Downtown with Rich Kimball

Discussion of a number of rare live rock and roll tapes: the newly discovered recording of Led Zeppelin in Odense in May 1971, the Animals in Paris at Christmastime 1964, Bob Dylan in Philadelphia in October 1964, the Rolling Stones in Baltimore in November 1969, and a freshly unearthed Who show from the Fillmore West 8/15/68

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Some talk about publishing and then a boatload of blues: Otis Spann personifying, Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell Street, Geeshie Wiley, Albert Collins at Stax, Tommy Johnson

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Film talk: Stan Brakhage's Stellar, a TV adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher, the 1974 TV movie, Killdozer, and the 1941 Republic serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel

Downtown with Rich Kimball

A range of films: The Suspect, Laurel and Hardy's Busy Bodies, The Wild North, an animated version of A Study in Scarlet, Meshes of the Afternoon

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale, Orson Welles and Les Miserables, the first live performance of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, a new archival Jimi Hendrix release, Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity, and John Keats’ “What the Thrush Said."

Downtown with Rich Kimball

The book-in-progress Giving You Everything: A Hard Day's Night and the Artistic Zenith of the Beatles and the 585-minute session that produced the Beatles' first album 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Billie Holiday in January 1957, Orson Welles as the Shadow, the Byrds on Swedish radio in 1967, a 1981 radio production of Star Wars and its connection to American Graffiti, Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes in "The Engineer's Thumb"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Talking about the subject of writing, E.M. Delafield, and Shirley Jackson

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Buster Keaton, an M.R. James mockumentary, the 1949 film, The Window, hockey, baseball, Guns N' Roses live in 1992

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Sam Cooke's "Good Times," a Suspense adaptation with Ronald Coleman of Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, William Conrad gets punchdrunk on Night Beat, a bootleg of an early Rolling Stones show from Paris in 1965, and Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party in January 1969

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Little Eva's 1962 song "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and the Beatles' January 1963 cover; James Stewart and Elmer Fudd; an episode of Night Beat called, "I Wish You Were Dead"; an Oasis radio session from December 1994; push-ups; how the world wants to give you stories; the difference between jealousy and envy; a 1988 short film adaptation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Donna Reed and James Stewart return to It's a Wonderful Life in the spring of 1947, the Beatles' 1965 Christmas disc, The Wizard of Oz, the best radio version of A Christmas Carol, the Super Deluxe Edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a JazzTimes Christmas feature on Louis Armstrong

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Christmas episodes of the radio programs Father Knows Best ("A Hans Christian Andersen Christmas"), Night Beat ("Five Days Off for Christmas"), and Suspense ("The Signal-Man" with Agnes Moorehead);  Frank Cowper's 1859 ghost story, "Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk"; Dean Martin's 1959 LP, A Winter Romance

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Rod Serling's Carol for Another Christmas, "The Missing Mouse Matter" from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, an extremely rare mid-1960s recording of the Who doing "Jingle Bells," some 1966 TV Christmas animation from R.O. Blechman, and Patrcia M. Scarry's enchanting 1970 children's book, The Sweet Smell of Christmas

Downtown with Rich Kimball

A full half hour on 1964's Rankin/Bass classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Downtown with Rich Kimball

A Suspense Christmas episode with Peter Lorre, V-discs of Christmas carols, a Christmas report from London under siege in 1940, a radio adaptation of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," and 1942's This Gun for Hire

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Shaker music, the hot start of the Boston Bruins, the "Kitty Caught" Gunsmoke radio episode, the 1972 animated special, The Thanksgiving that Almost Wasn't, the passing of Jules Bass

Downtown with Rich Kimball

On bullying, A Certain Ratio's "Winter Hill," an early 1970s adapation of Frankenstein from Spoken Arts, the "Shall We Gather at the River?" episode of Newhart, a video of pitching legend Walter Johnson, and the long lost "The Ride Back" radio episode of Gunsmoke

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Talking a lot of jazz and recent jazz pieces pertaining to Freddie Hubbard, Bud Powell, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre production of "Dracula," 1941's The Wolf Man, the Grateful Dead on Halloween in 1971, a perverse episode called "Weekend Vacation" of the short-lived, virtually unknown radio program, Darkness, and Mary Howitt's 1829 poem, "The Spider and the Fly" 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

The baseball playoff structure, Bessie Smith's "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," Columbia Workshop's "A Story in Dogtown Commons," Suspense's "The Most Dangerous Game" with Orson Welles, an animated adaptation of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleep Hollow" that is not the 1949 Disney version 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field, the BBC's "The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula," Columbia Workshop's "Carmilla," the Who in Chicago on 8/24/71, and Bob Dylan in Oslo on 9/25/22 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Aaron Judge and the single-season home run record, a piece in The Smart Set on the Three Investigators YA mystery series, The Hall of Fantasy episode, "He Who Follows Me," "The House on Lost Man's Bluff" from The Hermit's Cave, "Evening Primrose" from Escape, Miles Davis's "Autumn Leaves"

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Charlie Parker's "Autumn in New York," the recently reissued soundtrack to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, "Song of the Witches" from Macbeth, Ray Harryhausen's The Story of Hansel and Gretel from 1951, the love and utility of a good cup of hot chocolate 

Downtown with Rich Kimball

Maury Wills, Carlton Fisk's rookie year of 1972, the fun and exploside Milwaukeee Brewers of 1982, the Rolling Stones' Philadlephia Special bootleg from 1972, Boris Karloff in the Inner Sanctum radio episode of "The Tell-tale Heart"