High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 4

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 4 Radio Days By the late 1920s radio rivals gramophones as a means of hearing music. Jack L gets the story on the birth of radio Marconis Irish roots and the sounds of Irish tenor John Feeney singing Moonlight in Mayo at the Vintage Radio Museum in Howth Co Dublin while Julie Feeney shares the story and music of the McNulty Family who became Irish American radio stars in the US from the 1930s. We hear opera singer Marion Anderson from a live radio broadcast in 1939 the music of Mick Moloney and the sound of live radio shows featuring Bob Hope Bing Crosby Al Jolson and Doris Day from the 1940s and 50s.