Old-Time Radio Gallery
RADIO!
It created a sensation when it arrived in the early 1920s. By 1930 there were three national networks, the two NBC outlets---Blue and Red---and the newly formed Columbia Network. On this page will be found a gallery of radio performers and technicians from those early days. Although old-time radio is sometimes considered quaint and even simplistic, the medium forged an involvement with its listeners that TV never equalled.
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--- Amos 'n Andy: Freeman Gosden (right), Charles Correll (left), and 1930s announcer Bill Hay, getting together for a reunion photograph in 1954.
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--- Carlton E. Morse, author, originator and executive producer of the TV version of "One Man's Family". It began on radio in 1932. Morse also created the thriller series, "I Love a Mystery".
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--- Wife and daughter of Alphonse Carbone, the cook on the Byrd Expedition in 1934. The July 25, 1934, broadcast recorded the cries of the baby radiod to his father in Little America.
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--- Julie Stevens(left), Mary Jane Higby, and David Gothard of long-running soap opera, "The Romance of Helen Trent", 1954. Stevens, as dress designer Helen Trent, may have set a record for attempts against her life, and Gothard as Gil Whitney was her suiter for decades beginning in 1940.
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--- Jan Garber, band leader. His sounds were diverse his career long. He started in WWI and was still performing in the 1960s. A publicity still from 1938.
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The cast of "Young Widder Brown", yet another heart-rending soap opera, in 1940. Florence Freeman, third from left seated, played Ellen Brown, who struggled through life with "two fatherless children to support."
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--- Lawrence Tibbett in a 1933 microphone shot. He sang on many radio shows including "Your Hit Parade" in the 1940s.
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--- Morton Downey, one of the major crooners in radio's second decade. Downey rivaled Bing Crosby in popularity in the early 1930s. A CBS still from 1932.
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--- Lon Clark, star of "Nick Carter, Master Detective". This popular crime show dervived from pulp magazines of the 1880s, began on radio in 1943, and ran on the Mutual Network until 1955,
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Three members of Phil Spitalny's "all-girl orchestra" on The Hour of Charm. Evelyn later was billed as "Evelyn and her magic violin".
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