This afternoon the Quiet Please episode "Good Ghost" was heard and it was really good. REALLY good!
The opening line was one of the best grabbers I've ever heard, right up there with top literature. And the story went along a course so unexpected and original that nothing dull had time to happen... it was 100% interesting every second, and got so hilareous at times that America could probably be heard laughing back in the days when this aired on the network.
It would be a spoiler to quote the great opening line, but I will give away the fact that in the afterlife there's a very lengthy staircase, but I can't reveal what's at the top.
Opening lines are a whole department in the appreciation of good literature. A famous one is from the Tale of Two Cities... "It was the best of times it was the worst of times."
One of my favorite opening lines is from The Trial by Franz Kafka... ""Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning."
But what I need now is a closing line.
Coming up at 6 PM CDT Quiet Please episode "The Thing On the Fourble Board."
Really looking forward to it. I'll let you know.
Go with Rich Powers on his recommendations for Quiet Please episodes worth hearing.
His second suggestion is "The Thing on the Fourble Board" which just aired here on my private radio station.
The story right away draws the listener in with an excellent tour of a drilling rig, how it works, what parts are named, all on the site of an active rig.
When the end comes it's the one and only zinger in the whole show, perfectly led up to throughout the story.
I didn't hear it coming. Wow!
I just heard my third one, the Quiet Please episode "One For the Book," which again had a story I couldn't turn off and some lines that were very LOL.
Rich Powers got me into this.
Just a few days ago I was normal, did regular things.
But look at me now, desperate to hear another Quiet Please.
So keep it down.
That was the first episode I listened to.. It's rather twisted isnt it?
Add to the suggestions: Adam and the Darkest Day, Oldest Man in the World, Most Uniportant Person, Beezers Celler.. There are others I like a lot, but you might not be able to tolerate the terrible audio conditions of sevral of them...
Which by the way...
If I can round up 25 buyers, the FGRA (radioarchives.com) has agreed to release the 3 year restoration attempt of the series they did in 2006 from early generation reeled tapes, which they spent $10 to $15 thousand on.. The results did not meet their high standards to market it, but it's the best quality versions ever available anywhere, and summersaults above anything you hear on the internet.
They had to do it from the tapes, because the original disc are locked away in Paley Museum, otherwise it would have been as pristine as all their other offerings.
I bugged the hell out of Tom (I forget his last name at the moment, but he's the head of First Generation Radio Archives) to sell me a set, but he said he's not going to put it into production for one person, but if I generated at least 25 buyers, he would produce a run.. Complete details on my website.
I just need to find 24 people who want the set as bad as I do.. Not sure how to go about that, so I'm building the website, and now I'm telling you guys.. Soon my site will be done, and then I'll try some radio orientated facebook pages, and HB, and OTR forums, and anywhere else where interest might be generated.
Sorry to have took this thread off-course, hope my post isn't considered inappropriate. Just hoping to find some fans.
"Quiet, Please... A new-type psychological drama with the listening audience slated to become part of the program."
Rich Powers I find your petition to obtain a quality set of Quiet Pleases very appropriate to the cause of excellent radio, befitting your calling as a member of the ALPB.
Once I go over and study the investment needed to join in I may enlist, given only the obstacle that...
With the house sagging from record and tape collections I placed a ban on any further collecting. I'll need to give myself a waiver.
Anyway, what you are doing is wonderful and if anyone disagrees they will look bad.
Today's schedule on Worldround Radio is running a half-hour late because I needed to hear Quiet Please very first episode... "Nothing Behind the Door."
You'll never see doorways with the same expectations after hearing this show.
ALSO fun was downloading every version available on line, AND THEN holding an Equalizer Workshop to see if I could do a notch better.
The next episode on the list is "Cornelia."
I knew a Kornelia years ago, maybe she even spelled her name with a "C," although I remember "K." She moved right near the location of the doorway in today's episode, and I haven't heard from her since.
Yesterday I was unable to listen to "Cornelia" because both versions I've downloaded suffer from muffled garbly sound and seem unimprovable.
Moving on to "Pavanne" the copy seemed alright but the actress who played the part of a young girl didn't speak clearly enough to follow, and I sometimes wondered what whe was saying. I'll try again on a quiet night, please.
Tonight the Quiet Please episode will be "Rain On New Years Eve."
Thank you Rich Powers for not remaining quiet about these great shows.
Cornelia is a rough one, if you haven't already try the one on my site, as for Pavane, I remember that as having pretty pretty clear audio, maybe I'm mistaken. But that is the biggest problem with Quiet Please, so many of the episodes suffer noise and mud, which is why I've been trying to get the Radio Archive version.
Try taking a stroll down my log and note the far left row where I've provided a quick description on the audio quality of each episode (of the ones I've heard so far), 1 star is worst, 5 stars is the best.. I think I'll also make a page listing them in catagories by audio quality, best to worst.
Buying from a dealer provides much better quality than anything you can listen to on the 32bit mp3 internet versions (Beleive me!)
Anyone have good copies of Chicken Man, circa 1968 or thereabouts. I found quite a few episodes but the very low bit rate MP3's sound too swishy.
Chicken man is a new one to me, but evidentlly is was a popular one.. I didn't see any earlier than 1977, but sampled a few from http://98.130.146.204/chickenman/chickenman.html there's supposed to be some of the earlier ones mixed in there according to what's written on the back of one of the lp album covers.
Downloaded a couple and they were 128bit files and sounded vibrant...
Thats a fun nutty sounding show!
Fantastic find Rich! Thanks, I'm running Chicken man on the LPFM.
A gentleman named David Gleason started that site. I believe he is the one that still maintains it.