Silversmith45
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I was waiting at the airport when my ship came in. 
Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - Podcasts
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Detector boy
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The worst part is that I only live 20 mins. from Plainfield. And I had no idea they had a sovereign for 15 bucks.
hawgdawg
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I was waiting at the airport when my ship came in.
You sound like me....a day late and a dollar short and always on the wrong side of town...
rob00000
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Liberty_1776
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I guess I need to start checking the goodwill stores. I've done the flea markets a couple times but always come up empty handed (no md's for sale)
dan
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I think that finding a good one at a thrift shop is about as rare as finding a gold coin, but my experience last week proves that it does happen once in a great while.
dan
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DAN'S OLD-TIME RADIO CORNER - Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Blackstone was perhaps the most famous magician of the World War II era. His extravagant stage show was legendary, and his career spawned both a comic book and a radio show.
The radio show was Blackstone, the Magic Detective. It ran on the Mutual network from 1948 to 1950 as a fifteen-minute Sunday afternoon show. Most episodes began with the telling of a mystery that Blackstone had solved, and then Blackstone taught the radio audience a trick they could play on their friends.
The scripts were written by Blackstone's friend Walter Gibson, a professional magician who also wrote novels. Under the pen name Maxwell Grant, Gibson wrote over 300 stories of The Shadow.
Here are two episodes of the Blackstone radio show, both from the spring of 1949.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
Blackstone was perhaps the most famous magician of the World War II era. His extravagant stage show was legendary, and his career spawned both a comic book and a radio show.
The radio show was Blackstone, the Magic Detective. It ran on the Mutual network from 1948 to 1950 as a fifteen-minute Sunday afternoon show. Most episodes began with the telling of a mystery that Blackstone had solved, and then Blackstone taught the radio audience a trick they could play on their friends.
The scripts were written by Blackstone's friend Walter Gibson, a professional magician who also wrote novels. Under the pen name Maxwell Grant, Gibson wrote over 300 stories of The Shadow.
Here are two episodes of the Blackstone radio show, both from the spring of 1949.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
dan
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Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - You Bet Your Life
Groucho Marx was approached by a radio producer with the idea of hosting a quiz show.
Groucho wasn't excited. Then they told him he could adlib.
He gave it a shot, and the rest is history.
This episode of You Bet Your Life first aired on October 25, 1947.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
Groucho Marx was approached by a radio producer with the idea of hosting a quiz show.
Groucho wasn't excited. Then they told him he could adlib.
He gave it a shot, and the rest is history.
This episode of You Bet Your Life first aired on October 25, 1947.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
dan
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DAN'S OLD-TIME RADIO CORNER - Song of the South, and Rush Gook
Here's something different - three short radio promos for the Walt Disney movie Song of the South, featuring much of the music, all of the stars, and even Walt himself.
These shows were sent to radio stations in October, 1942, when the movie premiered.
After the movie promos, we have time for a short Vic and Sade script that was written on the spot by Paul Rhymer when he realized the show was running short and he needed to add one more bit.
Only Rhymer's twisted mind could come up with these methods of measuring yourself for ordering the right size of mail-order underwear.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
Here's something different - three short radio promos for the Walt Disney movie Song of the South, featuring much of the music, all of the stars, and even Walt himself.
These shows were sent to radio stations in October, 1942, when the movie premiered.
After the movie promos, we have time for a short Vic and Sade script that was written on the spot by Paul Rhymer when he realized the show was running short and he needed to add one more bit.
Only Rhymer's twisted mind could come up with these methods of measuring yourself for ordering the right size of mail-order underwear.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
dan
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Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - The Jack Paar Show
DAN'S OLD-TIME RADIO CORNER - THE JACK PAAR SHOW
Though Jack Paar is best known as the host of the Tonight Show before Johnny Carson, he was active in radio in the 1930s and 1940s.
He was a DJ on stations in Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Buffalo before World War II. He entertained the troops in the South Pacific during the war, and one of the fans who saw him perform was Jack Benny.
Thanks to some inside pull from Benny, Paar was named the summer replacement for Jack Benny in 1947.
In this episode, broadcast on August 17, 1947, Jack Benny is a contestant in a talent contest designed to find a "fall replacement" for the Jack Paar Show.
And by the way, I have a special affinity for this show. It originally aired on the day I was born.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
DAN'S OLD-TIME RADIO CORNER - THE JACK PAAR SHOW
Though Jack Paar is best known as the host of the Tonight Show before Johnny Carson, he was active in radio in the 1930s and 1940s.
He was a DJ on stations in Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Buffalo before World War II. He entertained the troops in the South Pacific during the war, and one of the fans who saw him perform was Jack Benny.
Thanks to some inside pull from Benny, Paar was named the summer replacement for Jack Benny in 1947.
In this episode, broadcast on August 17, 1947, Jack Benny is a contestant in a talent contest designed to find a "fall replacement" for the Jack Paar Show.
And by the way, I have a special affinity for this show. It originally aired on the day I was born.
Listen at http://radiofun.info
dan
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Forgot to put the URL for this show on the listing - I've fixed it now.
Old age!
Old age!
dan
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Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - The Academy Award Theater
Many of the movies on the Academy Award Theater did not win Academy Awards. The only requirement was that either the movie, or one of its stars, had been nominated for an Oscar. That left the door open for a huge number of movies to appear on this radio-adaptation series.
The Academy Award Theater ran for just one season, in 1946.
This episode, My Sister Eileen, starred Rosalind Russell (who was nominated for Best Actress) and Janet Blair, both in the movie and in this radio version of the movie.
It originally aired on May 18, 1946.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
Many of the movies on the Academy Award Theater did not win Academy Awards. The only requirement was that either the movie, or one of its stars, had been nominated for an Oscar. That left the door open for a huge number of movies to appear on this radio-adaptation series.
The Academy Award Theater ran for just one season, in 1946.
This episode, My Sister Eileen, starred Rosalind Russell (who was nominated for Best Actress) and Janet Blair, both in the movie and in this radio version of the movie.
It originally aired on May 18, 1946.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
dan
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Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - The Dizzy Dean Show
Dizzy Dean was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season, in 1934, and he won TWO world series games that year. He entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
But he is probably better-known by more people as a hillbilly baseball play-by-play announcer. He was on the air from soon after his retirement from baseball in 1947 until 1965.
He did a 15-minute weekly show in the summer of 1948, and in these two episodes Dizzy discusses the 1948 All-Star game, and he lists his own All-Time All-Star team.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
Dizzy Dean was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season, in 1934, and he won TWO world series games that year. He entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
But he is probably better-known by more people as a hillbilly baseball play-by-play announcer. He was on the air from soon after his retirement from baseball in 1947 until 1965.
He did a 15-minute weekly show in the summer of 1948, and in these two episodes Dizzy discusses the 1948 All-Star game, and he lists his own All-Time All-Star team.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
beerdoodle
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Dizzy Dean was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season, in 1934, and he won TWO world series games that year. He entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
But he is probably better-known by more people as a hillbilly baseball play-by-play announcer. He was on the air from soon after his retirement from baseball in 1947 until 1965.
He did a 15-minute weekly show in the summer of 1948, and in these two episodes Dizzy discusses the 1948 All-Star game, and he lists his own All-Time All-Star team.
Listen at http://radiofun.info.
always loved,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,He slud in safe..........................................
dan
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"He walks back to the dugout nonchalantly, a big look of disgust on his face."
beerdoodle
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Anyone know where I can get some Falstaff beer?
beerdoodle
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Yes, see Harry Carey.
hurtful thing to say, since he is dead............................................lol
