Posted on 12/18/2009 12:29:11 PM PST by BluesDuke
Great! Thanks for the links!
This sure beats listening to Sean Hammity. ☺
This sure beats listening to Sean Hammity. ☺
Or any other political yammerer . . . ;)
Thanks for the great links
This Bickersons show is a H00T!
Great source of Old Time Radio shows.
Really, really great.
http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
Enjoy!
I forgot to thank you for your great post.
Thanks a bunch!
(I also forgot to tell you about archive.org!)
This Bickersons show is a H00T!
Generally, they were avatars of domestic blitz. Think of them as Married . . . Without Children. Only a lot funnier.
Thanx, BD! I really enjoy these kind of old-time radio shows! The writing was so sharp! I’ll have to come back here and listen to these over the holidays.
Great thread. Thanks for all the effort.
Bookmark!
Did you forget the Dragnet story about the little Mexican boy who takes the baby Jesus from the church’s manger and rides it around in his new wagon? This was on radio and the TV show.
I listen to http://radio.macinmind.com/ Radio Antioch everyday. I love the old time stuff - especially the shows from the 30s before the censors.
Thanks for the memories bump! Merry Christmas y’all.
Did you forget the Dragnet story about the little Mexican boy who takes the baby Jesus from the church’s manger and rides it around in his new wagon? This was on radio and the TV show.This may sound strange, but that was the one time I thought the television version was better than the radio original. The radio version was a little too wooden; the television take was just the right kind of understatement.
can any shows of Bill Stearn sportscaster with the colgate sponsorship be had for free?
can any shows of Bill Stern [sic] sportscaster with the colgate sponsorship be had for free?
Yes they can. I believe there is a group of them at http://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio. Beware, however---the Stern broadcasts are mostly worth entertainment value; Stern has fallen under severe criticism by historians (as indeed he was in his time) for wild exaggerations and what we'd call urban mythmaking today. It's fun, though, to hear some of the great sports figures of the era (including Casey Stengel himself) talking on a Stern broadcast.
THANK YOU BLUESDUKE!!!
I'm going to save all of these so that I can broadcast them from my low power AM station (under construction)! Legal under part 15 of FCC regs, I live on a hill top and will cover about a 3 mile radius. My station will be called Victory Radio, with a 24 hour big band format. I currently have over 80 hours of music. Along with that I have old commercials (Bromo Seltzer, Bromo Seltzer, Bromo Seltzer...), Every episode of "The Shadow", and a ton of "Mystery Theatre". I also have quiet a bit of old news broadcasts of important dates. I am working on some automation software that will run station id's at set times, and will play a radio program at a set time each week. The system will be about 95% automated. I will, of course, be able to manually broadcast at any time I choose.
The purpose behind the station was so that I could listen to the music that was meant to be heard through my 1941 Zenith Tabletop or 1938 Zenith Console. The first night I got the 1941 Zenith (on a Tuesday) I was able to tune in 740AM out of Canada (and I'm in Tennessee.) They were rebroadcasting the final concert performance by Glenn Miller's Army Air Corp Band, from New York City. NBC radio had even flown in (Tech Sargeant) Tex Beneke from Texas for the performance. This was my father's music (he was a WWII Submarine Sailor), and to get to hear that concert on an original Zenith... It was priceless. So, I decided to create my own station. It costs less than $150 to do this, if you can use a soldeing iron and read a schematic...
Imagine sitting in your favorite chair with nothing but the light of the radio dial... A deep radio voice comes on...
"You are listening to Victory Radio ...-" (the old WWII V for Victory in morse code) "Victory Radio, broadcasting on a frequency of 1.5 kilocycles, is dedicated to the music of the greatest generation." Then a period correct commercial, followed by Tommy Dorsey's version of Opus One... Now that was music...
-Raven6
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