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A celebration of the Golden Age of radio traces the history of radio as America's dominant entertainment medium and examines the great programs and performers of the era, reminiscing about his own experiences growing up listening to Jack Benny, the Lone Ranger, and other notable broadcasts. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Gerald Nachman has for thirty-eight years covered theater, movies, cabaret, and television for newspapers and magazines across the country. The author of three previous books, he lives in San Francisco.
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y "raised on radio" -- and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties -- this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course, radio still exists -- but not the radio of <b>The Lone Ranger</b> and <b>One Man's Family</b>, of <b>Our Gal Sunday</b> and <b>Life Can Be Beautiful</b>, of <b>The Goldbergs</b> and <b>Amos 'n' Andy</b>, of <b>Easy Aces</b>, <b>Vic and Sade</b>, and <b>Bob and Ray</b>, of <b>The Shadow</b> and <b>The Green Hornet</b>, of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, and Baby Snooks, of the great comics, announcers, sound-effects men, sponsors, and tycoons.<br><br>In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years -
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