The Golden Age of Radio - Halloween #5

Suspense
November 1st 1945
The Dunwhich Horror
Starring Ronald Coleman
An HP Lovecraft story, considered one of the "core stories" of the Cthulhu Mythos.



Inner Sanctum
October 30th 1945
The Man Who Couldn't Die



Suspense
December 5th 1946
The House in Cypress Canyon
Starring Robert Taylor and Cathy Lewis

NY Times Bestseller List - NonFiction (10/27/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending October 27th 2013

10 - Zealot - Reza Aslan
(13 weeks on list)

9  -  Tip and The Gipper - Chris Matthews
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(31 weeks on list)

7  -  One  Summer - Bill Bryson
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Si - Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(6 weeks on list)

5  -  My Story - Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart
(Debut)
A woman kidnapped by religious fanatics from her Utah home in 2002 at age 14 describes her captivity and rescue nine months later.

4  -  I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
(Debut) 
The experience of the Pakistani girl who advocated for women's education as was shot by the Taliban.

3  -  The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida 
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Galdwell
(2 weeks on list)

1  -  Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(3 weeks on list and at #1)

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (10/27/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 27th 2013

10 - The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
(3 weeks on list)

9  - The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
(2 weeks on list)
A 19th century botanist's love of knowledge takes her to Tahiti.

8  -  Doing Hard Time - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
In the 27th Stone Barrington novel, the New York lawyer teams up with a rogue former CIA agent and heads west to protect Barrington's son and his friends from Russian assassins.

7  -  The Circle - Dave Eggers
(Debut)
A dystopian novel about life on the campus of a powerful Internet company.

6  -  Starry Night - Debbie Macomber
(Debut)
At Christmastime, a big-city columnist sets out to interview a reclusive author in Alaska.

5  -  Dog Songs - Mary Oliver
(Debut)
The dogs who have shared the life of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, in 35 poems and an essay.

4  -  Gone - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(2 Weeks on list)
Detective Michael Bennett, living with his 10 adopted children on a California fame is pursued by the head of a Mexican drug cartel he once put in jail.

3  - The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(4 weeks on list)

2  - Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(3 weeks on list) (2 consecutive weeks at #1)

1  - Storm Front - John Sanford
(DEBUT)
The Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers becomes involved in the hunt for an ancient inscribed stone smuggled out of the Middle East.

28th Grammy Awards

The 28th annual Grammy Awards, held February 25th 1986.  Celebrating the music of 1985

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male

Boys of Summer

Don Henley

(reached #5 on the Hot 100 and #12 on the UK Official Chart)

Golden Age of Radio - Halloween #4 (Jack Benny)

Welcome to another installment of Halloween OTR style.   

This time we see how the legend Jack Benny celebrated Halloween.

Golden Age of Radio - Halloween #3

Today our Halloween show is from Summerfield and The Great Gildersleeve

Great Gildersleeve Halloween Party

Originally aired 10/29/1947

NBC Radio

The 10

Ten Awe Inspiring Man Made Wonders

Flashback - Cashbox Top 40 Singles Chart (07/19/1980)

Cashbox Singles Chart

Top 40

Week  Ending July 9th 1980

The Great Radio Comedians - PBS

This PBS special from 1972 looks at the great radio comedians including Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Fibber McGee and Molly and more.
Enjoy this tremendous show with interviews with George Burns, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Jack Benny and the cast of Allen's Alley all done just a few years before we would see most of the pass.

NY Times Bestseller List (Non Fiction) 10/13/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending October 13th 2013

10 - Command and Control - Eric Schlosser
(Debut)
Accidents and near misses in the management of America's nuclear arsenal.

9  -  Simple Dreams - Linda Ronstadt
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.
(3 weeks on list)

7  -  Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson and Mark Schlabach
(21 weeks on list)

6  -  The Liberty Amendments - Mark Levin
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell
(29 weeks on list)

4  -  Still Foolin'em - Billy Crystal
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Zealot - Reza Aslan
(11 weeks on list)

2  -  Si-Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(4 weeks on list)

1  -  Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(DEBUT)
Jesus' life and times, and the events leading up to execution.

The Golden Age of Radio - Halloween #2 (Double Feature)

Tonight we visit 2 different shows with Boris Karloff as guest, from 1945.

First up is "Duffy's Tavern" from January 12th 1945.

Archie tries to enlist Boris Karloff to be in his horror play.

The second show of our double feature is "The Fred Allen Show".

First up is a visit to Allen's Alley, then Fred goes looking for an apartment and meets Boris Karloff who is looking to rent his house.

Airing November 8th 1945

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (10/13/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 13th 2013

10 - Inferno - Dan Brown
(20 weeks on list)

9  -  The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  Thankless in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  Deadline - Sandra Brown
(Debut)
A journalist who pursues a story about a former marine, the son of terrorists from 40 years ago, becomes a suspect in the death of his ex-wife.

6  -  W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Never Go Back - Lee  Child
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  The Quest - Nelson DeMille
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  The Lowland - Jhumpa Lhairi
(Debut)
After his radical brother is killed, an Indian scientist brings his widow to join him in America.

2  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(2 weeks on list) (last week at #1)

1  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(DEBUT)
Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in "The Shining", helps another threatened child with a spectacular gift.

The Golden Age of Radio - Halloween

This year I am going to do a small tribute to Boris Karloff with several days of old time radio shows with and without Boris Karloff.

Mr. Karloff was very popular on radio as a guest because of his tremendous voice and of course at Halloween he was even more popular with his connection to horror movies.

Today:

Inner Sanctum

"Corridor of Doom"

Tuesday, October 23rd 1945

CBS Radio

Prime Time Network TV - Nielsen Ratings (10/06/2013)

The  Nielsen Top 20 programs in total viewership ratings for prime time network television

Sept 30th to Oct 6th 2013

1 - CBS NFL Football (Broncos/Cowboys)  CBS Sunday 
2 - NCIS   CBS  Tuesday 8pm
3 - The Big Bang Theory  CBS Thursday 8pm
4 - 60 Minutes   CBS Sunday  745pm
5 - NBC Sunday Night Football   NBC Sunday 8pm
6 - NCIS: Los Angeles   CBS  Tuesday 9pm
7 - The Voice   NBC  Tuesday 8pm
8 - The Voice  NBC  Monday 8pm
9 - Sunday Night NFL Pre Kick   NBC  7pm
10 - Dancing With The Stars   ABC  Monday 8pm
11 - The Millers   CBS  Thursday 830pm
12 - Person of Interest   CBS  Tuesday  10pm
13 - The Blacklist   NBC  Monday  10pm
14 - Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D   ABC Tuesday  8pm
15 - Super Fun Night   ABC  Wed  930pm
16 - How I Met Your Mother  CBS  Monday 9pm
17 - Grey's Anatomy   ABC  Thursday 9pm
18 - Sleepy Hollow  FOX  Monday  9pm
19 - Simpsons   FOX  Sunday 8pm
20 - The Crazy Ones   CBS  Thursday  9PM

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Non Fiction (10/06/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending October 6th 2013

10 - Reign of Error - Diane Ravitch
(Debut)
An education scholar denounces what she claims is an effort by foundations, individual billionaires and hedge fund managers to destroy public education.

9  -  Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir - Linda Ronstadt
(Debut)
The singer looks back on her life and career

8  -  Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.
(2 weeks on list)
The eccentric life of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who died at the age of 104 in 2011.

7  -  Grain Brain - David Perlmutter w/Kristin Loberg
(Debut)
The deleterious effect of carbohydrates on the brain and how to reverse it.

6  -  Liberty Amendments - Mark R. Levin 
(6 weeks on list)

5  -  Happy Happy Happy - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(20 weeks on list)

4  -  Zealot - Rezaa Aslan 
(10 weeks on list)

3  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(28 weeks on list)

2  -  Still Foolin' 'Em - Billy Crystal
(2 weeks on list)
The 65 year old comedian's reminiscences and his complaints about aging.

1  -  Si - Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(3 weeks on list)

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Fiction 10/06/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending October 6th 2013

10 - Inferno - Dan Brown
(19 weeks on list)

9  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(10 weeks on list)

8  -  Deadly Heat - Richard Castle
(Debut)
The NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and the journalist James Rook search for the former CIA station chief who ordered her mother's execution.

7  -  The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter
(Debut)
Chief Inspector Nicholas Drummond of Scotland Yard joins FBI Special agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich in a hunt for an international jewel thief.  The first volume in a new series.

6  -  Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
(Debut)
A fraud investigator and Upper West Side mom looks into a suspicious computer security company in 2001.

5  -  Never Go Back - Lee Child
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
(2 weeks on list) (Last week #1)
A homeless man inexplicably leaves $600,000 to Kinsey Millhone.

3  -  Thankless in Death - J.D. Robb
(Debut)
Lt Eve Dallas searches for a young man who murdered his parents.

2  -  The Quest - Nelson DeMille
(Debut)
Two Jouralist join an elderly preist who has recently escaped from an Ethiopian jail in a search for a holy relic.

1  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(DEBUT)
The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly

Billboard Top Ten Songs 10/05/2013

Billboard Hot 100

Top Ten Songs

Week Ending October 5th 2013

1943 World Series - Game 1 (Cardinals vs Yankees)

Our friend Buck Benny has come through again, this time we go back 70 years this month to 1943 and the original radio broadcast of the 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and St Louis Cardinals.

This is game one from Yankees Stadium with your announcers Red Barber and Bob Elson.

Truly a time capsule of America playing sports during wartime and to listen to future Hall of Famers Joe Dimaggio and Stan Musial in action.  This was also the first world series to be filmed for a "highlight reel" to be sent to troops overseas to get a recap of the games back home, a tradition that continues to this day.

October 5th 1943