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This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live June 4 through June 19, 1938.

Starring:

The Cast of Colombia Workshop

Fred Allen

Ray Smith

Portland Hoffa

Harry Von Zell

Peter Van Steeden

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Phil Harris

Don Wilson

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Joan Bennett

Featured Songs include:

Cry Baby Cry – Town Hall Quartet

Serenade in the Night - Connie Boswell

Don’t Be That Way – Meredith Wilson Orchestra

Second Hand Rose – Fanny Brice

In this episode:

Jack Benny and Joan Bennett Shoot their Movie!

What’s a Mikado? Kenny Baker wants to Know!

Fanny Brice sings one of her greatest hits!

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.

Soundscape 1938, part 19, from When Radio Ruled, offered without further commentary for your entertainment and education. But mostly for your entertainment.

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 episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live May 5 through May 18 1938.

Featuring:

Judy Garland

Robert Young

Frank Morgan

Una Merkle

Clark Gable

The Cast of the Green Hornet

Jack Benny

Phil Harris

Mary Livingston

Don Wilson

The Cast of the Lone Ranger

Fred Allen

 

Featured Songs Include:

Judy Garland – You’re in God’s Country

Judy Garland – How Deep is the Ocean

Norma Talmadge – How’d You Like to Love Me

Town Hall Quartet – You Couldn’t be Finer

  

In this episode:

 Fred Allen and Company Mock Jack Benny and his new home.

 16 Year Old Judy Garland Sings Her Heart Out!

 Frank Morgan discusses his career as a Gigilo!

And More!!

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live April 3 through April 18, 1938. 

Featuring:

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Mary Livingston

Kenny Baker

Phil Harris

Fred Allen

Portland Hoffa

Harry Von Zell

Harry Morgan

Robert Taylor

Fanny Brice

Featured Songs Include:

Dear, Dear, What Can the Matter Be? – The Merry Macs

I’m Coming Home – The Town Hall Quartet

The Gypsy in my Soul – The Merry Macs

Why? Because! – Judy Garland & Baby Snooks

College Swing – Judy Garland

Cryin’ for the Caroline – Judy Garland 

In this episode:

 Jack Benny Goes to Oxford, if he can find it!

 The Jack Benny/Fred Allen feud heats up!

Judy Garland sings and Swings!

 Harry Morgan and Fanny Brice as Napoleon and Josephine! 

And More!!

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live March 14 through March 23 1938.

 

Featuring:

The Cast of Blair of the Mounties

The Cast of The Lone Ranger

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Wallington

Orson Welles

Agnes Moorehead

Georgie Jessel

Joe the Chimpanzee

Jack Benny

Phil Harris

Don Wilson

Mary Livingston

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Harry Von Zell

Fred Allen

and

Portland Hoffa

 

Featured Songs Include:

Medley of Hits - Eddie Cantor

Circus Day – Georgie Jessel and Cast

Let Them Keep It Over There – Eddie Cantor

 

In this episode:

Austria is absorbed into Nazi Germany!

 Eddie Cantor Celebrates 25 years in Showbiz!

 Fred Allen interviews an Ice Lady!

And More!!

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.

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

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”