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.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The "I Thought I Saw a Zombie" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/20/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

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

Les Baxter - Excerpts From The Soundtrack to Black Sunday

Walter Schumann (w/Charles Laughton) - The Night of the Hunter Conclusion (Text by the amazing Davis Grubb)  

Excerpts From At Home With the Munsters


Les Baxter - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe

Billy Childish - Living In A Grave (I Am The Billy Childish)

Marty Manning and his Orchestra - Twilight Zone / Forbidden Planet (The Twilight Zone)

Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra - The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Annabel Lee / The Golden Bug / A Descent Into the Maelstrom / The Bells (Poe For Moderns)

Paul Hecht - The Cradle That Rocked Itself  (Selections From "The Haunted House And Other Spooky Poems And Tales")

"The Mysterious Shipwreck" From the LP Great Ghost Stories

Bessie Smith - The Devil is Going to Get You (V.A. - The Haunted House)

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

Lenny Bruce - Werewolf Mama

Alessandro Alessandroni - The Devil's Nightmare (The Devil's Nightmare Sndtrk)

Don Hinson And the Rigamorticians- Robbin' Graves (Monster Dance Party)

Jerry Wald - The Creeper (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin' Tracks - Vol. 2)

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

Ennio Morricone - Assassinio Sul Lago (Il Serpente)

Zen Fuller - Doomsday (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin' Tracks - Vol. 2)

Vic Mizzy - The Night Walker / Prologue (The Night Walker Sndtrk)   

Martha Wentworth - "Terror Tales By the Old Sea Hag"  The Entire LP!

Gerald Fried - The Sound of Night (female vocals) (Extra Track on the CD re-ish of the soundtracks to The Cabinet of Caligari / Mark of the Vampire)

Les Baxter - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to Cry Of the Banshee


Sunday, October 13, 2013

The "More Terror Less Talk" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/13/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Laurie Johnson - Theme From Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (The Hammer Film Collection Volume 1)

Ronald Stein (w/ Lon Chaney, Jr.) - Song From Spider Baby (Not Of This Earth: The Film Music of Ronald Stein)

Robbie (Robison) The Werewolf - Count Dracula (Robbie The Werewolf at the Waleback)  

Count Chocula, Frankenberry and Booberry - Monster Adventures in Space

Richard Taylor - The Tell-Tale Heart (Nightmare)

The Monkey's Paw from the LP Thrillers and Chillers

Michael Small - excerpts from the soundtrack to Audrey Rose

Bruno Nicolai - Excerpts from the film Eyeball  

Louise Huebner - The Isis Full Moon Ring For Magical Protection (Seduction Through Witchcraft)

Milton Delugg and the Vampires - Igor - The Vampires (At the Monsters Ball)

The MSR Singers - Monster Man (Ghouls With Attitude)

The Entire Famous Monsters Speak LP...voices by Gabriel Dell - written by Cherney Berg

Frankie Stein And his Ghouls - Who's Afraid of Weerdo Wolf (Shock! Terror! Fear!)

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

Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash (V.A. - These Ghoulish Things: Horror Hits For Halloween)

Vincent Price - The Smoker (Tales Of Witches, Ghosts, And Goblins)

Les Baxter - Beastly Transformation (The Beast Within Sndtrk)

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids - Excerpts from Halloween - part 1 (Halloween)

Gershon Kingsley & Peter Waldron - excerpts from side one of Ghostly Sounds 

John Beal - After Hours / Midnight Mayhem (Funhouse Sndtrk)    

Martha Wentworth - Mice From Outer Space (Terror Tale By the Old Sea Hag)    ‎

"The Guitar Player" from the LP Great Ghost Stories

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


Sunday, October 6, 2013

The "Halloween-Themed Thing" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/6/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Camille Suavage - Magma / Vivisection / Ectoplasm / Enferrissimo (Fantasmagories)

Gallon Drunk - Night Tide (You, The Night...And the Music)   

Chrome - Into The Eyes of the Zombie King (Into The Eyes of the Zombie King)

Vladimir Cosma - Transmutations / Obsexion / Cristallisation (Insolite And Co.)

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

Fernando Garcia Morcillo - Howling Of the Devil (The PAUL NASCHY Soundtrack Collection Volume 1: Howling of the Devil)

Les Baxter - Black Mass / Sacrfice of the Virgins (The Dunwich Horror Sndtrk))    

Ennio Morricone - Coiffeur Pour Dames / The Black Belly Of The Tarantula  

Milton DeLugg And His Orchestra - The Outer Limits (Music For Monsters, Munsters, Mummies & Other TV Fiends) 

Wade Denning ‎– Famous Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds...The entire wonderful LP!</b> 

Dick Jacobs And his Orchestra - Main Title Son of Dracula (Themes From Horror Movies)

The Folktellers - The Ghoul (Chillers)

Alfred Hitchcock - The Open Window by Saki (Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories For Young People) 

Ronald Stein - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to Dementia 13

Les Baxter - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to The Comedy of Terrors 

Vincent Price - Harp Notes in the Mist (A Graveyard of Ghost Tales)

Goblin - Markos (Susperia Sndtrk)   

"The Thing At the Foot of the Bed" from the LP <b>Scary Spooky Stories (Adapted By Cherney Berg)

The Cramps - Surfin' Dead (The Return of the Living Dead Sndtrk)     

"A Diagnosis of Death" from the LP "Weird Tales of the Unknow"    ‎

Geoff Love and His Orchestra - the Exorcist (Tubular Bells) (Big Terror Movie Themes)    

Herschell Gordon Lewis - Excerpts from the soundtrack to Blood Feast      

James Bernard - Main Title for the Scars of Dracula

Gerald Fried - Excerpts from the soundtrack to I Bury the Living

The "My Funky Dilemma" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/29/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Thelema - Ephemerol: A Tribute to "Scanners"

A.R. & Machines - Das Echo Der Zeit (Echos Aus Zeiten Der GrĂ¼nen Reise)  

Tuxedomoon - Where Interests Lie (Scream With a View)

Current 93 ‎– Sad Go Round (Lucifer Over London)

Kalacakra - Raga No. 11 (Crawling To Lhasa)

Sanford Clark - The Fool (The Fool)

Dick Curless - Loser's Cocktail (The Drag 'Em Off The Interstate. Sock It To 'Em Hits of Dick Curless)  

Ingrid - Zayre's Parking Lot (V.A. - Art Is The Handmaid of Human Good)

The Godz - Na Na Na (Contact High With The Godz)

Alcatraz - Simple Headphone Mind (Vampire State Building)

It's All Meat - Crying Into the Deep Lake (S/T)

Kollektiv - Baldrian (S/T)

Leonard Cohen - The Master Song (BBC TV-2 Broadcast: Leonard Cohen Sings Leonard Cohen, August 31, 1968)

Dark Arts - Quicksand (Carnival of Lost Souls)

The Essence - A Mirage (Extended Version) (A Monument of Trust)

Vivian Stanshall - Redeye (Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead)

LSD March - Gloomy Adonis (Shindara Jigoku)  

Mahogany Brain - Diamond Voice of Stars (Smooth Sick Lights)

The Freeborne ‎– Peak Impressions & Thoughts (Peak Impressions)    

Felt - Cathedral (Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty)     ‎

Hapshash & the Coloured Coat - Empires of the Sun (Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids)  

Ray Russell - Abyss (Rites and Rituals)