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    Episodes (15)

    When Radio Ruled #100 - SoundScape 1938 part 26

    When Radio Ruled #100 - SoundScape 1938 part 26

    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 October 23  through October 31, 1938.

    Starring:

    Orson Welles

    Lionel Barrymore

    Clark Gable

    Robert Young

    Frank Morgan

    Don Ameche

    Judy Canova

    Charlie McCarthy

    Edgar Bergen

    Dorothy Lamour

    Madeleine Carroll

    Don Wilson

    Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

    Jack Benny

    Mary Livingstone

    Kenny Baker

    Phil Harris

    Andy Devine

    and

    Seabiscuit

    FEATURED SONGS INCLUDE

    Two Sleepy People – Dorothy Lamour

    Hounds on My Tracks – Judy, Annie, and Zeke

    and

    What Have You Got That Gets Me? – Phil Harris and the Jello Gang

    In this episode:

    The Martians Invade America!

    Edgar Bergen tries to Tell a Ghost Story!

    Jack Benny throws a Halloween Party!

    Seabiscuit races War Admiral!

    And More!!

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

     Soundscape 1938, part 26, from When Radio Ruled, offered without further commentary for your entertainment and education. But mostly for your entertainment.

     

    When Radio Ruled #81 - SoundScape 1938 part 10

    When Radio Ruled #81 - SoundScape 1938 part 10

    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 old time 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 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 live February 27 through March 9 1938.

    Featuring:

    Don Ameche

    Charlie McCarthy

    Edgar Bergen

    Dorothy Lamour

    Rosalind Russell

    Eddie Cantor

    Jimmy Wallington

    The Lone Ranger

    Norma Talmadge

    Josephine Starr

    Georgie Jessel

    Jack Benny

    Don Wilson

    Phil Harris

    Mary Livingston

    Leo Robin

    Ralph Ranger

    and

    Cecil B. DeMille 

    Featured Songs Include:

    Romance in the Dark – Dorothy Lamour

    Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Eddie Cantor

    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Deanna Durbin

    Orange Blossom Time – Bobby Breen

    I Double Dare You Medley – Georgie Jessel

    Thanks for the Memories violin instrumental – Jack Benny

    and

    Momma That Moon’s Here Again – Eddie Cantor

    In this episode:

     Charlie McCarthy moves into the world of high finance when Edgar Bergen raises his allowance

     SeaBiscuit and Stage Hand run one of the greatest races in the history of the Santa Anita handicap.

     Leo Robin and Ralph Ranger try to talk Jack Benny out of playing their latest hit.

     Don Wilson Celebrates his 15th anniversary on the air!

     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.

     

    When Radio Ruled #80 - SoundScape 1938 part 9

    When Radio Ruled #80 - SoundScape 1938 part 9

    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 old time 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 live February 20 through February 27, 1938.

     

    Featuring:

     

    Don Ameche

    Charlie McCarthy

    Edgar Bergen

    Gladys Swarthout

    The Cast of Dick Tracy

    Eddie Cantor

    Norma Talmadge

    Josephine Starr

    Georgie Jessel

    Smith and Dale

    The Cast of The Shadow

    Don Wilson

    Jack Benny

    Mary Livingston

    Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

    and

    Andy Devine

     

    Featured Songs Include:

    I see Your Face Before Me – Dorothy Lamour

    Dipsy Doodle – Charlie McCarthy and Gladys Swarthout

    and

    Thanks For The Memories - Kenny Baker

    In this episode:

    Georgie Jessel explains how Vaudeville shows worked and stars in some fine examples of Vaudeville Comedy.

     Charlie McCarthy Sings!

     The Jack Benny gang presents the conclusion of Submarine D1!

    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.

    When Radio Ruled #78 - SoundScape 1938 part 7

    When Radio Ruled #78 - SoundScape 1938 part 7

    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.

    When Radio Ruled #76 - Soundscape 1938 part 5

    When Radio Ruled #76 - Soundscape 1938 part 5

    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 January 30 through February 06, 1938.

     

    Featuring:

    Josephine Starr

    Eddie Cantor

    The Cast of The March of Time

    Jack Benny

    Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

    Phil Harris and his Orchestra

    Mary Livingston

    Don Ameche

    Charlie McCarthy

    Edgar Bergen

    Marlene Dietrich

    The Stroud Twins

     

     

    Featured Songs Include:

    What are you doing the rest of your life? – Eddie Cantor

    Stormy Weather – Maureen O’Connor

    Oil Gusher – Raymond Scott and his Orchestra

    Always – Deanna Durbin

    Bie Mir Bist Du Schoen – Kenny Baker

    Keep Muddling Through – Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour

    My Heart is Taking Lessons – Dorothy Lamour

     

    In this episode, Charlie McCarthy gets a dog. What is life without a dog? We hear some recreated current events of 1938 from March of Time. There’s a great radio play love story featuring Don Ameche and Marlene Dietrich, the same Marlene Dietrich who later flirts with both Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen. This episode is a lot of fun.

    When Radio Ruled episode 55 - Soundscape 1937 part 22

    When Radio Ruled episode 55 - Soundscape 1937 part 22

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast November 29 to December 12, 1937.

    Starring Cecil B Demille, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Rudy Vallee, Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou, Frank Case, Andy Devine, Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Fibber McGee, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Nelson Eddy, Mae West, Pinky Tomlin and more.

    When Radio Ruled #52 - Soundscape 1937 part 19

    When Radio Ruled #52 - Soundscape 1937 part 19

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast October 11 to October 18, 1937. Starring Fibber McGee & Molly, President Franklin Roosevelt, Eddie Cantor, Pinky Tomlin, Benny Goodman, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Clark Gable, Dorothy LaMour, Nelson Eddy, The Stroud Twins, Cecil B. DeMille, Jimmy Starr, Madge Evans, Fred MacMurry, and more.

    Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor “Laugh Your Way Through Life” and “Keep it Over There”, Benny Goodman “The Old Apple Tree”.

    When Radio Ruled #51 - Soundscape 1937 part 18

    When Radio Ruled #51 - Soundscape 1937 part 18

    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”

    When Radio Ruled #50 - Soundscape 1937 part 17

    When Radio Ruled #50 - Soundscape 1937 part 17

    This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast August 29 to September 5, 1937.

    Starring Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Pinky Tomlin, Fibber McGee and Molly, Benny Goodman, Eddie Stanley, Ida Lupino, and more.

     

    Featured Songs include Don Ameche, Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy “Have You Got Any?”

    Pinky Tomlin “The Love Bug” and “Stop Breaking my Heart”

     And The Benny Goodman Quartet,  a super group made up of swing and jazz legends Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman, with an especially hot version of “Vibraphone Blues”

    When Radio Ruled episode #49 - Soundscape 1937 part 16

    When Radio Ruled episode #49 - Soundscape 1937 part 16

    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.

     

    When Radio Ruled episode 48 - Soundscape 1937 part 15

    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”.

    When Radio Ruled - Soundscape 1937 part 14

    When Radio Ruled - Soundscape 1937 part 14

    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”

    When Radio Ruled Episode 46 - Soundscape 1937 part 13

    When Radio Ruled Episode 46 - Soundscape 1937 part 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”

    When Radio Ruled #44 - Soundscape 1937 part 12

    When Radio Ruled #44 - Soundscape 1937 part 12

    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”