YTJD 1955-10-03 ep233 The McCormack Matter

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Michael Degen

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@scottross9628 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making these available, Michael. I love the five-part Johnny Dollars.

@michaeldegen3850 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. They are some of the best radio shows ever made. and unlike other shows I have loaded, we have every single multi-part show ever made by CBS, although some are missing 1 episode

@scottross9628 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldegen3850 I had heard *of* the show but had never heard an episode until a couple of years ago. I quickly got hooked. These are definitely among the finest radio detective shows ever broadcast, and possibly the best of all in the serial format.

@vincentsartain3061 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Michael Dengen, for eliminating the repeat theme music that was originally tacked on to each "five acts" episode, saving it for each final act at episode's end.

@michaeldegen3850 3 жыл бұрын

you're welcome. I get rid of all redundancy, commercials, promos, etc. to make the listening more enjoyable

@vincentsartain3061 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldegen3850 The theme music is splendid, yes, but it's only an approximately 30 seconds long loop that's repeated three or four times in the closing of each of the five acts; and it does get old to keep having to hear it when you're listening to all five acts of each episode in one sitting. Excising the vintage commercials was also a very good move; even the best and most entertaining old radio ads start getting tiresome after you've heard the same ones more than a couple of times. Best of all, Michael, you've cut to the chase and have allowed Johnny Dollar aficiandos to visit yesteryear without all the audio clutter. Thanks, again!

@johnnybaker3751 2 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you very much

@jeremyladebauche1632 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this, I’m 36 now and I been listening to this show since I used to listen to the old KNX 1070AM radio station when they used to have a drama hour at night. I also listen to this on Radio Classics XM radio

@MichaelMcKenna-w7l Ай бұрын

You’d love cbs radio mystery theater 1974 - 1983

@davidriddell9455 3 жыл бұрын

Just Super Cool! These are really neat, thanks!

@michaeldegen3850 3 жыл бұрын

you're welcome. over 500 Johnny Dollar episodes to choose from

@vincentsartain3061 3 жыл бұрын

(Addendum, 12/16/21) As of the last few weeks, I've heard all of the Johnny Dollar episodes from the Charles Russell run through Bob Bailey's tenure; and the following is copied and pasted from something I'd written and posted elsewhere: I must be prejudiced or something, because my first exposures to YTJD were the 5 part serials starring Bob Bailey, via When Radio Was, and I became immediately convinced that NO ONE could top this guy, not Charles Russell, not Edmond O'Brien, nor John Lund nor the two subsequent actors who took up the Johnny Dollar mantle after Bailey's departure from the series. And based on having since heard hundreds of non-Bailey episodes, my "prejudice" has proven to be justifiable as far as I'm concerned! Charles Russell did well enough with the kind of material he was given, but his Johnny Dollar was just too glib for my liking; Russell's tenure followed the mold set by the pilot episode featuring Dick Powell's take on the character -- and Powell's Johnny Dollar struck me as an extension of the serio-comic bearing he'd given to his title roles in Rogue's Gallery and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Edmond O'Brien's Johnny swung in the opposite direction from Russell's, being essentially humorless and rather bulldogish. (About the closest thing to "humor" I could ever see in the O'Brien take was when, in his early episodes, he'd come to the conclusions of his expense account reports and sign off with his trademark "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" closing salutation, with a sheepish yet coy accent on the word "Truly," as Powell and Russell before him had done.) John Lund was equally humorless in his take on Johnny Dollar, and not quite as accomplished an actor as O'Brien -- in fact, with maybe a dozen or so exceptions from Lund's stint, I'd deem his performances a bit on the wooden side; though, again, both he and O'Brien did make numerous solid performances as "The Man with the Action-packed Expense Account." And now we come to Bob Bailey, whose interpretation and tenure as Johnny owed much to Bailey himself, but no less so than to writer-director-producer Jack Johnstone who helmed production from Bailey's run through the end of the series with Mandel Kramer in the title role. Bailey's Johnny just seemed much more human and relatable than the "Johnnys" that Russell, O'Brien, and Lund had given us. But then again, Bob's predecessors didn't have Johnstone's powerful influence, hence my reluctance to speak too unfavorably of the takes done by the those who preceded Bailey. And still I say that Bob Bailey was THE definitive, THE greatest of all the Johnny Dollars; it's sorta analogous to how the several actors who played James Bond are usually ranked by 007 fans, with Sean Connery virtually always coming out on top of the list. But gosh darn it, Bob just made you believe he WAS Johnny Dollar and not just an actor PLAYING Johnny Dollar!

@shilohbrutalis582 2 жыл бұрын

Well said

@johnnybaker3751 2 жыл бұрын

Bailey was the best by a long shot. I won’t even waste my time with non Bailey YTJD episodes. Thanks for your eloquent post, you have done a great job with your research and your knowledge of the series is impressive to say the least. Keep OTR alive and I’m sure you will.

@NickDBaker Жыл бұрын

I think Bailey’s personal struggles with substance use disorder echoed Johnny’s

@bzxd5z Жыл бұрын

😊

@vincentsartain3061 3 жыл бұрын

I've heard quite a few of oldtime radio's detective shows, some of them very good and others, "NOT all that and a bag of chips"; but I consider "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" ("starring Bob Bailey") head and shoulders above the rest of the "sleuthing" shows!

@DS-MartianManhunter Жыл бұрын

47:37 Coupe said as ku-pay haha, subtle differences in dialect in the generational time gap. They always fascinate me 😊

@allenwatkins4972 Жыл бұрын

Well, that's how you say it. A "coop" is where chickens live. What is a "generational time gap??"

@DS-MartianManhunter Жыл бұрын

@Allen Watkins the time difference between our generations. Also, you're probably from elsewhere as we don't pronounce coupe as 'ku-pay' where I'm from.

@heyoldman2003 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what the Incidentals are . Coffee and cigarettes 🤷🏼‍♂️

@audioinsanity 2 жыл бұрын

and hookers.

@scamlikelyusa 2 жыл бұрын

and Chivas Regal.

@Coinhunter-km4qo Жыл бұрын

For those who like to research supporting cast, those mentioned in the closing credits are Mary Croft, Virginia Gregg, Marvin Miller, Forrest Lewis, Frank Gerstle, Herb Butterfield, Herb Ellis. Tony Barrett, Ken Christy, Jack Kruschen and Junius Matthews.

@vincentsartain3061 3 жыл бұрын

I'm only two episodes away from listening to the final two episodes in the Bob Bailey run that ended in November 1960. But I've also paid attention to the show's announcers. Roy Rowan announced nearly all of the 5-parters but only a few of the later half hour episodes. I think Rowan was the best of the show's announcers, but the announcer for the final 30 minute Bailey episodes comes close. What was his name?

@michaeldegen3850 3 жыл бұрын

Vincent, I check the last 10 episodes of Johnny Dollar, the originals files before I edited them. The announcer did not get credited. Many of these episodes come from the Armed Forces Radio Network, so they were already edited 60- years ago before I ever got them. So I cannot answer your question

@shilohbrutalis582 2 жыл бұрын

That's what's great about OTR fans. Everybody gets dialed into certain aspects and as soon as they express that in the public forum, the rest of us suddenly have a new "obsession". Always heard Roy Rowan, always that he did it. Now I know different. Salute