"The Black Cat" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - April 1, 1974

A hasty marriage for wealth is rued by a man who finds both his wife and her cat repulsive. He is slowly convinced by the cat that he will kill his wife.

"Boarding House Double-Cross" - Rocky Fortune - March 30, 1954

Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953. The series ended its run in March 1954 after 25 episodes. The program was created by George Lefferts. Frank Sinatra voiced the title role of Rocky Fortune for the entire series.

"The Unearthly Gift" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - March 28, 1974

A modest lumberjack camp cook has the gift of clairvoyance, but her visions don't always predict nice things. After a particularly nasty vision involving a newcomer at the camp, she decides to interfere with fate to forestall a death.

Jazz, Big Band, and Swing Sunday - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra

00:00:00 Stardust (1942)

00:03:22 Moonglow (1941)

00:06:32 Nightmare (1937)

00:08:57 Blues (1936)

00:11:27 Scuttlebutt (1946)

00:14:34 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1941)

00:17:41 La Paloma (1940)

00:20:46 A Room With A View (1939)

00:24:10 Blues In The Night (1941)

00:27:19 A Foggy Day (1945)

00:30:28 Ziguener (1943)

00:39:52 Rosalie (1938)

00:42:30 Temptation (1940)

00:45:27 The Man I Love (1939)

00:48:32 Cream Puff (1937)

00:51:18 I Can't Get Started (1946)

00:54:35 My Heart Stood Still (1939)

00:57:16 What Is There To Say (1940)

01:00:20 Frenesi (1940)

01:03:24 Oh, Lady Be Good (1939)

"It's Simply Murder" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - March 27, 1974

A hen-pecked wimp fantasizes about running away from his despotic wife. Unwittingly, one weekend he gets wound up in a plot to murder her, participate in a bank robbery and get away with a woman he falls for.

"Death by Whose Hands" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - March 26, 1974

Set nearly a hundred years back, this story is about a prosthetic surgeon's transplant of the hand of a prodigious musician to his competitor with disastrous repercussions.

"The Diary of a Madman" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - March 25, 1974

This namesake of the famous Nikolai Gogol story deals with the confession of a magistrate to multiple arbitrary homicides.

"Rocket Racket" - Rocky Fortune - March 23, 1954

Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953. The series ended its run in March 1954 after 25 episodes. The program was created by George Lefferts. Frank Sinatra voiced the title role of Rocky Fortune for the entire series.

"Ordeal by Fire" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - March 21, 1974

A millionaire and his daughter are subjected to third degree burns when they refuse to pay a million dollars to a man with a mysterious control over elemental fire. The daughter asks her beau to aid her father who has become paranoid about security and changed their home to a fortress.

Today is the 107th birthday of the musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe. More than forty years after her death, she is finally getting the recognition she deserves and I cannot help but believe it took that long because she was a queer black woman pioneer in a white cisgender male industry. She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards. The world is a better place because she was in it and still feels the loss that she has left.

Songs:

This Train (live 1964)

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