Credits - Too Dead To Swing

	Audio-Playwrights,
	1421 Oak St., San Francisco, CA 94117-2117 USA
	Phone 415-487-0720; fax 415-431-9516

	Executive Producer: Hal Glatzer
	Hal Glatzer is an innovator in mystery fiction. His 1979 novel Kamehameha County, a tale of murder and mayhem in Hawaii, was published as a pastiche manila file-folder of newspaper clippings, letters and telex dispatches. The Trapdoor, published by Paperjacks in 1986, is a paperback thriller about a computer hacker whose identity is stolen by organized crime, and whose only ally is an online pornographer. This, a whole decade before the Internet, identity theft and cyberporn were front-page news. After Paperjacks folded, he self-published the sequel in one of the earliest "eBook" ventures. Massively Parallel Murder was released in 1992: the first chapter downloadable free from a Website, and the entire text sold as a computer (.pdf) file on a floppy disk. Glatzer is an active member of Mystery Writers of America who knows high-tech, having covered the computer industry as a journalist for twenty years. But he's an antiquarian at heart: serving as a director of the Art Deco Society of California, playing vintage jazz and Swing on guitar, and curating a collection of sheet music from Tin Pan Alley. Now he has combined all: adapting the unpublished novel Too Dead To Swing into an audio-play script, and serving as executive producer of the entire production. He also produced the content for this Website, which serves as the theatrical "playbill" for the audio-play.

	Associate Producer: Kathy Frankovic

	PANORAMAudio, Nashville, TN
	Phone 615-650-4545; fax 615-227-4545

	Producer/Director: Patricia Childs
	Patricia has worked with Knowledge Products Audio Classics Series, as well as other audiobook publishers, in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London, and on location. She has directed such celebrity narrators as Walter Cronkite, Charlton Heston, Ben Kingsley, Lynn Redgrave, Louis Rukeyser, and George C. Scott. Her production company, Panorama Audio, is based in Nashville, TN. Patricia also has extensive acting, singing and performing credits (see the Cast list). In addition to her dual role as producer and director of Too Dead To Swing, she portrays both of the Bliss sisters.

	Earl Spielman Productions, Nashville, TN
	Phone 615-226-4545; fax 615-227-4545

	Music Producer: Earl V. Spielman
	Earl V. Spielman, Ph.D., is a forensic musicologist. Based in Nashville for more than twenty-five years, he's a leading consultant nationwide, to the music, entertainment and advertising industries, serving as an expert witness and rendering opinions regarding the validity of music plagiarism claims. But he is also a music producer, video producer, conductor and orchestral arranger, having produced recordings for such artists and groups as Bards Of A Feather, Brentwood, Aleda Pope, and Bob Slawson and the Drugstore Cowboys; overseeing the production of Video Instructional Programs V.I.P Guitar: Essentials Made Easy, and serving as conductor and arranger on albums for Clarence Carter, Bobby David, and Slim Whitman, among numerous others. In addition, he keeps up his musical "chops." He has worked as a studio musician in Nashville since the mid-1970s; and during the musical segments and songs in Too Dead To Swing, when "Katy Green" is playing the violin . . . it's really Earl.

	Most of the spoken words in Too Dead To Swing were recorded in February, 2000, at New York Audio, New York, NY. Phone 212-243-6826; fax 212-243-7210
	Perry Pilagonia - Recording Engineer
	Paul Barboza - President
	Camille Stanford - Administrator

	Additional spoken-word recording, and all of the production editing, was done between March and July, 2000, at Archer Productions, Inc., Nashville, TN. Phone 615-297-3787; fax 615-297-8056
	Ethel Gilkey - Recording Engineer/Editor
	Nick Archer - President

	All of the music in Too Dead To Swing was recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN. Phone 615-383-1982.
	Dave Sinko - Recording Engineer/Mix Engineer
	Erick Jaskowiak - Asst. Engineer
	Jeremy Childs - Asst. Engineer

	The instrumental tracks were recorded March 10, 2000:

	Music Arranger: Joe Murphy
	Murphy Musicworks, Nashville, TN

	Musicians:
	Joe Murphy - Upright Bass and Leader
	Paul Binkley - Archtop Guitar
	Earl Spielman - Violin
	Chris Brown - Drums
	Jim Williamson - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
	Doug Moffit - Alto Sax
	Dennis Solee - Clarinet and Tenor Sax
	Patricia Childs - Reference Vocals

	Ann Hampton Callaway's vocals were recorded March 13, 2000

	The reference demo for the songs was recorded at Sound Emporium October 1, 1999: Earl V. Spielman - Producer; Jeremy Childs - Engineer; Beegie Adair - Piano; Patricia Childs - Vocals

Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations are from Hal Glatzer's collection. Too Dead To Swing is a work of fiction; and no representation of any person or persons, living or dead, is intended by these illustrations. No claim of copyright to any of the source materials is made or implied by their inclusion here. The illustrations are intended for educational purposes only: to help convey to audiences a feeling for life in 1940, when the story takes place.
Home Page
	The Too Dead To Swing "cover art" is a collage. Initially assembled by Hal Glatzer, using PaintShop Pro, it incorporates design elements from two vintage paperback books whose cover artists are uncredited: In The Teeth of the Evidence (Avon, 1951) and The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (Dell, 1946).

	The collage was retouched and enhanced by Dean Gustafson, using Photoshop.

	The JavaScript (.JS) file -- the GIF animation of the "cover art," which executes on launch of the Home Page -- was created by Alisa Lowden, using Dreamweaver

	The Audio-Playwrights "masks" logo is adapted by Hal Glatzer from a design element in a house-ad in The Stage magazine, July 1933.

1940
	"California in 1940"

	The map of California is abstracted from the cover of The Penguin Guide to California, Penguin Books, 1947; artist uncredited. The "CALIFORNIA" logotype is from an undated picture-postcard, probably c.1945.

	"The Band's Itinerary"

	The images of the Santa Cruz waterfront, the Claremont Hotel, the "Golden Eagle Hotel" [actually the Hotel Sacramento], Lake Tahoe, and Market Street in San Francisco, are all from unmailed postcards and/or fold-out postcard packets from various publishers; undated, but c.1940.

	"Cost of Living"

	The 1939 Plymouth coupe is abstracted from an advertisement in The New Yorker, April 1, 1939. The women's and men's clothing illustrations are reproduced from the Fall and Winter 1939-1940 Montgomery Ward catalog. The Spud cigarette ad is abstracted from an ad in The New Yorker, March 25, 1939.

	"Train Travel"

	The illustration of a streamliner is abstracted from an advertisement for Sandeman sherries and ports in The Stage Magazine, January 1937. The illustrations of Pullman car interiors, in both black-and-white and color, are from a brochure titled Life On A Pullman, published by The Pullman Company, Chicago, 1939. The photos of a club car and a ladies' washroom aboard Southern Pacific trains are from the house-organ Southern Pacific Bulletin, March 1937.

	"Ju-Jitsu"

	"Breaking An Unwelcome Embrace" was drawn by Alton Pickens, the illustrator of Lightning Ju-Jitsu, by Harry Lord (New Power Publications, New York, 1943).

Swing Music
	"Sheet Music"

	Audio-Playwrights sells sheet music for the three songs in Too Dead To Swing "Walking On Eggshells," "Remember To Forget," and "Yours 'Till Dawn." The price is $20 for the set of three, including shipping (Order).

	The artworks on the covers were adapted from the covers of three vintage music sheets. Audio-Playwrights will refund the purchase price of the Too Dead To Swing sheet music to the first person who correctly identifies all three vintage cover sources (Got the answers?). After that happens, the original sources will be identified here.

	"Swing Music"

	The line-art illustration of two teenagers dancing is from College Humor magazine, March 1940. The magazine page featuring Tommy Dorsey, and headlined "Jitterbugs May Be Noisy, But I Love 'Em," is from Look Magazine, February 27, 1940.

	"Women In Swing"

	The photo of the brass section of Ina Rae Hutton's Melodears appears in "American Women in Jazz," by Sally Placksin (Wide View Books, 1982). It is credited "Courtesy of Ruth McMurray," and McMurray is identified as playing trombone at top, right.

	The color illustration of women musicians wearing red neckerchiefs, was drawn by Kurt Hilscher. It is abstracted from the cover of a song-magazine titled Klingende Illustrierte, published by Verlag Martin Curtius, Berlin. Undated; probably c. 1943.

	"Swinging Soundies"

	The photo of the Panoram "Soundie" jukebox, and of Lorraine Page's band, are from Look Magazine, November 19, 1940.

Cast
	All photographs of the actors, as well as their biographical materials, were supplied by the actors themselves or by their professional representatives. In some cases, photos were cropped and textual material was edited by Hal Glatzer.

Behind The Scenes
	"The Author"

	Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case. Uncredited cover artist. The book, by Dorothy Wayne (probably a pseudonym), is one of at least four in the "Dorothy Dixon Air Mystery" series. It was published in 1933 by the Goldsmith Publishing Co., Chicago.

	The photograph of Hannah Dobryn is a snapshot purchased at a flea market in San Francisco in 1998. The date of the photograph is unknown; but (judging from her attire) probably c. 1940. The identity of the subject is also unknown. "Hannah Dobryn" is a pen name for Hal Glatzer, who wrote and copyrighted the novel Too Dead To Swing, adapted it as a script, and produced the audio-play.

	"The Composer"

	The illustration for the Republic serial Zorro's Fighting Legion is a theater lobby-card. It appears in "Cliffhanger: A Pictorial History of the Motion Picture Serial," by Alan G. Barbour (The Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ, 1980).

	The publicity shot of Ted Nywatt and the women in the cast of To The Nines was purchased in San Francisco in 1998 from a dealer in vintage paper ephemera. The photo is undated, but is credited on the face to the Maurice Seymour studio, Chicago, and is inscribed in pen: "To MS - Lester Cole and The Debs." On the reverse side, the photograph is ink-stamped: "Lester Cole and The Debutantes." "Ted Nywatt" is a pseudonym for Hal Glatzer, who wrote and copyrighted all three of the songs -- music and lyrics -- that are performed in Too Dead To Swing.

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	Crystal Clear Sound, Dallas, TX (promo)

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	American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, KY

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