Episode 02 : Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
Podcast Date: 05/26/17
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- Dan and Tom explore the man with the action packed expense account, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. From cookie cutter detective show to the golden era of Bob Bailey & Jack Johnstone to the end of old time radio itself we take the journey through the highs and lows of this show. We also look at the lasting legacy of the show, from parody to comics to a recent mention on the Samantha Bee show.
Yours Truly The Johnny Dollar Daily Podcast
http://tomwsmf.com/podcasts/yourstruly.rss
Don Klees “The Real Johnny Dollar Matter” Documentary
http://therealjohnnydollar.blogspot.com/
- Hidden Gems in the Internet Archive:- Tom’s pick this weeks is the short run “Living In An Atomic Age. “
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UPDATE: And here it is, an episode of the Iranian Johnny Dollar!
Episode 0 – Introductions
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Recording Date: 04/20/17
Podcast Date: 04/21/17
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(We recorded this partly to check our equipment and partly to introduce ourselves. We didn’t really stick closely to our show notes, so we ran a bit longer than I anticipated.)
Segments:
- How we both got into OTR. Dan asks Tom about the history of OTR collecting.
- Some shows we want to cover in upcoming episodes, and why.
- Episode 1 will be… Fibber McGee & Molly
Future Episodes will include
- Gunsmoke
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
- Orson Welles’s radio years (possibly a 2-parter)
- Jean Shepherd
- The Goon Show
- ETC.
Hidden Gems in the Internet Archive
(TOM SAYS: This was meant to be included as a part of the show as it will be a regular segment, but rambling occurred and it wound up being used as the outro music. Enjoy. )
Dan’s Pick this episode… “The Cliff Edwards Show”
(DAN SAYS: If Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards (1895 – 1971) is known at all today, it’s probably only for providing the voice of Jiminy Cricket, but his records topped the charts in the 1920s. In 1944, he had a transcribed music show. Each episode of The Cliff Edwards Show is a mere 11 minutes long — just time for Cliff and a a small jazz combo to perform five very short songs. I seriously doubt this had a regular time slot on any network; it seems to be designed to allow a local announcer to mention a sponsor. Archive.org has ten episodes: fifteen files, but only 10 episodes. This version of Stumblin’ comes from episode 3.)
LINKS:
- Archive.org’s OTR Collection https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
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- Email us with suggestions for shows you’d like covered; Dan is dan@ourshowofshows.com and Tom is tom@ourshowofshows.com
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