Re: Old Time Radio Show Requests

by kdmarket 12/27/2018, 2:26 pm

thanks for the show

by lasombra 12/28/2018, 9:41 pm

Anybody need the 1944 version?

by kdmarket 12/28/2018, 9:51 pm

have the 1944 show

thanks

by kdmarket 1/1/2019, 11:21 am

looking for

Richfield News Shows

Thanks

by greybelt 1/1/2019, 4:07 pm

Does anyone have episodes of Special Assignment? This is the link on RadioGoldindex [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
A 1938 show about newspapers, and some of them seem to be news stories that were also done on The Big Story

by mjnunes84 1/2/2019, 12:13 am

Randy Riddle posted a couple of episodes from that series awhile back:

Episode 25:
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Episode 26:
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by Ted Davenport 1/2/2019, 1:16 am

ghemrats wrote:Let's fire up the Victrola, Space. I'll gather together all the Andrews Sisters I can find (aren't there four of them?) and start construction on the Jump Jivin' Whale Room II (The Sequel) as soon as I can.

Stay tuned for all that jazz.
Jeff

by Ted Davenport 1/2/2019, 1:21 am

Space Cadet wrote:Guys, I'm looking for a resource, not an upload project for someone to undertake. I lost most of my OTR collection some time back, due to a hard drive failure. Most of my backup disks are old and I know that there have been new discoveries and upgrades since I made those backups.

I would love to get the most current collection of Lux Radio Theatre. Does anyone have this collection available online some place?

Space

by Ted Davenport 1/2/2019, 2:18 am

Geezer wrote:Are there any decent recordings of Orson's Mercury Theater-Campbell Playhouse out there that some could share? There only one I found was a better than average version of War of the Worlds (Youtube)

After years of trying to get my sister interested in OTR, she finally asked me to send some Mercury Theater to her. If I sent the versions I have, she'd never listen to another show.

I have both series in wav files that I have converted to 256. They sound good. Do you have anything I would want? I must tell you up front that I do not collect MP3 or anything that came from MP3. Wav only.

by eliyahusimlevin 1/3/2019, 12:33 am

Does anyone have episodes of The Milton Berle Show that they are willing to share?

by Geezer 1/3/2019, 4:26 am

Ted Davenport wrote:
Geezer wrote:Are there any decent recordings of Orson's Mercury Theater-Campbell Playhouse out there that some could share? There only one I found was a better than average version of War of the Worlds (Youtube)

After years of trying to get my sister interested in OTR, she finally asked me to send some Mercury Theater to her. If I sent the versions I have, she'd never listen to another show.

I have both series in wav files that I have converted to 256. They sound good. Do you have anything I would want? I must tell you up front that I do not collect MP3 or anything that came from MP3. Wav only.

First off, WELCOME to the Cobalt Club Ted (and you too Eliya !) I'm afraid I don't have any Wav files at all. I do have a few assorted files in Flac but they are unorganized and I could not vouch for their origins.

Most of what's done here is in MP3 format but I hope you'll stick around. You never know what might show up. Also, the more pairs of eyes and ears to help catch errors or clear up questions, the better

by Wildcat44 1/3/2019, 7:32 am

Here are the Milton Berle's I have. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

by eliyahusimlevin 1/3/2019, 1:58 pm

Thanks Wildcat44!

by Egg_Crisis 1/3/2019, 3:57 pm

pnussbaum wrote:I have a request for myself and a colleague. Does anyone have any recordings of the Voice of America from the otr era? Of course, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library have many, but I wonder if a shortwave enthusiast might have made recordings.
Fingers crossed.
Many thanks.

A few years ago on a blog I posted a religious programme from VOA that I found on a reel. Link still works. You might have found it already if you've been Googling.
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by Egg_Crisis 1/3/2019, 4:05 pm

Ted Davenport wrote:
Geezer wrote:Are there any decent recordings of Orson's Mercury Theater-Campbell Playhouse out there that some could share? There only one I found was a better than average version of War of the Worlds (Youtube)

After years of trying to get my sister interested in OTR, she finally asked me to send some Mercury Theater to her. If I sent the versions I have, she'd never listen to another show.

I have both series in wav files that I have converted to 256. They sound good. Do you have anything I would want? I must tell you up front that I do not collect MP3 or anything that came from MP3. Wav only.

Have you checked out the Lilly Library site?
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With a small number of exceptions everything there is a massive upgrade to what's been available before.

by Egg_Crisis 1/3/2019, 4:52 pm

CompleteDayMan wrote:Looking for US network news broadcasts for the following dates in 1939. Can anyone help?

39-10-14
39-10-22

I was reading through old posts...
I have those two. First one is 15 min, 2nd one is 30 min and includes a talk by HV Kaltenborn.

Code:: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6f9nh18bz39babx/1939.10.14_CBS_War_News.mp3/file https://www.mediafire.com/file/z9emhsdipvviwpe/1939.10.22_CBS_War_News_%28HV_Kaltenborn%29.mp3/file

by lasombra 1/3/2019, 6:31 pm

Thanks Wildcat44, got some upgrades.

by BobbyP 1/4/2019, 4:06 pm

Egg_Crisis wrote:
Ted Davenport wrote:
Geezer wrote:Are there any decent recordings of Orson's Mercury Theater-Campbell Playhouse out there that some could share? There only one I found was a better than average version of War of the Worlds (Youtube)

After years of trying to get my sister interested in OTR, she finally asked me to send some Mercury Theater to her. If I sent the versions I have, she'd never listen to another show.

I have both series in wav files that I have converted to 256. They sound good. Do you have anything I would want? I must tell you up front that I do not collect MP3 or anything that came from MP3. Wav only.

Have you checked out the Lilly Library site?
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With a small number of exceptions everything there is a massive upgrade to what's been available before.

They are streaming files. Is there any way to download them?

by Egg_Crisis 1/4/2019, 4:47 pm

BobbyP wrote:They are streaming files. Is there any way to download them?

This looks like a lot but once you've done a few it's quite simple...

View page source. Search (ctrl-f) for m3u8, and copy the url (make sure you copy it all - starting with https and ending with m3u8. There's 2 url's, high and medium, high is probably best!)

Using VLC media player, in the Media menu choose the option 'Open Network Stream', paste in the url you copied, below it there's a button preset to 'play'. Click the little arrow to access the menu and change 'play' to 'convert'. When you do this a new screen will open. Select 'Dump raw input' then click the browse button and choose a location to save the file / choose a filename. [Dump raw output means it's downloading the original stream and not converting it to some other format.] Click 'save', then click start. At this point it looks like nothing is happening. Note that VLC says 'Streaming' in the top left corner. The file will have finished downloading when it no longer says 'streaming'. (The file might come down with no file extension, they're .aac files so rename as such.) It's quite slow to download. Faster than real time but not as fast as you'd like.

Afterwards always check you have the complete file - occasionally VLC will finish without getting the complete file and you have to try again. (Don't confuse this with the ones that are actually incomplete, as a few are (because they had a few discs missing), but it tells you if they're incomplete in the description.)

Alternately if you have other software that can download streams they might be able to download those url's, it's worth a try.

By the way that method will work for many streaming sites, it's just a matter of digging the right url out of the sourcecode.

by BobbyP 1/5/2019, 3:21 pm

Wildcat44 wrote:Here are the Milton Berle's I have. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

The show listed as "MiltonBerle49-01-12-16-Salute To Winter Sports" should actually be dated 48-01-06.

by Wildcat44 1/5/2019, 4:55 pm

Thank you Bobby P.
Wrong sponser.

by Egg_Crisis 1/11/2019, 9:16 am

hotmix99 wrote:Here is Command Performance #175 1945-05-17

Can someone repost this one? It's one of the ones that's supposed to feature Orson Welles.
I'm also looking for Command performance #185 1945-07-26.
Also the 1944-12-30 show (#155 or #156?) is supposed to feature Orson Welles but I've a feeling that one isn't available anywhere.

by kdmarket 1/11/2019, 11:26 am

here's the shows

Command Performance(45-05-17) 175 Orson Welles, Peggy Lee.mp3
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Command Performance(45-07-26) 185 Orson Welles, Donna Dae.mp3
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by Egg_Crisis 1/11/2019, 12:30 pm

Thanks!

by kdmarket 1/13/2019, 4:03 am

looking for speach by W Averell Harriman 1942-09-09 ?

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