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 bits and create a best of reel as a reference for writing the script. And that’s what you are about to hear, a one hour chunk of really great audio artifacts from 1938.

This episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live February 20 through February 27, 1938.

Featuring:

Don Ameche

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Gladys Swarthout

The Cast of Dick Tracy

Eddie Cantor

Norma Talmadge

Josephine Starr

Georgie Jessel

Smith and Dale

The Cast of The Shadow

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Mary Livingston

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

and

Andy Devine

Featured Songs Include:

I see Your Face Before Me – Dorothy Lamour

Dipsy Doodle – Charlie McCarthy and Gladys Swarthout

and

Thanks For The Memories – Kenny Baker

In this episode:

Georgie Jessel explains how Vaudeville shows worked and stars in some fine examples of Vaudeville Comedy.

Charlie McCarthy Sings!

The Jack Benny gang presents the conclusion of Submarine D1!

And More!!

So please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

One Click to Listen to SoundScape 1938 #9

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 Mad Russian

Featured Songs Include:

Bei Mir Bist du Shoen – Pinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor

I love the Girls Medley – Eddie Cantor

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Phil Harris and his Orchestra

Rosemarie – Nelson Eddy

Down with Love – Loretta Lee

You Started Something – Don Ameche

Bob White What You Gonna Swing Tonight – Eddie Cantor

Rosalie – Kenny Baker

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Click Here to Hear SoundScape 1938 part 2

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 date broadcast and then listened to them one by one until I had listened to the entire year January 1 to December 31. As I go through the listening process I take the most interesting, entertaining, or informative clips and assemble them onto a “Best Of” clip reel from which I will select the Old Time Radio excerpts to include in the historical documentaries.

The script isn’t written at this point, so these clip reels contain much more material than can possibly be used in the finished documentary. The 1938 clip reel was almost 36 hours long. I used less than 3 hours in the final documentaries.

But these best of reels are so much fun to listen to! A whole year condensed into a day and a half! It seems a great waste to not share these selected clip with fellow Old Time Radio enthusiasts, thus the Soundscape series of When Radio Ruled was born.

So here is the first hour of the newest clip reel, excerpts from old time radio shows broadcast January 1 to January 5 1938 .

Featuring:

Georgie Jessel

Norma Talmadge

Man Mountain Dean

Josephine Starr

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Phil Harris and His Orchestra

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Andy Devine

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Don Ameche

Charley McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Dorothy Lamour

Margot

Eddie Cantor

Deanna Durbin

Selected Songs Include:

Getting Some Fun Out of Life – Cast of the Georgie Jessel Show

I want a gay cabellaro – unidentified female vocalist

Rolling Plains – Kenny Baker

I want a new romance – Dorothy Lamour

In the still of the night – Deanna Durbin

Click Here to Hear When Radio Ruled Soundscape 1938 part 1