JN144 - JN 151: Nelson Eddy Old Gold complete radio series!

This is a special package price for ordering all 8 Volumes of Nelson Eddy on the Old Gold radio show - the entire series! You get 223 songs and hear the entire range of Nelson's talents - he sings opera, gospel, movie songs and duets (with Nadine Conner), patriotic, holiday, popular, religious... and Shortnin' Bread! Many of these numbers were never commercially recorded by Nelson, so are otherwise not available. Note: With this package price you are saving about $60!

The Old Gold Radio Show was a half-hour show broadcast on Wednesdays from April 1942 through January 1943. Nelson's co-star (though not in every episode) was soprano Nadine Conner. Nelson received $3500 salary/week for this show - he originally requested it be paid to him in cigarettes so he could donate it to the WWII soldiers! (By today's dollars, that's like $50,000 a week salary for a half-hour show!) Note: each show contains all of Nelson's songs and duets with Nadine Conner, but not any discussion between numbers. The Old Gold series is complete in 8 volumes, JN 144 through JN 151. Note: the photo shows only 1 album cover but you will get all 8 CDs.

Note: If you would like to purchase single albums, please click on the "Volume" links for each title below.

VOLUME 1

April 29, 1942 – Opening Show

1. I Have Brought a Song (opening theme for the show)
2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
3. The Rosary
4. When I Was a Lad (from HMS Pinafore)
5. At Night (Rachmaninoff)
6. I Married an Angel
7. Star Spangled Banner

May 6, 1942

1. The Ranger’s Song (from Rio Rita)
2. Thy Beaming Eyes
3. Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
4. Canadian Logging Song
5. The Hills of Home
6. Anchors Aweigh

May 13, 1942

1. Regimental Song
2. None But the Lonely Heart
3. Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare (from Iolanthe)
4. Because – with Nadine Conner
5. You are Free – with Nadine Conner

May 20, 1942 

1. Ride, Cossack, Ride (from Balalaika)
2. Danny Boy
3. The Cork Leg
4. Make Believe (from Show Boat, with Nadine Conner)
5. Deep River
6. My Own United States 

May 27, 1942

1. Your Land and My Land
2. Kashmiri Song
3. I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ (from Porgy and Bess)
4. Thine Alone – with Nadine Conner
5. Tomorrow

VOLUME 2

June 3, 1942

1. There’s Something About a Soldier
2. A Brown Bird Singing
3. Hopak
4. Home on the Range
5. I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star (with Nadine Conner)
6. How Do I Love Thee?

June 10, 1942

1. Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
2. Oh, That It Were So
3. Cholomondeley Fair
4. La Ci Darem La Mano (from Don Giovanni, with Nadine Conner)
5. Marine’s Hymn

June 17, 1942

1. West Point Song
2. Oh, Promise Me
3. Modern Major General (from Pirates of Penzance)
4. Sylvia
5. Why Do I Love You? (from Show Boat, with Nadine Conner)
6. America the Beautiful

June 24, 1942

1. Stouthearted Men (from New Moon)
2. At the Balalaika (from Balalaika)
3. You Are So Young
4. Sailormen
5. Duet from Thais (with Nadine Conner)
6. Army Air Corps Song 

July 1, 1942

1. You’re a Grand Old Flag
2. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
3. Back to Donegal
4. Do Not Weep my Child (from The Demon)
5. Song of Love (from Blossom Time, with Nadine Conner)
6. Star Spangled Banner
   

VOLUME 3

July 8, 1942

1. The Caissons Go Rolling Along
2. ’Neath the Southern Moon (from Naughty Marietta)
3. Rosalie (from Rosalie)
4. Red Rosey Bush
5. Bacarolle (from Tales of Hoffman, with Nadine Conner)
6. The Lord’s Prayer

 July 15, 1942

1. On Parade (from Sweethearts)
2. Cargoes
3. Song of the Flea
4. I Heard a Forest Praying
5. My Heart Stood Still (with Nadine Conner)
6. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

 July 22, 1942

1. The Riff Song (from The Desert Song)
2. Through the Years
3. Au Pays
4. Ole Faithful
5. None Shall Part Us (with Nadine Conner)
6. Onward Christian Soldiers

July 29, 1942

1. O, Listen to the Band
2. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
3. All is Well
4. Shortnin’ Bread
5. Will You Remember (from Maytime, with Nadine Conner)
6. Where Else But Here? (from Let Freedom Ring)

August 5, 1942

1. Song of the Flame
2. I Love You Truly
3. The Blind Ploughman
4. Shadrack
5. Indian Love Call (from Rose Marie, with Nadine Conner)
6. Marching Along Together
   

VOLUME 4

August 12, 1942

1. Waltzing Matilda
2. Trade Winds
3. A Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One
4. Gypsy Love Song
5. Bess, You is My Woman (from Porgy and Bess, with Nadine Connor)
6. Battle Hymn of the Republic

August 19, 1942

1. Drums in My Heart
2. At Dawning
3. Ballad of Queen Mab (from Berlioz Romeo and Juliet)
4. The Song is You
5. Love Me Tonight (from Love Me Tonight, with Nadine Conner)
6. Roadways 

August 26, 1942

1. Only My Song (Old Gold Theme Song)
2. Water Boy
3. Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies
4. Child’s Evening Prayer (Mussorgsky)
5. I’ll See You Again (from Bitter Sweet, with Nadine Conner)
6. For the Flag, For the Home, For the Family

September 2, 1942

1. The Mounties (from Rose Marie)
2. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
3. Tatiana (from Eugene Onegin)
4. Owl and the Bobcat (from Naughty Marietta)
5. Give Me One Hour (with Nadine Conner)
6. When Johnny Comes Marching Home

September 9, 1942

1. Song of the Musketeers
2. Loch Lomond
3. My Name is John Wellington Wells
4. Song of the Volga Boatman
5. Sweethearts (from Sweethearts, with Nadine Conner)
6. Americans Are We
   

VOLUME 5 

September 16, 1942

1. Flying Down to Rio
2. Sweet Song of Long Ago
3. Tommy, Lad!
4. Wanting You (from New Moon, with Nadine Conner)
5. United Nations March

September 23, 1942

1. Great Day
2. I See Your Face Before Me
3. Duna
4. Danse Macabre
5. My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier, with Nadine Conner)
6. Invictus

September 30, 1942

1. My Friend and I
2. I Sent You Red Roses
3. Little Grey Home in the West (from Sweethearts)
   
4. Captain Stratton’s Fancy
5. The Bombardier’s Song

October 7, 1942

1. Crown of the Year
2. I’ll Walk Beside You
3. With a Song in My Heart
4. Tower of Babel
5. Who Can Tell? (from Apple Blossoms, with Nadine Conner)
6. Strike Up the Band

October 14, 1942

1. The One Girl That I Love
2. You and the Night and the Music
3. The Wreck of the “Julie Plante”
4. O, Lovely Night ( from Tales of Hoffman)
5. The Magic of Your Love (from Balalaika, with Nadine Conner)
6. America, Today
   

VOLUME 6

October 21, 1942

1. I Love a Parade
2. All the Things You Are
3. A Private Buffoon (from Yeomen of the Guard)
4. The Keys of Heaven (with Nadine Conner)
5. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

October 28, 1942

1. Rain or Shine
2. Wedding of Miss Duck
3. In the Still of the Night (from Rosalie)
4. Brown October Ale
5. Silver Moon (with Nadine Conner)
6. The Americans Come

November 4, 1942

1. Soldiers of Fortune (from The Girl of the Golden West)
2. When I’m Looking at You
3. Route Marchin’
4. Lover, Come Back to Me (from New Moon, with Nadine Conner)

November 11, 1942

1. Little Work-a-Day World (from I Married an Angel)
2. When Day is Done
3. Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride
4. De Hallelujah Rhythm
5. The Desert Song (with Nadine Conner)
6. O, Say Have You Seen Your America?

November 18, 1942

1. Semper Paratus
2. Goin’ Home
3. By the Walls of Kazan (from Boris Godunov)
4. That Would Most Lovely Be (with Nadine Conner)

 
VOLUME 7

November 25, 1942

1. Upon Our Wings
2. I Saw You There in the Moonlight
3. Prayer of Thanksgiving
4. Being the Beuine
5. Frog Went a Courtin’
6. American Prayer

December 2, 1942 

1. You’re Just a Wild Rose
2. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (from New Moon)
3. Go Down, Moses
4. Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
5. No, No, Don’t Do That
6. Soldiers’ Chorus (from Faust)

December 9, 1942

1. Song of the Open road
2. Mah Lindy Lou
3. Sandy River
4. Tit-Willow (from The Mikado)
5. Thingumabobs
6. America United

December 16, 1942

1. Little Girls, Goodbye (from The Merry Widow)
2. Love’s Old Sweet Song
3. Gwine ta Hebbin’
4. Without a Song
5. United Nations March 
   

VOLUME 8

December 23, 1942

1. Hold Your Hats On
2. I’m Falling in Love With Someone (from Naughty Marietta)
3. The Sleigh
4. The Old Witch in the Forest (from Hansel and Gretl)
5. Medley: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O, Gathering Clouds, Silent Night, Hallelujah Chorus

December 30, 1942 

1. Deck the Halls
2. The Old Refrain
3. At the Balalaika (from Balalaika)
4. The Bell ringers of St. Peter’s
5. Now Heaven in Fullest Glory Shown 

January 6, 1943

1. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (from Naughty Marietta)
2. A Dream
3. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin (from Porgy and Bess)
4. I Heard a Forest Praying
5. Thingumabobs
6. Americans are We

January 13, 1943

1. The Rangers’ Song
2. Trees
3. My Heart’s in the Highlands
4. Back to Donegal
5. Smilin’ Through
6. Army Air Corps

January 20, 1943

1. Strike Up the Band
2. All the Things You Are
3. I am the Monarch of the Sea (from HMS Pinafore)
4. When I was a Lad (from HMS Pinafore)
5. Rose Marie
6. God of Our Fathers

 Due to the age and scarcity of the original recordings, sound quality on this album may not be up to today's standards.