Speaking of Radio

Selected interviews we think you’ll like

She was Miss Duffy on Duffy’s Tavern and was Hotbreath Houlihan on the Jimmy Durante Show during the radio days and appeared on Meet Millie and other series on TV.  She was born January 23, 1923 and was 53 when we met in Van Nuys, California.  She died July 15, 1986 at age 63.

To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Those Were the days, we produced a limited series of audio vignettes selected from programs originally heard between 1970 and 2020.

Twenty episodes were presented on selected TWTD programs between October 2019 and April 2020.

Chuck Schaden hosts

Happy New Year With Good Old Radio

SUSPENSE (12-28-58) The 32nd of December” starring Frank Lovejoy with Barney Phillips and Joan Banks. On New Year’s Eve a man pawns his wife’s wedding ring to pay off a gambling debt, but instead he buys a most unusual timepiece.

TOWN HALL TONIGHT (5-25-38) Fred Allen stars with Portland Hoffa, the Merry Macs, and the Town Hall Quartet. The Mighty Allen Art Players present Who Stole the Favorite?” or One Long Pan Had his Hands Tied, Still he was Feeling his Oats.”

MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER (1-5-47) New Year’s Nightmare.” After a New Year’s Eve of drinking, a man is hit by a car. When he regains consciousness, he discovers a whole year is missing from his life and he is married to a woman he doesn’t know or love.

GUEST STAR (6-15-47) Fibber McGee and Molly appear for U.S. Savings Bonds. Fibber’s latest get-rich-quick scheme is to buy a can of soup, then return it for double his money” back.

On the Air 1-4:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan 2, 1971 on WLTD, Evanston.