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SIX SHOOTER "Blood Relations"
May 12, 2022 14:13 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBEpisode 35 aired on NBC Radio May 27, 1954. Britt is welcomed in at the ranch of long time friends. Young George is worried that his sister’s new boyfriend is the brother of a killer who was hung several years earlier. He’s worried she won’t be safe with the man.
SAM SPADE Bow Window Caper
May 11, 2022 21:03 - 29 minutes - 16.5 MBEpisode BO59 aired November 9, 1947 on NBC Radio. Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade.
THE SAINT "Real Gone Guy"
May 11, 2022 15:19 - 28 minutes - 22.2 MBThis episode aired on NBC Radio July 2, 1950. Vincent Price stars as Simon Templer. Simon investigates the death of a band leader.
21st PRECINCT "The Visitors"
May 10, 2022 23:42 - 30 minutes - 9.22 MB21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and Twenty First Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953, to July 26, 1956. It was initially a summer replacement for My Friend Irma. Everett Sloane was the lead actor. Aired January 20, 1954 in CBS. This episode via AFRTS transcription. CBS announcer Art Hannes. Everett H. Sloane (October 1, 1909 – August 6, 1965) was an American character actor, who worked in radio, theatre, films, and television. He was also a songwrit...
RADIO nuages "30-33"
May 09, 2022 12:32 - 1 hour - 133 MBThis episode features contemporary acoustic music by Leo Kottke, Mark Slonaker, Bill Quist, John Archer, Paul Winter, Enya and many others.
NORMAN CORWIN - "American In England: Women Of Britain "
May 09, 2022 04:18 - 29 minutes - 14 MBNorman 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. In June 1942, Corwin flew to England for An American in England. Edward R. Murrow produced the joint CBS-BBC venture. Corwin’s mission was to explore wartime England and report back about what he observed.
NIGHT BEAT "I Wish You Were Dead"
May 08, 2022 09:13 - 29 minutes - 9.09 MBEpisode 16 aired May 22, 1950 on NBC Radio. From February 6, 1950 to September 25, 1952, Frank Lovejoy starred as Randy Stone in the NBC radio series Night Beat. The series was sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Wheaties breakfast cereal.
I Wish You Were Dead
May 08, 2022 09:13 - 29 minutes - 9.09 MBEpisode 16 aired May 22, 1950 on NBC Radio. From February 6, 1950 to September 25, 1952, Frank Lovejoy starred as Randy Stone in the NBC radio series Night Beat. The series was sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Wheaties breakfast cereal.
RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "NBC Radio"
May 07, 2022 21:49 - 24 minutes - 18.7 MBEd Herlihy hosts episode 21 which aired on NBC Radio November 14, 1956. Featuring young Judy Garland, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, French singer Jean Sablon, Sigmund Spaeth the Song Detective and tenor John McCormick.
MONITOR NBC RADIO "Excerpts"
May 06, 2022 19:28 - 59 minutes - 46.7 MBExcerpts from several segments of NBC Monitor from the mid 1960's. With hosts Frank Blair, Ted Steel and Henry Morgan. Including a feature with Jules Rind reporting from Philadelphia. (Perhaps NBC affiliate at the time WPEN).
MERCURY THEATER "My Little Boy"
May 05, 2022 20:36 - 26 minutes - 15.4 MBOrson Welles' Mercury Theater players Ruth Warwick and Ray Collins. Lady Esther sponsor on CBS January 19, 1942. Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005) was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children. Ray Collins was best known as Lt Tragg on TV's Perry Mason.
THE LONE RANGER Flood Waters
May 05, 2022 11:38 - 25 minutes - 7.58 MBEpisode 2580 aired in syndication July 28, 1954.
Keyboard Immortals - Music Of Mendelssohn
May 04, 2022 22:16 - 56 minutes - 25.9 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. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and cham...
JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - LONLINESS
May 04, 2022 20:53 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBThis episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Doremus opens this hour long episode of beautiful music with a segment devoted to LONLINESS.
Hollywoods Open House - Bert Lahr Goes To Night School
May 04, 2022 12:39 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBGuest Bert Lahr does different segments in the show based around gags where he's going to night school. Vocals on some of the songs are by Diane Courtney and Danny O'Neil. Bert Lahr. Irving Lahrheim (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967), known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian.
IRA COOK SHOW Moment Of Truth
May 04, 2022 11:58 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBIra Cook (1916–2007) Ira Cook. Composer, actor and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, sixteen of which were at KMPC.
Howard Miller Show - Peggy King
May 04, 2022 10:36 - 13 minutes - 8.46 MBPeggy King (born February 16, 1930) is a jazz and pop vocalist and television personality. She was a member of big bands led by Charlie Spivak, Ralph Flanagan, and Ray Anthony. "Pretty Perky Peggy King", as she was called, appeared on The George Gobel Show from 1954 through 1957 and guest-starred on many other TV shows. Mitch Miller signed her to a long-term contract with Columbia Records, under which she made two best-selling albums, Wish Upon on a Star and Girl Meets Boy and a string of hi...
Hopalong Cassidy - The Letter from the Grave
May 03, 2022 13:40 - 26 minutes - 8.05 MBEpisode 22 released in syndication May 28, 1950. Hopalong Cassidy is a radio western series 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.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT "Ballet Russe"
May 01, 2022 22:11 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBEpisode 12 recorded for AFRTS July 22, 1946. Featuring the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. CHOPIN Concerto in e, DEBUSSY Afternoon of a Faun, GLAZUNOV Snow Maiden. Ivan Butnikoff was a Russian born conductor and composer (1893 - 1972). In 1923 he was appointed as chief conductor of the orchestra of the Conservatory of Athens. With his excellent technique he directed the orchestra with great success, showing the Athenian audience several performances of symphonic works, particularly those of Scr...
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Wager"
April 30, 2022 22:05 - 24 minutes - 9.55 MBEpisode 36 aired July 26, 1959 on CBS Radio. A wealthy patron's request for Paladin's guardianship may end differently than expected with gambling involved--gambling with the highest of stakes. John Dehner stars.
GUNSMOKE "Grass"
April 28, 2022 20:57 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBEpisode 64 aired July 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
GRAND MARQUEE "First Hundred Years"
April 28, 2022 15:25 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBEpisode 35 aired May 1, 1947 on NBC Radio. Grand Marquee ran from 1946 to 1947 and is a light-hearted romantic comedy where most of the show is spent in antics proving the difference between men and women and their problems. Starring Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn.
GANG BUSTERS "Costume Ring"
April 28, 2022 11:02 - 24 minutes - 14 MBThis "best remembered" of all the crime stoppers shows was billed 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 pe...
FORT LARAMIE "Woman At Horse Creek"
April 27, 2022 19:53 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode 35 aired on CBS Radio September 23, 1956. Regular cast with guests Virginia Christine, John Dehner and Barney Phillips. A new widow named Mrs. Dennis remains all alone out on the prairie...easy prey for Indians...or soldiers. Script written by Kathleen Hyte.
MERCURY THEATER "Shredin Vashtar"
April 27, 2022 17:45 - 27 minutes - 13.9 MBThis episode aired on CBS Radio September 15, 1941. Orson Welles presents actress Osa Massen. The Mercury Theater known as the Lady Esther Show (after its sponsor), was a live CBS Radio series. Osa Massen was a Danish actress who became a successful movie actress in Hollywood. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1941.
ESCAPE "Letter From Jason"
April 27, 2022 03:19 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBEpisode 87 aired November 29, 1949 on CBS Radio. Some of Hollywood's best character actors stood in front of the CBS ESCAPE microphone, including Jack Webb, Frank Lovejoy, Howard McNear, Harry Bartell, Alan Reed, Jeanette Nolan, John Dehner and many others. Narrating duties were shared by William Conrad and Paul Frees. Frees said that the two striking bass voices had an informal agreement that one would narrate each week while the other acted, swapping generally every other show.
ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC "Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov"
April 26, 2022 13:24 - 29 minutes - 14.6 MBAFRTS classical music program opens with The Procession of the Sardar by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov from Caucasian Sketches. Ippolitov-Ivanov's works include operas, orchestral music, chamber music and a large number of songs. His style is similar to that of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. With the exception of his orchestral suite Caucasian Sketches ( Kavkazskiye Eskizi, 1894), which includes the much-excerpted "Procession of the Sardar", his music is rarely heard today.
DRAGNET "Big Shoplift"
April 25, 2022 17:23 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBEpisode 122 aired October 11, 1951 on NBC Radio. Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday arrests the five finger discount specialists aka SHOPLIFTERS in this episode of Dragnet.
CONCERT CAMEO "Percy Grainger"
April 22, 2022 04:48 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBPercy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.
CALIFORNIA MELODIES "Vesti la Giubba"
April 21, 2022 21:10 - 29 minutes - 18.2 MBEpisode 48 aired on the Mutual Network March 8, 1941. The program opens with the David Rose orchestration of the opera aria Vesti la Giubba, Here In the Velvet Night and Red Moon of the Caribbean. Next Maxine Gray sings There'll Be Some Changes Made. Rose again with a Tender Waltz and Loch Lomond. Maxine Gray with High on a Windy Hill and Rose closes with an original piece called Erotic Interlude.
BOX 13 "Diamond In The Sky"
April 21, 2022 18:18 - 26 minutes - 16.4 MBSyndicated by Mayfair Productions thgis program aired on week of November 21, 1948 as the 14th of its 52 episodes. Alan Ladd in Box 13 found adventures that did not depend on a new corpse every week. Dan Holiday, retired newspaper man turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, he places an ad in the paper "Adventure wanted – will go anywhere, do anything – Box 13."
BOB AND RAY "Locking Door Ceremony"
April 20, 2022 12:58 - 14 minutes - 6.49 MBBob and Ray present The CBS Radio Network.
BILL STEWART SHOW "Jazz Greats"
April 18, 2022 19:39 - 54 minutes - 15.5 MBStewart continues his interview with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. Part 2 of 2.
ANDY MANSFIELD "Dukes of Dixieland"
April 17, 2022 20:28 - 50 minutes - 30.7 MBThe Dukes of Dixieland was an American, New Orleans "Dixieland"-style revival band. The original Dukes of Dixieland were featured on the first stereo record, released November 1957, on the Audio Fidelity label.[1] Sidney Frey, founder and president of Audio Fidelity, had Westrex cut the disk for release before any of the major record labels. In 1978, the Dukes, under John Shoup's direction, recorded the first direct-to-disk album, and then, in 1984, were the first jazz band to record on CD. ...
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Irma Gonzalez"
April 17, 2022 14:22 - 29 minutes - 14.4 MBEpisode from September 20, 1943 on AFRS transcription with Mexican soprano Irma Gonzalez born 8 October 1916 in Mexico City, Mexico and died 4 December 2008.
KARL HAAS "Stately Occasions"
April 16, 2022 15:55 - 24 minutes - 16.3 MBAdventures In Good Music edited AFRTS transcription.
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Expiring Nickels"
April 16, 2022 03:57 - 29 minutes - 16.1 MBEpisode aired September 4, 1949 on CBS Radio. Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar.
THE WHISTLER "The Man Who Died Twice"
April 15, 2022 16:09 - 29 minutes - 16.6 MBEpisode 174 aired on CBS Radio September 24, 1945. Host Marvin Miller for Signal auto products. The Whistler is one of American radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955.The Whistler was the most popular West Coast-originated program with its listeners for many years. It was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler."
JASON REMINGTON "Vintage Radio"
April 14, 2022 20:22 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBJason Remington in the Late Night Lounge as Little Orphan Archie presents another audio montage of old hits, vintage radio classics and comedy.
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Breakdown"
April 14, 2022 15:09 - 30 minutes - 14.9 MBThis episode aired March 25, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th century Western old-time radio and television police procedural drama which originally aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 and later on CBS Television from 1955 to 1958.
SUSPENSE "Kandy Tooth Caper"
April 13, 2022 23:11 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBEpisode 279 aired November 10, 1948 on CBS Radio. Robert Montgomery hosts the one hour series. Howard Duff recreates his role as Sam Spade in this episode.
SIX SHOOTER "Wyatt King"
April 13, 2022 12:19 - 29 minutes - 14 MBEpisode 34 aired May 20, 1954 on NBC Radio.
SAM SPADE "Adam Figg Caper"
April 12, 2022 23:07 - 24 minutes - 12.8 MBOctober 5, 1947. Howard Duff as Sam Spade. Adam Figg says he was the butler at Exxon Manor in Los Needos. Wants Spade to save his life.
THE SAINT "Fake Amnesia Killer"
April 11, 2022 21:47 - 24 minutes - 12.9 MBNovember 13, 1949. Blond Who Lost Her Head aka Fake Amnesia Killer aka Dorothy Moore
AMERICAN PORTRAIT "Stepping Stones"
April 10, 2022 14:21 - 29 minutes - 9.4 MBEpisode 5 aired August 7, 1954 on NBC Radio. Ben Grauer hosts a program about William Brewster. 'Elder' William Brewster was born about 1566, probably in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. His birth is also seen as Scrooby, Bassetlaw District, Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 10 Apr 1644 at the Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, and is buried at Burial Hill there.
RADIO NUAGES "026-029"
April 09, 2022 16:38 - 1 hour - 116 MBContemporary instrumental music including selections by NIGHT NOISE, BILLY JOE WALKER, LEO KOTKE,PAUL SULLIVAN, ONE ALTERNATIVE, DAVID CULLEN, ENYA, CHIP DAVIS and others.
SERENADE IN BLUE (USAF) "Cherokee"
April 08, 2022 17:27 - 14 minutes - 15.5 MBThe United States Air Force Presents: Serenade in Blue. "Men who wear the Air Force blue bring you A Serenade in Blue. To encourage civilians to join the Air Force and slip into their Air Force blues, the US Air Force created this well-done musical program. A Serenade in Blue was written, produced, performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Mill...
NIGHT BEAT "Nightwatchman"
April 07, 2022 22:03 - 25 minutes - 13.3 MBRandy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. Episode 15 aired May 15, 1950 on NBC Radio.