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- 1937 Part 2 – Popular CultureJack Benny and Fred Allen Feud, Charlie McCarthy scandalizes Mae West, Mutual Goes National and More!A look at 1937 as told by Old Time Radio
Guest Starring, all the way from 1937 Are:
Janet Gaynor
George Burns and Gracie Allen
President Franklin Roosevelt
Fibber McGee and Molly
Eddie Cantor
Jimmy Wallington
Cecil B DeMille
Fay Gillis
Rudy Vallee
Sully and Block
Benny Goodman
Irving Berlin
Helen Wills Moody
Ronald Coleman
Douglas Fairbanks
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
The Cast of Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”
Glenda Ferrell
Bette Davis
Don Ameche
Mae West
Fred Allen
Jack Benny
Don Wilson
Mary Livingston
Phil Harris
Kenny Baker
Portland Hoffa
Duke Ellington
Featured Songs from 1937 Included:
Gracie Allen “I Love You from Coast to Coast” performed live December 23, 1937
“Swing, Benny, Swing” Sully and Block Live August 10, 1937
“I’m on a Sit Down Strike” Eddie Cantor March 28, 1937
“Let’s Go Slumming” Eddie Cantor Live October 13, 1937
“The Trouble with Me is You” Eddie Cantor Live January 1, 1937
“Down with Love” Rudy Vallee Live December 23, 1937
“Getting Some Fun Out of Life” Eddie Cantor live November 10 1937
“The Lady Who Couldn’t be Kissed” Pinky Tomlin Live November 24, 1937.
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0 min - 1937 Part 1: Politics and the Economy
Peace at all Costs
Those Germans and Russians and Japanese and Italians and Spanish keep killing people.
Featuring:
Jack Benny and The Cast of “The Jack Benny Jello Show”
The Phil Harris Orchestra
The Cast of Lux Radio Theater Production of “The Gilded Lily”
The Cast of the March of Time
President Franklin Roosevelt
Eddie Cantor and the cast of Texaco Town
The Cast of Fibber McGee and Molly
Father Coughlin
Pinky Tomlin
Winston Churchill
Refugees from the Sino-Japanese War
Rudy Vallee
Dinah Shore
Marlena Dietrich
Orson Welles, Agnes Morehead and the cast of THE SHADOW
Featured Songs from 1937 Include:
Eddie Cantor “Things Look Rosy Now” performed live January 10, 1937
“The Social Security Song” Rudy Vallee live February 18, 1937
“You Can’t Take It With You” Eddie Cantor Live January 31, 1937
“Down By The River” Dinah Shore Live January 3, 1937
“Keep it Over There” Eddie Cantor Live October 13, 1937
“The Trouble with Me is You” Eddie Cantor Live January 17, 1937
“The Object of My Affection” Pinky Tomlin Live January 17, 1937
Marlena Dietrich singing “Lilli Marlene” Recorded, 1937
Kay Kaiser’s Orchestra doing “I don’t want to get well” live from Chicago, February 1937
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0 min - When Radio Ruled Christmas 2020
It sure has been a strange year – we could all use a dose of Traditional Christmas. And here it is!
Two Great Episodes from 1939!
Jack Benny’s Christmas Open House
A Christmas Carol (starring Lionel Barrymore)
Featuring: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris and his Orchestra, Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, and more!
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0 min - When Radio Ruled #26- Charlie McCarthy: Sexiest Man Alive 1937When Radio Ruled PodCast Episode # 26Casanova Charlie McCarthy makes dates and breaks hearts in 1937 Hollywood.Starring Charlie McCarthyGUEST STARRINGEdgar BergenDon AmecheDorothy LamourClark GableAlice MarbleCarol LombardMary BolandMay RobsonSonya HenieZasu PittsBruna CastagnaGlenda FarrellBette DavisMae Westspecial cameo appearances by Nelson Eddy and Jack Bennymusic by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Kay KaiserLISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE!0 min
- When Radio Ruled episode 25 – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 5A Great Collection of SongsOriginally Broadcast Live on Old Time RadioAugust 25, 1937 through December 31, 1937!SONG LIST:Cast of Chase and Sanborn Charlie McCarthy Show – Have you got any?Pinky Tomlin – The Love BugBenny Goodman – Vibraphone BluesPinky Tomlin – Stop You’re Breaking my HeartAl Jolson – Toots Toots TootsieEddie Cantor – Now’s the time to fall in loveUnidentified Female Vocalist – Basin Street BluesPinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor – Sweet Varsity SueEddie Cantor – Swing is here to SwayEddie Cantor – Love is in the air tonightPinky Tomlin – I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me YouEddie Cantor – Some Fun Out of LifeRudy Vallee – Orange Blossom TimePinky Tomlin – I want to be in Winchell’s ColumnRudy Vallee – Down with LoveMarlena Deitrich – Lili Marlene
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0 min - When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 4This 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 HeartJack Renard – Salute to the US NavyPinky Tomlin – That’s what you thinkPinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy JoeEve Sully with Benny Goodman – Swing Benny swingPinky Tomlin – Seven Ages of ManTed Weems and his Orchestra – You can’t have everythingBenny Goodman – Dayton takes a holidayBenny Goodman – CaravanBenny Goodman – Sometimes I’m HappyBenny Goodman – Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding DayListen to the Podcast Here!0 min - When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 3Actor 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 offBing Crosby – How Could YouBing Crosby – Time on my handsEddie Cantor – Patriotic medleyPink Tomlin – Touched in the headCast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – Gilbert and Sullivan MedleyPinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy JoeRudy Vallee – We danced the night awayDon Ameche, Dorothy Lamour, Charlie McCarthy – Any more at home?Pinky Tomlin – I’m on the wagon as far as you’re concernedHoagy Carmichael and the Cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – I love you like my old felt hatDorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy – Merry Go RoundWhen Radio Ruled Podcast – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 30 min
- When Radio Ruled -Radio Jukebox 1937 (part 2) -Old Time Radio MusicThis show features songs from Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ella Logan, Pinky Tomlin, Gracie Fields, Kate Smith, Phil Harris and others.Originally Broadcast LiveApril 11 – May 23, 1937!Ella Logan – Scottish MedleyRudy Vallee Show – Swing your mother in lawRudy Vallee – Goodbye BoysPinky Tomlin – The Love BugFibber and Molly Show – Slap That BassRudy Vallee – Got my love to keep me warmGracie Fields – Never Cried So MuchCharlie McCarthy Show – Instrumental “too good for words”Eddie Cantor – How you gonna keep them down on the farmJack Benny Cast – Gonna write myself a letterEddie Cantor – MargieRudy Vallee – My Little BuckarooKate Smith – Can’t take that away from mePhil Harris – NobodyEddie Cantor – Wake up and LiveListen to the Podcast here!!!0 min
- When Radio Ruled – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 1Songs broadcast live on National RadioJanuary – March 1937Dinah ShoreRudy ValleeEddie CantorPinky TomlinPhil HarrisDuke Ellingtonand More!!!Listen to the Podcast Here!0 min
- 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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A look at Old Time Radio and the world around it. A chronological look at the original mass media.