Golden Age of Radio

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I love being here.

And I want to let you know that the Golden Age of Radio just called me and said it's envious of your voice and presentation.

So congratulations for this show and all you do.

Hey, thank you, brother.

I love being here.

And I want to let you know that the Golden Age of Radio just called me and said it's envious of your voice and presentation.

So congratulations for this show and all you do.

Hey, thank you, brother.

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Everyone is still figuring out whether that was a good thing or not.

Before we can go on to talk about the networks and the golden age of radio and all of that stuff, I want to stop for a minute and talk about who radio was not talking to.

Because the story of what radio became is partly the story of who got edited out.

In the 1920s and 30s, one of the most popular radio shows for the majority white audience was a, I suppose you could call it a comedy, starring two white performers who spoke in black dialect.

The six-year-old in Arkansas carried it his whole life.

You see, you can't un-listen to something.

The 1930s are also what people mean when they talk about the golden age of radio.

The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Burns and Allen, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air, which on the night of October 30th, 1938, convinced a measurable percentage of the American public that Martians had landed in New Jersey.

Here we feature mostly cop and detective shows, plus adventure, plus surprise.

You never know, but it's the best from the Golden Age of Radio.

We'll guarantee that.

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Welcome to Sergeant Will's Old Time Radio.

Join me for a trip back to a simpler time, when entertainment came over the radio airwaves to fill our imaginations.

This is a Lizzie Borden special on the anniversary of the hatchet murders of her parents on August 4th, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts.