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GUNSMOKE "Sundown"
March 14, 2022 21:10 - 29 minutes - 14.3 MBEpisode 59, written by William Conrad, aired June 6, 1953 on CBS Radio network. With William Conrad (Matt Dillion), Parley Baer (Chester), Georgia Ellis (Kitty), Howard McNear (Doc), John McIntire (Great Eagle), Michael Ann Berret, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner.
GRAND MARQUEE "Mouse or Man"
March 14, 2022 18:48 - 24 minutes - 13.5 MBEpisode 07 aired August 20, 1946 on NBC Radio originating from NBC studios in Chicago. Grand Marquee series broadcast programs from 1946 to 1947. A light-hearted romantic comedy where most of the show is spent in antics proving the difference between men and women and the problems that arise from misunderstandings between the two. The show starred Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn.
FORT LARAMIE "Buffalo Hunters"
March 14, 2022 18:20 - 29 minutes - 18 MBEpisode 33 aired on CBS Radio September 9, 1956. Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sundays on CBS from January 22 - October 28, 1956. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. Starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. This episode written by Kathleen Hite.
ESCAPE "Three Skeleton Key"
March 13, 2022 22:28 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBEpisode 85 aired November 15, 1949 on CBS Radio and starred Elliot Reid with William Conrad and Harry Bartell.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Country Gardens"
March 13, 2022 17:44 - 30 minutes - 14.8 MBFrom AFRTS the 525 episode of classical music on The Enchantment of Music produced cast KCBH-FM Beverly Hills, California. Opens with Country Gardens by Percy Grainger.
CONCERT CAMEO "Otto Cesana"
March 13, 2022 12:33 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBOtto Cesana. 1899-1980 US Composer of Jazz and Pop. American composer, born 7 July 1899 in San Francisco, USA, died 1980.
CALIFORNIA MELODIES "Barcarolle"
March 12, 2022 19:04 - 29 minutes - 16.5 MBFrom The Don Lee Studios in Los Angeles over the Mutual Network on February 22, 1941 this is Episode 46. David Rose Orchestra plays BARCARROLE. Years From Now and When You and I Were Young, Maggie. Maxine Gray sings Fishin' and Wishin'. Rafael Mendez, trumpeter with Flight of the Bumblebee. Maxine Gray sings Keep an Eye on Your Heart and Rose closes the program with Georgia On My Mind.
BOX 13 "Triple Cross"
March 11, 2022 23:54 - 26 minutes - 16.6 MBDan Holiday wins $126,000 at a crooked roulette wheel and promptly loses it to a beautiful blonde. A syndicated series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947.
BOB AND RAY "Animal Lady"
March 11, 2022 22:22 - 14 minutes - 6.35 MBThis is episode 172 which aired February 23, 1960 on the CBS Radio Network and was recorded (air check) from KCBS AM-FM, San Francisco.
BILL STEWART SHOW "Thad Jones - Mel Lewis"
March 11, 2022 17:15 - 53 minutes - 23.5 MBConversation and music with jazz men Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. Bill was a middle-of-the-road DJ in LA playing his mixture of Swing, jazz and MOR at several great stations. KMPC, 1951-59; KGIL, 1965-66; KRHM, 1966 and 1969; KGIL, 1973-75. He transcribed many MOR hours for AFRTS.
BIG TOWN "Deadline at Dawn"
March 11, 2022 16:54 - 30 minutes - 6.47 MBThis 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" Malone.
BIG BAND REMOTES 08
March 11, 2022 14:12 - 2 hours - 193 MBEpisode 8 of our Big Band Remotes features radio broadcasts by the bands of BENNY GOODMAN, GLENN MILLER, FREDDY NAGLE, ANSON WEEKS, COUNT BASIE, ARTIE SHAW, TOMMY DORSEY and WOODY HERMAN.
BIG BAND JUKEBOX 06
March 11, 2022 05:31 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBBUDDY DEFRANCO and OSCAR PETERSON "They Can't Take That Away From Me" HENRY JEROME "Temptation" HENRY MANCINI "Tiger" JACK TEAGARDEN "Yankee Doodle" PASADENA ROOFTOP BAND "Stardust" PEANUTS HUCKO with DAN ELLIOT "Serenade In Blue" {Air Check} RAY ANTHONY "Merci, Cherie" RAY McKINLEY "Slumber Song" RAY McVEY "Happy Heart" STAN KENTON "Once In A While" TED HEATH "More" USAF AIRMEN OF NOTE "Don't Be That Way" BONUS: GUS ARNHEIM Radio Remote (1932)
ANDY MANSFIELD SHOW "Eh Marie"
March 11, 2022 00:04 - 25 minutes - 13.6 MBEpisode 897 for AFRTS. Year is 1958 with Andy and Virginia turning back the clock for selections like opener, Eh Marie.
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ "Nadine Connor"
March 10, 2022 20:16 - 28 minutes - 13.7 MBAFRTS transcription of CBS Radio broadcast July 18, 1943.
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Out of Fire Into Pan"
March 10, 2022 04:30 - 29 minutes - 15.8 MBThis episode stars Charles Russell. It aired on CBS Radio August 21, 1949.
THE WHISTLER "Death Pays a Visit"
March 10, 2022 01:03 - 29 minutes - 16.3 MBEpisode 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 cousin Charlie for a weekend visit...with $10,000 in cash! The course of action called for seems obvious. Marvin Miller hosts this series.
VINTAGE RADIO "From the Late Night Lounge"
March 10, 2022 00:42 - 58 minutes - 29 MBJason Remington repeats his Little Orphan Archie show with Lenny the Cabby, some vintage pop songs and comedy from Bob and Ray.
THE ENCHANTED HOUR "Prokofiev: Classical Symphony"
March 09, 2022 23:38 - 30 minutes - 8.54 MBEpisode 18 aired over the Mutual Network on September 25, 1949. The Enchanted Hour, produced in Chicago, featured classical orchestral and operatic music. Directed by Jim Ramsey and Jack LaFrandre, Henry Weber and his orchestra play uninterrupted music by composers such as Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Handel, Debussy, Strauss, and Wagner. Nancy Carr appeared often as soprano. This episode opens with The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the "Classical". It was Russian composer Ser...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Blind Justice"
March 09, 2022 14:48 - 30 minutes - 14.4 MBAired 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 business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen, he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness — the kind a blind man's dog might wear.
SUSPENSE "Dunwich Horror"
March 08, 2022 23:49 - 26 minutes - 11.9 MBThis 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"
March 04, 2022 21:46 - 3 minutes - 3.14 MB"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, 1953 as a 45 rpm single (Capitol F2596), and reached No. 1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box record charts. This satire features the theme sound intro music (minus the spoken word part on this record) for the "Dragnet" TV-crime show series on NBC from 1951 to 1959, and 1967 to 1970.
SPIKE JONES SHOW "Lassie"
March 04, 2022 19:38 - 25 minutes - 14.1 MBThis episode (22) aired May 28, 1949 with guest a dog known in motion pictures as 'Lassie'.
SIX SHOOTER "Anna Norquest"
March 04, 2022 19:12 - 29 minutes - 14 MBA 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, Lou Merrill, William Johnstone. Harry Bartell is billed as Harry "Killer" Bartell (?? Inside joke?) Episode 32 aired on NBC Radio May 5, 1954.
CLASSICAL MUSIC " Ukraine "
March 03, 2022 23:29 - 9 minutes - 11.2 MBDouglas Gamley arranger conductor - Mussorgsky Great Gate of Kiev - Pictures at Exhibition. Albert Sandler and Orchestra - ADALGISO FERRARIS Souvenir d'Ukraine. Adalgiso Ferraris (16 February 1890 – 31 December 1968) was an Italian-born British composer and pianist. Ferraris' arrangements and compositions were based on classical and popular genres, with a particular flavour of gypsy, Hungarian and Russian traditionals. Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurrin...
FATHER KNOWS BEST "Women Work"
March 03, 2022 20:23 - 29 minutes - 14.6 MBFather 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 203 episodes were produced until it made a debut on television in 1962. The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. On the radio program, the character of Jim differs fro...
PETE SMITH SHOW "Laughter"
March 03, 2022 18:20 - 54 minutes - 13.9 MBAFRTS program aka Sketches In Sound with Pete Smith.
THE ENCHANTED HOUR "Handel: Water Music"
March 02, 2022 22:10 - 30 minutes - 12.3 MBThe program originates from Chicago. Enchanted Hour is a mutual broadcast from 1948. The first selection is highlights from the "Water Music" by Handel. Continuous classical music by Henry Weber and his orchestra.
OTR-DESTINATION FREEDOM "Story Of 1875"
March 02, 2022 21:50 - 29 minutes - 16.5 MBOld 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 reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using Caldwell's assassination in late 1875 as symbolic of the lot of emancipated Blacks and their whit...
RADIO NUAGES "014-019"
March 02, 2022 21:30 - 3 hours - 220 MBThis episode features the contemplative contemporary music of Paul Horn, Paul Halley, Gabriel Lee, David Lanz, David Arkenstone, John Doan, Spencer Brewer, Tingstadt and Rumble plus several others including Images in sound of South American music.
NIGHT BEAT "Mental Marvel"
March 02, 2022 17:39 - 24 minutes - 5 MBEpisode 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 through the city find him at a summer carnival and the unexpected goings-on involving “Mentallo, the Mental Marvel".
NBC RECOLLECTIONS at 30 "Lights Out"
March 01, 2022 21:48 - 23 minutes - 16 MBExcerpts from NBC Radio broadcasts featuring The Vincent Lopez Orchestra, Boris Karloff on Lights Out, Buddy Clark sings, comedian Col. Stupnagle, NBC News coverage of ship Normandy fire and music from 1938 Contented Hour.
NBC MONITOR "Sinatra"
March 01, 2022 13:27 - 24 minutes - 14 MBStage, screen and TV star Barry Nelson first became a Monitor host in 1963 and remained on the program until 1967. After hosting Saturday afternoon Monitor for a couple of years, he became Sunday afternoon’s host in ’65, and on this first-Sunday-of-the-New Year in 1966. This episode features Frank Sinatra.
THE LONE RANGER "The Silver Colt"
February 28, 2022 23:40 - 22 minutes - 8.69 MBAired 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; George Seaton (under the name George Stenius) (January 31 – May 9, 1933); Series director James Jewell, for one episode; An actor known only by the pseudonym "Jack Deeds", for one episode; Earle Graser (May 16, 1933 – April 7, 1941). On April 8, Graser died in a car accident; and, for five episodes, the Lone Ranger was unable to speak beyo...
JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "Tropicana"
February 28, 2022 21:38 - 46 minutes - 29.8 MBAmerica's greatest stentorian radio voice after the passing of Walter Winchell. He studied at the University of Tulsa on a scholarship. From 1948 to 1953, he served as announcer of Tulsa radio station KWGS but he became best known as the voice of "The Passing Parade' and "Patterns In Sound".
JIM AMECHE TIME "Tommy Dorsey"
February 28, 2022 18:02 - 15 minutes - 7.22 MBJim Ameche (Don's brother) was the first to succeed with a nationally syndicated DJ show in the 1950s. James Ameche (August 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin – February 4, 1983, Tucson, Arizona) was a familiar voice on radio and long running transcription on AFRTS.
IRA COOK SHOW "Candy Man"
February 28, 2022 17:40 - 30 minutes - 19 MBIra Cook, Actor: McCloud. Composer and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, sixteen of which were at KMPC.
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Debbie Reynolds"
February 28, 2022 14:42 - 14 minutes - 8.87 MBHoward 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 kept listeners engaged. This episode aired on CBS Radio August 20, 1957. Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years.
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Green Valley Payoff"
February 27, 2022 22:17 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MBIn syndication episode 19 was released May 7, 1960. Hoppy turns bank robber to help a criminal straighten out. The afternoon sunlight comes in through the small window of the sheriffs office blinding the sullen young man seated on the chair in the middle of the room. William Boyd stars in his best known character role.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMPHONY "Wagner, Brahms"
February 27, 2022 19:43 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBFor AFRTS from the Jubilee season recorded on July 16, 1946. Leopold Stokowski, conductor. Brahms Academic Festival Overture and Symphonic excerpts from Wagner operas.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Comanche"
February 26, 2022 22:56 - 24 minutes - 8.72 MBEpisode 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 general. Paladin must travel into Indian territory as he seeks the corporal. Along the way, Paladin encounters a soldier he knew from his own time in the Army. It turns out the corporal is part of the 7th Calvary, and is part of the command of George Custer.
GUNSMOKE "Print Asper"
February 26, 2022 13:23 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MBEpisode 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 he stole from him. The lawyer is shot later by... Print Asper. William Conrad stars as U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon.
GRAND MARQUEE "Love That Is"
February 25, 2022 21:44 - 28 minutes - 14.7 MBEpisode 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 comedy series where most of the show is spent in antics proving the difference between men and women and the problems that arise from misunderstandings between them. The shows starred Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn.
FORT LARAMIE "Return of Hattie Pelfrey"
February 25, 2022 17:56 - 29 minutes - 18.1 MBHattie 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 CBS Radio. Virginia Gregg is guest star. This episode was written by Kathleen Hite. Gregg and Burr also worked together on TV's "Perry Mason".
ESCAPE "Night In Havana"
February 25, 2022 12:52 - 29 minutes - 17.9 MBThis was episode 81 which aired on CBS Radio around October 22, 1949 and transcribed for AFRS. Tio encounters his friend, the Dutch smuggler, Maru. Soon, they realize the stillness around them has been caused by the police. Two officers stop and search Tio because he is a well known thief, but finding nothing, they move on. What encounters next? Listen as Tony Barrett stars along with "A-List" radio character actors Janet Nolan, Jeff Cory, Jack Webb and William Conrad.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Orpheus"
February 25, 2022 04:18 - 30 minutes - 14.8 MBThis is episode 520 recorded on May 15, 1964 for AFRTS. The program opens with the Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld".
DRAGNET "Big Crazy"
February 24, 2022 23:46 - 28 minutes - 14.8 MBEpisode 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 assigned to Homicide Detail to investigate. Then we learn a thirty year old woman is missing after three months have gone by before her disappearance is reported. There is no trace of the the woman. Friday must locate her.