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

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When Radio Ruled PodCast Episode # 26

Casanova Charlie McCarthy makes dates and breaks hearts in 1937 Hollywood.

Starring Charlie McCarthy

GUEST STARRING

Edgar Bergen

Don Ameche

Dorothy Lamour

Clark Gable

Alice Marble

Carol Lombard

Mary Boland

May Robson

Sonya Henie

Zasu Pitts

Bruna Castagna

Glenda Farrell

Bette Davis

Mae West

special cameo appearances by Nelson Eddy and Jack Benny

music by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Kay Kaiser

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A Great Collection of Songs

Originally Broadcast Live on Old Time Radio

August 25, 1937 through December 31, 1937!

SONG LIST:

Cast of Chase and Sanborn Charlie McCarthy Show – Have you got any?

Pinky Tomlin – The Love Bug

Benny Goodman – Vibraphone Blues

Pinky Tomlin – Stop You’re Breaking my Heart

Al Jolson – Toots Toots Tootsie

Eddie Cantor – Now’s the time to fall in love

Unidentified Female Vocalist – Basin Street Blues

Pinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor – Sweet Varsity Sue

Eddie Cantor – Swing is here to Sway

Eddie Cantor – Love is in the air tonight

Pinky Tomlin – I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You

Eddie Cantor – Some Fun Out of Life

Rudy Vallee – Orange Blossom Time

Pinky Tomlin – I want to be in Winchell’s Column

Rudy Vallee – Down with Love

Marlena Deitrich – Lili Marlene

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This episode is a collection of musical numbers broadcast live on the radio July 12, 1937 through August 24, 1937.

This episode features mostly Pinky Tomlin and Benny Goodman, with a few others tossed in for good measure.

But you won’t be disappointed.

Pinky Tomlin is nothing short of delightful.

Benny Goodman is one of the great American musical influences and at the peak of his powers here.

SONG LIST:

Pinky Tomlin – Just a Country Boy at Heart

Jack Renard – Salute to the US Navy

Pinky Tomlin – That’s what you think

Pinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy Joe

Eve Sully with Benny Goodman – Swing Benny swing

Pinky Tomlin – Seven Ages of Man

Ted Weems and his Orchestra – You can’t have everything

Benny Goodman – Dayton takes a holiday

Benny Goodman – Caravan

Benny Goodman – Sometimes I’m Happy

Benny Goodman – Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day

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Actor Don Ameche (1908-1993) and actress Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) with an NBC microphone in a publicity image for the radio show, ‘The Chase and Sanborn Hour’, USA, 20 May 1937. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Tunes from Old-Time Radio!

Voices from the past singing live on the national radio May 24, 1937 – July 11, 1937.

Lots of Charlie McCarthy and Dorothy Lamour!

A couple of Bing Crosby croon jobs!

Clever compositions from Pinky Tomlin!

SONG LIST:

Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy – Let’s call the whole thing off

Bing Crosby – How Could You

Bing Crosby – Time on my hands

Eddie Cantor – Patriotic medley

Pink Tomlin – Touched in the head

Cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – Gilbert and Sullivan Medley

Pinky Tomlin – Rag Time Cowboy Joe

Rudy Vallee – We danced the night away

Don Ameche, Dorothy Lamour, Charlie McCarthy – Any more at home?

Pinky Tomlin – I’m on the wagon as far as you’re concerned

Hoagy Carmichael and the Cast of the Charlie McCarthy Show – I love you like my old felt hat

Dorothy Lamour and Charlie McCarthy – Merry Go Round

When Radio Ruled Podcast – Radio Jukebox 1937 part 3

This show features songs from Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ella Logan, Pinky Tomlin, Gracie Fields, Kate Smith, Phil Harris and others.

Originally Broadcast Live

April 11 – May 23, 1937!

Ella Logan – Scottish Medley

Rudy Vallee Show – Swing your mother in law

Rudy Vallee – Goodbye Boys

Pinky Tomlin – The Love Bug

Fibber and Molly Show – Slap That Bass

Rudy Vallee – Got my love to keep me warm

Gracie Fields – Never Cried So Much

Charlie McCarthy Show – Instrumental “too good for words”

Eddie Cantor – How you gonna keep them down on the farm

Jack Benny Cast – Gonna write myself a letter

Eddie Cantor – Margie

Rudy Vallee – My Little Buckaroo

Kate Smith – Can’t take that away from me

Phil Harris – Nobody

Eddie Cantor – Wake up and Live

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Songs broadcast live on National Radio

January – March 1937

Dinah Shore

Rudy Vallee

Eddie Cantor

Pinky Tomlin

Phil Harris

Duke Ellington

and More!!!

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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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This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast November 29 to December 31, 1936.

Starring Eddie Cantor, Parkyakarkus, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Harry Von Zell, Rudy Vallee, John Gunther, Ed Wynn, Amos ‘n Andy, Kenny Baker, Jack Benny, Cecil B. DeMille, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Don Wilson, Gabriel Heatter, Walter Houston, Billie Holiday, 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.

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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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This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast from August 28 to December 31 1935. Featuring stars like Al Jolson, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Little Orphan Annie, Jack Benny, Porky Pig and dozens more.

This Soundscape Montage was developed as part of The When Radio Ruled Documentary about the year 1935. These excerpts are offered without commentary for your entertainment and education.

So here are the voices of 1935 – Voices sadly now silenced – Great performers alive again because you’re listening now.

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