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ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Oscar Levant"
February 16, 2022 21:04 - 29 minutes - 16.5 MBAired May 8, 1943 with pianist Oscar Levant. (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) He was an American concert pianist, composer, music conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and actor. Though awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recordings featuring his piano performances, he was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and later in movies and television, as for his music.
ALAN's HIDEAWAY "Episode 2"
February 16, 2022 15:48 - 1 hour - 112 MBOn his syndicated radio show from the 1980's.Alan brings us music from his personal library of hits from the mid 20th century. A few Broadway classics and some big hits from the 1970's on this episode. Songs by Polly Bergen, Richard Kiley, Linda Ronstadt, Matt Monro and others.
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Robert W. Perry Case"
February 12, 2022 17:14 - 29 minutes - 19.5 MBThis is the Charles Russell Audition show which aired on CBS Radio January 7, 1949.
WOLFMAN JACK "Broadcast excerpts"
February 12, 2022 15:41 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBWolfman 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 Graffiti (1973), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Motel Hell (1980). He was married to Lucy Lamb. He died on July 1, 1995 in Belvedere, North Carolina, USA. See full bio » https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack
THE WHISTLER "Seascape"
February 12, 2022 15:15 - 28 minutes - 14.8 MBThe wife of a lighthouse keeper admits she's a murderer. Episode 139 aired January 22, 1945 on CBS Radio.
VINTAGE RADIO "Jason Remington"
February 11, 2022 21:58 - 59 minutes - 66 MBThe Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz, blues, swing, country, pop and easy listening. Crazy news items from Lennie The Cabby. Humor from Bob and Ray, Stan Freberg, Hudson and Landry. Plus "Its cartoon time" on this episode.
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "The Trap"
February 11, 2022 20:26 - 29 minutes - 14 MBThis 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 actors include William Conrad, Parley Baer and Herb Ellis.
CHUCK CECIL "Swingin' Years"
February 11, 2022 17:43 - 29 minutes - 5.15 MBChuck Cecil (December 26, 1922 – April 30, 2019) was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingin' Years", a "Best of" radio show for the " big band " era in music, which lasted from 1935 to 1955. Early years Cecil was born and raised on an Oklahoma ranch.
SUSPENSE "Library Book"
February 10, 2022 21:11 - 30 minutes - 12.6 MBEpisode 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 Wind."
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC RADIO
February 10, 2022 20:55 - 21 minutes - 6.2 MBwww.beautifulinstrumentals.com plays a stream of an aural history of popular orchestral recordings from the 20th century. Wonderful albums of music from Broadway, Hollywood, America's great collection of standards, vintage and hit instrumentals from around the world...beautifulinstrumentals.com See www.beautifulinstrumentals.com for selections we played during the last few hours... Here is a segment of The John Doremus Show with similar format.
STAN FREBERG "Tel lee Vision and Jeanie"
February 10, 2022 19:43 - 6 minutes - 5.45 MBHITS OF STAN FREEBERG from 1957 (Tell lee vee shun) and Jeanie, with the light brown hair. (Rock Version of Stephen Foster song).
SPIKE JONES SHOW "Diana Lynn"
February 10, 2022 19:05 - 28 minutes - 8.63 MBEpisode 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 same night Jack Benny debuted on the network at 7:00. Guest is Diana Marie Lynn (born Dolores Eartha Loehr, July 5, 1926 – December 18, 1971) She was an American actress and accomplished pianist. Her mother, Martha Loehr, was a concert pianist. Lynn was considered a child prodigy. She began taking piano lessons at age 4, and by the age of 12 was p...
THE SIX SHOOTER "Revenge at Harness Creek"
February 10, 2022 17:25 - 29 minutes - 12.9 MBLex 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 do something rash. Brit Ponsett (James Stewart) had known the Harcourt brothers for many years....and ....let's listen.
SAM SPADE "Calcutta Trunk Caper"
February 10, 2022 14:48 - 24 minutes - 8.78 MBHoward 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". Constance Pendleton is about to marry Andreyev Brodnick, a Bulgarian bluebeard. Spade finds himself en route to India aboard the "S.S. Lurene" ("Hmm, that's pretty," says Effie! played by Lurene Tuttle.) The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett f...
THE SAINT "Unhappy Homicide"
February 10, 2022 03:16 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MBThis 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 have killed his business partner and wants Simon to prove he's guilty because the police don't believe him. Following that meeting, Simon is then confronted by the partner who is supposed to be dead, but later actually is murdered.
PETE SMITH SHOW "Clocks"
February 10, 2022 00:13 - 44 minutes - 32.2 MBThis episode of Pete Smith's AFRTS record show called 'Sketches In Sound' begins with a segment of music about clocks.
BERGEN and McCARTHY SHOW "Orson Welles"
February 09, 2022 23:12 - 28 minutes - 13.7 MBOne in this long-running series of comedy/variety programs sponsored by Chase & Sanborn coffee. This program features as host ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is aided by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Live musical performances are interspersed with short comedy sketches. As the show opens, Orson Welles and McCarthy trade humorous insults. Air date on NBC appears to be October 29, 1944.
RADIO nuages (008-013)
February 09, 2022 19:17 - 2 hours - 224 MBRelaxing contemporary instrumentals from www.radionuages.network ======== 'RADIO nuages' ======== Essentially SMOOTH JAZZ and ACOUSTIC music by ensembles and soloists. The music floats as a cloud of melodies. Selections by many outstanding contemporary musicians playing mostly acoustic instrumentals that melt away stress. It's like lounging at a lake front, feeling a gentle wind against your face, listening to chimes dance in the distance. Meditate... drift... RELAX... ENJOY RADIO nuages... ...
NIGHT BEAT "Tong War"
February 09, 2022 14:05 - 30 minutes - 10.5 MBEpisode 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"
February 09, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode 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"
February 08, 2022 21:39 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBJim 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 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. He is generally considered to have been a master of quick wit and one of America's greatest comedians.
THE LONE RANGER "Tilden's Mission"
February 08, 2022 16:40 - 24 minutes - 9.48 MBJuly 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, Tonto
KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Grieg"
February 08, 2022 15:29 - 55 minutes - 29.5 MBAudiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls and created this radio show in his living room. This episode is devoted to Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) He was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian fol...
JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - AFRTS - John Doremus 113 29-7
February 08, 2022 13:42 - 54 minutes - 22.4 MBThe topic of the opening segment of this episode is 'Royalty'.
JIM AMECHE (JACK ARMSTRONG) "Pelican crew rescued"
February 08, 2022 13:28 - 14 minutes - 5.83 MBFinal chapter in this episodic adventure of Jack Armstrong from 1934.
JIM AMECHE SHOW "Bob Sharples"
February 08, 2022 11:42 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MBIt's Jim Ameche Time - Theme song by Billy Vaughn Listen to It's Jim Ameche Time on Radio then as the show opens with a tune by Biob Sharples' Orchestra.
IRA COOK SHOW "Matt Monro"
February 08, 2022 03:08 - 26 minutes - 13.3 MBThe 1049th episode of Ira Cook's AFRTS series opens with a selection by British vocalist Matt Monro. Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons, 1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1950s and 1970s. Known as The Man with the Golden Voice, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums around the world in his 30-year career.
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Nat King Cole"
February 07, 2022 17:54 - 13 minutes - 7.96 MBSeptember 2, 1955 on CBS Radio. Howard Miller chats with vocalist Nat King Cole. Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway. He was the first African-American man to host an American television se...
HOPALONG CASSIDY FRONTIER PLAYHOUSE "Bullets For Ballots"
February 07, 2022 16:27 - 25 minutes - 11.1 MBSyndication 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 model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry and good-natured decency and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners, all while delivering action-packed entertainment.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMPHONY "Camilla Wicks, violinist"
February 07, 2022 14:24 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBAFRTS Broadcast July 14, 1946 with Camilla Wicks, violin – Los Angeles Philharmonic -Leopold Stokowski, conducting. Camilla Dolores Wicks (August 9, 1928 – November 25, 2020) was an American violinist, and one of the first female violinists to establish a major international career. Her performing career included solo appearances with leading European and American symphony orchestras.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Homecoming"
February 07, 2022 03:44 - 20 minutes - 9.96 MBEpisode 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 Dehner as Paladin.
PAUL HARVEY "Yellow Rose of Texas"
February 06, 2022 15:14 - 3 minutes - 1.29 MBThe rest of the story.
GUNSMOKE "Buffalo Hunter"
February 06, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 18.1 MBEpisode 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. Soon afterwards, a nester is found stabbed to death.
GRANDE MARQUEE 'Wedding In Columbia"
February 06, 2022 05:18 - 28 minutes - 15.3 MBEpisode 5 aired August 5, 1946 on NBC. Sustaining program originating from NBC Chicago from 1946 to 1947. Each episode was a light-hearted romantic comedy illustrating the difference between men and women. Jim Ameche was the primary star in each show.
FORT LARAMIE "Chaplain"
February 05, 2022 18:27 - 29 minutes - 18.4 MBEpisode 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-laramie.html Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince.
ESCAPE "Sure Thing"
February 05, 2022 05:37 - 29 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode 80 aired October 15, 1949 on CBS Radio. Escape to a lonely schooner sailing through the hot Caribbean night carrying a fortune and the heedless passions of reckless men as John and Gwen Bagney tell it in their exciting tale The Sure Thing. Starring John Hoyt (Photo) and William Conrad. John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Belle of the Ball"
February 05, 2022 03:59 - 30 minutes - 15.1 MBFrom May 8, 1964 episode 515 begins with Leroy Anderson's (photo) Belle of the Ball. KCBH featured a classical music format and presented high fidelity stereo broadcasts at a time when no one really knew what to do with FM radio. The Enchantment of Music was a collection of concerts of "Light Classic music from California, designed for pleasant listening to melodies of the Masters, Old, and New"...(OTRcat.com)
DRAGNET "Big Sophomore"
February 04, 2022 15:09 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBEpisode 110 aired July 19, 1951 on NBC Radio. Harry Dunbar admits a series of petty thefts, but is reluctant to explains his reasons
CONCERT CAMEO "Leo Fall"
February 04, 2022 14:29 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBLeopold Fall (2 February 1873 – 16 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.
CALIFORNIA MELODIES "Faust Selections"
February 04, 2022 14:12 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode 44 from February 8, 1941 on the Don Lee Mutual Network. David Rose Orchestra with selections from Faust, Amapola and Better That Way. Maxine Gray sings Some Changes Made and Come Back to Me. A Rose original called Indefinite Rhythm.
BOX 13 "Great Torino"
February 04, 2022 03:53 - 26 minutes - 16.3 MBEpisode 10 in syndication starring Alan Ladd. A murdered magician's assistant. Death from an impossible trick? Dan Holiday is a fiction writer who receives his material for his books through his provocative ads in the Star Times which read “adventure wanted – will go anywhere –do anything-Box 13”.
BOB AND RAY "Natalie Attired"
February 03, 2022 16:28 - 14 minutes - 6.38 MBEpisode 179 February 19, 1960 over CBS Radio and recorded from KCBS San Francisco. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning, in "On the Air: The Encyclopedia".
BILL STEWART SHOW "AFRTS 656"
February 03, 2022 12:02 - 52 minutes - 22.2 MBBill 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 with a concert at the Hollywood Palladium. He also did in flight music programming. We lost Bill in 1993 from congestive heart failure. (AFRTS ARCHIVE)
BIG TOWN "Lost and Found"
February 03, 2022 05:06 - 29 minutes - 9.04 MBAired on NBC Radio December 7, 1948. Dick Rutter, the star reporter of a competing paper, disappears. Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press suspects a connection to the "Lucky Louie" murder.
BIG BAND REMOTES 06
February 02, 2022 20:49 - 3 hours - 136 MBA big band remote (a.k.a. dance band remote) was a remote broadcast, common on radio during the 1930s and 1940s, involving a coast-to-coast live transmission of a big band. This episode is number 6 in our posts of podcasts and includes broadcasts by Anson Weeks, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Ben Pollock, Bill Snyder, Bob Crosby, Carl Ravazza and Boyd Raeburn.
BIG BAND JUKEBOX 04
February 02, 2022 15:03 - 2 hours - 147 MBThe Big Band era is generally regarded as having occurred between 1935 and 1945. It was the only time in American musical history that the popularity of jazz eclipsed all other forms of music. To many, the appearance of Benny Goodman and his Big Band at the Palomar in Los Angeles in August of 1935 was the start of the Swing Era. Here in our jukebox are several selections by some of these early bands and a few more contemporary ones.
ANDY MANSFIELD SHOW "Happiness Goodbye Blues"
February 02, 2022 03:09 - 25 minutes - 12.6 MBAndy and Virginia Mansfield were not new to radio with Turn Back the Clock. Virginia was originally a dancer and eventually performed with everyone from Paul Whiteman and Eddie Albert to Eddie Cantor. She and Andy performed together in Vaudeville, while Virginia’s career as a staff singer for various radio stations carried her from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. Andy Mansfield made no secret of his love for music of the past telling listeners at least once every episode that the show’s musical...
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Lily Pons"
February 02, 2022 00:34 - 29 minutes - 14 MBApril 25, 1946 (AFRTS Transcription) André Kostelanetz specialized in “light classical” music which was accessible to the everyday listener. CBS President William S. Paley gave the maestro his own weekly show to spread this somewhat high-brow form of cultural enlightenment. Kostelanetz was then married to famed soprano Lily Pons from 1938 to 1958, when they divorced.
KARL HAAS - AIGM "Baroque International"
February 01, 2022 00:12 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBKarl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. He was the host of the classical music radio program Adventures in Good Music, which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published the book Inside Music. He was a respected musicologist, as well as an accomplished pianist and conduc...