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All the greats appear on this fantastic variety show Magic Key: Adele Astaire (Fred Astaire's sister who was said to be even more talented than he), Lum and Abner, Amos and Andy, Tommy Dorsey, Rudy Vallee, Jane Froman, Russ Morgan, Ruth Etting, Robert Benchley, Jean Sablon, Stoopnagle and Budd, and more! Music (includng all kinds of swing, opera, and symphony music), comedy, news stories, drama, and acts from all over the world appear on Magic Key. Dyyiverse and sure to please any palette, Magic Key was a wonderfully presented and received show at the height of radio popularity.

For additional classical and opera radio shows, see also:

Andre Kostelanetz Show Bell Telephone Hour Encores Chicago Theater of the Air Concert Hall Enchanted Hour Hour of Charm Metropolitan Opera Telephone Hour (Music From America) The Magic Key Lauritz Melchoir Collection Voice of Firestone
Magic-Key

Please enjoy these old time radio shows:

Air Date Title Synopsis
 1935-09-29  01 Welcome To The Magic Key Of Rca

NBC net. Sponsored by: RCA. 2:00 P. M. The first show of the series. David Sarnoff speaks from a ship in the mid-Atlantic. Maria Jeritza and The Vienna Symphony Orchestra are heard from Vienna, John Kennedy comments from Detroit, Walter Damrosch conducts and discusses classical music, Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and The Mickey Mouse Grand Opera Company from Hollywood are heard. Pluto and Clara Cluck join the rest performing the quartet from "Rigoletto." From San Francisco: an around-the-world trip by radio in less than two minutes! Amos 'n Andy relate how they started in radio. The NBC Symphony Orchestra, The Mickey Mouse Grand Opera Company, The Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Walt Disney, Walter Damrosch, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Ramona, The King's Men, Robert Lawrence, David Sarnoff, Frank Black (conductor), John Kennedy, Maria Jeritza, Milton Cross, Pinto Colvig, Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll. 
 1935-10-27  05 Navy Day

+ NBC net. Sponsored by: RCA. Jessica Dragonette ("The Queen of Radio") sings. Jan Garber and his Orchestra are heard from Chicago's Trianon Ballroom. Beatrice Lillie sings three songs. "A Salute To Navy Day," with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Colonel Henry Roosevelt (from Washington D.C.), broadcasts from a ship on the west coast, submarine R-13, eighteen Marine Corps "Helldivers" go into a power dive from four thousand feet over Washington, D. C. Great "golden age" radio. Milton Cross (host), The NBC Symphony Orchestra, Frank Black (conductor), Jessica Dragonette (vocal), Jan Garber and His Orchestra, Lee Bennett (vocal), Beatrice Lillie, Henry Roosevelt. 
 1935-11-03  06 Broadway Highlights

+ NBC net. Sponsored by: RCA. Joseph Schmidt sings with the Holland Symphony Orchestra from Amsterdam, Tom Dorsey and His Orchestra (vocals by Edythe Wright, Cliff Weston), pianist Joseph Levine, Roland Young, Robert Burton and Cora Witherspoon are heard in a skit, John B. Kennedy reports on the new 1936 cars and interviews the president of Hudson Motors. Eleanor Powell sings and dances, Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink gives a short talk about the marvels of radio. Milton Cross (host), The NBC Symphony Orchestra, Frank Black (conductor), Joseph Schmidt, The Holland Symphony Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Edythe Wright (vocals), Cliff Weston (vocals), Joseph Levine, Roland Young, Robert Burton, Cora Witherspoon, John B. Kennedy, Eleanor Powell, Ernestine Schumann-Heink. 

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