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YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Royal Street Matter"
January 31, 2022 07:26 - 29 minutes - 24.3 MBEpisode 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"
January 31, 2022 05:09 - 25 minutes - 15.2 MB1965 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, (Hudson, MN). Jack relocates to Minnesota and begins recording his show at KUXL, shipping his tapes to Mexico each day.
THE WHISTLER "Body would not stay in the Bay"
January 31, 2022 04:35 - 29 minutes - 18.4 MBEpisode 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"
January 31, 2022 03:54 - 24 minutes - 8.36 MBEpisode aired September 18, 1949. The Saint tries to unravel a string of murders on a cruise ship.
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Sweet Revenge"
January 31, 2022 03:13 - 30 minutes - 14 MBAired 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"
January 30, 2022 22:31 - 56 minutes - 22.7 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. Cecil set the gold standard for big band era nostalgia with his legendary program “The Swingin’ Years”, which began a remarkable 60 year run on the air in 1956. The last show aired in July of 2016. This episode is from our AFRTS collection and fea...
SUSPENSE "August Heat"
January 30, 2022 02:25 - 29 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode 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. Harvey’s short story, “August Heat,” the author creates suspense by constant references to the stifling heat of a summer day and a series of foreshadowing hints that propel the reader to an uncertain conclusion. Ronald Charles Colman was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating t...
STAN FREBERG Hits "The Great Pretender"
January 30, 2022 02:08 - 3 minutes - 2.8 MB"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 November 3, 1955. The Platters were the target for one of Freberg’s most famous pop record parodies later in 1956 (introducing the term “kling-kling-kling jazz”).
SPIKE JONES "Vera Vague"
January 30, 2022 01:48 - 27 minutes - 10.5 MBJuly 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 Sanborn program starring Frances Langford with Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Tony Romano and special guest Vera Vague. The announcer is Ken Carpenter. Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portray...
SIX SHOOTER "Johnny Springer"
January 29, 2022 23:48 - 29 minutes - 12.8 MBEpisode 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 Wanted poster named Johnny Springer. Britt and the sheriff make plans to track him down.
SAM SPADE "Dr. Denhoff Caper"
January 29, 2022 16:25 - 29 minutes - 10.1 MBAugust 2, 1946. Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle star. The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 years.
PETE SMITH SHOW "AFRTS"
January 29, 2022 13:24 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBSketches In Sound. Easy Listening music with DJ Pete Smith for AFRTS episode from April 1982.
FIVE STAR MATINEE "Victoria My Wife"
January 29, 2022 05:38 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBNBC 1958 Monday through Friday 3:05 - 3:30 pm. Another compelling story of smart women and the manly-men they fall in love with.
RADIO nuages (5-6-7)
January 28, 2022 23:24 - 1 hour - 105 MBRADIO nuages with SMOOTH JAZZ and NEW AGE ACOUSTIC music. Music on RADIOnuages floats as a cloud of melodies. Selections by many outstanding contemporary musicians. On this episode music by David Cullen, Camarata, Yanni, Paul Greaver, Barbara Higby, Philip Aaberg, Leona Boyd, Peter Kater, Andrew York, David Lanz and others.
Night Beat "I Know Your Secret"
January 28, 2022 21:23 - 30 minutes - 9.39 MB- 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, all of which say, "I know your secret!"
NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Ginger Rogers"
January 28, 2022 18:57 - 23 minutes - 18.4 MBExcerpts from vintage NBC Radio broadcasts. Fanny Brice, Joe Penner, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.
BIG BAND JUKEBOX 03
January 28, 2022 15:03 - 2 hours - 132 MBThe Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos. While their place in popular culture dimmed greatly since their heyday in WWII. Here in our JUKEBOX episode 03 are several selections by some of these big bands
BIG BAND REMOTES 05
January 27, 2022 16:50 - 3 hours - 187 MBARTIE SHAW brief bio and Ritz Carlton, Boston. Radio show August 19, 1930 on NBC Network. Helen Forrest, vocalist. COUNT BASIE NBC Parade Of Bands from Birdland, NYC July 7, 1956. TED WEEMS on Beat The Band radio show April 7, 1940 with vocalist Perry Como. Garry Moore is host. BEN POLLACK radio remote broadcast. DICK JURGENS Hotel Clairmont remote on NBC Jun 26, 1946. BENNY GOODMAN Camel Caravan radio show Swing School in CBS August 10, 1937. DICK STABILE on Navy Swings transcription...
NBC MONITOR "Jimmy Durante"
January 27, 2022 05:43 - 29 minutes - 14.6 MBJim 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 NBC Radio weekend news service.
GUARD SESSION "Percy Faith"
January 27, 2022 03:59 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBMartin Block interviews famous easy listening music conductor Percy Faith on the National Guard public service transcription. But first we hear a "Summer Montage" with Faith's recordings of The Theme From A Summer Place, Summer Breeze and Summer of '42.
MAXINE GRAY CAMEO "Part 5 of 5"
January 27, 2022 03:30 - 26 minutes - 21.1 MBOur 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 Maxine Gray on a KHJ produced program dated October 15, 1944. Nobody's Children. The Nobody's Children Foundation is a nonprofit non-governmental organization, which provides a broad scope of assistance to abused children, their parents, and guardians.
BIG BAND REMOTES 04
January 26, 2022 18:11 - 2 hours - 125 MBCOUNT BASIE at Birdland's fifth anniversary. NYC December 16, 1954. Excerpted from live television on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with host Steve Allen. George Shearing and vocalist Sarah Vaughan with others. CHARLIE BARNETT June 3, 1944. From KHJ, Los Angeles over Mutual Network. FRANKIE MASTERS January 26, 1947 broadcast from The Majestic Theater, San Antonio, Texas. BENNY GOODMAN "Swing School" November 16, 1937, NYC. Vocalist Martha Tilton. Announcer (Doctor) Dan Seymore. GENE KRUPA August...
BIG BAND REMOTE 03
January 26, 2022 03:08 - 2 hours - 131 MBGLENN MILLER Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC, NBC October 25, 1940. HARRY JAMES U.S. Marine Corps transcription. Vocalist Peggy King (Photo, 1961). JIMMY DORSEY Hollywood Palladium, NBC. Vocalist Bob Eberly. BEN POLLACK, NYC. BOB CROSBY Ford V-8 Review 1936. CHARLIE BARNET NYC, CBS, November 22, 1948. RUSS MORGAN Air National Guard transcription. Vocalist Rosemary Clooney. Announcer Bill Cullen. AL OVERLAND Montana Skyline Supper Club, Billings. 1948. ANSON WEEKS Mark Hopkins Hotel...
THE LONE RANGER "The Rodeo"
January 25, 2022 16:33 - 23 minutes - 7.42 MBEpisode 2574 from July 14, 1954. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...
KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Debussy"
January 25, 2022 15:11 - 56 minutes - 30.2 MBOTRcat.com has a nice description of the Keyboard Immortals series of programs featuring actual performances recorded on piano rolls. Hear selections performed by Debussy, Chopin and other classical composers. Audiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer (piano roll player) in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls and created this radio show in his living room.
JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "AFRTS"
January 25, 2022 10:42 - 54 minutes - 19 MBWonderful stories wound into beautiful orchestral music.
JIM AMECHE TIME "Tex Ritter"
January 25, 2022 05:46 - 14 minutes - 6.93 MBThis episode opens with a classic hit of Tex Ritter.
BIG BAND REMOTE 02
January 24, 2022 23:37 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis 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 Band component, The Airmen of Note, with a tribute to Glenn Miller. The final remote is from Los Angeles with the Dale Jones Orchestra.
IRA COOK SHOW "Weatherly"
January 24, 2022 21:26 - 28 minutes - 14.1 MBIra 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 Radio and Television Service. Many episodes of it are available on www.RADIOthen.network.
BIG BAND REMOTE 01
January 24, 2022 18:27 - 46 minutes - 36.5 MBRemote from Los Angeles with the Boyd Rayburn Orchestra. Buddy Morrow's band with Rosemary Clooney for The National Guard. Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra on CBS Radio.
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Tony Bennett"
January 24, 2022 16:50 - 14 minutes - 9.03 MBAnthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions.
BIG BAND PODCAST "WTIC"
January 24, 2022 14:51 - 49 minutes - 54 MBWTIC 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.
BIG BAND JUKEBOX "Episode 02"
January 24, 2022 13:35 - 1 hour - 77 MBOTR station with some JUKEBOX big band selections and a Hal Kemp radio remote from the golden age of old time radio...1930s - 1960s.
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Coyote's Creek"
January 23, 2022 20:25 - 26 minutes - 7.97 MBThe Hopalong Cassidy radio program ran from 1948 to 1952, and was based on the popular movie and television series featuring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy. Episode 17 aired in syndication the week of April 23, 1950.
VARIOUS BIG BANDS "01 Jukebox"
January 23, 2022 20:02 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBWhile the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos. While their place in popular culture dimmed greatly since their heyday in WWII. Here in our JUKEBOX episode 01 are several selections by some of these big bands
HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMPHONY "Isaac Stern"
January 23, 2022 15:26 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBThe series makes for a grand introduction to classical symphonic music at the Hollywood Bowl - selections include the opera Carmen sung in English, featured soloists Isaac Stern, Dorothy Eustis, Roman Totenberg, and Percy Grainger, with selections from Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Cellini. Leopold Stokowski organized the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra in 1945, drawing on talent from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and from various film studios. The 1946 season was celebrate...
LES AND LARRY ELGART "Medley"
January 23, 2022 14:57 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBLes Elgart was born August 3, 1918, in New Haven, CT, while Larry was born March 20, 1922, in nearby New London. In 1955, their band became The Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra, but the brothers split in 1959, each subsequently releasing his own series of LPs.
HEAR IT NOW "Truman fires Douglas MacArthur"
January 23, 2022 14:39 - 59 minutes - 24.7 MBEdward 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-military confrontation in the history of the United States, President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the U.S. forces in Korea. The firing of MacArthur set off a brief uproar among the American public, but Truman remained committed to keeping the conflict in Korea a “limited war.”
JIMMY DORSEY "Medley"
January 23, 2022 14:21 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBJames Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957), professionally known as Jimmy Dorsey, was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "North Fork"
January 23, 2022 14:08 - 23 minutes - 8.45 MBEpisode 31 aired on CBS Radio June 21, 1959. John Dehner as Paladin protects the Mennonite community in North Fork from a townspeople determined to drive them out.
HELEN O'CONNELL "Medley"
January 23, 2022 13:50 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBHelen O'Connell (May 23, 1920 – September 9, 1993) was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".
HARRY JAMES "Medley"
January 23, 2022 11:16 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHarry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946.
ARTIE SHAW "Medley"
January 23, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBArtie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists".
BILLY MAY "Medley"
January 23, 2022 04:26 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBEdward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.
TOMMY DORSEY "Medley"
January 23, 2022 03:43 - 27 minutes - 25 MBThomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing.
TOMMY DORSEY "Podcast"
January 23, 2022 03:43 - 27 minutes - 25 MBThomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing.
GUNSMOKE "Tacetta"
January 23, 2022 00:53 - 29 minutes - 14.8 MBEpisode 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 gunfight with Marshal Dillon. Tacetta was a new girl in town and very shy and a troublemaker named Dorgan wasn’t letting anyone else in the town get close to her.
GRAND MARQUEE "Hold That Memory"
January 23, 2022 00:37 - 28 minutes - 15.4 MBEpisode 4 aired July 30, 1946 on NBC Radio. Jim Ameche stars as a psychology professor who takes his job a bit too seriously.
GLENN MILLER "Medley"
January 22, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBAlton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – disappeared December 15, 1944) was an American Big band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the Swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best-known big bands.