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Johnny Mercer's Music Shop is an old-time radio program that featured popular songs. It was broadcast on NBC from June 22, 1943, until September 14, 1943, as a summer replacement for The Pepsodent Show. A similar program with a slightly different title was broadcast in 1944. [1]
The WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is an all-volunteer-run nonbusiness organization and is a worldwide multimedia celebration of grassroots music filmed in front of live audience. WoodSongs is a one-hour musical conversation focusing on the artists and their music. [2] The WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour began in 1998 in a small studio that had a ...
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch is a Western variety radio show in the United States. A 15-minute pilot show aired on December 31, 1939. The program ran from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943, and from September 23, 1945 to May 16, 1956. [1] The show's entire run was broadcast over the CBS radio network, sponsored by Doublemint gum. [2]
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
Electrical transcription disc of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles with this "dubbed" copy created ten years after the original broadcast. Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, [1] which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio".
Bobby Benson was created by Herbert C. Rice, who had already originated "dozens of local drama series" as a director at a radio station in Buffalo, New York. [1] In 1932, representatives of the Hecker H-O Company of Buffalo sought to develop a children's radio program for the company's cereal products.
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" was a big hit in 1946 for big band leader and old-time radio personality Kay Kyser (1905–1985), and composer country western music singer Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), plus other artists. It has been covered by a multitude of artists / singers over the years and decades since.
Before Garrison was even a twinkle in Mr. Keillor's eye, Don McNeill launched a radio show with a unique mix of humor, music and audience participation. From 1933 to 1968, the Chicago-based Breakfast Club aired every weekday on the ABC radio network (originally NBC's Blue Network). Millions of Americans tuned in to hear songs, jokes, interviews ...