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Recently, the OTR Digest mailing list has been buzzing with a discussion about what, on the surface, sounds like an alternate performance of “The War of the Worlds” that has been unearthed on a tape. Some conjectured initially that it might have been...
This month I’m on something of a World War II kick - in this post, we’re revisiting a series I started running last year and I’ll be running the last four episodes in my collection over the next few weeks.
“Your Home Front Reporter” was broadcast in...
I’m pleased to offer another previously “lost” show, saved for us by an unknown local station doing some time shifting of their network programming.
“Blue Ribbon Music Time” was a program of light orchestral music broadcast on NBC and, of course,...
We come to the end of a series of excerpts from the CBS series “Pick and Pat”, featuring Blackface comedians Pick Padgett and Pat Malone. The shows were recorded for the producer of the series and turned up from an estate sale a few months ago.
This...
In this post, a bit of a mystery - an unnumbered and undated episode of the Armed Forces Radio series “Mail Call”.
The host of the program is Jane Nye. The King Sisters kick off the show with “Candy”. Betty Grable, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart and...
Seriously great stuff for the OTR enthusiast: rare recordings (some considered lost for decades) and odd trips down radio's memory lane. I dont know where he finds this stuff, but it's great.
