Retro Old Time Radio

First, a 66 year old female bowler, who has been at it for 30 years. Along with an Italian immigrant named Frank. After a sponsor break for DeSoto Plymouth, the show continues.   This time an unmarried, female airport worker is joined by an unmarried man who is seeking a vegetarian mate.   Finally a prince and princess join the show. A prince from the Belgian Congo, who tells his success story rising as a commoner, to living in America, being educated, and returning to his home country. He is even convinced by Groucho to perform a brief native dance and drum number. .   So who wins? I'm not telling. Listen to find out.   Bonus Track: Don Gibson. Sea of Heartbreak.   PS: The song is from around the mid-1950's... probably, but may be from as late as the early 1960's. Leave me a comment and set me straight. 

Life in these modern times has become so confusing, and the situation is no different in the Anderson home. Jim gets ready to catch the news broadcast, but his habit of laying out maps of the world as a reference resource isan annoyance to mom. Betty is faced with a dihlemma of choosing a shade of nail polish. Bud is getting for a hay ride, and is oblivious to the tormentAs that he brings on dear old dad. As the kid congregate in the kitchen for a snack, Jim and Margret debate over how to set the clocks for the daylight savings time that happens on this particular evening. Back? or ahead? It seems that just about every family member has adjusted the clock. What do you think? Will anybody make it to their various social events?   The next day the kids go with dad to meet aunt Martha at the train station. It's turning out to be a mixed up day. How about those crazy kids? Hungry, sleepy, getting lost. Not to mention confusion from the information booth. What should Jim do now? Kathy actually has an

A show to prove that actors known for comedy, also have a serious side.   This suspenseful drama begins with Fibber McGee taking his gal, Molly out to a movie. Tonight, they are known as Jo, and Ellie. The show is over, and they drive home. As they leave the bright lights of the city, and cross the dark valley to their home, a radio news flash comes over the air. An escaped killer is on the loose. As Ellie worries about her grown kids at home, the couple get a surprise when the killer shows himself in their backseat.   The desperate man acts as backseat driver who holds Joe and Ellie hostage as he plans to make his get away. Will he drag them with him? Does he have plans to kill them? Will Joe be able to outsmart the desperate criminal in some way? To make a hasty move could set the killer off, and sign their death warrants.   I'll clue you in just a little, Joe has a secret that he isn't telling.   Bonus Track: Stan Kenton. Tampico. Vocals by June Christy. Plus, fun with the Retrobots. 

The show was started in 1931 with music provided by the Light Crust Doughboys. Around 1935 a reorganization took place, and the musical group reformed with some changes as the Hillbilly Boys. A band headed up by James Robert "Bob" Wills, with vocalist Leon Huff. W Lee O'Daniels was president of the Hillbilly Flour Company, and was the show MC. He used the radio show to promote his product, The show featured music, and occasional poems and helpful household tips, often written by O'Daniels, and letters sent in from listeners. The show launched the careers of the band members, and even helped to send O'Daniels to the governor's mansion in Texas, and later to the Senate. The show was broadcast through powerful border stations, and blanketed much of the United States, and had a listenership across the country.   First Show: 1. I Never Slept a Wink Last Night. 2. Chinese Honeymoon. 3. Way Down Yonder. 4. My Brown Eyed Texas Rose.   Second Show: 1. Fisher Hornpipe. 2. Sit Right Down, and Write Mysel

Milton trades insults and ad libs with his announcer, Mr Gallop. Milton salutes radio. He gets interupted by an executive who wants Merle to take the NBC pledge. Which he and the cast do, followed by the NBC song. Milton spoofs a news broadcast. "Ah, there's good news tonight!" The bit transitions to a commercial. Ray Block plays, Tomorrow. Milton presents, Radio Forum Tonight. Questions are taken from the audience. The salute turns to a brief recognition of radio's comedy shows. Dick Marley sings a ballad. Mr Gallop announces that NBC will no longer allow crime programs on before prime time, so as not to overly influence kids. Milton reenacts a scene from home, and the trouble he had with his son, Junior, about this very problem. As Milton recovers from the ordeal, Mr Gallop delivers a final commercial.   jeff mihelichAbout the retrobots voices, they sound good. If I'm on your main RSS feed, will I get everything listed on your site or do I need to download each one?great job!!

Riley is upset when he thinks his daughter is insane. Instead, she is just in love. (Pretty close to the same symtoms isn't it?) He and a friend eavesdrop on her when her boyfriend comes over. The boy is scared away, so Riley does his best to find her a date for the prom.   Digger O'Dells nephew is handy and turns out to be Clem Kadiddlehopper. Even Riley can't put that burden on his daughter, but now that Clem has arrived, he can't get rid of him. Fortunately, the boyfriend comes back  to save face between Riley and Babs. Now he just has to get rid of Clem.   Bonus Tracks: Ray Noble. 1936. In a Little Gypsy Tea Room. AFRS. 1943. Navy Wave Training. 

Reality programming, 1950's style. Art Linkletter and his crew have a few pranks to pull just to see how funny people can be. First up, Art has a $1000 bill. The mission is to use this legitimate article of US currency to make a simple purchase. To complicate matters, the audience member has his own cash taken away, and is dressed like a bum. Can he do it? His ordeal is related later in the show.   After a sponsor plug, a car salesman and his wife have their love challenged. Can his salesman skills prevent his wife from the attentions of an amorous cow? His efforts are doomed when Art brings in a ringer to damage his efforts.   A man volunteers for a special stunt. With no money, he is challenged to take a bucket of French perfume back to France. Can he do it? Unfortunately, his challenge will extend over the next week, so we won't find out. After another sponsor break, we follow up with our first challenge. He definitely tried his best. Listen in an see whether he won his big prize or not.  

Through much of the first decades of the 20th century, the Marx Brothers were a rising act in vaudeville theaters. In the early days of talking movies, they made the transition, and became film stars. In the early 1930's the brothers broke into radio. Their radio show featured Groucho and Chico as they tried to run a law office known as Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel.   Sadly, only one or two complete episodes, and a few fragments of shows  are all that remain from this program with Groucho as Flywheel, and Chico as his sidekick, Revelli. Fortunately, the scripts from these shows do exist, and in the early 1990's the BBC produced a series of remakes. Voice actors were hired to recreate the characters, and the scripts came to life once more. The actors do a wonderful job at presenting the characters just as they were created and styled by Groucho, Chico, and the rest of the original cast. The excellent job done by voice actors, and production crew present old time radio to a new audience. Just as i

Actually the first episode of My Favorite Husband, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning. The first show sets up the premise of the series. A married couple who have been happily married for 10 years, and still seem to be actually in love. The Cugat's flashback to moments of their wedding day, as they prepare for their anniversary. Liz, the well to do socialite, and George, the up and coming banker.   Liz is to have a portrait painted for the big anniversary celebration. George's friend Corey, a confirmed bachelor cass doubt on the intentions of the portrait artist. Of course Liz doesn't see anything in the artist, but manages to say all the right things to cause jealousy to grow in George. It gets so bad that George calls a doctor along with his attractive nurse. Still simmering over the artist, George see's his chance to use the situation of having the nurse to get some revenge jealousy brewing in Liz.   In the end though, George and Liz come to their senses. They see through their petty

  The school is to raise funds for a local charity, and the key students and teachers, namely our usual cast, are meeting to discuss the event. The problem? How to drum up support for the planned auction. Radio spots? Handbills? Hang a sing on a zepplin? Frogs on leashes that drag signs? Forget the brainstorming for PR, there seems to be a shortage of quality items to auction. Where, oh where might Connie Brooks acquire some auction items that are worthy? While Connie is distracted in trying to get a special donation from the clueless Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin has an expensive item for his house delivered to his office. You don't think there might be a mix up with it do you? I don't think it's a matter of if there is a mix up, but who will do the mixing? And to what extent will the mixing go? I don't want to give away too much, but let's just say that when the goods arrive to the auction block, Mr. Conklin has the feeling he's right at home.   Bonus Track:The Hillbilly Boys. Baby Won't You Pleas

The actual game takes a back seat as Groucho chats it up with the contestants. Groucho is always hilarious as he talks with the regular people on the show. First up is a weather man named Aldrich, and a cashier of a drive in movie theater named Winnie. Next is a body builder from Philadelphia, and the wife of a New York policeman who say the secret word. The final couple are identical twins, Jean and Jane Luther. No matter who they are, or where they come from the conversation is always entertaining.   The game comes down to a tie, and a faceoff between the bodybuilder and the housewife, against the twins. Who wins the big prize? Listen and find out.   Bonus Track:Tony Martin and Dinah Shore. 1951. A Penny a Kiss. 

A classic show with two classic comedians. Prior to the show, Eddie Cantor makes a phone calls to get Jackk Benny on his show. He has to wait  until Jack takes care of some important business at the local drugstore. As the show begins, Eddie chats with announcer, Harry Vonzell about how stingy Jack is, then keeps giving Jack the brush off. Hattie McDaniels joins the teasing by commenting on both Rochester and Jack.Once Jack makes it on stage, he and Eddie take a few jabs at each other, and Jack plugs his new film, Washigton Slept Here. Jack is such a humble soul. (wink, wink)Eddie is polite as Jack talks about his acting prowess, but when Jack leaves for a moment, Eddie tells Harry what he really thinks. Dinah Shore arrives to sing, and Jack calls her aside to try to woo her away from the show. When it doesn't work she sings,m White Christmas. Hey, it may be out of season, but it gives you something to think about on a hot Summer day. Next, Jack tries to win Harry Vonzell away from the show, but

As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeves and Judge Hooker complete a game of checkers, LeRoy has a question. He  wants to take the day off of school so he can go to the circus. Fortunately for him, he has two fine examples in these two pillars of the community. A kid listens to the advice from such outstanding citezens. Too bad, they get on a tangent, talking about their old schoolboy days, and all the crazy pranks they played at school. Suddenly fearing what kind of impression their loose tongues might make, they try to downplay their past misdeeds and want to set Leroy down the right path.   Suddenly, reports of school pranks come to light. Gildersleeves thinks he is at the root of it. Leroy has been acting evasive when questioned about the pranks. Circumstantial evidence points to him, and Gildersleeves grows even more concerned. Would Leroy really stoop to such disruptive pranks? Feeling responsible, Gilersleeves tries to set things right, but you have to know that it somehow won't quite work out ri

This is something totally different from what I've ever posted in the podcast. Summer is the time for baseball, and the ultimate in baseball is the World Series. This is a long show, nearly 2 full hours. Enjoy play by play commentary as the Yankees fight it out with the Giants in Game 3 for the 1936 World Series.   The announcers do a top notch job of reporting the plays. The sounds of the crowd roaring, and the crack of the bat is live, and just as authentic as any game you might hear on broadcast radio today. Put on your earphones, turn up the speaker, close your eyes, and sit back with some of your favorite treats. Grab a big handful of popcorn, peanuts, Cracker Jack, and your favorite cold drink as you relive exciting moments from sporting history.   If you would like to hear more shows like this one, visit: http://baseballhistorian.libsyn.comThe Baseball Historian. Part of the Radio Memories Network, and a Humphrey Camerdella production. 

  As Jane and Irma talk, Irma realizes that she knows nothing about Al's background or relatives. And this is the man she plans to marry. Al has to call his friend Joe, who knows just about anything. Even after the phone call, Al is a little unclear about his family roots. Irma manages to find a letter that was in Al's pocket, and assumes the worst. It's really from his mom, and to set things right Jane encourages him to inviter her to the apartment so Irma can meet her. It does help clear things up for Irma, but Al is still is something of a tight spot.   Bonus Track: Minnie Pearl. 1945. Brother, and the Preacher's Visit.   PS: Sorry about the background noise in the show intro. There was a fan motor running that couldn't be stopped, and I couldn't filter out.   

In the far flung, futuristic year of 1965, an exciting adventure into space is about to begin. At least that's the way it appeared to folks in the mid 1950's.   As a crew of astronauts blast off from the Australian Outback on a trip to the moon, join them in the cockpit of the rocket to experience the stresses of lift off. Despite the joy of being weightless, the crew is faced with some serious issues. Are they off course? Will their remaining fuel be enough, or will they be forced to turn back without landing on the moon?   Things start looking bleak when a wierd kind of music is heard, then the radio comes to life with good news from Earth. After a collision with a meteor, there's even a space walk. That wierd music makes a return. What's the deal with that? But hey, this is just the first installment of a series. You just can't get to the moon in a half hour segment, not even in the 1950's. There's lots more of adventure, and the toughest parts are yet to come.   A lot of the science in th

  Or, Who Stole The Elephant From Billy Nose?   Town Hall Tonight begins with Peter VanSeeten's Orchestra, and the Ipana Troubadours singing, I Feel a Song Coming On. The Latest news of the week presents shorts about a psychiatrist who tends to the mental health of a college student, the leap year social tradition of having women initiate marriage proposals, and buying things on credit. Can  you do that with medical operations?   After the commercial, the orchestra plays, I Got My Fingers Crossed. Portland Joins Fred to talk about mice, mouse traps, and cats. She then introduces a couple to Fred, who he teases them about their music talent, or lack thereof. The Town Hall Quartet sings, Slip Board Sam.   Another commercial break. The Mighty Allen Art Players perform the play, Mumbo, or Who Stole the Elephant from Billy Nose? Fred's answer to Charlie Chan, Won Long Pan, is on the case to find a missing elephant. Actually there are two missing elephants, Mumbo and Gumbo. As the jokes run amok, the

Here's a classic old episode that seems to be mislabeled in most archives, and show listings. The date that it is usually listed as November 17, 1935. Here's why this is the wrong date. The sponsor is Chevrolet. Beginning with the 1935 season, Jello began it's long run as sponsor. Chevrolet started around the end of January, or the beginning of March 1933. There's a gap there where no shows are listed, so it's fuzzy as to when the sponsors changed hands. Chevrolet then went on to sponsor the show until April 1934, when General Tire took over. Therefore the date is sometime between late January 1933 and April 1934.   In the show, Jack refers to a recent visit to Waukegan for his birthday. This puts the show in either February 1933, or 1934. There is actually a run of shows that are preserved from the final months of the Chevrolet sponsorship, including ones from February. This isn't one of them.   The last known show that the original sponsor, Canada Dry,  ran was on January 26, 1933. The first

In this episode it's that time of year for the kids to start back to school. Mornings in the Anderson home are becoming hectic as everybody competes for bathroom time. Will Jim ever get to shave? He has that important meeting to get to and time is running late. Besides bathroom frustrations, the latest news is in, the family car is missing. Well, maybe the car isn't stolen afterall. It was just left at dad's office down town, right? And when will the bathrrom ever be free? Complications explode when the kids all seem to have the memory spans of goldfish. As Jim worries about a ride to work, and after watching the tension build, bud finally lets dad know that he already went and brought the car home. Relieved, the only things between Jim, and his important meeting is taking Cathy to school, and the car ride to get there... right? What can go wrong now? I could tell you, but it would give away the ending.   Reminders: A letter to the podcast is shared. Superman files are being updated after broken

Jack is missing, as he is getting a shave. The scene changes to his ordeal with the Italian barber. Johnny Green plays, Anything Goes. Jack plugs his latest film, then Mary gets in an old gag of misunderstanding words. A nervous and apologetic Kenny Baker makes his appearance. Kenny sings, A Rose in Her Hair. Such a nice start, and what a stinker he would become in later shows. Jack notices the similarities in his and Kenny's names. Jack answers fan mail. A promising beauty queen wants to break into pictures. Johnny plays, Cheek to Cheek.   The play is one about movie studios. Mary is the overworked receptionist. Jacck is the busy movie producer who wants it all, and wants it now. The beauty queen from the fan letter shows up, played by Mary Kelley. Running gags just can't keep from showing up in this humorous peek behind the scenes at the busy movie studio.   Trivia Alert. Though this is Kenny Baker's first show, bandleader Johnny Green seems to have already made his debut. Johnny replaced lo