Greg Van Beek's Nostalgia Radio Time Podcast

Early 30s radio! Chase & Sanborn Hour with Eddie Cantor (excerpt) from 1-28-34, Linit Bath Club Revue with Fred Allen (excerpts) from 1-22-33, The Adventures of Flash Gordon from 8-31-35.  

This week: a Charlie Spivak Remote from the Hollywood Palladium 1943, our Bing Sings feature with Connee Boswell, and Old Time Radio Time: Have Gun, Will Travel from 11-29-59

This week hit songs of 1965 by Petula Clark, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Jackie DeShannon, Beach Boys, Beatles, Byrds, Herb Alpert, Righteous Bros, our Bing Sings feature & Part 2 of our interview with Donna Chaffee, author of First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy

This week hit songs of 1964 by Gerry & The Pacemakers, Peter & Gordon, Bobby Vinton, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong, our Bing Sings feature, + part one of our interview with Donna Chaffee, author of First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy 

This week songs by The Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald and The Mills Bros, The Mills Brothers & Louis Armstrong, our Bing Sings Feature, & Old Time Radio Time: One Night Stand from 7/17/44 with Les Brown!

This week we shine the spotlight on Fred Astaire with recordings made between 1942-75 along with Old Time Radio Time: Dennis Day Show from 10/10/54 with Peggy Lee!

This week it's Billboard Magazine’s Singles chart for the week ending 8/3/46! With songs by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Freddy Martin, The Ink Spots, Eddy Howard + Old Time Radio Time: Screen Guild Players from 9/2/46 Weekend For Three with Dennis O’Keefe!

This week songs by Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Earl Fatha Hines, Andy Russell, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet from 2/27/49! 

This week it's big band sounds by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy, Gene Krupa, an Artie Shaw Big Band Remote from 10/19/39 and the Bing Crosby Show from 5/24/56

This week we have songs by Louis Jordan, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and the 4 Keys, plus our Bing Sings Feature & Old Time Radio Time: The Charlie McCarthy Show from 3/11/45 with Joan Blondell! 

Celebrating the bi-centennial + 50 with Billboard’s top 20 from 7/4/76! With songs by Seals & Croft, Neil Diamond, Steve Miller Band, Eric Carmen, Captain & Tennille, Hall & Oats, Starland Vocal Band, Wings, plus Bing Sings: The Crosby Medley live from The London Palladium 7/4/76! 

This week we feature WW2 era V-discs by Nat King Cole Trio, Count Basie & Glenn Miller, plus one for our Bing Sings feature & Old Time Radio Time: Gene Krupa remote from 1/31/40! 

This week we turn the spotlight on the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands! With shows from 2/22/45 with Frankie Masters, 1/27/44 with Vaughn Monroe, 10/24/42 with Harry James along with our Bing Sings Feature! 

This week we celebrate Les Brown and his Band of Renown! With the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands from Sept. 1944 with Les Brown, plus select recordings from 1944-46 featuring vocalists Doris Day and Gordon Drake! Plus our Bing Sings Feature & Old Time Radio Time: Bob Hope Show from 5/3/49 with Lucille Ball! 

A live Remote broadcast of the Tommy Dorsey Orch from the Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, NJ with Frank Sinatra from 2/11/41, & a Duke Ellington Live broadcast from Radio City Music Hall on 9/8/45!

This week we put Helen Forrest 1939-40 recordings with Artie Shaw and Harry James in the spotlight! Along with Bing Sings and Old Time Radio Time: Fibber McGee & Molly from 3/21/39!

This week, Your Hit Parade songs from 1944 by The Andrews Sisters, Louis Jordan, Dick Haymes with Harry James, Stan Kenton with Anita O’Day, The Merry Macs, Bing Crosby, plus Old Time Radio Time: Suspense “Ten Grand” with Lucille Ball from 6/2/44! 

This week it's our 750th consecutive show! We celebrate with some of the best of the NRT interviews by Peggy King, Thisbe Vos, John Mills, Barbara Rosene, Tony Bambino, Regis Philbin, Brigitte Zarie, Suzy Bogguss, Deana Martin, & Pat Boone!

With songs by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, our Bing Sings feature with Judy Garland & Old Time Radio Time: Inner Sanctum from 5/29/45!

It's our annual Bing Crosby Birthday Bash, celebrating the May 3rd birthday of one of the 20th century's most influential entertainers with a solid hour of his music. 

Glenn Miller is once again in the spotlight with recordings spanning 1939-41, plus a complete Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade with from 7/10/41, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Aldrich Family from 5/7/40!

This week we have songs by Fats Waller, Claude Thornhill, Jack Teagarden & Johnny Mercer, Paul Whiteman, our Bing Sings Feature + Old Time Radio Time: Burns & Allen Show from 4/13/43!

This week it's Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey from the early 1940's!  Plus a couple of songs from Artie Shaw, Bing Singing a song written by Frank Sinatra, and Old Time Radio Time: Fred Allen Show from 4/28/46 with Bert Lahr!

This week it's recordings by the Mills Brothers and Vaughn Monroe! plus we celebrate Easter with Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney, along with Old Time Radio Time: G.I. Journal from 3/9/45 with Groucho Marx & Lucille Ball

This week, the Mildred Bailey Show with Paul Barons Orch & Red Norvo 1944, a Jimmie Lunceford V-Disc session from 10/2/45, & Duke Ellington Live remote broadcast from 9/1/45! Plus our Bing Sings feature!

This week it's BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S SINGLES CHART FOR WEEK OF  March 23, 1946! With songs by Freddy Martin, Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest, Les Brown & Doris Day, Betty Hutton, Johnny Mercer & Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Carle & Old Time Radio Time: Your Hit Parade from 3/23/46!

We celebrate the wearin' of the green with St. Patrick's Day gems by Dennis Day, Judy Garland, Dick Haymes, John McCormack, Johnny Cash, and of course, Bing Crosby! Plus Old Time Radio Time: Duffy’s Tavern from 3/16/45 with Pat O’Brien

This week it's the fabulous Dorsey's! With Tommy Dorsey on the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands circa 1944 and classic recordings by Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell! Plus Old Time Radio Time: Carnation Contented Hour with Buddy Clark and Dinah Shore from 1/31/49!

With songs by the three B's: Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby, and Bunny Berigan! plus Old Time Radio Time: Counter Spy from 8/23/49 

Three great old time radio time shows! Art Kassel and his Kassel’s In The Air from 4/14/40, Chandu The Magician from 5/29/33, and a Bob Hope Show rehearsal from 10/6/49! 

We celebrate Valentine's Day with romantic songs by Steve Lawrence, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, Harry James and Dick Haymes, Doris Day, Louis Armstrong, Andy Williams, plus Bing Sings My Funny Valentine & Old Time Radio Time: The Jack Benny Program from 2/13/38

Saluting the Andrews Sisters featuring recordings with Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller, plus Old Time Radio Time: The Bob Hope Show for Pepsodent from 1/2/45 with The Andrews Sisters! 

This week featuring Glenn Miller At Carnegie Hall from 10/6/39, and Duke Ellington Treasury Star Parade from 11/24/45! 

This week it's Four from the Radio with classic broadcasts Captain Midnight from 12-30-42, Hop Harrigan from 2-7-44, Leo Is On The Air (1935) Broadway Melody of 1936, & American Band of the AEF 11-25-44 (broadcast 1-2-45). 

This week featuring songs by the Johnny Hodges Orch and the Lionel Hampton Orch. Plus our Bing Sings Feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Inner Sanctum from 1/29/46

This week it;s Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey in 1940! Plus our Bing Sings: Feature & Old Time Radio Time: Songs By Sinatra from 10/24/45 with Tommy Dorsey!

This week  it's the start of SEASON 15 and our 14th Anniversary Show! With songs by Andrews Sisters, the Mills Bros., The Ink Spots, our Bing Sings Feature with Peggy Lee, & Old Time Radio Time: Milton Berle Show from 1/6/48!

My Annual Big Band Bash for New Years! With songs by Connee Boswell with Bob Crosby’s Orch, Wingy Manone, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest & with Helen Ward + New Years Eve with Guy Lombardo!

This week it's My 24th Annual Bing Crosby Christmas Special! An hour of beloved Christmas songs and memories by the voice of Christmas himself, including rarities!

This week with Yuletide roundelays by Sammy Kaye,  Kay Kyser, Mae Questal (Betty Boop), Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, The Mills Bros., Ray Conniff Singers, and of course Bing Crosby! Plus Old Time Radio Time: The Jack Benny Program from 12/17/50

This week more sounds of the season by Gene Autry, The Chipmunks, Robert Goulet, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters, and of course Bing Crosby! + Old Time Radio Time: The Charlie McCarthy Show from 12/19/48!

The holiday music begins with Yuletide tunes by Fred Waring, Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams & Lorrie Morgan, Martina McBride, Suzy Bogguss, Johnny Mathis, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: Fibber McGee & Molly from 12/18/45!

This week it's the Billboard Singles Chart for the week ending November 25, 1950! with songs by Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie, The Weavers , Don Cherry, Guy Lombardo, Patti Page, Sammy Kaye, Phil Harris + Old Time Radio Time: The Bing Crosby Show from 1/31/51 with Bob Hope & Toni Arden!

This week it's classic recordings from 1940-43 by Harry James with Helen Forrest, Ink Spots, Vaughn Monroe, Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly + Old Time Radio Time: The Railroad Hour from 8/28/50! 

This week, classic Bluebird label recordings by the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1939-40! Plus a rare Bing Sings with Glenn Miller, & Old Time Radio Time: Richard Diamond, Private Detective from 5/22/49! 

With 1938-42 recordings by Jimmie Lunceford + Bunny Berigan. plus our Bing Sings feature & Old Time Radio Time: The Life of Riley from 9/20/47

Featuring Charlie Barnet recordings from 1939 + our Bing Sings Feature & OTR: The Green Hornet from 6/8/39!

This week it's Gene Krupa in the 40s with the Coca Cola Spotlight Bands from June 1945, plus studio recordings made in 1941, along with our Bing Sings feature

We remember Bing Crosby on the 48th anniversary of his passing with highlights from "Bing Crosby & Friends at the London Palladium" in October of 1977 with Rosemary Clooney, Kathryn Crosby, Harry Crosby, Joe Bushkin Jazz Quartet and Gordon Rose & The Palladium Orch. 

With songs by Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, David Rose, Charlie Barnet, Sammy Kaye, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Great Gildersleeve from 9/12/43