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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.

When it came to the 1960s these old radio shows died out completely. It didn’t disappear all of a sudden. It was more a slow, but inevitable decline that lasted from the early 1950s through to 1962 when the last episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was broadcast.

Between 1974 and 1982 CBS Radio Mystery Theatre ran which marked a brief come back for classic radio shows. Since then however radio has not been the same.

One series that has bucked the trend is “Tales from the Morgue”

This is a show where an elderly morgue attendant sells a series of short stories.

These stories always seem to be strange. Many of these stories are sci-fi or supernatural. They border on outrageous but that is how they are 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.

Off-beat the show may be but it is humeral and this is what listeners are looking for.

This series was created and produced by M&J Audio Theater. The M stands for Mark Sawyer and the J is for Jay Reel.

Mark and Jay are childhood friends who met in the sixth-grade 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.

Between the two of them, Mark and Jay collaborated on over twenty characters in these stories. Jay is the main voice and did the voice of Chet Chetter, Elmer Korn. The Sheriff Roland and Hale Headrush Tayor. Mark only admits to being the voice of Cecil Farris and various incidental characters.

Mark and Jay produced the first Chet Chetter story, “The Highway of Death” in 1989. Between 1980 to 1995 95 episodes were recorded. They call it “The Conofrof Saga”.

They submitted “The Highway of Death” to National Public Radio and were amazed when NPR responded with an order for three more stories. The four episodes were accepted and broadcast on NPR Playhouse in 1990. These shows went down so well that NPR requested 9 more episodes be written for the following year! These were to be broadcast as a complete thirteen show series in 1992.

Since then a number of small production houses have sprung-up and are now finding an audience for their own spoken word audio recordings on the Internet.

It is strange how things can go full circle. From the Golden Age of Radio to these stories being available online today.

It just goes to show that there’s still a demand for high quality old radio shows, just like there was over half a century ago. 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.

Today these old time radio shows are available to stream or download on websites such as www.rusc.com.!
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