10/5/2008 8:25:16 PM

Great pictures Greg! I love old pictures and I especially loved the one of Sunset and Vine. You can see ABC in the background. Its fascinating to see where a lot of the radio shows originated from. As always keep up the great work!

Matt Pelc

10/5/2008 10:19:48 PM

I can't wait to show my Dear Old Dad the pix of Sunset & Vine, Hollywood, circa 1938 with the OLD CARS. He LOVES old cars and, with one quick look, he can tell exactly what kind of car it is. That always amazes me.
This week sounds really good -- any LIGHTS OUT episode has me HOOKED. I'll also enjoy "Angels with Dirty Faces" and I hope you'll play lots of scary stuff during Halloween week. I KNOW you're playing WOTW with ORSON --- can't wait for that. But other rally scary stuff such as REVOLT OF THE WORMS and METEOR MAN (I know you played that earlier this year but...)and anything with BORIS KARLOFF would be terrific.
Jus giving you ideas. Keep up the great work! I LOVE XM164!

Rosemary

10/6/2008 9:03:59 AM

Yipeeeee!!!!!! A new Johnny Dollar. I love those. Prolly among my top 5 favorite series. Am really looking forward to this week. Lots of cool things.

Pam D.

10/6/2008 4:40:12 PM

Greg - some additional info on the DRAGNET theme as discussed after today's THE BIG SLIP. The opening "sting" (DAA..DA DA DA) was actually written by Walter Schumann's musical colleague at Universal, Miklos Rozsa. Rozsa composed the melody for the 1946 crime drama THE KILLERS (with radio favorites Bill Conrad and Charles McGraw). There was subsequently a lawsuit and Rozsa is now properly credited with Schumann as co-composer of DRAGNET. The credit, in fact, appears in the end titles of the 1989 Tom Hanks spoof.

Schumann's secondary theme, the Dragnet March, was originally written by Schumann as a motif in Universal's THE WISTFUL WIDOW OF WAGON GAP and can be heard when Sheriff Lou Costello is heading down the street for a shoot-out with the town bad guys.

Here's a link to the original Rozsa Main Title to THE KILLERS:

chelsearialtostudios.com/killers_main_title.mp3

Ray Faiola

10/6/2008 9:44:05 PM

I sent this link to my folks. My mother use to take the red car from Long Beach to the NBC studios to watch Queen for a day. She said the corner you can't see is the CBS studios. Down the street to the right, I think, is the Brown Durby. To the left was a cafe where she and her grandmother use to go. One day they were there and my mother told my Great Grandmother not to look, but Jack Web and who ever was playing his partner had just come in. My Great Grandmother let out a yelp, turn and yelled, "where, where" as they walked past the table, almost killing my mother.

I have a few others of this time, as my cousin was in the LAPD with Gene Rodenberry and also when Jack Webb was around working on his stuff. I will try to get some together for you.

Kristi

10/9/2008 12:34:38 AM

Greg,

I was looking over next weeks schedule for the week of 10/13/08 and I seeSux Radio Theatre is doing "The Birds" staring Herbert Marshall. Is this Afred Hitchcock version? Also will you be doing another Lux Theatre with Jimmy Stewart. Maybe "Harvey" if it was done by Lux Theatre?

RJI

10/9/2008 12:38:38 AM

Hi, Greg! Now I'll put in for 2 BD (Bette Davis) requests --- "The Letter" and "All This and Heaven, Too." These are 2 of my favorite BD movies and when I saw they also have radio counterparts, I knew I had to ask. I know BD's birthday was April 5 but you can add it for the next celebration of BD's birthday. Thanks!

Rosemary

10/9/2008 3:56:48 AM

Thanks for the great picture of the studios in Hollywood. It's nice to be able to see where our radio stars spent a lot of their time. As usual, thank you for all you do the enhance the pleasure of listening to 164!

G

10/9/2008 12:54:39 PM

Great episode of THE THIRD MAN today, "The Professor Regrets". Veteran Mercury players Paul Stewart (the Ambassador) and Martin Gabel (Dr. Feydor) were on hand, as well as Gabel's "What's My Line?" bride Arlene Francis as Annette aka Etta.

Ray Faiola