Radio America

Step back in time and enjoy these classic Old Time Radio Shows. Remember the Laughter, the Fun, the Thrills and Chills! Whether you love Drama, Suspense, Horror, SciFi, Western, Comedy or Adventure, RadioAmerica offers the best of Old Time Radio! Now you don't have to just reminisce "about the good old days" you can actually listen to Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many other Old Radio Shows in your home once again! Start collecting today! Get ready to sit back and enjoy hours of Radio entertainment. We are pleased to announce that soon you will be able to order many great differnet shows, 50 shows in mp3 formatt on a cd for a low price of $5.00 which includes shipping. If you are interested please email me at radioamerica@inbox.com Each CD contains presumed PUBLIC DOMAIN old time radio shows. If anybody has written proof that any of the series offered are not PUBLIC DOMAIN, please email radioamerica@inbox.com and the series will promptly be remov

Amos 'n' Andy was one of the most successful Old Time Radio Comedy programs lasting over 34 years. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correl starred as Amos Jones and Andrew H. Brown. Starting in 1926 and 1927 as the "Sam 'n' Henry" show, then renamed in 1928 as Amos 'n' Andy, they went on to incredible success and popularity. During the Great Depression, their audiences reached epic proportions in part due to their common, average Joe approach.

We are pleased to announce that soon you will be able to order many great differnet shows, 50 shows in mp3 formatt on a cd for a low price of $5.00 which includes shipping. If you are interested please email me at radioamerica@inbox.com Each CD contains presumed PUBLIC DOMAIN old time radio shows. If anybody has written proof that any of the series offered are not PUBLIC DOMAIN, please email radioamerica@inbox.com and the series will promptly be removed from the radioamerica data base. RadioAmerica will not knowingly offer copyrighted material. Radio America does not offer these public domain old time radio shows for sale, nor does it claim any ownership; proceeds received are not in any way a payment for the programs themselves, but are for the service of delivery of these shows from the private collection. Proceeds from the website offset the price of machinery, supplies, and growing old time radio collection.

In every generation, there are singularly outrageous comedians, and for the middle of the 20th century, Red Skelton was probably the "top banana" of all. He remained true to the clown tradition of making 'em laugh, anyway possible and as often as possible. Although known for his physical comedy, he was a master character actor and mime, and had a joke book that was reputed to have 180 thousand jokes.

This is Dedicated section to old time childrens stories Tickety Tock Knox Manning featuring Arthur Q. Bryan Music by Billy May

The Perry Mason of radio would rather swap gunshots with evildoers than sit in a boring courtroom, waiting for the deliberation! Geared more towards action than courtroom drama, Perry Mason ran 12 seasons and later led to the development of the now-popular Raymond Burr television show, which started in the late 1950's.

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show was a comedy series. It's uniqueness makes it a hard one to describe. Basically, Gracie would goof up and try to hide her mistake from her husband. Her way of hiding it would be so easy to "see through" but she'd be sure that he wouldn't find out. Also, she would misunderstand things others told her and then assume it was they who didn't understand. Then she'd proceed to explain things to them. For example, someone might say that their doctor had to close his practice due to a lack of patients. Gracie would say that they should learn to control their anger (lack of patience). Then the person might say, "No, I mean they don't have enough people coming to see them for medical attention". Gracie would then say, "Well, of course, if you always get mad at them, they'll go to another doctor". And it would go "on and on" like that until the person would give up and Gracie would be satisfied that she had explained it to them adequately.

Jack Benny is one of the great American comedians. His work spans the 20th century, from vaudeville to radio and movies to TV. In vaudeville, he delivered the snappy comebacks and one liners with intelligence and wit, but it was only with the continuing development of his personal trait comedy that he really became the Jack Benny we all know so well. "Who else could play for four decades the part of a vain, miserly, argumentative skinflint, and emerge a national treasure?

Elliot Lewis' cult radio series is represented here by an entertaining episode, first heard over CBS on Wednesday, November 11, 1953. In "Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife: Why She Was No Good For Him," William Conrad portrays Edward Teach - better known as Blackbeard the Pirate - who arrives in Nassau in 1714 and marries a sixteen-year-old girl who drives him to his greatest fame...and ultimately to his doom.

From badges to maps to cards to photos to code books - and even a newspaper - many of these pieces are excellent examples of radio-toy tie-ins - particularly the “Speed Gibson's Great Clue Hunt” Paper Sheet. This rare 1938 piece allowed listeners to track the movement of the Flying Clipper as it moved around the world during the broadcasts. And interestingly, all the memorabilia relating to Speed Gibson's adventures (except for one lone cereal-sponsored premium) were bread related - with sponsors running the gamut from Peter Pan Bread to Brown's Bread Ltd. to Dreikorn's Bread.

Mystery in the Air was a Summer series consisting of mystery / horror shows. The series was hosted by Peter Lorre who also played the title role in a few of the shows. The shows were well done and all entertaining! This collection is also included in the Peter Lorre Collection.

The format of the series was similar to Skelton's radio program. Each show began with Skelton performing a monologue based on topical material, followed by a musical interlude. He would then perform in a series of blackout sketches featuring one or more of his characters. The sketches were a mixture of new material and old routines (including his popular "Guzzler's Gin") perfected over the years in vaudeville and in nightclubs. At the end of the program, Skelton would become serious and express his gratitude to his audience for their love and laughter. His signature closing line became "Good night and may God bless."

Born in Decatur, Michigan in 1903, Edgar Bergen developed a talent for ventriloquism at a young age. When Bergen asked a local carpenter to create a dummy, the wisecracking Charlie McCarthy was born. The duo began their career as talent show headliners, performing in Chicago while Bergen attended Northwestern University. Bergen eventually left Northwestern to concentrate on performing, but Charlie received an honorary degree from the school in 1938, a “Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comebacks.”

Serling has come to the top of his profession in a remarkably short span of time. He was born in Syracuse, New York, on December 25, 1924, the son of a wholesale butcher. He grew up in Binghamton, New York, and attended local public schools; he was president of his high school class and editor of the student newspaper. After his graduation in 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army as a paratrooper.

Every week 20 million listeners tuned in to catch the verbal antics of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello-two former vaudevillians who took rapid-fire repartee to a new level. Now you can relive the Golden Age of Radio with The Abbott and Costello Show, Radio Spirits' first big collection of Bud and Lou classics