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May 25, 2025 38 mins

We now pull out the final disk of this six record box set filled with memories of radio days past. Back in the days before television when you had to imagine what was being described. To the days of live happenings. Expected and extremely unexpected.

This last LP features many news recordings that were captured as they happened from 1920 through the early 1940s.

So get ready to hear history as it unfolded live to countless listeners around the globe during a time of financial turmoil and approaching world war in Volume 230: Golden Memories of Radio Record 6.

For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it

Credits and copyrights

Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set Released: 1969 Genre: Non-Music Style: Radioplay

We will hear 12 tracks from this album

KDKA Election Returns/Pres. Coolidge Presents Charles Lindberg To Congress (The music world then honored him by naming a dance after Lindy. Check out episode ??? for details on that dance.)

Eddie Cantor On 1929 Crash/Billy Sunday On Prohibition

FDR Is Inaugurated (include some of the most famous words in presidential speech history)

The King George V Funeral/Edward VIII Abdicates/King George VI Coronation

In this segment we will hear from four leaders of three countries from the late 1930s and early 40s. The lead up and declaration of war: Hitler, Chamberlain, FDR, Churchill Hitler Declares War On Poland/Chamberlain Announces War/FDR "America Hates War"/Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools"

The Hindenburg Disaster I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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