When Radio Ruled

When Radio Ruled

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When Radio Ruled episodes

  • When Radio Ruled #49 – Soundscape 1937 part 16
    The Glamorous Glenda Farrell

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast August 22 to August 27, 1937.

    Starring Harlow Wilcox, Fibber McGee & Molly, Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Glenda Farrell, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy LaMour, W.C. Fields, American Refugees from Japan’s invasion of Shang Hai,and more.

    Click Here to Hear Radio Soundscape 1937 part 16

    1 hr 3 min
  • When Radio Ruled episode 48 – Soundscape 1937 part 15

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast August 8 to August 15, 1937.

    Starring Pinky Tomlin, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Nelson Eddy, Edgar Bergen, W.C. Fields, Wendy Berrie, Benny Goodman, Eve Sully and Jesse Block, Robert Armbruster, Dorothy Lamour, Alice Brady, and more.

    Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Cowboy Medley” and “Seven Stages of Man”, Benny Goodman “Remember”,  Eve Sully “Swing, Benny, Swing”.

    Click here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 15

    1 hr 2 min
  • When Radio Ruled Episode 47 – Soundscape 1937 part 14

    Fibber McGee and Molly

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast July 11 to August 8, 1937.

    Starring Charlie McCarthy, Don Ameche, Gladys George, Edgar Bergen, W.C. Fields, Robert Armbruster, Dorothy Lamour, Pinky Tomlin, Fibber McGee and Molly, Harlow Wilcox, Bruna Castagna, Eddie Stanley, and more.
     Featured Songs include Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down”, Pinky Tomlin “I Guess I’m Just a Country Boy at Heart” and “That’s What You Think”

    Click Here to Listen to When Radio Ruled episode 47

    1 hr 4 min
  • When Radio Ruled episode 46 – Soundscape 1937 part 13
    Sonya Hennie – star of ice and screen

    Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 #13

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast June 21 to July 11, 1937.

    Starring Cecil B. DeMille, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Jimmy Wallington, Pinky Tomlin, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Sonya Hennie, W.C. Fields, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Armbruster, Zasu Pitts, Hoagy Carmichael, and more.

    Featured Songs include Mary Livingston with the cast of the Jack Benny Show “The Love Bug”, Pinky Tomlin “As Far As Your Concerned”, The cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show with Hoagy Carmichael, “I love you like my old felt hat”

    1 hr 6 min
  • When Radio Ruled episode #45 Eddie Cantor Sings 1937

    Songs Recorded Live on the Eddie Cantor Radio Show 1937

    Eddie was a multi-talented entertainer who was a huge star in vaudeville, and on broadway, and in silent film, and in radio, and in talking pictures, and in television.

    Eddie Cantor is a true show biz Legend with a vast body of work spanning decades.

    But this podcast is going to focus on Eddie Cantor the singer of songs old and new as recorded live on the Eddie Cantor radio show in 1937.

    Eddie’s musical recording career began in 1917 and he had several hit songs throughout the 1920’s.

    When these songs were recorded live on his radio show in 1937, Eddie Cantor was still a very popular singer, selling out concerts and charting records in addition to being at the very top of the radio ratings.

    Click here to hear Eddie Sing!!
    30 min
  • When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 12

    Mary Livingston (a.k.a. Mrs. Jack Benny) of the Jack Benny Show

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast June 13 to June 20, 1937.

    Starring Pinky Tomlin, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Joan Blondell, Rogers & Hart, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris, Cecil B. DeMille, Helen Wills Moody, Fibber McGee and Molly, Rudy Vallee, Fanny Brice, Charles Winninger, May Robson, and more.

    Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Ragtime Cowboy Joe Medley”, Don Ameche “A little of you on toast:” Rudy Vallee “We danced the night away”

    Click here to hear Soundscape 1937 part 12
    1 hr 4 min
  • When Radio Ruled Soundscape 1937 part 11

    Eddie “Rochester” Anderson from the Jack Benny Show

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast May 31 to June 11, 1937.

    Starring Fibber McGee and Molly, the Cast of Texaco Town, Pinky Tomlin, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Rochester, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Constance Bennett, Ray Middleton, Natalie Bucknell, Cecil B. Demille, Errol Flynn, Frances Farmer, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx,  and more.

    Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Tetched in the Head”, and Dorothy Lamour, Charlie McCarthy and Don Ameche with a Gilbert and Sullivan Medley.

    Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 11 from When Radio Ruled

    1 hr 1 min
  • When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 10

    W.C. Fields threatens Charlie McCarthy as Edgar Bergen looks on

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast May 23 to May 30, 1937.

    Starring Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Boland, W. C. Fields, Fibber McGee and Molly, Cecil  B. DeMille, Louis Vandenecker, Bing Crosy, Zasu Pitts, Bob Burns, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Jack Benny, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingston, The Phil Harris Orchestra,  Don Wilson, Josephine Hutchinson, Jose Iturbi, and more.

    Featured Songs include Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy “Let’s call the whole thing off”, Bing Crosby “How Could You?” and “Time on my hands”

    Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 10

    1 hr 17 min
  • When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 9

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast May 9 to May 23, 1937.

    Starring Don Ameche, Warner Janssen, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Fibber McGee and Molly, Cecil B. DeMille, Rudy Vallee, J.B. Priestly, Kenny Baker, Jack Benny, Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Carole Lombard, Mrs. James Roosevelt (FDR’s Mother), Maurice Evans, Kate Smith, Phil Harris, and more.

    Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor “How You Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm after they’ve seen Paree?” , “Margee”, “Wake up and Live”. Kenny Baker and Jack Benny “Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.” Rudy Vallee “My Little Buckaroo”, Kate Smith “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”, Phil Harris “Nobody”,

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    1 hr 13 min
  • When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 8
    The Hindenberg – it blowed up real good.

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast April 30 to May 6, 1937.

    Starring Fred MacMurray, Gracie Fields, Louella Parsons, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Mary Livingston, Andy Devine, The Hindenburg Disaster, Herbert Morrison, The Lord Mayor of London, Rudy Vallee,  and more.

    Featured Songs include Gracie Fields “I Never Cried so Much in Me Life”. And Mary Livingston with Andy Devine “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”

    Listen To the Soundscape 1937 part 8 Podcast – Click Here!!

    52 min

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