Pat O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys
Texas stations
Texas stations · 1930–1955
Broadcasts
16
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1930
The run
- Network
- Texas stations
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- music
Flour salesman, bandleader, and later governor of Texas — the campaign and the string band were the same broadcast. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 21 Apr 2026
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 28 Apr 2026
- 3. Sign Off · 5 May 2026
- 01
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 28 min
- 02
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 43 min
- 03
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 58 min
- 04
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 21 min
- 05
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 36 min
- 06
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 51 min
- 07
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 14 min
- 08
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 29 min
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