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Sponsored by Feenamint the chewing gum laxative, this quiz-game show asks contestants such important questions as: How long does it take a rhinoceros to run one hundred yards? Update: 1 additional rare recording and sound improvements

Born with a marquee-ready name, Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, she was known as “the other Marilyn”. Update: 4 additional recordings volume 2

Best known for her film roles such as on Miracle On 34th Street, Maureen O'Hara brought her memorable film roles to the radio sound stage. Update: additional recording

His career in show business spanned 50 years as a handsome leading man in both dramas and comedies. Update: additional rare recording

America's Greatest Humorist and one of the Giants of American Literature, Mark Twain's stories were a natural for Old Time Radio.

provides news analysis and commentary about the changing world of the late 1930's and early 1940's. Update: sound improvements

The Adventures of Babe Ruth was produced in 1934 on the Blue Network, with sponsorship by Quaker Oats, and was the best of the lot. It told in-depth, fully dramatized episodes from the Babe's career, so there was a sense of the real man there in the dugout and on the field. Update: sound quality improvements

While the nation was working together to defeat the forces of Fascism and defend Freedom, there was still time to remember how important Christmas was for everyone.

Typecast as a grumpy old man, Lionel Barrymore is best know for his roles in the Doctor Kildare, Mayor of the Town, Command Performance, Kraft Music Hall, Lux Radio Theater, and Lionel Barrymore Concert Hall Update: 3 additional rare recordings

He had a classic look earning him the nickname "The Great Profile." He was best known as a Shakespearean stage actor, in particular for his performances in Hamlet and Richard III. Barrymore moved his focus to silent film and later appeared in various old time radio shows. Update: additional rare recording

A country boy who rose to fame in the Southern California Country Music scene, Tennessee Ernie Ford won an important place in the history of Rock & Roll. Update: 1 additional rare recordings

Christmas Morning may be the happiest day of the Year, but the night before holds the real magic.

The Successful and Magical Oscar Winning Actress! Update: additional rare recording

Named "the Force's Sweetheart", Vera Lynn and her singing was a terrific boon to the British military during WWII

Her most memorable roles include Effie Perrine, Sam Spade's secretary, as Marjorie, The Great Gildersleeve's teenage niece as well as Suspense, Mystery House, Twelve Players, Theatre of Romance, Hollywood Star Time, Strange Wills, Maxwell House Coffee Time, Lights Out, Rogue's Gallery Update: 1 additonal rare recordings volume 2

Lovejoy was the no nonsense, square-jawed actor best known for his tough guy performances in detective radio dramas. Update: 2 additional recordings

Bob Hope lived to be 100 years old and he celebrated 100 Christmases; many of those Christmases were celebrated with US troops. Update: 1 additional rare recording

She was a popular character actress during the Thirties, making both features and shorts for Hal Roach. Her willowy spinster persona was the inspiration for the voice of Olive Oyl in Max Fleischer's Popeye cartoons. Update: additional rare recording

A showcase variety show for the Sweet-Music classical-based sounds of Freddy Martin.

With more than 60 years in show business, Richard Crenna co-starred in various roles in film, radio, and television. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Capture might seem an easier fate than being killed in battle, but the fate of a P.O.W. is rarely without a desperate cost. Update: additional rare recording

After giving us some of the best loved Country and Western hits of all time and a life that was cut short because of booze and the hard life of being on the road, Hank Williams shares some genuine fun on the radio. Update: 1 additional rare recording

If there ever was a grande dame of Hollywood, it would have been Gloria Swanson. Update: additional rare recording

Martha Tilton, also known as ''Liltin' Martha Tilton,'' joined the venerable Jimmy Dorsey and his band in 1935 and later with Benny Goodman until 1939. Update: additional rare recording

Designed to be played daily between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Christmas Fantasy is a great way to enhance the spirit of the season

Uplifting and Inspirational Sermons from Reverend Beale and Reverend Charles Fuller Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Fascinating PSA, recordings and episodes to save americans from a nuclear attack! Update: 4 additional recordings

During the Big Band Era, Benny Goodman was the undisputed "King of Swing". The Goodman Band is credited with launching the Swing Era with a series of performances and broadcasts from California in 1935. Update: additional rare recording

Love Songs are the most popular form of song because everyone loves being in love.

Best remembered as Broadway's Nellie Forbush and Peter Pan, Mary Martin also graced Radio Row.

Grab a seat on the Hollywood Soundstage and listen to stars like Dana Andrews, Bette Davis, Jeff Chandler, and Tyrone Power present adaptions of some of the era's most popular movies. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Bette Davis was one of the top Hollywood actresses of all time; she received 10 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won twice. This collection includes all known guest appearances. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

A wise man once wrote that all great stories are love stories.

Sleeping is the time when our body rests and recovers, but it is also the time we surrender ourselves to dreams in the Sleeping and Dreamers in Old Time Radio Collection.

'All cats are the same color in the dark' is just one of the secrets held by Agent Lee Masters, the Blind Detective of The Sounds of Darkness

One of Hollywood's most popular dramatic daytime old time radio shows sponsored by LaRosa's macaroni and noodles. Update: 1 additional recording

This old time radio collection has been in the works for a long time but we finally bring it to you now.

is the "shrewd and jovial hardware merchant who finds himself draw into just about everything that happens around him.Scattergood Baines is the best loved, most cussed at, and by all odds the fattest man in the modern, bustling town of Coldriver." Update: 1 additional rare recording

Although this program from the early '30s has nothing to do with the popular sitcom starring William Bendix, it is great fun! Update: 1 additional recording

Tiny Lily Pons may not have looked like a typical opera diva, but she had the powerful voice and forceful personality to succeed. During the War, she made USO tours with her husband Andre Kostelanetz.

Listen to Tommy Riggs and "a cute little bundle of mischief" seven-year-old girl Betty Lou, his imaginary friend. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Human beings are designed to run, and it can be a joyous activity.

Known for the sarong dress in The Jungle Princess and her exotic good looks, Dorothy Lamour made over 60 motion pictures and helped sell US Treasury Bonds Update: 1 additional rare recordings volume 4

Cooper's commitment to mind-bending, truly affecting science fiction ensured that his programs would win over listeners and draw critical acclaim. Update: Quiet Please sound quality improvements

Sea Stories are among the most sweeping and dramatic of all, and few told them with as much majesty as Joseph Conrad.

There is supposed to be one girl out there for every guy, but when there is a Love Triangle there is nothing but trouble.

center fielder baseball player for the New York Yankees, is a a very rare sports old time radio show featuring Joe DiMaggio himself answering questions from listeners. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Soap opera about a female doctor in the 1930s, she works in a male dominated profession and looks for respect and love starring Frank Lovejoy, Agnes Moorehead and Mercedes McCambrdige. Update: 1 additional rare recording

For as long as men have sailed in boats, they have challenged each other to see whose boat is fastest.

Featuring the All-American boy, the Adventures of Frank Farrell is a lot of wholesome fun! Update: 1 additional rare recording

this old time radio show focused on common issues of parenthood that people faced in the late 1940s. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Loving the natural world is as natural as loving the Creator who made it.

The act of loving and being in love can be even more beneficial to the lover than the beloved.

This series is a long running post-war soap opera that had its beginnings in Joyce Jordan, MD. Update: 4 additional recordings

Gangsters, Smugglers, and an ancient Chinese curse are all found in The 13 Windows. Update: 1 additional recording

Love may be a Many Splendored Thing, but the truth is that Love does not always go the way we want it too.

Frontier Town is the story of the individual sagas of different towns in the wild west starring Jeff Chandler. Update: sound quality improvements

Best known for portraying the ideal father, Robert Young battled his own demons of depression and alcoholism in reaction to unfair casting practices in Hollywood's studio system. Update: 1 additional broadcast of Father Knows Best

Enjoy Cliff Edwards as he sings popular tunes from the 1920-40s like "Singin' in the Rain" & "When You Wish Upon a Star". Update: 1 additional rare recording

American Music, especially from the Big Band Era, owes a huge debt to Latin American influences.

The old Maestro" was known for his entertaining patter more than his violin playing and a "feud" with his good friend Walter Winchell. A musical genius from a very young age, he was the youngest violinist the play Carnegie Hall at age of thirteen. Update: 9 additional recordings

A very professionally created two-man operation, Calling all Detectives had a fun quiz show element to its detective sleuthery. Update: 1 additional rare recordings and sound upgrade

This unique compilation includes rare dramas, comedy, and unique radio broadcasts from the 1930's. Update: 1 additional rare recording

A vehicle to sell chicken feed, The Man on the Farm is wholesome barnyard quiz show fun!

As a youngster, the only thing Danny Kaye was good at was singing songs and telling jokes. After spending time on the Borscht Belt, he found success on Broadway. Update: 5 additional recordings

This legendary songster and funny man was every bit as zany in real life as he was with Bing in White Christmas. The Danny Kaye Show aired almost a decade before the classic Holiday movie. Update: 5 additional recordings

One of the greatest American journalists in broadcast history, he pioneered the reporter on the scene reporting during WWII. Update: sound quality improvements

Breaking the enemy's codes is a way to understand what they are going to do in Wartime. The same thing works when the Good Guys figure out the Bad Guy's codes.

Experience the music and laughs of the famous Ziegfeld Follies entertainers like Helen Morgan, and Will Rogers. Update: 3 additional rare recordings

This fifteen syndicated minutes of music has one thought in mind: "Get down to your Chevy Dealer Today!" Update: 50 additional recordings

With requisite Chinese chords and stings from the organist we have several selections from the casebook of the Incomparable Charlie Chan, Detective, Philosopher, and Modern Chinese Sage. Update: 2 additional rare recording

This collection includes every Presidential Inaugural Speech since Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4, 1933 through 2021. Update: 5 additional recordings

In the United States election cycle there are differing candidates vying for a political office. At times it can be bitter but when it's over, there is a winner and a loser and typically candidates are a good sport about it. Update: 1 additional recording George Wallace concession speech

Best remembered for My Friend Flicka, Anita Louise grew up with the movie industry, as a child actor in silent pictures, an ingenue in talkies, and a pretty mom and fashion plate on television.

Wendell Niles and his brother Ken were pioneering West Coast Radio Announcers who worked both together and separately for some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Hosted by Art Linkletter, stunts on this old time radio program continued to get more and more outrageous (and funny) as the show continued its 18 year run. Update: additional recording

The $70 billion Weight Loss industry claims that we should be skinny, but it is more important to be healthy and happy.

Pete Kelly (Jack Webb) fronts the house band, the Big Seven, at a speakeasy in the roaring '20s is a world of jazz, gangsters, gun molls, g-men, bad booze and desperate people trying to save their skins. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Harriette Widmer stars (from Amos and Andy) in this fun music and variety program promoting Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Update: 4 additional rare recordings

This old time radio soap opera told the story of 20 year old secretary Rosemary Dawson, who works to support her mother and sister. Rosemary falls madly in love and marries journalist Bill Roberts. Of course, not all is well in Soapland; Bill, a war veteran, suffers from amnesia. Update: 4 additional recordings

They sang together since 1929 and were the resident vocal group on Fibber McGee and Molly. In 1949, The Kingsmen took over Fibber and Molly’s spot as a summer replacement. Update: additional rare recording

The storylines and characters were the same, and even more amazing, the same performers played both the radio and TV roles! Update: sound quality improvements

Every week there was an original story played by Hollywood up-and-comers on Your Movietown Radio Theater. The series featured Hollywood stars and starlets in a variety of 30 minute shows. Tune in each week for a different genre from comedy to drama each with a unique twist. Update: 3 additional recordings

The most important part of the modern Navy is its Sailors.

If great music was all it took to get young men to the recruiting office, these U.S. Navy Shows would have found more sailors than we have ships. As it was, these great programs from the USN Recruiting Command gave us hours of toe-tapping goodness and dreams of the high seas. Update: 12 additional recordings of Your Navy Show with Tommy Dorsey

An entertaining and educational introduction to an industry and science that shapes every aspect of our modern society.

Look at dem chompers! A sore tooth is no fun, but it makes good fodder for old time radio Update: 1 additional rare recording

Known as Irma in My Friend Irma, Marie Wilson made a career of playing ditzy but loveable blondes. Update: 10 additional My Friend Irma recordings

Going into medicine is one of the highest callings to aspire to.

A series of reports on the state of Defense Technology in the late-1950s sponsored by NORAD. Update: 5 additional recordings

A Public Service Announcement (PSA) is defined as a message in the public interest which is disseminated through the media free of charge, with the objective of raising awareness of issues. Update: 4 additional PSA shows with singing cowboys warning listeners about Syphilis from 1948

Terry Lee Jenkins and PAMS Company put out a full length 45 RPM to promote local towns around the country that was to be played in local radio market

Best known from television's Perry Mason, Raymond Burr starred in Dragnet, Fort Laramie, and Pat Novak for Hire. Update: 2 additional recordings

Radio celebrates the life of Jesus, from his humble birth in a manger in Bethlehem, through his crucifixion and resurrection, but mostly radio is a means to share Jesus’s message of love and peace. Update: 5 additional recordings about Jesus

The original Disc Jockeys from the Age of Radio bring you their best and greatest music from their era. Update: 33 additional recordings

Mystery! Murder! Pretty girls and a touch of the supernatural! We find all this and more in the office of Nemesis Inc., a private investigation service on the twenty-first floor of a modern building on Chicago's Loop.

Spoof of news and current events starring Roy Hudd

speeches from the most infamous man in history Update: 2 additional news broadcasts from 1938-39

Although little-known beyond fans of Big Band Music and OTR, Maxine Gray's story is filled with survival and even success despite nearly crippling injuries and long odds. Update: 3 additional rare recordings

Mary Pickford Collection: One of the very first Stars in motion pictures and an astute businesswoman who helped to establish the motion picture industry as a co-founder of United Artists.

Featuring on air personality D.J's performances, announcements, and skits. Update: 62 additional recordings

Smile awhile, and enjoy this fine soap sud! Lorenzo Jones was a popular soap throughout its near two decade run. Each show began, "We all know couples like lovable, impractical Lorenzo Jones and his devoted wife, Belle. Update: 4 additional rare recordings

Grantland Rice was one of the most important media figures during golden age of sports known for his descriptive style of sports news broadcasting. Update: sound improvements

superb radio actress who co-starred on Mr. and Mrs. North for ten years and as Big Sister for five years. Update: additional recording and sound quality improvements

"The First Lady of American Cinema", Lillian Gish was there from the early Silent Era through Hollywood's Golden Age

Before she became TV’s favorite redhead, Lucille Ball was a rising starlet who turned to radio work as a way to make ends meet. Update: 1 additional rare recording

"Zeb tall and angular and Eb short and fat" who run a general store in Corn Center. Much of the show's humor is derived from Eb and Zeb's slow minds and silly business ideas. Update: 2 additonal rare recordings

Produced a decade before Sputnik brought America's educational system into question, Exploring the Unknown, may have helped to inspire the generation of scientists who eventually won the Space Race.

The Hoosier Hot Shots are considered the artistic forebears to Freddie Fischer and His Schnickelfritz Band, Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

This OTRCAT original collection includes examples of boxing in all the genres of old time radio shows. Update: 2 additional recordings

The Anderson Family is a fairly typical Family Situation Comedy, featuring a noble but semi-inept father, a loving and sometimes acid wife, and a precocious scamp who seems to have more on the ball than his parents. In this case, the program is a showcase for one of radio's longest lasting scamps, Walter Tetley, also known for playing nephew Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve and the delivery boy Julius who had a crush on Alice Faye on the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. Update: 16 additional recordings

Randolph Scott was the prototype for the Western Movie Hero

Valentine's Day is a time to go a little bit crazy for your Sweetheart. This collection includes extra Valentine's Day special episodes from the golden age of radio! OTRCAT Wuvvves you! Update: 10 additional recordings

Lionel Atwill established a successful career as a supporting player in horror films.

There is plenty of excitement and fun in our Football Collection for fans of football and Old Time Radio. Inspiring memories of frosty autumn afternoons in the stands, these broadcasts of classic Football games are almost as good as being a fan in the stadium. Go Team! Update: 62 additional old time radio recordings

Inter-meshing true crime stories of the day with fiction, this realistic police drama gives radio audiences a look behind the scenes at police headquarters. Update: sound quality improvements

At a time when female dancers on screen were there to make their male partners look good, Eleanor Powell was the most talented tap-dancer in Hollywood, perhaps the world.

Follow "Mr. D.A." on his adventures into the heart of the crime world and sending shockwaves of fear through all villains, fictional AND in reality. Update: sound quality improvements

Often called a milquetoast character, Arnold Stang was a mouse whose roar could not be ignored. Update: 1 additional rare recording

The Second World War was a radio War, not only in the way it was reported and fought but also in the way it is remembered and perceived by the public.

A buddy comedy minstrel-type radio program in the vein of Amos n' Andy and Two Black Crows. Update: additional rare recording

Captain Wilkie relates stories of counterfeiting investigations, con-men, scammers, racketeers, and foiling an assassination attempt against President Taft in 1909. Update: 2 additional recordings and sound improvements

For 38 years, Frank Nelson was part of Jack Benny's Gang. Among the parts he played was the store floor-walker who always said Yeeaaaaaaassss?

Atomic Attacks and Major Pandemics do not seem related, but the response to the threat from government and citizens is surprisingly similar. Update: 13 additional recordings

Glorious Hollywood Gossiper, Hedda Hopper's show is full of colorful language, wild hats, and ability to take herself with a grain of salt. Update: 1 additional rare recording