Radio: Hoosegow Harmony

A unique radio program went coast-to-coast and (by short wave) to U.S. troops abroad last week. San Quentin on the Air is a by-product of the inmates of the famed prison outside San Francisco.

San Quentin's format has had almost no change since it went on the Pacific Coast air two years ago. Its theme song, Time on My Hands, is gone (Helbros Watch Co. snapped it up), but the rest of the show is still there. There is a rendition of We've Got the Lord on Our Side ("The Devil's out there waitin';...

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