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TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Bad Blood"
May 30, 2022 17:02 - 29 minutes - 14.9 MBAired on NBC Radio April 8, 1951. Joe Crayger has been drafted and is packing a suitcase to report to army duty when his friend Russ turns up to make peace. Russ didn’t want to him to leave without them being friends again and says it’s a pity that brother-in-law of his didn’t get drafted instead. After Russ leaves Orville his brother-in-law wants to borrow some money. When Joe refuses Orville kills Joe leaving him to be found by his wife. Joel McCrea stars as Ranger Jace Pearson.
SUSPENSE "Dark Journey"
May 30, 2022 10:02 - 24 minutes - 15.5 MBQuality improves as broadcast continues. Aired April 25, 1946 on CBS Radio. With Nancy Kelly who was an American actress, a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977. A thwarted woman plans a horrible revenge...and succeeds by the force of her powerful will. A well-done, excellent story that is "well calculated." The drama is told with only two voices. She had been afraid of Anne Brodie now for 15 years but there was no need to be afraid anymore. On that da...
Frontier Gentleman "The Shelton Brothers"
May 29, 2022 23:25 - 24 minutes - 13.8 MBJohn Dehner stars as Frontier Gentleman aired on CBS RADIO February 2, 1958 episode 1 titled The Shelton Brothers. The first show of the series. Kendall takes on the entire Shelton gang in a small town in the Montana Territory. There is a town in Montana territory, where it is against the law to carry a gun. The sheriff lives by this order. But, because of it, other men can die. Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, initially heard...
STAN FREBERG "Pilgrim's Progress"
May 29, 2022 17:59 - 3 minutes - 4.63 MBaka Take an Indian to Lunch. From Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years a 1961 American comedy album with music and dialogue written by Stan Freberg, released as Capitol W/SW-1573. Freberg satirizes episodes of the history of the United States from 1492 until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. The album combined dialogue and song in a musical theater format. Billy May orchestrated and conducted the music, with the Jud Conlon Singers providing b...
SIX SHOOTER "Silver Threads"
May 29, 2022 03:33 - 29 minutes - 14 MBEpisode 36 aired on NBC Radio June 3, 1954. James Stewart stars with Barney Phillips. Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913 – August 17, 1982), was an American film, television, and radio actor. His most prominent roles include that of Sgt. Ed Jacobs on the 1950s Dragnet television series, appearances in the 1960s on The Twilight Zone, in which he played a Venusian living under cover on Earth in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and a supporting role as actor Fletcher Huff in the sh...
SAM SPADE "Death Bed Caper"
May 28, 2022 21:09 - 29 minutes - 17.3 MBThis episode aired June 20, 1948 on CBS Radio. Dan Starbuck calls the office of detective Sam Spade (Howard Duff) as his brother is dying on his boat. If his brother dies he suspects police will accuse him of murder because the brothers had hated each other for years.
THE SAINT "Cake That Killed"
May 28, 2022 15:29 - 24 minutes - 7.51 MBAired January 8, 1950. Vincent Price picked up the role of the Saint in 1947, after Edgar Barrier and Brian Aherne. For anyone used to Roger Moore’s portrayal of Simon Templar, the first impact with Price can be baffling. Price’s cultured, quietly witty voice is superimposed in our mind with Moore’s features, and the end result is weird.
RADIO nuages 034-038
May 28, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours - 172 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 "Three For All"
May 27, 2022 17:50 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBEpisode 2 aired November 10, 1949 on CBS Radio. Starring Ted De Corsia. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pursuit is a crime detective series that broadcast from 1949 to 1951. Edward Gildea De Corsia (September 29, 1903 – April 11, 1973) was an American radio, film, and television actor, best remembered for his roles as the ex-wrestler murderer Willie Garzah in the film The Naked City (1948) and as a gangster who turned state's evidence in the film The Enforcer (1951). De Corsica was a pop...
Salute to the Law "Young Shoplifter"
May 26, 2022 21:15 - 13 minutes - 5.32 MBSalute to the Law ran from 1939 to 1940 and was an overly moralistic view of crime and punishment. The arresting officer would not only serve to prevent crime but to serve as a moral guider as well. Most stories involve young women who have turned to crime only to be rescued by the officer in question and put on the right path.
NORMAN CORWIN "Radio Primer"
May 26, 2022 16:14 - 30 minutes - 13 MB26 By Corwin. Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.
NIGHT BEAT "Stamp Dealer"
May 26, 2022 12:41 - 28 minutes - 8.9 MBEpisode 17 aired May 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone.
MIKE HAMMER "Contract On A Dead Man"
May 25, 2022 23:37 - 24 minutes - 11 MBLarry Haines as that Hammer guy in an episode from 1953 on Mutual Radio Network.
MERCURY THEATER "Count of Monte Cristo"
May 25, 2022 22:24 - 23 minutes - 11.6 MBOrson Wells production aired June 14, 1946 on CBS Radio.
EVERETT DIRKSEN "Gallant Men"
May 25, 2022 20:26 - 2 minutes - 1.96 MBGallant Men was released by Capitol Records (5805) in December 1966. Several months later it had hit number 15 on the Billboard Top 100. It was scored by John Cacavas, written by Charles Osgood and narrated by Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen.
NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Songwriters Tribute"
May 25, 2022 19:51 - 25 minutes - 19.2 MBTo celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings, Recollection at 30 would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. This is episode 19 which aired October 31, 1956. A Songwriters Tribute.
FAVORITE STORY "Meridian 7 12 12"
May 25, 2022 02:59 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBFavorite Story is an American old-time radio dramatic anthology. It was nationally syndicated by the Ziv Company from 1946 to 1949. The program was "advertised as a show that 'stands head and shoulders above the finest programs on the air'". Originating at KFI in Los Angeles, California. Each episode of Favorite Story featured an adaptation of a story selected by a celebrity — purportedly his or her favorite story. The celebrities came from various fields: actors, directors, bandleaders, and...
MIKE HAMMER "Miller Trouble"
May 24, 2022 17:05 - 26 minutes - 9.56 MBLarry Haines as Mike Hammer in this 1953 episode from Mutual Radio. The Barney Miller syndicate has trouble with dames in this case about Hank Busby.
MERCURY THEATER "Around World In Eighty Days"
May 24, 2022 02:54 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBOrson Welles host. June 7, 1946 The Mercury Summer Theater presents their adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, the story of the adventures of a gentleman who travels the globe in order to win a wager, while being pursued by a detective who suspects him of bank robbery.
THE LONE RANGER "Double Frame Up"
May 23, 2022 14:09 - 19 minutes - 8.56 MBAired July 30, 1954. Expert marksman. Above-average athlete, horseman, hand-to-hand combat, and master of disguise. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American West.
KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Chopin"
May 23, 2022 03:42 - 57 minutes - 36.7 MBFrédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - TREES, ROSES and TRAVEL
May 22, 2022 19:21 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBJohn Doremus was born on August 3, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA as John Crumley Doremus. He was an actor, known for Sinistar (1983). Radio programmer and personality. He died on July 6, 1995 in Naperville, Illinois, USA. John Doremus, with a melodious-voice, was a disc jockey in Chicago for more than two decades, was known by many as "the nation's foremost beautiful music host."
IRA COOK SHOW "Brass Impact"
May 22, 2022 00:15 - 29 minutes - 16.1 MBCook's 1793rf show for AFRTS transcription service. Opens with selection by group known as Brass Impact.
HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Gale Storm"
May 21, 2022 22:14 - 13 minutes - 8.42 MBHoward chats with singer-actor Gale Storm. Josephine Owaissa Cottle (April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009), known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955. This ep...
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Death Paints a Picture"
May 21, 2022 19:37 - 26 minutes - 7.65 MBEpisode 23 released by Commodore Productions June 4, 1950. William Boyd as Hoppy.
ALAN'S HIDEAWAY "Episode 04"
May 21, 2022 16:46 - 37 minutes - 44.8 MBA mixed bag of Alan's favorite selections from his library secured at a Mexican hideaway in the Sierra Madre's. A collection from the 1940's to today. Classical, Easy Listening, Broadway, Soundtracks, Soft Rock and humor on records.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT "Mozartiana Tchaikovsky"
May 20, 2022 19:53 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBA ballet night at the Hollywood Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo series. Episode 11 recorded July 27, 1946 for AFRTS. The program includes TCHAIKOVSKY'S Mozartiana, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Scheherazade, TCHAIKOVSKY'S Bluebird and COPLAND's Rodeo.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "High Wire"
May 20, 2022 16:39 - 24 minutes - 9.77 MBEpisode 37 aired August 2, 1959 on CBS Radio. John Dehner as Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circus performer with his dignity.
PAUL HARVEY "Archduke Ferdinand"
May 20, 2022 15:21 - 3 minutes - 1.1 MBTHE REST OF THE STORY Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
GUNSMOKE "Wild West"
May 19, 2022 19:43 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MBEpisode 65 aired July 18, 1953 on CBS Radio Network. Gunsmoke, the radio series, aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961 on CBS. It starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon. Hattie throws in with two men to kill her husband and then sell his ranch for the money. Yorky Kelley sees the men ride off with his father and trails them till his horse breaks a leg. On the prairie Yorky finds Marshall Dillon and asks for his help finding his Pa.
GRAND MARQUEE "Sometimes You Strike It Rich"
May 19, 2022 19:03 - 28 minutes - 14.7 MBIt's like Valentines Day every week with Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and characters.
GANG BUSTERS "Safe Cracking Combine"
May 19, 2022 17:21 - 24 minutes - 14.1 MBGang 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. Gang Busters aired on CBS from January 15, 1936 to June 15, 1940, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and Cue magazine. From October 11, 1940 to December 25, 1948, it was heard on the Blue Network, with various sponsors that included Sloan's Liniment, Waterman pens ...
FORT LARAMIE "Small Beginning"
May 19, 2022 12:15 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode 36 aired on CBS Radio September 30, 1956. Fort Laramie is a CBS Radio 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.
ESCAPE "Border Town"
May 18, 2022 19:14 - 29 minutes - 14.7 MBEpisode 101 aired December 13, 1949 on CBS Radio. An actor on a bus to Hollywood has $15,000 in counterfeit money planted in his coat and a trip to Mexico to get rid of it leads to dangerous adventures. Jack Webb stars in this episode.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Fantaisie Impromptu"
May 18, 2022 17:39 - 29 minutes - 15 MBReleased for AFRTS transcription services June 12, 1964. Episode 540 opens with a orchestration of Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu.
DRAGNET "Big Hit and Run Killer"
May 18, 2022 16:19 - 29 minutes - 10.7 MBEpisode 126 aired on NBC Radio November 8, 1951. Traffic Investigation, Hit and Run Felony Detail. A hit and run driver escapes, after killing a woman, and seriously injuring her grandson. Now it’s up to Joe Friday to catch him.
CONCERT CAMEO "Richard Addinsell"
May 17, 2022 19:26 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBRichard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 1904 – 14 November 1977)[1] was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron).
BOX 13 "Double Right Cross"
May 16, 2022 19:13 - 26 minutes - 16.5 MBIn syndication by Mayfair Productions. Alan Ladd portrays writer Dan Holiday who goes to see an old army buddy who is now a professional boxer, but someone is drugging him to sabotage his fight.
BOB AND RAY "Mr Trace"
May 16, 2022 17:35 - 14 minutes - 6.32 MBBob and Ray present the CBS Radio Network. Aired March 1, 1960. Episode 177 included skit, Mr. Trace, keener than most persons. A satire on OTR's Mr Keene, tracer of lost persons.
BILL STEWART SHOW "Trombones Inc."
May 16, 2022 15:57 - 54 minutes - 19.2 MBStewart starts of his AFRTS transcribed show 650 with arrangements by Warren Barker and Marty Paich for their album "Trombones Inc."
ANDY MANSFIELD "Heartaches"
May 15, 2022 17:23 - 25 minutes - 12.7 MBIn episode 1486 for AFRTS Virginia and Andy Mansfield turn back the clock to play some old favorites from their vast record collection. To open this episode we hear versions of HEARTACHES by The Hugo Montenegro Orchestra and The Ted Weems Band with whistler Elmo Tanner.
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Rose Brampton"
May 15, 2022 12:55 - 29 minutes - 15.3 MBOctober 25, 1943. Rose Bampton (November 28, 1907 in Lakewood, Ohio – August 21, 2007 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American opera singer who had an active international career during the 1930s and 1940s. She began her professional career performing mostly minor roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1929 but later switched to singing primarily leading soprano roles in 1937 until her retirement from the opera stage in 1963.
Karl Haas - adventuresInGoodMusic - (1992) Toscanini
May 14, 2022 22:56 - 55 minutes - 69 MBArturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory.
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "The Fishing Boat Matter"
May 14, 2022 17:44 - 29 minutes - 18.5 MBThis episode aired on CBS Radio October 1, 1949. Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama, with Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien and John Lund portraying Dollar in succession over the years. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starr...
THE WHISTLER "Death Laughs Last"
May 14, 2022 14:56 - 30 minutes - 16.5 MBEpisode 176 aired October 8, 1945 on CBS Radio. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama. Each episode of The Whistler began with the sound of footsteps and a person whistling. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate. The series ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network.
JASON REMINGTON'S "Vintage Radio"
May 13, 2022 19:16 - 59 minutes - 58.3 MBLate lounge with Little Orphan Archie. Novelty songs, one hit wonders and comedy from the mid 20th century.
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Pressure"
May 13, 2022 13:21 - 30 minutes - 14 MBThis episode aired April 1, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tales of the Texas Rangers, was a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Motion picture star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases. Produced by Stacy Ke...
SUSPENSE Too Little To Live On
May 13, 2022 03:37 - 24 minutes - 14.6 MBEpisode 179 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1946. From an AFRTS transcription. Stars Nancy Colman and George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992). He was an American dancer, actor, and politician. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable Amer...
STAN FREBERG - Old Payola Roll Blues - (Pts. 1 & 2)
May 12, 2022 20:24 - 9 minutes - 8.38 MBSTAN FREBERG - Old Payola Roll Blues - (Pts. 1 & 2) In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it "Old Payola Roll Blues", a two-sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled "High School OO OO", and then tries to offer the song to a jazz radio station with phony deals that the disc jockey just won't buy it. It ends with an anti-rock song, saying hello to jazz and swing, and goodbye t...