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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...
Pursuit - The Tall Man
July 11, 2022 16:55 - 25 minutes - 9.3 MBAired January 6, 1950 - (ep10) The police searched for a tall man believed to be behind a series of robberies. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pursuit is a crime detective series that broadcast from 1949 to 1951. Ted De Corsica plays the original Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard.
PAUL HARVEY "Arthur Conan Doyle"
July 07, 2022 21:15 - 3 minutes - 1020 KBThe REST of the STORY. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle born 22 May 1859 – died 7 July 1930 was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE "Building bridge"
July 06, 2022 18:52 - 14 minutes - 3.39 MBLittle Orphan Annie is an American radio drama series based on the popularity of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. It debuted on Chicago's WGN in 1930, then moved to the NBC radio network Blue Network on April 6, 1931. It aired until April 26, 1942. Together with Skippy (1932–1935) it is seen as the oldest US children's radio program. Radio historian Jim Harmon attributes the show's popularity in The Great Radio Heroes to the fact that it was the only radio show to deal with and appeal to...
NORMAN CORWIN "Odyssey of Runyan Jones"
July 06, 2022 14:35 - 27 minutes - 14.8 MBScript writer Norman Corwin's "The Odyssey of Runyan Jones" appeared on CBS Radio several times. This is episode 6 of a Columbia Workshop series "26 By Corwin" which aired June 8, 1941. It was called a fantasy for children. It stars Larry Robinson as Runyon Jones in this delightful fantasy about a young boy searching for his lost dog in purgatory with several actors including Norman Lloyd and Frank Lovejoy.
NIGHT BEAT "Girl From Kansas"
July 05, 2022 22:13 - 25 minutes - 5.12 MBEpisode 19 aired June 6, 1950. Frank Lovejo y starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. Listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Beat also featured occasional humorous or sentimental stories. Each episode ended with Stone at his desk a...
NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Benny-Allen Feud"
July 04, 2022 14:51 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBThe decade long feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen featured barbs between the two comedy greats on multiple old time radio shows.Since 1932, Jack Benny long amused radio audiences with his continuing gags, including his ah-hem thrifty spending habits, his perpetual age of 39, that dreadful violin playing. Fred Allen also began his career in radio comedy since 1932, when he began the show "The Lint Bath Club Revue" with wife Portland Hoffa. Allen was famous for ad-libbing and cracking up ...
NBC MONITOR "Brad Crandall"
July 02, 2022 21:22 - 28 minutes - 18 MBBradley Crandall (born Robert Lee Bradley; August 6, 1927 – March 14, 1991) was an American radio personality, voice-over announcer, and film narrator, best known for his radio show on WNBC in New York City, which aired from March 1964 to September 1971. Here is an episode of the NBC weekend radio service, MONITOR from 1968 with host Brad Crandall. "Going places and doing things, you're on the Monitor beacon". That was the cue for local staff announcers such as me to break away with local w...
MIKE HAMMER "That Hammer Guy"
June 30, 2022 16:47 - 28 minutes - 15 MBLarry Haines stars as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the series for Mutual Radio. c1953.
MERCURY THEATER "Hitch hiker"
June 30, 2022 13:05 - 29 minutes - 13.2 MBOrson Welles presents Alice Frost with him in this episode aired June 21, 1946 on CBS Radio. Alice Frost (August 1, 1910 – January 6, 1998) was an American actress. An inaugural member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on radio and the stage, she later performed the role of Pamela North on the radio series Mr. and Mrs. North for nearly 10 years.
MR AND MRS NORTH "Wheel Of Chance"
June 29, 2022 18:45 - 28 minutes - 10.6 MBAlice Frost and Joseph Curtin perform as Pam North and Jerry North on "Mr. and Mrs. North," a CBS Radio program. New York, NY. Episode 504 dated 1953.
THE LONE RANGER "Chief and the Colonel"
June 29, 2022 14:23 - 21 minutes - 6.35 MBFrom August 2, 1954. Episode 2582.
Keyboard Immortals "Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler"
June 28, 2022 23:46 - 55 minutes - 29.9 MBKeyboard Immortals - ep 22 - Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler Plays Piano. Born July 16, 1863 and died August 20, 1927. She was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist. At the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard her play and advised that she became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. She made her debut at the age of 11...
JIM AMECHE POPS CONCERT "Roberto"
June 28, 2022 19:38 - 24 minutes - 11.9 MBEasy Listening music format for AFRTS with Jim Ameche. Opens with conductor Roberto and his orchestra.
IRA COOK SHOW "Ray Conniff"
June 27, 2022 23:57 - 29 minutes - 16.1 MBL.A. DJ Ira Cook with his half hour of middle of the road pop music for AFRTS listeners. Ray Conniff, Barbra Streisand and others.
THE SHADOW "The Death House Rescue"
June 26, 2022 16:53 - 29 minutes - 21.1 MBEpisode 87 September 26, 1937 Mutual Radio. A man who's looking for a job mistakenly becomes involved with a bank robbery. He is later sentenced to death for a cop killing he didn't commit. The Shadow investigates and locates a missed piece of evidence, which helps free the wrongly accused man. Orson Welles as The Shadow (Lamont Cranston) (1st radio origin). Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane (1st appearance).
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Roger Williams"
June 26, 2022 12:27 - 13 minutes - 8.44 MBHoward chats with Roger Williams. Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz, October 1, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instrumental pop artist to strike a lasting commercial chord," Williams had 22 hit singles – including the chart-topping "Autumn Leaves" in 1955 and "Born Free" in 1966 – and 38 hit albums between 1955 and 1972.
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Border of Nowhere"
June 26, 2022 02:07 - 26 minutes - 8.63 MBHopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. The success of the television series made Boyd a star. The Mutual Broadcasting System began broadcasting a radio version, with Andy Clyde (later George MacMichael on Walter Brennan's ABC sitcom The Real McCoys) as the sidekick (except for episodes 28 to 53 of the 105 episode series, when, for reasons unknown, he was replaced by s...
HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT "Stokowski and Conner"
June 24, 2022 23:52 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBAFRTS transcription from Jubilee concert series 13 July 28, 1946. Leopold Stokowski conducting. Guest artist: Nadine Conner (born Evelyn Nadine Henderson; February 20, 1907 - March 1, 2003) was an American operatic soprano, radio singer and music teacher.
THE STORY OF GUNSMOKE 'Episode 5 of 5"
June 24, 2022 14:46 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBThe conclusion of the five hour project detailing the development and history of the series.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Finn Alley"
June 23, 2022 20:00 - 24 minutes - 9.37 MBEpisode 38 aired August 9, 1959 on CBS Radio. One of radio and TV's most successful Westerns told of the hired gun Paladin, who plied his trade in 19th-century San Francisco with a calling card ('Have Gun, Will Travel...') that hid the compelling loner's cultured manner. When he wasn't eating fine food, engaged in polite conversation and dressed impeccably, he was an intimidating gunman dressed in black, striking out for the frontier and ready to kill if necessary. He was, as the theme song ...
THE STORY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 4 of 5"
June 23, 2022 16:57 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBThe 'biography' or The Story of the creation of the CBS radio series Gunsmoke continues.
GUNSMOKE "Cows and Cribs"
June 22, 2022 21:40 - 24 minutes - 11.6 MBEpisode 214 aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. Homesteader Joe Nadler (Vic Perrin) turns to cattle rustling while Ma Smalley (Jeanette Nolan) raises an orphaned infant. Also starring John Dehner as Bowers and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. (William Conrad) as Marshal Matt Dillon.
GRAND MARQUEE "Till Crime Do Us Part"
June 22, 2022 18:27 - 29 minutes - 16.8 MBEpisode 49 aired August 17, 1947 on NBC. With Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and characters. The majority of the show is tied to antics proving the difference between men and women and the problems that arise from misunderstanding between the sexes.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 3 of 5"
June 22, 2022 17:29 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBThe creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respected western series. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James...
GANG BUSTERS "Jake and Ralph Fleager"
June 22, 2022 14:29 - 29 minutes - 15.4 MBEpisode 70 aired May 26, 1937 on CBS Radio. Gang Busters was 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.
FORT LARAMIE "Galvanized Yankee"
June 22, 2022 00:36 - 24 minutes - 15.2 MBEpisode 37 aired on CBS Radio October 7, 1956. Galvanized Yankees was a term from the American Civil War denoting former Confederate prisoners of war who swore allegiance to the United States and joined the Union Army. Approximately 5,600 former Confederate soldiers enlisted in the "United States Volunteers", organized into six regiments of infantry between January 1864 and November 1866. Of those, more than 250 had begun their service as Union soldiers, were captured in battle, then enliste...
THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Part 2 of 5"
June 21, 2022 19:37 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBThe creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respected western series. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James...
FAVORITE STORY "Phantom Rickshaw"
June 21, 2022 12:57 - 29 minutes - 17.4 MBWilliam Conrad stars in this drama from October 29, 1946. Episode 20 of Favorite Story. "The Phantom Rickshaw” appeared in Kipling’s 1888 collection The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. “Rickshaw” takes place in British colonial India in a town called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh (located in the northwest Himalayas, and served as the summer capital of the British Raj).
THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 1 of 5"
June 21, 2022 01:13 - 1 hour - 39.9 MBThe creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respected western series. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James...
ESCAPE "Figure a Dame"
June 18, 2022 18:21 - 29 minutes - 15.9 MBEpisode 90 aired on CBS Radio December 20, 1949. Starring Frank Lovejoy and his wife Joan Banks.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Strike Up The Band"
June 17, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes - 14.8 MBFrom AFRTS, July 1964. The program opens with Strike Up the Band by George Gershwin (Photo). Also music by R. Strauss, Khachaturian and Bizet.
DRAGNET "Big Hands"
June 16, 2022 21:45 - 29 minutes - 8.97 MBEpisode 128 aired on NBC Radio November 22, 1951. Friday is assigned to investigate the strangulation of an unidentified woman in a hotel room. With no leads and no clues, and no idea of who she is, he must start from scratch to find her killer.
light music medley
June 16, 2022 11:34 - 2 hours - 124 MBLight music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Its heyday was in the mid‑20th century. The style is through-composed, usually shorter orchestral pieces and suites designed to appeal to a wider context and audience than more sophisticated forms such as the concerto, the symphony and the opera.
CONCERT CAMEO "Richard Eilenberg"
June 16, 2022 11:08 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBRichard Eilenberg (13 January 1848 – 5 December 1927) was a German composer.
CONCERT CAMEO "Richard Ellenberg"
June 16, 2022 11:08 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBRichard Eilenberg (13 January 1848 – 5 December 1927) was a German composer.
CALIFORNIA MELODIES "Liebestraum"
June 16, 2022 10:51 - 29 minutes - 16.4 MBEpisode 49 aired on Mutual radio February 15, 1941. The David Rose Orchestra plays Liszt's Liebestraum, Two Hearts In The Night, Dance Bohème from Bizet's Carmen. Maxine Gray sings Up to My Heart in Love and May I Never Love Again.
BOX 13 "Look Pleasant Please"
June 11, 2022 02:26 - 26 minutes - 16.6 MBBox 13 is a syndicated radio drama 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. Episode 16.
BOB AND RAY "One Fellas Family"
June 10, 2022 19:28 - 14 minutes - 6.43 MBFrom CBS Radio March 2, 1960 A quarter hour of satire including One Fella's Family.
BILL STEWART SHOW "Nat King Cole"
June 09, 2022 15:37 - 53 minutes - 23.6 MBThis AFRTS episode opens with Nat King Cole's Dance Ballerina.
ANDY MANSFIELD SHOW "Little Girl From Little Rock"
June 09, 2022 00:14 - 25 minutes - 14.5 MBAndy and Virginia Mansfield had been around radio for most of their lives. Virginia got her start as a dancer and wound up singing with acts like Paul Whiteman and Eddie Albert. She landed a job as a staff singer at WWW, Cincinatti, and eventually moved to Los Angeles to work on KHJ, KFI and KMPC. She worked in vaudeville with her husband Andy, and they were one of the first couples to perform together on television, appearing on the Mutual Don Lee Network in 1937. The couple is best remembe...
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Jane Froman"
June 05, 2022 13:32 - 29 minutes - 15.6 MBEllen Jane Froman (November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980) was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career, Froman performed on stage, radio and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash. Her life story was told in the 1952 film With a Song in My Heart.
KARL HAAS "Adventures In Good Music"
June 02, 2022 01:04 - 54 minutes - 50.9 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...
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Little Man"
May 31, 2022 20:23 - 30 minutes - 11.1 MBCHARLES RUSSELL as Johnny Dollar. Aired October 29, 1949 on CBS Radio. The Little Man Who Wasn't There Matter. Johnny is called in to find a missing husband. The local police are sure the husband is committing a fraud, Johnny isn’t quite convinced.
THE WHISTLER "House On Sycamore Road"
May 31, 2022 16:01 - 29 minutes - 16.1 MBEpisode 177 aired on CBS WEST Network October 15, 1945. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the west coast, it was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." There were also two short-lived attempts to form east-coast broad...