Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and each week we bring you a classic show from Radio's Golden Age. This week our listeners get to hear the first nationwide show to present American folk music to the whole nation. The virtuoso fiddle, banjo and harmonica playing you will hear was a hit nationwide. The Grand Ole Opry and it's so called Hillbilly music was popular regionally and this first show we have this week was it's national debut on NBC. By the late 1950s, folk music was popular all over the nation with radio hits by groups like The Kingston Trio and The Limeliters, but this 1939 premiere marked the first time country music was available to the whole nation. This is The Grand Ole Opry "Ida Red" first broadcast October 14, 1939 on NBC. Next we have another Grand Ole Opry half hour show sponsored by Prince Albert. The program has become much more polished by this time but the music is just as traditional. There is lots of variety from the hilarious to the spiritual. Enjoy The Grand Ole Opry "Greenback Dollar" first broadcast March 23, 1940 on NBC. The Old-Time Radio Hour broadcasts each week over the World Wide Web. You can subscribe at no charge through Apple Podcast, Podbean or RSS and we're now on YouTube. Thank you so much for listening!
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Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and each week we bring you a classic show from Radio's Golden Age. This week we have some more musical treasures with two episodes of The Mario Lanza Show. Mario Lanza was at the height of his popularity with the hit movie "The Great Caruso" and the first show we have this week features the music from that classic film. Enjoy The Mario Lanza Show "The Great Caruso" first broadcast February 29, 1952 on NBC. Next we have more of Mario Lanza's thrilling music starting with Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays" from the musical Roberta. Mario Lanza was very popular with the public until his tragic death from a quack diet treatment in Rome at the age of 38. After his sudden death, author Eleonora Kimmel wrote that he "blazed like a meteor whose light lasts a brief moment in time". Enjoy The Mario Lanza Show first broadcast March 7, 1952 on NBC. The Old-Time Radio Hour broadcasts each week over the World Wide Web. You can subscribe at no charge through Apple Podcast, Podbean or RSS and we're now on YouTube. Thank you so much for listening!
Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and each week we bring you a classic show from Radio's Golden Age. This week we have a radio musical with songs by Sigmund Romberg that have stayed popular for almost a hundred years. Railroad Hour adapted the 1928 musical "New Moon", a light hearted swashbuckling romantic comedy set in New Orleans. Gordon MacRae was host and star with guest stars Rudy Vallee and Nadine Connor along with Carmen Dragon's orchestra. Carmen Dragon's musical arrangements are wonderful. The Railroad Hour was a classy, expensive radio show but it was only a 45 minute show so we also have a 15 minute Dinah Shore show with Mel Torme. Enjoy the rousing music of Sigmund Romberg and the tongue in cheek dialogue in The Railroad Hour "The New Moon" first broadcast November 29, 1949 on ABC. Next we have Dinah Shore's Chevrolet Program, 15 minutes of music and patter. In this episode her guest star is Mel Torme and it's a musical treat. The Dinah Shore Show "Mel Torme" first broadcast January 5, 1955 on NBC. The Old-Time Radio Hour broadcasts each week over the World Wide Web. You can subscribe at no charge through Apple Podcast, Podbean or RSS and we're now on YouTube. Thank you so much for listening!
Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and each week we bring you a classic show from Radio's Golden Age. This week we have an adaptation of the 1940 movie "Til We Meet Again". It was a remake of the 1932 classic "One Way Passage". Merle Oberon and George Brent star as unlikely lovers in this Lux Radio Theater Production produced by Cecil B DeMille. Lux Radio Theater "Til We Meet Again" first broadcast June 10, 1940 on CBS. The Old-Time Radio Hour broadcast each week over the World Wide Web. You can subscribe at no charge through Apple Podcast, Podbean or RSS and we're now on YouTube. Thank you so much for listening! We hope you can join us again next week for another hour of entertainment from the golden age of radio.
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