The Jack Benny Story - A Radio Documentary from 1975
The following is
the entire 3 hour radio documentary of
Jack Benny
(1894-1974). It was
produced by the now defunct Old Time National Radio Archives
of Spokane, Washington. It was broadcast on February 23,
1975 on (the also now defunct) KITN-AM of Lacey (Olympia),
Washington.
I apologize for the quality of the recording. It was
recorded onto an old style cassette recorder over 42 years
ago. Thanks!
How To Listen
There are two ways you
can listen to the documentary:
Download Real Audio Files
Download the FREE Real Player
to listen to the following files.
The following files represent sides on a C-90 cassette tape
(four sides in all, each 45 minutes).
The local commercials and ABC news reports are edited out.
However, the audio quality is lacking in order to save file
space. They were encoded at 8.5 Khz (about 5 Khz audio
bandwidth).
Download the following ZIP files. Uncompress them onto your hard
drive into SEPARATE directories. Each ZIP file has from 5 to 8
individual Real Audio files.
Side 1 (edited)
Side 2 (edited)
Side 3 (edited)
Side 4 (edited)
Download MP3 Audio Files
MP3 audio files can be played with either the Windows Media
Player (default player for Windows) or with Winamp
(recommended). The following MP3 files represent sides on a C-90
cassette tape (four sides in all, each 45 minutes)
These are taken directly from the cassette tapes. All
commercials and ABC news reports (which are classic reports now
themselves) are left in.
These were encoded at 11Khz WAV files and compressed to MP3
format. Since the original audio feed was at 5 Khz (AM radio),
the audio quality is quite good.
Note - You MUST RIGHT CLICK on each file if you wish to download
to your hard drive. Select either "Save Target As" (Internet
Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Firefox) to save the files to the
hard drive.
Side 1 (unedited)
Side 2 (unedited)
Side 3 (unedited)
Side 4 (unedited)
PLEASE NOTE: Please fill out the
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problems listening or downloading the radio show. Also let me
know if you did listen to the show and if you liked it or not.
It took quite a long time to encode these shows for downloading
on the Internet.
I do have one favor for the users of this website. This radio
show is ONLY available on the website as you see it here. I will
NOT make copies of the cassette tapes or CDs and send them via
postal mail. Please do not ask. Enjoy them as you see them here.
But please let me know if you like them or if you had a problem
in downloading them! Thanks!