Starter of this subject: Warren Jones
Last post in this subject: 8/5/2000
Messages in this subject: 2
| Warren Jones | 8/5/2000 2 replies |
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It's easy to lose your way when websurfing, so I don't remember where I was when I came across a site that provided a place to vote for favorite OTR categories. Anyway, I was looking at the "horror" category when I saw it. I saw the program that I have wondered about for 55 years: "Birdsong for a murderer." This has to be the program where Boris Karloff played the part of a homicidal murder who could only be kept from murdering by the sound of his pet canaries. Naturally, I voted for it. I heard this program in 1945, when I was seven years old. Since then, I've thought about it on many occasions, but I had no idea of how to find it even though I remembered "Inner Sanctum" and Boris Karloff. Today, I found the program, and today is when my purchase order will go out. After all it's not every day that you find something you've been looking for for 55 years. Thanks to that website, I also learned something about my life. My family moved around quite a bit when I was young, and I was never sure where that little trailer fit into my life. Now I know that I lived there just before moving to Willowbrook, where I remember hearing -over the radio- about the surrender of Germany.
Sorry to go on for so long, but what may be boring to you is fascinating to me. Regards, Warren Jones |
| Jim Stokes | 8/6/2000 1 replies |
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Warren -- Good for you! I discover facets of OTR also on these chat boards. And congrats to another 1938 model person for making it through life thus far. The earliest scary radio show I recall was The House of Mystery. I'd be afraid to go down in our dark basement from hearing that show!
Jim Stokes |
| Nate Williams | 8/6/2000 0 replies |
| The Inner Sanctum programs were the absolute scariest but my folks wouldn't let me listen to them. Maybe they thought I'd have bad dreams. I do remember laying in my bed on the second floor (not dangling any limb over the edge in case something was under the bed) and straining to hear the radio playing downstairs in the living room. Funny thing though, I'd usually fall asleep before hearing much of those great programs that were not meant for kiddies ears. Suspense programs that were well calculated to keep you in such a state were secondmost. Remember those rats making their way up the lighthouse? Man that stuff could still give you the willies today. Could you imagine such parential censorship nowdays?? |