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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

Fibber McGee and Molly

Harlow Wilcox

Ezra Stone

Captain MidNight

Helen Hayes

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Phil Harris

Mary Livingstone

Dennis Day

Kay Kaiser

Fred MacMurray

Joan Bondell

And More!

Click Hear to Visit 1939!!

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

Fibber McGee and Molly

Fred Allen

Portland Hoffa

Wynn Murray

The Merry Macs

Bert Lahr

Andy Devine

And More!

SoundScape 1939 part 20 is just a Click Away!!!

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

The Shadow

Winston Churchill

Orson Welles

Cecil B DeMille

Fibber McGee and Molly

Fred Allen

Harry Van Steeden

The Merry Macs

Wynn Murray

Ned Sparks

Vera Vague

Charles Laughton

And More!

Give A Listen to SoundScape 1939 part 19!!!

When Radio Ruled #144 – SoundScape 1939 part 18 September 21-28 1939

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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 More!

CLICK HERE TO HEAR 1939 IN YOUR EAR!!!

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 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!!

Click Here if You Got Time to Sit and Learn of SitComs!

When Radio Ruled 142-SoundScape 1939 part 17

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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day.

September 10 – September 21, 1939

History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio.

In today’s SoundScape:

Fibber and Molly Celebrate their Anniversary!

George G. Nathan Talks Eugene O’Neil!

Smoking Hot Swing Tunes!

And More!!

Featuring:

Orson Welles

Cary Grant

Fibber McGee and Molly

Don Ameche

 Edgar Bergen

Charlie McCarthy

Dorothy Lamour

Nelson Eddy

Robert Armbruster

Fred MacMurray

Helen Broderick

George G. Nathan

Myrt and Marge

Louis Prima’s Orchestra

And More!

Click Here to Drink in 1939 with Your Thirsty Ears!!

When Radio Ruled #140 – SoundScape 1939 part 16

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Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day.

August 27 – September 5, 1939

History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio.

In today’s SoundScape:

Picking up Girls with Alan Mowbray!

The Most Fateful Broadcast in History!

On the Boat with Edgar and Charlie!

Nutrition with Vera Vague!

The Invasion of Poland!

And More!!

Featuring:

Dorothy Lamour

Don Ameche

Donald Dixon

Alan Mowbray

Robert Young

Meredith Wilson

Alice Faye

Louis B. Mayer

Fanny Brice

Hanley Stafford

John Steele

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Vera Vague

President Franklin Roosevelt

Fibber McGee and Molly And More!

Click Here to Visit 1939 with Your Ear!!

When Radio Ruled #132 – SoundScape 1939 part 12

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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:

The Town Hall News!

A Newsreel Camera Man!

Fred Allen Bad Mouths Jack Benny!

Life Begins at 40!

And More

Featuring:

Cecil B DeMille

Dr. Ronald W. McCorkle

Fibber McGee and Molly

Harry Van Steeden

Fred Allen

Portland Hoffa

The Merry Macs

Jack Benny

Don Wilson

Phil Harris

Mary Livingstone

Andy Devine

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Edgar Bergen

Charlie McCarthy

Don Ameche

Ginger Rogers

And More!

Click Here To Take a Trip to 1939!

When Radio Ruled #130-SoundScape 1939 part 11

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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:

Royalty are just regular folks!

Jack Benny with the Hollywood Gossip!

The Patent Office is Your Friend!

Frank Morgan talks Wizard of Oz and World Fairs!

A Big Dose of Great Swing Music!

And More

Featuring:

Cecil B Demille

Fibber McGee and Molly

Jack Benny

Mary Livingstone

Don Wilson

Kenny Baker

Orson Welles

Zasu Pitts

The Green Hornet

Barney Rapp and His New Englanders featuring Ruby Wright

Baby Snooks and Daddy

Frank Morgan

Connie Boswell

Doris Day

Phil Harris

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Andy Devine

And More!

Click Here for a Radio Journey Down Memory Lane!

When Radio Ruled #124 – SoundScape 1939 part 8, April 6-30 1939

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Radio highlights originally broadcast live April 6 through April 30, 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:

A Tribute to Man’s Best Friend, my Dog

Pearl Buck Talks China with Anna Mae Wong and Orson Welles

Jack Benny’s 7th Anniversary on Radio!

And more!!!

FEATURING:

Robert Young

Kitty Carlisle

Meredith Wilson

Lionel Barrymore

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Phil Harris

Mary Livingstone

Cecil B DeMille

General Hugh Samuel Johnson

Errol Flynn

Fibber McGee and Molly

Orson Welles

Anna Mae Wong

Kenny Baker

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Gertrude Lawrence

and

Eddie Cantor

Click Here For A Heaping Earful of 1939!

When Radio Ruled #54 – Soundscape 1937 part 21

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Jack Benny and his faithful Maxwell

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast November 8 to November 28, 1938.

Starring Bing Crosby, Jimmy Wallington, Eddie Cantor, Fibber McGee and Molly, Benny Goodman, Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Orson Welles, and more.

 

Featured Songs include Eddie Cantor, “Getting some fun out of Life”, Bing Crosby “I’m Humming”, Some smoking Benny Goodman Swing Instrumentals and the Benny Goodman orchestra featuring vocalist Martha Tilden “Mama that moon is here again”, Pinky Tomlin “The Lady who couldn’t be Kissed” and Phil Harris “You can’t stop me from dreaming”

Click here to hear Soundscape 1937 part 21

When Radio Ruled episode #53 – Soundscape 1937 part 20

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Edward G. Robinson on the Radio!

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast October 18 to November 7, 1937.

Starring Fibber McGee and Molly, Edward G. Robinson, Pinky Tomlin, Jimmy Wallington, Eddie Cantor, The Cast of the March of Time, Ben Davis Jr., Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Cecil B. Demille, John R. Kissinger , and more.

 

Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Can’t stop me from dreaming”, Eddie Cantor Medley of hits and “Doe to Doe”.

Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 20

When Radio Ruled #51 – Soundscape 1937 part 18

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Ida Lupino on the Radio

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast September 5 to October 10, 1937.

Starring W.C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Al Jolson, George Jessell, Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Cecil B. DeMille, John LeRoy Johnston, Rudy Vallee, The Stroud Twins, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, and more.

 

Featured Songs include Al Jolson “Tootsie”, Eddie Cantor “Now’s the time to fall in love” and “Love is on the Air Tonight”, The Connecticut Yankees with an unidentified female vocalist (possibly Annette Hanshaw) “Basin Street Blues”, Eddie Cantor and Pinky Tomlin “Sweet Varsity Sue”

Click Hear to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 18

When Radio Ruled #49 – Soundscape 1937 part 16

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The Glamorous Glenda Farrell

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast August 22 to August 27, 1937.

Starring Harlow Wilcox, Fibber McGee & Molly, Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Glenda Farrell, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy LaMour, W.C. Fields, American Refugees from Japan’s invasion of Shang Hai,and more.

Click Here to Hear Radio Soundscape 1937 part 16

When Radio Ruled – Soundscape 1937 part 12

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Mary Livingston (a.k.a. Mrs. Jack Benny) of the Jack Benny Show

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast June 13 to June 20, 1937.

Starring Pinky Tomlin, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Joan Blondell, Rogers & Hart, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris, Cecil B. DeMille, Helen Wills Moody, Fibber McGee and Molly, Rudy Vallee, Fanny Brice, Charles Winninger, May Robson, and more.

Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Ragtime Cowboy Joe Medley”, Don Ameche “A little of you on toast:” Rudy Vallee “We danced the night away”

Click here to hear Soundscape 1937 part 12

When Radio Ruled Soundscape 1937 part 11

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Eddie “Rochester” Anderson from the Jack Benny Show

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast May 31 to June 11, 1937.

Starring Fibber McGee and Molly, the Cast of Texaco Town, Pinky Tomlin, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Rochester, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Constance Bennett, Ray Middleton, Natalie Bucknell, Cecil B. Demille, Errol Flynn, Frances Farmer, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx,  and more.

Featured Songs include Pinky Tomlin “Tetched in the Head”, and Dorothy Lamour, Charlie McCarthy and Don Ameche with a Gilbert and Sullivan Medley.

Click Here to Listen to Soundscape 1937 part 11 from When Radio Ruled