When Radio Ruled #128 - SoundScape 1939 part 10 May 22 - June 4
Release Date: 05/23/2025
When Radio Ruled #152 - A 1930s New Year Celebration
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Happy New Year from Old Time Radio of the 1930s! Featuring: Jack Benny Mary Livingston Don Wilson Georgie Jessel Norma Talmadge Edward Arnold Dennis Day Phil Harris Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and More!!
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When Radio Ruled #151 - A 1930s Christmas
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Holiday Spirit from 1937, 1938, and 1939 as served up by Old Time Radio! Christmas Time is here again. A time when us older folks reconnect with the child we once were. Moments from past Christmases relived, smiles and tears remembered. Longing and gratitude and the laughter of those we’ve lost. At least that’s what happens to me. Every Christmas that passes magnifies the memories of Christmases from a lifetime ago. Old Time Radio like this helps me through the bittersweet nostalgia for days that no longer exist. Starring Santa Claus and The Christian God Also Appearing Don...
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When Radio Ruled #150 - SoundScape 1939 part 22
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. October 23 – October 29, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Gildersleeve throws a Halloween Party! The Question of the Week! The Great Frederick Knocks Off Important Dough! Carol Lombard Married Some Chump! And More!! Featuring: Captain Midnight Fibber McGee and Molly Fred Allen Harry Von Zell Portland Hoffa Peter Van Steeden Wynn Murray The Merry Macs Billy Rose Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Nelson Eddy Dorothy Lamour Clark Gable And...
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When Radio Ruled #149 - SoundScape 1939 part 21 October 15-22, 1939
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. Radio highlights originally broadcast live October 15 through October 22, 1939. A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Fibber McGee and Giidersleeve Argue! Henry Aldritch combs his hair! Arthur Miller’s first Radio Show! America’s Town Meeting of the Air explains the European War! The New Machinery of our Century! Jack Benny finds a Gold Cigarette Case! Boxer King Kole Eats Canvas! And More!! Featuring: Orson Welles Cecil B DeMille ...
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When Radio Ruled #148 - Thanksgiving 2025
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Happy Thanksgiving!! The concept of Thanksgiving is as ancient as ancient can be. Harvest festivals dedicated to the god or gods currently in fashion as thanks for abundance and the survival it would provide. But like so many things, Americans have made thanksgiving their very own with traditions and customs created and nurtured here in the good old USA. FEATURING: Lionel Barrymore Edward Arnold Fanny Brice Hanley Stafford Nelson Eddy Cecil B. DeMille Mickey Rooney Don Wilson Amos ‘n Ady Wally Brown Dinah Shore Winston Churchill And More
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When Radio Ruled #147 - SoundScape 1939 part 20
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. Radio highlights originally broadcast live October 8 through October 15, 1939. A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: What the Jack Benny cast did on Summer Vacation! Dennis Day Joins the Jello Cast! Orson Welles takes us to Tangiers! Bert Lahr visits Fred Allen! Andy Devine visits Jack Benny! And More!! Featuring: Jack Benny Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Mary Livingston Phil Harris Don Wilson Dennis Day Orson Welles Paulette Goddard ...
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When Radio Ruled #146 - SoundScape 1939 part 19
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Old Time Radio highlights originally broadcast live October 1 through October 8, 1939. Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Charlie McCarthy’s in Need of Cash! Mozart has been dead for many years! Edgar Bergen Firefighter! Constance Bennett has a Bridge Party Charlie McCarthy Fire Chief!! And More!! Featuring: Don Ameche Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Nelson Eddy Dorothy Lamour Edward Everett Horton Constance Bennett Robert Armbruster ...
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When Radio Ruled #145 - Spooky Scary Chilling Halloween 2025
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At Halloween the thin boundary between living and dead dissolves so that ghosts, goblins, and the sins we thought long buried come back to feast on our fright filled souls. Day of the dead, all souls day, two thousand years ago the Pagen Celts called it Samhin, we call it Halloween. The time when ghosts, ghouls, and costumed children all wander the streets looking for their favorite tasty treats. The children want candy, the others from beyond the grave want to feed on your sweet, sweet, sinful soul. The earliest peoples knew this, huddled around the first campfires now lost in memory...
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When Radio Ruled #144 - SoundScape 19839 part 18
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. September 21 – September 28, 1939 History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Tap Dancing on the Radio! Charlie McCarthy back to School! Funny stories from David Niven Women can be Boss and make the Men Like It! And More!! Featuring: Major Bowes The Teddy Powell Orchestra Orson Welles Don Ameche Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Dorothy Lamour David Niven Anita Louise Robert Armbruster Fibber McGee and Molly And...
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When Radio Ruled #143 - Birth of the SitCom
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Early American entertainment included the circus, the minstrel show, vaudeville, broadway revues, all popular forms of the variety show. And it was talent from those stage shows that created radio. But radio wasn’t the same as the stage. Radio was different manifesting new possibilities for entertainment. An opportunity to entertain with new formats. The situation comedy was one such format, brand new, a child of radio, never before seen in the history of man. Although the situation comedy format is only a hundred or so years old, there is still a mystery...
info_outline1939 SoundScape part 10, Radio highlights originally broadcast live May 22 through June 4, 1939
Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day.
History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio.
In today’s SoundScape:
Youth committing crimes!
American Freedom!
The Death of John Brown!
Jack Benny: Ladies Man!
Interviews with Civil War Veterans!
Airmail to Europe!
Featuring:
Cecil B Demille
Courtney Riley Cooper
Fibber McGee and Molly
Harlow Wilcox
Orson Welles
Don Wilson
Jack Benny
Phil Harris
Mary Livingstone
Kenny Baker
The Green Hornet
Baby Snooks
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson
And More!