TWTD Archive – January 6th, 1990

For this special broadcast, we invite you to take a trip through the time tunnel, back to our very first show, May 2, 1970. You’ll hear our original three-hour Those Were The Days program in its entirety, just as it was broadcast on radio station WNMP, Evanston from 1 to 4 p.m. on that cool Saturday in May, almost 20 years ago. That first show contained many clips and bits from a variety of radio shows including Frank Sinatra on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour in 1935; Sam and Henry in 1926; and the National Barn Dance in 1943. Also included in that first TWTD program were a few complete broadcasts from radio’s golden age: The Taystee Breadwinners, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare from 1934; Ma Perkins from the 1940s; The Pepsodent Show with Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton, Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos ‘n’ Andy, and Walter Winchell subbing for Bob Hope in 1947 while Hope wan on his way to England for the wedding of Princosm Elizabeth to Prince Phillip; plus The Thin Man and the “Case of the Passionate Palooka” from the 1940s,

In the beginning on WNMP (which became WLTD in November, 1970) our programs carried several five minute news and sports programs during our three-hour time period and as we replay the first TWTD show, you’ll hear everything as it was then.

We hope you’ll tune in and celebrate our 1,000th program with this look back at the roots of Those Wore The Days.

Don’t miss it if you can!