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re: The Old Time Radio Thread
Posted on 12/5/12 at 1:46 pm to MetryTyger
Posted on 12/5/12 at 1:46 pm to MetryTyger
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Coincidentally, our group NOLA Voice Talent is putting on just such a show shortly - a 1940's radio drama-style 'on-stage' production of "It's A Wonderful Life" in front of a live audience on Saturday, Dec. 15 at the Deutsches Haus in Metairie.
I'll definitely check that out
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 1:47 pm to ipodking
Its a total knockoff of The Shadow but I like to listen to The Avenger when I'm driving for some popcorn crime fighting.
I'd listen to The Shadow more but too often the recordings I hear are sub par. The Avenger generally sounds pretty good though.
I know some will call the show borderline racist but IMO Amos and Andy is pretty damn funny. Perhaps I have simply listened to the wrong episodes but it seems like the characters are no more foolish than the ones in The Honeymooners.
I'd listen to The Shadow more but too often the recordings I hear are sub par. The Avenger generally sounds pretty good though.
I know some will call the show borderline racist but IMO Amos and Andy is pretty damn funny. Perhaps I have simply listened to the wrong episodes but it seems like the characters are no more foolish than the ones in The Honeymooners.
This post was edited on 12/5/12 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 12/5/12 at 2:15 pm to Dr RC
quote:
I know some will call the show borderline racist but IMO Amos and Andy is pretty damn funny. Perhaps I have simply listened to the wrong episodes but it seems like the characters are no more foolish than the ones in The Honeymooners.
The plots of A&A are little different from Sanford & Son
Posted on 12/5/12 at 2:18 pm to ipodking
Youtube has a lot of old radio shows now. Including the radio version of Dragnet from the forties and fifties.
Posted on 12/5/12 at 2:18 pm to ipodking
Mr King would you consider changing the title of this thread to something like "Old Time Radio"?
So it doesn't seem like it's only about one obscure show... Might actually get one person to click on it for that reason.
So it doesn't seem like it's only about one obscure show... Might actually get one person to click on it for that reason.
Posted on 12/5/12 at 2:22 pm to Jim Rockford
Archive.org is the mother lode for old radio shows. Free and easy to DL or listen online.
Posted on 12/5/12 at 2:56 pm to ipodking
I listen to OTR on XM when some good shows are playing.
X-1
Suspense
The Shadow
Dragnet
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Superman
etc..
X-1
Suspense
The Shadow
Dragnet
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Superman
etc..
Posted on 12/5/12 at 4:57 pm to ipodking
thanks! 
Posted on 9/17/13 at 7:29 pm to Kafka
quote:
The Hitch Hiker
Listened to this today and it was great.
I've been listening to Murder at Midnight recently and it's pretty good. It's only 26 episodes and I love the use of the organ and the shows intro:
"Midnight, the witching hour when the night is darkest, our fears the strongest, and our strength at its lowest ebb. Midnight, when the graves gape open and death strikes."
LINK
This post was edited on 9/17/13 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 9/17/13 at 7:41 pm to ipodking
I love OTR I have an app called vintage radio it's like two bucks a month for unlimited streams.
Love Jack Benny, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Dragnet, This is your FBI,Abbott and Costello,The Whistler,The Shadow
Love Jack Benny, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Dragnet, This is your FBI,Abbott and Costello,The Whistler,The Shadow
Posted on 9/17/13 at 8:17 pm to wartiger2004
OTR is great. I've let my little nephew listen to some of the Quiet Please episodes and he loves them.
This post was edited on 9/17/13 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 9/18/13 at 12:13 pm to ipodking
I don't know how my name got into the title of this thread, but anyway...
"A Gray Flannel Hatful of Teenage Werewolves"
quote:
The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957 from July 14 through October 20.
Despite its short run, the show managed to develop some running gags and stock jokes, from Freberg's ambivalence toward Madison Avenue (faux advertisements for "Puffed Grass" and "Food", as well as the classic sketch "Gray Flannel Hatful of Teenage Werewolves") to the overwhelmingly popular interviews with a sneaker-wearing Abominable Snowman.
It was the last American network radio show to devote itself purely to comedy.
"A Gray Flannel Hatful of Teenage Werewolves"
Posted on 9/18/13 at 2:11 pm to Kafka
I put your name in there because you're dropping all the knowledge. Can't tell you how many times I've checked this thread for stuff to listen to.
Posted on 10/23/13 at 12:04 am to Napoleon
quote:
Suspense
"The House in Cypress Canyon"
That's a pretty cool story
I've been listening to some OTR to get into the Halloween mood.
Suspense - "On a Country Road" with Cary Grant
Suspense - Ghost Hunt
Escape - "Three Skeleton Key" with Vincent Price
The Inner Sanctum - "The Wailing Wall" with Boris Karloff
Posted on 10/23/13 at 1:26 am to ipodking
The Great Radio Comedians (PBS Documentary, 1972)
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Excellent, one of a kind PBS documentary on the history of radio comedy. This was produced in 1972, early enough that many of the greats were still alive and well. Included in long interview segments are George Burns, Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen, as well as members of Fred Allen's radio cast.
Posted on 12/10/13 at 11:06 pm to Kafka
This is pretty legit! Thanks for posting
Posted on 1/7/14 at 9:59 pm to JumpingTheShark
The Digital Deli -- A huge nostalgia site with lots of links and very detailed resources for both of the OTR fans on the board
The Orson Welles Almanac
Theatre Royal
The Orson Welles Almanac
Theatre Royal
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