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Dustbin of History!

Thu, Jun 12, 2025 12:00 AM

ORSON WELLES-HEART OF DARKNESS, CREEPS, JEAN SHEPHERD

This Wednesday overnight, June 11 into 12 from 12 to 2 am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, we have the final episode (we mean it this time!) of THIS IS MY BEST with Orson Welles, a tale of Voodoo on CREEPS BY NIGHT, and another lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from June 15, 1970 "Asst, Uncle Carl, Newsreel Schtick.” The program is heard on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.


THIS IS MY BEST from CBS on March 13, 1945 #27 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad for Cresta Blanca. A trip up an African river...into the heart of darkness! An excellent use of radio. Producer, host and performer Orson Welles, adapted by Robert Tallman, music by Bernard Katz, announcer John McIntire.


CREEPS BY NIGHT from the Blue network on May 16, 1944 #13 "The Walking Dead" hosted by "Dr. X." A visit to Haiti and a romp with the zombies. Ed Begley, Jackson Beck, George Gans, Juano Hernandez, Mary Patton, Robert Maxwell, music composed by Paul Creston, conducted by Joseph Stopak.

Sly and the Family Stone Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Sunday, August 17, 1969. “I Want to Take You Higher”

A lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-NY on Monday June 15, 1970

"Asst, Uncle Carl, Newsreel Schtick” from the Gelber Collection.

Eng: Marty
Baird Scientific Study - Thesis missing, taken to the city dump.

Wouldn't you like to live in a commercial??

Shep mentioned in an ad for... he won't say!

Ad: Movie - A Walk in the Spring Rain

City Employee refuses to stop work after being fired.

Mayor Lindsay goes to the airport to go to a conference, but bumped for non-payment.

Shep gets his hair styled at Antoine's

Ad: Year One

Shep's Uncle Carl, the experimental drunk.

Shep's newsreel with G Grubbage.

The language of movie music.


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