Does anyone else on here under...let's say 60 years old like Abbott and Costello?
- 👍 (under 60) (40%, 25 votes)
- 👍 (60 & older) (22%, 14 votes)
- 👎 (under 60) (21%, 13 votes)
- 👎 (60 & older) (16%, 10 votes)
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Does anyone else on here under...let's say 60 years old like Abbott and Costello?
ErgonWolf
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •I do also quite enjoy Laurel And Hardy, and they are quite different but somehow similar in my mind.
We could have an entire conversation about old time radio people... the theater of the ear, theater of the mind was a big part of my growing up.
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@ErgonWolf I think that I would probably enjoy Laurel And Hardy, too, but Bud Abbott & Lou Costello have a special place in my heart. I had a VHS compilation and some tapes of theirs with tons of their routines on it.
Yes! I've been meaning to pick your brain on that! I picked up a few cassette tapes of the classic back in the day, like the Shadow, and have found some with the internet. Still, I think this is an area that you could school me.
"the theater of the ear, theater of the mind"
I'd love some recs of things to seek out, but I'm also very interested in techniques, styles, etc. from those old time radio shows that we/I could translate to podcasts. There's some things like "Welcome to Night Vale" that have gotten popular, but I think there's untapped potential with creatively using audio.
ErgonWolf
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •I'm sure you know of this already, but creative audio storytelling doesn't get more interesing than H2G2:
archive.org/details/hitchhiker…
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: BBC Radio : BBC Radio 4 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveErgonWolf
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •Also the Star Wars trilogy was adapted by NPR at one point:
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May the fourth be with you - download or listen to the original NPR Star Wars radio plays at the Internet Archive
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in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •Major in the War on Christmas
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •I saw their godawful movies when I was a kid. They were comedy geniuses much earlier in their career - think "Who's on First?" but the 1950s movies were bad.
Now ask me about the Three Stooges. 😉
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to Major in the War on Christmas • • •@AlgoCompSynth lol, I was thinking more about their earlier quick witted routines, like who's on first. They definitely cashed in like all celebrities.
Stooges were also up there in my youth.
I've always been "an old soul" and my uber conservative parents preferred me to watch things in black and white. 😅
ErgonWolf
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •@AlgoCompSynth Check out some random episodes of their radio show to get a better taste of why they were popular before their awful movies:
radioechoes.com/?page=series&g…
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www.radioechoes.comSir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@ErgonWolf
Exactly! There was one bit that rivals "Who's on first" in my memory & I wonder if you remember it. Abbott was a landlord & Costello was paying rent, but Bud does this verbal shell game and gets way more out of him.
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Major in the War on Christmas
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@ErgonWolf I've heard a few of them - I am more into Benny, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen and Fibber McGee and Molly.
And the ultimate radio comic - Stan Freberg.
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to Major in the War on Christmas • • •@AlgoCompSynth Nice! What do you think of Burns and Allen once they switched to tv? I've been enjoying the hell put of these on #NETV
vod.newellijay.tv/w/4Koi6yCwge…
@ErgonWolf
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - S01E04 - Harry Morton's Private Secretary
New Ellijay TVErgonWolf
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •@AlgoCompSynth I think Burns And Allen were really fortunate in that they already had some film experience when they moved to television, so it wasn't a huge leap for them. Also, Gracie worked SO well when you could see her face being vacant while she said her lines, and George's cigar and eyebrows were second only to Groucho's...
Jack Benny also sort of worked well on television, surprisingly.
ErgonWolf
in reply to Major in the War on Christmas • • •@AlgoCompSynth I do admit I'm overly fond of Jack Benny... his cast and writers were easily a step above a lot of other shows. And Fibber's closet will never get sorted out.
I remember listening to new episodes of CBS Mystery Radio Theater up until I was nearly in high school, which was a bit of a trip.
I wish the US were still producing radio plays. I do still listen to The Archers from the BBC from time to time... that's a surreal trip with how the passage of time works on that show.
ErgonWolf
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@AlgoCompSynth Actually, Rochard, you might appreciate listening to The Archers. It was created as an educational vehicle for rural UK farmers but it's also a soap opera but it's also a reflection of modern UK events, and it's general only done for maybe 10 minutes a day.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnkc/…
It's an effective example of how storytelling can be done mostly through script and voice work with minimal investment in a lot of unique sound effects.
BBC Radio 4 - The Archers Omnibus - Downloads
BBCSir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@ErgonWolf Ooh, that definitely sounds like something I should listen to with a ear towards techniques and storytelling methods. Thanks!
@AlgoCompSynth
ErgonWolf
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •@AlgoCompSynth Those Omnibus episodes are a full week's worth of episodes stitched together into a single listening experience. That's what they are listed a week apart.
When I was doing a lot of long distance driving I would download those as part of my podcast listening.
I first started listening to The Archers when I was an exchange student to Hannover in [then West] Germany in the late Eighties. And Hannover was in the zone of Germany that was managed by the British forces, and so I was listening to British Forces Broadcasting Service... BFBS... and they had The Archers on 5 days a week... I was only 18 and it was a tenuous link to home... despite the UK not being my home at all.
Anyway, The Archers... the Omnibus... Go back a few weeks and pick up the story in medias res, and then continue for a while. It can be quite engrossing!
I'll shut up now.
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to ErgonWolf • • •@ErgonWolf I can definitely imagine being homesick in that situation & reaching for anything in english, even if its English. 😅
I fired a random one up amd enjoying it. Its a bit more soap operaish than I usually like but I am enjoying it! I can see me falling asleep to this for a while.
Thanks for the recs as usual!
ErgonWolf
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Virginicus
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to Virginicus • • •@Virginicus 😅 if there's anywhere that has more youngish old souls to commiserate with, its the fediverse.
It actually makes some sense that the people >60 might have only been exposed to their crappy later movies & people discovering them later might've found the earlier good stuff.
What do you think?
Virginicus
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •George Station
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •@Virginicus The movies as a younger kid, then the radio shows as teen & older, and finally the TV show that recycled a lot of the original routines.
The radio episodes were on LP, then cassette, so they got played a lot. I guess they also made it to CD. On Audible now?
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to George Station • • •@harmonygritz @Virginicus
I first encountered them on cassette, but surely they made it to cd, too? A lot of that type of media is archived on archive.org, too. There are some replies with links to different radio shows on there in this thread.
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