When Radio Ruled

By Mike Gillett - the BeforeTV Project

A look at Old Time Radio and the world around it. A chronological look at the original mass media.... more

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April 16, 2020 When Radio Ruled #26- Charlie McCarthy: Sexiest Man Alive 1937
When Radio Ruled PodCast Episode # 26
Casanova Charlie McCarthy makes dates and breaks hearts in 1937 Hollywood.

Starring Charlie McCarthy
GUEST STARRING
Edgar Bergen
Don Ameche
Dorothy Lamour
Clark Gable
Alice Marble
Carol Lombard
Mary Boland
May Robson
Sonya Henie
Zasu Pitts
Bruna Castagna
Glenda Farrell
Bette Davis
Mae West
special cameo appearances by Nelson Eddy and Jack Benny
music by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Kay Kaiser

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March 08, 2020 When Radio Ruled episode 25 – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 5
A Great Collection of Songs
Originally Broadcast Live on Old Time Radio
August 25, 1937 through December 31, 1937!
SONG LIST:
Cast of Chase and Sanborn Charlie McCarthy Show – Have you got any?
Pinky Tomlin – The Love Bug
Benny Goodman – Vibraphone Blues
Pinky Tomlin – Stop You’re Breaking my Heart
Al Jolson – Toots Toots Tootsie
Eddie Cantor – Now’s the time to fall in love
Unidentified Female Vocalist – Basin Street Blues
Pinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor – Sweet Varsity Sue
Eddie Cantor – Swing is here to Sway
Eddie Cantor – Love is in the air tonight
Pinky Tomlin – I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You
Eddie Cantor – Some Fun Out of Life
Rudy Vallee – Orange Blossom Time
Pinky Tomlin – I want to be in Winchell’s Column
Rudy Vallee – Down with Love
Marlena Deitrich – Lili Marlene
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February 17, 2020 When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 4
This episode is a collection of musical numbers broadcast live on the radio July 12, 1937 through August 24, 1937.
This episode features mostly Pinky Tomlin and Benny Goodman, with a few others tossed in for good measure.
But you won’t be disappointed.
Pinky Tomlin is nothing short of delightful.
Benny Goodman is one of the great American musical influences and at the peak of his powers here.
SONG LIST:
Pinky Tomlin – Just a Country Boy at Heart
Jack Renard – Salute to the US Navy
Pinky Tomlin – That’s what you think
Pinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy Joe
Eve Sully with Benny Goodman – Swing Benny swing
Pinky Tomlin – Seven Ages of Man
Ted Weems and his Orchestra – You can’t have everything
Benny Goodman – Dayton takes a holiday
Benny Goodman – Caravan
Benny Goodman – Sometimes I’m Happy
Benny Goodman – Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day

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February 09, 2020 When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 3
Actor Don Ameche (1908-1993) and actress Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) with an NBC microphone in a publicity image for the radio show, ‘The Chase and Sanborn Hour’, USA, 20 May 1937. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Tunes from Old-Time Radio!
Voices from the past singing live on the national radio May 24, 1937 – July 11, 1937.
Lots of Charlie McCarthy and Dorothy Lamour!
A couple of Bing Crosby croon jobs!
Clever compositions from Pinky Tomlin!
SONG LIST:
Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy – Let’s call the whole thing off
Bing Crosby – How Could You
Bing Crosby – Time on my hands
Eddie Cantor – Patriotic medley
Pink Tomlin – Touched in the head
Cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – Gilbert and Sullivan Medley
Pinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy Joe
Rudy Vallee – We danced the night away
Don Ameche, Dorothy Lamour, Charlie McCarthy – Any more at home?
Pinky Tomlin – I’m on the wagon as far as you’re concerned
Hoagy Carmichael and the Cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – I love you like my old felt hat
Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy – Merry Go Round
When Radio Ruled Podcast – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 3
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February 02, 2020 When Radio Ruled -Radio Jukebox 1937 (part 2) -Old Time Radio Music
This show features songs from Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ella Logan, Pinky Tomlin, Gracie Fields, Kate Smith, Phil Harris and others.
Originally Broadcast Live
April 11 – May 23, 1937!
Ella Logan – Scottish Medley
Rudy Vallee Show – Swing your mother in law
Rudy Vallee – Goodbye Boys
Pinky Tomlin – The Love Bug
Fibber and Molly Show – Slap That Bass
Rudy Vallee – Got my love to keep me warm
Gracie Fields – Never Cried So Much
Charlie McCarthy Show – Instrumental “too good for words”
Eddie Cantor – How you gonna keep them down on the farm
Jack Benny Cast – Gonna write myself a letter
Eddie Cantor – Margie
Rudy Vallee – My Little Buckaroo
Kate Smith – Can’t take that away from me
Phil Harris – Nobody
Eddie Cantor – Wake up and Live
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January 18, 2020 When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 1
Songs broadcast live on National Radio
January – March 1937
Dinah Shore
Rudy Vallee
Eddie Cantor
Pinky Tomlin
Phil Harris
Duke Ellington
and More!!!
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December 18, 2019 When Radio Ruled – Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy 1936-1937
The year that Edgar Bergen broke it big, and Charlie McCarthy became his own man.
Featuring W.C. Fields, Don Ameche, Bette Davis, Dorothy Lamour and more!
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December 12, 2019 When Radio Ruled – Christmas 2019
Christmas Old Time Radio from the 1950’s to light the lamp of Christmas Spirit deep in your Soul!
Or maybe just entertain you. Or both. Could be both.
Fibber McGee and Molly from 1952, in “Wimpole’s Christmas Present”
and
Dragnet from 1953, entitled “Big Little Jesus”
Great Old Time Radio guaranteed to keep you off the naughty list.
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June 02, 2019 Soundscape #9 – 1936 Part 6
This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast November 29 to December 31, 1936.
Starring Eddie Cantor, Parkyakarkus, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Harry Von Zell, Rudy Vallee, John Gunther, Ed Wynn, Amos ‘n Andy, Kenny Baker, Jack Benny, Cecil B. DeMille, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Don Wilson, Gabriel Heatter, Walter Houston, Billie Holiday, and more.

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May 25, 2019 SoundScape # 8 – 1936 part 5
Excerpts from Old Time Radio originally broadcast October 4 to November 11, 1936.
Lots of Eddie Cantor, if you like that sort of thing. Who doesn’t?
Also featuring James Wallington, Cecile B. Demille, Carl Hubbell, Lou Gerhig, Joe E. Brown, Fred Allen, Harry Ranzel, Jack Renard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and more.
These Soundscapes are a result of the research phase of the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary series.
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The podcast currently has 126 episodes available.