Follow this link to a great Red Skelton skit on “Railroads”:
I have tried several times to access this link,but won’t seem to work.When I first seen your post thought about another post about using old tv shows for background noise.What search engine were you using to find this?
Wow!!! FORBIDDEN!!! Thats what I got, In big bold letters.
Flip
Funny? Old? No way!!! Just remember that many of us were raised with these radio shows – there was no such thing as a TV in every room at one time. In fact, most homes didn’t even have televisions. And, believe it or not, we didn’t have computers, either. We would listen to the radio and , as incredible as it may sound, use our imaginations to “see” what was happening! So, pleaase, don’t use those words when you talk of nostalgia.
Try copying the URL into the ‘Play URL’ box on WinAMp or a similar program.
The skit starts about 7:45 into the program.
There is a public radio station that plays 4 hours of old time radio every night, including the Red Skelton program on occasion. I listen online. http://www.wrvo.org/
Wayne
Well, Jack P, if it was a Red Skelton show, I imagine it was intended to be funny, and if it was a radio show, I imagine it was old. If something isn’t old, how can one be nostalgic about it?
Like, say, those funny old steam engines?
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.
Wayne
I love the old radio programs. And I still listen to the radio much of the time. Little TV for me (it’s all boring). Great thing about the computer is that I can listen to radio from all over the world.
Eek! Sorry about the problem with the link. I got he FORBIDDEN message, too. However, by copying the link into winamp, like Wayne suggested, it worked fine.
Sorry about that again.
PennsyHoosier: If you want to check out modern-day radio shows, try www.kdvs.org which is a college station in Davis, CA–in addition to various music they have actual new “radio shows” like Joe Franke (which is syndicated) and some college-produced radio plays.
Thanks, Jet. I’m listening to it right now. Good quality!
it seems Rad Skelton was a bit of a model railroader, his collection was sold on EBAY, and I just bought one of his engines from someone who was displaying his 2-10-4 pennsy engine.