A holiday treat has been listening to some old time radio (OTR) shows on Youtube. I have been tracking down episodes of a fun, highly melodramatic 1946 anthology series, MURDER AT MIDNIGHT. Just now I found an episode on this fan's Youtube series, and I was very surprised when he included the original DS theme in his opening music--perhaps as a feature of the "thriller" genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cIqjuWun9UThe person is right here in Mass.--I guess he is also a DS fan. Listening to these shows really makes me feel that there is a kind of influence on the original DS from old time radio, especially the suspense, mystery, and horror shows.
We've discussed at great length the influences from classic horror films of the 1930s and 1940s, but I don't know whether others have ever paid any attention to the potential influence from radio. A number of the DS players were practiced veterans of the radio of the 1940s and 1950s.
G.
