Today we feature a podcast from the golden days of...well, not exactly the golden days--more like the waning days of radio. In mid-1958, comedian and advertising genius Stan Freberg--who pioneered the funny commercial, among other things--decided to try to give radio a new lease on life. Televisions had, for a number of years, been infiltrating middle-class households, but Freberg was betting that the American public would grow weary of putting their imaginations on hold for a half-hour at a time, and that radio was bound to make a comeback once they did.
He was wrong. He could not get a consistent sponsor for the show, and so a show that would have been hugely popular five or ten years earlier dried up after about 15 episodes. Paste the following link in your browser, and a nice young man will talk to you for a minute, and then the cast will appear to be over. Just grab the little progress slider and carefully pull it back to as close to 00:00 as you can (carefully, we said!). Then you'll get about 30 minutes of a great idea that showed up a little late.
http://www.mediafly.com/Podcasts/Episodes/The_Stan_Freberg_Show_Musical_Sheep_7141957
And thanks to the good people at www.mediafly.com for helping me find it in the first place.
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