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When Radio Ruled

Mike Gillett - the BeforeTV Project

A look at Old Time Radio and the world around it. A chronological look at the original mass media.

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When Radio Ruled episode #73 – SoundScape 1938 part 2

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/05/07

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled episode #73 – SoundScape 1938 part 2

When Radio Ruled #72 – SoundScape 1938 part 1

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/04/28

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #72 – SoundScape 1938 part 1

When Radio Ruled episode #71 The Year 1938 part 2

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/04/17

In the previous episode, 1938 part 1, we looked at the political situation across the world. The coming confrontation between countries trying to provoke war and countries wishing to avoid it. How Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Franco, and Stalin created fear and suffering. How the USA, Britain, France, and the smaller democracies tried to keep free … Continue reading When Radio Ruled episode #71 The Year 1938 part 2

When Radio Ruled #70 – The Year 1938 Politics...

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/04/07

The Year 1938 brought a world with one foot in a miserable recent past and the other foot in a murderous near future. History as told from Old Time Radio originally broadcast in 1938 Featuring: Eddie Cantor The Cast of March of Time Adolf Hitler Orson Welles Georgie Jessel Neville Chamberlain Jack Benny Judy Garland … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #70 – The Year 1938 Politics International and Domestic

When Radio Ruled #69 – Phil Harris and His Orchestra...

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/03/16

The Jack Benny show made Phil a huge star. Even though Phil would go on to do more films and have his own radio shows, and tour the country with his band, and appear on television and build a real estate empire he would always be known first and foremost for his Jack Benny years. … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #69 – Phil Harris and His Orchestra 1938

When Radio Ruled #68 Eddie Cantor Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/03/05

Born Edward Israel Iskowitz in 1892 to a poor family of recent immigrants, through sheer tenacity and talent street urchin Eddie Cantor became a show biz giant for half a century. Starting out in vaudeville in 1907, starring on Broadway, a movie star in both silents and talkies, and a radio and television pioneer. For … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #68 Eddie Cantor Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled #67 Jack Benny Goes to Yosemite

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2023/02/26

Old Time Radio’s Jack Benny show was a sitcom disguised as a variety show. The cast used their real names, or rather their real stage names, but they all played characters unlike themselves. Characters of diverse comic points of view, each character contrasted with the others. Each funny in their own way and all together … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #67 Jack Benny Goes to Yosemite

When Radio Ruled Episode 66 Dorothy Lamour Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/02/15

Best known today as the third angle in the Bob Hope Bing Crosby road pictures romantic triangles, or perhaps as the sarong wearing eye candy in several other films, Dorothy Lamour started out as a big band singer. Appearing weekly on the Charlie McCarthy show afforded Dorothy opportunities to remind audiences of her musical roots, … Continue reading When Radio Ruled Episode 66 Dorothy Lamour Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled #65 Charlie McCarthy Sexiest Man...

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/02/05

This is the second year in a row that Charlie McCarthy has proven himself the greatest lover in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter. Among those that Charlie McCarthy charmed are the some of the most accomplished and beautiful women of his time. Some of them tried to resist, some didn’t bother, in the … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #65 Charlie McCarthy Sexiest Man Alive 1938

When Radio Ruled #64 – Fred Allen People You Didn’t...

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/01/25

The Fred Allen material you are about to hear is from his radio show, Town Hall Tonight, in 1938. Fred Allen was unique in the radio world of corny set up/punchline type snappy patter his former vaudeville and current radio peers like Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Georgie Jessel, the Marx Brothers, and others favored. Oftentimes … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #64 – Fred Allen People You Didn’t Expect to Meet

When Radio Ruled #63 – Fanny Brice and Baby Snooks

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/01/15

Fanny Brice was one of the greatest singer/comics on Broadway. She had to reinvent herself as Baby Snooks in order to find radio stardom. This is that Journey. Songs Include: My Man Second Hand Rose I was a Flora Dora Baby Click Here to Give it a Listen

When Radio Ruled #62 – Judy Garland Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled ·

2023/01/05

Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in 1922, and soon revealed a talent for song and dance. Her first public performance was when she was just 2 and a half years old, singing jingle bells at a Christmas pageant. Her father was a successful vaudevillian with Judy and her sisters following in his footsteps, touring … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #62 – Judy Garland Sings 1938

When Radio Ruled #61 – Christmas 2022

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/12/11

Its time again to celebrate the holiday season and all it stands for with a Christmas stocking full old time radio yuletide magic. This very special episode stars Phil Harris, Bing Crosby, Alice Faye, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Don Wilson, Kenny Baker, Joan Bennett, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Rudy Vallee, Andy Devine, and many other makers … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #61 – Christmas 2022

When Radio Ruled #60 – Bie Mir Bist du Shön

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2022/12/01

Bie Mir Bist du Shön – The Andrew Sisters created a Craze for this Catchy Song This song shot up the charts, appearing in the top ten on January 8 1938, going to number one two weeks later and staying in the top spot from 5 to 10 weeks, depending on your source. And it … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #60 – Bie Mir Bist du Shön

When Radio Ruled – Thanksgiving 2022

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/11/19

Our Old Time Radio Thanksgiving menu is made up of: A first course of The Good News show from Thanksgiving eve , November 24, 1938. Featuring: Robert Young Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks And the cast of the very popular Andy Hardy movies, including star Mickey Rooney, in an original radio play. Followed by an … Continue reading When Radio Ruled – Thanksgiving 2022

When Radio Ruled #58 – Soundscape 1937 part 24

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/11/11

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast December 14 to December 30, 1937. Starring : Dr Arthur C. Christie, Dr Gilbert W Hague, Dr Kingsley Roberts, Rudy Vallee, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Cecil B DeMille, Slim Hoffman, Brian Ahern, Madge Evans, Fibber … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #58 – Soundscape 1937 part 24

When Radio Ruled #57 – Soundscape 1937 part 23

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/11/03

Starring Fibber McGee, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, The Seven Dwarves, Snow White, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Pinky Tomlin, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, and more. Featured songs include Eddie Cantor “Getting some fun out of life”, Rudy Vallee “Oh, Promise Me”, and Pinky Tomlin … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #57 – Soundscape 1937 part 23

When Radio Ruled #56 – Spooky Halloween 2022

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2022/10/27

Halloween approaches – the night when the boundaries between the living and the dead, reality and imagination dissolve. Evil witches mount flying brooms. Brain starved Zombies, restless spirits, supernatural spooks, savage monsters and all forms of malevolent miscreants shamble across the earth creating terror among the hapless and tasty human populace. Above all, Halloween is … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #56 – Spooky Halloween 2022

When Radio Ruled Episode 55 – Soundscape 1937 part 22

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/10/19

This podcast is a montage of excerpts from old time radio shows performed live and broadcast November 29 to December 12, 1937. Starring Cecil B Demille, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Wallington, Rudy Vallee, Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou, Frank Case, Andy Devine, Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Fibber McGee, Don Ameche, Charlie McCarthy, … Continue reading When Radio Ruled Episode 55 – Soundscape 1937 part 22

When Radio Ruled #54 – Soundscape 1937 part 21

When Radio Ruled ·

2022/10/09

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 … Continue reading When Radio Ruled #54 – Soundscape 1937 part 21

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