When Radio Ruled #162 - SoundScape 1939 part 31
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. December 24 – December 31, 1939 The Holiday Season 1939, Christmas Eve to New Years Eve. A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: When Ma knits She’s Nuts! Some Day you’ll find your Bluebird!! Crack-Shot Higgins Goes Hunting!!! And More!! Featuring: Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Jack Benny Mary Livingstone Dennis Day Don Wilson Phil Harris Andy Devine Shirley Temple Nelson Eddy Orson Welles Cecil B DeMille Fred Allen ...
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When Radio Ruled #161 - Swinging the 1930s on Old Time Radio
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The very best Swing Bands at peak of their skill and Creativity playing live for our entertainment. Innovative use of instruments and musical arrangement that extend the boundaries of musical theory. Structured arrangements that made room for improvisation. The very best musicians in America playing the best they ever played. Featuring: Paul Whiteman Louis Armstrong Tommy Dorsey Artie Shaw Duke Ellington Benny Goodman And more!
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When Radio Ruled #160 - SoundScape 1939 part 30 December 10-21, 1939
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. December 3 – December 10, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Smoking is good for the Nerves! It is so near Christmas!! Robert Armbruster plays a good milking tempo!!! Charlie McCarthy, Detective!!! And More!! Featuring: Cecil B. DeMille Cary Grant Carol Lombard Kay Francis Fibber McGee and Molly Edward Arnold Connee Boswell The Shadow Don Ameche Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Mortimer Snerd Dorothy Lamour Geraldine...
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When Radio Ruled #159 - SoundScape 1939 part 29
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. December 3 – December 10, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Murder on the Gridiron! Buttering Jack up for Christmas Presents!! Broadcast from Bergen’s Hospital Bedside!!! And More!! Featuring: Jack Benny Don Wilson Mary Livingston Phil Harris Dennis Day Orson Welles Fibber McGee and Molly Harlow Wilcox Edward Arnold Connee Boswell Baby Snooks Hanley Stafford Rudy Vallee Dorothy Lamour Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Vera Vague And...
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When Radio Ruled #158 - SoundScape 1939 part 28 November 26-December 3, 1939
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. November 26 – December 3, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Thanksgiving is more than Just Turkeys! Someday We’ll Be Very Proud of Our Son! McCarthy and Doogan Christmas Shoppers! A Reunion of the Old Blarney! And More!! Featuring: Rudy Valee Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Donald Dixon Dorothy Lamour Loretta Young Orson Welles Fay Bainter Nan Sunderland Fibber McGee and Molly Connee...
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When Radio Ruled #157 - SoundScape 1939 part 27 November 19-26,1939
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. November 19 – November 26, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: In today’s SoundScape: Mary’s Thanksgiving Poem Jack’s Turkey is an Ostrich! The Deacon chisels for a living!! Remember Abe Lincoln this Thanksgiving!!! And More!! Featuring: Jack Benny Don Wilson Dennis Day Mary Livingstone Phil Harris Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Cecil B. DeMille James Hilton Lawrence Olivier Edna Best Fibber McGee and Molly ...
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When Radio Ruled #156 - SoundScape 1939 part 26 November 12-19, 1939
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. November 12 – November 19, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Churchill Summarizes the First Ten Weeks of War. Mexican Jumping Beans from Your Skelly Man! Falling in Love in 30 Minutes!! Should We Ignore Racial Differences??? And More!! Featuring: Winston Churchill Captain Midnight Harlow Wilcox Fibber McGee and Molly Edward Arnold Marlene Dietrich Maxie Rosenblum Connee Boswell Fanny Brice Meredith Wilson ...
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When Radio Ruled #155 - SoundScape 1939 part 25
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. November 9 – November 12, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Duffy Knows all the Angles! Jack Benny sees the Dentist!! Jean Arthur meets Mortimer Snerd!!! And More!! Featuring: Ed Gardner Edward Arnold Connee Boswell Don Wilson Jack Benny Phil Harris Mary Livingstone Dennis Day Eddie “Rochester” Anderson The Shadow Rudy Vallee Dorothy Lamour Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Vera Vague Mortimer Snerd Jean...
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When Radio Ruled #154 - SoundScape1939 part 24
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. November 5 – November 8, 1939 A tapestry of History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s SoundScape: Jack and Phil are incompatible! Casting the Boys as The Women! Three Banana Splits and Now I’m a Bride! Doughnuts! Jack and Jill! And More!! Featuring: Orson Welles Mary Astor Jack Benny Don Wilson Phil Harris Mary Livingstone Dennis Day Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Andy Devine The Shadow Cecil B. DeMille Barbara Stanwyck Captain...
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When Radio Ruled #153 - SoundScape 1939 part 23
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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. October 29 – November 5, 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: Jack Benny’s Costume Party! Fibber and Molly Visit the Auto Show! Where is the Perata Treasure? Mortimer Snerd gets his big chance! And More!! Featuring: Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Jack Benny Mary Livingstone Dennis Day Don Wilson Phil Harris Andy Devine Cecil B DeMille Loretta Young ...
info_outlineEarly 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 surrounding who was the first and when.
My research indicates three radio shows have claim to be the first situation comedy. But the early recordings that exist casts some doubt on each claim.
That is, according to my definition of Situation Comedy.
If you know others who might be the first, or have recordings I have failed to discover, or want to argue a different definition of SitCom, please let me know in a comment on BeforeTvBlog.com.
FEATURING:
Sam ‘n Henry
Jim and Marion Jordan
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Fibber McGee and Molly
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
Jack Benny
Phil Harris
Mary Livingstone
Kenny Baker
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson
And More!!