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- Jonathan Goldstein
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- "Sounds Like Yesterday"
- Summary: Gene Leitner remembers (and relives) the Golden Age of radio every day of his life.
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Review of Sounds Like Yesterday
Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on January 30, 2005 at 02:08 PM
This is a completely charming piece that, more than just being a valentine to the great old radio days, is also a portrait of sixtiesish/seventiesish yearning, a tribute to the power of imagination, as well as a celebration of the magic that happens when a group of like-minded, similarly passioned individuals find each other. So much takes place within these thirteen minutes… you even get a behind the scenes look at how radio sound effects are done. As someone in the story says, when you listened to the old radio shows, you didn’t see what everyone else saw. The selection of old radio clips is great, too. What talent these actors had. The whole thing is a warm, deserving tribute to the beauty of the medium… and as such, it could probably play nicely as a part of a radio pledge drive.