Vintage Radio from Yesteryear

Vintage Variety Shows – featuring Famous people of yesteryear

Glenn Miller: June 1938
Glenn Miller: July 1939

Al Jolson Show 1949 with guest Jimmy Durante
Al Jolson Show 1948 with guest Cary Grant
Bing Crosby 1947 Christmas Show
Bing Crosby the Lone Ranger
Glenn Miller: January 1940
Glenn Miller: Cafe Rouge 1940
Bing Crosby First Show 1931
Bing Crosby Show 1934
Bird’s Eye Dinah Shore Program with Phil Silvers
Bird’s Eye Open House with Groucho Marx
Bird’s Eye Open House with guest Fibber McGee and Molly
Bird’s Eye Open House with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
Command Performance with Frank Sinatra
Command Performance Army Day Special
Guest Star with Red Skelton
Guest Star with James Stewart
Guest Star with Johnny Desmond
Guest Star with Louis Armstrong

Command Performance 1943 Christmas Special
Command Performance with Abbott and Costello and Andrews Sisters
Guest Star with Henry Morgan
Guest Star with Abbott and Costello
guest Star with Milton Berle

Guest Star with the Pied Pipers

Hair Design for a Living
Hair Girl Without a Room
Hair Broadway Melody of 1936
Hair David Copperfield
Hair Gold Diggers of 1935
Hair Big Broadcast of 1937
Hair A Day at the Races
Hair Captain Courageous
Hair Babes on Broadway
Hair Big Broadcast
Kraft Theater: Christmas Eye 1952
Kraft theater Holiday Inn Christmas
Kraft Theater: Humphrey Bogart
Kraft Theater: Cary Grant
Maxwell House Coffee: Good News of 1939 with Spencer Tracy
Railroad Hour: The Merry Widow
Railroad Hour: Brigadoon
Railroad Hour: The Happy Prince
Railroad Hour: Desert Song
Railroad Hour: Firefly
Railroad Hour: My Maryland
Railroad Hour: Holiday Inn
Sealtest Variety Show 1948
Sealtest Variety Show: Quiz Show
Sealtest Variety Show: Waiting Room
Sealtest Variety Show: Christmas Show
Sealtest Variety Show: Slight of Hand
Sealtest Variety Show: Smiley Burnette
The Big Show: Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante
The Big Show Groucho Marx
The BIg Show: Fred Allen
The BIg Show: George Jessel
Your Hit Parade 1944
Your Hit Parade: Frank Sinatra
Vintage radio

Our pages are intended to provide an audio glimpse into vintage radio broadcasts. Some of these even occurred well before WGAW’s inception in 1946, but are incredibly fascinating due to their airing before, during, or after World War II. Audio clips of newsmakers offer a rare glimpse into these public figures who we often meet only in photographs.

Wikipedia maintains a list of old-time radio programs, providing more information into Radio’s Golden Age. Here a link to the list. Here’s a list of U.S. Radio Programs which will give you more information on the small number of episodes featured on the WGAW website for educational and research purposes.