Hit songs in 1928 

Vaughn De Leath

My Blue Heaven (listen ) Vaughn De Leath Vaughn De Leath was a famous female radio jazz singer who gained popularity in the 1920s and became known as "The Original Radio Girl" and "First Lady of RadioOne of her songs was "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", recorded in 1927 and later recorded by Elvis Presley in 1960. Although popular in the 1920s, De Leath is little known today.

 Irving Mills & His Hotsy Totsy Gang - Diga Diga Doo

Abe Lyman's Sharps and Flats

Bascom Lamar Lunsford-I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground

Sam Lanin as Radiolites,Thats My Mammy

Sid Roy , I Can't Give you anything but Love

"Basin Street Blues" Louis Armstrong Dixieland recording

"She's Funny That Way"
"Tight Like That"
"How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr)
"West End Blues"Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" (Cole Porter)

Popular Radio Programs of 1928 

 Two Black Crows  Comedy

Radio program for WAAM, Newark, New Jersey 1928

Amos and Andy

Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden(Amos) and Charles Correll(Andy) and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois. After the series was first broadcast in 1928, it grew in popularity and became a huge influence on the radio serials that followed

The Guy Lombardo Show

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

The Voice of Firestone

 1928 Kinogram Newsreal

 Featuring Jack Dempsey, a balloon race, women dancing in chilly breezes, a juggler, and opium being confiscated and burned in Shanghai.

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