First Tune - The Old Wishing Well: Red Horse Ranch

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“First Tune - The Old Wishing Well” is an episode of Red Horse Ranch, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Alabam and the Red Horse Ranch hands set out to find a hidden fortune. Alabam has discovered that invisible writing on a map, revealed by holding a match beneath it, hints at a lookout point about four miles above the town of Roaring River. Rose and Dad Carter agree to spare the boys for a few days, and the group, including Dewey, Cheyenne, Emma Bann, Bob and Cookie, rides off down the trail to search. The episode follows the start of their journey.

Red Horse Ranch, and the trail toward the town of Roaring River

Characters: Alabam, Rose, Dad Carter, Dewey, Cheyenne, Emma Bann, Bob, Cookie

Listen for: The clue on the map: the other half is an Indian mound, and the lookout point is about four miles above Roaring River.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.