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Post by Lucky Dan on Oct 21, 2022 23:14:43 GMT
Lots of familiar titles and some unfamiliar offered for free at this link. I haven't used it frequently but I have listened to a few Dragnet episodes. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/ |
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Post by yanceycravat on Oct 22, 2022 3:55:58 GMT
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 22, 2022 10:10:39 GMT
We had a gigantic console radio that sat about six inches from the end of the sofa. My one and only radio memory is of my two brothers fighting over which one was going to sit in that six inch space when "The Lone Ranger," came on.
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Post by BingFan on Oct 22, 2022 14:21:21 GMT
Lots of familiar titles and some unfamiliar offered for free at this link. I haven't used it frequently but I have listened to a few Dragnet episodes. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/Thanks for noting this site. I usually use Archive.org for old time radio, but it doesn’t always have what I’m looking for. Lately, I’ve been listening to The Story of Dr. Kildare, the 1950 follow-up to the earlier MGM movie series. The radio version has entirely new stories, which are well-told within the half-hour format. Stars Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore return as Doctors Kildare and Gillespie, but the rest of the characters — Nurse Parker, Superintendent Molly Byrd, hospital head Dr. Carew, and ambulance driver Joe Wayman — are all played by other actors. There are definite differences from the movie series: Molly Byrd doesn’t appear very often in the radio series and Dr. Carew is played entirely as a pretentious comedic buffoon instead of the earlier overly cautious but competent administrator. But overall, I think the radio series is very well done. |
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Post by hoganman1 on Oct 22, 2022 20:37:35 GMT
I listen to Radio Classics on SiriusXM while I'm driving. I love the JOHNNY DOLLAR programs. Also, SUSPENSE is a good one.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Oct 22, 2022 23:53:27 GMT
Lots of familiar titles and some unfamiliar offered for free at this link. I haven't used it frequently but I have listened to a few Dragnet episodes. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/Thanks for noting this site. I usually use Archive.org for old time radio, but it doesn’t always have what I’m looking for. Lately, I’ve been listening to The Story of Dr. Kildare, the 1950 follow-up to the earlier MGM movie series. The radio version has entirely new stories, which are well-told within the half-hour format. Stars Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore return as Doctors Kildare and Gillespie, but the rest of the characters — Nurse Parker, Superintendent Molly Byrd, hospital head Dr. Carew, and ambulance driver Joe Wayman — are all played by other actors. There are definite differences from the movie series: Molly Byrd doesn’t appear very often in the radio series and Dr. Carew is played entirely as a pretentious comedic buffoon instead of the earlier overly cautious but competent administrator. But overall, I think the radio series is very well done. I heard an episode of Kildare radio on a car trip that was memorable for an unintentional laugh. Kildare is talking about treating someone for obesity and expressing his frustration about how instead of sticking with their diet they "juuuuust shovel it right back on!" |
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Post by BingFan on Oct 23, 2022 1:54:47 GMT
I think I’ve heard that episode. If I remember right, Kildare was helping Dr. Carew’s wife, a former dancer, lose weight so that she could perform in a charity benefit show. It was one of the episodes where the main plot was more comedic than medical. It’s really a very good radio show, even if not as polished as the excellent MGM movie series. Although I download quite a few old time radio shows, I also listen on Sirius XM. There, host Greg Bell features the Kildare program occasionally, but I have most of the available episodes already stored on my phone. Hoganman, I agree that Suspense and Johnny Dollar are always worth hearing. On the Dollar show, Bob Bailey is definitely my favorite actor in the title role. Some of the other actors who played Johnny, like Edmund O’Brien and Mandell Kramer, are good, but Bailey seems to bring something to the role that makes his performances just right. |
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Post by topbilled on Oct 23, 2022 15:34:51 GMT
Some people have been uploading Old Time radio programs on YouTube. I am guessing these are all in the public domain?
I listened to a few episodes from The Halls of Ivy, a very charming radio sitcom starring Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume.
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Post by BingFan on Oct 23, 2022 16:35:39 GMT
Some people have been uploading Old Time radio programs on YouTube. I am guessing these are all in the public domain?
I listened to a few episodes from The Halls of Ivy, a very charming radio sitcom starring Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume.
As for the public domain question, I’ve always assumed that most of the original copyright holders let their copyrights lapse. I’ve never heard of copyright disputes regarding old time radio shows. (That said, I do remember hearing that some (but not all) people selling CDs and downloads of radio shows have tried to get those shows removed from free download sites, but it seemed pretty obvious that those folks were unlikely to actually hold the copyrights.) |
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Post by txfilmfan on Oct 26, 2022 22:06:38 GMT
Some people have been uploading Old Time radio programs on YouTube. I am guessing these are all in the public domain?
I listened to a few episodes from The Halls of Ivy, a very charming radio sitcom starring Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume.
It's complicated. Surprisingly, sound recordings were not covered under Federal copyright law until 1972. So there are no federal protections for recorded radio programs from the classic radio era. There were, however, state laws. So you can imagine sifting through 50 different state lawbooks can be a daunting task. I would imagine most people just put the stuff out there and see if anyone objects, and that there are few that do, because the opportunity to squeeze any more money out of these properties is very unlikely. www.copyright.gov/docs/sound/#:~:text=Although%20sound%20recordings%20were%20first,under%20the%20federal%20copyright%20statute. |
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Post by topbilled on Oct 27, 2022 2:00:53 GMT
Some people have been uploading Old Time radio programs on YouTube. I am guessing these are all in the public domain?
I listened to a few episodes from The Halls of Ivy, a very charming radio sitcom starring Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume.
It's complicated. Surprisingly, sound recordings were not covered under Federal copyright law until 1972. So there are no federal protections for recorded radio programs from the classic radio era. There were, however, state laws. So you can imagine sifting through 50 different state lawbooks can be a daunting task. I would imagine most people just put the stuff out there and see if anyone objects, and that there are few that do, because the opportunity to squeeze any more money out of these properties is very unlikely. www.copyright.gov/docs/sound/#:~:text=Although%20sound%20recordings%20were%20first,under%20the%20federal%20copyright%20statute. |
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Post by Janet on Oct 27, 2022 12:12:31 GMT
Thanks! I found The Bickersons, my favorite. |
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Post by yanceycravat on Oct 27, 2022 13:26:07 GMT
Some people have been uploading Old Time radio programs on YouTube. I am guessing these are all in the public domain?
I listened to a few episodes from The Halls of Ivy, a very charming radio sitcom starring Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume.
It's complicated. Surprisingly, sound recordings were not covered under Federal copyright law until 1972. So there are no federal protections for recorded radio programs from the classic radio era. There were, however, state laws. So you can imagine sifting through 50 different state lawbooks can be a daunting task. I would imagine most people just put the stuff out there and see if anyone objects, and that there are few that do, because the opportunity to squeeze any more money out of these properties is very unlikely. www.copyright.gov/docs/sound/#:~:text=Although%20sound%20recordings%20were%20first,under%20the%20federal%20copyright%20statute. |
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Post by BingFan on Oct 27, 2022 17:01:53 GMT
I wonder if the rights to The Lone Ranger and The Shadow are more actively protected because they were both the basis of productions in other media: The Lone Ranger was a well-known TV show in the 50s, and The Shadow was made into a movie as recently as 1994. I’d guess that the producers of each would have made sure they owned the rights or at least had a commitment from the rights owner to restrict use of the characters.
(In the movie world, studios used to buy the rights to older movies based on the same material; for example, MGM bought the rights to the British version of Gaslight when it made the now more well-known version with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten.)
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Post by ericj on Oct 28, 2022 6:23:48 GMT
I assume the Shadow's movie rights would have lapsed by now, but it did have its own IP marketing into the contemporary era, with books and magazines, and the Lone Ranger got theirs back sometime between the TV show and the '81 movie.
And since you couldn't "show" a movie on radio the way you could on TV, radio restagings on Lux Theater was the next best thing before VHS came along.
As for satellite radio, there used to be a channel playing only the shows that aired on that day's date of whatever year, but they seem to have gone out of business, before playing only 24/7 syndicated reruns of "Those Were the Days", a contemporary radio-host collection of random old shows and interviews. 
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