USA - Golden Age of Radio
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USA - The Golden Age of Radio : Old Time Radio from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Broadcast quality audio, typically 320 kbps or greater
Thirty broadcasts from the golden age of American old-time radio, featuring Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Glenn Ford, Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, Jack Benny, Alan Ladd, Jack Webb, Paul Dubov, Tallulah Bankhead, Judy Garland, Lucile Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Irene Hubbard and Joan Crawford.
This collection includes an original recording of Sorry, Wrong Number starring Agnes Moorehead, the most famous old-time radio drama of all, from the series Suspense, a thriller in which a bed-ridden invalid gets a crossed-line during a telephone call and accidentally overhears two men plotting a murder.
#25: The Golden Age of American Radio (3 Hour Special)
Alongside the 24 other broadcasts presented here, as item #25 this collection includes The Golden Age of American Radio, a 3 hour special, showcasing six additional episodes from radio's golden age: classic shows, featuring established stars Joan Crawford, Jack Benny and Vincent Price, as well as some lesser-known but no less interesting actors from the time.
Listen out, too, for the first radio appearances of two Hollywood legends in the days before they were famous.
The Golden Age of American Radio features six half-hour broadcasts :
o The Horrible Hamburger starring Vincent Price, a mystery from The Saint in 1950.
o Meridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis, from Columbia Workshop Presents in 1939.
o Jack Gives 50 cents to a Bum, starring Jack Benny with guest Mel Blanc,
comedy from The Jack Benny Program in 1950.
o Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury, from the science-fiction series X Minus One in 1956.
o Senator Theodore Bilbo, a polemic by Jack Webb from One Out of Seven in 1946.
o The Ten Years starring Joan Crawford, a melodrama from Suspense in 1949.
- Boston Blackie - 1944-06-23 - 01 The Jonathan Diamond (starring Chester Morris) (66.3Mb)
- Desert Island Discs - 1964-12-14 - with Tallulah Bankhead (Extract) (12.5Mb)
- Dimension X - 1950-08-18 - The Martian Chronicles (starring Ian Martin) (67.6Mb)
- Humphrey Bogart Presents - 1949-09-17 - Dead Man (starring Humphrey Bogart) (74.5Mb)
- Mysterious Traveler - 1944-01-30 - House of Death (starring Irene Hubbard) (68.1Mb)
- Rocky Fortune - 1953-10-06 - 01 Oyster Shucker (starring Frank Sinatra) (64.4Mb)
- Rocky Fortune - 1953-10-13 - 02 Steven in a Rest Home (starring Frank Sinatra) (66.2Mb)
- Screen Directors Playhouse - 1950-11-16 - Lifeboat (starring Tallulah Bankhead) (142.6Mb)
- Sears Radio Theater - 1979-02-07 - Hostages (starring Vincent Price) (99.9Mb)
- Suspense - 1944-01-13 - Dime a Dance (starring Lucille Ball) (68.9Mb)
- Suspense - 1946-11-21 - Drive In (starring Judy Garland) (65Mb)
- The Clock - 1946-12-22 - The Hunter and the Hunted (starring Harp McGuire) (67Mb)
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