The
Sly Crooner, your friend in Swanktown, invites you to listen
to this weekly half hour show of modern urban fairy tales laced
with delicious grooves and cool tunes. Like "
Garrison Keillor for the martini set" with traces of Lord
Buckley, Phil Hendrie and Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins.
(Or put 2 episodes back to back for a one hour show!)
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Here's what people are saying:"Smart,
unique, offbeat" Robin Bertolucci
PD KFI radio "It is really good stuff!"
- Jim Sintetos PD KRML "It's a very cool program,
excellent" John Mangan PD KVTI radio "Your
show is a hit" Jennifer Williams GM KGHR,
"Terrific, I laughed out loud" Chris Erskine
LA Times "Sharp! Witty! Fun!" George
Segal -actor"One of the best, consistently entertaining
podcasts out there" - Stephen Page, Dir. Programming
CBS Streaming Networks - 'Grooving!" - Ray
Jessel, The King of Cabaret "I'm hooked! It's
exotic and lots of fun" Judy Carmichael - Jazz
Inspired "Cool as hell"- John Bourland,
truckdriver, "Fun show" - Jesse Thorn
The Sound of Young America -"It's
lots of fun, you've touched the basics-Lord Buckley, Ken Nordine,
Joe Frank, noir storytelling, Damon Runyon" John
Runnette-We're Rolling Productions "Amazingly creative"
Michelle Phillips-actress- "He's very
in touch with his inner child" Diane, listener
"We love it!" Christopher Insana PD-WRZC
"Stellar" Tamela D'Amico-jazz singer
"I like it! It is totally over the top" Jay
Mitchell-publisher Small Market Radio Newsletter "Flawless
delivery!" Sophia Trone -screenwriter
"Fantastic! Your stories and storytelling are right on"
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show" Tim Glore -TBird's Radio "Geoffrey--am
a big fan...love the imagery, the concept, and particularly
the words and delivery...superlative job!" Barry
Salberg, listener "He's got it by the throat"
- Win Gulden-listener
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to full episodes below: (right click the episode and "Save
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Episode
#69 BENNY AND HIS RED BOXERS: Sly meets a man who pulls himself up by his own BVDs and a l;arge bottle of tequilla
!
Episode
#53 THE CAT WHO SAW AND HEARD: Sly
tells of the legendary cat who could see things and hear things
like no other cat on the planet!
Episode
#52 BULLFIGHTING AND MOTHERHOOD: She's
sharp as a knife and knows how to use one and Sly has to watch
his step to avaoid an ugly slicing incident.
Episode
#47A. DANCING DAN'S CHRISTMAS (PART ONE OF
TWO-half hour): The three wise men of Swanktown, Good Time
Charley, Dancing Dan and Sly Crooner all conspire to spread some
holiday good cheer.
Episode
#47B. DANCING DAN'S CHRISTMAS (PART TWO OF
TWO-half hour): The conclusion of part one above wherein
Sly realizes he may be in way over his head . . . as usual.
Episode
#47C.DANCING DAN'S CHRISTMAS (FULL ONE HOUR): This
Damon Runyon short story fits perfectly into the sweeping swank
saga. Something from the bar?
Episode
#37 TWO CATS: When a couple of bad
omens walk through the door you know it's time to take things
seriously. Sly does just that and the results are mesmerizing.
Episode
#32 MR. LUCKY'S DAD: The mayor of Swanktown
is determined to find his real father.
Episode
#30 NEON LOBSTER: Sly needs some peace
and quiet to think things over and meets a very peculiar customer.
Episode
#27 JUST DESSERTS: Forced to take
the dreaded accordion as a child Sly finds out the instrument
has powers beyond his understanding. So much of life is.
Episode
#25 DR. PECULIAR'S SAD LOVE DANCE:
The Doctor has gicen his heart to a sad beauty. It's up to Sly
to make it all work. Good luck.
Episode
#24 IT'S TEMPTING: Sly goes to sea and
meets some very interesting cats. Remember, she's his mistress
not his wife.
Episode
#18 SLOW KITTY'S RED HOT LOVE AFFAIR: The
ravishing fortune teller at the hotel finds herself making eyes
at Paco but is her own future a bit muddy?
Episode
#14 DO YOU GOT THE FUNK?: A once-in-a-while
peek into the swank mail grab bagto see what the listeners want
to know. Something about being funky.
Episode
#12 BLUE RONDO: Once again Sly has gotten
himself into some very hot water. Can swank save the day?
Episode
#8 THE FLY: The druid sisters Lana
and Lizarda have a problem and his name is Drags. A flash and
trash world tour is called for and finally, guess what? swank
prevails!
Episode
#7 THE ORCHID MYSTERIOSA: Cosmo D.
Gigolo has inherited a rare and grumpy orchid. Will it lead to
eternal happiness for him or the doctor? Stay tuned!
Episode
#5A VALENTINE FOR COSMO: Cosmo D.
Gigolo works very hard selling his flowers in Dreamer's Park but
he has no way of knowing if all his hard work will pay off. At
least he's made some friends along the way and sometimes one good
friend is all you need.
Episode
#4PRETTY GIRLS CHARMING GIRLS; Sly
learns an important lesson on the depth of beauty. Down on his
luck and out of money Sly takes the desperate measure of hocking
his only valuable possession, his saxophone. But the golden instrument
has a rough go of it in thepawn shop. Then, as so often happens
in Swanktown this cloud has a silver lining.
Episode
#1HAUNTED HOTEL; Sloe-eyed lounge singer
SlyCrooner has a new gig at the Alto Nido Hotel singing for his
supper. The gig is in downtown Swanktown at the corner of Easy
Money Street and Looking Good & Feeling Good Too Way. There
he meets up with the dolorous Dr. Peculiar who is nonetheless
something of a style maven who wears nothing but orange clothes.
He also learns of the many ghosts who habituate this swankest
of hotels. The ghosts play a wee poltergeist prank on the good
doctor to ease him out of his funk and it all goes down smooth
as a 12 year old scotch.
