1937 part 2 of The Soundscape Series, episode 31 of “When Radio Ruled. “
This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast January 10 to January 17, 1937.
Starring Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livinston, Andy Devine, David Niven, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray,
Cecile B. DeMille, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Pat O’Brien, Pinky Tomlin, and more.
This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast January 1 to January 6, 1937.
Starring Eddie Cantor, Cecil B. DeMille, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Mary Livinston, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Al Jolson, Harry Von Zell, Jimmy Wallington, Edith Head, opening day of the 75th Congress of the United states, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore,
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and more.
Our Annual Christmas Old Time Radio Special!
Featuring:
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Jack Benny
Dinah Shore
Frances Langford
And More!
Guest Starring, all the way from 1937 Are:
Janet Gaynor
George Burns and Gracie Allen
President Franklin Roosevelt
Fibber McGee and Molly
Eddie Cantor
Jimmy Wallington
Cecil B DeMille
Fay Gillis
Rudy Vallee
Sully and Block
Benny Goodman
Irving Berlin
Helen Wills Moody
Ronald Coleman
Douglas Fairbanks
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
The Cast of Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”
Glenda Ferrell
Bette Davis
Don Ameche
Mae West
Fred Allen
Jack Benny
Don Wilson
Mary Livingston
Phil Harris
Kenny Baker
Portland Hoffa
Duke Ellington
Featured Songs from 1937 Included:
Gracie Allen “I Love You from Coast to Coast” performed live December 23, 1937
“Swing, Benny, Swing” Sully and Block Live August 10, 1937
“I’m on a Sit Down Strike” Eddie Cantor March 28, 1937
“Let’s Go Slumming” Eddie Cantor Live October 13, 1937
“The Trouble with Me is You” Eddie Cantor Live January 1, 1937
“Down with Love” Rudy Vallee Live December 23, 1937
“Getting Some Fun Out of Life” Eddie Cantor live November 10 1937
“The Lady Who Couldn’t be Kissed” Pinky Tomlin Live November 24, 1937.
Peace at all Costs
Those Germans and Russians and Japanese and Italians and Spanish keep killing people.
Featuring:
Jack Benny and The Cast of “The Jack Benny Jello Show”
The Phil Harris Orchestra
The Cast of Lux Radio Theater Production of “The Gilded Lily”
The Cast of the March of Time
President Franklin Roosevelt
Eddie Cantor and the cast of Texaco Town
The Cast of Fibber McGee and Molly
Father Coughlin
Pinky Tomlin
Winston Churchill
Refugees from the Sino-Japanese War
Rudy Vallee
Dinah Shore
Marlena Dietrich
Orson Welles, Agnes Morehead and the cast of THE SHADOW
Featured Songs from 1937 Include:
Eddie Cantor “Things Look Rosy Now” performed live January 10, 1937
“The Social Security Song” Rudy Vallee live February 18, 1937
“You Can’t Take It With You” Eddie Cantor Live January 31, 1937
“Down By The River” Dinah Shore Live January 3, 1937
“Keep it Over There” Eddie Cantor Live October 13, 1937
“The Trouble with Me is You” Eddie Cantor Live January 17, 1937
“The Object of My Affection” Pinky Tomlin Live January 17, 1937
Marlena Dietrich singing “Lilli Marlene” Recorded, 1937
Kay Kaiser’s Orchestra doing “I don’t want to get well” live from Chicago, February 1937
It sure has been a strange year – we could all use a dose of Traditional Christmas. And here it is!
Two Great Episodes from 1939!
Jack Benny’s Christmas Open House
A Christmas Carol (starring Lionel Barrymore)
Featuring: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris and his Orchestra, Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, and more!
All about the very first play performed in Britain’s American Colonies, 1665. America was never the same afterwards.
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The year that Edgar Bergen broke it big, and Charlie McCarthy became his own man.
Featuring W.C. Fields, Don Ameche, Bette Davis, Dorothy Lamour and more!
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Excerpts from Old Time Radio originally broadcast October 4 to November 11, 1936.
Lots of Eddie Cantor, if you like that sort of thing. Who doesn’t?
Also featuring James Wallington, Cecile B. Demille, Carl Hubbell, Lou Gerhig, Joe E. Brown, Fred Allen, Harry Ranzel, Jack Renard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and more.
These Soundscapes are a result of the research phase of the When Radio Ruled Historical Documentary series.
A Montage of Old Time Radio Excerpts originally broadcast from August 24 to October 3, 1936.
Starring Cecil B. DeMille, The cast of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, The cast of the Jello Summer Show, Eddie Cantor, Irene Ryan, Walt Disney, The 1936 New York Giants, Mickey Mouse, The 1936 New York Yankees, Donald Duck, the 1936 Chicago Cubs, Stoopnagle and Budd, the 1936 Chicago White Sox, President Roosevelt, and more.
Old Time Radio at its funniest, and most sentimental.
Franklin Roosevelt
Rudy Vallee
Bob Hope
Amos ‘n Andy
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Duffy’s Tavern
Bing Crosby
Merry Christmas to you and the people you love, from me and from this group of great entertainers.
Merry Christmas from When Radio Ruled – Christmas Special 2018
This Podcast is a montage of excerpts from Old Time Radio originally broadcast May 27 to August 19, 1936.Featuring: Your Hit Parade, Fred Allen, Dick Powell, Myrna Loy, Al Jolson, Stoopnagle and Budd, the 1936 Democratic Convention, Cecil B. DeMille, D.W Griffith, The Joe Louis/Jack Sharkey Fight, Lionel Barrymore, Jessie Owens, Amos ‘n Andy, Walter Houston, and more.
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