Of course I can run an elevator
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content: May 13, 2020
I was softly clanging around on the MIDI keyboard the other night and came up with a couple of melodies. I couldn’t really find any words to go with them so I decided to look up what was in the public domain.
Old time spoken word radio has always plucked my heart strings and I came across Lights Out, an old 1930s program. The Sub-Basement episode caught my ear so I chopped up the couple's underground struggle and mixed their real story in with my keyboard melodies.
Related links:
- archive.org/.../Lights_Out_43-08-24_047_Sub-Basement_Going_Down.mp3
- oldtimeradiomagic.com/4.html
- en.wikipedia.org/.../Lights_Out_(radio_show)
- en.wikipedia.org/.../Chicago_Tunnel_Company
From the wikipedia:
Oboler met the demand by adopting an unusual scripting procedure: He would lie in bed at night, smoke cigarettes, and improvise into a Dictaphone, acting out every line of the play. In this way, he was able to complete a script quickly, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes, though he might take as long as three or four hours. In the morning, a stenographer would type up the recording for Oboler's revisions.
I tell ya, dictation is the way to go for capturing one’s thoughts.
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tcr!
· May 14, 2020 at 9:18 am
The guy that wrote/performed the show was Arch Oboler. Laying in bed, smoking cigs, and writing Lights Out radio in his head. I can relate 😊
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jimi hindrance experience
· May 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm
No, serious, it didn’t look like coffee and I wondered if you drank cherry cokes or something.
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tcr!
· May 14, 2020 at 4:37 pm
Oh… I thought you were talking about something in the audio. It’s just iced tea with sugar and spoon.
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threecrates
· May 14, 2020 at 12:11 pm
Incredible! I love stuff like this. Perhaps we shall record something together someday.✌🏻❤️
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tcr!
· May 14, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Send me some audio files (mp3s, wavs) and I’ll mix something up. It’ll be a covid quarantine collaboration! 🎼
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