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BIG BAND REMOTE 02

24 Jan 2022

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This episode features the band of Al Overton in Billings MT. NBC's All Star Parade of Bands with Stan Kenton (Photo). A tribute by the US Air Force Ba...

IRA COOK SHOW "Weatherly"

24 Jan 2022

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Ira Cook Show (AFRTS): After seeing action in WW II Ira Cook became  a Los Angeles area DJ,. Cook put together a daily show for the Armed Forces ...

BIG BAND REMOTE 01

24 Jan 2022

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Remote from Los Angeles with the Boyd Rayburn Orchestra. Buddy Morrow's band with Rosemary Clooney for The National Guard. Tex Beneke with the Glenn M...

BIG BAND PODCAST "WTIC"

24 Jan 2022

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WTIC Radio's Arnold Dean hosts an hour of big band music from the era of 1940's. This broadcast was aired on WTIC December 7, 1971.

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Coyote's Creek"

23 Jan 2022

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The Hopalong Cassidy radio program ran from 1948 to 1952, and was based on the popular movie and television series featuring William Boyd as Hopalong ...

HEAR IT NOW "Truman fires Douglas MacArthur"

23 Jan 2022

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Edward R. Murrow brings us the news from the week on Friday April 13, 1951 on CBS Radio. Reports including In perhaps the most famous civilian-militar...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "North Fork"

23 Jan 2022

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Episode 31 aired on CBS Radio June 21, 1959. John Dehner as Paladin protects the Mennonite community in North Fork from a townspeople  determined...

PAUL HARVEY "Ancient Snowstorm"

23 Jan 2022

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The rest of the story.

GUNSMOKE "Tacetta"

23 Jan 2022

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Episode 54 aired on CBS Radio May 2, 1953. An attractive woman named "Tacetta" causes a hanging in the jail and a gunfight with Chester, and another g...

GRAND MARQUEE "Hold That Memory"

23 Jan 2022

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Episode 4 aired July 30, 1946 on NBC Radio. Jim Ameche stars as a psychology professor who takes his job a bit too seriously.

FORT LARAMIE "Goodbye Willa"

21 Jan 2022

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Raymond Burr (Captain Lee Quince), Vic Perrin (Sgt. Goerse), Jack Moyles (Major Daggett), Harry Bartel (Lt. Siberts). Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Dol...

ESCAPE "When Man Comes"

21 Jan 2022

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Episode 66 aired April 6, 1949 on CBS Radio Network. During the eight years of production, Escape aired at different times on each day of the week in ...

DRAGNET "Big False Move"

21 Jan 2022

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Aired on NBC Radio May 22, 1956. A man has confessed to holding up a store, but Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) suspects he’s not telling the truth. Ori...

CONCERT CAMEO "John Foulds"

20 Jan 2022

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John Herbert Foulds (2 November 1880 – 25 April 1939) was an English cellist and composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a compos...

BOX 13 "Book of Poems"

19 Jan 2022

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Episode 9. Robert N. Chase sends Dan Holiday a book of poetry by Sir Walter Scott, but Chase has been dead for ten years.

BOB AND RAY "McBeebee Family Singers"

18 Jan 2022

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February 18, 1960 Bob and Ray present the CBS Radio Network. 

BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS 413 7-8"

18 Jan 2022

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Bill Stewart, and a few other hosts, recorded and stored their shows at AFRTS-LA for four to six months prior to air. Although the programming was 5-5...

BIG TOWN "Deadly Doll"

17 Jan 2022

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November 23, 1948. Most criminals pay for their crime one way or another. Some pay in prison stretches five, ten and twenty year installments. For oth...

OZZIE NELSON ORCHESTRA "Blackhawk Ballroom"

17 Jan 2022

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March 3, 1940 The Ozzie Nelson Orchestra performing from the Blackhawk Ballroom in Chicago over the Mutual Network, WGN Chicago. The Blackhawk was a r...

ADVENTURES IN GOOD MUSIC "Toscanini"

15 Jan 2022

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Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the lat...

Promo

15 Jan 2022

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WWW.CLASSICALMUSIC.NETWORK

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "The Markham Matter"

15 Jan 2022

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November 18, 1956. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. Johnny gets a call to investigate  when a wealthy insured woman disappears...

THE WHISTLER "Windfall"

14 Jan 2022

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Episode 134 ired December 18, 1944 on the CBS Radio Network. A man finds a corpse with no identification, except a checkbook showing a balance of $104...

THE SAINT "Old Man's Car"

14 Jan 2022

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August 14, 1949. The Saint was a radio adventure program in the United States that featured a character created by author Leslie Charteris. As the pro...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "The Hatchet"

14 Jan 2022

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Aired February 11, 1951 on the NBC Radio Network. Starring: Joel McCrea with Tony Barrett, Parley Baer, Mike Barrett, Sam Edwards, Gerald Mohr, Joe Du...

STAN FREBERG "Too Bad About Radio"

13 Jan 2022

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Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American actor, author, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer ...

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Adolph Menjou"

13 Jan 2022

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Episode 5 aired August 1, 1945 on the NBC Radio Network. Motion picture actor Adolph Menjou is the guest.

SIX SHOOTER "Crisis At Easter Creek"

13 Jan 2022

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Episode 29 aired on NBC Radio Network April 15, 1954. Brit is asked to raise money for a new church organ. He asks the notorious outlaw Red-Eye Kirk t...

SAM SPADE "Sam and Psyche"

13 Jan 2022

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Aired August 2, 1946 on the American ABC Radio network. A psychiatrist being blackmailed is killed by doing a "Brody" from his apartment window. Howar...

ROY ROGERS SHOW "Bona Gang"

12 Jan 2022

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November 23, 1951. Roy faces the Joe De Bona Gang in this episode.

PETE SMITH SHOW "AFRTS 3"

12 Jan 2022

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Pete Smith's Sketches In Sound for AFRTS.

OLD TIME RADIO "Bergen and McCarthy"

12 Jan 2022

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For the radio program, Bergen developed other characters, notably the slow-witted Mortimer Snerd and the man-hungry Effie Klinker. The star remained C...

NIGHT BEAT "Flowers On The Water"

11 Jan 2022

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Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, newspaper reporter. Episode 8 aired March 27, 1950 on NBC Radio. Maritia Nowak is dying and wants to see her husba...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Episode 18"

11 Jan 2022

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Aired October 24, 1956 featuring excerpts of early NBC Radio shows. Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson with others.

NBC MONITOR "Mel Allen"

11 Jan 2022

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NBC Radio, 1962. Mel Allen (born Melvin Allen Israel; February 14, 1913 – June 16, 1996) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenur...

MAXINE GRAY Cameo "Episode 4 of 5"

11 Jan 2022

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Following her train wreck injuries Maxine leaves the Hal Kemp Band and moves on to radio with the David Rose Orchestra and Alvino Ray Presents on Mutu...

MUSIC PROGRAM "Les Brown"

11 Jan 2022

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US NAVY presents Les Brown Orchestra with western cowboy singer Jimmy Wakely.

THE LONE RANGER "The Show Wagon"

11 Jan 2022

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July 17, 1954. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...when with one jaunty call, Hi-Yo, Silver! the Lone Ranger solidified his rol...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Rubinstein"

11 Jan 2022

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Episode 14. Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded...

JACK ARMSTRONG "Rescue line to Pelican"

11 Jan 2022

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Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Eddie Arnold"

10 Jan 2022

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August 25, 1955 Howard Miller chats with Eddie Arnold on CBS Radio. Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "The Red Death"

10 Jan 2022

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Episode 16 released April 16, 1950. A dead man is found next to "The Disappearing River." He's not only dead, he's all red. Kit Cavanaugh's cows are t...

HOLLYWOOD'S OPEN HOUSE "An Immortal Love Story"

10 Jan 2022

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VARIETY...music, famous guest stars, and entertaining radio plays as Motion Picture magazine brings you straight from the pages, Hollywood's Open Hous...

HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT "Carmen"

10 Jan 2022

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A Silver Jubilee Concert for AFRTS of The Hollywood Bowl Symphony conducted by Leopold Stokowski. A Performance of Bizet's Carmen sung in English. Pre...

HEAR IT NOW "Parachute Jump"

10 Jan 2022

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Episode 17 aired April 6, 1951 on CBS Radio network. Hear It Now was a one-hour historical radio show that starred Edward Murrow, one of the best broa...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "e030 Bitter Wine"

10 Jan 2022

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Episode 30 aired June 14, 1959 on CBS Radio. Paladin is hired to settle an issue between a vineyard owner and a neighboring oilman. The smoke and runo...

PAUL HARVEY "You're Joshing Me"

09 Jan 2022

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The Rest Of The Story

GUNSMOKE "Soldier"

09 Jan 2022

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Episode 53 aired April 25, 1953 on CBS Radio.  Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Parley Baer (Chester) & Georgia Ellis (Kitty) with...

GRAND MARQUEE "Hold It Please"

09 Jan 2022

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Episode 3 was aired on NBC Radio July 23, 1946. Starring Jim Ameche. A Romantic comedy about the photographer and the opera star. 

FORT LARAMIE "Assembly Line"

09 Jan 2022

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• Raymond Burr (Captain Lee Quince) • Vic Perrin (Sgt. Gorse) • Jack Moyles (Major Daggett) • Harry Bartell (Lt. Siberts) Special Guests: • ...

ESCAPE "Finger of Doom"

08 Jan 2022

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Episode 61 March 19, 1949 on CBS Radio. Stars Harry Bartell and co-stars Ed Begley (Photo) as Sergeant Gilman. A man's girlfriend delivers a package a...

DRAGNET "Big Dance"

08 Jan 2022

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Episode 89 aired on NBC Radio January 18, 1951. The "Kid Bandits" are robbing and beating up their victims. A pack of matches leads Detective Sergeant...

DAVE GARROWAY SHOW

08 Jan 2022

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Episode from AFRTS originating from an NBC broadcast out of Chicago dated January 5, 1951. 

BOX 13 "Double Mothers"

07 Jan 2022

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Episode 8, in syndication. Alan Ladd stars as writer Dan Holiday. What is this? Seems a little girl...has two mothers. A man with a gun and his henchm...

BOB AND RAY "Ward Stuffer Reports"

07 Jan 2022

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Episode aired on CBS Radio February 18, 1960. Featuring satiric comedy recorded via KCBS AM-FM in San Francisco.

BILL STEWART SHOW "Peter Nero"

07 Jan 2022

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Los Angeles DJ Bill Stewart's AFRTS radio show opened this hour episode with several selections by pop pianist Peter Nero.

BIG TOWN "Death By Plan"

07 Jan 2022

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Episode 454 aired November 16, 1948 on NBC Radio. Edward Pawley as Steve Wilson managing editor of the Illustrated Press newspaper. Greg Barton strang...

CASEY KASEM "American Top Forty"

05 Jan 2022

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July, 24, 1971. Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio personality, who created and...

DJ AIRCHECK "WPAZ, Pottstown PA"

05 Jan 2022

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A Great Scott Station WPAZ AM Pottstown in Suburban Philadelphia PA. June 8, 1971. R Alan Campbell covering an air shift for Herb Scott who needed a ...

KARL HAAS "Between You and Me"

04 Jan 2022

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Adventures In Good Music, in syndication.

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "The Big Scoop Matter"

04 Jan 2022

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November 11, 1956. A crusading reporter is murdered before he can expose a national gambling syndicate. Art Wesley was a reporter and is working on a ...

WOLFMAN JACK "WNBC, New York City"

04 Jan 2022

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A few minutes of highlights skimmed from an air check of the Wolfman Jack Show on WNBC. Wolfman was paid handsomely to join WNBC in New York in August...

THE WHISTLER "Death Sees Double"

04 Jan 2022

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Episode 130 aired November 20, 1944. A woman kills her twin sister and assumes her identify. She discovers, however, that being Sister Mona isn't all ...

THE SAINT "Conley Silver Mine"

04 Jan 2022

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July 31, 1949 on Mutual Radio. The Saint finds himself out west, helping a beautiful blonde and her newly acquired Conley Silver Mine...despite contin...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Logger's Larceny"

04 Jan 2022

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February 4, 1951 NBC Radio Network. Joel McCrea stars. It is mid afternoon September 7th 1938. Two loggers employed by the Gulf Lumber Company are mar...

CHUCK CECIL "Big Band Countdown"

03 Jan 2022

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Chuck Cecil was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingin' Years", a "Best of" radio show for t...

SUSPENSE "Affair at Loveland Pass"

03 Jan 2022

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Aired March 23, 1958 on CBS Radio. Starring Vanessa Brown and Jim Ameche. An escaped killer, along with a man and a woman, are stranded in the Colorad...

STAN FREBERG HIT "Sh-Boom"

03 Jan 2022

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Sh-Boom Lyrics: Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang / Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay / Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom) / If i could take you ...

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Don Ameche"

03 Jan 2022

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Episode 26 aired June 25, 1949 on CBS Radio. Tonight they are talking about the opera with Don Ameche. The City Slickers perform a comic opera mystery...

SIX SHOOTER "General Guilford's Widow"

03 Jan 2022

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Episode 28 aired on NBC Radio April 8, 1954. The widow of General Guilford insists her husband is still alive, but no one believes her. 

LUX RADIO THEATER "Maltese Falcon"

03 Jan 2022

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Episode 382 on CBS Radio February 6, 1943. Lux presents Hollywood and Edward G. Robinson portrayed hardboiled detective Sam Spade for this Lux Radio T...

ROY ROGERS SHOW "Lawman's Badge"

03 Jan 2022

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November 16, 1951. Don Wallace's criminal friends keep him out of jail and run his business for him, after taking the warrant and badge from a dead la...

R Alan Campbell "WFCC Chatham Mass"

03 Jan 2022

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Classical music host R Alan Campbell, (WFLN,KHPR) worked a summer schedule in 1995 for WFCC-FM the classical station Cape Cod. This hour is from May.

BOSTON BLACKIE "Aggie Rogers"

02 Jan 2022

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April 8, 1947 "Holy Mackerel" I think we have a case of switched identities. A wealthy eccentric woman who lived in a clutter-filled house, is murdere...

NIGHT BEAT "The Man Who Claimed To Be Dead"

02 Jan 2022

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Frank Lovejoy stars as newspaper reporter Randy Stone. Stone meets a man in the park on a very hot day. He is wearing a heavy overcoat! Mr. Henry Ka...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Mary Martin"

01 Jan 2022

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Episode 12 September 12 1956. NBC celebrating 30 year anniversary with this series of broadcasts. Mary Martin's first radio appearance on, "The Rudy V...

MONITOR "New Years Eve 1961"

01 Jan 2022

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Veteran announcer Jimmy Wallington introduces this hour of NBC Monitor with host: NBC newsman Frank McGee. Frank McGee was an American television jour...

OLD TIME RADIO MUSIC SHOW "Musical Moment"

01 Jan 2022

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This episode of the Chevrolet Musical Moment program August 25, 1938. Kay Thompson performs. Chevrolet used music to attract car buyers. In the 1930's...

MAXINE GRAY Cameo (Third of series)

01 Jan 2022

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Our cameo of singer Maxine Gray continues with text at OTRcat.com. Here are details of Maxine's serious train accident and audio from a charity broadc...

THE LONE RANGER "Trouble at the Rafter H"

31 Dec 2021

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Episode 2572 dates from July 9, 1954. The Lone Ranger and Tonto arrive at The ranch of Clarabelle Hornblow and Thunder Martin who has discovered gold ...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "The Music of Chopin"

31 Dec 2021

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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 "Autumn"

31 Dec 2021

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This episode includes a segment of music chosen for the Autumn season. John Doremus was born on August 3, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and passed away on...

JACK ARMSTRONG "Pelican Catches Fire"

31 Dec 2021

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Episode from January 2, 1934 part of a serial with young Jim Ameche as Jack Armstrong the all American boy. The Penguin under the command of Captain C...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Vic Damone"

30 Dec 2021

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Howard chats with Vic Damone August 23, 1955 on CBS Radio. Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American ...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Killer of Sandy Gulch"

30 Dec 2021

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Episode 15 dates from April 9, 1950. William Taylor escapes after being convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. Hoppy is not so certain Taylor...

HOLLYWOOD'S OPEN HOUSE "Blue Skies"

30 Dec 2021

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Host Jim Ameche invites you to enjoy music, famous guest stars, and entertaining radio plays as Motion Picture magazine brings you straight from their...

HEAR IT NOW "The Human Tick"

30 Dec 2021

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Episode 16 CBS Radio Network March 30, 1951. Edward R. Murrow presents the news of the week from CBS News.

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Roped"

30 Dec 2021

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Episode 20 aired Jun 7, 1959 on CBS Radio Network. Dirk and Agnes are professional horse thieves who need Paladin to keep them from being hanged. This...

PAUL HARVEY "Ancient Scalpal"

30 Dec 2021

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The rest of the story.

GUNSMOKE "Johnny Red"

29 Dec 2021

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Episode 174 aired August 13, 1955 on CBS Radio. Billy Krale returns to his old mother seventeen years after he ran away from home. But he's not really...

GRAND MARQEE "No Room For Lady"

29 Dec 2021

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Episode 2 aired on NBC Radio from Chicago on July 19, 1946. Starring Jim Ameche. 

FORT LARAMIE "Massacre"

29 Dec 2021

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Episode 28 aired August 5, 1956 on CBS Radio. The peaceful Shoshone Indians are attacked by a fanatical army major. The program was recorded July 12, ...

ESCAPE "Conqueror's isle"

29 Dec 2021

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Episode 58 was written by Nelson Bond and adapted for radio by John Dunkel. It was produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Dr. Grove was played by B...

DRAGNET "Big Ben"

28 Dec 2021

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Sgt. Friday is shot and is hospitalized in Episode 92 aired March 15, 1951 on NBC Radio Network. Detective Friday was assigned to Robbery Detail. A ma...

DAVE GARROWAY SHOW "AFRS-NBC Radio"

28 Dec 2021

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This 15 minute episode of the Garroway show was from an AFRS transcription of his NBC radio series in the 1950's. When the United States entered World...

BOX 13 "Short Assignment"

28 Dec 2021

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Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by ...

BOB AND RAY "Mr. Science"

28 Dec 2021

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Bob and Ray present the CBS Radio Network on February 17, 1960. 

BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS"

28 Dec 2021

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Bill Stewart of the Los Angeles radio station KMPC played a mix of Swing, jazz and MOR at several great stations. KMPC, 1951-59; KGIL, 1965-66; KRHM, ...

BIG STORY "Angel Of The Street"

28 Dec 2021

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Edward Pawley stars as Steve Wilson managing editor of the Illustrated Press in this episode from October 19, 1948 over the NBC Radio Network. Violet ...

BIG BAND REMOTE "Ray Herbeck"

28 Dec 2021

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Here is a big band remote on NBC Radio aired April 18, 1945 from the Mural Room of the Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco. Ray Herbeck was born on 27 ...