Retro Radioland

On this edition of RETRO RADIOLAND we look at two programs you might not be familiar with but who hold honors as having amazing longevity!

On this edition of RETRO RADIOLAND, we look at two great comedy teams, Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy. Although Bud and Lou were mainstays on the radio for most of the 1940s it was not in the cards for Laurel and Hardy. They made one pilot for NBC in 1944 that never made it on the air.

This week's RETRO RADIOLAND is all music all the time as we pay tribute to the Big Band era remote broadcasts that were heard each night across the US during the Golden Age of Radio.

On this week’s show – Glenn Miller on the air, A WC Fields replacement, an American promoting propaganda, mentalist or no mentalist, scary time in American history.

On this week's RETRO RADIOLAND
Frank Sinatra and Nancy having a baby? Rita Hayworth thrown out of the movie industry? Plenty of gossip as we visit Louella Parsons.
The wealthiest Bell Boy ever.
Let’s smarten up with some quiz show history.

On this week Retro Radioland a salute to the radio organ, a look at two historic sports events and the Rainout Theater!

On this Edition
Famed journalist Mike Wallace’s radio career was somewhat for the birds.
Walter Teatley’s forever boyhood.
A quick mystery.
From Doc to Floyd the Barber.
Glenn Miller’s last broadcast.

The edition of Retro Radioland looks at radio star salaries during the golden age, a tough trivia question and a tough little mayor.
Along the way, we encounter Jack Benny, Rochester, Fred Allen, Kay Keiser, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jerry Colonna, the Mills Brothers, Victor Borge, Groucho Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Ed Wynn, and Fanny Brice!

It seems we always run out of time on the show without covering some additional stories that have been prepared.
So today, we finally clean off the desk and look at

The great ASCAP radio strike of 1941

GI Jill

Bad girl Mae West’s banishment from radio

Husband’s and Wife’s

On this issue of retro radioland -

It was not uncommon for a character actor or actress to have more than one role in the same program. We visit one of the best.

We’ll spin to the wheel to take a look at the highlights of an important radio season.

Motion picture and radio stat jeff chandler ha a talent that many did not know. We'll fill you in.

We take a trip to the magazine rack to thumb through the pages of one of the many publications that featured radio stories and schedules.

We profile a great lady who brought a ray of sunshine to a depressed nation.

And a really tough trivia question.