Box 13
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- NBC / CBS
- Years active
- 1932–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 84
- Genre
- crooners
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Al_Jolson_OTR”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1949 · 41948 · 31947 · 21935 · 3
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Al_Jolson_OTR
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1932
1933
1934
1935
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1937
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1947
1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1935, in original transmission order.
- 1. Shell Chateau (1935-06-24) · 24 Jun 1935
- 2. Shell Chateau (1935-08-10) · 10 Aug 1935
- 3. Shell Chateau (1935-09-28) · 28 Sep 1935
- 01
Shell Chateau (1935-06-24)
24 Jun 1935 · 1h 0m
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Shell Chateau (1935-08-10)
10 Aug 1935 · 59 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Shell Chateau (1935-09-28)
28 Sep 1935 · 52 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
EddieCantor With Al Jolson
6 Mar 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Kraft Music Hall Groucho Marx
23 Oct 1947 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Kraft Music Hall with Madeline Carroll
1 Jan 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Kraft Music Hall Clifton Webb
25 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Kraft Music Hall Peggy Lee (1948-12-02)
2 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Jan 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Jan 1948.
Box 13
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Box 13
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Box 13
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 January 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS in 1932–1949
Other series the network carried while Al Jolson was on the air.
Same seasons
crooners on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The crooner's hour
A microphone close enough to hear breath, and a singer who sang to one listener instead of a hall. Crosby, Jolson and Dinah Shore invented intimacy as a broadcast technique.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Al Jolson
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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