{"id":2483,"date":"2010-11-12T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:05:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:05:38","slug":"how-i-learned-about-classic-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/how-i-learned-about-classic-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"How I’ve Learned About Classic Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I mentioned listening to You Bet Your Life<\/em>, a \u00a0friend on Facebook was curious about my interest and asked, \u00a0“How did you even HEAR about these folks?”<\/p>\n

There are two stages where I learned about old radio shows:<\/p>\n

1) Growing Up<\/strong><\/p>\n

My dad talked about listening to the radio growing up, but the first time we actually got to hear any old time radio was when I was about 12 or 13.\u00a0 We were at a Salvation Army and saw an old set of Old Time Radio comedy cassette tapes. My dad bought them cheap and we took them home and listened to them.<\/p>\n

I found some shows I liked immediately (Fibber McGee and Molly, Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello) and a couple that I didn’t care for.<\/p>\n

However, I had no conception that there were old radio clubs. Indeed, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, Old Time Radio was limited to distribution on expensive Cassettes or CDs, or on old time radio replay shows that I never knew were on.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean that I had no exposure to the classics. My dad was a huge Abbott and Costello fan, so I got to see dozens of these adventures. When I was a kid, there was nothing quite exciting as a new Abbott and Costello movie.*<\/p>\n

For a homeschooling convention, my brother and I performed, “Who’s on First?” with me playing the straight man part that Bud Abbott did. We weren’t the only homeschooled family with old time radio exposure. At another convention, a home schooled family did a Fibber McGee and Molly old time radio play with a 13-year old boy trying to replicate Harold Peary’s Gildersleeve <\/em>laugh and doing quite well.<\/p>\n

2) 21st Century Exposure<\/strong><\/p>\n

It all started with Dragnet, and you can read about that<\/a> over at the Old Time Dragnet site. After Dragnet, my curiosity remained somewhat limited. I found out that Superman had a radio show. As the Dragnet show had been pretty successful in first ten months, I launched the Old Time Radio Superman podcast.<\/p>\n

I owe a burgeoning interest in radio to fans of the Dragnet show who shared some of their programs and the Antioch Radio Network<\/a>, a station I listened to on a lark as I was feeling like listening to something to relax and I heard\u00a0Let George Do It<\/em>\u00a0and was amazed at how good the show was.<\/p>\n

This sent me researching, listening to a wide variety of different detective shows and led to the launch of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio <\/em>and then the app. For the app, I wanted to obtain our detective actors in other sorts of roles. To do that, I had to research their radiography to find shows they appeared in and find which might be entertaining. Through this process, I’ve come to really enjoy shows like Cavalcade of America <\/em>and Mayor of the Town.<\/em><\/p>\n

I became a fan of Life with Luigi <\/em>because of an ad that appeared in an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar <\/em>that made me curious enough to listen to the show.<\/p>\n

I’ve also rediscovered some childhood favorites in Burns and Allen<\/em>\u00a0 and Abbott and Costello. <\/em><\/p>\n

Other shows I learned of because others were excited about the same show. Lum and Abner <\/em>for example was a show that I was led to by die-hard fans who had created a wonderful collection of their radio adventures and made available for donwload.<\/p>\n

And there are different stories for different shows, but they’re mostly in this vein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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