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BIG TOWN "Deadline at Dawn"

11 Mar 2022

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This episode aired December 14, 1948 on NBC Radio. A protection mob is moving into the produce markets of Big Town. Steve Wilson pays a call on "Lard"...

BIG BAND REMOTES 08

11 Mar 2022

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Episode 8 of our Big Band Remotes features radio broadcasts by the bands of BENNY GOODMAN, GLENN MILLER, FREDDY NAGLE, ANSON WEEKS, COUNT BASIE, ARTIE...

KARL HAAS "Pathetique"

10 Mar 2022

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Adventures In Good Music

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Out of Fire Into Pan"

10 Mar 2022

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This episode stars Charles Russell. It aired on CBS Radio August 21, 1949. 

THE WHISTLER "Death Pays a Visit"

10 Mar 2022

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Episode 159 aired on CBS Radio June 11, 1945. Jack Crowley needs $10,000 fast to cover the shortage in his accounts at the bank. Along comes laughing ...

VINTAGE RADIO "From the Late Night Lounge"

10 Mar 2022

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Jason Remington repeats his Little Orphan Archie show with Lenny the Cabby, some vintage pop songs and comedy from Bob and Ray.

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Blind Justice"

09 Mar 2022

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Aired March 11, 1951 on NBC Radio. It is 5:45 am, March 6, 1940, and Pete Salverson, owner of the roadside café in West Texas, is opening for busines...

SUSPENSE "Dunwich Horror"

08 Mar 2022

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This episode is from an AFRTS Transcription. The original program aired on CBS Radio November 1, 1945 as episode 165. Starring Ronald Colman.

STAN FREBERG "St George and the Dragonet"

04 Mar 2022

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"St. George and the Dragonet " is a short audio satire recorded August 26, 1953 by Stan Freberg for Capitol Records. It was released September 21, 195...

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Lassie"

04 Mar 2022

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This episode (22) aired May 28, 1949 with guest a dog known in motion pictures as 'Lassie'.

SIX SHOOTER "Anna Norquest"

04 Mar 2022

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A mail-order bride from Sweden who arrives to find her pen-pal groom about to be hanged for murder.  James Stewart, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff...

SAM SPADE "Convertable Caper"

04 Mar 2022

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Episode 38 Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade aired June 15, 1947 on NBC Radio. The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on...

THE SAINT "Prove I Did It"

04 Mar 2022

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November 7, 1949. Vincent Price as The Saint would rather toss off a witty remark than engage in fisticuffs, but his suave charm nets as many pretty g...

FATHER KNOWS BEST "Women Work"

03 Mar 2022

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Father Knows Best was a radio show during the 1950s and 1960s. It portrayed an idealized vision of middle-class American life of the era. A total of 2...

PETE SMITH SHOW "Laughter"

03 Mar 2022

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AFRTS program aka Sketches In Sound with Pete Smith.

OTR-DESTINATION FREEDOM "Story Of 1875"

02 Mar 2022

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Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional r...

NIGHT BEAT "Mental Marvel"

02 Mar 2022

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Episode 13 aired May 1, 1950. Let's listen to Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, night beat reporter for the Chicago Star, as his nightly wanderings throug...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS at 30 "Lights Out"

01 Mar 2022

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Excerpts from NBC Radio broadcasts featuring The Vincent Lopez Orchestra, Boris Karloff on Lights Out, Buddy Clark sings, comedian Col. Stupnagle, NBC...

NBC MONITOR "Sinatra"

01 Mar 2022

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Stage, screen and TV star Barry Nelson first became a Monitor host in 1963 and remained on the program until 1967.  After hosting Saturday aftern...

THE LONE RANGER "The Silver Colt"

28 Feb 2022

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Aired in syndication around July 19, 1954. The Lone Ranger was played by several actors: John L. Barrett, on test broadcasts on WEBR in January 1933...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Rachmaninoff"

28 Feb 2022

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Live piano performances were recorded with incredible accuracy at the dawn of the 20th Century using Welte Vorsetzer player piano technology. These cl...

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "Tropicana"

28 Feb 2022

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America's greatest stentorian radio voice after the passing of Walter Winchell. He studied at the University of Tulsa on a scholarship. From 1948 to 1...

IRA COOK SHOW "Candy Man"

28 Feb 2022

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Ira Cook, Actor: McCloud. Composer and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, s...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Debbie Reynolds"

28 Feb 2022

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Howard Miller Show One of the first "disc jockeys", Miller's music selections were popular but it was his fun and easy patter between records which ke...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Green Valley Payoff"

27 Feb 2022

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In syndication episode 19 was released May 7, 1960. Hoppy turns bank robber to help a criminal straighten out. The afternoon sunlight comes in through...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Comanche"

26 Feb 2022

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Episode 33 aired July 5, 1959 on CBS Radio. John Dehner as Paladin who is hired to find a U.S. Army corporal, who is a deserter and the son of a gener...

PAUL HARVEY "WWII"

26 Feb 2022

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The Rest Of The Story

GUNSMOKE "Print Asper"

26 Feb 2022

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Episode 57 aired May 23, 1951 on CBS Radio. A man is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch h...

GRAND MARQUEE "Love That Is"

25 Feb 2022

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Episode aired on NBC Radio August 13, 1946. Produced at NBC Chicago studios. Grand Marquee ran from 1946 to 1947 and was a light-hearted romantic come...

FORT LARAMIE "Return of Hattie Pelfrey"

25 Feb 2022

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Hattie Pelfrey is not well so she visits Fort Laramie to visit her son...Captain Quince played by Raymond Burr. Episode 32 aired September 2, 1956 on ...

ESCAPE "Night In Havana"

25 Feb 2022

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This was episode 81 which aired on CBS Radio around October 22, 1949 and transcribed for AFRS.  Tio encounters his friend, the Dutch smuggler, Ma...

DRAGNET "Big Crazy"

24 Feb 2022

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Episode 116 aired on NBC Radio August 30, 1951. Jack Webb as Det. Sgt. Joe Friday who encounters a man who indicates he has killed his wife. Friday is...

CONCERT CAMEO "Montague Ewing"

23 Feb 2022

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Montague George Ewing was born 31 May 1890 in London, England. Self-taught in music, he served in two world wars: with The London Scottish Regiment (1...

PETE SMITH SHOW "Sketches In Sound"

22 Feb 2022

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Sketches In Sound. Easy Listening music with DJ Pete Smith for AFRTS

BOX 13 "Suicide Or Murder"

22 Feb 2022

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A distraught mother asks Holiday to investigate the death of her son. The authorities say that he was killed in a drunken fight, but she thinks he was...

BOB AND RAY "Grand Motel"

22 Feb 2022

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"Present the CBS Radio Network". Episode 171 aired February 22, 1960. Recorded from KCBS San Francisco.

BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS"

21 Feb 2022

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Time for a "Musical Bill Affair".  Bill was one of the KMPC talents between 1951-59, later at KGIL and KRHM in Southern California.  He was ...

BIG TOWN "Nightmare House"

21 Feb 2022

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Episode aired on NBC January 11, 1949. Bill and Helen Barton have a new house on "Honeymoon Hill." The crooked builder of these houses stops at nothin...

BIG BAND REMOTES (Episode 7)

20 Feb 2022

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Big Band Remotes and radio programs with vocalist Bob Eberly (photo), Carroll Gibbons, Benny Goodman, Al Overland, Anson Weeks, Benn Pollack and Bill ...

ANDY MANSFIELD SHOW "Bye Bye Blackbird"

17 Feb 2022

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Andy turns back the clock for another episode, number 0896, for AFRTS.

KARL HAAS "Club Sandwich"

13 Feb 2022

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Adventures In Good Music

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Robert W. Perry Case"

12 Feb 2022

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This is the Charles Russell Audition show which aired on CBS Radio January 7, 1949.

WOLFMAN JACK "Broadcast excerpts"

12 Feb 2022

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Wolfman Jack was born on January 21, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Robert Weston Smith. He was an actor, known for American Graffi...

THE WHISTLER "Seascape"

12 Feb 2022

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The wife of a lighthouse keeper admits she's a murderer. Episode 139 aired January 22, 1945 on CBS Radio.

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "The Trap"

11 Feb 2022

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This episode aired February 25, 1951 on NBC Radio. Two men hijack a truck filled with auto radios and kill the drivers. Joel McCrea stars. Guest actor...

CHUCK CECIL "Swingin' Years"

11 Feb 2022

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Chuck Cecil (December 26, 1922 – April 30, 2019) was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingi...

SUSPENSE "Library Book"

10 Feb 2022

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Episode 159 aired September 20, 1945 on CBS Radio. Starring Myrna Loy. A stuckup librarian suspects a kidnap plot from a torn page in, "Gone with The ...

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC RADIO

10 Feb 2022

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www.beautifulinstrumentals.com plays a stream of an aural history of popular orchestral recordings from the 20th century. Wonderful albums of music fr...

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Diana Lynn"

10 Feb 2022

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Episode 25 June 18, 1949 Coca-Cola sponsored the new Spike Jones Show on the prime slot on CBS - 6:30 Sunday nights beginning January 2, 1949, the sam...

THE SIX SHOOTER "Revenge at Harness Creek"

10 Feb 2022

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Lex Roby has been shot and killed. Adam Roby is suspected of the crime and will surrender to the Six-Shooter, but not to sheriff Cash Petrie who might...

SAM SPADE "Calcutta Trunk Caper"

10 Feb 2022

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Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade in this episode from June 8, 1947 on CBS Radio. The Adventures Of Sam Spade. June 8, 1947."The Calcutta Trunk Caper". C...

THE SAINT "Unhappy Homicide"

10 Feb 2022

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This episode aired on MUTUAL Radio November 6, 1949. Vincent Price stars as Simon Templer aka The Saint. Simon is confronted by a man who claims to ha...

BERGEN and McCARTHY SHOW "Orson Welles"

09 Feb 2022

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One in this long-running series of comedy/variety programs sponsored by Chase & Sanborn coffee. This program features as host ventriloquist Edgar ...

NIGHT BEAT "Tong War"

09 Feb 2022

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Episode 11 aired April 17, 1950 on NBC Radio. Randy Stone tries to prevent a Tong war from erupting into violence in Chicago.

NBC RECCOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Abdication, Etting, Cantor"

09 Feb 2022

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Episode 13 aired September 19, 1956 on NBC Radio. Ruth Etting sings, A King Abdicates, Frank Black's Revilers Julia Sanderson, Eddie Cantor.

NBC MONITOR "Groucho Marks"

08 Feb 2022

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Jim Lowe hosts this episode on NBC Monitor with a special for the 68th birthday of comedian Groucho Marx. Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890...

THE LONE RANGER "Tilden's Mission"

08 Feb 2022

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July 16, 1954. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, ...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Grieg"

08 Feb 2022

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Audiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls ...

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - AFRTS - John Doremus 113 29-7

08 Feb 2022

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The topic of the opening segment of this episode is 'Royalty'.

JIM AMECHE (JACK ARMSTRONG) "Pelican crew rescued"

08 Feb 2022

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Final chapter in this episodic adventure of Jack Armstrong from 1934.

IRA COOK SHOW "Matt Monro"

08 Feb 2022

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The 1049th episode of Ira Cook's AFRTS series opens with a selection by British vocalist Matt Monro. Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons, 1 Decemb...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Nat King Cole"

07 Feb 2022

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September 2, 1955 on CBS Radio. Howard Miller chats with vocalist Nat King Cole. Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known p...

HOPALONG CASSIDY FRONTIER PLAYHOUSE "Bullets For Ballots"

07 Feb 2022

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Syndication April 30, 1950. A soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order and justice to the frontier. He was a mo...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Homecoming"

07 Feb 2022

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Episode aired on CBS Radio June 28, 1959. Ed Stacey is a a man wrongly jailed for two years who has returned home to an unwelcome reception. John Dehn...

PAUL HARVEY "Yellow Rose of Texas"

06 Feb 2022

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The rest of the story.

GUNSMOKE "Buffalo Hunter"

06 Feb 2022

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Episode 55 aired on CBS Radio May 9, 1953.  Gatliff brings a dying buffalo skinner into Dodge. His face had been pushed into a pan of hot lead. S...

GRANDE MARQUEE 'Wedding In Columbia"

06 Feb 2022

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Episode 5 aired August 5, 1946 on NBC.  Sustaining program originating from NBC Chicago from 1946 to 1947. Each episode was a light-hearted roman...

FORT LARAMIE "Chaplain"

05 Feb 2022

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Episode 31 aired August 26, 1956 on CBS Radio. One of many episodes in the series written by Kathleen Hite (Photo). http://www.kathleenhite.com/fort-l...

ESCAPE "Sure Thing"

05 Feb 2022

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Episode 80 aired October 15, 1949 on CBS Radio. Escape to a lonely schooner sailing through the hot Caribbean night carrying a fortune and the heedles...

DRAGNET "Big Sophomore"

04 Feb 2022

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Episode 110 aired July 19, 1951 on NBC Radio. Harry Dunbar admits a series of petty thefts, but is reluctant to explains his reasons

BOX 13 "Great Torino"

04 Feb 2022

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Episode 10 in syndication starring Alan Ladd. A murdered magician's assistant. Death from an impossible trick? Dan Holiday is a fiction writer who rec...

BOB AND RAY "Natalie Attired"

03 Feb 2022

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 Episode 179 February 19, 1960 over CBS Radio and recorded from KCBS San Francisco. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. "Their ...

BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS 656"

03 Feb 2022

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Bill was one of the KMPC talents between 1951-59, later at KGIL and KRHM.  He was also a famous record producer.  In 1969 he was honored wit...

BIG TOWN "Lost and Found"

03 Feb 2022

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Aired on NBC Radio December 7, 1948. Dick Rutter, the star reporter of a competing paper, disappears. Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press suspects a...

ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Lily Pons"

02 Feb 2022

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April 25, 1946 (AFRTS Transcription) André Kostelanetz specialized in “light classical” music which was accessible to the everyday listener. CBS ...

KARL HAAS - AIGM "Baroque International"

01 Feb 2022

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Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic ...

VINTAGE RADIO "Jason Remington"

31 Jan 2022

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Late lounge with Little Orphan Archie. Novelty songs, one hit wonders and comedy from the mid 20th century.

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Royal Street Matter"

31 Jan 2022

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Episode 515 Bob Bailey stars as Johnny goes to New Orleans to investigate a fire where the shop owner refused to file a claim.

WOLFMAN JACK "WDGY"

31 Jan 2022

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1965 Wolfman Jack, whose national rock show is blasted from the 250,000-watt XERF in Acuña, Mexico, buys KUXL, an R&B station in Golden Valley, ...

THE WHISTLER "Body would not stay in the Bay"

31 Jan 2022

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Episode 137 aired on CBS Radio January 8, 1945. A woman returns from the dead for revenge of her murder. Bill Forman stars.

THE SAINT "Color-Blind Killer"

31 Jan 2022

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Episode aired September 18, 1949. The Saint tries to unravel a string of murders on a cruise ship.

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Sweet Revenge"

31 Jan 2022

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Aired February 18, 1951 on NBC Radio. A sugar bowl helps Jace Pearson (Joel McCrea) find a killer. 

CHUCK CECIL "The Swingin' Years - Radio Remote Broadcasts"

30 Jan 2022

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Chuck Cecil (December 26, 1922 – April 30, 2019) was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingi...

SUSPENSE "August Heat"

30 Jan 2022

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Episode 143 aired May 31, 1945 on CBS Radio. Ronald Colman star. The mood of “August Heat” enhances its suspense and ominous foreshadowing. In W.F...

STAN FREBERG Hits "The Great Pretender"

30 Jan 2022

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"The Great Pretender" was a popular song in 1956  recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on Novemb...

SPIKE JONES "Vera Vague"

30 Jan 2022

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July 8, 1945 from the Army Air force convalescence Hospital in Santa Ana California the makers of Chase and Sanborn coffee bring you the Chase and San...

SIX SHOOTER "Johnny Springer"

29 Jan 2022

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Episode 30 aired April 27, 1954 on NBC Radio. A hotel owner is robbed and murdered, but before he died, he said he thought it might be a man from a Wa...

SAM SPADE "Dr. Denhoff Caper"

29 Jan 2022

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August 2, 1946. Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle star. The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sa...

FIVE STAR MATINEE "Victoria My Wife"

29 Jan 2022

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NBC  1958   Monday through Friday 3:05 - 3:30 pm. Another compelling story of smart women and the manly-men they fall in love with.

Night Beat "I Know Your Secret"

28 Jan 2022

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- April 10, 1950 - (episode 10) Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone. Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river. She had been receiving unsigned notes,...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Ginger Rogers"

28 Jan 2022

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Excerpts from vintage NBC Radio broadcasts. Fanny Brice, Joe Penner, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

BIG BAND REMOTES 05

27 Jan 2022

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ARTIE SHAW brief bio and Ritz Carlton, Boston. Radio show August 19, 1930 on NBC Network. Helen Forrest, vocalist. COUNT BASIE NBC Parade Of Bands fro...

NBC MONITOR "Jimmy Durante"

27 Jan 2022

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Jim Lowe hosts this episode of NBC's MONITOR from 1963 celebrating comedian Jimmy Durante on his 70th birthday. Plus other features of the day on the ...

GUARD SESSION "Percy Faith"

27 Jan 2022

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Martin Block interviews famous easy listening music conductor Percy Faith on the National Guard public service transcription. But first we hear a "Sum...

MAXINE GRAY CAMEO "Part 5 of 5"

27 Jan 2022

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Our final episode of the life of big band singer Maxine Gray. Original text was published on OTRcat.com. This episode concludes with an appearance of ...

BIG BAND REMOTES 04

26 Jan 2022

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COUNT BASIE at Birdland's fifth anniversary. NYC December 16, 1954. Excerpted from live television on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with host Steve Allen. Geo...

BIG BAND REMOTE 03

26 Jan 2022

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GLENN MILLER Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC, NBC October 25, 1940. HARRY JAMES U.S. Marine Corps transcription. Vocalist Peggy King (Photo, 1961). ...

THE LONE RANGER "The Rodeo"

25 Jan 2022

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Episode 2574 from July 14, 1954. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Debussy"

25 Jan 2022

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OTRcat.com has a nice description of the Keyboard Immortals series of programs featuring actual performances recorded on piano rolls. Hear selections ...

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "AFRTS"

25 Jan 2022

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Wonderful stories wound into beautiful orchestral music.