The Old Time Radio Researchers Blog

The Old Time Radio Researchers’ Maintained Set of The Clyde Beatty Show is now available on Archive.org at The Clyde Beatty Show. Enjoy!

If you’re interested in soap opera programs, this is for you. We received a collection of donated cassettes that had been sent by the donor because they appeared to be upgrades to what we had in our library or not even in circulation (or hard to find). They are episodes he collected over many years. They’ve finally been digitized with some light restoration by Damon Fries.

I have uploaded the set in .flac format to Archive.org. This is not a Maintained set and may not be permanent. These shows will added to our library but probably in .mp3 format; .flac takes up too much space and we want to stay on the good side of our hosting service. I thought it would be most convenient for interested listeners to get them in one spot rather than having to download one or two episodes from this series and then that series.

There are ~60 programs and they total about 1.3 gig. https://archive.org/details/SoapOperaAdditions

The following booklets, dealer catalogs, and scripts have been added to the “Publications” section of our website:

A Technical Guide to Old-time Radio, Recording & Audio Production, 2002, by Bob Burnham

Listening Guide to Classic Radio Programs – Technical Guide Volume No. 2, 1986, by Bob Burnham

Science Fiction on Radio (Revised), 1976, by Meade & Penny Frierson

Nostalgia, September 1987

Nostalgia Warehouse, Inc., 1984, Catalog #1

Nostalgia Warehouse, Inc., 1985, Catalog #2

Old Time Radio, Inc. 1973

Adventures of Sam Spade (1951-01-14)

Cisco Kid (No Date)

Mark Trail (1952-06-09)

My True Story (1956-12-19)

Mystery Theatre (1954-05-12)

Mystery Theatre (1954-05-19)

Philco Radio Playhouse (1954-01-27)

Shadow (1937-10-03)

Story for Today (1949-04-06)

Story for Today (1949-04-07)

Story for Today (1949-04-08)

Texaco Star Theatre (1944-06-04)

Top Guy (1952-08-04)

Top Guy (1953-04-02)

Visit https://otrr.org/pg06_publications.htm to peruse them.

A small update of our Counterspy has been uploaded to Archive (with which we are not connected!). This set was actually updated last spring but I think got overlooked amidst some other activity and was not publicized. Download it here: Counterspy

The Winter 2019 issue of the Old Radio Times is available to download here. Find great pieces by Joe Adamsty, Denise Noe, and Martin Grams among others.

Here’s some Cinnamon Bear goodness. Many, many years ago I received these in the mail from #1 Cinnamon Bear fan Dennis Crow. He has since passed away but would post on the OTR Internet Digest offering to send a pack to anyone interested. The Digest’s owner, Charlie, still makes these available every year and I have no doubt Dennis would be thrilled to make them available via this group. The file consists of a map of Maybeland, the Cinnamon Bear music, and lyrics to the songs. Enjoy!

Cinnamon Bear

Donor Richard Bilek provided the Old Time Radio Researchers with a copy of the November 6, 1944 Democratic National Committee Special. We’ve added it to our library under D. Find it here.

Thanks to Rodney Bowcock for donating 25 episodes of Archie Andrews to our library. A mix of new episodes and upgrades of existing episodes. You’ll recognize them as the 20-21 Mb files. Look under the Archie Andrews series. 

Thanks to Martin Grams and John Nicholson, we just added issues 115-129 and 131-143 to our Old Time Radio Digest collection.

https://otrr.org/Pages/Publications/magz_otr_digest.htm

The Fall 2019 issue of the Old Radio Times, with articles by Karl Schadow, Martin Grams, and more, is available for download here!