Archive.org isn’t just a treasure-trove of old-time radio drama, apparently, there are other great classics to appreciate like this one Radio Directing from Earle McGill who was a superstar of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Mr. McGill was a well-known directory, producer, and casting director for their Radio Workshop among other projects.
Tonight Jeffrey Billard, Lothar Tuppan, and Jack meet to talk about another of the Amigo’s favourite shows- The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Speckled Band!
The Amigos talk about the various incarnations of Sherlock and Watson and how incredible the team of Rathbone and Bruce were through this, one of the most popular Old Time Radio incarnations.
Someone wise once said, ‘If your life is worth living, it’s worth writing down.”
I think similarly if your audio has value to you, it’s worth preserving. That’s why when Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre said in one of our interviews that he’s been uploading his shows to archive.org it made me consider that it’s probably time to do the same with the Sonic Society. It’s a large process to go back and even upload Season 12, but that’s been accomplished. We’ll go backwards and fill in the last couple years for sure.
There’s untold generations that should have a real understanding where and who started this amazing movement- the modern audio drama medium. And we’ve had front row seats in the past decade. Thank you everyone for your encouragement through the years!
Great loss to the world of radio drama and voice acting on April 10th, when Arthur Anderson passed away at the age of 93. The New York Times article reported:
Arthur Anderson, who performed on radio as a teenager with Orson Welles’s Mercury Theater and appeared on Broadway, in films and on television, but whose most enduring role was as the voice of Lucky Charms cereal’s leprechaun, died on Saturday in Manhattan.
As the last of the Golden Age of Radio begins to fade into the distance, I find myself thinking back as to how much of an impact they made, not just on those children who grew up with radio and radio drama, but the grandchildren, and the great grandchildren. My parents loved radio plays and bought LP’s for me to listen to in my formative years. Even now, archive.org keeps putting more and more old time radio shows into the public domain. Go through the available Mercury and Campbell’s Playhouse Theatres and have some time to listen to Anderson’s salad years.
Rest well, sweet prince!
According to Marc Saltzman, the web’s best kept secret is free radio dramas. If that’s the case, everyone in The Sonic Society has double-ultra level 45 top secret clearance.
We don’t mind that the world is catching up. We love the company!
One of my personal favourites is Boxcar 711 Old Time Radio, which pumps show after show on the feed. Once you subscribe, your challenge will be to keep up!
But Mr. Saltzman names off some of the other favourite sites like archive.org or RelicRadio.com
Read through the list to Mr. Saltzman and send him a note letting him know that you’ve always been a fan of the old and new radio drama you can find right here.
In the meantime, I’m going back to reminisce to last season’s tenth anniversary special series Sonic Echo. Good times!
Thanks to audio connoisseur from Broken Sea Audio, Bill Hollweg, we were reminded recently of archive.org’s collection of High Adventure!
Feeling like you need a little excitement in your life? Give High Adventure a try!
High Adventure is sometimes billed “The Mutual Network’s answer to Escape!” In fact, the Mutual anthology premiered on March 1, 1947. There were audition episodes for Escape at the end of February and the middle of March, 1947, but the program did not begin regular broadcast until July. Some reviewers consider Escape to be Suspense’s little brother. In that line of thinking, High Adventure could be thought of as a distant cousin.
Sonic Echo may be gone for the ages, but OTR is still going strong over at archive.org!
| Upon an unknown moon, Jack introduces new dimensions of science fiction with our final voyage into the unknown with Dimension-X and tonight’s features “The Martian Death March” and “Universe”. |
| Jack and S0-S80 droid race in the Eon Sparrow to find new great old time radio with X-Minus One and tonight’s double features “Hallucinatory Orbit” and “C-Chute”. |
| Speaking in an emergency session to the Science Council, Jack outlines the amazing but short-lived series 2000 Plus filled with original audio drama and featured tonight on Sonic Echo with the two episodes “A Space Wreck” and “A Veteran Comes Home”. |
| Jack gets his Eon Sparrow out for a slip through the universe as we explore Science Fiction month on Sonic Echo. This month it is Exploring Tomorrow with “The Convict”, “The Genius” and “The Stowaway”. |
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