Are you old enought to remember radio programs? What was your favorite?

[raccoon]

I guess technically I'm old enough, but I don't remember them at all. My family got a TV early on.

I like SUSPENSE, though I don't remember it from yesteryear.

[Glorfindel]

1. Yes, I am. "The Lone Ranger" was my favorite

I also loved "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" and "Inner Sanctum." I was eight years old by the time we got a TV and had been listening to radio for years. My mother had a favorite soap opera called "When a Girl Marries."

[raccoon]

2. "When A GIrl Marries" is one I've never heard of. A soap? nt

[Glorfindel]

3. Yes, it was a soap

"Dedicated to everyone who has ever been in love." The only thing I remember other than the name and that dedication is hearing an episode in which the characters were flying in an airplane and talking to each other. I thought it was real.

[Glorfindel]

4. I found it on Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a_Girl_Marries

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I LOVE Old Time Radio...

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listening to shows from the 40's and 50's in the
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Here's the best site I've found (and it's fantastic --
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www.otr.net
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Lots of "Suspense" shows -- I think Lone Ranger. My
favorites are Gunsmoke and The Adventure of Philip
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[raccoon]

10. thanks for the link! nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. OH my...what a treasure trove.

Bless you!!!!

[marigold20]

33. That link is great! I've added it to my bookmarks.

nt

[Petrushka]

6. Inner Sanctum Mysteries --- "Pleasant dreeeeeams, hm-m-m-m." --->

http://www.otr.net/?p=isan

[Tikki]

7. The Cinnamon Bear...

http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/cinnamonbear.htm



Tikki

[bikebloke]

8. The Shadow

Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men?...

Though they were re-runs on local AM back in the 60's.

[raccoon]

9. The Shadow had the ability to cloud men's minds. His spirit must have been around a lot 2000-2008.nt

[elifino]

11. Sky King

[triguy46]

29. Fire up the SongBird Penny!

Brush with fame: my b in law did the flying for that show's opening sequence.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. I lived in Cincinnati for fifteen years...

and we had WVXU-FM -- the campus radio station from Xavier University. During the day, they air tapes of Jack Benny, Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly and others. I loved that stuff. I'm not sure if they still have that format.

[cyberswede]

13. Not old enough, but love them!

I have probably 250 old time radio podcast episodes on my iPod right now. LOL!

My faves:
Suspense
Pat Novak For Hire
Jeff Regan, Investigator
various detective series (Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Let George Do It, Broadway is my Beat...etc.)
Pete Kelley Blues

It turns out I have a thing for Jack Webb - who knew?!? LOL (he starred in Pat Novak & Jeff Regan above, and also Dragnet, of course).

Pete Kelley Blues was a series in which Webb played a 20s jazz musician who got involved in various adventures - usually where he helped someone get out of some seedy situation or another. The show featured jazz tunes throughout the drama - great stuff!

There are some old time radio streams on live365.com, too.

[av8rdave]

14. The Jack Dunnigan show, WJTN, Jamestown, NY

Local radio was great in those days.

"Tell them Dunnigan sent you."

[WolverineDG]

15. Oooh, what's not to like?

The Shadow, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly, Guildersleeves, the sci-fi shows (X minus 1).....whenever I get tired of Sirius Left, I head on over to the Oldies channel.

dg

[oregonjen]

16. "Mystery Theater" anyone?

I loved listening to those shows and falling asleep to E.G. Marshall's voice. Remember the creaking door opening and closing?

[sarge43]

17. The Beckersons, Capt Horatio Hornblower, Green Hornet

Inner Sanctum, Tom Corbet, Space Cadet.

Inner Sanctum was great ... and scary. I imagine Rod Sterling got a lot of inspiration for Twilight Zone from that show.

[hayu_lol]

18. Inner Sanctum...

probably the added flavor was that I was forbidden to listen to it....

Lets Pretend, Smiling Ed McConnell, and enough others to inspire an active imagination.

[sarge43]

23. Bill Cosby did a very funny routine about he and his brother

home alone listening to IS and totally freaking out. "Put more sugar on the floor. It'll keep the monsters out!!"

[pscot]

19. He steps on the scale. Weight, 237 pounds

Fortune, DANGER! The Fat Man. I think that was Wm Conrad too.

[sarge43]

21. Conrad was also Marshall Matt Dillion, Radio's Gunsmoke. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

20. Dr. Demento

I also dug "The Shadow" reruns.

[Inchworm]

31. I remember this'n

And loved it.

Fish Heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu0DDEZEds

I also remember a song where two people competed. One rolled and the other one smoked... I've never found out whether this memory is true because no matter where I mention it noone has heard of it :D

:hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

34. I THINK that's a Shel Silverstein piece...

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that once or twice. I think it was a man who was the fastest roller
against a woman who was the fastest smoker and VERY funny.
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I'll try to remember the piece -- it wasn't a doob-inspired figment
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GOT IT!!!
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I may post this in its own thread, too.
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"The Great Smoke Off" by Shel Silverstein
from the album "Songs and Stories"

Now in the laid-back California town of sunny San Rafael
Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake - you probably know her well
She was stoned 15 of her 18 years, and her story was widely told
that she could smoke them faster than anyone can roll

Well, her legend finally reached New York, that Grove Street walk-up flat
where dwelt the Calistoga Kid, a beatnik from the past
He's been rolling dope since time began, now he took a cultured toke
and said "Jim, I can roll them faster than any CHICK can smoke"

So a note gets sent to San Rafael for the championship of the world
the Kid demands a smoke-off; "Well bring him on!" says Pearl
"I'll grind his fingers off his hands! He'll roll until he drops!"
says Calistog, "I'll smoke that chick till she blows up and pops".
So they rent out Yankee Stadium, and the word is quickly spread
come one, come all, who walk or crawl, tickets just two lids a head
and from every town and hamlet, over land and sea they speed
the world's greatest dopers, with the world's greatest weed.
Hashishins from Morocco, hemp smokers from Peru
and the Shashniks from Bagun (who smoke the deadly Pu-ga-ru)
and those who call it "light of life"
and those that call it "boo".
See the dealers and their ladies, wearing turquoise lace and leather
See the narcos and the closet smokers, puffing all together
from the teenies who smoke legal, to the ones who've done some time
to the old man who smoked "reefer", back before it was a crime.
And the grand old House That Ruth Built is filled with the smoke and cries
of fifty thousand screaming heads, all stoned out of their minds
and they play the national anthem, and the crowd lets out a roar
as the spotlight hits the Kid and Pearl, ready for their smoking war.

At a table piled up high with grass, as high as a mountain peak
just tops and buds of the rarest flowers, not one stem branch or seed
I mean, Maui Wowie, Panama Red, Acapulco Gold
Kif from East Afghanistan, and that rare Alaska Cold
and there's sticks from Thailand, ganja from the island, and Bangkok's
blooming best
(and some of that wet imported shit that capsized off Key West).
There's Oaxacan tops and Kenya bhang, and Riviera fleurs
and that rare Manhattan Silver, that grows down in the New York sewers.
And there's bubbling ice cold lemonade, and sweet grapes by the bunches
and there's Hershey bars and Oreos (in case anybody gets the munches)
And the Calistoga Kid he smiles, and Pearly she just grins
and the drums roll low, and the crowd yells "GO!!"
and the world's first smoke-off begins.

Well, the Kid he flicks his fingers once, and ZAP that first joint's rolled
Pearl takes one toke with her famous lungs, and WHOOSH that roach is cold
Then the Kid he rolls his super-bomb, that would paralyze a moose
and Pearl takes one mighty hit, and ...... that bomb's defused
and then he rolls three in just ten seconds, and she smokes them up in nine
and everybody sits back and says "Hey.... this just might take some time"
See the blur of flying fingers, see the red coal burning bright
as the night turns into morning, and the morning fades to night
and the autumn turns to summer, and a whole damn YEAR is gone
and the two still sit, on that roach-filled stage, smoking, and rolling
With trembling hands he rolls his Js, with fingers blue and stiff
She coughs and stares with bloodshot gaze, and puffs through blistered lips

And as she reaches out her hand for another stick of gold
the Kid, he gasps, "Damn it, bitch! There's nothing left to roll!"
"NOTHING LEFT TO ROLL!" screams Pearl. "IS THIS SOME TWISTED JOKE?"
"I DIDN'T COME HERE TO FUCK AROUND, MAN, I COME HERE TO SMOKE!"
And she reaches 'cross the table and grabs his bony sleeves
and crumbles his body between her hands, like dry and brittle leaves
flicking out his teeth and bones like useless stems and seeds
Then she rolls him in a Zig-zag, and lights him like a roach
and the fastest man, with the fastest hands, goes up in a puff of smoke.

In the laid-back California town of sunny San Rafael
Lives a girl named Pearly Sweetcake - you probably know her well
She been stoned 21 of her 24 years, and her story is still widely told
how she still can smoke them faster than any dude can roll
While, off in New York City, on a street that has no name
there's the hands of the Calistoga Kid, in the Viper Hall of Fame
and underneath his fingers, there's a little golden scroll
that says
"Beware of being the roller
When there's nothing left to roll".
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[sarge43]

22. Almost forgot - Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police

and his faithful lead dog, King. (Cue Rezcek's Donna Diana Theme)

[raccoon]

24. Did they have reruns on the radio in those days? nt

[AsahinaKimi]

25. Art Bell?

Guilty as charged. I liked his shows. Now that George Nory does it I don't listen anymore.

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. Complete agreement here.

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Art was an old curmudgeon with an EXTREMELY open mind...
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His replacement, George Nory(sp?), doesn't have the
same ring of authenticity for me -- he sounds like he's
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Art guest-hosts on special occasions (Halloween is a
big night for him, I think -- his "Coast-to-Coast" show
becomes "Ghost-to-Ghost") -- at least he used to... I
haven't bothered tuning in for several years.
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Forgot to wave and say hi!!!! :hi:
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[Old Troop]

27. I remember my grandmother listening to soap operas and I remember

the radio listings in the newspapers, but I never remember listening to shows as my parents did.

[triguy46]

28. Barely. What i do remember from late 50's, early 60's...

is the variety of sporting events that were on the radio. Indy 500, prize fights were my fav. Fell asleep hidden under covers listening to Ali fight. There was variety on the radio. Not just 20 choices of bad country music, 10 choices of repug bullshit and 5 70's AOR stations.

[valerief]

30. No, but I remember Betty White's show Life with Elizabeth and Joan Davis' show

The Joan Davis Show.

[fNord]

32. Lamont Cranston A.K.A........

The Shadow



......He Knows(';-)