Some were not even paid Ted Robertson began at WXYZ inĭetroit (home of The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, etc.) as an unpaid sound man and worked for several months with no salary. A few others played percussive instruments in a band and they were used to producing a variety of unusual sounds on cue.īut most of them had neither experience nor training they wereĭesignated to be the sound man because they were the junior man on the Some had backstage theater experience where they had shaken a metal sheet to replicate thunder or slapped one board against another to create gunshots. The first sound men, of course, had no training. Necessary to create better sound effects. Only when the drama shows began pushing out the "free talent" was it Poetry readers, singers, and preachers, nearly all of whom were unpaid. The early days, radio stations filled their air time with orchestra music, Realism was neither expected nor obtained through these efforts. Shots could be either a dowel hitting a leather couch or a drumstick A wooden match stickĬould be snapped near the mike to simulate a baseball hitting a bat.
Piano might be dropped to imitate a door closing. Who was available could supply a make-shift sound effect. Unsophisticated, and often not very convincing. The few sound effects used in the early days were simple, Was primarily a military communication tool into a vast system of popular In its infancy, radio then was evolving from what Sound effects in radio broadcasting did not leap full-grown into this Old-Time Radio Sound Effects Sound Effects by Jack French © 1997
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