PREFACE Background Music
INTRODUCTION Bedtime Stories
1 Radio-Free America
2 Vaudio
3 The Anticomedian
4 Nesting Instincts
5 Treadmill to Posterity
6 Wise Guys Finish First
7 Jokes, Inc.
8 For Your Listening and Dancing
Pleasure
9 The Children's Hour 181
10 Saddle Sore
11 Valued Families
12 No WASPs Need Apply
13 We'll Be Back Right after These
Words
14 A Voice of Another Color
15 Radio Noir—Cops and Grave Robbers
16 Minds over Matter
17 Just Folks
18 The Soap Factory
19 The Royal Family
20 Meet the Press
21 Best Seats in the House
22 Crunch, Creak, Crash, Whoosh, Wham, and
Whoo-oooo
23 The Unseen Audience
24 We're a Little Late, Folks, So Good
Night
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTERVIEWS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PHOTO CREDITS
Gerald Nachman has for thirty-eight years covered theater, movies, cabaret, and television for newspapers and magazines across the country. The author of three previous books, he lives in San Francisco.
"Nachman takes such delight in chronicling the medium's rise and fall that even readers raised away from radio will understand why a whole generation projected their imaginations onto this vast sonic canvas."--"Publishers Weekly"
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