Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
Here's the only other episode in my collection of "Boulevard of Make Believe", a syndicated serial drama about Hollywood stars featuring Anna Q. Nelson and Viola Dana. In program 12, Wally talks to the police about how he might be mixed up in the kidnapping of his wife.

The end theme plays through and we hear a male vocalist crooning the lyrics to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - he sounds a bit like Bing Crosby. Anyone have an idea who it might be? It wasn't uncommon for these early 30s syndicated shows to use cues from commercial records, so it might be from a commercially released 78.
Dave Goldin, by the way, lists program 1 in the series in his database, a show which
ran in my blog a few months ago. He conjectures that one of the performers playing a Mexican sounds like Bela Lugosi. What do you think?
The show was digitized direct from an original shellac Radio Release Productions transcription disc, matrix number A-1055. Radio Release Productions, you might recall, also produced the "
Police Reporter" series I ran on the blog awhile back.
I wish I could run into the full run of the series, which I'm guessing was just 13 or 26 episodes - this sounds like a fun serial.
My special thanks to the
Old Time Radio Researchers Group for adding this disc to my collection!
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