On my station, our nighttime lineup starts with a pretty damn good doo-wop show that doesn't play just the usual overfamiliarities. That's a two-hour show. Then I'm on for my hour, and I'm followed by a strictly old-time radio program, When Radio Was. It's a good show but it plays too many of the usual familiar cliche shows you always think of when you hear the Golden. Age. Of. Radio. nostalgia crap.
I don't play that way when I arrive at each week's old-time radio segment on my show. (I know you know this but this is for any FREEPers who might be curious to hear me and might be awake at that hour, depending on their time zones, since I'm Pacific time.) All I drop in an old-time radio show or two (I can use two if I have a pair of fifteen-minute programs that are broadcast-worthy sound quality--you'd be amazed and dismayed how many old-time radio shows survive in horrible condition because of the old abused transcription discs---but one if my best one's a half-hour show, such as what I'm going to play this week), on the date they actually aired back in the year (the other OTR shows don't even pay attention to that facet and never play a show on its actual original air date), and except for backselling cast and writing credits if the broadcast itself didn't and I have the information (which I do for most of my collection), I stay out of the way and let a listener hear it not as clanking nostalgia but as living, breathing art.
I have this week's show all written, by the way. I have only to choose the songs for my two music segments (two songs each, two segments a show), edit my script, and gather up and burn my chosen sound effects.
“But ....but .... somehow I assumed you were on five days a week,” ... said in my best blond.
Monday night at 9PM PDT it is ...can you give us all a link, again, to The Kallmanac, please.
I don’t know what the equivalent of “break-a-leg” is for a talented radio personality going on stage live, but you know we all wish you the very best!