When Radio Ruled

When Radio Ruled

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When Radio Ruled episodes

  • When Radio Ruled – Thanksgiving 2022
    Our Old Time Radio Thanksgiving menu is made up of:
    A first course of  The Good News show from Thanksgiving eve , November 24, 1938.
    Featuring:
    Robert Young
    Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks
    And the cast of the very popular Andy Hardy movies, including star Mickey Rooney, in an original radio play.
    Followed by an Entre of The Jack Benny Show from just after Thanksgiving 1937, November 28, entitled “Jack Cooked the Turkey” where the gang talks about their thanksgiving day.
    Appetizer and desert provided by Fred Allen, courtesy to the cold open you just heard and the cold close to come.
    All in all a delicious and satisfying audio thanksgiving  experience with zero calories.
    Click Here to Hear Thanksgiving 2022
    1 hr 37 min
  • When Radio Ruled #58 – Soundscape 1937 part 24

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast December 14 to December 30, 1937.

    Starring : Dr Arthur C. Christie, Dr Gilbert W Hague, Dr Kingsley Roberts, Rudy Vallee, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Cecil B DeMille, Slim Hoffman, Brian Ahern, Madge Evans, Fibber McGee, Myrt and Marge, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Jack Buchanan, Winston Churchill, Marlene Dietrich, and more.
     
    Featured songs include Rudy Valle “Down with Love”, Gracie Allen “I love you from Coast to Coast”, and Marlene Dietrich “Lilli Marlene”
    Click Here to Hear Soundscape 1937 part 23
    53 min
  • When Radio Ruled #57 – Soundscape 1937 part 23

    Starring Fibber McGee, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, The Seven Dwarves, Snow White, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Pinky Tomlin, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, and more.
     
    Featured songs include Eddie Cantor “Getting some fun out of life”, Rudy Vallee “Oh, Promise Me”, and Pinky Tomlin “I want to be in Winchell’s Column”
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    58 min
  • When Radio Ruled #56 – Spooky Halloween 2022

    Boo!

    Halloween approaches – the night when the boundaries between the living and the dead, reality and imagination dissolve. Evil witches mount flying brooms. Brain starved Zombies, restless spirits, supernatural spooks, savage monsters and all forms of malevolent miscreants shamble across the earth creating terror among the hapless and tasty human populace.

    Above all, Halloween is the best time for scary stories. In that tradition welcome to When Radio Ruled episode 56, Spooky Halloween Special 2022.

    The show is going to give you a couple of spine tinglers to get you in the spooky Halloween frame of mind. The first one is entitled “Til Dead” and was originally broadcast February 2, 1943. It is a great example of the Suspense Genre that was so successful throughout the era of old time radio.

    The second story is called “The Hitchhiker” and stars Orson Welles. It’s a classic supernatural tale, full of tension and mystery. It was performed by Welles multiple times over the years by popular demand, this performance was broadcast September 2, 1942.

    So hang the garlic in the door to keep away the vampires, put a crucifix in your pocket just in case, lock the doors and windows, shut out the lights and brace yourself for When Radio Ruled Spooky Halloween Special 2022.

    Click Here For the Spooky Halloween Podcast!

    1 hr 4 min
  • When Radio Ruled Episode 55 – Soundscape 1937 part 22
    Mae West and Charlie McCarthy – Great scandals if 1937

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast November 29 to December 12, 1937.

    Starring Cecil B Demille, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Rudy Vallee, Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou, Frank Case, Andy Devine, Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Fibber McGee, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Nelson Eddy, Mae West, Pinky Tomlin and more.

    Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 22

    1 hr 9 min
  • When Radio Ruled #54 – Soundscape 1937 part 21

    Jack Benny and his faithful Maxwell

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast November 8 to November 28, 1938.

    Starring Bing Crosby, Jimmy Wallington, Eddie Cantor, Fibber McGee and Molly, Benny Goodman, Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Orson Welles, and more.
     
    Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor, “Getting some fun out of Life”, Bing Crosby “I’m Humming”, Some smoking Benny Goodman Swing Instrumentals and the Benny Goodman orchestra featuring vocalist Martha Tilden “Mama that moon is here again”, Pinky Tomlin “The Lady who couldn’t be Kissed” and Phil Harris “You can’t stop me from dreaming”

    Click here to hear Soundscape 1937 part 21

    58 min
  • When Radio Ruled episode #53 – Soundscape 1937 part 20
    Edward G. Robinson on the Radio!

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast October 18 to November 7, 1937.

    Starring Fibber McGee and Molly, Edward G. Robinson, Pinky Tomlin, Jimmy Wallington, Eddie Cantor, The Cast of the March of Time, Ben Davis Jr., Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Cecil B. Demille, John R. Kissinger , and more.
     
    Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Can’t stop me from dreaming”, Eddie Cantor Medley of hits and “Doe to Doe”.

    Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 20

    1 hr 3 min
  • When Radio Ruled #52 – Soundscape 1937 part 19

    Clark Gable on the Radio!

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast October 11 to October 18, 1937.

    Starring Fibber McGee & Molly, President Franklin Roosevelt, Eddie Cantor, Pinky Tomlin, Benny Goodman, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Clark Gable, Dorothy LaMour, Nelson Eddy, The Stroud Twins, Cecil B. DeMille, Jimmy Starr, Madge Evans, Fred MacMurry, and more.
    Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor “Laugh Your Way Through Life” and “Keep it Over There”, Benny Goodman “The Old Apple Tree”.
    Click Here to Listen to When Radio Ruled #52
    1 hr 5 min
  • When Radio Ruled #51 – Soundscape 1937 part 18
    Ida Lupino on the Radio

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast September 5 to October 10, 1937.

    Starring W.C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Al Jolson, George Jessell, Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Cecil B. DeMille, John LeRoy Johnston, Rudy Vallee, The Stroud Twins, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, and more.
     
    Featured Songs include Al Jolson “Tootsie”, Eddie Cantor “Now’s the time to fall in love” and “Love is on the Air Tonight”, The Connecticut Yankees with an unidentified female vocalist (possibly Annette Hanshaw) “Basin Street Blues”, Eddie Cantor and Pinky Tomlin “Sweet Varsity Sue”
    Click Hear to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 18
    23 min
  • When Radio Ruled #50 – Soundscape 1937 part 17

    The Benny Goodman Quartet

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast August 29 to September 5, 1937.

    Starring Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Pinky Tomlin, Fibber McGee and Molly, Benny Goodman, Eddie Stanley, Ida Lupino, and more.
    Featured Songs include Don Ameche, Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy “Have You Got Any?”
    Pinky Tomlin “The Love Bug” and “Stop Breaking my Heart”
     And The Benny Goodman Quartet,  a super group made up of swing and jazz legends Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman, with an especially hot version of “Vibraphone Blues”

    Listen to When Radio Ruled Episode 50

    1 hr 5 min

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