During the war years, blackouts, gas rationing and other constrictions kept citizens at home…and tuned in to their radios. It was in this moment that ventriloquist Edgar Bergen with his dummies Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker, provided entertainment light enough to lift spirits and boost national morale. And, this was no laughing matter. Bergen received a …
He walks the streets by night! He solves crimes! He loves the ladies! And, he sings, too! What more you could you want from a radio detective? Hear screen legend Dick Powell star in sixteen rollicking episodes as Richard Diamond, Private Detective. A cut above the usual shamus, Rick is a charmer, has a snappy way with …
Jack Benny’s boisterous bandleader and the former queen of the Fox musicals gave radio a sharp kick in its collective clichés with a comedy that took all the conventions of the family sitcom and turned them sideways, getting longer and louder laughs than just about any other contemporaneous program. Phil Harris a curly-haired, pearly-toothed darling of the …
Celebrate Christmas along with radio’s greatest performers, characters and programs. These timeless holiday classics include moving and mirthful comedies, wholesome dramas, and adventurous missions of mercy. Laugh along with comedians like Jack Benny and Red Skelton (in a rare previously uncirculated performance), and with funny families on Fibber McGee & Molly, The Phil Harris – Alice Faye …
Red Skelton’s impressive gallery of comic characterizations didn’t need to be seen to be hilarious! Through sound alone, he brought to life a fellow from the country, an inept outlaw, a down-for-the-count boxer, a shady politician, a Brooklynese braggart…and a holy terror known as Junior, the Mean Widdle Kid. To commemorate Skelton’s centennial birthday, Radio Spirits presents …
Everyone’s looking for a way to beat the insurance system, but most of us aren’t willing to cheat it. Those who are may be ready to do more than deceive and steal…they may be prepared to kill. The bullets fly and the criminals lie, but the payoff isn’t a sure thing – not when ;the system; calls in …