| Rocky Jordan was first known to West Coast
listeners as the hard-bitten restaurateur in Istanbul of A Man Named Jordan, one of the
unsung high spots of radio continuations in 1945. Rocky Jordan was virtually a copy of the
original: the major change was that Jordan’s Cafe Tambourine was uprooted from
Istranbul and plopped down in Cairo- Gateway to the ancient East, where modern adventure
and intrigue unfold against the backdrop of antiquity. Jordan was a rugged hero who each
week was confronted by a crime, a mystery, a beautiful woman, or a combination of the
three. It was a detective show with a difference: the Oriental background was played to
the hilt, giving it a sound like no other.” |
