Really close to time travelling

[47heaven]

The way I have my music set up in the car is I have the CD player in the glove compartment, like many of you probably have, as well. I don't have stereo speakers installed...just the one where the original one used to be in the dash.

Anyway, I made a CD consisting of songs from the mid-40's to the early 50's, with vintage commercials form the same era thrown in there. At the end, I have a 30-minute Jack Benny radio show from 1950. Listening to it as I drive really gives me a good feeling for what it might have sounded like back then. The only problem is that I don't have the voice of a disk jockey or radio announcer on there from the same era. I looked on the internet, but couldn't find any old raidio air plays with the announcer talking and introducing a song or going over the news....etc.

Anyway, the CD goes like this:

"How High The Moon" - Les Paul and Mary Ford

Phillip Morris Cigarettes

Halo Shampoo

Winston Cigarettes (Winston tastes good like a cigarette should)

Chiquita Bananas

1948 Lifeboy Soap Commercial

"Tiger Rag" - Les Paul and Mary Ford

"Twelfth Street Rag" - Pee Wee Hunt

"Besame Mucho" - Andy Russell

Lucky Strike Cigarettes commercial

Bromo Seltzer commercial

Camel Cigarettes commercial

"Temptation" (Tim-tay-shun)- Red Ingle

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

"Frenesi" - Artie Shaw

Rinso Soap commercial

Pepsi Cola commercial (Pepsi Cola hits the spot...)

"Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue" - Gordon MacRae

"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place" - Benny Goodman

"Who Wouldn't Love You" - Kay Kyser

Pepsodent commercial (You'll wonder where the yellow went)

Nash Automobile commercial (couldn't find a Plymouth...LOL!)

"Mule Train" - Frankie Laine

The Jack Benny Show (Lucky Strike Cigarette commercials)

Anyway, that was my attempt of recreating the past. If anyone knows of pre-made CDs with old radio air checks and songs...etc, let me know. This is great stuff to have playing when your car is at a car show and people are looking inside your car.

[Guest jtw3749c]

It's heaven, check out this sight. Seems to be what your looking for. I just got through listening to a radio show with Lucille Ball. These are all radio shows.

http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/

[Don Coatney]

I think you need a "LUX" commercial in the mix.

Get yourself a pack of Listerines to puff on while driving:D

Stop and pick up a paper to read the funnies.

[BobT-47P15]

Does the ad for Phillip Morris cigs have Johnny, the bellhop, doing his famous line: "Call for Phillip Morris" like the later tv spots?

And does the Camel ad say "I'd walk a mile for a Camel"??

And the shampoo....."Halo, everybody, Halo"??

Looks like there are plenty commercials between the songs.

What process did you do to make this CD? Did your material come from the internet, other CDs, tapes, or where.

I would like to be able to do such a thing myself, but not sure just how to accomplish it. If the answer is too

long or something, you can P.M. instead.

[47heaven]

Does the ad for Phillip Morris cigs have Johnny, the bellhop, doing his famous line: "Call for Phillip Morris" like the later tv spots?

And does the Camel ad say "I'd walk a mile for a Camel"??

And the shampoo....."Halo, everybody, Halo"??

Looks like there are plenty commercials between the songs.

What process did you do to make this CD? Did your material come from the internet, other CDs, tapes, or where.

I would like to be able to do such a thing myself, but not sure just how to accomplish it. If the answer is too

long or something, you can P.M. instead.

Bob...the commercials I downloaded from the internet are on this site (the one that jtw mentioned above).

http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/old_radio_commercials/

There also some old radio shows to download as well.

http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/

After I downloaded them, I then opened up my CD burning software and put on some songs I had and threw some commercials in between, like it may have been back then. It's easy to make and really sounds good in the car...especially at car shows.

PM me if you have anymore questions about it.

[jd52cranbrook]

Cool Idea.......

[Tony_Urwin]

I'd buy your CD if you wanted to go into production!