"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 11/29/ 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 11/29/15 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

What did he say about elected Republicans going into Phil Harris?

[WXRGina]

Darn, I missed that, Vision! I don’t know, and Keith said he didn’t catch it either. On the replay...

[Vision]

I think he said Phil would reference it but there were less elected Republicans then...

[WXRGina]

Oh, okay.

[WXRGina]

... and, Democrats weren’t quite the commie freaks they are today.

[Vision]

“What's that ridiculous thing hanging down in front of his face?”

“His nose.”

[Vision]

...not at all.

[WXRGina]

I’ve never heard anyone pronounce hard “Ts” and “Ds” the way Rob does.

[Vision]

I still haven't noticed this...

[WXRGina]

Really? Instead of “matter,” he says “mather.” Instead of “forty,” he says “forthy.” Instead of “murder,” he says, “murther,” etc. I’m surprised you haven’t heard this. We’ve heard it from the start.

[Vision]

Really, I've been thinking he's over enunciating.

[WXRGina]

It some sort of speech impediment, probably. Bless his heart. Having been in radio for over twenty years, I hear these things, and that kind of speech is not good for radio.

[Vision]

I’m going to go back and listen to the show for it

[Vision]

I’m tuning out for lux Gina. Talk with you later.

[WXRGina]

You’ll hear it almost every time he speaks.

Good night, Vision!

[Vision]

Hi All, a OTR question to the gang from Leaning Right...

“Ive got a question for you...I can only find very incomplete Abbott and Costello mp3 lists. Even archive.org is incomplete.

Any idea why Abbott and Costello mp3s are so hard to find? And any idea where a complete mp3 list might be found?

Thanks, and Regards,
Leaning Right”

[Calvin Locke]

Any number of reasons. Many epis of shows in general, survived because of AFRS, and were also recorded as contractual proof to advertisers.

In the latter case, many of those recordings were lost, or are in private collections.

I read an article about "The Shadow", and there were on the order of a 1000 shows, but only around 800 are publicly available, with some number in private hands, and the rest gone.

[BluesDuke]

Methinks you're looking in the wrong places. You can get a nice pile of Abbott & Costello's radio shows (and planeloads of other old-time radio shows!) at the Old Time Radio Researchers' Library.

[BluesDuke]

I read an article about "The Shadow", and there were on the order of a 1000 shows, but only around 800 are publicly available, with some number in private hands, and the rest gone.

Happily enough, so far as I know, these radio series are actually available in their complete or near-complete runs:

Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network
Broadway is My Beat
The CBS Radio Workshop
Dragnet
Fibber McGee & Molly (This includes the fifteen-minute semi-serial version of 1954-56, and a generous helping of the five-minute sketches they did for NBC Monitor---the weekend radio magazine-style block of the late fifties through the early 1970s---for about three years before co-star Marian Jordan's death.)
The Great Gildersleeve (Though, in fairness, it's the Harold Peary originals you really want, from 1942-50; Willard Waterman might have been a soundalike but he was no Harold Peary.)
Gunsmoke
The Halls of Ivy (Ronald Colman starred in this.)
The Jack Benny Program
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
Suspense