{"id":2438,"date":"2010-11-05T22:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T04:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:05:52","slug":"part-of-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/part-of-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Time Radio Music: A Final Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6702\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2438-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?powerpress_pinw=2438-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/otr-detective-the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio\/id335549005?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatdetectives.net%2Fdetectives%2F%3Fp%3D2438\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7GUQWid20SBBSGRyZrPjhq\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/otrdetectives\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_amazon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Amazon Music\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-otr-detective-the-g-29542022\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_iheart\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on iHeartRadio\" rel=\"nofollow\">iHeartRadio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-Great-Detectives-of-Old-Time-Radio-p329374\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>I&#8217;ve taken a look at shows that feature Jazz and Country-Western Music. Now to look at the rest of the music out there beginning with shows that while not music shows feature regular music. :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music, It&#8217;s Part of the Show:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detective Shows<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/PeteKelleyBlues\">Pete Kelly&#8217;s Blues<\/a>: Jack Webb, while continuing to produce Dragnet, also made a 1951 mid-summer replacement, Pete Kelly&#8217;s Blues which starred Jack Webb as a speakeasy coronet player who was always getting into trouble during the roaring twenties. Each episode would also include around three sets from Kelley&#8217;s band. Occassionally, a heavy will wait for the band to play its number before going after Pete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/OTRR_Richard_Diamond_Private_Detective_Singles\">Richard Diamond<\/a>\u00a0was Dick Powell&#8217;s greatest detective vehicle and somewhat unusual. Richard Diamond&#8217;s adventures were some of radio&#8217;s most violent. However, the show was at its most unusual, when after three or four corpses had been cleared away, Richard Diamond began to sing. In some ways, the show represented a union of Powell&#8217;s two stage personas. His earlier, light comedic leading man and his middle aged\u00a0hardboiled characterization. Of course, while Powell sang a lot of typical crooner songs, he also would mix it up with a cowboy lullaby, a Hawaiian Christmas song, and once he even sang in Yiddish. The singing was usually only a minute or so, but it preserved the image of Powell as a versatile entertainer. One fan has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RichardDiamondSingsdickPowell\">zipped collection<\/a> with all the singing interludes in Richard Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>One show, you might expect to have music in it doesn\u2019t. While Frank Sinatra was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/OTRR_Rocky_Fortune_Singles\">Rocky Fortune<\/a>, <\/em>he never broke out into song<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sitcoms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Comedy Variety shows had lots of music (more on that later), sitcoms had much less use. Shows like <em>Life of Riley, My Favorite Husband, <\/em>and <em>Life with Luigi<\/em> had little use for music other than as themes.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Peary\u2019s sitcoms stand out from this trend. On numerous episodes of the Great Gildersleeve from 1941-50, Peary would sing a beautiful song in his crooning voice. This could occur any time in the program.\u00a0 Reportedly, it was the lack of singing opportunities that led Peary to quit and create the Harold Peary Show where he sang much more frequently. Unfortunately, the singing was great, but the Harold Peary Show ended after one season and Peary was relegated to character actor status for the rest of his career. He was a good singer, but comedy was his bread and butter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-08_ep055_Quiet_Evening_at_Home.mp3\">A 1942 episode<\/a> of <em>The Great Gildersleeve <\/em>which features Peary singing<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/OTRR_Harold_Peary_Show_Singles\/Harold_Peary_50-08-23_Audition_Show.mp3\">Audition show<\/a> for <em>The Harold Peary Show<\/em> features a song\u00a0 from Peary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Westerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/The_Roy_Rogers_Show\">Roy Rogers<\/a> hit the air as host and star of a Western Variety show. Over time, the show morphed into having an actual plot, but would always including plenty of cowboy music too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Comedy Variety Shows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the pre-War and World War II era, most of the famous comedians on radio led Comedy variety shows that included comedy sketches along with the singing of the show\u2019s regular singer, and usually a piece performed by an orchestra. This formula was used by too many shows to count. Abbott and Costello, with Freddy Rich and his orchestra. Bob Hope had Frances Langford singing, as well as Skinnay Ennis, and Ozzy Nelson, at one point sang for Red Skelton\u2019s show in the early 40s. The swingy and always fun to listen to Connie Haines was a fixture on early Abbott and Costello shows. A sampling of the songs of Haines, which have a very distinctive rhythm was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/connie-haines_11-20\">collected<\/a> at the Internet Archive and is available within the great episodes of the show themselves. Her \u201cTrolley Song\u201d is a classic.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1940s and early 50s, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/MartinAndLewis_OldTimeRadio\">comedy show<\/a> usually featured a song from Martin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musicals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shows that did plays like <em>Theater Guild on the Air <\/em>that adapted plays or <em>Lux Radio Theater, <\/em>which adapted movies would adapt musicals to the radio, however there were two series that actually regularly performed full-blwon musicals for the radio. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheRailroadHour\">The Railroad Hour<\/a> adapted a wide variety of Broadway-style and Hollywood musicals. <a href=\"http:\/\/otrarchive.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/all-star-western-theater_06.html\">All-star Western Theater<\/a> did more Western musicals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Music Shows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Bell_Telephone_Hour\">Bell Telephone Hour<\/a> provided regular concerns to Americans over the radio from 1940-58. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/OTRR_Shell_Chateau_Singles\">Shell Chateau<\/a> was an hour long musical variety show from 1935-37 that was at one time hosted by Al Jolson and featured a variety of different music styles and musicians. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/MusicDepreciation\">Music Depreciation<\/a> features classic music with a humorous introductions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/YourHitParade_OTR_3419\">Your Hit Parade<\/a> was the original top 15 countdown show, lasting an hour.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/OTRR_Alka_Seltzer_Time_Singles\">Alka Seltzer Time<\/a> was a regular daily 15 minute radio show featuring up-beat music. Before legendary guitarist Les Paul made his way to television for a long-run, he had his own 15 minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/LesPaulShow\">radio show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Squibb_Show\">Squibb Show<\/a> is perhaps the best 15 minute show I&#8217;ve heard with its use of a variety of beautiful music and style.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/moonriver_otr\">Moon River<\/a> was a radio show sponsored by a mattress company featuring the reading of poetry to soft music. A nice way to go to sleep to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we\u2019ve barely scratched the surface of the many and varied old time radio shows out there, and there\u2019s quite a bit that\u2019s not available on the Internet Archives, but I hope that lead some music lovers to a little bit of listening pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/greatdetectives\/ia700201.us.archive.org\/22\/items\/GG_S_02\/GG_1942-11-01_ep054_A_Pal_to_Leroy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSSI&#8217;ve taken a look at shows that feature Jazz and Country-Western Music. Now to look at the rest of the music out there beginning with shows that while not music shows feature regular music.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-age-article","tag-old-time-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pECdK-Dk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}