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We’ve tipped our hand in the title to this post. Most who know the name Arthur Q. Bryan (1899-1959) know him as the man who inconveniently breaks Mel Blanc’s reputation for “doing all the characters” in the classic Warner Brothers cartoons. For while Mel did Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam and so forth, while Bryan owned Elmer Fudd. Who can say why the Fudd voice is so…

The time we are living in right now, reminds me of movies and documentaries from the Great Depression, up until the 1950s when families would all be around the large radio listening to radio plays together. I’ve always loved Old Time Radio shows and plays and have been listening to them so long that I actually don’t remember when I started listening to them. I also have a first draft of a radio…

Old Time Radio History #4

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another edition of “Old Time Radio History”.  Now, while thinking of this week’s topic, I noticed that there was already some sort of pattern going.  So far, we’ve covered a serious bit (Suspense and “Sorry, Wrong Number”), a funnier bit (Abbott and Costello and “Who’s on First?”), and last week’s serious show (The Mercury Theater on The Air and “War of the…