Old Time Radio Recordings

• Music on Old time Radio
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  • Christmas Music (Free restored recordings)
  • Lists of Old Time Radio Top Hits
    • Top 40 Hits of the 1930's
    • Top 55 Hits of the 1940's
    • Top 200 Hits of the 1950's
    • Top 200 Hits of the 1960's
• Radio Dramas - Complete Broadcasts
• Radio Serials - Complete Broadcasts
• Radio Comedy - Complete Broadcasts
• Sound Bytes
  • Comedy
  • Commercials
  • Dramas and soap operas
  • News
  • The beginning of World War II
  • The War Years
  • Sports

Music on the radio

• All The Things You Are (Helen Forrest)
• Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo
• Maybe from Babes in Toyland?
• Linda (Skinny Ennis)
• Seems Like Old Times (Guy Lombardo)
• Dancing In The Dark by Artie Shaw
• Heartache by Ted Weems
• Night Train by Buddy Morrow
• Sunrise Serenade by Frankie Carle
• All By Myself by Les Elgart
• There Goes That Song Again by Russ Morgan

Radio Dramas - Complete Broadcasts

• Mercury Theater On The Air - Each of these radio programs ran for about an hour. The audio files are from 1.5 to 3.5 MB each in MP3 format. Right click to "save as" to your hard drive.
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Ah Wilderness
  • Algiers
  • A Passenger To Bali
  • Around The World In 80 Days
  • Arrowsmith
  • Christmas Carol 1939
  • Counselor At Law
  • Craig's Wife
  • Dinner At Eight
  • Dodsworth
  • Escape
  • Heart Of Darkness - Life With Father
  • Hell On Ice
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • I Lost My Girlish Laughter
  • It Happened One Night
  • June Moon
  • Liliom
  • Lost Horizon
  • Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Our Town
  • Peter Ibbetson
  • Private Lives
  • Rabble In Arms
  • Seventeen
  • The 39 Steps
  • The Affairs Of Anatol
  • The Bad Man
  • The Citadel
  • The Count Of Monte Cristo
  • The Count Of Monte Cristo 1939
  • The Garden Of Allah
  • The Glass Key
  • The Green Goddess
  • The Hurricane
  • The Immortal Sherlock Holmes
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • The Man Who Was Thursday
  • The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
  • Theodora Goes Wild
  • The Pickwick Papers
  • There's Always A Woman
  • Things We Have
  • Treasure Island
  • Vanessa
  • Vanity Fair
  • Victoria Regina
  • What Every Woman Knows
  • Wickford Point
  • War of The Worlds.WMA  - War of The Worlds is arguably the most famous of all the Mercury Theater broadcasts. Click this link for Background Info.

Radio Serials - Complete Broadcasts

• Box 13
  • The First Letter
  • Insurance Fraud Scheme
• Damon Runyon Mysteries
  • Tobias the Terrible
  • Little Miss Marker
• Dragnet
  • July 14, 1949
• Escape
  • Country of the Blind
• Green Hornet
  • Reservoir For Murder
• I Love a Mystery
  • Thing That Cries In The Night Part 1
• Inner Sanctum
  • The Dead Laugh
• Jack Armstrong (The All American Boy)
  • Jack and Billy Turn Tables
• Sherlock Holmes
  • Murder by Moonlight
• The Whistler
  • Career Man
• X Minus 1
  • The Green Hills of Earth

Radio Comedy - Complete Broadcasts

• Amos 'n Andy
  • November 17, 1944
• Jack Benny
  • January 15, 1950
• Life With Luigi
  • September 21, 1948
• Our Miss Brooks
  • Weekend at Crystal Lake
• The Life of Riley
  • April 2, 1949
• Bob and Ray
  • Public Radio Show

Sound Bytes

• Comedy sound bytes
  • Abbott and Costello "Who's on first?" (Cut from the radio program)
  • Bob Hope
  • Bing Crosby Show with Jack Benny
  • Fibber McGee and Molly
  • Fred Allen (Senator Claghorn)
  • Fred Allen (Allen's Alley: Mr. Moody and Mrs. Nussbaum)
  • George Burns and Gracie Allen
  • Jack Pearl (R-r-r-r-r-evolver)
  • Jack Benny on Allen's Alley
  • Lum N' Abner

• Sound bytes from Commercials
  • Barbasol
  • Camels "Experience is the best teacher"
  • Camels, "The doctor's choice"
  • Camels, "Free to hospitals"
  • Cooking with Crisco
  • Chesterfields
  • Interwoven Socks
  • Johnson's Wax
  • Lava Soap
  • Pepsi-Cola
  • Prince Albert
  • Rinso White
  • The Longines-Wittnaur Watch Company
• Drama sound bytes
  • Dangerous Assignment
  • Famous Jury Trials
  • Gangbusters
  • Jack Armstrong, The All American Boy
  • The Lone Ranger
  • Ma Perkins (The last broadcast)
  • Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons
  • The Romance of Helen Trent
  • Terry and The Pirates
  • The Shadow (Death Stalks the Shadow)
• Sound bytes from news on the radio
  • Billy Sunday Gum the anti-prohibitionists
  • The first presidential returns are broadcast
  • President Coolidge gives Lindberg the DFC
  • Bruno Richard Hauptmann Execution
  • FDR Inauguration
  • The Von Hindenburg Crash
• The beginning of World War II
  • Funeral of King George V
  • Abdication of Edward VIII
  • Coronation of George VI
  • Chamberlain Believes Hitler
  • Edwin C. Hill predicts it
• The War Years Sound Bytes
  • Hitler declares war on Poland (Unknown Commentator)
  • Chamberlain announces war on Germany
  • Churchill "Give us the tools..."
  • Pearl Harbor Attacked
  • Burma
  • Phone Co Interrupts
  • CBS London
  • Speculation
  • FDR "Pearl Harbor"
  • Man on the street December 8th, 1941
  • D-Day
  • Iwo Jima
  • Churchill VE Day
  • Harry Truman Assuming Presidency
  • President Truman "A-Bomb"
  • MacArthur on the U.S.S. Missouri
• Sports bytes
  • Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig say "Goodbye" (Compilation)
  • Budge about Budge Vs. Kramm 1937
  • Dempsey Vs. Tunney (Compilation of the fighter's reactions to the  famous "Long Count fight") 
  • Jesse Owens - 1936 Olympics (Compilation)
  • Schmeling Vs. Louis - Compilation including comments from Max Baer, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling and Joe Louis.