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I too love the old radio shows. I have collected OTR (short for Old Time Radio) since college when I was given a box of old reel-to-reel tapes of air checks (recordings made to verify what went out on the air.) I kept adding to it over the years.
Today I have transferred it to digital and store it on the music server. I have almost complete (I think they are as complete as possible) of shows like X-Minus One and the other 1950s US SciFi shows. For US radio, the 1950s were the golden era. I also have a lot of crime/detective shows with some dating back to the early 1930s.
Comedy is a very strange bird. It is enjoyable to listen to what people laughed at in the past to see the evolution of comedy. It is quite refreshing to listen to comedy from the depths of the Great Depression and realize how constrained (read PC) today's comedy is while the sexual aspect has been blown wide open. (Pun not intended.)
the Good Doctor Don is also a fan.
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