New for 2010
The Way Radio WasRadio has been home entertainment for nearly 100 years. Today it might be just headphones and a pocket sized receiver, but 60 years ago it was a table radio or a console in the living room with drama, news, variety, and some of the greatest and timeless comedy of all times.
When you invite the Way Radio Was to your church audience or community center, your host will lead you down memory lane. Can you remember the Old Spice Commercial from the 1960s? Or, older yet, do you recall Jonny " stepping out of store windows across America?" Did you hear adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years, on a thousand may-be worlds? Commercials, great music, news and nostalgia accompany clips from old radio shows like Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny, Gunsmoke and Dragnet. Your host has comedy from Spike Jones to Stan Freburg; music from Bing Crosby to Betty Boop; memories from Glen miller to Bert Kaempfert.
Whether you use the Way Radio Was for an evening background behind a quiet dinner party (complete with 30s and 40s dance music), or as the center stage for your church luncheon the Way Radio Was will delight your guests, rekindle the flames of memories long forgotten, and be remembered as a special time to be placed on the calendar for next year.
The Way Radio Was host, Dick Karman, has 45 years of radio memorabilia and memories, from Broadcast gear and microphones to Burma Shave signs. He comes to you with recorded sound and anecdotes of the decades gone by. The stories, the jokes, and the inspirational messages addressed to audiences of all ages are appropriate for your church or "senior saints" groups, and have been the highlight of many Reliving radio events for the last 15 years. He comes to you to set up his memory machines and lead you into those thrilling days of yesteryear. Entertainment can be as little as an hour at your community center luncheon or a complete afternoon as background for your "music and memories" event.
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Reliving Radio brings radio drama to life.
Return with us to those thrilling days of live radio theater. A small troupe of volunteer voice actors, using scripts from the past, music that memories are made of, and mechanical sound effects (some over 60 years old), transport your audience to Radioland. With microphones, sound effects, and costumes from the 1940s, Reliving Radio brings to your audience memories like Fibber McGee and Molly, Sam Spade Detective, Our Miss Brooks, The Whistler, and Sherlock Holmes. Performances vary by how many actors can take time from their “day jobs” but no matter what show is used, the memories and the magic permeate the atmosphere from the prelude of great old WW II songs, to the final credit roll. Performance fees are on a donation basis, and some travel expenses are required. For information or to arrange a booking call 503-784-4398
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