Radio Hour News

April 19, 2026

Recently, reader Ken Jacowitz alerted me to the fact that National Lampoon Radio Hour shows are available on Apple Music. I discovered they were also available on Spotify and Amazon Music. (“Chevy Chase” is listed as “artist,” but I seriously doubt Chevy had anything to do with uploading these to the services. The label listed is Solaris Entertainment, whatever that is.)

At first we both assumed it was all the shows. I thought it would be great to link to the shows in the NLHR listings on my site. Unfortunately, when I finally sat down to do that, I discovered that not only are many shows missing, many are mis-numbered or duplicates under different (incorrect) show numbers. Still others seem to be random bits from different shows in arbitrary order, not an actually broadcast show. It was almost impossible to match up what’s on the streaming serves with my listings. So I gave up.

The good new is, yes, you can listen to a lot of NLRH shows on your favorite streaming service, and they have even compiled a few “best of” “albums”—basically collections of some of the best bits from the run of the show. But what you get when you hit the play button is a bit unpredictable, and not all shows are available. The quality is mostly okay, but not pristine. A few are almost unlistenable. I’m not sure how the audio was sourced, but I’m guessing not from the original reel-to-reel tapes sent out to stations. Still, better than nothing.

In related news, I’ve added links on the Radio Show listings pages to another online repository, RadioEchoes.com, which hosts nearly all the shows. The quality is marginal, but the collection is almost complete (a handful of shows are missing), which is more than can be said about the random collection available from the streaming services.

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