Highly recommended for batty people
Kim Cooper | Hollywood, CA United States | 03/01/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Wow. These utterly retarded (yet compelling) homemade spooky radio "drammers" were apparently actually aired by regional east coast stations in the late sixties and early seventies. While the experience of stumbling onto such lunacy on the airwaves can't be approximated by finding it compiled on CD, this screwball vision is a delight in any context. Every tale on the comp is a reductive morality play scripted around young Fountain's specialty voices-an incredibly irritating old woman/witch, a mush-mouthed and seemingly senile gang boss, a tough-as-nails gun moll obsessed with her own name, and old guys with varying (horrible) Irish and Scotch accents. The simplistic, repetitive plotting, recurring snatches of dialogue, casual xenophobia and broad exposition have a weirdly rhythmic quality that will infect your brain and leave you thinking like Fountain. "No one blows the whistle on Pop Serriano!" (reviewed in Scram Magazine #19)"