut a bunch of stuff from the end of the story for this presentation, because suddenly all the problems are resolved moments after they are introduced.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: They only mention it was set in 1904 during the introduction before the story starts.
	9:47pm Mr Fab: Too bad Lux Interior didn’t host this show. I mean, It was named after him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: I've been trying to figure out how to do some Lux Radio / Lux Interior cut ups, but I just haven't done the legwork to make it work. Yet.
	♥ 9:51pm MHLee: Honestly I love the crooning romance christmas songs
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: Listening to Judy sing Christmas songs makes me realize why I associate Wizard of Oz songs with Christmas, too. It's her voice... it's just nostalgic and wonderful.
	♥ 9:52pm MHLee: The snowmen deserved to die
	♥ 9:54pm MHLee: Tudy is still alive. Younger than my grandmother.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: I was wondering about that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: There's the second reference to the date.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Can you imagine seeing electricity for the first time? Lightbulbs turning on, for the first time?
	♥ 9:56pm MHLee: It would be shocking.
	♥ 9:56pm WR: Yes, MHLee, 1904, the year of the World's Fair being in St. Louis
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That had to be spectacular.
	♥ 9:57pm MHLee: To be honest that was half the attraction to most of the "Luna Parks" of the era
	♥ 9:57pm MHLee: There were so many Luna Parks but I think none still operate
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: Margaret undermines my VO count down. Oh well...
	♥ 10:00pm MHLee: Norman is no longer a very common name but there are three in my family
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Lux Interior's band was called "the Cramps". I wonder if you could work that into your cutups.
	♥ 10:04pm MHLee: I've only heard of it because Jan played a Spike Jones broadcast from it
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: We're only 1/5th of the way into Bogart's biography and he's been married three times, and already has a thirst for alcohol stronger than anyone I know.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: When men were men…
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine what a night at the bar with Bogart and John Huston must have been like.
	10:19pm Heather: Hi everyone! I've been tuned in doing a little craft project here! Awesome show. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas get me every time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Heather! I suspected you might be lurking...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh.... domestic violence, glamorized so much by these old guys.
	♥ 10:20pm MHLee: That's umm a lot to process with the laughing there
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: Though, by all reasonable accounts, Mayo sounded like she was pretty violent herself. Though I can only imagine that you'd have to be able to keep up with Bogart.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: AFRS Broadcasts, with very few exceptions, were not heard in the United States, except on military bases. AFRS Broadcasts were not like the mono, high-quality broadcasts that most people were familiar with, but were shortwave broadcasts, often only for one military base or one small area, and were much more informal, hosted by a couple of local military folks, and relying a lot of pre-recorded material. "Command Performance" was very popular, because they answer letters from soldiers who would write in, which really won over GIs.
	♥ 10:23pm MHLee: They remind of the disney animators talking about stuff... they always say wild stuff and laugh it off... and ot's like "Oh yeah Walt was a bastard, love it"
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: We get to hear Walt himself on Lux Radio Theater in a few weeks.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: Listening to so much old radio, I'm a sucker for Bob Hope. Those Road To... movies are hilarious.
	♥ 10:25pm MHLee: Have you ever watched the youtube channel defunctland?
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Hope is timeless.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Is that the old Disney Attractions that are shut down, MHLee?
	♥ 10:26pm MHLee: Covers the rise and fall of amusement parks, history of muppets, disney, looney tunes, etc
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: I think I've seen some links to it, but haven't watched any yet. Would recommend?
	♥ 10:27pm MHLee: Was reminded up it between the disney animators and the electric lights on luna park
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: I'm also a sucker for the Andrews Sisters, but I mean... come on! Who isn't?
	10:27pm Mr Fab: I used to watch any Road movie that came on tv when I was a kid. “Road to Morocco” was my fave. The surreal “Moonlight Becomes You” scene is great (and good tune, too)
	♥ 10:27pm MHLee: It's a very good production, has plenty of clips of interviews
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: "Road To Morocco" is the one that I own still! Time for a re-watch.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favourite song from way back then is "Don't Bring Lulu".
	♥ 10:28pm MHLee: Funny, I think I've always heard the Frank Yankovic version
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: I think this was a standard, so everyone probably did it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: Was this the clip you were talking about earlier? I'm sure Jan has played this.
	♥ 10:30pm MHLee: I have a few early versions of Don't Bring Luli... I think the Happiness Boys and Billy Murray who is probably the original version
	♥ 10:30pm MHLee: I think it was a different episode, but I didn't catch every episode
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I talked too long, so it looks like I'll go over by thee of four minutes. Sorry everyone... it's a Christmas miracle, I guess?
	♥ 10:33pm MHLee: 10-27 and 10-17-42 were the ones
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Ahh! I'm sure Jan will be happy to know there's some Christmas material for them to use.
	♥ 10:33pm MHLee: I don't think he's played the christmas one yet
	♥ 10:35pm MHLee: 1000 dollars is steeep
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I was thinking that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: The "gimmick" for this show was that he was offering listeners a "glance" into his "gallery" of cases. Though I think even that gimmick isn't precisely mentioned each show.
	♥ 10:39pm MHLee: "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes"
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: Another "gimmick" for this show - which won't really make sense unless I explain it up front - is that once an episode, Rogue usually gets knocked unconscious or is drugged, and is visited by a hallucination, Eugor, who gives Rogue clues to cracking the cases, sort of like a split personality. Except, in this episode, he isn't knocked unconscious... and they only address it at the end, so fans won't get upset that Eugor doesn't appear. Yeah... it's ridiculous, for such a serious show. Old radio was like that...
	♥ 10:42pm MHLee: Dick Rogue
	♥ 10:42pm MHLee: Very puny
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Lot of "Princeton vs. Harvard" references in our shows today, a rivalry that, as a west coaster, I do not understand.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of Dirk Gently and Gilks.
	♥ 10:45pm MHLee: The cop was in the right there lol.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: According using inflation as our guide, $1000 in 1945 would be worth about $16,556.22 in 2022. A $1000 retainer is a NICE chunk of cash for Rogue, a a BIG motivator for someone who admits to being "broke" at the beginning of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I do love Dirk Gently stories.
	♥ 10:48pm MHLee: He's a nasty guy
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: A lot of "domestic violence" talk in the shows I picked today. Should have put a warning on this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: According to The Salmon of Doubt, he was supposed to get involved with a case with a cat named Gusty Winds.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: I read that. I would have liked to read that third Gently novel, but he never finished it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if it was a crossover. That ginger sounded a lot like a certain towel toter.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: Oh, I guess he does get hit. But he "hangs onto consciousness." That's right.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Usually this would be where Eugor... Rogue backwards... would appear.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks again for indulging me, everyone! See ya'll again tomorrow night... and next week!
	♥ 11:01pm MHLee: Thanks Austin
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Here's your moment where knowing about Eugor pays off...
	♥ 11:02pm MHLee: Man parties
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: $10,000 is his final pay. In 1945 money... he had a VERY nice vacation.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thanks again for a great show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks Imaginos and MHLee!
	11:03pm Mr Fab: Thank Austin, you lovable rogue, you!
	11:03pm Heather: Awesome show!! Good night all!
	♥ 11:04pm MHLee: Thanks Austin

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 5, 2022

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