I’m very slowly weeding through material received from Jim B. a long time ago.A few new episodes (or episodes that we couldn’t locate) have been added to the library by John Tierney: Jack Burch And The Boys 44-10-13 First Tune – Are You Having Any Fun.mp3 Jan Garber Orchestra 4x-08-10 First Tune – Highway To …
Category Archives: What’s new on the site.
The Weird Circle v. 2004 Available
The updated v. 2004 (April 2020) of The Weird Circle is available now on Archive.org:https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Weird_Circle It includes many new episode versions and upgraded encodes, new advertisement scans, updated CD artwork, and new series summary. Ryan
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The Old Time Radio Researchers are trying to determine if there are any active subscribers to this blog. Please drop a quick note to OldRadioTimes@yahoo.com if you received these updates so we can determine whether or not to continue posting news through this outlet. Thanks! Ryan Ellett
Old Radio Times #107 Available
The March-April issue of the Old Radio Times is ready for download! http://www.otrr.online/FILES/Times_Archive_pdf/2020_02%20MarchApr.pdf Enjoy!Ryan
Additions to magazine library
More magazines (provided by Martin Grams) have been uploaded to our magazine library (by Paul Kornman). Thanks to both! Take a look at issues of National Radio Institute, National Radio News, Town Hall Meeting of the Air, and Radiogram. Enjoy! http://otrr.org/mains.html?c=mags
Suspense (1956-04-03 AFRS)
The latest Suspense addition from the Frey collection: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZuEbPkZTRUNDUIgvy0TBDSMeUuhpbrFIq0k Dr. Joe Webb’s comments: “This is an episode that circulates as a nice sounding network version, but this recording is a “missing” AFRS version that fell out of circulation many years ago. The AFRS announcement has been clipped off (I mentioned in other posts that early …
Suspense Upgrade (1956-04-10)
The latest Suspense from the Don Frey collection posted by his son Bruce Frey:https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZPJQPkZabPhJBI2iBLU40XnN4Rgs5Jdw5A7 Per Suspense maestro Dr. Joe Webb: “This is a better recording than the version that is usually in circulation. The copy was less noisy than the one I have, and I was able to improve it and get it on proper …
New OTR Digests added to OTRR Library
Thanks to donations by Rodney Bowcock and scanning by John Nicholson (and uploading by Paul Kornman) the following issues of The Old Time Radio Digest have been added to the OTRR print library (http://otrr.org/Pages/Publications/magz_otr_digest.htm): 99, 102, 104, 106, 108, 111, 114, 130, 147, 150 Thanks to all who made this possible!
Lux Episode Confirmed
As mentioned in the April 4 post, a previously uncirculating Lux Radio Theatre episode has indeed been uncovered! What’s interesting about this find is that it comes from a commercial cassette that was sold years ago, not from some veteran’s collection. Commenting on such a find, Dr. Joe Webb said, “It happens — it’s really …
Suspense Update #3
The latest Suspense episode posted on Facebook by Bruce Frey from the Don Frey collection. It is from September 20, 1955. According to Joe Webb this is not a new episode or a new version of an episode but a better quality recording than the other copies he has heard floating around. You can save …