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This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live March 9 through March 13 1938.

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

Gloria Swanson

The Mad Russian

Deanna Durbin

Bobby Breen

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Mary Livingston

Andy Devine

and

Phil Harris

Featured Songs Include:

 Broadway has Gone Hawaii medley – Connie Boswell

My Man – Fanny Brice

and

Sweet Leilani – Georgie Jessel

In this episode:

 Germany marches into Austria!

Fannie Brice sings her greatest hit, My Man!

 Jack Benny tries Andy Devine for murder!

And More!!

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

 

I listen to hundreds of hours of radio shows in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits and create a best of reel as a reference for writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

 

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast February 13 through February 17, 1938.

 

Featuring:

 

Georgie Jessel

Buster Crabbe

Norma Talmadge

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Barbara Stanwyck

The Cast of Dick Tracy

Cecil B DeMille

Jimmy Starr

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Wallington

Freddie Bartholomew

Deanna Durbin

Robert Taylor

and

Jack Benny

 

 

 

 

Featured Songs Include:

 

Secret of Love -  Buster Crabbe

Lovelight in the Starlight – Dorothy Lamour

Thanks for the Memories – Charlie McCarthy, Barbara Stanwyck, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour

and

What are you doing the Rest of Your Life? – Eddie Cantor

 In this episode:

 Olympic Swimmer and movie Tarzan Buster Crabbe sings!

 Charlie McCarthy needs an increase in his allowance! Who can date starlets on fifty cents a week? It requires at least a dollar!

 Charlie McCarthy and Barbara Stanwyck speak southern!

 Jack Benny visits the Good News program to fix what’s wrong with the show!

 And More!!

So 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.

The Soundscape series is a happy side effect of the research phase for the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary Podcasts.

 

I listen to hundreds of hours of radio shows in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits and create a best of reel as a reference when writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

 

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast February 6 through February 13, 1938.

 

Featuring:

 

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Josephine Starr

Gus Edwards

Eddie Cantor

The Cast of The March of Time

Frank Morgan

Fanny Brice

Jack Benny

Robert Taylor

Mary Livingston

 

 

Featured Songs Include:

 

Rhythm in your nursery rhyme – Georgie Jessel

School Days – Georgie Jessel

Summertime – Deanna Durbin

 

 

 

 

In this episode we get to meet the great vaudeville producer Gus Edwards

 

March of Times dramatizes the Roosevelt Second to None Naval policy, and the purge of German Army by Adolf Hitler.

 

Jack Benny and Robert Taylor play a Violin and Cello Duet, complete with vaudeville comedy patter.

 

Frank Morgan and Fanny Brice bring the funny, pint size Josephine Starr brings a voice as big as all outdoors, some incredible 3 part close harmony, and more.

 

So 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.