When Radio Ruled

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live February 17 through February 20, 1938.

Featuring:

Jack Benny

Robert Taylor

Maureen O’Sullivan

Jack Conway

Meredith Wilson

Fanny Brice

The Cast of Dick Tracy

Don Wilson

Phil Harris

Mary Livingston

Kenny Baker

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Orson Welles

Norma Shearer

Sigmund Romberg

Josephine Starr

Charlie McCarthy

Don Ameche

Edgar Bergen

Featured Songs Include:

Rosemarie – Kenny Baker

What This Country Needs is a Song – Georgie Jessel

One Alone – Josephine Starr

In this episode:

Jack Benny and Fanny Brice, two superstar legends, in a comedy sketch that really brings the funny!

The Jack Benny Gang parodies the deep sea thriller, Submarine D-1!

Georgie Jessel delivers classic patriotic schmaltz!

Edgar Bergen redecorates Charlie’s bedroom behind his back!

And More!!

So please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Click Here to Hear SoundScape 1938 part 8

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

I listen to hundreds of hours of radio shows in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits and create a best of reel as a reference for writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast February 13 through February 17, 1938.

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Buster Crabbe

Norma Talmadge

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Barbara Stanwyck

The Cast of Dick Tracy

Cecil B DeMille

Jimmy Starr

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Wallington

Freddie Bartholomew

Deanna Durbin

Robert Taylor

and

Jack Benny

Featured Songs Include:

Secret of Love –  Buster Crabbe

Lovelight in the Starlight – Dorothy Lamour

Thanks for the Memories – Charlie McCarthy, Barbara Stanwyck, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour

and

What are you doing the Rest of Your Life? – Eddie Cantor

In this episode:

Olympic Swimmer and movie Tarzan Buster Crabbe sings!

Charlie McCarthy needs an increase in his allowance! Who can date starlets on fifty cents a week? It requires at least a dollar!

Charlie McCarthy and Barbara Stanwyck speak southern!

Jack Benny visits the Good News program to fix what’s wrong with the show!

And More!!

So please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Soundscape 1938, part 7, from When Radio Ruled, offered without further commentary for your entertainment and education. But mostly for your entertainment.

Click Here to Hear SoundScape 1938 part 7

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

I listen to hundreds of hours of radio shows in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits and create a best of reel as a reference when writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast February 6 through February 13, 1938.

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Josephine Starr

Gus Edwards

Eddie Cantor

The Cast of The March of Time

Frank Morgan

Fanny Brice

Jack Benny

Robert Taylor

Mary Livingston

Featured Songs Include:

Rhythm in your nursery rhyme – Georgie Jessel

School Days – Georgie Jessel

Summertime – Deanna Durbin

In this episode we get to meet the great vaudeville producer Gus Edwards

March of Times dramatizes the Roosevelt Second to None Naval policy, and the purge of German Army by Adolf Hitler.

Jack Benny and Robert Taylor play a Violin and Cello Duet, complete with vaudeville comedy patter.

Frank Morgan and Fanny Brice bring the funny, pint size Josephine Starr brings a voice as big as all outdoors, some incredible 3 part close harmony, and more.

So please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

I listen to hundreds of hours of radio shows in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits and create a best of reel as a reference when writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast January 30 through February 06, 1938.

Featuring:

Josephine Starr

Eddie Cantor

The Cast of The March of Time

Jack Benny

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Phil Harris and his Orchestra

Mary Livingston

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Marlene Dietrich

The Stroud Twins

Featured Songs Include:

What are you doing the rest of your life? – Eddie Cantor

Stormy Weather – Maureen O’Connor

Oil Gusher – Raymond Scott and his Orchestra

Always – Deanna Durbin

Bie Mir Bist Du Schoen – Kenny Baker

Keep Muddling Through – Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour

My Heart is Taking Lessons – Dorothy Lamour

In this episode, Charlie McCarthy gets a dog. What is life without a dog? We hear some recreated current events of 1938 from March of Time. There’s a great radio play love story featuring Don Ameche and Marlene Dietrich, the same Marlene Dietrich who later flirts with both Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen. This episode is a lot of fun.

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 26 through January 30, 1938.

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

Dorothy Wade

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Mary Livingston

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Nelson Eddy

Boris Karloff

The Stroud Twins

Dorothy LaMour

Norma Talmadge

and

Georgie Jessel

Featured Songs Include:

Rosalie Medley – Eddie Cantor

Ave Maria – Deanna Durbin

Bie Mir Bist Du Shoen – Dorothy Wade

The President’s Birthday Ball – Eddie Cantor

Someone for Everyone – Kenny Baker

You Took The Words Right Our of My Heart – Dorothy Lamour

In The Solemn Hour – John Carter and Nelson Eddy

and

You’re a Sweetheart – Georgie Jessel

This episode features both comic and dramatic scenes starring the legendary Boris Karloff in one of his earliest appearances on Radio.

First Karloff spins a tale of murder and suspense with the help of Don Ameche. Then Karloff shifts gears to bring the funny with Charlie McCarthy. This one is a good one folks.

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Click Here to Hear SoundScape 1938 part 4

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 16 through January 3, 1938.

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Josephine Starr

Eddie Cantor

Pinky Tomlin

Bert Kalmar

Harry Ruby

Lee Wiley

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Nelson Eddy

Alice Brady

Dorothy Lamour

Featured Songs Include:

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Georgie Jessel

When You Dream About Hawaii – Georgie Jessel

The Doll’s Song – Josephine Starr

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Eddie Cantor

Mama, I wanna make rhythm – The Galley Sisters

Love Walked Right In – Kenny Baker

Broadway’s Gone Hawaii – Dorothy Lamour

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

LISTEN TO SOUNDSCAPE 1938 part 3

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 5 through January 16, 1938.

And it’s a good one, too! Lots of classic comedy and infectious songs coming your way!

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

Pinky Tomlin

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Phil Harris

Ned Sparks

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

The Mad Russian

Featured Songs Include:

Bei Mir Bist du Shoen – Pinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor

I love the Girls Medley – Eddie Cantor

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Phil Harris and his Orchestra

Rosemarie – Nelson Eddy

Down with Love – Loretta Lee

You Started Something – Don Ameche

Bob White What You Gonna Swing Tonight – Eddie Cantor

Rosalie – Kenny Baker

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Click Here to Hear SoundScape 1938 part 2

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect from the research phase of the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

The creation of the historical documentaries begins with research. In my collection of Old Time Radio Shows I have hundreds of hours of recordings from 1938. I arranged all these radio shows by order of date broadcast and then listened to them one by one until I had listened to the entire year January 1 to December 31. As I go through the listening process I take the most interesting, entertaining, or informative clips and assemble them onto a “Best Of” clip reel from which I will select the Old Time Radio excerpts to include in the historical documentaries.

The script isn’t written at this point, so these clip reels contain much more material than can possibly be used in the finished documentary. The 1938 clip reel was almost 36 hours long. I used less than 3 hours in the final documentaries.

But these best of reels are so much fun to listen to! A whole year condensed into a day and a half! It seems a great waste to not share these selected clip with fellow Old Time Radio enthusiasts, thus the Soundscape series of When Radio Ruled was born.

So here is the first hour of the newest clip reel, excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast January 1 to January 5 1938 .

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Man Mountain Dean

Josephine Starr

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Phil Harris and His Orchestra

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Andy Devine

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Don Ameche

Charley McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Dorothy Lamour

Margot

Eddie Cantor

Deanna Durbin

Selected Songs Include:

Getting Some Fun Out of Life – Cast of the Georgie Jessel Show

I want a gay cabellaro – unidentified female vocalist

Rolling Plains – Kenny Baker

I want a new romance – Dorothy Lamour

In the still of the night – Deanna Durbin

Click Here to Hear When Radio Ruled Soundscape 1938 part 1

In the previous episode, 1938 part 1, we looked at the political situation across the world. The coming confrontation between countries trying to provoke war and countries wishing to avoid it. How Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Franco, and Stalin created fear and suffering. How the USA, Britain, France, and the smaller democracies tried to keep free and out of war through appeasement and diplomacy while building up their defenses just in case.

To tell the truth, last episode was dark. Not a lot happened to be optimistic or hopeful about. Kind of a Bummer.

Invasions and threats of war are the dark cloud over the whole year. This episode is about some of the distractions used to forget about the scary stuff going on in Europe and Asia. What a relief it must have been to forget the Hitlers of the world and talk about the Joe Louis fight or the Seabiscuit race. The first full length animated movie! Is baseball still baseball if it’s played at night under artificial light? Can a car really go that fast? Did you hear about the latest thing those scientist invented? What will those eggheads think of next?

Click Here to Listen to The Year 1938 part 2

The Year 1938 brought a world with one foot in a miserable recent past and the other foot in a murderous near future.

History as told from Old Time Radio originally broadcast in 1938

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

The Cast of March of Time

Adolf Hitler

Orson Welles

Georgie Jessel

Neville Chamberlain

Jack Benny

Judy Garland

Winston Churchill

And More!

Click Here to Enjoy 1938 part 1!