WHAT GOES ON HERE?

THE USUAL DECAYING CITY IS A RADIO SHOW THAT AIRS ON WCSB IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.


IT APPEARS OUT OF THE FOG AND DARKNESS AT 4:00AM AND LASTS UNTIL 7:00AM ON SUNDAY MORNINGS.

IF YOU ARE IN CLEVELAND, YOU CAN LISTEN IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME. IF YOU MAKE THE SCENE IN ANOTHER CITY, YOU CAN LISTEN ON-LINE HERE.


THE SHOW'S CONTENT OCCUPIES THAT OTHERWORLDLY PLACE IN BETWEEN JACKIE GLEASON'S POT DEALER'S COMFY, MOHAIR COUCH AND THE GHOSTLY STATIC AND HISS ON THE SOUNDTRACKS OF POVERTY ROW HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1930's.

I HOPE YOU DIG IT.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The "Graveyard Spooks and Werewolf Jitters" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 10/12/14

Frank Sinatra - Night (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Demons - Firewalk (Evocation)

Walter Schumann (w/Charles Laughton) - Excerpts From The Night Of The Hunter (Part 1)

Voodoo Drums - Meringue With Flute (Voodoo Drums In Hi-Fi)

Burl Ives - I Know An Old Lady (V.A. - Sing Along With Mom And Dad)

Milton Delugg & The Vampires - Four Little Monsters (At The Monster Ball)

Philly Joe Jones Sextet - Blues For Dracula (Blues For Dracula)

Ralph Bell / Robert Dryden / Daniel Ocro - Here We Go (Great Ghost Stories)

Bruno Nicolai - Eyeballs (Eyeball Soundtrack)

Louise Huebner - Orgies: A Tool Of Witchcraft (Seduction Through Witchcraft)

Joe Dodo And The Groovers - Groovy (V.A. - Monster Sounds And Boppin' Tracks - Vol. 1)

John Beal - Main Title (The Funhouse soundtrack)

Michael Vickers - main title (Dracula A.D. 1972)

Goblin - Black Forest / Blind Concert (Suspiria soundtrack)

Jupiter Jones - The Spook Spoke (V.A. - Ghouls with Attitude)

The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra with Ray Noble - The Haunted House (V.A. - The Haunted House)

The Ghouls - Dracula's Theme (Dracula's Duece)

Boris Karloff - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination)

Gene Moss And The Monsters - Drac The Knife (Dracula's Greatest Hits)

Ferlin Husky - Electrified Donkey (Ferlin Husky - Vol. 2)

Esquivel - That Old Black Magic (Other Worlds Other Sounds)

Frankie Stein And the Ghouls - Good Noose (Ghoul Music)

Wild Man Fischer - Disco In Frisco (Nothing Scary)

Jeff Alexander Orchestra - I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Alfred Hitchcock's Music To Be Murdered By)

Vincent Price - Thus I Refute Beelzy (A Hornbook For Witches: Stories And Poems For Halloween)

Sonny Richard's Panics With Cindy and Misty - Voo doo Walk (V.A. - These Ghoulish Things)

Possum - The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati (V.A. - Dr. Demento's Delights)

Goblin - Zombi (Zombi soundtrack)

Pete Rugolo - Twisted Image / Rose's Last Summer (Thriller TV series...soundtrack)

Ronald Stein - Main Title / Sacred Papers (The Devil's Partner...soundtrack)

Gary McFarland - Grave In The Forest (Eye Of The Devil...soundtrack)

Boris Karloff - Never Kick A Black Cat (Tales Of The Frightened - Vol. 2)

Chuck Holden - The Cave (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly: More Horror For Halloween)

Malcolm Williamson - Crescendo (The Hammer Film Music Collection - Volume Two)

Sunday, October 5, 2014

The "Sinister Sounds Of The Season" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 10/5/14

Frank Sinatra - Night (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Giovanni Cristiani - The Nun Crypt (Lucio Fulci's Horror And Thriller: Demonia Soundtrack)

Herschell Gordon Lewis - Official Warning / Tragic Kettledrum / Eye Gouged Out / Legs Cut Off...Blood Feast soundtrack! (The Eye Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis)

Jaime Mendoza-Nava - Excerpts From The Orgy Of The Dead soundtrack

Frankie Stein And His Ghouls - Doomsday (Shock! Terror! Fear!)

Alfred Hitchcock - Johnny Takes a Dare (Ghost Stories For Young People)

Vincent Price - Harp Notes In the Mist (A Graveyard Of Ghost Tales)

Roy Clark - Spooky Movies (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly: More Horror For Halloween)

Grandpa Munster - Grandpa Favorite Recipe (At Home With The Munsters)

Fabio Frizzi - Excerpts from the soundtrack The Beyond

Roky Erickson - Burn The Flames (The Return Of the Living Dead soundtrack)

Dick Jacobs And His Orchestra - Main Title From House Of Frankenstein (Themes From Horror Movies)

Rod Willis - The Cat (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly: More Horror For Halloween)

Anton Lavey - Side One of Satanic Mass

Club Moral - Excerpt From 19 Keys (Enochian) (19 Keys)

Dickie Goodman - Ghoul From Ipanema (The Monster Album)

Spike Jones - I Only Have Eyes For You (Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular In Screaming Sounds)

The Haunting - side 1 (Gayle House Records - Haunted House Sound Effects Record)

Hal Starr - UFO Report - August 1976

Alfred E. Neuman - It's A Gas (Fink Along With Mad)

Hans Conried, Alice Pearce, and The Creatures - Dracula Trot (Monster Rally)

Lenny Bruce - My Werewolf Mama (Warning Lenny Bruce Is OUT Again)

Wade Denning - The Hitchhiker (Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds)

Tristram Cary - Quartermass And The Pit (The Hammer Film Music Collection - Vol. 1)

Monkey's Paw - Thrillers & Chillers...Troll Records...1973

Robbie The Werewolf - Inside Story of Flamenco (At The Waleback)

Roddy McDowall - The Outsider (Roddy McDowall Reads The Horror Stories Of HP Lovecraft)

George Barnes - Spooky (V.A. - Monster Sounds & Boppin' Tracks - Vol. 1)

Saturday, October 4, 2014

The "You've Got Glitter There and There and...Oh Dear Me!" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/28/14

Frank Sinatra - Night (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

The Misunderstood - Golden Glass (Golden Glass plus...)

Matching Mole - Dedicated To Hugh, But You Weren't Listening (S/T)

Snakefinger - The Man In the Dark Sedan (Greener Pastures)

Dub Trio - Lullaby For... (New Heavy)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Sand (Strategies Against Architecture II)

Lee Hazlewood - I'll Live Yesterday (Requiem For An Almost Lady)

Lee Hazlewood And Nancy Sinatra - Paris Summer (The Cowboy & The Ladies)

Pete Seeger - Excerpts From Goofing Off Suite

The Chocolate Watchband - Dark Side Of The Mushroom (No Way Out)

Lightnin' Hopkins - The World's In A Tangle (Strikes Again)

John Holt - Strange Things (V.A. - Solid Gold: Coxsone Style)

Rod McKuen - Another Encore, From Another Man With A Harmonica (V.A. - Martinis, Bikinis & Memories)

C Cat Trance - Theme From The Film The Hawkline Monster (Karadara: The Cream of C Cat Trance)

Peter Walker - Mixture (Second Poem To Karmela or Gypsies Are Important)

Xavier Cugat - Bang Bang (Cugie A-Go-GO)

The Flaming Stars - House Of Dreams (Pathway)

Clay Pitts Orchestra - Caribbean Sunset (Female Animal soundtrack)

Techno Animal - Cyborg Dread Invokes The Phantom Priest (V.A. - Electric Ladyland II)

Lalupe with Tito Puente And His Orchestra - Yesterday (V.A. - Exotic Embers, Forgotten Moons)

The Voices Of Walter Schumann - Regions Of The Other Suns (Exploring The Voices Of...)

Anita O'Day - What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Trav'lin Light)

Denny King - Home Cooking (Evil Wind Is Blowing)

Isolation Ward - Slow (N.T.) (Point Final)

The Holydrug Couple - It's Dawning (Noctuary)

This Empty Flow - Stream (Magenta Skycode)

Tor Lundval - The Shipyard At Night (The Shipyard)

Forseti - Das Abenland (Erde)

Walter Christian Rothe - The Old Castle (Solitude)

Eric Burden & The Animals - The Black Plague (Winds Of Change)

Eddie Jefferson - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Body And Soul)

Elmer Bernstein - In Seattle (McQ soundtrack)

Ennio Morricone - Summer Solitude (The Endless Game soundtrack)

Frank Barclay And His Paradise Orchestra And Chorus - Quiet Village (Adventures In Paradise)

Leonard Cohen - Stranger Song (Field Commander Cohen: Tour 1979)

Frank Hunter - Ritual Of The Torch (White Goddess)

John Patton - Spirit (Boogaloo)

Lonnie Smith - Seven Steps To Heaven (Live At Club Mozambique)

Thursday, September 25, 2014

The "Slush Fund! More Like a LUSH fund!!" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/21/14

Frank Sinatra - Night (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Roy Budd - Get Carter (Rebirth Of the Budd)

Henry Mancini - Main Title (Touch Of Evil soundtrack)

Judith Tripp - Li Sun (V.A. - I Am The Cosmos: Private Issue New Age Music, 1950-1990)

Coil - Blood From The Air (Horse Rotorvator)

Tom Dissevelt And Kid Baltan - Orbit Aurora / Twilight Ozone (Song Of the Second Moon)

Brother Theodore - Introduction And Berenice (Theodore In Stereo)

James Moody - Summertime (Hey! It's James Moody)

Don Morrow - Like Rumpelstiltskin (Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales)

The Latin All Stars - Rapture (Jazz Heat Bongo Beat)

Duane Eddy - Not The Lovin' Kind (Duane Plays Dylan)

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Strangers Lovers, Friends (Nancy & Lee 3)

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Non-Stop Erotic Dancing)

Frank Comstock - Galaxy / Out Of Space (Music From Outer Space)

The Unseen - Opening Theme (Eerie Meadow) (The Goatman Original Soundtrack)... Dig The Unseen HERE

Art Van Damme - Voodoo Doll (V.A. - Swing For A Crime)

Bob Mersey - Jazz Dramatique (V.A. - It's Like...Murder)

Roy Glenn - Big High Song For Somebody (Philip Whalen) (V.A. Jazz Canto: An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz)

Russ Garcia And His Orchestra - Moon Rise (Fantastica)

International Studio Orchestra - Tuxedo (Assignment: London)

Reg Tinsley - Spooky Jazz (V.A. - Inside The Crime Story)

E. Werner - Crime Jazz Guitar (V.A. - Inside The Crime Story)

Leda Annest w/ The Phil Moore Orchestra - Part 2 (Portrait Of Leda)

Vladimir Cosma - Antocorps / Transmutation (Insolite And Co.)

The Fugs - Carpe Diem (Electromagnet Steamboat)

Mose Allison - If You're Going To The City (The Mose Allison Anthology)

Dudley Moore - Moon Time (Bedazzled soundtrack)

Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra - Starlight (Countdown)

Hugo Montenegro - Yale's Pool Room (Lady In Cement soundtrack)

Frank Sinatra - Some Traveling Music ( (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Irving Joseph - Crime Wave (Murder, Inc.)

Marty Manning And His Orchestra - Night On Bald Mountain (Twilight Zone)

Camille Sauvage - Ectoplasm (Fantasmagories)

Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Star Eyes (Moon Gas)

Shirley Horn - Blue City (V.A. - Mid Century Minx)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/ Kenyon Hopkins) - Spellbound (Shock)

Del Close And John Brent - The Riff (How To Speak Hip)

The Musical Intimidators - Marijuana Version (V.A. - Trojan Dub Rarities Box Set)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/ Kenyon Hopkins) - A Shot In The Dark (Panic, The Son Of Shock)

Boris Karloff - The Fortune Teller (Tales Of the Frightened - Vol. 1)

Friday, September 19, 2014

The "I Got Down With My Bad Self And That Ass Hit On My Wife" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/14/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Rhythm & Noise (with Ricky Williams) - Without Your Eyes (Chasm's Accord)

African Head Charge - Far Away Chant (My Life In the Hole in the Ground)

Between Interval - Entropy (Secret Observatory)

Mammal - Lower Depths (Lonesome Drifter)

Lustmord - Boneing Of Men (A Document of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experiments)

Lustmord - Protoplasmic Reversion (The Monstrous Soul)

The Walker Brothers - The Electrician (Nite Flights)

Material - Process/Motion (Temporary Music 1979-1981)

Luxuria - Redneck (Unanswerable Lust)

Luxuria - Stupid Blood (Beast Box)

Tom Waits - Closing Time (Closing Time)

KAK - Trieulogy (S/T)

The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Occult Roots (Ekranoplan)

Helios Creed - Modular Green (Lactating Purple)

Steel Pole Bathtub - Black Eye Fixer (Unlistenable)

The Mark Of Cain - Summertime (Battlesick)

23 Skidoo - IV (Seven Songs)

Rudimentary Peni - Cosmic Hearse (Death Church)

The Marketts - Out Of Limits (Out Of Limits)

The Renderers - Forbidden Planet (That Dog's Head In the Gutter Gives Of Vibrations)

Nikki Sudden - Death Is Hanging Over Me (Texas)

The Mirrors - I've Been Down (Hands In My Pockets)

Le-Sun Ra & His Arkistra - Medicine For A Nightmare (The Singles)

Michael Rother - Fontana di Luna (Sterntaler)

Marilyn Maxwell - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (V.A. - Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

Tee & Cara - Nothing To You (As They Are)

Russ Garcia - Blue, Blue, Blue (Sounds In the Night)

Quarteto Em Cy - Vida Ruim (Aleluia 1964-66)

Babs Gonzales - You've Changed (Voila)

Kenyon Hopkins - Desire (Rooms)

Lola Albright - Sorta Blue (Dreamsville)

Martin Denny - Island Of Dreams (Exotica II)

Ahmad Jamal And His Orchestra - Sugar Loaf at Twilight (Macanudo)

Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People (Scott 2)

Sammy Davis, Jr. - Take My Hand (Lounge Legends)

The Mike Sammes Singers (W/ The Ted Taylor Organsound) - O Worship The King (Hymns A' Swinging)

Tuli Kupferberg - The Art Scene (No Deposit, No Return)

Sammy Davis, Jr. (W/ Dean Martin) - Ain't That A Kick In the Head (Sammy & Friends)

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The "Zarathustra Just Yacks And Yacks" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/7/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Embryo - Dirge (Rocksession)

Cabaret Voltaire - In The Shadows (The Crackdown)

Reptilicus - DDD From Nowhere (Temperature Of Blood)

LSD And The Search For God - Starting Over (S/T)

Sufi - Lover (Life Rising)

Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens (Egyptian Candy: A Collection)

Things To Come - Darkness (I Want Out)

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Memory Of Pain (S/T)

The Blackeyed Susans - This One Eats Souls (All Souls Alive)

Billy Strange - Stranger In Your Town (Strange Country)

David Whittaker Orchestra - Interception (V.A. - The Thriller Memorandum)

Terminal Cheesecake - Neu Seeland (Pearlesque Kings Of The Jewmost)

Alice Cooper - Return Of The Spiders (Easy Action)

Shockabilly - Purple Haze (The Ghost Of Shockabilly)

H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness (II)

Penthouse - Nighthreat (Unt)

The Names - Nightshift (Swimming + Singles)

Big Black - Steelworker (Lungs EP)

The Residents - The Booker Tease (Duck Stab EP)

Tall Dwarfs - Nothings Going To Happen (Hello Cruel World)

Oliver Sain - Just A Lonely Man (St. Louis Breakdown: The Best Of...)

OP8 - Leather (Slush)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Sad Waters (Your Funeral...My Trial)

The Wipers - The Chill Remains (Follow Blind)

Black Seas Of infinity - Vortex Of Awakening (Within Daathian Chasms)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/Kenyon Hopkins) - Chamber Of Horrors (Nightmare!!)

Boris Karloff - Nightmare (Tales Of The Frightened Vol. 2)

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - You Don't Know What Love Is (Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!)

Fred Katz - Pluck It (The Music Of...)

Tamba Trio - Rio (Avanco)

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Frankfort Side Street (Alia Pink Puzz)

Lee Hazlewood And Nancy Sinatra - Summer Wine (Lounge Legends)

Burt Bacharach - selections from the After The Fox soundtrack

Mr. Ho's Orchestronica - The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (The Unforgettable Sound Of...)

Ray Martin - International Golf: Red Carpet Ride (Favourite TV Themes Vol. 2)

The Moonflowers - Future Alien (Colours And Sounds)

Segue - Vapour Trails (Pacifica)

Sunday, August 31, 2014

The "Mr. Pennywhistle Dreamed A Sad Dream" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/31/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Chris & Cosey (with Robert Wyatt) - Unmasked (Core: A Conspiracy International Project)

Chris & Cosey - Night Shift (Collectiv 4)

Psychic TV - In The Nursery (Dreams Less Sweet)

Pram - Serpentine (Sargasso Sea)

The Soft Machine - Memories (S/T (Demos))

Epic Soundtracks - Black Hole / Roll The Stone (Good Things)

Clock DVA - Pool Of Shades (Sign)

Peter Green, Mick Green And The Enemy Within - Chinese White Boy Blues (Two Greens Make A Blues)

Tangerine Dream - Main Titles (Sorcerer soundtrack)

Hawkwind - Reefer Madness (Live 1976) (Welcome To The Future)

The Satyrswitch - Angel of Wolves (The High Lonesome Sound Of...)

Banana Moon - All I Want Is Out Of Here (V.A. - The BYG Deal)

Night Sounds - Allergic To Heat (Allergic Yo Heat)

Melvin Jackson - Funky Doo (Funky Skull)

Love - Signed D.C. (Out There)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Lament (The Good Son)

Franck Pourcel - Make It Easy On Yourself (Dancing In The Sun)

Kid Congo Powers - La Historia De Un Amour (Solo Cholo)

Don Tracy - Jungle Flute (Voodoo)

Los Straightjackets - Dreamland (Supersonic Guitars in 3-D)

Ken Nordine - Silly Ideas I Used To Have (You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters)

Tony Mottola - Peligro Bossa Nova (Danger)(Sounds Mexico)

Ernestine Anderson with Dick Marx Quintet - Limehouse Blues (V.A. - Percussion For Playboys)

Ace Cannon - Sunday Blues (The Hi Years)

Laurie Johnson - Pagan Love Song (...You're Needed!)

Felt - Rain Of Crystal Spires (Bubblegum Perfume)

John Buzon Trio - Blues In My Heart (Inferno!)

Henry Mancini - The Blues (The Blues And the Beat)

The Deadly Ones - Moonlight Surfer (It's Monster Surfing Time)

Ixtahuele - Rarohengan Dance (Pagan Rites)

The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampires (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly: More For Halloween)

Arson Gedik & Christian Bonneau - Ritual Cult (Dreams & Nightmares)

Lalo Schifrin - Miss Smith's Apartment (Source 1) (Pretty Maids All In a Row soundtrack)

Elmer Bernstein - Telephone Man Blues (Rat Race soundtrack)

Fred Myrow And Malcolm Seagrave - Intro & Main Titles (Phantasm soundtrack)

Jonathon Winters - excerpts from the LP Movies Are Better Than Ever

Gene Rains - Harbor Lights (Far Away Lands: The Exotic Music of Gene Rains)

Permisfans - Canoa (Quinta Dimensione - ESP Music)

Al Anthony - Ebb Tide (Swingin' In Hi Fi)