Episode 108 - Stan the Man (CBS Radio Workshop & Suspense)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In honor of the late Stan Freberg, "Down These Mean Streets" presents a bonus episode showcasing some of the radio work of this legendary comedian. First, he presents "An Analysis of Satire" – featuring several of his signature routines – on The CBS Radio Workshop (originally aired on August 31, 1956). Then, Freberg takes a dramatic starring turn in "Alibi Me" from Suspense (an Armed Forces Radio Service rebroadcast of an episode from April 20, 1958).
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| 0:00.0 | The When Stan Freiburg passed away last week, a common theme in the tributes and obituaries was that he was a legend. |
| 0:30.0 | In a time when that word gets thrown around, Devil May Care, it's rare to find someone truly |
| 0:36.0 | deserving of the word, and few were more deserving than Freiburg. |
| 0:41.3 | In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Stan Freiburg made his mark in comedy, |
| 0:47.0 | animation, and advertising. He was one of the pivotal influential figures in American comedy of the 20th century, and today |
| 0:56.5 | were saluting him with some of his performances from the golden age of radio. |
| 1:01.6 | Radio was a natural forum for Freiburt, given his early days as an animation voice actor, |
| 1:07.4 | and from his wildly popular comedy records from Capitol. |
| 1:11.7 | Those albums featured a series of satirical skits that remain popular to this day. |
| 1:17.0 | Life could be a dream. |
| 1:21.0 | Life could be a dream. All right, hold it, hold it, you guys. |
| 1:24.0 | It's a rhythm and blues number. |
| 1:25.0 | You gotta be careful or somebody liable to understand what you're singing about. |
| 1:28.0 | You want that to happen? |
| 1:30.0 | No. Well, then you got talk unintelligible like me, right, Stella? |
| 1:33.2 | You said it! |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, now you guys want to sell a few records? |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.5 | Well, then stick some old rags in your mouth and take it again from the top, okay? |
| 1:40.5 | Okay? |
| 1:41.5 | Okay? Okay? Okay. Okay? Okay. I don't understand the words now, real mumbling, |
| 1:44.0 | uh, life could be a dream. |
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