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Old Radio Shows For The 21st Century
There was many classic radio shows back in the 1930′s, 40′s and 50′s, many call “The Golden Age of Radio”. There were decent radio classics on every night that you could huddle round the fire to and be thrilled by, Suspense, Escape, Inner Sanctum and The Whilster are just a few of these. It is no surprise that this became known as the Golden Age of Radio.
In the early 1960s these old radio shows as form of entertainment died out completely. It wasn’t a sudden death. It started to die our from the early 1950s and had pretty much gone by the time the last episode of Yours Truly Johnn Dollar was broadcast in 1962.
In the 1970s and early 80s there was a brief renaissance when Himan Brown produced CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which ran from January 6th, 1974 through to December 31st 1982. Since then however radio has not been the same.
There is however one show that did stand out above the others called “Tales from the Morgue”.
This is a tale of short stories told by Chet Chetter who is an elderly morgue attendant and licensed embalmer.
All these stories are all fairly interesting or superstitious. Many of them are SCI-FI or supernatural. You could consider some of them to be a bit outrageous but that is how they were meant to be.
Roughly half of the shows feature a nice, likeable, rural southern manure hauler by the name of Elmer Korn who always finds himself involved in some inane predicament.
The show can be considered as rather off-beat and even the writer admit the stories are humours and there are may recurring characters which listeners enjoy.
This series was created and produced by M&J Audio Theater. The M standing for Mark Sawyer and the J for J Reel.
These are friends who met at school in 1977. X Minus One, Lum and Abner and Gunsmoke are examples of old time radio shows that they both enjoyed and started their interest in radio drama. You can tell that the stories they wrote are heavily influenced by these shows from the plots and the character voices.Thins about the show such as the opening to the show, the host’s humorous manner and the happy endings relate very closely to “The Inner Sanctum” and Himan Brown.
Mark Sawyer and J Reel collaborated on as many as 20 characters in these stories, possibly more. Jay is the voice of Chet Chetter, Elmer Korn, the Sheriff, Roland, and Gale Headrush Taylor. Cecil Farris was played by Mark but its seems he only played the voices of various other incidental characters.
Mark and Jay produced the first Chet Chetter story, “The Highway of Death” in 1989. This was the start of a series of 95 episode recorded between 1980 to 1995. They call it “The Conofrof Saga”.
National Public Radio responded with an order for three more stories when they first submitted “The Highway of Death” which they were surprised by. In 1990 “The Highway of Death” and the other 3 stories broadcast on NPR Playhouse. In 1991 NPR requested 9 more episodes be written of “Tales from The Morgue”. These were to be broadcast as a complete thirteen show series in 1992.
Since this a few production houses have found audiences for their own shows online.
It is strange how things can go full circle. From the days of old time radio shows to the internet today.
In the Golden Age of Radio there was a demand for these hight quality old radio shows and it shows that this is still the case today. The medium has changed in the way we listen to audio but it seems that the actual content hasn’t change as much as some might think.
There are sites that cater for peoples desire to listen to these old time radio shows and radio plays, an example of such a site is www.rusc.com where you can download or stream these radio classics.!
Giuseppe Verdi : Stabat Mater – ClassicalExperience
