This is a marvelous snapshot of a time and the people who lived back then. Bob was a top rated radio host years before he did Hogan's Heroes. Interesting to hear from Rod on the T/L Zone while it was actually in production and how it was being received. Just the byplay between them talking about the great actor Olan Soule and other topics of that time were worth a listen. Many thx!
This is taken from my master copy I uploaded years ago on Trader's Den or somewhere. I can tell due to the edits. This was recorded by Gene Strassel off the air as it was going out to his recorder, likely at KMLA's studios. I just transferred the tape again with slightly more cleanup. There are others.
Hi Randy, Thank you so much for your comment. Really interesting information. I would absolutely love to hear the other recordings you have of Bob Crane's KNX show and share them here. Most happy to give credit where credit is due. Feel free to contact me here: vote4bobcrane.blogspot.com/p/contact.html and from there, it will switch to email. Thank you! -Carol
@@vote4bobcrane This sounds, due to the fidelity, like it was recorded off of KNX-FM. KMLA, for those who don't know, was an FM station at 100.3 mHz. I think KMLA was one of the first FM stations in LA to broadcast in stereo. Gene Strassel worked there for a time.
Hogan's Heroes was legitimately one of network TV's best creations. Colonel Klink perfected the art of cringe comedy almost 50 years before it even became a coined term
Without Bob their would have never been a Stern or a Dahl or many others Steve Dahl worshiped Bob Crane. Because of Steve I learned about Crane as a radio personality. He use to play small clips sometimes. Talk about Bob's imagination, precision and ability to create magic using one's mind.
So nice that they were playing Ramsey Lewis Trio at the start of the show. I grew up with that album in my home. I still listen to it. Its a wonder RU-vid didn’t bust them. 😂
I found it quite interesting that, at the 30:14 time mark, Bob Crane basically pitched the idea for the Twilight Zone episode "Four O'Clock" which aired four months later in April 1962. Even the reference to not liking short people. It sure seems like Serling may have pieced together that script based largely on Crane's riffing the concept!
I remember listening to this with my grandchildren when it first aired. I called him to tell him Serling was going to be a guest in ten minutes and he drove right over to my place a few blocks away. We listened on my old crystal console radio. It's a fun memory.
Rod hated hogans heroes because it portrayed nazis as harmless, cute, bumbling fools, which is anything but what they were: monsters of efficient, ordered cruelty.
My grandfather fought the Nazis and HH was his favorite show. Many other WW2 vets have said the same. There's something to be said about turning your enemies into objects of ridicule to, in some way, rob them of their power. As the saying goes, if you want to know who's in charge in a dysfunctional society, look at who you're not permitted to laugh at. I love Rod, but I think he was wrong about that one.
@@peteg475 The 2 creators and the actors who portrayed the 4 main antagonists were all Jewish men who fought in some way for the Allies. Robert Clary is a holocaust survivor.
@@shannonlucas2980 Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) only agreed to do the show if he was promised the Nazis would be shown as bumblers and would never be allowed to "win" at the end of an episode.
@@peteg475 - I agree. HH mocking the Nazis like they did was epic, and the cast, led by Crane as Hogan, was hilarious. The Three Stooges mocked them hilariously as well in a couple of their films, with Moe as a Hitler parody. lol
@@MisterMasterShafter1 And the Three Stooges did it first, as well, despite all the hype that Charlie Chaplin's "Great Dictator" got, which I found to be inordinately dry and overdone, not to mention naieve as far as his plea at the end for "peace and unity."
Ramsey Louis was about as cool as they came. Bob Crane would have been a good player for Twilight Zone. He was in at least one Episode on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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