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Vintage songs, not vintage values

[radyo-ko]

Howdy folks, and welcome - radyo ko to! (This is my radio!)

And now a few words on your host: Surprise! There's actually two of us in the booth!

This blog is co-run by @an-honest-puck (day ☀️) and @aielylois (aiely 🪐)

We both use they/them pronouns

We both adore Donald O'Connor and Ella Fitzgerald - they're who we bonded over in the first place!

We answer to Radio or Radyo (Radyo is radio in Filipino)

Here's a quick guide to the programme:

#radio chatter - Where we yap about some famous folks from the Golden Days of Hollywood. Or jazz. Depends really lol

#currently listening to - A collection of our favourite tracks

The Line-Up - Something of a directory to showcase the famous folks that grace the airwaves (i.e., the folks we reblog/chat about lol)

However you found yourself here, thanks for tuning in and hope you enjoy the show! :D

[weeguttersnipe]

Singin’ in the Rain (English, 1952)

[busterkeatonsociety]

#WIPWednesday En Garde! Donald O’Connor trains with Buster Keaton in preparation for “The Buster Keaton Story,” 1957. Note the guy in back cleaning up what looks like a crime scene!

[prettynerdieworks]

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN 1952 | Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

[ladybegood]

Donald O’Connor and Buster Keaton on the set of The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

[missanthropicprinciple]

Kenneth Gibson being a mood.

[davidhudson]

Donald O’Connor, August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003.

[radyo-ko]

Do you tap dance?

Alas, neither of the mods are tap dancers :')

I have maybe 2 months experience of learning a tap routine, but it never really felt like learning to actually tap dance. It just felt like learning a routine, which wasn't the experience I wanted :(( - day☀️

I want to try a tap class, but it's so hard to find a good studio where I am :') - aiely🪐

[citizenscreen]

Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O’Connor doing a photo shoot for ANYTHING GOES at Paramount in 1955.

[ulrichgebert]

Dann brauchten wir aber auch wirklich mal wieder eine große, bunte, total eskapistische Musikkomödie mit Gesang und Tanz (im Regen) und Modenschau. Wir haben jetzt auch endlich Rita Moreno geortet.

[busterkeatonsociety]

#WIPWednesday Buster Keaton and Donald O’Connor on the set of “The Buster Keaton Story,” 1957.

[bkthegreatstoneface]

Donald O’Connor & mentor for ‘The Buster Keaton Story’ get in training in matching track suits ;)

Life Magazine, May 6th 1957 - Old Comic & Pupil; How to Play Buster by Buster in Person

[mostlydaydreaming]

“Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) LP

[crushondonald]

DONALD O'CONNOR, ca. 1943

[hiawathab]

My favorite hoofer, Donald O’Connor, cuttin’ up.

[janejocaro]

LMAO 🤣 so sweet!

[mydailyvintagephotos]

Vintage Dancers

Fred Astaire

Adele Astaire,

Rita Hayworth,

Gene Kelly

Ginger Rogers.

Donald O’Connor

Eartha Kitt

Gene Kelly

Cyd Charisse