We're Reading and Writing but no 'Rithmetic

but we've finally been able to get more radio shows on tape/cd from the library. Yesterday we picked up and listed to - The National Lampoon Radio Hour "Best Moments". It wasn't my favorite - by a long shock and I only found a few funny, but I'm hoping this means that the ones I've had on hold are starting to come in.
-Love2Read

This was part of the "Flashback" series and some of the actors/comedians were - Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, John Belushi, Harold Ramis

We scanned two more pictures included in the Jack Benny CD set we listened to a bit ago, but I never uploaded it. So, here they are:

This week we've been really busy. We've accomplished much but haven't found much time for blogging.

We were able to finish up another Radio Show series on CD. This one was Great Detective Radio Shows. I notice they did a lot of liquor and cigarette commercials in those days.

The 6 Classic Radio Programs included on the set we checked out from the library were
1. The Adventures of Sam Spade
2. Boston Blackie
3. Ellery Queen
4. Gangbusters
5. Richard Diamond
6. The Saint

We're currently listening to a new CD (while still reading up a storm). I've said it before but I am really glad my family is reconnecting with books/tapes/cd's this year. We also have two budding writers in the home and I hope to blog about their progress soon.

-Love2Read

Over the weekend we breezed through another CD Collection. I've always heard of the name Jack Benny but I am so glad that I got the chance to listen to his work. I've really enjoyed it. I don't know how much more I'll be able to find via the libraries but I definitely plan to find out.

-ILove2Read

We finished up another another set of Radio Shows on CD. They were pretty good. It was the History of Radio collection of "Great Suspense Radio Shows". There were 3 CDs with each having 2 episodes running about 1/2 hour each - including commercials.

Here are the classic programs we heard with the description from the back of the case

1. "Circumstantial Terror " Ronald Reagan
March 8, 1954: A man witnesses a crime and is ultimately blamed for it (29:27)

2. "Uncle Henry's Rosebush" Agnes Moorehead
June 29, 1943: Uncle Henry is missing (7:40)

3. "The Face is Familiar" Jack Benny
January 18, 1954: A man is tricked into robbing a bank (29:22)

4. "Woman in Red" Hans Conried
April 6, 1944: A murder is planned by a group of spies in Germany during World War II (28:28)

5. "The Name of the Beast" Vincent Price
April 11, 1946: An artist used his art to cover up a murder (28:28)

6. "The Signalman" Agnes Moorehead
March 23, 1953: A railroad station is haunted (28:07)

-Love2Read

A new week and we are starting a new series for our 9 am audiobook hour. We're doing Radio Shows again. The series we chose to start is Great Dectective Radio Shows (part of The Golden Age of Radio Series)

It has 6 classic radio programs about 1/2 hour each so we should finish this by Wednesday at the latest.

The programs covered are
1. The Adventures of Sam Spade "The Hot Hundred Grand Caper" 29:32
2. Boston Blackie "The Star of the Nile" 28:52
3. Ellery Queen "One Diamond" 26:02
4. Gangbusters "The Cincinnati Narcotics Ring" 22:53
5. Richard Diamond "The Gray Man" 28:46
6. The Saint "Dossier on a Doggone Day" 29:17

I like that they include the original radio commercials. They are often my favorites.

-ILove2Read

We're all feeling much better. Well the majority is feeling better. We still have one that seems to have an under the weather day. With that factor and the rain, we're looking at a home day. Luckily library day was yesterday. Two of us went to the huge Central Library yesterday (another made a visit to the Culver City library and the Mar Vista library) so we have lots of audiobooks and books. Looks like it will be a fun day.

What are reading?

Well so far, these are the books that have been cracked open:

Rebirth (Manga) #3

Rebirth (Manga) #4

as far as audiobooks

We just finished up listening to a Radio Program (which we started last night). I love that it includes the original commercials which are pure comedy, although I don't think they meant for it to be that way. It is for a Quaker Oats cereal and they actually have rifle shots in it and say "the only cereal shot from guns". You just know with today's political correctness climate that this commercial would never make it on the air. Anyway, The Radio Show we listened to was THE CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON/SGT. PRESTON OF THE YUKON. The set had 4 episodes on 2 CDs. Not sure what we'll listen to next since we have quite a bit to choose from.

Looks like we'll be finishing up this series tonight or tomorrow. I do wish they would have included some of the older commercials on them. It was nice that the case includes the day it aired (all of them from before I was born).

The programs included on this collection (with air dates) were

The Jack Benny Program 04/14/1946
The Burns & Allen Show 11/08/1945
The Abbot & Costello Show 04/25/1946
The Bickersons 03/30/1947
The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show 06/11/1953
The Life of Riley 11/18/1949
Fibber McGee & molly 02/12/1952
The Great Gildersleeve 10/08/1947
Our Miss Brooks 05/05/1955
The Milton Berle Show 03/30/1948
Duffy's Tavern 01/05/1951
My Favorite Husband 02/24/1951

We picked up these audio cassettes from the library on Saturday. We started it yesterday but have decided to use it for our daily BOT hour. I actually liked the Jack Benny show segment and will see if I can get some more of those. There were 4 cassettes but I'm noticing that the 4th tape belonged to a different set. I'm going to see if we can finish this today so I can take it back to the library tomorrow.

We were also planning on listening to Cell by Stephen King but the track two is jumpy. I'm a bit bummed by that. My high school years were filled with Stephen King and I always look forward to sharing them with my family. I'm hoping we can just clean the CD but I'm not going to count on it

Well we just finished up Volume 7 of these CD. Still taking it easy and slowly but surely feeling better. I hope to check out the other volumes from the library too. I really can't stop recommending the libraries enough. Free Entertainment. There were 10 CDs in the case and they each lasted about 30 minutes (5 tracks each with the 5th track being a advertisement)

The stories in this one:

Disc 1 Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Star: Jason Alexander
Disc 2 The Arrival
Star: Blair Underwood
Disc 3: Queen of the Nile
Star: Kate Jackson
Disc 4: I Dream of Genie
Star: Hal Sparks
Disc 5: It's a Good Life
Star: Mike Starr
Disc 6: The Masks
Star: Stan Freberg
Disc 7: Mr. Bevis
Star: Bruno Kirby
Disc 8: Showdown with Rance McGrew
Star: Chris McDonald
Disc 9: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Star: Bill Erwin
Disc 10: The Old Man in the Cave
Star: Adam Baldwin

Each disc was hosted by Stacy Keach and the cast did a great job bringing the story to life.

We're still continuing with our Left Behind series (liking the new CD player). We've also started listening to the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas. We checked out volume 7 from the Los Angeles Public Library (I could spend hours there). There are 10 CDs in the case

Yesterday we listened to
#1: Five Characters in Search of an Exit (featuring Jason Alexander)
#2: The Arrival (featuring Blair Underwood)
#3: Queen of the Nile (featuring Kate Jackson)

I'm really enjoying them and will try to check out the other volumes as soon as I can)

-Love2Read

Last night after LOST and ELI STONE we chose to do more of the tapes so we listened to #7. With only 10 in the set we're quickly coming to an end.

Tape 7
Stretch Snodgrass' Big Game 30:25
Le Frog 29:53

Well our 2nd CD player only got through track 8 (out of 25) before it decided it would take a rest so we're sticking with the Our Miss Brooks radio shows. We're really enjoying it.

Yesterday we listened to Tape 2. The episodes were

The Workhouse (which I really thought would be Workhorse) 29:20
Babysitting for Three 29:40

Eve Arden is doing a great job. I'm loving the cast and the good, clean, but actually funny -
fun.

-Love2Read (who may have to change to Love2Listen)