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Music There Before the Celebs Invaded San Quentin Maxivox (talk) 18:50, 24 July 2023 (UTC)


 * When I was a teenager in the 1940s I was habitually glued to my radio for the once-weekly broadcast over the giant Mutual Broadcasting Co. nationwide radio network of the drama show entitled "San Quentin On The Air". Not only do I seem, at 94, to be the only person left who remembers it, but I decidedly am the only one who remembers that its themesong was the then popular "Time On My Hands".
 * The weekly half-hour was written and produced by the inmates and was just as good as that created for profit by folks on the "outside". Plans are under weigh on the Coast to convert Quentin from a place for punishment to that of rehabilitation. which was the intention for the show in the old days. Whereas that goal was not then achieved, times have changed. One thing also has changed...a.m radio's importance and income. While "Quentin" then had to be classed as a 'sustainer', nowadays national and even local commercial spots on the show, and its extension to 60 minutes, or converting it to a daily would do wonders for the inmates involved and the broadcastsrs that send it out ento the ether.
 * -Oliver Berliner Maxivox (talk) 19:15, 24 July 2023 (UTC)