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On this edition of RETRO RADIOLAND we look at two programs you might not be familiar with but who hold honors as having amazing longevity!

On this edition of RETRO RADIOLAND, we look at two great comedy teams, Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy. Although Bud and Lou were mainstays on the radio for most of the 1940s it was not in the cards for Laurel and Hardy. They made one pilot for NBC in 1944 that never made it on the air.

This week's RETRO RADIOLAND is all music all the time as we pay tribute to the Big Band era remote broadcasts that were heard each night across the US during the Golden Age of Radio.

On this week’s show – Glenn Miller on the air, A WC Fields replacement, an American promoting propaganda, mentalist or no mentalist, scary time in American history.

On this week's RETRO RADIOLAND
Frank Sinatra and Nancy having a baby? Rita Hayworth thrown out of the movie industry? Plenty of gossip as we visit Louella Parsons.
The wealthiest Bell Boy ever.
Let’s smarten up with some quiz show history.

On this week Retro Radioland a salute to the radio organ, a look at two historic sports events and the Rainout Theater!