Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to this week's Bonus Comedy episode of Down These Mean Streets and

another chapter in our salute to the African American Stars of the Golden Age of Radio.

This week we're shining the spotlight on Eddie Green, an actor who may be best known to old-time radio fans for his work as Eddie the Waiter on Duffy's Tavern.

But before he starred as a sly foil to Ed Gardner's Archie, Green was a busy and successful

entertainer on the stage and screen.

Green starred on Broadway, he wrote and directed feature films, and he was a songwriter.

Among his compositions was A Good Man is Hard to Find, a 20s Blues Standard memorably recorded by several artists, including Bessie Smith. My heart is sad and I'm all alone.

My man treats me me.

I regret the day that I was born and that man I ever see my happiness is less today my heart is

from the heart is from the same.

My heart is from. That's why I say.

Oh, a good man is hard to find

you always get another kind.

Yeah, so when you think that he and your path you look and find him fooling around some old gare then you're On radio Eddie Green was heard on several shows hosted by Rudy Valley, including the Fleischman's Yeast Hour.

Valley, the singer, musician, and radio host took notice of Green from his film work and encouraged the actor to try his hand at radio.

Green was also heard on the Jack Benny program and on Louis Armstrong's 1937 Radio Variety Series.

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