The first radio stations started poping up beginning in 1920. By the late 1920's, radio was starting to flex it muscle and different types of entertainment was starting to take off, not to mention paid advertiements. This CD contains just a small sample of those late 1920's broadcast.

The first program on the CD is the Brunswick Brevities show. The show was sponsored by the Brunswick-Balke-Collander Company of Chicago. It featured Red Nichols and The Five Pennies. The vocal was by Scrappy Lambert. At then end of the show a commercial for Brunswick records is given.

The next program is the Everyready Hour and as you may suspect, it was sponsored by Everyready Battiers. It was aired over the Red Network. The show featured comedy skits and music.

Next on the CD is an experimental broadcast featuring mostly music. It's origin of broadcast is not know.

Up next on the CD is Luke Higgins' Main Street Sketches. It was aired out of WOR, Newark, New Jersey. It's a variety show featuring George Frame Brown, Pete Wimbrough, and Louis A. Witten as the announcer.

The Maytag Frolics show was a National Radio Advertising Incorporated syndication featuring the Coon-Sanders Orchestra and sponsored by Maytag.

The earlest of the shows on the CD, National Defense, was a US Government broadcast originating at WCAP from the War Department building, Washington, D.C. Secretary Of War John Weeks is heard with General John Pershing speaking with other generals around the country by telephone, on the air in two-way conversations. The program was heard over a network consisting of WCAP, WEAF, WJAR, WNAC, WOO, WGR, KDKA, WSB, WLW, WGN, KSD, WDAF, WLAG, WOAW, WFAA, KLZ, and KGO. The purpose of the program was a test for using radio during a national emergency.

The last show on the CD is a collecton of shows as broadcast from WAAN located in the Edison Studios, 1 Bond Street, Newark, N.J. The shows are mainly musical in nature. When compared to other such shows from the 1930's, the WAAN broadcasts are very blain. However, from an historical view the shows illustrate where radio was heading during the late 1920s.