Flipside: The True Story of Bob Crane Carol M. Ford, Linda Groundwater, Dee Young

In this episode, hosts and Bob Crane biographers Carol Ford, Linda Groundwater, and Dee Young provide an overview of 'Flipside: The True Story of Bob Crane."

Drum cadence in the beginning of this episode is the introduction to the Hogan's Heroes March and performed by Bob Crane. The clip of Bob Crane's aircheck following the cadence is from The Bob Crane Show, which originally aired over KNX-CBS Radio on March 27, 1957.

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Selected music is licensed through Epidemic Sound and used with permission.

For more information about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/

Bob Crane biographer Carol Ford participated in the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Hunt Valley, MD (September 12-14, 2019). While there, Carol sold and signed copies of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography and talked with convention attendees about Bob Crane, Hogan's Heroes, and their thoughts on the book. Several attendees agreed to have their testimonials recorded for this podcast and are contained in this episode.

The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is a 501 non-profit organization designed to encourage and preserve our pop culture past and holds a charity auction each year to raise money for St. Jude's Children’s Research Hospital.

For more info about the convention and for future convention dates, visit https://www.midatlanticnostalgiaconvention.com/

For more information about our collective work about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/

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Selected music:
"Madison Twist" — Macy's Voice
"Leaving Clues" — Ritchie Everett
"How about That!" Chalalatas

As we continue working on our first feature episode, we thought we'd produce an "interim" episode to hold you over! In this episode, you'll hear a rare clip of Bob Crane interviewing Marilyn Monroe, as well as a sampling of how Bob "messed with" or enhanced on air radio spots in a Winston Cigarette Commercial.

The Winston Cigarettes commercial and Bob Crane’s interview clip with Marilyn Monroe originally aired over KNX-CBS Radio in Hollywood circa 1960 or 1961.

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Selected music is licensed through Epidemic Sound and used with permission.

For more information about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/

In this episode, we begin at the end – with the final days of Bob Crane’s life and an overview of his murder. But we’re going to give you a different perspective of it. From there, we travel back in time to 1928, when Bob was born, and share some profound stories of his early days of growing up in Stamford, CT, and of his love of music and drums. Also included is a rare audio clip of Bob’s stage performance in Beginner’s Luck, and segments from our exclusive interviews with contributors to his biography.

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The clip of Bob Crane in Beginner's Luck and Bob Crane's KNX show are courtesy of Scott Crane and used with permission.

Selected music is licensed through Epidemic Sound and used with permission.

For more information about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/

In this episode, Bob Crane biographers Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater discuss the origins of Bob Crane’s biography, their initial motivation to learn the truth about the Hogan's Heroes star, reactions to the project from those who contributed to the book, and some of Linda’s and Carol’s more memorable moments during the research process.

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Selected music is licensed through Epidemic Sound and used with permission.

For more information about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/

On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane was brutally murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and to this day, the crime remains officially unsolved. His unsolved murder and the scandal that grew from it have spawned unending media coverage, along with several books, documentaries, podcast episodes, and the movie Auto Focus, all of which provide little clarity about Bob Crane as a human being.

In part one of this two-part episode, Bob Crane biographers Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater discuss John Carpenter, Bob’s sexual addiction, and Auto Focus, and share audio clips from several interviews they conducted with prominent individuals from Bob's life to help bring everything into better focus.

Audio clips of Arlene Martel, Johnny and Pam Thompson, Harvey Geller, Leo McElroy, and Bruce Bilson were told directly to Linda Groundwater and Carol Ford, and are owned by the authors of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography. Unauthorized use of these audio clips is strictly forbidden.

© Carol M Ford Productions, LLC
All rights reserved.

Selected music is licensed through Epidemic Sound and used with permission.

For more information about Bob Crane, visit https://vote4bobcrane.org/