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On The air: The
Encyclopedia of Old-Time-Radio.
On the Air Provides a fascinating account of some 1,500 radio shows,including complete
broadcast histories, advertisers, cast members, directoros, sound effects...plus much more behind-the-scenes tidbits and
star biographies.
Old time radio enthusiast Leonard Maltin, lovingly presents a history of the
Golden Age of Radio in The great American Broadcast. Filled with fascinating details
and excusive first-person anecdotes from radio actors, writers, directors, announcers and technicians,
as well as 130 rare photographs.
Hand Book of OLD TIME RADIO by Jon D. Swartz PH.D and Robert C. Reinehr PH.D
The range of material covered by the Handbook of Old-Time Radio--capitalizing on more than 12 years of research, including using the NBC archives at the Library of Congress--means that this volume supplements (but does not supplant) the three titles previously cited. This volume covers from 1926 (when NBC was incorporated) to 1962. It consists of three parts. The first, a brief history of networks and broadcasting, is unique--nothing like it is found in the other three books. Part 2, a unique tabulation, consists of category logs listing more than 4,500 programs organized by program type (e.g., comedy, soap operas, quiz and audience participation, news, sports, religious, and, unique to this volume, armed forces and foreign broadcasting). Each category log is arranged in three columns: program title, network, and number of episodes available. The third part, "Program Descriptive Log," briefly describes more than 2,000 of the better-known programs, providing for each such information as the year of first and last show, performers, length of program, and story line. The handbook concludes with directory information (public collections, OTR fan clubs, dealers); a selected, annotated bibliography; a performer/name index; and a program index.
Great Radio
Personalities: in Historic Photographs
Return to the Golden Age of Radio with this extraordinary collection of
239 stunning black and white photographs of the entertainers who made radio great.
Historian Anthony Slide has assembled this gallery of faces, including nearly every
important radio personlity of the era.
The Adventures
of Amos 'N' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon
This 322-page book by Melvin Patrick Ely covers all aspects of Amos 'n' Andy.
The Boston Globe called it "Compelling...a stunningly objective look at the history of
the program and how it affected, and was affected by, the culture at large...Remarkable."
This Biography of Lou Costello By his daughter, Chris Costello, with Raymond Strait
with pictures, anecdotes, charm, warmth and sober remembrances of the man the Herald Examiner called
"FUNMAKER" in its headline at the time of his death. It's an entertaining biography well worth reading.
