Every old-time radio show imaginable (including all of Jack Benny’s programs...from the 30’s to the 50’s) can be found on “Dumb.com”. They are all free...just find the category you are looking for and drill down.
I listen just about every night before I go to bed.
My favorites: Jack Benny, Johnny Dollar, Our Miss Brooks, Burns and Allen, Dragnet, Gunsmoke...
Great stuff...if your a fan, you will enjoy!
There’s maybe a dozen or so 24/7 streaming audio OTR or old time radio websites. Some of the programs were put together well, others not so much.
Anything with a laugh track, then as now, for me anyway is just unlistenable. There’s this formulaic setup - innocent comment, smart aleck response, huge audience laughter - over and over and over - that quickly grows tiring. Somewhere along the way I became completely allergic to laughtracks. I can decide for myself what’s funny, thanks.
And fake accents, foreign or otherwise, the “Mid-Atlantic” or “Trans-Atlantic” accent is also tough to listen to when overdone.
If you listen to much old time radio you quickly pick up on the fact that just a few actors and actresses filled virtually all of the roles. Maybe a dozen or so. Howard McNear who later went on to star as “Floyd” on the Andy Griffith Show, was one of them. He is in EVERYTHING. He must have been dependable. He’s the “George Kennedy” of radio. Parley Baer, who played Mayor Stoner, was another. William Conrad, John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen, and a few others are in just about every radio program.
Thank you for the reference. Appreciate it.
Do you enjoy the comedy or the feeling of going back in time more?