Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for July 13, 2011

You didn’t like the Shadow? That was my favorite!

Ah, I grew up listening to the radio. It was wonderful! I seriously don’t understand why people would vegetate in front of a television set, I’d much rather read a book! In fact, I still don’t own a TV set, hehe.

At first I thought Jeff was listening to Inner Sanctum.

OH YES !!!! The fondly remembered radio - Blondie and Dagwood , Jack Benny , Hop Harrigan , Henry Aldrich , Red Skelton , Our Miss Brooks — The long lost memories are still there ..

A program called “the inner sanctum” opened with a squeeking door and was called “the squeeking door” by listeners.

Never heard classic radio. And I won’t turn it on now for yap radio. Why would I want to listen to Limaugh or Stern?

When I got my new car it came with satellite radio. One of the stations I found runs only old radio programs, Fred Allen, Edgar Bergan, Zorro, Hoppy, Dragnet, Johnny Dollar, etc are all there. Some stuff is so good, I reach my destination and sit in the car till the program’s over.

It’s a squeaking dormouse.

“Lights out!” was my favorite!

Someone said radio was the theater of the mind…I’ve listened to some of the old radio shows like tinhutjohn…that way whatyou see is all in your mind…just like reading a good book. Maybe that’s why I love to read today.

Oh… My…..God

Hehe xxx

Looks like Jeff is trying to break into radio.

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For a brief time in the 1980s, there was an all-comedy radio station in the DC area called WJOK, and on Sunday nights they played a string of classic radio shows, including:

— The Great Gildersleeve

— Duffy’s Tavern

— The Abbott and Costello Show

— The Jack Benny Program

— Fibber McGee and Molly

— The Aldrich Family

— The Life of Riley

— Amos ‘n’ Andy

Great stuff.

My favorite on Sunday nights used to be the Carnation Contented Hour — because when it ended, Lum and Abner came on! (Anybody remember “It Pays to be Ignorant?” Also, times that Jack Benny went down to his vault – they just couldn’t do that one justice on TV.

SOME Old Time Radio Programs are now available on the Internet at RadioLovers.com

OLD TIME RADIO SHOWSatRADIO LOVERS.COMhttp://www.radiolovers.com/pages/westerns.html

A floor console radio! We had one in the 1950’s, and it was obsolete even then. But TV hadn’t yet taken over completely, so Saturday morning was a time of children’s radio shows, heavy on Western themes, but the only title I can call up is “Straight Arrow”.