[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.