04/22/2022
One of the funniest pieces I have ever done is "Bald Head Bill Bauldy" a half-hour radio play now a podcast about a hapless Army cook during the Seminole War who is kidnapped first by the Seminole, then by an alligator queen. Based on a story by William Gillmore Simms, it features antic performances by George Altman as Bald Head Bill and Ron Hale as the blustering Colonel determined to make his life miserable. I played an alligator. Just launched on Buzzsprout, it will be available on all podcast platforms starting this weekend.
The complete title of this wildly comic story based on Tall Tales from the Hunters' Camp by South Carolina humorist William Gilmore Simms is "Bald Head Bill Bauldy and How He Went Through the Flurriday Campaign." At the nightly "Lying Camp' i...
