Old Time Radio Show of the Week

Lux Radio Theater 

"Mama Loves Papa"

April 8th 1940

A simple chap becomes Parks Commissioner and then his trouble begins. 

starring Fibber McGee and Molly 

(Jim and Marian Jordan)

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1940

Rebecca

The winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, first american project and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Rebecca from 1948 Screen Guild Theater Radio production

A Jack Benny Christmas

A few classic Christmas episodes from The Jack Benny Show on radio.  Some years Jack had 2 "Christmas episodes" I have included both from 1943.

Thank you to OTR Halloweenholidaze on Youtube and Buck Benny and his podcast

Tales Well Calculated to Keep you in.....

Well my friend Buck Benny at buckbenny podcast is at it again and its, as usual, wonderful stuff.  He is doing a summer of adventure while his regular shows are on summer vacation.   We get to hear Suspense from its beginnings as an audition show in 1940 on CBS' Forecast along with Gunsmoke from its first season in 1952, Escape, X Minus One and The Voyage of the Scarlett Queen and the wonderful radio series from 1984 Bradbury 13

So please stop over and listen to some of the best Old Time Radio on the internet with Buck Benny.
Enjoy his latest podcast and I have also included a couple of great episodes from Suspense one of the finest radio dramas ever that ran regular shows from 1942-1962.

Here is the audition episode for Suspense from July 22nd 1940 "The Lodger" 



Bradbury 13 from April 9th 1984 "Night Call Collect" 

  

 The first regular run episode of Suspense "The Burning Court" with Charles Ruggles. June 17th 1942

Episode 2 Suspense - "Wet Saturday" June 24th 1942
 

Happy Birthday

To the Billboard music chart!

Today in 1940 - Billboard's first comprehensive record chart was published. The magazine had previously published best-seller lists submitted by the individual record companies, but the new chart combined the top sellers from all major labels. Their first number one song was ‘I'll Never Smile Again’ by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.