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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.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 26 through January 30, 1938.

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

Dorothy Wade

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Mary Livingston

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Nelson Eddy

Boris Karloff

The Stroud Twins

Dorothy LaMour

Norma Talmadge

and

Georgie Jessel

 Featured Songs Include:

Rosalie Medley – Eddie Cantor

Ave Maria – Deanna Durbin

Bie Mir Bist Du Shoen – Dorothy Wade

The President’s Birthday Ball – Eddie Cantor

Someone for Everyone – Kenny Baker

You Took The Words Right Our of My Heart – Dorothy Lamour

In The Solemn Hour – John Carter and Nelson Eddy

and

You’re a Sweetheart – Georgie Jessel

 

This episode features both comic and dramatic scenes starring the legendary Boris Karloff in one of his earliest appearances on Radio.

First Karloff spins a tale of murder and suspense with the help of Don Ameche. Then Karloff shifts gears to bring the funny with Charlie McCarthy. This one is a good one folks.

 So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 16 through January 3, 1938.

 Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Josephine Starr

Eddie Cantor

Pinky Tomlin

Bert Kalmar

Harry Ruby

Lee Wiley

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Nelson Eddy

Alice Brady

Dorothy Lamour

Featured Songs Include:

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Georgie Jessel

When You Dream About Hawaii – Georgie Jessel

The Doll’s Song – Josephine Starr

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Eddie Cantor

Mama, I wanna make rhythm - The Galley Sisters

Love Walked Right In - Kenny Baker

Broadway’s Gone Hawaii – Dorothy Lamour

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

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

 

The creation of the historical documentaries begins with research. In my collection of Old Time Radio Shows I have hundreds of hours of recordings from 1938. I arranged all these radio shows by order of date broadcast and then listened to them one by one until I had listened to the entire year January 1 to December 31. As I go through the listening process I take the most interesting, entertaining, or informative clips and assemble them onto a “Best Of” clip reel from which I will select the Old Time Radio excerpts to include in the historical documentaries.

The script isn’t written at this point, so these clip reels contain much more material than can possibly be used in the finished documentary. The 1938 clip reel was almost 36 hours long. I used less than 3 hours in the final documentaries.

But these best of reels are so much fun to listen to! A whole year condensed into a day and a half! It seems a great waste to not share these selected clip with fellow Old Time Radio enthusiasts, thus the Soundscape series of When Radio Ruled was born.

So here is the first hour of the newest clip reel, excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast January 1 to January 5 1938 .

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Man Mountain Dean

Josephine Starr

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Phil Harris and His Orchestra

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Andy Devine

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Don Ameche

Charley McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Dorothy Lamour

Margot

Eddie Cantor

Deanna Durbin

Selected Songs Include:

Getting Some Fun Out of Life – Cast of the Georgie Jessel Show

I want a gay cabellaro – unidentified female vocalist

Rolling Plains – Kenny Baker

I want a new romance – Dorothy Lamour

In the still of the night – Deanna Durbin

The Year 1938 as presented through Old Time Radio!

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

The Cast of March of Time

Adolf Hitler

Orson Welles

Georgie Jessel

Neville Chamberlain

Jack Benny

Judy Garland

Winston Churchill

And More!