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)