Being a police officer you work a lot of Christmases and I did. I would turn on WABC Radio in the cruiser and wait to hear this every Christmas that I worked. I would stay on patrol with a cup of coffee and hope that I didn't get a call. Funny but this broadcast made those nights almost a tradition. Hearing this makes you think that the old radio broadcast have a lot over today's entertainment. I'll take this over the Hallmark Channel any day of the week.
Same here. 25 years as a PO in Missouri. Some radio stations would play this after midnight working the late shift. Generally Christmas Eve was slow and I’d pull onto a parking lot and listen. Fond memories.
Hard wood floors in the living room, sitting on the area rug next to the radio set that seemed tower over me as a child. The fireplace cracked and popped, as my father turned the pages of his crisp newspaper, and smoked his pipe. The early dark of a winter night made all seem cozy, as my brother and I sat with eyes closed and took in the sounds of pure radio magic. The comfortable sounds of mother clanking dishes in the kitchen, and the sound of the wind against the windows. Many of night we sat in wonder, and saw pictures in our mind that vastly surpass all of modern hidef, and 3d.
CP Simms Beautifully expressed. Thank you. I posted something about my grandfather, who set up the first radio broadcasts in the US. I was born in 1957, so the old black and white Curtis Matthis television in the fireplace with Sea Hunt, Sky King and Shari Lewis are my earliest recollection, but visits to my grandparents during baseball season, the old Bakelite radio and Bob Prince's beautiful voice, my grandmother bringing a tray with a Whole Bottle of Pepsi Cola or homemade Hire's root beer for each of us..... During my teenage years, I listened to Pittsburgh public radio WQED and enjoyed The Shadow, Henry Aldrich and other old radio classics. I wish you well, and a happy and healthy new year.
Beautifully described. I didn’t grow up during the “golden age of radio” but I heard about many of the old radio shows from my parents and older brother. I’m a big fan of OTR now so your description brought me right back to those lovely, cozy, simpler days. Thank you.
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They do not make these memories of old any more i miss my grandparents and these old holiday times peace be with all of us during these difficult times.
Listening to this in 2023 while making pumpkin pie, this makes me think of my mom who had me listen to this with her every year. Wish we could continue the tradition. Merry Christmas everyone in 2023 🎄
The first time I ever heard this was in 1975. I lived in Maine and went to sleep early on Christmas Eve. I woke at 3am on Christmas and it was snowing very hard. I turned on my radio to listen and heard the start of this broadcast on WBZ coming from Boston. It made my Christmas special.
Hi it is Wednesday, the 19th of October 2020 now. I survived, without getting Covid, did you? 2020 was the start of the Covid pandemic and the scariest year of my life.
I am 61 & I have been listening to these old shows for 40 years (my cassettes have worn out, thank goodness for youtube!). We are getting rid of the tv, too much $$ and too much much garbage & filth on. I say, go back to what’s great, and back to books. I enjoyed this very much, thank you.
2:30 am the day after Christmas I find myself listening to this classic. I’m too young to have enjoyed this as a child but old enough to understand sitting around listening to the radio must have been great. I wonder sometimes if children today even have an imagination. I let my imagination run free thinking about my parents as children listening to a radio. Cold snowy night, wood stove throwing out warm radiating air. Talking to siblings about who’s going to hear Santa first. Technically has taken away so much while claiming to give more than ever. Remember what it was like to let your mind run free. Merry Christmas to all I’ll be back Christmas Eve 2022 listen to this, & read a few more comments hopefully someone else will appreciate this as much as I……
I was a child of the 1960's TV era, but every year this radio program played on the radio. My Dad chuckled as I exclaimed, "Hurry up Dad and let's watch the radio." Every year I eagerly looked forward to Cinderella on TV and The Christmas Carol on the radio.
Welles was a genius. There is nothing better than wrapping gifts on Christmas eve and listening to this holiday tradition. Over 80 years ago and yet the message still resonates. Happy holidays everyone
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Merry Christmas everyone this is the start of a new tradition in my family my son who is Autistic loves the Christmas carol he loves it when Scrooge said Bah Humbug
My favourite version was produced in 1951 starring Allistair Simm and Patrick McNee who portrayed Scrooge as a young man. It's a staple every Xmas eve in our house
I used to listen to this every Christmas in the forties when I was small. There's nothing like your imagination to help further the narrative. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas for me these days without Dicken's Carol and O'Henry's Gift Of The Magi. It's always a pleasure to hear it again.
How I love this story!!! 🤗 If only Charles Dickens knew what a beautiful, spiritual impact this would have on mankind! 🙏🏼 Everyone needs to experience this story of salvation!!! The world could be a better place! Amen!
I have had this broadcast on cassette for 20+ years. When my family would go on trips or Christmas Lights drives I would always play this tape in the car. I have never lost it. Because I treasure it. Kids favorite line. "Darkness is cheap and scrooge likes it"
I love this!!! If only this were a movie, I would very much enjoy seeing it. Mr. Barrymore is a wonderful Scrooge. I can almost see this in my imagination. And Orson Welles! Superb, just superb 🤗🤗🤗
Something magical about this . Transports you back in time...And , knowing this fine character actor from It's a Wonderful life puts a picture in your head...
All of these radio plays are wonderful. Classics all and worth preserving. Lionel Barrymore, a voice of legends, is great as Scrooge. As a young boy, I was introduced to Dicken's Christmas Carol by my father through the wonders of 78 RPM HiFi and a triple record (6 sides) featuring the terrific voice of Ronald Colman. My father passed in 2019, just shy of 100 years old. I am now 66 and I still treasure that record set. I've had to purchase a new turntable with a 78 speed, just for that. Merry Christmas.... ...everyone.
Radio is somewhere between a book and TV and treasures like this are far under appreciated. Thanks to the poster of this. This broadcast really sparks the visual imagination; Barrymore is perfection as Scrooge. Originally, he was set to play Scrooge in the 1938 movie version, but the role went to Reginald Owen after Barrymore had to back out due to health reasons.
I really enjoy this, and I used to listen to the radio plays as a young girl. They were always a great source of pleasure, and a good way to incourage the imagination.
I am eating a bowl of Campbell's cream of chicken soup and listening to the video. I think Mr. Barrymore was the perfect voice for Ebenezer Scrooge. Thanks for the video. Ron from Melbourne FL.
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
I learned only recently that Lionel Barrymore's performance in "A Christmas Carol" was an annual radio tradition, and now I understand why. He's fantastic! -- better than any Scrooge I ever saw, and I've seen many. Barrymore's, of course, I can only hear, yet I picture him perfectly. Surely Frank Capra had this Scrooge in mind when he was casting Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life."
I know what you mean, but I like the Alastair Sim version the best. That's probably just because I grew up watching it yearly. A Christmas Carol is my favorite work of fiction
No special effects, no sets, no visualization at all, all the performers had was sound to convey the story and how magnificently they succeeded, thank you for sharing for my generation to listed to and imagine how it must have been to so authentically celebrate the holiday.
They definitely played the Lionel Barrymore version into the 1970's. We went to my grandmother's house on Christmas Eve and I remember waiting in the car(I was so excited about Christmas) for about a half hour before we were to leave. I listened to Lionel Barrymore doing this and I was taken to that time and place. It was such an incredible version that stirred my imagination. I love listening to this. Merry Christmas to all, especially to the dreamers out there.
This is priceless! Several years ago we started a Christmas tradition of gathering the family and friends, turning off the lights with the exception of candles and the Christmas Tree and playing this version early in the Holiday Season. It has become one of our favorite and most looked forward to traditions! God Bless Us Everyone!
I was Production Director at an Oldies station in Tampa Bay many years ago. Our Operations Manager--a complete lunatic--gave me a copy of this production and said he wanted to air it on Christmas Eve. "Great. It's a classic! People will love it!" As it happened, he meant that I should remake the entire thing. Rewrite the script, get the DJ's to play the various roles, add all the music and special effects, etc, then mix the thing down for broadcast. I'll say only that we didn't humiliate ourselves too badly. But our version was recorded piecemeal over a couple weeks--I could grab people when they were free to record a line or a part or whatever. I had an incredible production music library, and 24 CD's with sound effects recorded by Hollywood pros. Also, I had two reel-to-reel tape machines, and put it together on an Otari eight-track recorder (Sergeant Pepper's was recorded on a four-track). My point is this: I had all this widgetry to use, and theirs was fifty bajillion times better doing everything LIVE--live orchestra in the studio, choirs, all the actors, the special effects and foley people? Everyone. One swing at it, and they parked it. Having done a half-ass remake of this masterpiece made me appreciate just how bloody brilliant this is. *raises glass of Paul Masson to Orson Welles*
My grandfather, Florence Christ Potts, son of German immigrants, born at the turn of the century, with only basic education, was one of the early electronics cowboys. He worked at Doubleday Hill in Pittsburgh, makers of electric dynamos and other modern wonders, and they communicated by means of ham radio with their sister store in Washington DC. Grandad and his whiz kid partner set up a broadcast studio as everyone was purchasing home radios, with nothing yet to listen to. With much experimentation and learning from errors, such as blowing out the entire set up by leaning against it in shirts soaked with perspiration during a summer heat wave, they started broadcasting before their charter arrived, two hours every evening of a woman playing the piano. KQV radio began with only Florence's ham radio license as authorization. KDKA received their charter first, but by that time KQV had been broadcasting for some time. No one came to shut them down, as the mayor and others listened, and the eventual chief of police was grandad's father in law. Wires strung across Fifth Ave. were ignored. Improvements thought of overnight often resulted in tearing down the broadcast booth in the morning and rebuilding it in time for the evening program. Grandad was invited to join a new venture as head of R and D, at a lower wage but with a block of stock, a risk he felt he couldn't afford to take with a wife, two children and widowed mother in law depending on him. Motorola would have been a great adventure for him, but he was always glad to be employed and that he "hadn't had to take a job digging ditches ". He developed tech in television and early computers, which he told me took up whole floors of buildings. I always thought he'd have been a great partner for Tesla, brilliant, positive, very humble....perhaps they hang out now. Grandad died in 1973, when miniaturization was creating things like handheld calculators. What a wonderful human being he was. I hope to see him again and learn more about what he felt and dreamt of. A very happy new year to all. I've never heard this broadcast but like to imagine my grandparents, family and friends listening to it on the old Bakelite radio that played every Pirates baseball game, with the wonderful Bob Prince describing the plays. So many hours spent leaning a little towards whatever played. Radio gave so much to us. I'm grateful.
I had this on Cassette tape and i lost it many years ago but i so glad i found this on TH-cam..i loved listening to this in my bed with the lights out near Christmas Time..Thanks for posting
Every Christmas eve we gather around the tv to watch Allistor perform. I only wish this was the tradition. I work in radio...I love this. Been playing old radio Christmas shows the past two weeks.
How wonderful to listen to this Theatre of the Imagination 1939 version once again that has been so well preserved to this day.. As alive and fresh today in 2020 as it was those many years ago!
I can't tell you "Campbell Soup Co" what a thrill it is to listen this iconic reading of "A Christmas Carol" even though I'm typing on this modern "thing" I am and always have been a student of great history and honest believe that I would have been very happy in the 19th century when Dickens wrote this novella .Some people look to the future for wisdom...I look to the past and wish I could have been in that listening public who heard this first reading
norm lor Me too, I always felt I was meant for a different time, things were so different, better, I envy those who were young when this aired on the radio, before all this technology. I’m enjoying this so so much. Merry Christmas to you.
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
I first listened to this with my late husband while driving from Toronto to London Ontario to surprise his not and family. It was Christmas 1987 and we lived in Calgary. Thankfully the roads were clear. We had told the family that we were going to the Chateaux Lake Louise. It was a lovely time.
Thanks for posting this Lionel Barrymore version of A Christmas Carol. Thanks to Campell Soup Co. This recording is much before my time; however my parents were teenagers then. Found this by looking for It's A Wonderful Life which Lionel acted as well. Thanks also for salute to our veterans - my family also has a rich military service dating way back to present. Semper Fidelis ! USMC '75 - '81 GOD bless !
This radio drama has been an important Christmas tradition to me .I first heard it in the 1950's.It was played by one of our radio stations each Christmas Eve ,in the pre tv days. Later,when I became a teacher,I would read this story to the children each Christmas.I wanted to pass this wonderful story on to them.as it is a timeless tale.It always amazed me that the children in my class would be enthralled - even though I was reading a story written in 1843.Thank you for posting this,as it is important to keep such priceless Christmas treasures alive.
@@SOULRELIEF22 Stop being a killjoy. There *will* be smoking (of a sort) in heaven, and drinking too! Revelation 8:3-4 "Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. *And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.*" John 2:10 "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now." 1 Timothy 5:23 "No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments." Luke 7:33-34 "For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!" Psalm 104:14-15 "You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use, to bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the human heart." Et cetera...praised be Jesus Christ!
There's something warm and magickal about this story and this radio version...it uplift the soul.. many thanks for posting this...and to anyone reading this have a great Xmas wherever you are on this globe..from the u.k...GAV
Grew up listening to the record of this. My Dad bought it the first Christmas he and my Mom were married. Over the years the record became scratchy---but we didn't mind. So glad I found this-record safely packed away!!!!
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
So happy someone uploaded this to TH-cam, it’s been a Christmas Eve tradition of mine for many years between the radio and here. God bless us every one!!!!
Classic Story portrayed by a Classic Cast. Lionel Barrymore is perfect as Scrooge, Orsen Welles as narrator. Radio dramas are a lost art . Lets go into the parlor and listen with the rest of the family to this one hour 1935 production,
+Bob Winchester Hi - go to BBC 4extra radio drama - there's lots of them and NO commercials - lot of great radio - some are awful - many are very enjoyable and good radio :} lots are right here on UTube, also. . .
Old time radio helps you to use your imagination to picture what you see instead of the TV bringing out what they want you to see. The version of a Christmas Carol is more special than the TV versions.
Thank you so much for posting this. I first heard it on radio back on Dec. 24th, 1987 with my brother on our way back home to Pittsburgh in a horrible winter storm from a job we just finished at Canaan Valley Ski Resort. I have been in love with this recording ever since.
In December 2024, enjoying this wonderful old radio rendition of A Christmas Carol. May God bless you.
Here 🎉
One of very best! Ever.
Being a police officer you work a lot of Christmases and I did. I would turn on WABC Radio in the cruiser and wait to hear this every Christmas that I worked. I would stay on patrol with a cup of coffee and hope that I didn't get a call. Funny but this broadcast made those nights almost a tradition. Hearing this makes you think that the old radio broadcast have a lot over today's entertainment. I'll take this over the Hallmark Channel any day of the week.
Same here. 25 years as a PO in Missouri. Some radio stations would play this after midnight working the late shift. Generally Christmas Eve was slow and I’d pull onto a parking lot and listen. Fond memories.
Thank you for your service 🙏
Thank you for you’re service. Wonderful memories you got there listening to this . What years were they playing this on the radio?
Great story, and glad you're on the other side of those shifts. ❤️😎🙏👍
What did officers feel when they listened to WAR OF THE WORLDS? I ask you…😅 my gran shite her pantaloons…
I’m an old soul but being able to find things like this in seconds is why I love the internet age
i am a young man and love listening to old radio programs like this
Just what I needed, watching the snow come down during a trying Xmas season this year. God bless everyone.
Hard wood floors in the living room, sitting on the area rug next to the radio set that seemed tower over me as a child. The fireplace cracked and popped, as my father turned the pages of his crisp newspaper, and smoked his pipe. The early dark of a winter night made all seem cozy, as my brother and I sat with eyes closed and took in the sounds of pure radio magic. The comfortable sounds of mother clanking dishes in the kitchen, and the sound of the wind against the windows. Many of night we sat in wonder, and saw pictures in our mind that vastly surpass all of modern hidef, and 3d.
CP Simms Beautifully expressed. Thank you. I posted something about my grandfather, who set up the first radio broadcasts in the US. I was born in 1957, so the old black and white Curtis Matthis television in the fireplace with Sea Hunt, Sky King and Shari Lewis are my earliest recollection, but visits to my grandparents during baseball season, the old Bakelite radio and Bob Prince's beautiful voice, my grandmother bringing a tray with a Whole Bottle of Pepsi Cola or homemade Hire's root beer for each of us.....
During my teenage years, I listened to Pittsburgh public radio WQED and enjoyed The Shadow, Henry Aldrich and other old radio classics. I wish you well, and a happy and healthy new year.
2020 as become this Sadest I guess That is I was happily Looking for something that reminds me of Beautiful days of old
Thanks for sharing that beautiful memory with us, you have a gift my friend
Beautifully described. I didn’t grow up during the “golden age of radio” but I heard about many of the old radio shows from my parents and older brother. I’m a big fan of OTR now so your description brought me right back to those lovely, cozy, simpler days. Thank you.
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They do not make these memories of old any more i miss my grandparents and these old holiday times peace be with all of us during these difficult times.
Happy holidays.
Listening to this in 2023 while making pumpkin pie, this makes me think of my mom who had me listen to this with her every year. Wish we could continue the tradition. Merry Christmas everyone in 2023 🎄
And in 2024 also.
My dad had this on a record and we listened to it every year . 🥰
I'm going to listen to this with some food and drink and means of warmth whilst wrapping presents.
The first time I ever heard this was in 1975. I lived in Maine and went to sleep early on Christmas Eve. I woke at 3am on Christmas and it was snowing very hard. I turned on my radio to listen and heard the start of this broadcast on WBZ coming from Boston. It made my Christmas special.
To whoever comes upon this video in 2020..I wish you a happy christmas and good health in these troubled times..from the UK...
same to you in 22😁
Hi it is Wednesday, the 19th of October 2020 now. I survived, without getting Covid, did you? 2020 was the start of the Covid pandemic and the scariest year of my life.
@Pynk Zale have a great Xmas.. x
Christmas eve 2022 thank you Enjoying good old time sruff
@@mathonamoore123 dont be scared its nothing!,
I'm listening to this on a Saturday night in December of 2023 as I am drawing a picture for a very sick friend, thanks for the inspiration....
anybody else listening to this every Christmas Eve year, still? Barrymore is the best Scrooge, hands down.
To those who are having a tough time this holiday season, God bless you and I wish you and yours well.
There are many people in that situation at present. I am certainly among them. Your kind words give us strength.
I can imagine my grandparents and my mother and her siblings listening to this on a Christmas Eve. Thank you and a most Merry Christmas!
I am 61 & I have been listening to these old shows for 40 years (my cassettes have worn out, thank goodness for youtube!). We are getting rid of the tv, too much $$ and too much much garbage & filth on. I say, go back to what’s great, and back to books. I enjoyed this very much, thank you.
Back to books, indeed. I've never put them down. I have two hardbacks of the Christmas Carol, and I treasure them.
2:30 am the day after Christmas I find myself listening to this classic. I’m too young to have enjoyed this as a child but old enough to understand sitting around listening to the radio must have been great. I wonder sometimes if children today even have an imagination. I let my imagination run free thinking about my parents as children listening to a radio. Cold snowy night, wood stove throwing out warm radiating air. Talking to siblings about who’s going to hear Santa first. Technically has taken away so much while claiming to give more than ever. Remember what it was like to let your mind run free. Merry Christmas to all I’ll be back Christmas Eve 2022 listen to this, & read a few more comments hopefully someone else will appreciate this as much as I……
Listening now for first time and appreciate so much as you do. Love this and must’ve been so great for them back then. 💯
I was a child of the 1960's TV era, but every year this radio program played on the radio. My Dad chuckled as I exclaimed, "Hurry up Dad and let's watch the radio." Every year I eagerly looked forward to Cinderella on TV and The Christmas Carol on the radio.
Memories keep me going on bad days. 🇬🇧👍
Excellent memories we grow older and our memories make us happy as well as sad
Welles was a genius. There is nothing better than wrapping gifts on Christmas eve and listening to this holiday tradition. Over 80 years ago and yet the message still resonates. Happy holidays everyone
I agree. I listen to this at Christmas and his War of the World radio broadcast for Halloween. Both are brilliant.
You can never beat these old recordings...great to listen to..
I"m sitting in the Campbell Soup world headquaters in Camden NJ while listening to this. Pretty cool.
So I made it back from Morocco.
I listen to Gracie Allen and George Burns often with their sponsor Campbell's Soup corp. Historical. You are sitting in the lap of our country's family heart for early honemakers. And family fun. Good on you!
Peace. ❤ 🍲.
M. IL. Elgin. 60120
Ah listening to the radio, the real imagination bringer...wonderful
Merry Christmas everyone this is the start of a new tradition in my family my son who is Autistic loves the Christmas carol he loves it when Scrooge said Bah Humbug
My favourite version was produced in 1951 starring Allistair Simm and Patrick McNee who portrayed Scrooge as a young man. It's a staple every Xmas eve in our house
George Cole played young scrooge. Patrick Mcnee played Jacob Marley
@@VilhelmHammershoi1666Michael Hordern played Marley
I used to listen to this every Christmas in the forties when I was small. There's nothing like your imagination to help further the narrative. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas for me these days without Dicken's Carol and O'Henry's Gift Of The Magi. It's always a pleasure to hear it again.
I agree!
God bless you sir and may you live a long long life
And God bless you, sir, for your good will.
Amen to your remarks. Love these stories. Thankful for the upload, Carrotjuse.
My grandma played this and other great audio's because she was born blind. Great memories.
Every child should listen to this ,
so wounderful,
Wonderful...
Christmas in the 40s. I got goose flesh when I saw this because I have been looking for this for years..
The Best Of Memories👍🎄🎄👍🎄🎄👍👍
Thats the same reaction I had when I found my fave childhood album, Christmas with the Chipmunks. 🥰
How I love this story!!! 🤗 If only Charles Dickens knew what a beautiful, spiritual impact this would have on mankind! 🙏🏼 Everyone needs to experience this story of salvation!!! The world could be a better place! Amen!
I have had this broadcast on cassette for 20+ years.
When my family would go on trips or Christmas Lights drives
I would always play this tape in the car. I have never lost it.
Because I treasure it. Kids favorite line.
"Darkness is cheap and scrooge likes it"
I love this!!! If only this were a movie, I would very much enjoy seeing it. Mr. Barrymore is a wonderful Scrooge. I can almost see this in my imagination. And Orson Welles! Superb, just superb 🤗🤗🤗
Something magical about this . Transports you back in time...And , knowing this fine character actor from It's a Wonderful life puts a picture in your head...
All of these radio plays are wonderful. Classics all and worth preserving. Lionel Barrymore, a voice of legends, is great as Scrooge. As a young boy, I was introduced to Dicken's Christmas Carol by my father through the wonders of 78 RPM HiFi and a triple record (6 sides) featuring the terrific voice of Ronald Colman. My father passed in 2019, just shy of 100 years old. I am now 66 and I still treasure that record set. I've had to purchase a new turntable with a 78 speed, just for that. Merry Christmas.... ...everyone.
Radio is somewhere between a book and TV and treasures like this are far under appreciated. Thanks to the poster of this. This broadcast really sparks the visual imagination; Barrymore is perfection as Scrooge. Originally, he was set to play Scrooge in the 1938 movie version, but the role went to Reginald Owen after Barrymore had to back out due to health reasons.
I really enjoy this, and I used to listen to the radio plays as a young girl. They were always a great source of pleasure, and a good way to incourage the imagination.
Yeah he fell and broke his hip
@@Bamacher59 Sad to think he never recovered.
Lionel Barrymore has THE ABSOLUTE best voice for Scrooge ever! Perfect! Wow.
I am eating a bowl of Campbell's cream of chicken soup and listening to the video. I think Mr. Barrymore was the perfect voice for Ebenezer Scrooge. Thanks for the video. Ron from Melbourne FL.
Mmm mmm GOOD!
Enjoying my favorite Christmas Story on this beautiful Christmas Day!! God Bless everyone ❤️❤️
We love making a fire in the fireplace and a warm cup of cider with brandy and listening to the classic.
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
I learned only recently that Lionel Barrymore's performance in "A Christmas Carol" was an annual radio tradition, and now I understand why. He's fantastic! -- better than any Scrooge I ever saw, and I've seen many. Barrymore's, of course, I can only hear, yet I picture him perfectly. Surely Frank Capra had this Scrooge in mind when he was casting Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life."
I know what you mean, but I like the Alastair Sim version the best. That's probably just because I grew up watching it yearly. A Christmas Carol is my favorite work of fiction
Loved this! Merry Christmas! God bless us everyone....
love Christmas Carol, its a classic!!!
Thank you for being on here, my tradition the past few years
I just found this & intend to make it my Christmas eve tradition...
Dickens was a genius.
This spirit is all but gone now.
Merry Christmas to those who will accept it.
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you, too.
wonderful loved the radio shows it would not be Christmas without A Christmas carol
No special effects, no sets, no visualization at all, all the performers had was sound to convey the story and how magnificently they succeeded, thank you for sharing for my generation to listed to and imagine how it must have been to so authentically celebrate the holiday.
What a Christmas treat to find.
Listened to it on tape every yr growing up in the '80s.
Not sure where my parents bought the cassett but we had it.
That's what I'm doing now! It's Christmas Eve.....very, very late and I'm listening to this with my headphones on in bed tonight! Thanks so much.
Christmas Eve now 2018 and I am listening. Happy holidays to everyone!
@@jeremybear573 cheers! 🎄
20 days to Christmas 2020
Melanie Brandt me too on7th December 2020
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Well, Jack why on the particular date of December 7th?
Hello. Greetings from Ireland, @11am, Wednesday, the 19th of October 2020. 🧡🇮🇪💚
They definitely played the Lionel Barrymore version into the 1970's. We went to my grandmother's house on Christmas Eve and I remember waiting in the car(I was so excited about Christmas) for about a half hour before we were to leave. I listened to Lionel Barrymore doing this and I was taken to that time and place. It was such an incredible version that stirred my imagination. I love listening to this. Merry Christmas to all, especially to the dreamers out there.
This is priceless! Several years ago we started a Christmas tradition of gathering the family and friends, turning off the lights with the exception of candles and the Christmas Tree and playing this version early in the Holiday Season. It has become one of our favorite and most looked forward to traditions! God Bless Us Everyone!
Listening to this wonderful play on my birthday with my favorite cat.
Merry Christmas 2023! 🎄🎄🎁🎁
I was Production Director at an Oldies station in Tampa Bay many years ago. Our Operations Manager--a complete lunatic--gave me a copy of this production and said he wanted to air it on Christmas Eve. "Great. It's a classic! People will love it!" As it happened, he meant that I should remake the entire thing. Rewrite the script, get the DJ's to play the various roles, add all the music and special effects, etc, then mix the thing down for broadcast. I'll say only that we didn't humiliate ourselves too badly. But our version was recorded piecemeal over a couple weeks--I could grab people when they were free to record a line or a part or whatever. I had an incredible production music library, and 24 CD's with sound effects recorded by Hollywood pros. Also, I had two reel-to-reel tape machines, and put it together on an Otari eight-track recorder (Sergeant Pepper's was recorded on a four-track). My point is this: I had all this widgetry to use, and theirs was fifty bajillion times better doing everything LIVE--live orchestra in the studio, choirs, all the actors, the special effects and foley people? Everyone. One swing at it, and they parked it. Having done a half-ass remake of this masterpiece made me appreciate just how bloody brilliant this is. *raises glass of Paul Masson to Orson Welles*
"a complete lunatic" LOL how some people get to be in charge of things is beyond me. . .
Tom Sanchez Wow! Thank you, for your wonderful comment! 😀
Tom Sanchez l had a glass of Paul Masson to raise to you!!!!
Great story! Merry Christmas!
May you fall in love with GOD! 💕
Thank you Sir Barrymore and Mr. Orson Welles! And a Merry Christmas to One and All!
My grandfather, Florence Christ Potts, son of German immigrants, born at the turn of the century, with only basic education, was one of the early electronics cowboys. He worked at Doubleday Hill in Pittsburgh, makers of electric dynamos and other modern wonders, and they communicated by means of ham radio with their sister store in Washington DC. Grandad and his whiz kid partner set up a broadcast studio as everyone was purchasing home radios, with nothing yet to listen to. With much experimentation and learning from errors, such as blowing out the entire set up by leaning against it in shirts soaked with perspiration during a summer heat wave, they started broadcasting before their charter arrived, two hours every evening of a woman playing the piano. KQV radio began with only Florence's ham radio license as authorization. KDKA received their charter first, but by that time KQV had been broadcasting for some time. No one came to shut them down, as the mayor and others listened, and the eventual chief of police was grandad's father in law. Wires strung across Fifth Ave. were ignored. Improvements thought of overnight often resulted in tearing down the broadcast booth in the morning and rebuilding it in time for the evening program. Grandad was invited to join a new venture as head of R and D, at a lower wage but with a block of stock, a risk he felt he couldn't afford to take with a wife, two children and widowed mother in law depending on him. Motorola would have been a great adventure for him, but he was always glad to be employed and that he "hadn't had to take a job digging ditches ". He developed tech in television and early computers, which he told me took up whole floors of buildings. I always thought he'd have been a great partner for Tesla, brilliant, positive, very humble....perhaps they hang out now. Grandad died in 1973, when miniaturization was creating things like handheld calculators. What a wonderful human being he was. I hope to see him again and learn more about what he felt and dreamt of. A very happy new year to all.
I've never heard this broadcast but like to imagine my grandparents, family and friends listening to it on the old Bakelite radio that played every Pirates baseball game, with the wonderful Bob Prince describing the plays. So many hours spent leaning a little towards whatever played. Radio gave so much to us. I'm grateful.
Really enjoyed this version, awesome upload. Thank you. 😊
It's awesome right!!! I remember listening to Paul Harvey with my Grandpa. I love radio programs! Merry Christmas!
I had this on Cassette tape and i lost it many years ago but i so glad i found this on TH-cam..i loved listening to this in my bed with the lights out near Christmas Time..Thanks for posting
Me too! I'm just about to start listening by candlelight with a glass of mulled wine - perfect for a cold winter night......
Every Christmas eve we gather around the tv to watch Allistor perform. I only wish this was the tradition.
I work in radio...I love this. Been playing old radio Christmas shows the past two weeks.
This is such a wonderful treasure. At this stage of my life I long for the simpler time particularly during the holidays.
Time Machine back to the best generation for Christmas. Thank you.
Just listened again this year, watching the fireplace cuddled up with the pup and wife. Merry Christmas everyone!
Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge is perfect casting!
How wonderful to listen to this Theatre of the Imagination 1939 version once again that has been so well preserved to this day.. As alive and fresh today in 2020 as it was those many years ago!
It is amazing to listen to this and imagine the world almost 100 years ago.
I can't tell you "Campbell Soup Co" what a thrill it is to listen this iconic reading of "A Christmas Carol" even though I'm typing on this modern "thing" I am and always have been a student of great history and honest believe that I would have been very happy in the 19th century when Dickens wrote this novella .Some people look to the future for wisdom...I look to the past and wish I could have been in that listening public who heard this first reading
norm lor Me too, I always felt I was meant for a different time, things were so different, better, I envy those who were young when this aired on the radio, before all this technology. I’m enjoying this so so much. Merry Christmas to you.
I was ayheustGOD saved me on Christmas Eve! GLORY!
I woke up Born Again on Christmas Morning in 1972! ALLELUIA! 💕
You would have been happy living in poverty like the Cratchit family - or worse, been thrown into the debtor's prison or the workhouses?
Poverty and prisons still exist.
Joy to discover this Christmas Eve 2022
Merry Christmas
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
What's fascinating is to hear reflected in the portrayal Scrooge, Lionel Barrymore's future portrayal of mr. Potter.
I first listened to this with my late husband while driving from Toronto to London Ontario to surprise his not and family. It was Christmas 1987 and we lived in Calgary. Thankfully the roads were clear. We had told the family that we were going to the Chateaux Lake Louise. It was a lovely time.
Thanks for posting this Lionel Barrymore version of A Christmas Carol. Thanks to Campell Soup Co. This recording is much before my time; however my parents were teenagers then. Found this by looking for It's A Wonderful Life which Lionel acted as well. Thanks also for salute to our veterans - my family also has a rich military service dating way back to present. Semper Fidelis ! USMC '75 - '81 GOD bless !
This is Awesome to start Off Christmas In July.
We listen to this every Christmas time over and over! Love it!!!!!
Thank you for posting this. Merry Christmas too !
This radio drama has been an important Christmas tradition to me .I first heard it in the 1950's.It was played by one of our radio stations each Christmas Eve ,in the pre tv days. Later,when I became a teacher,I would read this story to the children each Christmas.I wanted to pass this wonderful story on to them.as it is a timeless tale.It always amazed me that the children in my class would be enthralled - even though I was reading a story written in 1843.Thank you for posting this,as it is important to keep such priceless Christmas treasures alive.
This broadcast can be found at the museum of broadcasting
America once a great country. Wishing you a Merry Christmas while we are still allowed.
Like Ireland once was bob...played this for my children chistmas eve fantasic story amazing production Merry Christmas
This is perfect to listen to in the dark with a glass of port and a smoke! :-)))
Norman Bates Cognac with a good cigar it’s better 🎄
The New Wine is soooo much better! We'll have comfort and joy ETERNALLY by receiving JESUS as our LORD SAVIOUR AMEN!
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There will NO smoking in God's Holy Kingdom!
@@SOULRELIEF22 Stop being a killjoy. There *will* be smoking (of a sort) in heaven, and drinking too!
Revelation 8:3-4 "Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. *And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.*"
John 2:10 "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now."
1 Timothy 5:23 "No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments."
Luke 7:33-34 "For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!"
Psalm 104:14-15 "You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use, to bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the human heart."
Et cetera...praised be Jesus Christ!
@@SOULRELIEF22 who said he was going in that direction?
My family and I would listen to this broadcast every Christmas Eve.
What a delight!
Am happy to listen to any version but Orson what a voice m
There's something warm and magickal about this story and this radio version...it uplift the soul.. many thanks for posting this...and to anyone reading this have a great Xmas wherever you are on this globe..from the u.k...GAV
Merry Christmas from the U S of A!
God bless us..Everyone..🙏
This was lovely. Thank you 🎄♥️
Thanks for making my Christmas Eve. I love this recording.
Grew up listening to the record of this. My Dad bought it the first Christmas he and my Mom were married. Over the years the record became scratchy---but we didn't mind. So glad I found this-record safely packed away!!!!
Winter nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/w-d-xo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on TH-cam.
So happy someone uploaded this to TH-cam, it’s been a Christmas Eve tradition of mine for many years between the radio and here. God bless us every one!!!!
Listen to this every Christmas
The incomparable Lionel Barrymore.
Classic Story portrayed by a Classic Cast. Lionel Barrymore is perfect as
Scrooge, Orsen Welles as narrator. Radio dramas are a lost art . Lets
go into the parlor and listen with the rest of the family to this one hour
1935 production,
The 1935 production was a half-hour edition.....and apparently doesn't exist.
+Bob Winchester Hi - go to BBC 4extra radio drama - there's lots of them and NO commercials - lot of great radio - some are awful - many are very enjoyable and good radio :} lots are right here on UTube, also. . .
I wonder what Lionel is to Drew?Grand dad?
John Barrymore was Drew's Grandfather and Lionel and Ethel were her great Aunt and Uncle.
Always have watched Lionel Barrymore movies but it's just as special hearing his wonderful voice 💙🌟
I love this...so heartwarming....thankyou
Orson had some voice on him a truly great actor and one of life's characters that the world now is sadly lacking 🍷🎤🎬
Ironically Barrymore plays Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life". Basically the same character, except he never learned his lesson. ;)
"I.A.W.L." is the mirror image of "A Christmas Carol", told from the Bob Cratchit point of view. Capra was a genius. Both stories are timeless.
Then it's not ironic.
B
25 Dec. 2021
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!
From a British living in Italy!
Merry Christmas from the United States. I was thinking that no one might read my well wishes.
I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing this! ❤️
I love Lionel Barrymore. ✨💚💜💙✨
Old time radio helps you to use your imagination to picture what you see instead of the TV bringing out what they want you to see. The version of a Christmas Carol is more special than the TV versions.
Thanks for uploading this - I think its still one of the very best versions out there!
I have it on a CD..a gift from 2 years ago. A treasure indeed.
I totally enjoyed hearing the entire broadcast created before I was born. Thank you.
My favorite audio version; Barrymore is the ultimate Scrooge. It's like he's in the room with you.
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Thank you so much for posting this. I first heard it on radio back on Dec. 24th, 1987 with my brother on our way back home to Pittsburgh in a horrible winter storm from a job we just finished at Canaan Valley Ski Resort. I have been in love with this recording ever since.
This is the best,Ive been looking for this for years.Thank you and Merry Christmas!!