Just in time for Halloween is this scratchy old recording of Orson Wells and the actors of the Mercury Theater performing Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Originally broadcast on July 11th, 1938, the show features Mr. Wells directing as well as playing the parts of Dr. Seward and Dracula. This particular recording comes from an album put [...]
It is getting to be that time of year again and I can tell by looking at my access logs that many of you are coming here looking for the old ‘Sounds to Make You Shiver’ lp that was produced by the Pickwick record label. Traditionally we have hosted the album here at the Orphanage [...]
Submitted for your listening pleasure are the comedy and musical styings of impressionist, comedian, singer, and song parodist Nip Nelson. I have little information on Mr. Nelson. He seems to have been an active entertainer in the middle of the last century. He appeared on the television program ‘Toast of the Town’ (a.k.a. The Ed [...]
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