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SUSPENSE "Out For Christmas"

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 782 aired December 21, 1958 and stars Raymond Burr, Joan Banks and Howard McNear. Santa Claus has a gun and is getting revenge. He's really an...

STAN FREBERG HIT "Nuttin' For Christmas"

16 Nov 2021

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One of five Billboard charted versions of the 1955 Christmas novelty song. This is CD audio, originally issued on Capitol single 3280.  Nuttin’...

PAUL HARVEY "At The North Pole"

16 Nov 2021

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On Christmas Eve in 1965 ABC Radio aired a wonderful Christmas gift. A “live” broadcast of legendary newscaster Paul Harvey reporting from the Nor...

CHRISTMAS FANTASY "Episode 1"

15 Nov 2021

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This is the audio from the first episode of a 25-episode countdown to a Christmas radio series made by Robin Morrow in the 1960s. Morrow put together ...

CASEY CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER "Christmas Shopping"

15 Nov 2021

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On CBS Radio December 19, 1946. Jack Casey solved crimes while on assignment as a photographer for The Morning Express newspaper. Casey and Ann fight ...

SPIKE JONES "Garry Moore"

15 Nov 2021

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Episode 3 aired June 17, 1945. A rather lack luster and apparently unrehearsed episode of The Chase and Sanborn Program with guest Garry Moore, singer...

SIX SHOOTER "Aunt Emma"

15 Nov 2021

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Episode 27 aired April 1, 1954 on NBC Radio. James Stewart stars. Britt's Aunt Emma comes to town and starts to change his life. Aunt Emma is played...

ROY ROGERS SHOW "Counterfiters"

15 Nov 2021

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November 9, 1951. Milt Keebler is helping a gang of counterfeiters pass bad money through the Mitchell Ice Company. Andy Sales has a treacherous plan....

DJ AIR CHECK "WTMR, R Alan Campbell"

15 Nov 2021

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Christmas 1968 in the Delaware Valley on WTMR 800khz. Lee Scott, newsman, R Alan Campbell DJ on "the board". ABC Entertainment Network for the Philade...

BROADWAY IS MY BEAT "Santa Claus"

14 Nov 2021

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December 24, 1949 on CBS Radio network. Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With Anthony Ro...

NBC MONITOR "Galen Fromme Interview"

14 Nov 2021

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From 1969 NBC Monitor broadcast with Hugh Downs and Peter Roberts. WBAL Radio newsman Galen Fromme interviews Miss Naval Academy Color Girl of 1969.

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Nick Shurn Matter"

13 Nov 2021

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Five episodes from one week 19th to 23rd in December of 1955. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. A hired killer is gunning for a witness. Johnny is looking ...

STAN FREBERG HIT "Dragnet Christmas Parody"

13 Nov 2021

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Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet) · Stan Freberg · Daws Butler · Nathan Scott

NIGHT BEAT "Five Days Off For Christmas"

13 Nov 2021

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Episode 79 aired on NBC Radio December 21, 1951. Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone who covers the night beat for the Chicago Tribune. He  normal...

SHERLOCK HOLMES "The Night Before Christmas"

13 Nov 2021

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Episode 198 of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which aired in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Originally, the show starred Basil R...

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Red Mystery"

13 Nov 2021

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December 20, 1959 over CBS Radio Network, affiliate WROW Albany New York. Johnny Dollar gets a call from Red his old fishing friend from Arizona, but ...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "King George VI"

12 Nov 2021

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NBC coverage of the visit to The United States by King George VI of England. June 11, 1939. With notable English celebrities of the era.

NBC MONITOR "Monte Hall, host"

12 Nov 2021

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This one hour episode of MONITOR, the NBC weekend radio service was aired on a Saturday morning in 1959 and hosted by Monte Hall and NBC announcer Bob...

BIG TOWN "Prelude To Christmas"

12 Nov 2021

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Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio December 21, 1948. Steve Wilson, managing editor of The Illustrated Press, is portrayed by actor Edward Pawley.  A ...

MUSIC PROGRAM "HORACE HEIDT SHOW"

12 Nov 2021

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The Horace Heidt Show of December 25, 1944 on the BLUE Network of NBC. Horace Heidt (May 21, 1901 – December 1, 1986) was an American pianist, big b...

THE LONE RANGER "Mysterious Mission"

12 Nov 2021

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Episode 2571 July 7, 1954. “A fiery horse with the speed of light. A cloud of dust, and a hearty ‘Hi-yo, Silver!’ The Lone Ranger,” the narrat...

John Doremus Show - AFRTS - 111 29-7

12 Nov 2021

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Doremus opens this hour long episode of beautiful music with "Do I Hear A Waltz" by The Percy Faith Orchestra.

The Story of The First Christmas Tree with Jim Ameche

11 Nov 2021

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Jim Ameche tells children in the voice of a tree about being selected as the first Christmas tree. 

JACK ARMSTRONG "Ship In Distress"

10 Nov 2021

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Jack, Billy and Betty are on deck of The Penguin which is steaming towards the source of a red distress rocket. But this also means that they are head...

IRA COOK SHOW "Old Muddy"

10 Nov 2021

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From AFRTS episode 481 Transcription From 1975. DJ Ira Cook with music from his collection.

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Gordon Jenkins"

10 Nov 2021

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August 18, 1955 episode with Howard Miller chatting with Gordon Jenkins. Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, ...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Bandits of Ridge Creek"

10 Nov 2021

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Episode 14 in syndication the week of April 12, 1950.

HOLLYWOOD'S OPEN HOUSE "Lucille Ball"

10 Nov 2021

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Episode 43 from AFRS Transcription. Jim Ameche introduces a variety program including a short dramatic work with Lucille Ball. Music by Ray Block's Or...

HEAR IT NOW "Costello Hearings"

10 Nov 2021

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Broadcast of March 23, 1951 on CBS Radio. Episode 15 includes Edward R. Murrow's report of news of the week.

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Blind Courage"

09 Nov 2021

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Episode 78 aired May 31, 1959 on CBS Radio. Paladin is hired by a wealthy man named Sutherland. He wants to learn how to shoot, however Sutherland is ...

PAUL HARVEY "Ancient_Childproof"

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Rest of the Story

GUNSMOKE "Bums Rush"

09 Nov 2021

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Episode 52 aired April 18, 1953 on CBS Radio. Marshal Dillon captures two killers and brings them back to Dodge. Three witnesses come forward to prove...

GRAND MARQUEE "Half Dog Is Better Than None"

09 Nov 2021

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Aired July 9, 1946 on NBC Radio from Chicago. Grand Marquee ran from 1946 to 1947 and is a light-hearted romantic comedy where most of the show is spe...

FORT LARAMIE "Nature Boy"

08 Nov 2021

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Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio July 29, 1956. The Quiring family has come to Fort Laramie. A rather curious group of siblings. The program was recorded...

ESCAPE "Lost Special"

08 Nov 2021

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Episode 55 aired on CBS Radio February 12, 1948. Ben Wright stars in this show based on a story by Arthur Conan Doyle. An entire train has vanished. W...

EDWARD R. MURROW "Meditations on Ecclesiastes"

08 Nov 2021

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May 23, 1957 CBS Radio. Murrow discusses nuclear fallout and presents a performance of composer (photo) Norman Dello Joio's Pulitzer prize winning com...

DRAGNET "Big Crime"

08 Nov 2021

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Episode 88 aired February 15, 1951 on NBC Radio and deals with child molestation. Sound quality is sub-standard. When two four year old twin girls tur...

DAVE GARROWAY SHOW "Taylorsville News"

08 Nov 2021

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NBC Radio July 14, 1953. Garroway with news item from Taylorsville North Carolina, comments and music.

BOX 13 "Extra Extra"

06 Nov 2021

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Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, writer, in Episode 5. Mayfair syndication. A  newspaper boy hires Dan to get his father out of jail. All that was...

BOB AND RAY "MR SCIENCE"

06 Nov 2021

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Episode 168 for CBS Radio February 17, 1960

AFRTS Bill Stewart "Adela St. Johns"

06 Nov 2021

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On his "Bill Stewart Show" Stewart produced and announced more than 4,000 programs, many over AFRTS. When he was discharged from the army in November ...

BIG TOWN "Double Murder"

05 Nov 2021

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Aired October 12, 1948 on NBC Radio. Not many men are capable of murdering a woman and if the attempt fails the would-be killer must strike again. And...

DJ AIR CHECK ALAN FREED "WINS NYC"

05 Nov 2021

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A 90 minute air check (poor quality) of The Alan Freed Show on WINS, New York City in April of 1955. WINS eventually became an around-the-clock Top 40...

ADVENTURES IN GOOD MUSIC "Music Of Prayers"

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

December 21, 1992. Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking...

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "James Clayton Matter"

04 Nov 2021

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Episode 141 December 5, 1952. Starring John Lund as Johnny Dollar. A doctor's life has been threatened by a man married to the woman in which he's int...

THE WHISTLER "Man Who Waited"

04 Nov 2021

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Wealthy but mean old-lady Bartlett is against the marriage of her son...to anyone. Episode 52 aired on CBS Radio May 15, 1943.

THE SAINT "Blond Who Lost Her Head"

04 Nov 2021

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Episode of May 26, 1948. A beautiful woman in San Francisco has amnesia, but does she have a real loss of memory? Or is it murder? Enter Simon Templar...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Blood Harvest"

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode aired on NBC Radio January 21, 1951.  Two rustlers round up stolen alfalfa hay instead of cattle and are caught in the act. They kill the...

CHUCK CECIL SWINGIN' YEARS "Big Band Countdown"

04 Nov 2021

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AFRTS July 1943...From the 1960s to the 1980s, Chuck Cecil broadcast a show called "Big Band Countdown" on the American Forces Network (AFRTS).

SUSPENSE "No Hiding Place"

04 Nov 2021

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September 21, 1958 episode aired on CBS Radio and starred Jim Ameche. Carl is a hostile man who blames Eddie for breaking up his marriage. C...

STAN FREBERG HIT "John and Marsha"

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"John and Marsha" is a 1951 American novelty comedy single written and performed by Stan Freberg and released on Capitol Records. Consisting of only t...

SPIKE JONES "Groucho Marx"

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

June 10, 1945 on NBC Radio's The Chase and Sanborn Program, as Edgar Bergen's summer replacement in 1945. Frances Langford was co-host and Groucho Mar...

SIX SHOOTER "Duel At Lockwood"

04 Nov 2021

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Episode 26 aired May 21, 1954 on NBC Radio. Wes Singer is planning to get into a gunfight with Britt Ponsett for reasons we do not yet know.

ROY ROGERS SHOW "Doug Manson Gang"

03 Nov 2021

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November 2, 1951. Doug Manson escapes from the courtroom where he's about to be sentenced, and swears revenge against those who testified against him....

OLD TIME RADIO "Amos n Andy Music Hall"

03 Nov 2021

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CBS Radio Final broadcast November 1960. Using the premise that the Kingfish had set up a radio station in the Lodge Hall of the Mystic Knights of the...

NIGHT BEAT "Am I My Brother's Keeper"

03 Nov 2021

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Episode 6 March 13, 1950. Frank Lovejoy stars. Gig Sanders has broken out of jail. He wants to get even with one of his gang members that married his ...

NBC Recollections at 30 "Labor Day"

03 Nov 2021

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Dedication of NBC Los Angeles studios with Al Jolsen and Bing Crosby. Next Ed Wynn comedian, Nelson Eddy singer, FDR fireside chat, Conductor Walter D...

NBC MONITOR "Hugh Downs and Peter Roberts"

03 Nov 2021

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1959 Hour segment of NBC's weekend radio service.

BIG BAND REMOTE "Woody Herman

03 Nov 2021

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March 1945 Over CBS Radio from Chicago's College Inn Hotel.Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist...

THE LONE RANGER "Beginning of series"

03 Nov 2021

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WIBC interview with Museum of Broadcast Communications. How the Lone Ranger radio series was created along with The Mutual Radio Network.

EDWARD R. MURROW "Senator Joseph McCarthy"

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CBS Radio, April 6, 1954. Edward R. Murrow performed one of the most famous acts of journalistic evisceration in American television history. On March...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Della Reese"

02 Nov 2021

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August 17, 1955 Howard chats with singer Della Reese. Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Re...

THE LONE RANGER "The Young Investigator"

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aired July 5, 1954. From 1933 to 1956 the Lone Ranger rode the radio waves. One of the most successful radio programs in history, the Lone Ranger prod...

FRED FOY "The Lone Ranger memories"

02 Nov 2021

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FRED FOY reflects on his days as the announcer-narrator of The Lone Ranger radio series.

IRA COOK SHOW "Vikki Carr and Louis L'amour"

01 Nov 2021

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DJ Ira Cook plays some pop records from the mid 20th century including one of Vikki Carr's hit songs in this episode for AFRTS. Guest interview with L...

HOLLYWOOD'S OPEN HOUSE "Jack Pearl"

01 Nov 2021

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Jim Ameche hosts the series every Thursday night from 1944 to 1948. Motion Picture magazine presented Hollywood's Open House which was part variety sh...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "The Failure"

01 Nov 2021

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Episode 13, March 26, 1950. Branch Patterson is running for sheriff, but Hoppy suspects the former sheriff has met with foul play.

HEAR IT NOW "The Kefauver Crime Hearings"

01 Nov 2021

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Episode 14 aired on March 16, 1951. Edward R. Murrow's summary of the news of the week. In May 1950, a little-known U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver,...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "In An Evil Time"

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio May 24, 1959. Paladin is hired to bring to justice the legendary Pappy French, a bank robber with a hidden $50,000 somew...

PAUL HARVEY "Ziegfeld"

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Rest Of The Story

GUNSMOKE "Gonif"

01 Nov 2021

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Episode 51 aired April 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. Frank Bissell and his gang arrive in Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to get out of town. ...

GUNSMOKE "Radio promotional feature"

01 Nov 2021

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Series Description: Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It's also one that is still ...

DJ Air Check "Alan Freed, excerpts"

01 Nov 2021

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Here are several edited excerpts of Alan Freed on the air in the early 1950s. At the end you will hear his brief farewell to fans following the payola...

DJ air check "Alan Freed WINS"

01 Nov 2021

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A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in Septemb...

ESCAPE "Man Who Could Work Miracles"

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 54 aired on CBS Radio September 19, 1948. In the middle of an category 4 hurricane. Houses, animals, and trees are flying over you, and you su...

Edward R. Murrow "March 1954"

31 Oct 2021

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Fifteen minute CBS Radio newscast from March of 1954 reported by Edward R. Murrow.

WFCC FM Chatham, Mass (Cape Cod) - R. Alan Campbell

31 Oct 2021

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The station started broadcasting on March 24, 1987 from state-of-the-art facilities on Route 28 in West Chatham.  In 1991, the station's offices ...

DRAGNET "Ep 87 Big Cast"

31 Oct 2021

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Aired over NBC Radio February 8, 1951. Several men have disappeared without a trace. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday is assigned to homicide detail and ...

DAVE GARROWAY SHOW "Mel Torme - Dick Powell"

31 Oct 2021

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From January 9, 1951 Dave Garroway record show on NBC Radio featuring record selections with vocalist Mel Torme and others and a chat with Dick Powell...

CONCERT CAMEO "Cecil Armstrong Gibbs"

31 Oct 2021

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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889 – 12 May 1960) was a prolific and versatile English composer, though best known for his choral music and, in p...

MYSTERY THEATER "Walls of Jericho"

30 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 43 aired on CBS Radio February 21, 1974. Attending a club meeting this man discovers his extraordinary gift of bringing characters to life fro...

BOX 13 "Actors Alibi"

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Box Thirteen was one of the best things Alan Ladd ever did. It was a high quality show which relied on his charisma and talent rather than a large bud...

BOB AND RAY "One Fellas Family"

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aired on CBS Radio February 16, 1960. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. with old-time radio, satire comedy. Their finest series wa...

BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS 934"

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Stewart, and a few other hosts, recorded and stored their shows at AFRTS-LA for four to six months prior to release. This episode ends with a ski...

BIG TOWN "Blind Justice"

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aired on NBC Radio September 14, 1948. Afraid that racketeers behind the killing of a construction foreman may not be aware that the only witness agai...

BIG BAND "Count Basie"

29 Oct 2021

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From January 1, 1953, Live from Birdland, NBC Radio presented Basie's All Stars. William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was ...

ANDY MANSFIELD "California Ramblers"

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The California Ramblers were an American jazz group that recorded hundreds of songs for many different record labels throughout the 1920s. Four member...

ADVENTURES IN GOOD MUSIC "Pathos"

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Radio Broadcast by Karl Haas who called this program Ethos of Pathos. Includes pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and others. Adventures in Good...

JIM AMECHE as "Dick Tracy"

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mercury Records presents The Case of the Midnight Marauder with Jim Ameche as Dick Tracy.  https://childrensvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/dick-t...

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW " AFRTS 111 29-7"

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Doremus, with a melodious-voice, was a disc jockey in Chicago for more than two decades, was known by many as "the nation's foremost beautiful mu...

60 seconds: Intro JOHN DOREMUS SHOW

27 Oct 2021

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Around 1960s, typical introduction to one of John Doremus' radio segments.  

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Saturday Night Matter"

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

March 20, 1960 on CBS Radio with Bob Bailey starring as Johnny Dollar. Johnny gets ready to solve a series of grocery store robberies in Colorado. Pet...

STAN FREBERG "Audiophiles"

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

1956. Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, June Foray. Stan Freberg Looks at Audiophiles 1956. Some things never change. From a 1956 radio show. The audio equip...

THE WHISTLER "Legacy of Death"

27 Oct 2021

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Episode 40 aired February 14, 1943 on CBS Radio. A young woman has inherited a tendency to kill...or has she? Bill Forman stars.

THE SAINT "The Case of Unhappy Homicide"

27 Oct 2021

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March 3, 1943. Mr. Potts killed his business partner. However the police do not believe his confession as there is no body. Potts hires "The Saint" to...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Death In The Cards"

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

January 14, 1951 NBC Radio. Based on events of January 26, 1947. A double murder is blamed on a gambler with red hair, but hoofprints in the frost giv...

SWINGIN' YEARS "Chuck Cecil"

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Swingin' Years" perpetuates the memory of swing music, popularized by such acts as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Duke ...

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Charlie Ruggles"

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Spike Jones Show is the name of several separate American comedy and variety series that aired on NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s. Spike Jones,...

SUSPENSE "Drive In"

26 Oct 2021

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Episode 125 January 11, 1945 on CBS Radio. "Drive-In" was written for Suspense by Mel Dinelli and Muriel Ray Bolton. A car-hop is threatened by a homi...

STAN FREBERG HITS "Contadina Commercials"

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Commercials made by Stan Freberg for Contadina Tomato Paste and Contadina Whole Peeled Tomatoes, featuring the voices of Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, an...