This episode of Old Time Radio Snack Wagon celebrates Public Domain Day with a special record party featuring some of the most popular and influential recordings of 1925, which have now entered the public domain in the United States.

The program revisits a remarkable year in American music, when recordings that would later become standards first reached the public. Featured selections include performances by Marion Harris, Gene Austin, Al Jolson, Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, and early recordings of songs that would echo through radio, film, and popular culture for decades. By hearing these records as contemporary listeners first experienced them, the episode highlights how many familiar melodies began before the era of network radio, later finding new life through performers such as Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, and others.

It’s a reminder of how deeply early recordings shaped the soundscape of the Golden Age of Radio—and how much remains to be rediscovered as more works enter the public domain.

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