When Radio Ruled

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live April 20 through May 4 1938. Featuring: The Cast of the Lone Ranger The Cast of Blair of the Mounties Fred Allen Harry Von Zell Charles Atlas Winston Churchill The Cast of Columbia Workshop Jack Benny Phil Harris Mary Livingston … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #86 – SoundScape 1938 part&...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #85-S...

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live March 24 through April 3, 1938. Featuring: Gabby Hartnet Frank Morgan The Cast of the Lone Ranger Georgie Jessel Jack Benny Harry Von Zell Abe Lyman Bob Ripley Fred Allen Orson Welles Robert Taylor Connie Boswell Louis B. Mayer Adolf … Continue reading When Radio Ruled episode #84 -SoundScape 1938...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #83 SoundScape 1938 part&...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #82 &...

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 … Continue reading When Radi...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #80 – SoundScape 1938 part&#16...

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live February 17 through February 20, 1938. Featuring: Jack Benny Robert Taylor Maureen O’Sullivan Jack Conway Meredith Wilson Fanny Brice The Cast of Dick Tracy Don Wilson Phil Harris Mary Livingston Kenny Baker Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Orson Welles Norma Shearer Sigmund … Continue reading When Radi...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #78 – SoundScape 1938 part&#16...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #77 – SoundScape 1938 part&#16...

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, … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #76 – Soundscape 1938 part 5

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

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

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 5 through January 16, 1938. And it’s a good one, too! Lots of classic comedy and infectious songs coming your way! Featuring: Eddie Cantor Pinky Tomlin Don Wilson Jack Benny Kenny Baker Mary Livingston Phil Harris Ned Sparks Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen The … Continue reading When Radio Ruled episode #73 &#8...

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #72 – SoundScape 1938 p...

In the previous episode, 1938 part 1, we looked at the political situation across the world. The coming confrontation between countries trying to provoke war and countries wishing to avoid it. How Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Franco, and Stalin created fear and suffering. How the USA, Britain, France, and the smaller democracies tried to keep free … Continue reading When Radio Ruled episode #71...

The Year 1938 brought a world with one foot in a miserable recent past and the other foot in a murderous near future. History as told from Old Time Radio originally broadcast in 1938 Featuring: Eddie Cantor The Cast of March of Time Adolf Hitler Orson Welles Georgie Jessel Neville Chamberlain Jack Benny Judy Garland … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #70 – The Year 1938 Politics Inter...

The Jack Benny show made Phil a huge star. Even though Phil would go on to do more films and have his own radio shows, and tour the country with his band, and appear on television and build a real estate empire he would always be known first and foremost for his Jack Benny years. … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #69 – Phil Harris and His Orchestra 1938

Born Edward Israel Iskowitz in 1892 to a poor family of recent immigrants, through sheer tenacity and talent street urchin Eddie Cantor became a show biz giant for half a century. Starting out in vaudeville in 1907, starring on Broadway, a movie star in both silents and talkies, and a radio and television pioneer. For … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #68 Eddie Cantor Sings 1938

Old Time Radio’s Jack Benny show was a sitcom disguised as a variety show. The cast used their real names, or rather their real stage names, but they all played characters unlike themselves. Characters of diverse comic points of view, each character contrasted with the others. Each funny in their own way and all together … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #67 Jack Benny Goes to Yosemit...

Best known today as the third angle in the Bob Hope Bing Crosby road pictures romantic triangles, or perhaps as the sarong wearing eye candy in several other films, Dorothy Lamour started out as a big band singer. Appearing weekly on the Charlie McCarthy show afforded Dorothy opportunities to remind audiences of her musical roots, … Continue reading When Radio Ruled Episode 66 Dorothy Lamour...

This is the second year in a row that Charlie McCarthy has proven himself the greatest lover in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter. Among those that Charlie McCarthy charmed are the some of the most accomplished and beautiful women of his time. Some of them tried to resist, some didn’t bother, in the … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #65 Charlie McCarthy Sexiest Man Alive 193...

The Fred Allen material you are about to hear is from his radio show, Town Hall Tonight, in 1938. Fred Allen was unique in the radio world of corny set up/punchline type snappy patter his former vaudeville and current radio peers like Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Georgie Jessel, the Marx Brothers, and others favored. Oftentimes … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #64 – Fred Allen People You...

Fanny Brice was one of the greatest singer/comics on Broadway. She had to reinvent herself as Baby Snooks in order to find radio stardom. This is that Journey. Songs Include: My Man Second Hand Rose I was a Flora Dora Baby Click Here to Give it a Listen

Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in 1922, and soon revealed a talent for song and dance. Her first public performance was when she was just 2 and a half years old, singing jingle bells at a Christmas pageant. Her father was a successful vaudevillian with Judy and her sisters following in his footsteps, touring … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #62 – Judy Garland Sings 1938