Rocky Jordan

Today's mail brought a small shipment of old time radio on MP3 discs from OTRland. After supper I sat down to sample one of my favorite shows, Rocky Jordan. This show came rather late in the period when you could hear drama and comedy and westerns and mysteries on your radio every evening. Rocky owned the Cafe Tambourine in Cairo. His nemesis was Captain Sam Sabaaya of the Cairo Police. Rocky was played by Jack Moyles and Captain Sam Sabaaya was played by Jay Novello. The episode I listened to was "The Man in the Morgue" in which Rocky reads his own obituary in the newspaper. Come to find out the body was somewhat of a look-alike but had Rocky's papers on it. The person was a investigative reporter (they didn't call them that in those days) who was uncovering a plot to smuggle aliens to the U.S. with stolen identification papers. A good show with a comedy sidebar, so to speak, in the character of Moonlight Bey, a young Egyptian musician who is enamored with jazz and and knows all the cool phrases from that period. 42 episodes of this show are available. You can own them all for only $3.00.I'll put in a plug for this outfit. The sound of these discs is pretty clear. The catalog on the internet is pretty extensive. If you own a MP3 player or a DVD player that will play these discs you might enjoy trying some old shows. I play mine on a RioVolt (similar to a Discman). I don't know whether he has cleaned up the programs or not, but they are much cleaner than many of the shows that I previously collected on casette tape.