Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 22, 2010

I remeber oh so well!! Miss them at times…

Gunsmoke was better on the radio.

I’m only 54 but I collect radio shows.

http://www.radiolovers.com

Yeah … radio’s increasingly an anachronism. ‘Tis sad … the great days of the radio dramas were gone when I was a kid, but I still remember sneaking my radio under my pillow to listen to Bruins’ games in the early 70s after bedtime …

Ravenswing, fleetwoodsounds.com has some of those Bruins highlights on CD– reissues of the classic vinyl albums of the Orr era.

Uh, folks, Amos and Andy were two WHITE guys. %#@%#@%$#@@%#@ had to use black guys for TV!

I was young enough to think that the streets of Dodge City were made up of boardwalk and gravel.

I can remember my mother sitting us down in the kitchen to listed to a “kiddie show” on the radio. We thought she was crazy. We were missing our TV shows (on our Muntz television set.)

Can’t remember any radio dramas though.

hah! radio so old it only can tune into one station!!

Gunsmoke starring William Conrad. Later played Cannon on TV.

xm has old time radio shows on. The Six Shooter, The Shadow, Burns and Allen, Great Gildersleeve, Gunsmoke, Paladin, The Whistler, Lux Theater. Man they’re great. I’d rather listen to these old radio programs than watch 85% of what passes for entertainment on tv.

Each week, on WAMU in the Washington, DC, area, we listen to The Big Broadcast with Ed Walker. He plays priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. Ed says that has first sentence as a child was, “Turn the radio on.” WAMU streams its broadcasts on the internet at http://wamu.org/listen/

I last listened to modern radio about three years ago. I quit when the commercial’s time was exceeding the actual programme time, Now I pay for XM radio and am getting all uninterrupted music from my preceived good old days.

I’m surprised at the Amos and Andy image. But you really can’t tell it was based on a old photo of them in black face.

The first Monday of the month, at midnight Pacific time, is ‘Don’t Touch That Dial’ on KPFK’s Something’s Happening with Roy of Hollywood, and his guest hosts Bobb Lynes and Barbara Sunday; also see SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And Comedy. They meet monthly, somewhere in LA or the Valley (whaddaya mean WHAT Valley? THE Valley, like, y’know?) And KNX, 1070AM in LA, used to carry something at 9PM (not anymore. All ‘news’ now.)