Jerry At Fair Oaks - weekly


(4 stars; 2 reviews)

These are the same episodes as Jerry At Fair Oaks, but packaged in five-per-week files with the lengthy opening and closing music removed for ease of listening. NOTE: These are MP4 (AAC .m4a) files with chapter divisions and may not be able to stream online. You may have to download them to listen.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Response to AncientAxim


(4 stars)

There are several reasons why I cut out the music and posted them: 1. I had originally made the files just for my own personal use and never intended to make them public. But someone on Facebook's Old Time Radio Lovers group asked me to post them, so I did. 2. The music is the SAME music over and over again for a minute-and-a-half at the beginning and again at the end. This means that it's easy to get tired of, and if you're listening on an iPod or other media player, you have to reach for it and skip over it. My way makes it easier to listen to in that regard. 3. This music was never intended to be listened to. The programs were syndicated and the music bed was provided so that local announcers could read their local advertisements over the music. 4. No one is forcing you to listen to my versions of these programs. You are perfectly free to take them or leave them. If you want to listen to the same music over and over and over again for each episode, then go right ahead and download the programs individually from another provider. 5. I have not cut out any of the story or exposition — music ONLY!

Opening And Closing Music


(0 stars)

If you want to listen to the daily shows with the opening and closing music intact, the OTRR group has uploaded those. They can be found at this page (you'll have to copy and paste the link into your browser's address bar): https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Jerry_at_Fair_Oaks_Singles If you want to download all 65 daily shows in a single zip file, visit this page: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Jerry_at_Fair_Oaks You should know, however, that those are fifteen minute shows with roughly ninety seconds of opening music and two minutes of closing music (almost a quarter of the show is the music). If you're going to listen to a lot of episodes back-to-back, it could get quite tedious, and you may end up back here thanking PeterDM for uploading these files.

They do stream online just fine


(4 stars)

the way archive dot org compiles files or whatever the proper term is, they figure it all out so it can be listened to by everyone. I am listening to it via mp3 stream courtesy the page. I removed one star from a possible five, for the removal of the music! Why would anyone remove any part of the broadcast? It does not make "listening easier", all it is doing is removing part of the program.