Judy Garland and Friends - OTR Podcast

From 65 years ago today with a wonderful performance by Dick Beals!

Rob brings us another Command Performance!

We are over half way through presenting this wonderful mini-series from 80 years ago this summer!

Judy and Bing together yet again!

It's Movie Monday with Mindi and she brings us one of her very favorite Judy Garland appearances in old time radio, Meet Me In St Louis with Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien! You are in for a real treat!

Mindi brings us more Good News with Clark Gable and Judy Garland!

This one should be pretty scary from 75 years ago this week!

It's Friday with Gordon MacRae from 65 years ago today!

Rob brings us another Command Performance!

Part three of this insanely good mini-series from 80 years ago this summer!

Bing and Judy together again with Judy in a Samantha Spade Skit!

Another Movie Monday with Judy on Lux Radio Theater!

Moe Good News with our chronological presentations of Judy Garland in Old Time Radio!

75 years ago today Orson Welles kept us in Suspense! This episode has sensational sound and Orson's acting is a pure joy!

Our inaugural Gordon MacRae Podcast from exactly 65 years ago today! Featuring Willard Waterman! Gordon MacRae made his Broadway debut in 1942, acquiring his first recording contract soon afterwards. Many of his hit recordings were made with Jo Stafford. In 1948, he appeared in his first film, The Big Punch, a drama about boxing. He soon began an on-screen partnership with Doris Day and appeared with her in several films. In 1950, he starred with Doris Day in Tea for Two (a reworking of No, No, Nanette), then in 1951, he starred again with Day in On Moonlight Bay, followed by the 1953 sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon. That same year, he also starred opposite Kathryn Grayson in the third film version of The Desert Song. This was followed by leading roles in two major films of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956), both films opposite Shirley Jones. On radio in 1945, his talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in collaboration with the conductor Archie Bleyer.[4] The show also featured emerging musical talent, including the accordionist John Serry Sr.. MacRae was also the host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology series made up of condensed versions of hit Broadway musicals.[5] Many of those programs were recorded later in popular studio cast albums; most of these recordings have been reissued on CD.[6] MacRae appeared frequently on television, on such programs as The Martha Raye Show and The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, both on NBC. During Christmas 1958, MacRae and Ford performed the Christmas hymn "O Holy Night".[7] Earlier in 1958, MacRae guest-starred on the short-lived NBC variety series, The Polly Bergen Show. Thereafter, MacRae appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Bell Telephone Hour. He continued his musical stage career, often performing with his wife, as in a 1964 production of Bells Are Ringing, also performing as Sky Masterson in the popular musical Guys and Dolls, with his wife playing the role of Miss Adeleide, reprising her Broadway role.[8] In the late 1960s, he co-hosted for a week on The Mike Douglas Show. He also toured in summer stock and appeared in nightclubs. In 1967, he replaced Robert Preston in the original Broadway run of the musical I Do! I Do!, starring opposite Carol Lawrence, who had taken over her role from Mary Martin