Radio Days (1987)

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

The movie Radio Days, released in 1987, features 45 songs from artists like Harry James, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller on radio and Larry Clinton on radio. What is your favorite song from Radio Days?

Songs from Radio Days

Auld Lang Syne

You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (1932)

The Sailor's Hornpipe

Dancing in the Dark (1931)

Begin the Beguine (1935)

Chinatown, My Chinatown (1906)

Night and Day (1932)

You'll Never Know (1943)

Just One of Those Things (1935)

The Flight of the Bumblebee (1899-1900)

Harry James

Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing (1932)

September Song (1944)

Body and Soul (1930)

Benny Goodman

In the Mood (1939)

Glenn Miller on radio

Radio Show Themes (1987)

I Double Dare You (1937)

Larry Clinton on radio

La Cumparsita (1916)

The Castilians on car radio at Breezy Point

Carioca (1933)

Tico Tico (1942)

Denise Dumont with Tito Puente and His Band

Opus One (1943)

Tommy Dorsey on radio

Frenesi (1939)

Artie Shaw on radio

All or Nothing at All (1940)

The Donkey Serenade (1923)

Allan Jones on radio

You and I (1941)

Tommy Dorsey

Paper Doll (1915)

The Mills Brothers on radio

Pistol Packin' Mama (1943)

Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters

South American Way (1939)

Carmen Miranda on radio as Ruthie imitates her

Mairzy Doats (1943)

The Merry Macs on radio

If You Are But a Dream (1941)

Frank Sinatra as background during the Radio City Music Hall scene

If I Didn't Care (1939)

The Ink Spots as background in a nightclub

Schloff mein Kind

Emil Decameron as background when Sally first gets on radio

I Don't Want to Walk Without You (1941)

Mia Farrow at a USO show

Remember Pearl Harbor (1941)

Sammy Kaye as background after the Pearl Harbor bombing

Babalu (1941)

Xavier Cugat with Richard Hayes

They're Either Too Young or Too Old (1943)

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

That Old Feeling (1937)

Guy Lombardo on radio

Re-Lax Jingle (1987)

Mia Farrow for a radio ad

(There'll Be Blue Birds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover (1941)

Glenn Miller on radio

Goodbye (1934)

Benny Goodman on radio

I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (1932)

Tommy Dorsey on radio

Lullaby of Broadway (1934)

Richard Himber on radio

American Patrol (1891)

Glenn Miller on radio

Take the 'A' Train (1941)

Duke Ellington

One, Two, Three, Kick (1933-42)

Xavier Cugat on radio

You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (1943)

Diane Keaton at a nightclub