All
American Old Time Radio Show Classic
The Damon Runyon
Theatre MP3 CD
For a small taste of this
great series,
listen to the preview below.
This show comes on CD In MP3
Format
The
Damon Runyon Theater
dramatized
52 of
Runyon's short
stories for radio.
The radio show series was syndicated across the USA beginning in
early 1949.
Produced by
Mayfair Productions for syndication to local radio stations, John
Brown played "Broadway," who served as host and narrator.
Damon Runyon was a
newspaperman and writer.
His stories were humorous
ones. He
was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of
Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To
New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a
distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The
adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as
to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun
humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of
whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such
as "Nathan Detroit," "Benny Southstreet," "Big Jule," "Harry the
Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen
Kid." Runyon wrote these stories in a distinctive vernacular style:
a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in
present tense, and always devoid of contraction.
His
most famous collection of short stories, Guys and Dolls, was on
Broadway and later made into a movie. Many of his stories were
filmed such as: Sorrowful Jones, A Pocketful of Miracles, Lady for a
Day, Blue Plate Special, The Lemon Drop Kid and Little Miss Marker.
The Damon Runyon Theater was also syndicated for television in the
mid 1950s.
So sit back and enjoy the
short
stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew
out of the Prohibition era. Humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers,
actors, and gangsters. There
are over 51 episodes and better then 25 hours of wonderful
"Runyonesque" type
of characters as well as situations and dialog, that can only be
found in The Damon
Runyon Theater.
Your CD contains the following great shows.
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