Hi everyone, new here. I was wondering if anyone knew an old Christmas sketch, singer goes to producer wanting to record new Christmas song. The producer completely commercializes it and singer leaves crying. Producer version is hey nanny nanny don’t you frown, I got your goat in Allentown. It is definitely not from Green Christmas. I would love help with this, been 40 years since I heard it! I desperately try to find it every year... my family thinks I am nuts!

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It was in a montage of Christmas sketches... Green Christmas was one of them, this was mixed in after. It only is maybe 5 - 10 minutes long. The whole thing takes place at the producers office. The singer (a man) wants to record a christmas song... The character keeps trying to sing the song, but keeps getting interrupted by the producer for changes to make it more commercial, etc. There is a part where he says na na na na and the producer says something along the lines of "You added a character!" and the singer says "Huh?" and the producer say "A nanny goat!". Then, the musician finally gives up and leaves crying after the producer suggests "hey nanny nanny don’t you frown, I got your goat in Allentown". I do remember that the singer sings a part about "in Bethlehem" and the producer doesn't know where Bethlehem is, so he changes it to Allentown.

Its about this man the walks into a bar or something alike and meets this man where this particular man is able to give money to the amount of years the man has to live for. The catch was that he is not able to know how many years he has to live. The man begins to live an extravegant life. He eventually starts to run low. Towards the end of the episode, the man makes a deal where in order to stay alive, he has to kill people (sell his soul) in order to gain the amount of years they have left to live to exchange for his. I see that this is a big community considered people have an interest in this old time radio shows

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Fascinatiing piece on how radioo propaganda was used by both sides during the war. https://www.beachesofnormandy.com/articles/Preaching_to_the_Other_Choir/?id=ff006cbe31&utm_source=Beaches+of+Normandy+Tours&utm_campaign=dd09f0f5af-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_8_2023_12_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c789992310-dd09f0f5af-404975571

I wait with anticipation for his Skeletor-esque laugh.

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Hello,

I'm looking for live Halloween Special of old time radio.

Specifically maybe smaller local news radio stations going out on the streets interviewing people, playing Halloween themed music, talking about Halloween, etc...

Does anything like this exist?

Pass it on!

But I do remember the plot, somewhat vaguely... it's told in flashback, about a "great white hunter" type who kills? or otherwise gravely sins against? an african prince or priest, and is thus cursed, and has been trying to flee the magic - i have a feeling that he ends up dead in a rundown hotel in an english port? Does this sound familiar to anyone else at all? Thanks!

Help me old time radio fans, you're my only hope! I used to listen to all sorts of radio broadcasts as a kid on WAMU. Now I've been trying to recollect some episodes so that I can expose some of my friends to it in time for Halloween.

This episode is a short story about a script writer who got his dream job: working under a infamous director of some weekly detective story (forgot if it was for television or radio). The job ended up being very stressful since he couldn't satisfy the perfectionist director with his ideas. At one point, he had this ingenious idea of having the murder weapon be some poison that was hidden in envelope adhesive, but the director rejected it despite the writer's enthusiasm. The job was so taxing that his girlfriend/wife left him, which I believe ended up being the breaking point for the writer. So while they were on set about to broadcast an episode, the scriptwriter gave the director some gum, which he had hidden the same poison from his pitched idea from earlier. As the director laid dying and everyone else was in a panic, the script writer leered over him about how he concocted the perfect murder weapon. I don't remember exactly how it ended, but the writer never got caught.

There are definitely other ones I can pull up but this story I remember in particular. I got Three Skeleton Keys (Suspense) and Mars is Heaven (X Minus One). If you can't tell me where this story came from, can you send me another good story my way?

EDIT: TY all for the suggestions but the answer was Mysterious Traveler - Murder is My Business thanks to sarcasm-o-rama!

EDIT 2: Even though it wasn't the episode I was asking about, A Murderous Revision was an *excellent* listen!

The story was about a school teacher in a small town who gets a new pupil who loves poetry and literature, and seems to have been quite sheltered up to this point. She (the student) lives out in the boonies, and he (the teacher) goes to her house to talk to her parents.>!He finds out they're monsters (maybe vampires) and I don't think he survives.!<

There was a ilne repeated in the episode that was something to the effect of she's "an odd girl". Her name was something like Nola or Nora, so it would have been like "Nora is an odd girl".

Ring any bells?

I used to LOVE listening to episodes when I learned about the series through the magic of late 90s file sharing and felt like a kid in a candy store when I found a new one. Now, in 2024, I think they’re very cringy and I can’t make it through five minutes of an episode.

By contrast, I can still listen to The Shadow, Suspense, The Whistler and many other programs decades its senior and enjoy them just as much as I did the first time I heard them. Does anyone else feel the same?

I remember one or two episodes where the villain tries to bribe Johnny Dollar and then Johnny beats him up.

Does anybody remember what episode or episodes I'm thinking of?

Long before Bob Bailey was cast as the third--and most famous--"Johnny Dollar", he did a short stint as a freelance all-around guy(almost "Richard Diamond"-ish?) in the San Francisco Bay area for Standard Oil/Chevron on the Mutual-Don Lee series "Let George Do It"...

If it were brought to TV(NOT any streaming service or cable TV), who would play him, and who played his secretary???...