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

The story you were 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 another midweek bonus comedy episode of Down These Mean Streets. I've really liked sharing these old-time

radio comedies with you over the past few months and I'm especially excited for

today's show. We'll be listening to what is without a doubt my favorite

old time radio comedy series. It came to the air in the twilight of the Golden Age of

Radio and it ran for only 15 episodes, but it

contained some of the sharpest most satirical comedy the medium ever produced.

The best part is much of it still holds up today.

It's the Stan Freiburg show and it brought the unique wit and style of humorous Stan Freiburg to 30 minutes of network

radio every week.

Now I could spend an hour just recounting the life and career of Stan Freiburg.

His work spanned from the early days of television through parody albums of the 50s and 60s

to innovations in advertising with his own ad agency.

But we'll focus today on the mid 1950s when Freiburg had a string of successes with capital records with parodies of popular hits like Harry

Bellifanti's Banana Boat song and sketches like the Dragnet Spoof, St George and the Dragonette.

The spot-on send-up of Jack Webb's Detective Series was performed with Webb's blessing

and the use of the signature dragnet theme.

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