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 down these mean streets where today Old Blue Eyes is back.

We'll hear Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in three episodes of his old time radio detective

show.

Premering in 1953 during a downturn in Sinatra's career,

the single season show came to an end

just as the singer's future brightened with a new recording contract and an

Academy Award. Now Sinatra was no stranger to radio. He had several shows of his

own where he sang popular hits of the day, and he was a guest of comedians like Fred Allen, Jack Benny, and George Burns and Gracie Allen.

He even made a rare turn as a villain in an episode of suspense.

But Rocky Fortune was his only regular dramatic role in a show that was created especially for Sinatra by radio writers Ernest Kanoy and George Lefferts.

The two men were some of the minds behind the outstanding Radio Sci-Fi anthology Dimension Dimension X and they wrote almost every episode of

Rocky Fortune's short run. Sinatra starred as Rocky an amiable guy who bounced from job to job and never failed to find himself in trouble.

No matter what he did, he could be a tour guide, a messenger, a short order cook, he would stumble into a

plot and soon be neck deep in danger. There was usually a beautiful girl in the

mix to keep Rocky from high tailing it out of whatever jam he found himself in and he would do his best to talk his way out of trouble with an easy going cool that sounded perfectly natural coming from Sinatra.

Now old time radio fans seem to be split on the series

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