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The Shadow "The Three Ghosts"
August 24, 2022 21:21 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBThe Shadow aired on Mutual Radio October 31, 1937 Episode 92 The Three Ghosts stars Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law and order is, in reality, Lamont Cranston. Years ago in India, Cranston learned many strange secrets from a Yogi priest, keeper of the the Temple of the Cobras at Delhi. He taught him the power to "cloud men's minds" so they cannot see him. He is never seen only heard. A recently married woman is bro...
Sam Spade "The Rushlight Diamond Caper"
August 24, 2022 17:23 - 29 minutes - 11.5 MBSam Spade aired on CBS Radio July 4, 1948 - B093 The Rushlight Diamond Caper stars Howard Duff as Spade. The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil. When a simple job of guarding wedding presents turns deadly, Sam is thrust into the tasteless world of the elite. He m...
THE SAINT "Sinister Sneeze"
August 24, 2022 15:37 - 28 minutes - 18.5 MBThis episode of The Saint starring Vincent Price aired June 11, 1950 on NBC Radio. First episode of the 1950 summer series that filled in for Phil Harris & Alice Faye, on Sundays at 7:30pm (EST). The Saint is called in by the girlfriend of a fight manager who is afraid a big gambler will murder him.
RADIOnuages "Episode 044-049"
August 23, 2022 23:51 - 2 hours - 162 MBAll of the music was presented to RADIOnuages for promotional purposes by the artists represented here or their representatives. You will hear new age selections and a few classical pieces on this episode. Performances by Bill Evans, piano. The Celtic harp of Judith Pintar. Daniel Pinkham's HUSHED. Jim Chappell, Colin Chin, Mark Isham, Thijs Van Leer, Bob Kindler, Chip Davis, Edward Christmas, Carol Potter, Paul Winter, Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai. Compositions by Eric Satie performed by...
PURSUIT "Pursuit of The Asiatic Killers"
August 21, 2022 12:59 - 29 minutes - 20 MBMarch 11, 1952 Episode 62. When a dying man declares he was poisoned, an autopsy reveled he died of Asiatic cholera. Ben Wright stars.
PAUL HARVEY - Arthur Murray
August 19, 2022 14:25 - 3 minutes - 1.03 MBPAUL HARVEY's "The rest of the story" topic: Arthur Murray. Arthur Murray (born Moses Teichman, (April 4, 1895 – March 3, 1991) was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.
Your Navy Show "Tommy Dorsey On Sunny Side Street"
August 16, 2022 11:58 - 14 minutes - 4.64 MBYour Navy Show - 1952 US Navy Public Service Transcription ep008 Tommy Dorsey orchestra. Opens with On the Sunny Side of the Street. Don Wilson is host. Don Wilson (September 1, 1900 – April 25, 1982) was an American announcer and actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of The Jack Benny Program. Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, compos...
NORMAN CORWIN "Mary Good Fairy":
August 15, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 15.3 MB26 By Corwin aired on CBS Radio August 31, 1941 Episode 17. In this story, a poor young woman is moved to want everything she is exposed to in popular culture with a hilarious outcome. The series was able to make fun of the products that sponsored most shows because they were allowed to run without sponsorship. Norman Corwin created this script which stars Elsa Lanchester as Mary and Ruth Gordon as the fairy in The Columbia Workshop by Corwin Elsa Lanchester was in the movie The Bride of Fr...
Night Beat "Football Player and the Syndicate"
August 12, 2022 23:38 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBNight Beat from June 12, 1950 - (episode 19). Football Player and the Syndicate stars Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone with guest William Conrad as Tom Paxton.
NBC Recollections at 30 "Episode 42"
August 12, 2022 16:22 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBNBC Recollections at 30 - April 10, 1957 - episode 42 Information Please, Greta Garbo, Marian Anderson.
GODDARD LIEBERSON "Interviews Richard Rodgers"
August 11, 2022 18:12 - 16 minutes - 16.7 MBGoddard Lieberson (April 5, 1911 – May 29, 1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956 to 1971, and again from 1973 to 1975. He became president of the Recording Industry Association of America in 1964. He was also a composer, and studied with George Frederick McKay, at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to h...
NBC Monitor "Gene Rayburn"
August 11, 2022 15:29 - 16 minutes - 11 MBThis brief episode of NBC Monitor was recorded from WCOP in Boston on March 16, 1968. The host is Gene Rayburn with a report from NBC Newsman Peter Hackes. A WCOP newscast presented by announcer Jim Dixon. I suspect the primary NBC station in Boston, WBZ, did not carry Monitor but did carry the hourly newscast from NBC. Thus WCOP aired Monitor and excerpted NBC commercials for a locally produced newscast.
MIKE HAMMER "Velda's Brother"
August 10, 2022 16:50 - 19 minutes - 6.13 MBMutual Broadcasting System 1953. Larry Haines as Mike Hammer. The premiere of That Hammer Guy on December 30, 1952, was the beginning of a ninety-one episode series of hard-boiled Mickey Spillane mystery and adventures. The series premiered with Inner Sanctum workhorse Larry Haines as Mike Hammer, aided by Jan Miner in the role of Velda, Hammer's secretary and love interest, as well as several other roles in the ensemble cast. By about three months into the run, the series attempts--rather u...
Mercury Summer Theater "Jane Eyre"
August 09, 2022 19:31 - 28 minutes - 15.2 MBMercury Summer Theater - June 28, 1946 - 04 Jane Eyre. Aired on CBS. This is actually from the 1946 series The Mercury Summer Theater of the Air which involved shorter versions of stories broadcast on the original series. The quality is still above most radio fare of the time though. The air date was 06-28-1946. Alice Frost as Jane.
MR AND MRS NORTH "Coat of Arms"
August 05, 2022 18:16 - 24 minutes - 7.32 MBThis episode aired June 30, 1953. Starring Barbara Britton and Richard Denning. CBS network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Coat Of Arms". The first program with Barbara Britton and Richard Denning in the cast. In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America (in a tie with CBS's The Adventures of Ellery Queen). The program, which was broadcast once in 1941 and continuously from December 1942 through December 1946 on NBC Radio (f...
THE LONE RANGER "Diamond Mission"
August 05, 2022 12:34 - 24 minutes - 7.55 MBThis is episode 2583 released on August 4, 1954.
Keyboard Immortals - Play Piano Favorites
August 04, 2022 21:30 - 55 minutes - 34.5 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. The last episode in our series.
STORY BOOK "Wrong Way Corrigan, Blind Boy"
August 04, 2022 18:57 - 11 minutes - 6.1 MBEpisode 01. Jim Ameche is narrator of Story Book. Storyteller Jim Ameche shares surprising and interesting ‘infotainment’ pieces from The Story Book of Life. The relatively short format (episodes ran about 12 minutes) had room at the beginning and end for local advertisement, and Story Book even had a pause in the middle for another ad. The stories would appeal to later fans of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story which would go on the air in 1976. Each spot included two unrelated stories tha...
IRA COOK SHOW "old Muddy"
August 02, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 14.3 MBOne of the AFRTS most popular DJs was Ira Cook whose personality comes shining through in every one of his recorded broadcasts; he is a white collared, narrow tie-wearing square, but he had an appreciation for popular music
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "June Christy"
August 01, 2022 17:08 - 13 minutes - 8.37 MBOctober 3, 1955 Howard chats with jazz vocalist June Christy on CBS Radio. June Christy (born Shirley Luster; November 20, 1925 – June 21, 1990) was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool. After her death, she was hailed as "one of the finest and most neglected singers of her time.
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Medicine Man"
July 31, 2022 19:19 - 29 minutes - 9.38 MBEpisode 25 released in syndication on June 18, 1950. Stars William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy and Andy Clyde as California Carlson. Hopalong Cassidy is a radio western in the United States, featuring the character Hopalong Cassidy created by writer Clarence E. Mulford. It was syndicated via electrical transcription, beginning in 1948 and continuing into 1950. Its network broadcasts began on Mutual January 1, 1950, and ended on CBS December 27, 1952. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Ca...
HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMPHONY CONCERT "Don Giovanni"
July 30, 2022 22:37 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBJuly 30, 1946 Don Giovanni by Mozart from The Hollywood Bowl for AFRTS.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Lady"
July 30, 2022 14:49 - 24 minutes - 9.24 MBEpisode 39 aired August 15, 1959 on CBS Radio. Comanche violence gravely escalates around Paladin as he guides the Honorable Diane Coulter to her brother's Arizona ranch. John Dehner stars as Paladin.
HARRY LIME "See Naples and Live"
July 29, 2022 16:26 - 28 minutes - 25.5 MBEpisode two aired August 10, 1951 on Mutual Radio. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) was an old-time radio program produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprised his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than the char...
GUNSMOKE "Daddy-o"
July 28, 2022 15:25 - 24 minutes - 11.7 MBEpisode 218 aired June 10, 1956 on CBS Radio. Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.
GRAND MARQUEE "Magic Wire"
July 27, 2022 15:48 - 28 minutes - 16.1 MBEpisode 50 aired on NBC Radio August 14, 1947. Jim Ameche stars. NBC SUSTAINING Tuesdays, Sundays and Thursdays at various times Summer Replacement for the AMOS 'n ANDY SHOW DIRECTOR: Norman Felton
GANG BUSTERS "Blood Oath Gang"
July 26, 2022 19:11 - 29 minutes - 11.5 MBEpisode 71 aired on CBS Radio June 2, 1937. Gang Busters is an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered on January 15, 1936, and was broadcast over 21 years through November 27, 1957. So-called "true crime" magazines were highly popular in the 1930s and the movie G Men starring James Cagney, released in the spring of 1935, had proven to be a big hit. Producer-director Phillips H. Lord thought there w...
FORT LARAMIE "Still Waters"
July 26, 2022 16:37 - 24 minutes - 15.2 MBEpisode 38 aired on CBS Radio October 14, 1956. Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason.
FAVORITE STORY "From the Earth to the Moon"
July 25, 2022 23:47 - 29 minutes - 17.4 MBEpisode 21 aired November 5, 1946 and stars William Conrad and Jeff Corey. Jules Verne's famous science fiction novel of 1865 is dramatized.William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon. A radio writer and actor. Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling (August 10, 1914 ...
LIVES OF HARRY LIME "Too Many Crooks"
July 25, 2022 21:47 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBOrson Welles stars as Harry Lime in episode 1 which aired August 3, 1951 on Mutual Radio syndication in USA. Also on BBC Radio in UK. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) is an old-time radio show produced during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprises his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a prequel to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat light...
ESCAPE "Seeds of Greed"
July 25, 2022 18:38 - 29 minutes - 17.5 MBEpisode 103 aired on CBS Radio December 27, 1948. Starring Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990). He was an American film, radio and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. Merrill starred in the motion picture All About Eve and in his personal life was married his co-star Bette Davis. Also in the cast of this episode are William Conrad, Ben Wright and Tony Barrett.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "March Carillon"
July 25, 2022 16:53 - 30 minutes - 15.3 MBEpisode 580 for AFRTS dated August 7, 1964. Music by Hanson: March Carillon, Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Sibelius: Romance and Saint-Saens: Dance Macabre.
DRAGNET "Big Sorrow"
July 25, 2022 05:08 - 29 minutes - 10.3 MBEpisode 133 aired on NBC Radio December 27, 1951 and is dedicated to actor William Barton Yarborough (PHOTO) (October 2, 1900 – December 19, 1951) who was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama, primarily on the NBC Radio Network. He is famous for his roles in the Carlton E. Morse productions I Love a Mystery, where he played Doc Long, and One Man's Family, where he spent 19 years portraying Clifford Barbour. In addition, Yarborough spent three years as Sgt. Ben Romero on Ja...
CALIFORNIA MELODIES "In Dear Old Southland"
July 24, 2022 21:53 - 29 minutes - 16.6 MBEpisode 50 aired on Mutual Radio Network March 22, 1941. First David Rose conducts In Dear Old Southland, I Love Thee and 4:20Am. Maxine Gray sings Love Is. The Rose orchestra with Chopin's Prelude and Saint Saens Danse Macabre. Maxine Gray with Perfidia and the Rose orchestra ends this episode with a tune called Big Ben.
BOX 13 "Haunted Artist"
July 24, 2022 02:22 - 26 minutes - 16.7 MBEpisode 17 with Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized. Original syndication Date: April 28, 1948.
BOB and RAY - "Hollywood Reporter"
July 22, 2022 18:33 - 14 minutes - 7.49 MBMarch 3, 1960. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning. The classic sign-on: "And now, from approximately coast to coast, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding present the CBS radio network." The classic sign-off: "This is Ray Goulding reminding you to write if you get work. Bob Elliott reminding you to hang by your thumbs."
BILL STEWART SHOW "Mort Garson"
July 22, 2022 13:22 - 53 minutes - 19.8 MBBill chatrs with Mort Garson who was one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop. Born July 20, 1924, in the Canadian city of St. John, New Brunswick, Garson attended the Juilliard School of Music, briefly graduating to the ranks of professional pianist and arranger before he was drafted to serve in World War II. Upon returning from duty, Garson cemented a reputation as a top session hand, ta...
ANDY MANSFIELD "Moonlight Cocktail"
July 21, 2022 21:21 - 25 minutes - 15.1 MBAndy and Virginia turn back the clock to start this episode from 1960 on AFRTS with Moonlight Cocktail versions.
ANDRE KOSTELANTEZ "Kenny Baker"
July 21, 2022 20:10 - 29 minutes - 15.2 MBFrom 1944 episode 35 on CBS Radio. Kenny Baker was born on September 30, 1912 in Monrovia, California, USA. He was an actor an d singer, known for Silver Skates (1943), Hit Parade of 1941 (1940) and The Mikado (1939). He died on August 10, 1985 in Solvang, California. Baker first appeared on Jack Benny's weekly radio program on November 3, 1935, having been hired to replace singer Frank Parker. Parker had been very popular on the Benny program, and with his departure, it was widely believed...
KARL HAAS "Precursory Passages"
July 19, 2022 16:38 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBIn syndication dated February 27, 1992. Adventures in Good Music, hosted by Karl Haas, was radio's most widely listened-to classical music program, and aired nationally in the U.S. from 1970 to 2007. The program was also syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. German-American musicologist Karl Haas started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan. It was awarded the Peabody Prize.
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Case Of Melanie Carter"
July 18, 2022 22:54 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBYours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962. Charles Russell stars as Johnny Dollar in the episode from October 12, 1949 on CBS Radio.
WHISTLER "Final Return"
July 18, 2022 02:09 - 29 minutes - 16.8 MBEpisode 179 aired on CBS Radio October 29, 1945. "The Whistler" was an American radio program running for a total of 13 years from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was one of the most popular mystery dramas of its' time. Signal Oil Company sponsored the program. The marketing catch phrase was: "Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." Those opening words were spoken along with the echo of footsteps and Wilbur Hatch's 13-note theme, whistled weekly b...
TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS "Conspiracy"
July 15, 2022 16:38 - 29 minutes - 17.5 MBThis episode aired April 15, 1951 on NBC Radio. Starring Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson) with Tony Barrett, Lillian Buyeff, Herb Ellis, Ken Christy, Byron Kane, Tom McKean, Lamont Johnson, Herb Vigran. A woman's complaint that her husband was murdered and inconsistencies in the stories of local law enforcement send two Rangers down to an oil boom town to investigate.
SUSPENSE "Return Trip"
July 14, 2022 16:53 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBEdgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid (January 16, 1920 – June 21, 2013) was an American actor. In 1935, Reid debuted on the radio program The March of Time, which led to regular work on radio dramas during the golden age of radio. He portrayed Melvin Castleberry on the children's program Billy and Betty, and Philip Cameron on the serial Against the Storm and was a host on radio's version of The United States Steel Hour. Early on he took "Elliott" as his stage name. His credits include many Orson W...
STAN FREBERG "Arthur Godfrey satire"
July 14, 2022 11:17 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBFrom 1958 Stan Freberg does a parody on "The old redhead" Arthur Godfrey. Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead. At the peak of his success, in the early-to-mid 1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, sometimes for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS. His programs included Arthur Godfrey Time (Monday-F...
SIX SHOOTER "The New Sheriff"
July 13, 2022 21:59 - 28 minutes - 14.4 MBEpisode 37 aired on NBC Radio June 10, 1954 and stars James Stewart as Britt Ponset a traveling cowboy. He roams from town to town on his horse, Scar, picking up work with various ranchers and the railroad on occasion. He is widely known as "The Six Shooter". In this episode's cast are Carleton Young as the hotel clerk, Dal McKennon as Doc Cross, Paul Richards as Roy Cotton, Frank Gerstle as Gus Cotton and Junius Matthews as Jeff Perkins. This episode is also known as Write-In Candidate, Vir...
THE SHADOW "The Temple Bells of Neban"
July 13, 2022 11:34 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBOrson Welles starts as The Shadow with Agnes Moorehead in episode 91 aired October 24, 1937 on CBS Radio. The Shadow finds himself in peril when going against a drug ring where he encounters the niece of the yogi who taught him his secret of invisibility. She knows who the Shadow is, has powers of her own, and threatens to destroy him. An American radio series, The Shadow aired from 1937 to 1954. The title character was initially the narrator of Detective Story Hour, a radio program that pr...
SAM SPADE The Bail Bond Caper
July 12, 2022 19:21 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBThis episode aired on CBS Radio June 27, 1948. A million-dollar robbery of an armored car puts Sam on the spot and in need of some bail himself. Sandra Gould replaces Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Sam's secretary. Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade.
THE SAINT "Case of the Lonesome Slab"
July 12, 2022 14:36 - 27 minutes - 8.82 MBThis episode aired on NBC Radio January 22, 1950. Vincent Price stars and Simon Templar. Famous stage actress Betty Aimes has an appointment with the publisher Jim Barrie but when she arrives to meet him he is shot dead on the street before her. In a panic she runs away and jumps in to a taxi in which Simon Templar is already occupying. A few minutes later a car passes by and shoots at the taxi. It seems that for some reason someone is trying to kill Betty.
RADIO nuages 038-043
July 11, 2022 19:34 - 2 hours - 170 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...