When Radio Ruled
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When Radio Ruled
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 #144 – SoundScape 1939 part 18 September 21-28 1939
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 live...
When Radio Ruled 143 – Birth of the SitCom
Early American entertainment included the circus, the minstrel show, vaudeville, broadway revues, all popular forms of the variety show. And it was ta...
When Radio Ruled 142-SoundScape 1939 part 17
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 liv...
When Radio Ruled #141 – 3 Best Variety Shows of the 1930s
The first generation of radio talent, performers, directors, and writers came from the worlds of vaudeville, minstrel shows and Broadway revues. All f...
When Radio Ruled #140 – SoundScape 1939 part 16
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 i...
When Radio Ruled #139 – Vera Vague 1939
Sometimes an actor playing a character becomes so popular with their audience that it becomes more than a character, it becomes a persona that the act...
When Radio Ruled #138 – SoundScape 1939 part 15 July 30-August 13, 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...
When Radio Ruled #137 – Fred Allen’s People You Didn’t Expect to Meet 1939
Fred Allen and the people you didn’t expect to meet 1939. Fred Allen was famously a control freak on his radio shows. Although he used a staff of writ...
When Radio Ruled #136-SoundScape 1939 part 14
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...
When Radio Ruled #135 – Origins of the Mutual Network 1934-39
Old Time Radio was dog eat dog, CBS and NBC scooped up the all the best stations and biggest talent, leaving all the little local stations in the dust...
When Radio Ruled #134-SoundScape 1939 part 13
Old Time Radio highlights originally broadcast live June 29 to July 9, 1939. Chronologically curated clips of live broadcasts from popular shows of th...
When Radio Ruled #133 -Orson Welles and Guests 1939
Voices from 1939 talking with one of the Greatest Voices on Old Time Radio In 1939 Orson Welles was only 24 years old but a veteran of Radio. He’d bee...
When Radio Ruled #132 – SoundScape 1939 part 12
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...
When Radio Ruled #131 – Eddie Cantor vs Father Coughlin 1939
In public, Eddie Cantor was known as a charming clown with a side of song. In private, Eddie Cantor was a concerned citizen who dedicated much of his...
When Radio Ruled #130-SoundScape 1939 part 11
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...
When Radio Ruled #129 – Charlie McCarthy and Guests 1939 part 2
Edgar Bergen was also Charlie McCarthy but Charlie McCarthy was one of a kind. The cutest little obnoxious guy on the radio. A big personality in a t...
When Radio Ruled #128 – SoundScape 1939 #10
1939 SoundScape part 10, Radio highlights originally broadcast live May 22 through June 4, 1939 Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio sh...
When Radio Ruled #127 – Wynn Murray Sings 1939
17 year old Wynn Murray already had two Broadway hits on her resume when she joined The Fred Allen show as the resident Female Vocalist in 1939. Fred...
When Radio Ruled #126 – SoundScape 1939 part 9, May 4-21 1939
SoundScape part 9, Radio highlights originally broadcast live May 4 through May 21, 1939 Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of...
When Radio Ruled episode 125 – Charlie McCarthy and Guests 1939 part 1
Charlie McCarthy is really Edgar Bergen. Or the other way around. It was a ventriloquist act. On the radio. Go figure. But you can’t argue with succes...
When Radio Ruled #124 – SoundScape 1939 part 8, April 6-30 1939
Radio highlights originally broadcast live April 6 through April 30, 1939 Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. Histor...
When Radio Ruled #123 – The Merry Macs Sing 1939
Close harmony groups were popular in the 1920’s, 30’s,40’s and 50’s. The Merry Macs were among the most successful and were certainly the longest liv...
When Radio Ruled #122 – SoundScape 1939 part 7, March 22 – April 5, 1939
Radio highlights originally broadcast live March 22 through April 5, 1939 Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. Histor...
When Radio Ruled #121 – Cecil B DeMille Interviews part 2 The Movers and Shakers
Cecil B. DeMille was a legend, a trailblazer, and a person of ambition and talent. In this episode, DeMille talks with others like him, movers and sha...
When Radio Ruled #120 – SoundScape 1939 part 6, March 17-26 1939
History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. In today...
When Radio Ruled #119 – Dottie Lamour Girl Next Door 1939
In 1939 Dorothy Lamour was the leading lady on a show that was neck and neck with Jack Benny for number 1 in the ratings. Not bad for a lower class g...
When Radio Ruled #118 – SoundScape 1939 part 5: February 27 – March 16, 1939
History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today’s soundscape: Baby Snooks and Daddy visit the 1939 New York’s World F...
When Radio Ruled #117 – Cecil B. DeMille interviews 1939 part 1 – the Common Man
These Interviews were a regular feature of The Lux Radio Theater, a show that presented radio versions of current Hollywood films. At act break host C...
When Radio Ruled #116-SoundScape 1939 part 4
History through the eyes of people as they live it, reported by radio. Voices from the past alive again because you’re listening now. In today’s sound...
When Radio Ruled #115 – Dorothy Lamour Sings 1939 part 1 Smokey and Sultry
I had thought Dorothy Lamour to be just another pretty face who had a technically good voice but was somewhat interchangeable with the other bright, y...
When Radio Ruled #114 – SoundScape 1939 part 3 (January 24 – March 2, 1939)
1939 was a year where everything changed. An uneasy peace became all out war. Society and culture and government were questioned as never before. The...
When Radio Ruled #113 – Bergen, McCarthy, and Snerd 1939
Charlie McCarthy was created by Edgar Bergen based on a wise cracking newsboy named Charlie from the neighborhood. High Schooler Edgar Bergen sketch...
When Radio Ruled #112 – SoundScape 1939 part 2
1939 was the year the country woke up to the horrific scale of the death to come on land, sea, and in the Air Seems obvious now, but at the time lots...
When Radio Ruled #111 – Connee Boswell Sings 1939
Connee Boswell was one of the first white artists to integrate the jazz and swing experimentations of black New Orleans musicians into popular music....
When Radio Ruled #110 – SoundScape 1939 part 1
For the Previous 2 episodes, The Year 1939 – Politics and the year 1939 – Culture and Technology, I listened to almost 1000 hours of OTR in chronologi...
When Radio Ruled #109 – 1939 part 2 Culture, Technology, and Arts
There was no happy ending for 1939. The whole decade was spent clawing our way out of financial disaster, now we got a humanitarian disaster beyond im...
When Radio Ruled Episode #108 1939 part 1 – The War Begins
1939 as told through the Radio Broadcasts of the day!! The dreaded war finally begins with the German invasion of Poland. Neville Chamberlain is force...
When Radio Ruled #107 SoundScape 1938 part 33
We’ve got both reassuring fantasy and unsettling reality in this episode. On one hand we’ll hear old friends Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarfs in a fai...
When Radio Ruled #106 – SoundScape 1938 part 32
This Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live December 25 through December 29, 1938. Starring: Don W...
When Radio Ruled #105 – SoundScape 1938 part 31
This Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live December 11 through December 22, 1938. Starring: The C...