The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1927–1938
- Surviving broadcasts
- 85
- Genre
- variety
RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 A radio manufacturer named the Radio Corporation of America, which we know as RCA, began to broadcast its own programs on stations it had either started or purchased. In late 1926, RCA created a division of the company known as the National Broadcasting Company, or NBC. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15, 1926. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30 . Using a vast number of archival recordings, Recollection at 30 would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. Some of these shows followed a theme, such as the shows The Crash of the Hindenburg , The Big Bands , and Abraham Lincoln . Others concentrated on popular radio programs, such as Truth or Consequences , and Lights Out . People were honored, like Judy Garland, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Irving Berlin. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Recollections_At_30_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1927, in original transmission order.
- 1. June 11, 1927 Broadcast Day · 1 Jan 1927
- 2. The Chase And Sanborn Hour · Date unknown
- 3. Sophie Tucker, Vic And Sade, Al Jolson · Date unknown
June 11, 1927 Broadcast Day
1 Jan 1927 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 January 1927. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Chase And Sanborn Hour
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Sophie Tucker, Vic And Sade, Al Jolson
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Pending Attack By Japanese, Jack Benny
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
07 - Crash of The Hindenburg
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
24 - Childrens Programs
Date unknown · 19 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
43 - Irving Berlin Tribute
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Lights Out
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1927–1938
Other series the network carried while Recollections At was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Recollections At
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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