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The Attaboy Clarence New Year Special 2021

Hear the Top Ten Classic Movies that wowed me this year (including some I haven't yet told you about...)

Hear reviews of two classic movies with a New Year flavour - a murder mystery set at the stroke of midnight in The Night Club Lady (1932) and a trio of ghosts return to set a love affair in order just in time for New Year in Beyond Tomorrow (1940)...

We have New Year radio adventures with Holmes and Watson and Our Miss Brooks!

A special New Year edition of Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Some classic music to see in the New Year, courtesy of Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and The Maguire Sisters

PLUS... don't you just love classic radio advertisement music with a sinister twist?

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Hail Mary

In this week’s show…

There’s music from Bing Crosby, news about new podcasts, a special documentary, and a chance to grab yourself a copy of the fabulous noir publication, The Dark Pages!

Reviews are centred around two Pre-Code treats - one a Capra-esque light comedy about an ancient town founder suddenly finding himself muscled out by progress, and the other a tawdry tale of girl doing all she can to pull herself up out of the gutter.

Radio entertainment comes this week from the Lux Radio Theatre

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The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker 2020!

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It’s a festive celebration of Yuletide radio musical and movie magic in The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker special!

Starring Basil Rathbone, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy McGuire, Ginger Rogers, Santa Claus. Perry Como, Ronald Colman, Pat O’Brien, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby and many, many more!

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They Seek Him Here...

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In this week’s show, there’s a glorious new SONG!

Even more musical heaven from Helen Forrest, Artie Shaw and Bing Crosby!

A trio of reviews, featuring the most unromantic romance you ever saw, a Hollywood tramp in search of trouble, and one of literature’s greatest heroes!

Radio entertainment comes this week from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Bella Bèla

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In this week’s show we’re celebrating a trio of horror movies so bad that they’re almost endearingly so.

The first stars the most annoying human being ever born. The second stars the most unemotional strangler ever born. And the third stars a horror icon as a Teen Wolf/Abraham Lincoln ape monster with a penchant for hats and coats!

Music come from Bing, Bog and the 1940’s answer to Johnny Rotten, Mr Jimmy Dorsey!

There’s another brain-teaser as we try to guess… Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

There’s a dive into the QUESTION POT!

AND there’s a classic episode of radio horror featuring one of the greatest of all time!

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Ready Hedy Go!

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This week’s show sees the Golden Age’s most glamorous import, Miss Hedy Lamarr take centre stage!

We’re reviewing her 1947 drama-thriller, ‘Dishonored Lady’, as well as featuring one of her greatest radio hits, co-starring alongside William Powell!

We’re cruising into court for a marvellous pre-code courtroom thriller, and Rita Hayworth may or may not have done it, in a swell-egant French comic drama alongside Glenn Ford!

Music comes from The InkSpots and Bing Crosby, and there’s even another chance for you to guess Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Radio entertainment comes from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Monicas And Mannequins

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In this week’s show…

Gorgeous music from Bing Crosby and Kay Kyser!

Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy glam it up in a fairytale of New York!

Kay Francis and Warren William find a very unorthodox pathway to parenthood…

And much more, including an interesting announcement…

Radio entertainment comes from the Screen Guild Theatre, and features an array of stars!

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Agony Uncle

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This week…

…winter’s closing in, and if only there was some way of achieving a certain dream…

…the Question Pot features a singing dog, a trip to Ocono… Oconwo… to somewhere… plus a discussion on fish out of water…

…there’s music from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters…

‘‘‘reviews of three movies, including a Vincent Price SHOCKer, a Bluebeard tale with a Hitchcock twist, and a love triangle with a pitch black centre…

Jump on in to your new weekly Attaboy Clarence podcast!

Radio entertainment comes this week from NBC Best Shows

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Episode 95: I Wouldn't Say That

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Welcome back to a new season of Attaboy Clarence, edging ever closer to the 100th episode…

In this week’s show…

Sookie has made a chart!

Jim has got B.O!

Bing Crosby has some advice!

The Merry Macs have got it in for my spellchecker!

There’s a real over use of exclamation marks!!

And then… there’s a trio (A TRIO) of radio adventures with one of Adam’s favourite old-time characters, followed by reviews of all four films that span off from his series!

It’s a bumper edition, so leave your cares outside and let’s start the new year off right with Episode 95 of Attaboy Clarence…

…!

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The Aaaargh-ttaboy Clarence Halloween Special!

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Wooooooo! (That’s a ghost noise, by the way…)

It’s a spookfest this time round, with ghoulish reviews of three classic chillers, including a mad doctor with ice on the brain, a mad doctor with a murderer on his hands, and a mad doctor with a secret in the basement…

There’s eerie music from Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Mary Ann McCall!

Brook Darnell returns for an inside look at one of horror’s greatest icons!

There’s a dip into the Question Pot!

The winner of the Jamaica Inn competition is announced!

Sookie’s been getting into the Halloween spirit…

PLUS there’s a classic slice of Halloween radio…

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Episode 87: Hoods In The Woods

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In this week's episode, some belated thank yous, gorgeous music from Perry Como, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly...

PLUS...

Reviews of three movies... 1947's 'When The Bough Breaks' (most definitely NOT a psychological thriller), 1948's 'Here Comes Trouble' (most definitely almost a David Lynch film), and perhaps Adam's new most favourite film ever, 1944's 'Timber Queen' starring Richard "Grumpy Russell "Russ" Evans" Arlen, Sheldon Leonard, and the best character names ever! Oh and the best fight ever! And the worst plan ever! And... you'll see...

Radio entertainment this week comes from Suspense

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Episode 74: Chicken Soup

This week, hear all about the wonderful thing that "SCIENCE" discovered lately...

There's some classic MUSIC from Johnny Mercer, Bing Crosby and Bea Wain...

'Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?' RETURNS with a new mystery to solve...

Find out who's won the VAL LEWTON competition...

Plus reviews of two movie favourites, the James Cagney & Pat O'Brien comic drama 'Ceiling Zero', and the scintillating 'The Farmer's Daughter' starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten.

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The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Special 2015

Merry Christmas, and welcome to the second annual festive edition of Attaboy Clarence, featuring...

A completely natural conversation about a Letter To Santa!

A festive Disney Christmas gift!

Santa playing 20 Questions!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson undergoing a very special identity crisis!

A warm and fuzzy adaptation of a true Christmas classic!

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Special appearances from Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Judy Garland, Sookie the dog, Arthur Askey,The Three Little Pigs, Basil Rathbone, Donald Duck, Perry Como, The Brighton Strangler, Nigel Bruce, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, YOU GUYS, and the return of Humphrey...

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The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Special

Join Adam for a show filled to the brim with Yuletide cheer, festive fun and Christmas spirit, as we draw 2014 to a close with the help of special guests Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Dean Martin, Basil Rathbone, Frank Sinatra, The Muppets, Humphrey Bogart, Nigel Bruce, John Barrymore, Rudy Vallee, Nat King Cole, Orson Welles, Michael Caine, Bing Crosby and The Brighton Strangler... 

Also, THRILL to the most homoerotic car advert of all time, LEARN how to get the smoothest kisser for those mistletoe moments, RIDE along with a Christmas detective adventure and BE APPALLED as Humphrey arrives at a neighbour's house, only to find himself face to face with Mr White Christmas himself, in a horrifying recreation of one of the most awkward Christmas songs of all time...

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