Pat O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys

Texas stations

Texas stations · 1930–1955

16 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1930

The run

Network: Texas stations
Years active: 1930–1955
Surviving broadcasts: 16
Genre: music

Flour salesman, bandleader, and later governor of Texas — the campaign and the string band were the same broadcast. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.

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: Pat_ODaniel_andthe_Hillbilly_Boys

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

5 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.

1. Night Broadcast · 21 Apr 2026
2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 28 Apr 2026
3. Sign Off · 5 May 2026

The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 28 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 43 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 58 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 21 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 36 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 51 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 14 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 29 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.

Same seasons

music on the air then

Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.