The Golden Age of Radio...
Dec 29, 2013 13:02:22 #
Folks, bringing back a little history here. The era before TV, when radio was king. Every household had one and the family would gather around it in the evenings for entertainment. Such programs as: Dick Tracy, Mercury Theatre, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Command Performance, Abbott & Costello, The Lone Ranger, Mitch Miller and his Orchestra, The Jack Benny Show, Gunsmoke, Flash Gordon, and during the war Armed Forces Radio Network.
Now, when you tune into AM radio...it's filled with crap programming from end to end on the dial.
I saw this old radio in a antique shop and I couldn't help but think about all the wonderful programs that must have come out of it's speakers. Not only that...but it looked cool!
Now, when you tune into AM radio...it's filled with crap programming from end to end on the dial.
I saw this old radio in a antique shop and I couldn't help but think about all the wonderful programs that must have come out of it's speakers. Not only that...but it looked cool!
Dec 29, 2013 13:04:37 #
Tales of the Texas Rangers, This is Your F.B.I., Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, The Shadow, Mr. District Attorney to add a few.
Dec 29, 2013 13:06:08 #
jethro779 wrote:
Tales of the Texas Rangers, This is Your F.B.I., Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, The Shadow, Mr. District Attorney to add a few.
Yep...those too, there was so many of them. Some of them can be still found on the internet or on CD's.
Dec 29, 2013 13:06:51 #
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Dec 29, 2013 14:57:10 #
My favorite show was Inner Sanctum. We had a smaller radio that sat on the floor. I would curl myself around it and listen to Inner Sanctum.
Dec 29, 2013 15:21:05 #
donrent
Loc: Punta Gorda , Fl
Another lil tibbit...
Rembember Sherrif Matt Dillon on the radio ? Well, the voice was none other than William Conrad who plat the very ample Private Eye Frank Cannon on TV...
Rembember Sherrif Matt Dillon on the radio ? Well, the voice was none other than William Conrad who plat the very ample Private Eye Frank Cannon on TV...
Dec 29, 2013 15:22:02 #
I agree James. Radios were a work of art in the 'good ole days'. When I went to school, ours was about 3' tall & made from French polished mahogany. It was my job to polish it every week. And those programs, wow--Tarzan & Hopalong Cassidy were my favorites. :lol:
Dec 29, 2013 15:22:40 #
James56 wrote:
Folks, bringing back a little history here. The e... (show quote)
Buy some CD of old radio programs and play them through the speakers. :D
Dec 29, 2013 16:23:38 #
DOOK wrote:
I agree James. Radios were a work of art in the 'good ole days'. When I went to school, ours was about 3' tall & made from French polished mahogany. It was my job to polish it every week. And those programs, wow--Tarzan & Hopalong Cassidy were my favorites. :lol:
Yea, they were works of art for sure...great pieces of furniture that was a show piece for many homes. Now, they're thin little sterile plastic boxes meant to be heard but not seen.
Dec 29, 2013 16:25:43 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Buy some CD of old radio programs and play them through the speakers. :D
I did some radio rewiring in my youth replacing factory speakers with the biggest, baddest I could find. Sounded great till the amplifier burned out....Opps!
Dec 29, 2013 16:27:07 #
donrent wrote:
Another lil tibbit...
Rembember Sherrif Matt Dillon on the radio ? Well, the voice was none other than William Conrad who plat the very ample Private Eye Frank Cannon on TV...
Rembember Sherrif Matt Dillon on the radio ? Well, the voice was none other than William Conrad who plat the very ample Private Eye Frank Cannon on TV...
Interesting info...didn't know that. Thanks for letting us know.
Dec 29, 2013 16:29:41 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
My favorite show was Inner Sanctum. We had a smaller radio that sat on the floor. I would curl myself around it and listen to Inner Sanctum.
I still go to sleep listening to radio...usually listening to Coast-to-Coast AM. They have some strange topics and some of it can get really scary late at night. Especially when they tell ghost stories.
Dec 29, 2013 16:30:29 #
jethro779 wrote:
Or on Sirius/xm radio channel 82.
Thanks for the info...seems radio and gone satellite as well.
Dec 29, 2013 16:34:33 #
That takes me back James our programmes in the 50s where radioshows like,Much binding in the marsh, The man in black I used to get terrified listening to that one and of course we had Tommy Handley, a comedian of the day.I could go on and on.Happy days.
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