Nostalgia Digest

Today's the day! Join us on @wdcb909.bsky.social (wdcb.org) from 1-5 pm CST as Those Were the Days presents radio to win a war by, featuring big-name Hollywood stars and a thoughtful, articulate president!

Just a reminder: Today, Those Were the Days tunes in to the Radio of World War II, with four hours of broadcasts designed to sell war bones, to entertain the troops, and just generally beat back fascism. Hear it from 1-5 pm CST on wdcb.org

Promoting her newest hit "Eating at The Subway."

Want to hear about America beating back fascists? Tune in to Those Were the Days this Saturday to hear Radio From World War II, with President Roosevelt, Vice-President Wallace, Danny Kaye, Martha Raye and more! Join us from 1-5 pm CST on @wdcb909.bsky.social (wdcb.org).

Talk about endless Summer: We've still got copies of the current Summer 2025 Nostalgia Digest (with the Don Ameche cover) AND the Summer 2023 Digest Swimsuit Issue (featuring stars ranging from Rita Hayworth to Phil Silvers). Copies are limited but get 'em at www.nostalgiadigest.com/nostalgiadig...

RIP Loni Anderson. She could've gotten away with simply being beautiful but her performances proved that she was also funny and smart and talented and deserving of the attention she received.

Today's the day! Tune in to Those Were the Days for all you see below and a little Tom Lehrer besides—1 to 5 pm CST on wdcb.org!

Actress Linda Darnell

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the NBC microphone

Actress Mary Boland

The cover of the Summer 2025 Nostalgia Digest, featuring Don Ameche and a CBS microphone

What do Linda Darnell, Martin and Lewis and the great Mary Boland have in common? You'll hear them all this Saturday on Those Were the Days! Join us from 1-5 pm CST at wdcb.org — and read the article about Linda in the Summer Nostalgia Digest (available at www.nostalgiadigest.com/nostalgiadig...)

"From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse SilverOHWAITASECOND!"

For @maryjopehl.bsky.social and anyone who's ever asked: Can't we get Beyond Christmas?

You can read an excerpt from our conversation with Tippi Hedren in the Autumn 2017 Nostalgia Digest. The print version is sold out but the digital version is alive and well (along with many other out-of-print issues) at www.nostalgiadigest.com/nostalgiadig...

RIP to the brilliant Tom Lehrer, whose musical output consisted of roughly 37 songs over 20 years but somehow they've been saying what all of us are thinking for the last seventy years.

"There's a vestigial desire for literacy somewhere that keeps these songs alive."

YouTube video by Tom Lehrer - Topic The Masochism Tango (Stereo Mix)

Tom Lehrer... replugged?

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Today's the day! Join us from 1-5 pm CST on wdcb.org as Those Were the Days celebrates radio's Golden Age, with The Shadow, a pre-Dragnet Jack Webb and more!

What were the top tunes in the country the week of October 27, 1945? Find out this Saturday from 1-5 pm CST as Those Were the Days presents "Your Hit Parade," along with broadcasts of the Shadow, Henry Morgan, a pre-Dragnet Jack Webb and more! Hear it all at wdcb.org

And if you missed any of Those Were the Days' salute to the Marx Brothers (featuring a guest appearance by the Famous Brothers), fear not! It's available for streaming any time this week at www.nostalgiadigest.com/those%20were...

Today's the day! Join us at wdcb.org from 1-5 pm CST for great comedy from radio's past and great music from our collective present on Those Were the Days!

Connie Francis, ‘Where the Boys Are’ Singer and Actress, Dies at 87 One of the most commercially successful female singers in history, she also had hits with "Who's Sorry Now?," "Mama," "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "Stupid Cupid."

RIP Connie Francis.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

Harpo, Chico and Groucho Marx

The Famous Brothers: Darren "2 B" Famous, Willie B. Famous, and Ricky "Famous" Famous

This Saturday on Those Were the Days, it's Marx Brothers-meets-Famous Brothers, as we hear vintage broadcasts featuring Groucho, Chico and Harpo (really!) and welcome Willie B. Darren 2B and Ricky to the studio to discuss their "farewell tour." Join us from 1-5 pm CST on wdcb.org

Unassuming Barber Shop: SUPERMAN is a political protest Superman has always been political: The writer of the first Superman story is still shouting in a loud voice from a thin piece of paper.

The terrific @bradricca.bsky.social provides some historical context involving the creation of Superman and proves why the character was a sensation from the very start. yhttps://www.comicsbeat.com/unassuming-barber-shop-superman-is-a-political-protest/

As someone whose show has spent the last 24 years on a Public Radio station, we second that emotion.

The cast of Those Were the Days' 55th anniversary event: Diamond Jim Greene and Joel Paterson (each holding their guitars) flank a group that incudes pianist Reginald Robinson, Scott Lowell, Catherine Smitko, Rachel Lichtman, Meg Guttman, Jamie Gangi, Chloe Orwell (all seated), Stuart Allard, Paul Engelhardt, Dan Gately, Karl Pearson, Dag Juhlin, Steve Darnall, Charlie Meyerson, Trace Beaulieu, Will Clinger, Rich Koz, Barry Winograd, Bob Kolososki, Jim Roche and Bill Leff (standing)

This year, our Those Were the Days show turned 55—and celebrated with performances from @svengoolieofficial.bsky.social, @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social, @rachellichtman.bsky.social, @dagjuhlin.bsky.social and many others—and you can get a copy of the show at www.nostalgiadigest.com/those-were-t...

Sleep Sweet, BlueSky 💙

We had the privilege of publishing the story of Superman's 1946 battle against the Klan/Clan in the Autumn 2020 Nostalgia Digest. The print edition is long gone but a digital version is still available at www.nostalgiadigest.com/nostalgiadig...

“I thought you had brains, Riggs, but you’ve become drunk
on the slop we put up for the suckers… The poor fish who want to hate and blame somebody else for their failures in life... The little nobodies who want to believe some other race is inferior
so they can feel superior."

Home to one of the greatest threats in movie history:

"One day, all they're gonna find of you is a hair ribbon and an ax!"

"As Vivian Leigh is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!"

Today's the day! Please join us from 1-5 pm CST at wdcb.org as Those Were the Days celebrates the Golden Age of Radio—with a surprise or two along the way!

Gracie Allen and George Burns

Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott at the WHDH microphone

Raymond Burr

An advertisement for the radio show "Nick Carter, Master Detective"

This Saturday's Those Were the Days show has it all, from Burns and Allen to Bob and Ray, from a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr to America's first famous pulp-fiction detective. Hear them all and more from 1-5 pm CST on @wdcb909.bsky.social (wdcb.org)!

And if you missed Those Were the Days' salute to big band radio broadcasts of the 1930s, it's available for streaming all week at www.nostalgiadigest.com/those%20were...