A mix of some of the finest music from legendary performers and personalities of the greatest generation, along with complete vintage broadcasts from the golden age of radio. Mix it together, and that's NOSTALGIA RADIO TIME, hosted by Greg Van Beek. Including the 'Bing Sings' feature each week! Heard each Sunday at 9 AM (ET) over New York's 920 WON: The Apple and each Thursday at 9 AM (ET) streaming over YUSA red on the Yesterday USA Super Station at http://www.yesterdayusa.net/ Join our Fac ...
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Your Hit Parade singles chart for the week ending August 19, 1939 (85 years ago)! With songs by Woody Herman, Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest, Glen Gray, Will Glahe Musette Orchestra, Tony Pastor & Artie Shaw, Ozzie Nelson, Glenn Miller + Old Time Radio Time: Jimmy Dorsey Orch Live Remote from 11/12/39!…
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We shine the spotlight on bandleader and Bing's brother Bob Crosby! We'll be featuring a number of his instrumental recordings, plus a couple with his famous brother providing the vocals. Along with Old Time Radio Time: Bob Hope Show from 9/12/44!
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It's a summer vacation across the USA with songs by Sammy Davis Jr, Jo Stafford, Johnny Mercer & Bobby Darin, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Louis Armstrong, Guy Mitchell, Gene Autry, Andrews Sisters, Doris Day, John Denver, Frank Sinatra!
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We shine the spotlight on Glenn Miller with recordings made in 1938-39! Along with our Bing Sings feature / Old Time Radio Time: Let’s Talk To Lucy from 9-9-64 Lucille Ball Interviews Bing Crosby!
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We celebrate comedian Fred Allen with two episodes of the Fred Allen Show! From 4/23/44 with Oscar Levant, and from 1/23/49!
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More sounds of the 1930's by Al Jolson, Ina Ray Hutton, Johnny Mercer & Jack Teagarden with Paul Whiteman, Beau Hunks Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey, Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo, our Bing Sings feature, + Old Time Radio Time: Cavalcade of America from 2/2/42 with James Cagney!
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This week hits of the 1930's by Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch., Jimmy Durante, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, Larry Clinton orch. with Bea Wain, Ink Spots, our Bing Sings feature, + Old Time Radio Time: The Aldrich Family 4-1-43.
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With songs by The Dorsey Bros., The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Bros., Rudy Vallee, Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm, Joe Venuti, Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey, our Bing Sings feature, + Old Time Radio Time: Dr. Christian premiere from 11/7/37.
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It's Billboard magazine’s weekly singles chart for 6/25/49 with songs by Mel Torme, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Russ Morgan, Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer, Gordon Jenkins, Vaughn Monroe + Old Time Radio Time: Inner Sanctum from 5/16/49!
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This week it's the Decca recordings by the Andrews Sisters from 1938-45! With Jimmy Dorsey and Bing Crosby! Along with Old Time Radio Time: The Aldrich Family from 5/7/40
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This week, songs by Fran Warren with Claude Thornhill, Frank Sinatra with Count Basie, Johnny Mercer, Tommy Dorsey, Dean Martin, Steve Lawrence, Kay Kyser with Mike Douglas, our Bing Sings feature, + Old Time Radio Time: Bob Hope Show from 10/16/53 with Anne Baxter and Margaret Whiting
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This week it's old-time radio time with Art Kassel & His Kassels in the Air from 4/14/40, Jack Teagarden Live Remote from 8/25/39, Harry James Chesterfield Show from 8/9/43, & Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade with Glenn Miller from 7/10/41!
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With songs by Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Richie & Kenny Rogers, Johnny Mathis, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Ilene Woods, Our Bing Sings Feature with Bob Hope, & Old Time Radio Time: Lum & Abner from 1/30/49!
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This week two programs from the golden age of radio: Coca Cola Parade of Spotlight Bands from 9/12/45 with Artie Shaw, & Fats Waller and His Rhythm from Chicago 12/28/40!
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We celebrate Mother’s Day with songs by Al Jolson, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Fred Waring, Jimmy Dean, The Mills Brothers, + Old Time Radio Time: The Fanny Brice Show 5/13/45 starring Fanny as Baby Snooks with guest Danny Thomas!
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It's my annual Bing Crosby Birthday Bash, celebrating the May 3rd birthday of one of the most influential performers of the 20th century. It's a solid hour of Bing's music, with many rare and obscure tracks.
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With songs by Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Eddie Cantor, Ted Lewis, Jimmy Durante, George Burns, Phil Harris, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Abbott & Costello Show from 11/16/44
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With songs by Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Lena Horne, Fred Astaire, our Bing Sings feature with Louis Armstrong, & Old Time Radio Time: Songs By Sinatra from 10/24/45 with Tommy Dorsey!
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This week, rare movie soundtrack recordings of Dorothy Lamour & Betty Hutton at Paramount from the 1940s! Plus our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Eddie Cantor Show from 6/9/43 with Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx!
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This week it's Julbilee (1944) with Jimmie Lunceford, songs by Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong, our Bing Sings Feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Jubilee from 11/6/44 with Erskine Hawkins!
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With songs for Easter by Gene Autry, Perry Como, Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Ray Anthony, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, our Bing Sings feature with Rosemary Clooney, plus Old Time Radio Radio Time: The Doris Day Show from 4/18/52 with Ray Bolger!
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Pop hits from 1964, 60 years ago by Jack Jones, Dionne Warwick, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, The Four Seasons, Dave Clark Five, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Drifters, our Bing Sing feature with Fred Waring, & Old Time Radio Time: The Amos N Andy Show from 5/24/53!
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It's the wearin' of the green this week on NRT as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day with songs by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Dennis Day, Andy Williams, Buddy Clark, Kay Kyser + Old Time Radio Time: The Red Skelton Show 3/19/46!
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With songs by Count Basie, Dean Martin, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrews Sisters, Red Foley, Louis Jordan, Johnny Mercer, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Burns & Allen Show from 5/30/46!
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This week #1’s from 75 years ago in 1949! With songs by Sammy Kaye, Russ Morgan, Evelyn Knight, Perry Como, Les Brown, Doris Day, Frankie Laine, our Bing Sings feature, + Old Time Radio Time: Suspense from 6/23/49 Ghost Hunt!
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This week it's it's Old Time Radio Time on Nostalgia Radio Time with the Bill Stern Sports Newsreel with Frankie Carle from 11/26/48, Paramount On The Air – Man About Town with Jack Benny 1939, Harry James Chesterfield Show from 6/9/43, & Bing Crosby Show program #394 from 5/24/56!
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YOUR HIT PARADE SINGLES CHART FOR FEBRUARY 18, 1939! With songs by Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest, Johnny Messner, Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt & Kay Kyser, Bing Crosby, Martha Tilton & Benny Goodman, PAULA KELLY & AL DONAHUE +Old Time Radio Time: Glenn Miller Remote Broadcast from 5/17/39!
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Love songs for Valentine's Day by Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Bobby Darin, Andy Williams, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and our Bing Sings feature along with Old Time Radio Time: The Jack Benny Program 2/11/51!
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Complete one hour Kraft Music Hall broadcast from 5/21/42 starring Bing Crosby with guest Carole Landis!
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With songs by Al Martino, Doris Day, The Mills Bros, Suzy Bogguss, Judy Garland, John Denver, Jim Reeves, our Bing Sings feature plus Old Time Radio Time: Challenge of the Yukon from 4/11/49!
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With songs by Johnny Mercer, Rosemary Clooney with Woody Herman, The Ames Bros., Frankie Lane, Engelbert Humperdinck, Eddy Arnold, Duke Ellington, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Fitch Bandwagon starring Phil Harris & Alice Faye from 4/25/48!
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This week it's rare early recordings of Frank Sinatra with Harry James in 1939! Plus our Bing Sings feature with Matty Malneck, & Old Time Radio Time: Camel Caravan from 1/31/39 with Benny Goodman and Johnny Mercer!
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It's SEASON 13 & our12th Anniversary Show! With songs by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Guy Lombardo, Nat King Cole, Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee & Art Lund, Dean Martin, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: G.I Journal from 3/9/45 with Groucho Marx & Lucille Ball!
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My Annual Big Band Bash for New Year’s! Featuring a Glenn Miller Remote Broadcast excerpt from 12-31-38, Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands 10-24 42 with Harry James, Lawrence Welk New Years Eve remote 12-31-70, and Guy Lombardo's Last Auld Lang Syne from 12-31-76!
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My 22nd Annual Bing Crosby Christmas Special! We'll be featuring songs from the new Primary Wave album Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems, along with soundtrack recordings from the 1954 Holiday classic, Irving Berlin's White Christmas!
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It's a Crooner's Christmas with songs by Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, John Gary, Nat King Cole, our Bing Sings Feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Jack Benny Program from 12/8/48 Plastic Tips
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More sounds of the season by Andy Williams, Claude Thornhill, Elvis Presley, Lee Ann Womack, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr, Eddie Cantor, Suzy Bogguss, our Bing Sings Feature, plus Old Time Radio Time: Screen Director’s Playhouse Miracle on 34th Street from 12/23/49!
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This week more sounds of the season by Frank Sinatra, Sammy Kaye, Elvis Presley, Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & Modernaires, Woody Herman, Harry Belafonte, Jim Reeves, our Bing Sings feature with Peggy Lee, & Old Time Radio Time: Burns & Allen Show from 12/4/47 with Bing Crosby!
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We get into the holiday spirit with seasonal songs from the new Cher Christmas album including duets with Darlene Love and Michael Buble, plus Vince Guaraldi, Robert Goulet, Peggy Lee, & our Bing Sings Feature, along with Old Time Radio Time: The Jack Benny Program from 11/21/43!
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This week it's Old Time Radio on NRT with Boston Blackie from 9/24/46, Bill Stern Sports Newsreel with Frankie Carle from 11/26/48, Dinah Shore guest spot on The Bing Crosby show from 10/31/51!
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Your Hit Parade top 8 records for the week ending November 12, 1938! With songs by Ozzie Nelson, Sammy Kaye, Buddy Rogers, Tommy Dorsey, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Larry Clinton & Bea Wain + Old Time Radio Time: The Jello Program starring Jack Benny from 11/13/38!
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Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands! With broadcasts from 10/24/42 with Harry James, 3/2/45 with Les Brown, & 11/27/43 with Duke Ellington, plus our Bing Sings feature with Ziggy Elman
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With songs from the new Pat Boone album Country Jubilee, plus our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Dragnet from 10/20/53!
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With songs by Cab Calloway, Buddy Clark & Doris Day, Eydie Gorme, Jimmy Durante & Patty Andrews, Tex Beneke, Red Foley, Mary Martin, our Bing Sings feature with Louis Jordan, & Old Time Radio Time: Amos N Andy from 5/8/49!
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We celebrate the memory of Bing Crosby on the 46th anniversary of his passing with John Salisbury’s Sunday Spectacular featuring a Profile in Sound of Bing as aired on Portland radio station KXL on 12/15/63. Bing himself is interviewed throughout, recorded on the set of Robin & The 7 Hoods, 11/21/63.…
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This week, Avalon Time with Red Skelton from 8/26/39, Easy Aces from 8/4/37, Bing Crosby on the Dean Martin Show from 10/19/67, & Al Jolson with Jimmy Durante in 1949
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This week songs by Jimmy Durante at the Copa, Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Buddy Clark, Harry James, Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Peggy Lee, Ames Bros., our Bing Sings feature with Rosmary Clooney, & Old Time Radio Time: The Six Shooter from 11/29/53!
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This week we present airchecks of Perry Como on the Chesterfield Supper Club radio show in the 1940's! Along with Old Time Radio Time: Philco Radio Time with Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Peggy Lee from 1/12/49!
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Billboard Magazine’s Best Selling Records for the week ending 9/18/43 80 years ago! With songs by Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners, Harry James & Frank Sinatra, Harry James & Helen Forrest, Tommy Dorsey, Al Dexter, The Mills Bros, Bing Crosby, plus Old Time Radio Time: The Kraft Music Hall from 9/16/43!…
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This week "Night Songs" by Bobby Vee (pictured), Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, plus Old Time Radio Time: The Danny Kaye Show from 1-27-45 with Harry James!
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