My personal OTR collection contains thousands of hours of old time radio I use  in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen to each episode I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits to create a best of reel as a reference for when writing the scripts. And that’s what you are about to hear, part of that best of reel, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live November 25 through December 11, 1938.

Starring:

Orson Welle

Agnes Moorehead

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Phil Harris

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingstone

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Cast of Family Doctor

 

Featured Songs Include

They Say – Helen Forrest with the Artie Shaw Orchestra

My Reverie - Helen Forrest with the Artie Shaw Orchestra

Who Blew Out The Flame - Helen Forrest with the Artie Shaw Orchestra

Pocketful of Dreams – Phil Harris and His Orchestra

 

In this episode:

Some Smoking Jazz From Artie Shaw!

Jack Benny has a bad cold!

Flash Benny Football Hero!

The Benny Gang Visits New York!

Jack’s Annual Christmas Shopping Trip!

 And More!!

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live May 26 through June 1 1938.

 

Starring:

Robert Young

Fanny Brice

Hanley Stafford

The Cast of Columbia Workshop

Georgie Jessel

Mary Livingston

Don Wilson

Kenny Baker

Phil Harris

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Jack Benny

Andy Devine

Agnes Moorehead

Orson Welles

Fred Allen

The Mighty Allen Art Players

 

Featured Songs include:

I was a Flora Dora Baby – Fanny Brice

Love Please Don’t Tell on Me medley – The Merry Macs

 

In this episode:

Rochester plays Leading Lady as Jack Benny rehearses for his new film!

The Shadow Confronts The Creeper!

A Vox Pop parody from Fred Allen!

And More!!

 

Please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

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”

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