Recently, I was able to find a handful of 1920s radio broadcasts, most of them being Edison experimental recordings. This one was aired on 9/11/1928, and as the title suggests, has a nice sampling of programming, not just music.
the scary thing about it is that all these voices are deceased ppl. These people never would have though that almost 100 years later we will be listening to their voices. Amazing stuff .
My Dad was born in 1916 and loved the radio. I remember him telling me all about the shows he listened to. I'm so glad I am able to do the same now, too! Many thanks for this channel!
The image is the storefront of the Sunshine Radio Service Company of 533 Oak Street, Toledo, Ohio. The building looks to have been demolished a few decades ago. Hence the importance of keeping old, historic photographs. It's the only view we'll ever get to see of a once thriving industry :)
As much as I hate Chicago, I also lived in Toledo. Not that much better, but still hated that city. I hate any of these "industrial powerhouse" cities. They're hideous and ugly.
Before this channel I knew little about the '20's. I just looked old and depressing, like a shredded piece of brown cloth nailed to a stick. Then I discovered art deco, the world's fair, then this channel. 😁
Thanks for posting! This sounds great playing out of my 1924 Radiola III going through a special tone arm adapter to the horn speaker on my 1925 Victrola. It's like going back in time! :)
@@heru-deshet359 Cool to hear a collector that does the same thing. Since I first started collecting I love period material on an old set. It's fun too with vintage TV's. The Honeymooners on my mini '49 bakelite Admiral console makes it a whole new experience.
@@josephconsoli4128 Oh God yes! Do you have a "period" room in your house where your radios are? It really sets me in the mood and transports me to that time.
@@heru-deshet359 We're totally on the same page here! My entire apartment pays homage to the 1930's. Along with all my sets are art deco lamps, clocks, ashtrays, and so forth. One thing I always avoided is just to stack non-working sets up. Mine are all working and ready to play. I have an AM transmitter for the radios and an older VHS/DVD player for the TV's. For an hour each evening I play a chosen set and transport back to that era. I guess were "old souls"! I almost feel like I lived in the 1930's. Music, movies, and items from that era make me feel good.
Soothing my ass! I can't believe I used to like this shit. You have to be on drugs to have this soothe you. In fact, people did drugs in the 20s too. Do your reading and research some time. Coca-Cola originally had cocaine in its recipe.
This reminds of the Twilight Zone episode, “Static”, where Rod Serling opening narrated: “No one ever saw one quite like that, because that’s a very special sort of radio. In its day, circa 1935, its type was one of the most elegant consoles on the market. Now with its fabric-covered speakers, its peculiar yellow dials, its serrated knobs, it looks quaint and a little strange. Mr Ed Lindsey is going to find out how strange very soon when he tunes into the Twilight Zone”. And Rod Serling closing narrated, “Around the corner he goes, and where he stops, and where he stops nobody knows. All Ed Lindsey knows is that he wanted a second chance and he finally got it, through a strange and wonderful time machine called a radio in the Twilight Zone”.
Love this. (( I just got a “Talking House “ AM transmitter. Now I can Transmit this [ and other stuff] to my antique radios, and play all this old stuff.)) I’m enjoying this video immensely. 📻🙂
Thank you so much! Your assistance has been invaluable in helping me build a radio within my game. I truly appreciate all the information you provided.
I am so glad to be too old to know anything about spongebob. Young people are so messed up today. The elite have really played people like chess pieces.
@@justinthyme7275 Who are "the elite", how have they "played" young people and what the hell does any of it have to do with a kids show like spongebob squarepants? 😂
@@justinthyme7275 I am genuinely curious on your perspective. Who is the elite you're referring to? How does Spongebob play into it? I really want to know what you have to say
I'm really impressed by the sound quality of this recording. Many radio shows this old that I find on youtube are full of static or scratchy noises. Just wondering, do you have any kind of information about the performers or the various songs performed in the program? Either way I'm really enjoying this. Thanks for posting!
its cause this one seems restored. The fuzzy stuff you refer to is alot better because its untouched or un polished, I like the fuzzy sound because it makes it sound alot more nostalgic
My family immigrated from Germany to Newark in 1926 (where this broadcast was from). Cool to hear what my grandparents and young father might have heard on the radio. I used to visit the Edison Labs in Menlo Park, NJon school field trips.
I've studied paternal grandmother's history and I can literally picture her mother and family listening to this stuff in the evenings on their Atwater Kent. It was huge, with a massive horn and big dials. I wish I had an exact model number. But that's as it was described by a neighbor who went there as a kid to hear football games.
This whole time period makes me think of The Great Gatsby. We had to read it in highschool and I didn't appreciate it then. Now I love the book and the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio
This makes my old soul brighten. I was born in 1999, but sometimes I feel a longing feeling like I was born too late. I was always told that Im an old soul. 1920s was the decade I should've lived through. :(
18:34 a big band version of Franz Lizst Liebestraum No. 3, performed here by B.A. Rolfe Lucky Strike Orchestra. There were many such arrangements made of this piece.
@@heru-deshet359 CBS Radio Mystery came about sometime around 1974, nightly M-F. I began trading OTR about 1971. RADIO YESTERYEAR, in New York, had some very unusual old shows.
THANKS! 🙏🤙🏽The post about the Radiola III and especially the comments has brought me to a different level in my life. I already listen to phonograph records of older 1850s - 1950s music on a fairly common commercial educational phonograph from the 50-60s. It’s all about analogue and uniqueness for me but what others are doing is much more interesting. My music playing studio has two eras, 1959 for “Adventures in Paradise Remembered” (a FB page) and 1850s Europe for that type of music.
I have letters between my great grandparents about getting married in 1922 and the older ones worrying about them rushing in...i like to think of them both in college listening to stuff like this together
@@renemarie5936 naturally your grandmother would have a different perspective... but scholars (both male and female) objectively state otherwise. Women were still considered 2nd class citizens and still had much less control over their bodies than they do now due to laws and technology. furthermore, the birth control pill wasn't even invented until 1960. women AS A WHOLE (hell... PEOPLE as a whole) have it much better now, regardless of whatever nostalgic romanticized illusions they want to place themselves under.
@@renemarie5936 the fact that many people are unhappy now has little to do with the lack of freedom and more to do with what people concern and inundate themselves with. For example, fixation with "social media" and unrealistic expectations placed upon themselves greatly affects people (especially women) negatively... moreso than any other factor. Futhermore, The more radically progressive people try to subscribe to being, the more unhappy they become. This has NOTHING to do with whether or not Women are living in a more fruitful period in history, socially, economically, and technologically. Women still have more OPPORTUNITIES than any other period before this... unless your values begin and end with the traditional view of marriage and a pigeonholed view of the world. I am no champion of neo-feminism, but a strawman argument is just that.
I decided to write my History class term paper on 1920s advertising in terms of evolution and impacts, so I found this radio broadcast pretty helpful. I've been struggling with this assignment, and I think part of the problem is I haven't engrossed myself in the 20's enough. Especially since I'm discussing advertising, being able to hear what radio was like back then helps a lot! Dunno if you're still around on here, but if you are, can you point me toward finding *genuine* 1920s radio ads? RU-vid is full of poorly labeled school projects. -_-
Radio advertisements from the 1920s are hard to find since most of the surviving radio broadcasts from that time were experimental recordings by Edison Labs, who weren't sponsored. The only thing I can think of is a 1929 episode of "Amos 'N' Andy" on the Internet Archive that had an ad at the beginning, but it had clearly been added in later, so I'm not sure if the date for that matches with the date of the episode. And since the episode was before the show was sponsored by Pepsodent (which is what is being advertised), it's very questionable. The ad is probably from no later than the early 1930s. But here's the link if you want to take a listen for yourself. The episode in question at the beginning of track 24: archive.org/details/AmosAndy_373 The only surviving sponsored radio broadcast recording is aa 1929 episode of "Maytag Frolics," though I don't remember hearing an ad. But maybe I missed something. You can also find that on the Internet Archive here on track 3: archive.org/details/Singles_And_Doubles_Singles_L-N Another good source might be a site called "America In Class," where there are some collected primary sources on various 1920s subjects, including consumerism. They also include a few silent movie theater ads from the 1920s. So maybe that will be useful for you. Here's the link for that: americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/prosperity/text3/text3.htm There was a book I had to read in college about the development of consumerism in America in the late 1910s and 1920s, but I can't seem to find it online since I forgot the exact title. I'll get back to you if I can find it. Let me know if you can't see the links I gave. I'm not sure if RU-vid deletes them or not. Good luck on your paper!
The ads in vintage magazines show the style of advertising back then. In those early days, there were very few rules about advertising, so sponsors could make all kinds of claims, and mention the product as many times as they wanted to. There were many ads for quack medicines. I also collect recordings of old radio shows. I don't have any from the 1920s, but the earliest episodes of "The Jack Benny Show" (1933) gratuitously mention the sponsor's product every couple of minutes, which is as annoying as it sounds. In the 1920s-early 1950s, a show had only one sponsor, so all its commercials were for the sponsor's products. As TV became popular, sponsors put all of their advertising budgets into TV. Radio shows were either "sustaining" (no sponsor), or had many commercials from many sponsors.
@@OofusTwillip this was a very nice read. I didn't realize radio today is nowhere near as ostentatious as it once was. I still find it pretty annoying now at times, but man I would have probably hated it in the early days!
I'm sure I'm reaching you too late for this project, but you should research John R. Brinkley, a quack doctor who peddled the idea of transplanted goat glands (!) starting in 1918. He established radio station KFKB in Kansas largely to advertise his quack medicine business. He ultimately lost both his medical license and broadcasting license, but he reestablished himself in Villa Acuna, Mexico (across the border from Del Rio, Texas). There he started radio station XER, the original 50,000-watt "border blaster." His advertising is an example of the specious claims made by advertisers in the 1920s.
دائماً احب اردد هذي الجمله وافعلها: "لا تستطيع الذهاب للمستقبل ورؤيته؟" -. "تقدر ترجع للماضي وتستكشفه وتقارنه بالحاضر"! فا سواء كان ماضي عربي او اجنبي مهما كان راح تنصدم وتستغرب من الماضي وفيه اشياء كثير حلوه لم يعد لها وجود في هذا الزمن...
One reason is because I'm so interested in it and there were so many different videos I could do. And, like you said, it's a fascinating period. But honestly, another reason is that I knew I would have less copyright problems if I used really old source material (things go into the public domain after 95 years) lol
I wish i could and knew how to feel deeper so that this would blow my mind more.. its like low bitrate versions of full on electric synthphonic orchestras
Earliest podcast? Or the 1920s Good Mythical Morning? Lmao. Seriously, English is my second language and the audio is perfectly understandable and clear enough.
So, was this recorded off the air from a radio broadcast, or a re creation of a broadcast made in a recording studio? Or a record made while they were actually broadcasting?
The KDKA recording is a re-creation made in 1950 for Volume 3 of I Can Hear It Now. It is the original announcer Rosenberg, however. But it is not a real recording of the broadcast.
Imagine someone at that time listening to this music quality through speakers he’s trying to purchase, and he says. “My gosh, ring me up for these speakers will you, the music on this set of speakers is so clear. You can really hear the instruments.” And to us, this is such low quality lol
Just think,people,if you hear anyone who is 63 years old on this broadcast,they were born in 1865,when the Civil War ended and when Lincoln was shot and killed.
Man! Off-the-air stuff from this era is bucoup rare! Brunswick also had a few I've heard. They may have been "Brunswick Varieties." I have two and they are SWELL. The announcer is more polished, stuffed-shirt type actually but, it all comes together like crazy -- the bees' knees really buzzing. Please try to secure all of the Edison air-check material you can.
thinking that somebody listen this while this was on live? who knows what he/she was doing? maybe nothing happened in that moment or maybe while there was this radio something changed in her/his life. that was true and ofc it was but I don’t know its just weird yk. It doesn’t seem real to me. They were like “100 years!? Hahaha its so far from us” (like me now) and here we are. Oh what a thing the time !
Ira R. Nelson owned the radio station, but the voices are those of the Edison recording engineers who did the dubbing or copying from the Edison discs. There is another Edison experimental they called The Jolly Dubbers.
