USA - Golden Age of Radio : Broadcast Quality

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USA - The Golden Age of Radio   :  Old Time Radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Broadcast quality audio files, typically 320 kbps to 384 kbps Twenty-four broadcasts from the golden age of American old-time radio, featuring Humphrey Bogart , Sydney Greenstreet , Glenn Ford , Frank Sinatra , Vincent Price , Jack Benny , Alan Ladd , Jack Webb , Paul Dubov , Tallulah Bankhead , Judy Garland , Lucile Ball , Agnes Moorehead, Irene Hubbard and Joan Crawford . #24:  The Golden Age of American Radio   (3 Hour Special) Alongside the 23 other broadcasts presented here, as item #24 this collection includes The Golden Age of American Radio , a 3 hour special showcasing six additional episodes from radio's golden age, classic shows from the 1930s, '40s and '50s featuring established stars Joan Crawford , Jack Benny and Vincent Price , as well as some lesser-known but no less interesting shows from the time. Listen out, too, for the first radio appearances of two Hollywood legends in the days before they were famous. The Golden Age of American Radio features six half-hour shows :  •  The Horrible Hamburger starring Vincent Price , a mystery from The Saint in 1950.  •  Meridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis , from Columbia Workshop Presents in 1939.  •  Jack Gives 50 cents to a Bum , with guest Mel Blanc , comedy from The Jack Benny Program in 1950.  •  Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury , from the science-fiction series X Minus One in 1956.  •  Senator Theodore Bilbo , a polemic by Jack Webb from One Out of Seven in 1946.  •  The Ten Years starring Joan Crawford , a melodrama from Suspense in 1949.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.