[mylife]

I didn’t get a chance to listen last night.

Thanks for putting together this pear harbor show and including the Jack Benny show with the live interruptions about the attack.

A radio hasn’t left my hand since 9/11/01

[BluesDuke]

Thanks for putting together this pear harbor show and including the Jack Benny show with the live interruptions about the attack.

Personally, I thank God I had Jack Benny as a fallback. (I also had The Great Gildersleeve, which also aired that night and featured a pair of Pearl news break-ins.) My original plan was to assemble a pair of medleys, one a medley of the Pearl Harbour bulletins and immediate news analyses, recaps, and updates, up to and including from FDR's "Date That Will Live In Infamy" address to Congress; the second, a medley of the whole of World War II up to and including the V-J Day celebrations.

I had assembled the medleys and re-edited them successfully enough, but when I gave them a playback to be certain of their flow and quality, I was horrified to discover they'd been hit with some awful filtering hiss and bristle that I didn't have time to fix. (It had taken me long enough to put the medleys together in the first place.) So I had to think fast, prowl my old-time radio library, and between Benny and Gildy I went with Benny.

But I still wish the original medleys had been useable. They'd have made an even better show.