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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”

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.

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”

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”.

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”

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast April 11 to April 29, 1937.

Starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Eddie Cantor, Ella Logan, Ted Weems and his Orchestra, Harlow Wilcox, Fibber McGee and Molly, Rudy Vallee, Pinky Tomlin, Judy Starr, Alice Marble, Johnny Burke and Russ Brown, and more.

Featured Songs include Ella Logan “You take the high road”, Rudy Vallee “Good bye boys”, Pinky Tomlin “The Love Bug”, Judy Starr “I’ve got my love to keep you warm”.  

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast March 11 to March 28, 1937.

Starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,  Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Ben Bernie, Fibber McGee and Molly, Duke Ellington, Harlow Wilcox, Albert Sullivan, Rudy Vallee, and more.

Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor “There is anything that love can’t do” and “I’m on a sit down strike for love”, Some Great Duke Ellington tune with Ivey Anderson on vocals.

Judy Starr “Swing Swing your mother in law”. Rudy Vallee “This Year’s income taxes medley” and “Mr. Paganini”.

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast February 21 to March 8, 1937.

Starring Father Coughlin, Douglas Fairbanks, Erroll Flynn, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,  Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Bobby Breen, and more.

Featured Songs include Rudy Vallee “Let’s Go Slumming” and “Here in the Moonlight”. And Bobby Breen “Trust in Me”.

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast February 1 to February 21, 1937.

Starring Gary Cooper, The Cast of the Lux Radio Theater, Cecille B. Demille , Faye Gillis, Kay Kyser Orchestra, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Rufus Le Maire, Gene Raymond, Anna Sten, Father Coughlin, Leslie Howard, Rudy Vallee,  and more.

Featured Songs include Kay Kyser “Hey Hey Your Cares Away” and “I don’t want to get well”. Eddie Cantor “Gee but you’re swell”, “That’s the Baby for me” and “My dream of the Radio”. Rudy Vallee, “Social Security Song” and “You’ll love me someday”

To my knowledge, the earliest existing recording of Boris Karloff on old time radio.

The Tell Tale Heart

A conversation with Charlie McCarthy

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast January 17 to January 31, 1937.

Starring Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Andy Devine, Mary Livinston, Buck Jones, The Cast of The March of Time, Cecile B DeMille, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, The Charioteers, Phil Harris, Eddie Cantor, Basil O’Connor, Jimmy Wallington, Charlie Butterfield, Irving Berlin,  and more.

This one is a short subject, about 10 minutes long, starring Jim Jordan as Fibber McGee as in Fibber McGee and Molly.

 Classic Fibber and Molly episodes featured jokes, gags, and situations that often repeated from episode to episode and became running gags that listeners looked forward to each week.

 One of my favorite running gag is because Fibber can ever admit ignorance on any subject, When invariably asked if he knows anything about this or that occupation, Fibber not only knows all about it, he used to do it professionally and was the best ever at it.

 And he bragged about his professional success using alliteration to great comic effect.

 You’ll see what I mean.

 Here, just because why not, is Fibber’s resume, 1937

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast January 10 to January 17, 1937.

Starring Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livinston, Andy Devine, David Niven, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray,

Cecile B. DeMille, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Pat O’Brien, Pinky Tomlin, and more.

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast January 1 to January 6, 1937.

Starring Eddie Cantor, Cecil B. DeMille, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Mary Livinston, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Al Jolson, Harry Von Zell, Jimmy Wallington, Edith Head, opening day of the 75th Congress of the United states, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, and more.

Featuring:

Charlie McCarthy

The Cast of Gunsmoke

Jack Benny

Bob Hope

Bing Crosby

Dinah Shore

Edgar Bergen

And More!

Guest Starring, all the way from 1937 were:

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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

The Year 1937 as told by Old Time Radio

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 Included:

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

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!

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

 

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 – SAtop 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