Aretha Franklin, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Little Richard
First becoming mainstream in the early 1930s, radio dominated American culture from the ’30s through the early’60s, before being eclipsed by television. From New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia reading the Sunday “funnies” (comics) on air, to ground-breaking genre shows including The Shadow, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos and Andy, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and the like, families across the nation gathered in front of old vacuum-tube radio sets every evening for decades. Radio was the proving ground for modern mass media and comedy, with Edward Murrow reporting from wartime London and Jack Benny and Fred Allen, among others, creating new comedy styles that would soon migrate to the small screen.
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