Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon returns Wednesday, March 15 at 1 PM ET. Only on Boss Radio 66.
Update: Date change to Tuesday, March 21, at 1 PM.
Category: Radio
March Madness
While others may be betting on college basketball this month, I’ll be donating to my favorite Internet radio stations. One of them is Debbie Daughtry’s Boss Radio 66.
Debbie says Tom Hanks will be back on Wednesday March 15, with more of his Songs from the Back of the Station Wagon.
Hitch’s Guilt Complex
Something I featured recently deserves to be mentioned more on Turner Classic Movies — Old Time Radio shows that were adapted from movies of the time.
In 1950, Alfred Hitchcock introduced a radio play of his 1944 film Spellbound. The Theramin sound gets to be a bit much, but it’s an interesting adaptation. Five years later, the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents began its long run.
For now, there is a complete copy of Spellbound available on YouTube. The movie includes the famous dream sequence that was created in collaboration with Salvador Dali. In the finished film it was directed not by Hitch, however, but by William Cameron Menzies, who has been the subject of some recent posts.
https://youtu.be/lNThFiBh7Ck
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol14_2018_king
On a related note, Donald Spoto died a couple of weeks ago. I read Spoto’s Hitchcock biography, The Dark Side of Genius, as soon as it came out in paperback, 39 years ago. I remember reading it on airplanes and in hotels while traveling on business. I was halfway through the book when I accidentally left it in the seatback pocket of a plane while in a rush to catch a connecting flight. Realizing my mistake, I had just enough time to buy another copy at an airport bookstore to continue my reading on the next flight. That copy I didn’t lose.
To me, Spoto’s take on Hitch smacked of him having a thesis that was more like an agenda, and force-fitting some facts to back it up. I had a similar reaction to David Michaelis’ biography of Charles Schulz.
Listener’s Digest: Casablanca
Casablanca in less than 25 minutes, as presented on The Screen Guild Theater, CBS Radio, April 26, 1943.
The Day the Music Arrived
When the Beatles were close to landing in New York, 59 years ago today, DJ Bob “Bob-a-Loo” Lewis was on 77 Musicradio WABC.
App Hazard
Another First World Retired Guy complaint. Everybody who has more than one Internet device knows that online services have different options, depending on the application playing them. For example, SiriusXM on a Web browser isn’t that same as on Roku, and the Roku app has a “view all segments” option I haven’t noticed before when playing a podcast.
It’s called a segment but also called a chapter, which shows a lack of consistency. Worse, when using the segment feature it’s easy to lock up the app. This is my big complaint about new features. They are often added at the expense of stability and, worse, security. “Let the users be the beta testers” has become standard in the industry.
Oh, well. Back to the Web browser. It’s proven itself to be solid and reliable…
… and it works with Chromecast.
