If you are younger than fifty don't bother with this...

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:48 pm

If you are younger than fifty don't bother with this posting, you won't understand what is happening or what format it is in.

Radiolovers.com - Free Old Time Radio Shows

We offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Abbott and Costello, Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide.

http://www.radiolovers.com/

At 58, I can just remember some of them but I find that I play these more and more while at the computer.

I also miss CBC Radio drama's.

Enjoy!

MarkB

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:04 pm

Bob and Ray is in there! That's one of the funniest shows ever done. I'll check into it when I have more time.

Best wishes,
Jerry

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:16 pm

WAMu in Washington, DC has a show every Sunday night from 7:00PM to 11:00PM called the big broadcast. It is on the WAMU web site with live streaming audio. I listen every week. Much better than the drivel on TV now.

Ron

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:41 pm

Public Radio (NPR and others) have some really high quality "listening" shows on. "This American Life" is really good.

-brett

irishduffy · Post by **irishduffy** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:46 pm

I beg to differ, I am under 25 and have a collection of jack benny of a couple hundred shows.

I also enjoy many more. Age means nothing I would rather listen to the great radio shows of the past compared to tv any day.

Duffy

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:41 pm

Like someone I can't remember said,

"The pictures are better on radio."

M

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:38 pm

I used to listen to radio sit-coms and serial reruns with my grandfather, when I was a child.

I never even hear radio plays on NPR anymore. I miss them. A Prairie Home Companion remains a great variety show, though.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:29 pm

OTR Now Live has lots of them too. I listen to them when not jamming to Irish music.

happyturkeyman · Post by **happyturkeyman** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:59 pm

The Avenger is the best! I found three episodes via WinMX a while ago but lost track of them in a computer switch. : (

AngeloMeola · Post by **AngeloMeola** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:43 pm

Check out Imagination Theater at http://www.transmediasf.com/imag.html
They produce new shows in the old style.
Angelo

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If you are younger than fifty don't bother with this...

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