“We’re gonna be looking at officers and fuzz, bulls and coppers, private eyes, private investigators, police and private detectives, deputies and constables, lawmen, marshals, and meter maids, the law, and the man. But of course that’s just one side of the law. We’re also gonna turn the Theme Time spotlight on bandits and buccaneers, burglars and cheats, conmen and crooks, looters and marauders, something and pickpockets, stickup men, swindlers, thieves, thugs, gangsters, gunmen and hijackers. Bruisers and Godfathers, Mafioso and mobsters. I’m sure we have a lot of listeners on both sides.”
Cops and Robbers
Singers and Songs
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Call The Police“What made their sound so swingin’ is that they didn’t use a drummer and the rhythmic pulse was carried by that big bass fiddle.”
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Red SimpsonThe Highway Patrol“The forgotten man of the Bakersfield sound”
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Dupree Blues
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Billy Bragg and WilcoAgainst the Law
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I Fought The Law
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Freddie ‘Bama Boy’ Hall and his Gadsden BandThis Crooked World
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Poor Jesse James
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The ByrdsPretty Boy Floyd
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The CoastersBad Detective“Using bad as a bit of braggadocio and not casting any aspersions on his abilities.”
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Los Socios De San AntonioLa Muerte De Fred Gomez Carrasco
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Eddy Grant and the EqualsPolice On My Back
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Smiley LewisDirty People
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Merle HaggardI’m a Lonesome Fugitive“A man who never forgot where he came from; he’s the real deal.”
Other People and Players
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Lao Tzu
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Buddy Holly
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Earl Sinks
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“Many of you have probably heard these (Miranda Rights), probably first hand.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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Theodore Dostoyevsky
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Jesse James
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Robin Hood
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Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd
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Woody Guthrie(Mentioned twice)
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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The Clash
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Fred Caswell (?)Under house arrest but figured out how to make a living by cooking and distributing crack out of his grandmother’s kitchen. “American ingenuity at work.”
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Chicago Crime Commission
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Al Capone
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Johnny Cash
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Jack the Ripper
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Don King
Other Songs and Albums
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(By Junior Murvin - played in background during intro)
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Public Enemy #1
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Baby Come Back
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(Clip played)
Places
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St. Petersburg
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Great Britain
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Belgium
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Denmark
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Sweden
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Alabama
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Indiana
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Texas
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St. Joseph, MO
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Nebraska
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East Liverpool, OH
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South Bend, IN
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Huntsville Prison
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British Guyana
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England
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East London
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Oklahoma
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Muscogee
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Guests
Magazines
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Spiderman Comics
Books and Poems
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Crime and Punishment
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Webster’s Dictionary
Movies and TV Shows
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly(Clip played)
Famous Sheriffs
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Buck Garrett
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Art
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Mona Lisa
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The Scream
“This is Theme Time Radio Hour, your police headquarters for illicit themes, illegal schemes, and hijacked dreams”