Need help looking for a compilation album from the 70's

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Hi all, I have seen similar questions here and figured I would give this a shot.

I used to have an album set, and I think it was called “The Golden Age Of Radio” or something to that effect. It was a rectangle, yellow box that contained 6 or 7 albums. The albums consisted of 1 episode of The Lone Ranger, 1 episode of Superman, 1 episode of Gangbusters, various historical radio clips such as theHindenburg, Lou Gehrigs speech. There were other shows, such as comedies as well.

If anyone has any information on it, I would greatly appreciate it.

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From the 70s? Sure you don’t mean the 40s or 50s?

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The album set itself was from the 70’s. The actual content was obviously originally aired a few decades earlier.

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Set up an ebay search and wait.

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Have been doing that for quite a while now.

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My parents had a box set like that way back when. I have no idea if they still have it, but I’ll be seeing them tomorrow so I’ll find out. Seems to me it was produced by Longines Symphonette.

Edit: Here’s the one my parents had. (One of the albums, that is. They had a set.)

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If you go to Amazon and search for Golden Age Radio under music, you’ll find dozens, maybe hundreds of collections. Good luck sorting through them for the exact match.

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Archive.org has what’s probably the single biggest collection of old-time radio (OTR) programs on the Internet and, at this point, that’s really saying something. A lot of OTR stuff is public domain now (copyright not renewed in a timely fashion) so you can legally download it for free and do literally anything you want with it, up to and including selling it for a profit, which is where those OTR compilations on Amazon.com come from.

Charging people for their ignorance and/or laziness has a long and storied history.

Anyway, if you poke around in the Archive.org site, you’re likely to find any OTR program you’ve ever heard or even heard of, available for download and streaming.

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yes Golden Age of Radio is a common term (whole decades of time of radio get referred to by that term) and dozens of releases have that title, some multidisk. so while you supplied some specifics to identify it, the search will be rough.

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I have a 6-LP box set called “Golden Memories of Radio” (full title: “Jack Benny Presents: Golden Memories of Radio”). It’s not exactly like your description – each side is a bunch of snippets on a given theme (comedians, adventure/drama, news, sports, etc.), except for the last side, which is a complete drama by Arch Oboler called “Cat Wife” done in the old radio style. But maybe it’s the same one. It was released by the Longines Symphonette Society.