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Aired on CBS Radio July 1, 1950. John Dehner stars as Inspector Black of Scotland Yard. Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a murder he committed.

Jason Remington in the Late Night Lounge as Little Orphan Archie presents another audio montage of old hits, vintage radio classics and comedy. The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz, blues, swing, country, pop and easy listening, spanning about an 80 year period. The programs contained audio from artists like Bob and Ray, George Burns, Laurel and Hardy, one hit wonders, novelties and the in-house news authority, Lennie the Cabbie.

"Green Chri$tma$" is a comedy single written and performed by Stan Freberg and released by Capitol Records in 1958 (catalog number F 4097). Musical arrangement and direction is made by Billy May, and performed by the Capitol Records house orchestra. Other vocal performances are by Daws Butler, Marvin Miller, Will Wright, and the Jud Conlon Chorale.

Episode 8 Harry's on crossing the Atlantic on the Princess Ann, planning to swindle to Lady Barbara Follet. However, what about her lovely companion. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime ) is an old-time radio program produced in the United Kingdom 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 depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than that of the film.

Episode 6 aired October 25, 1953 on NBC Radio. Red Lawson says he's going to kill Britt's friend Dan to get revenge for the death of his brother, four years earlier. Britt is riding across the prairie when he comes across a man at a campfire. He prefers the company of people to coyotes so he stops and makes conversation with him. The man is Red Lawson and over a coffee he tells Britt about his plans to get revenge on the man who had murdered his brother. Britt wants to go and warn Dan, the man who Red is planning to shoot.

Episode 51 aired April 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. Frank Bissell and his gang arrive in Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to get out of town. William Conrad and John Dehner star.

Episode 2558 June 7, 1954. Jim Andrews holds up the Wells Fargo office and steals a specific amount of money (5,000.00). He needs the money to enter "Outlaw Town" a safe haven for outlaws who can pay the equivalent of the price on their head. The Lone Ranger decides to infiltrate the town and find out who is behind the operation. Along the way the Lone Ranger discovers Jim Andrews's real motives for his actions. Brace Beamer is The Lone Ranger. John Todd as Tonto. Your announcer, Fred Foy.

Episode 55 aired on CBS Radio February 12, 1948. Ben Wright stars in this show based on a story by Arthur Conan Doyle. An entire train has vanished. Where is it? The program was recorded February 9, 1948.

Along with Big Wilson, John Bartholomew Tucker was one of the last two communicators (hosts) of the long-running NBC Radio program Monitor they were on the air when the show signed off for the last time on January 26, 1975. This is the sixth hour on that last day...,a Sunday.

Episode 20 aired June 10, 1956 starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sundays on CBS from January 22 - October 28, 1956.

Produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 40 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason.

Supporting regulars included Vic Perrin as Sgt. Gorse, Harry Bartell as Lt. Seiberts and Jack Moyles as Major Daggett.

James Ameche (August 6, 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin – February 4, 1983 in Tucson, Arizona) was a familiar voice on radio, including his role as radio's original Jack Armstrong on Jack Armstrong. The episode of his easy listening series for AFRTS leads of with a selection by the Cyril Stapleton Orchestra.

• Frank Lovejoy stars as newspaper reporter Randy Stone. Stone meets a man in the park on a very hot day. He is wearing a heavy overcoat! Mr. Henry Kazarian claims to be dead, and a doctor confirms it. Jeff Corey (photo) in supporting cast. Corey (born Arthur Zwerling, August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor and director who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted. Ben Wright as Papa Kazarian...Ben Wright was an English actor and voice actor, who voiced Roger Radcliffe in One Hundred and One Dalmatians , Rama in The Jungle Book, "Heyboy" on radio's Have Gun Will Travel and Grimsby in The Little Mermaid . He also appeared in Way Down Cellar as Ethan Marcus as part of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

Episode 15 aired October 13, 1956 on NBC Radio. Featuring The Pickens Sisters, Joe Cook, Janette MacDonald with Allan Jones, commentary by Dorothy Thompson, The Melody Puzzle game show with Georgia Gibbs and Harry Salter Orchestra "Boo Hoo" and Kiss In The Dark by the Richard Himber Orchestra.

John Herbert Foulds (2 November 1880 – 25 April 1939) was an English cellist and composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs to the figures of the English Musical Renaissance.

Episode 1345...BOB BAILEY stars as Insurance investigator JOHNNY DOLLAR aired on CBS Radio April 28, 1957. Johnny searches for a pitcher who disappeared during Spring Training and whose sister is accusing his new bride of murdering him.

Episode 17 aired October 29, 1947.  The longest-running and best known radio incarnation of Simon Templar was Vincent Price, who played the character in a long-running series that was broadcast between 1947 and 1951 on no fewer than three networks: CBS, Mutual and NBC.

This episode aired February 25, 1951 on NBC Radio. Two men hijack a truck filled with auto radios and kill the drivers. Joel McCrea stars. Guest actors include William Conrad, Parley Baer and Herb Ellis.

For fifteen weeks during the summer of 1957, Stan Freberg and a talented ensemble performed satirical sketches and comedy routines, filling a void left when Jack Benny moved from radio to television. Episode 6 aired on CBS Radio August 18, 1957 "CBS Censor". Featuring... forced to see an eye specialist, Elderly Man River, Face The Funnies, The Rock Island Line and the Couple Next Door. Freberg was born Stanley Friberg in Pasadena, California, the son of Evelyn Dorothy (née Conner), a housewife, and Victor Richard Friberg (later Freberg), a Baptist minister. Freberg was a Christian and of Swedish and Irish descent. He was drafted in the US Army from 1945 to 1947 where he served in Special Services attached to the Medical Corps at McCornack General Hospital in Pasadena, California. Freberg's work reflected his gentle sensitivity (despite his liberal use of biting satire and parody).

From The Don Lee Studios in Los Angeles over the Mutual Network on February 22, 1941 this is Episode 46. David Rose Orchestra plays BARCARROLE. Years From Now and When You and I Were Young, Maggie. Maxine Gray sings Fishin' and Wishin'. Rafael Mendez, trumpeter with Flight of the Bumblebee. Maxine Gray sings Keep an Eye on Your Heart and Rose closes the program with Georgia On My Mind.

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator starred William Gargan. This episode aired March 3, 1953.   Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955. Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg and Betty Lou Gerson. Don Pardo was the announcer. Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot written and directed by Blake Edwards. It was presented on ABC's Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as "Death the Hard Way" (October 17, 1954). A few years earlier Gargan had played a similar character in Martin Kane, Private Eye.

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. 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 and Tide. Returning to CBS on January 8, 1949, it ran until June 25, 1955, sponsored by Grape-Nuts and Wrigley's chewing gum. The final series was on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 5, 1955 to November 27, 1957.

Box 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.

Radio transcription National Guard Session with Martin Block and Lawrence Welk. 

Larry 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.

Episode 20 aired June 19, 1950 on NBC Radio. Frank Lovejoy 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 as he finished typing a news story based on his latest exploits, and shouting for the copy boy to deliver his story to an editor. Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare. The old man has no money, so Randy pays the fare but is surprised when the gentle-looking old man, Alfred Wyman, says he has to go to kill Miss Gleeson. Frank Andrew Lovejoy Jr. (March 28, 1912 – October 2, 1962) was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He is perhaps best remembered for appearing in the film noir The Hitch-Hiker and for starring in the radio drama Night Beat .

Goddard 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 his credit, Rodgers was one of the most well-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music.

A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday becomes suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. Usually witnesses are at variance in some respects. Episode 56 aired on NBC Radio July 6, 1950.

Episode 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 short-lived 1970s CBS series, The Betty White Show.

CBS Radio, April 6, 1954. Edward R. Murrow performed one of the most famous acts of journalistic evisceration in American television history. On March 9th, 1954, Murrow—who was then perhaps the country's most highly revered journalist—devoted an entire episode of his CBS program "See it Now" to the words and deeds of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had already done much to earn his notorious place in history. Using McCarthy's own statements, Murrow painted a picture of a man whose recklessness with the truth and ugly attacks on his critics had contributed to a climate of deep fear and repression in American life. (Huffington Post)

John 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 Sunday afternoons at 2:30pm through March when it moved to 7pm.The character's full name is Jeremy Brian Kendall this was revealed in the episode "Belle Sidon's Encore".  It followed the adventures of journalist Kendall as he roamed the Western United States in search of stories for the Times. Along the way, he encountered various fictional drifters and outlaws in addition to well-known historical figures, such as Jesse James, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Supporting cast included, Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Stacy Harris, Johnny Jacobs, Joseph Kearns, Jack Kruschen, Jack Moyles, Jeanette Nolan, Vic Perrin and Barney Phillips.

Herewith, an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories.  Now, starring John Dehner, this is the story of J. B. Kendall, Frontier Gentleman. 

The "Trigger Men" aired July 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. This episode is based on events of May 27, 1947. The killers are the Gordon brothers who are wanted for a series of murders as they head for the Mexican border. A gas station attendant-operator on Oklahoma highway 8 was preparing to shut down for the night when two men in a green convertible pulled in to the service island when a series of horrible events happened. Joel McCrea stars as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson who has been assigned this case.

From CBS Radio, December 7, 1948. Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar. As originally conceived, Johnny Dollar was a smart, tough, wisecracking detective who tossed silver-dollar tips to waiters and bellhops. Dick Powell starred in the audition show, recorded in 1948, but withdrew from the role in favor of other detective programs, Rogue's Gallery and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. The Johnny Dollar role went instead to Charles Russell. The show for which Powell auditioned was originally titled Yours Truly, Lloyd London, although the name of the show and its lead character were changed to avoid legal problems with the actual insurance company, Lloyd's of London, before the audition tape of December 7, 1948, was recorded.

Dick Powell stars as Private Detective Richard Diamond in his Ralph Chase case on NBC Radio aired May 15, 1949. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Described as “a modern Robin Hood". Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series features a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes typically open with a client visiting or calling cash-strapped Diamond's office and agreeing to his fee of $100 a day plus expenses, or Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. Diamond often suffers a blow to the head in his sleuthing pursuits. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a standard, popular song, or showtune from Powell's repertoire to Helen Asher (his girlfriend) in her penthouse at 975 Park Avenue. Levinson was played variously by Ed Begley, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ted DeCorsia and Alan Reed. Helen was played by Virginia Gregg and others. Another regular cast member was Wilms Herbert as Walt's bumbling sergeant, Otis, who also "doubled" on the show as Helen's butler, Francis. Many of the shows were either written or directed by Edwards. Its theme, "Leave It to Love", was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. (Wikipedia)

Aired April 8, 1944. Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."

Morgan Beatty was the first host voice ever heard on Monitor. Aircheck is from 1959 with Morgan Beatty. Monitor was a U.S. weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday.

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Episode 100 aired July 13, 1944 on CBS Radio. Starring Herbert Marshall who plays the part of Felix Laine a writer of detective novels who was planning to kill a man, a hit and run driver who killed his son, and he's keeping a diary of his plans! The story is a powerful one of vengeance and retribution. 

Episode 44 aired February 21, 1953 on CBS Radio. A town s being terrorized by a gang of killers. Marshall Matt Dillon and Chester Proudfoot had left Dodge around 9 AM on a nice day, clear with a snap in the air. Their horses felt it too and they wanted to move fast. Matt had some government papers to take over to Bill Houghton at the Post office in a town about 40 miles west of Dodge. As they approached the town it seemed unusually quiet.

Episode 79 aired on NBC Radio December 14, 1950. George Hoffman is arrested but escapes at his arraignment by climbing down the side of a building.

For AFRTS Jim Ameche leads cff his program for the week of April 7, 1961 with The Continental.

It'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.

Following her train wreck injuries Maxine leaves the Hal Kemp Band and moves on to radio with the David Rose Orchestra and Alvino Ray Presents on Mutual Network stations. We hear an excerpt from the Edgar Bergen show as Maxine sings with the Ray Noble Orchestra. (Photo: Maxine with Hal Kemp). (TEXT credit: otrcat.com)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor born to white English mother and black African father (Dr Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor) in Holborn, London.

James Stewart starred as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west. Episodes ranged from straight western drama to whimsical comedy. A trademark of the show was Stewart's use of whispered narration during tense scenes that created a heightened sense of drama and relief when the situation was resolved. Some of the more prominent actors to perform on the program included Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Reed, Marvin Miller and William Conrad (often credited as "Julius Krelboyne" because he was also the star of CBS' Gunsmoke at the time). Some did multiple episodes playing different characters.

Presented here is The Six Shooter as first heard on NBC radio drama program Hollywood Star Playhouse and later created into a series. 

Karl Haas, the Radio Hall of Fame's only 'classical music' inductee and host of one of the nation's longest running daily radio programs, 'Adventures in Good Music', expertly blends commentary and his own performances, bringing to light the music and lives of the world's best composers and their musical heritage.

AFRTS 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.

CBS Radio air check from KCBS Radio in San Francisco... February 15, 1960. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning, in "On the Air: The Encyclopedia.  

January 3, 1972. Casey Kasem brings us the top songs of 1971.

October 26, 1951. A prospector, who's an old friend, needs Roy's help.

One in this long-running series of comedy/variety programs sponsored by Chase & Sanborn coffee. This program features as host ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is aided by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Live musical performances are interspersed with short comedy sketches. As the show opens, Orson Welles and McCarthy trade humorous insults. Air date on NBC appears to be October 29, 1944.

This 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.

Episode 8 of the David Rose Orchestra series on the Don Lee Mutual Network June 6, 1940. Featuring vocalist Maxine Gray and pianist Art Tatum. Selections include the orchestra playing The Carioca, Maxine Gray singing You and Who Else, Rose with My Heart Stood Still, Art Tatum playing Have You Met Miss Jones, Rose and Hour of Parting, Gray with Imagination, Rose Orchestra Diane, Art Tatum and Dark Eyes, concluding with a Rose original titled Getting No Where. 

Simon Templar is at the Birdcage nightclub to listen to the piano music of Johnny Crawford when famous concert pianist Laurence Abdul approaches him. Johnny Crawford was a pupil of his and now he fears that Crawford is to be murdered. Vincent Price stars as Simon Templar aka The Saint. The Saint was a radio adventure program in the United States that featured a character ("a swashbuckling, devil-may-care Robin Hood type who, in his attempt to help people, remained just one step ahead of the police and crooks—both of whom he combatted") created by author Leslie Charteris. This episode aired on NBC Radio June 18, 1950.

Episode 40 aired on NBC Radio March 31, 1950. A gang of four robbers, and their puppy have come to Los Angeles from San Francisco, planning to pull a job. A long stake-out with an alcoholic desk clerk provides results. Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to robbery detail. Four young hoodlums wanted for a series of robberies are headed for Los Angeles. They're armed, reckless and cold-blooded. It's Friday's job to get them.

The Ray Eberle band recorded off the air from ABC Radio. A remote from Philadelphia affiliate WFIL with staff announcer Neil Harvey. July 18, 1947.

A Tribute to the radio actor who is most remembered as the Lone Ranger.  

Brace Beemer (December 9, 1902 – March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ (AM), Detroit, Michigan. He is best known as the radio voice of the Lone Ranger.

“Werewolf” aired June 17, 1949.

The women are left half-dead, victims of robbery and horrible attacks. “The Werewolf” as dubbed by the local papers, was a maniac that attacked, beat, and robbed 18 victims. The attacks are so brutal leaving the women in the hospital with horrible wounds, that Joe Friday fears the Werewolf will kill…and he’s right.

MR AND MRS NORTH - FEBRUARY 3, 1943 - C.F. 006 RUSSIAN RESTAURANT Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The characters, publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam, lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners.

The Stan Freberg Show was an oasis in a medium quickly sinking into a morass of wall-to-wall pop music, but the economics of 1957 radio prevented it continuing beyond a short season, originally airing July-August 1957. 

Based on events of August 14, 1945. A store-keeper is murdered by a robber who shuts off the electricity inside the store. A special kind of dollar leads the Rangers to a young Mexican girl and a "Dandy" suspect. A "Texas Ranger Prayer" premium is offered. It is 7:30 on a simmering hot night, August 14th 1945. Episode 22 aired on NBC Radio December 16, 1950.

WTIC 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.

Aired on CBS Radio January 13, 1944. Mr. Keen - The Case of the Missing Witness. Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos, Heet, Kriptin, Bisodol, Hills Cold Tabs. A famous fashion designer has killed her daughter's lover...or has she?

Episode 2 aired January 7, 1974 on CBS Radio. Starring Patrick O'Neill (Photo) in a cat and mouse game.  A husband kills his wife for donating all their money. Now, he is certain that she has been reincarnated in the form of a cat to wreak revenge on him.

Roy Rogers Show was a 30-minute Western series aired initially on Mutual from November 21, 1944 to May 13, 1951, and later on NBC from October 5, 1951 to July 21, 1955. This Christmas episode aired on NBC December 21, 1951. Through its 6-year run, it was able to come up with a total of 348 episodes. The Roy Rogers Radio show changed shape and format during it's ten year run.  It was originally a western music and variety show.  The shows from the early 50's are still in the earlier mode of some action in a storyline, whether it be outlaws, or tall tales, or a good old-fashioned deed to the ranch cliffhanger. Somewhere the story is broken up by song, with "The Sons of the Pioneers" and Roy and Dale. The music was always first rate Hollywood-style western music, excellently played. Roy featured other singers as well, some not country or western. (OTRcat.com)

Aired on CBS Radio February 16, 1960. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. with old-time radio, satire comedy. Their finest series was probably these 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS Radio.

Larry Haines stars as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the series for Mutual Radio. c1953.

Episode 3 aired December 29, 1950 on CBS Radio. Edward R Murrow's new team and news from the week.

September 19, 1939 Robert Trout, CBS News, broadcasting news from Europe including poor quality shortwave actuality from CBS newsman in London, Edward R. Murrow.

Episode aired November 14 1942. The Green Hornet is a superhero created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell. Since his 1930s radio debut, the character has appeared in numerous serialized dramas in a wide variety of media. The Green Hornet appeared in film serials in the 1940s, The Green Hornet television series in the 1960s (which costarred Bruce Lee in his first major adult role), multiple comic book series from the 1940s on, and a feature film in 2011. The franchise is owned by Green Hornet, Inc., which licenses the property across a wide variety of media that includes comics, films, TV shows, radio and books.

BUDDY DEFRANCO and OSCAR PETERSON "They Can't Take That Away From Me"

HENRY JEROME "Temptation"

HENRY MANCINI "Tiger"

JACK TEAGARDEN "Yankee Doodle"

PASADENA ROOFTOP BAND "Stardust"

PEANUTS HUCKO with DAN ELLIOT "Serenade In Blue" {Air Check}

RAY ANTHONY "Merci, Cherie"

RAY McKINLEY "Slumber Song"

RAY McVEY "Happy Heart"

STAN KENTON "Once In A While"

TED HEATH "More"

USAF AIRMEN OF NOTE "Don't Be That Way"

BONUS: GUS ARNHEIM Radio Remote (1932)

A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in September of 1954.. The following January he held a landmark dance there, promoting black performers as rock and roll artists. Within a month, the music industry was advertising "rock and roll" records in the trade papers.

FRED FOY reflects on his days as the announcer-narrator of The Lone Ranger radio series.

Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past

The Rest of the Story

It's Jim Ameche Time - Theme song by Billy Vaughn 

Listen to It's Jim Ameche Time on Radio then as the show opens with a tune by Biob Sharples' Orchestra.

Episode 2562 June 16, 1954. A town character aids in the capture of an under-sized outlaw, "Shrimp Butler". Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. Your announcer and narrator...Fred Foy. (Photo)

Episode 12 was broadcast August 25, 1949 on NBC Radio. A gang of "blitz bandits" are committing three and four burglaries a night, eighteen liquor stores and restaurants have recently been hit. 

July 8, 1949 NBC Radio Network. Downs worked as a radio announcer and program director in 1939 at WLOK in Lima, Ohio, after his first year of college. In 1940, he moved on to WWJ in Detroit. Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 and then joined the NBC radio network at WMAQ as an announcer in Chicago, where he lived until 1954. Origination of the early Dave Garroway Show. While at WMAQ, Downs also acted, including as the "co-pilot", along with famed Chicago children's program personality Ned Locke, on the Uncle Ned's Squadron program in 1951  https://garrowayatlarge.com/index.php/2021/03/10/remembering-hugh-downs/

REMEMBER RADIO Comedy and Variety shows MEMORY MOMENTS MONTAGE

Aired from 1937 to 1952. Written by Jerry McGill. Theme music by Fran Frey. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. Edward J. Pawley portrayed Steve Wilson from 1943 until 1952 when Walter Greaza was heard as Wilson in the final episodes in this radio drama series.   Fran Carlon played Pawley's sidekick, Lorelei Kilbourne, from 1942-1952. During the period in which Pawley starred, Big Town was rated number one among all of the reporter type drama series on radio. It was also rated in the top fifteen among all radio programs broadcast and had a listening audience rated between ten and twenty million people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Town

Jay Jostyn stars as Mr D. A. in this episode aka The Case of the Priceless Miniature. Aired on the NBC Red Network December 10, 1941. Mr. District Attorney is a radio crime drama produced by Samuel Bischoff that aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953). 

Episode 11, September 12, 1950. Martha Britt is a school teacher for the Indians and tries to prevent a second Comanche war.  The Nescalosa plains stretch to the horizon and the Squat settlement is in the center of those pine covered hills of the Indian reservation and far in the distance beyond the white sands of the desert is the flat top tableland called Red Rock Mesa. Hoppy and California assist the teacher to bring education to the Squat children.

Episode 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.

This is episode 21 of The CBS Mystery Theater which aired January 26, 1974 and starred Agnes Moorehead a few weeks before her death April 30, 1974. Lorna Kitty Kitteridge’s father is a professor who has always instilled in her the importance of telling the truth. Lorna is driving home from a bar with her fiancé Mark when while speeding and under the influence of alcohol he hits and kills a woman on the road. An inquest is set to discover the truth of the accident and Lorna agrees with Mark that there is nothing to be gained from telling truth, it will not bring the woman back to life. However her father once again reminds her of the importance of telling the truth. Lorna finds herself in the corner of a triangle, the man she loves on one side and the father she loves on the other but the invisible corner of the triangle is that mysterious thing called truth.

Episode 2567, Aired June 28, 1954. The Lone Ranger disguises himself as a Mexican in order to capture the bandit Tucson Thorpe.

Syndication April 30, 1950. A soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order and justice to the frontier. He was a model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry and good-natured decency and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners, all while delivering action-packed entertainment.

CBS Radio February 16, 1951. Hear It Now, an American radio weekly news program, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time. 

Episode 44 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1943. Starring veteran actor Donald Crisp. Banquo’s Chair” is the story of the ex-chief of England’s Criminal Investigative department, one William Brent, and the unusual method he devises to extract a confession from a murderer some 20 years after his being set free for lack of evidence. It was the only case in Brent’s case file where his quarry had escaped his clutches. Brent, much like Sherlock Holmes in many ways, is brilliant, cold, and calculating, with an ego that prevents him from letting go this one stain on his otherwise perfect crime-solving career.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

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Episode 34 aired January 3, 1943. A gripping story about the spineless son of a District Attorney.

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago on July 31, 1933, and was later carried on CBS , then NBC and finally ABC. Our serial adventure continues as Jack and friends bring us the next chapter to rescue 'The Pellican' ship. A young Jim Ameche stars as Jack Armstrong 'all American boy'.

Episode 105 aired on CBS Radio August 17 , 1944. Starring Agnes Morehead and Ray Collins. Sophronia Winters spent most of her life taking care of her ailing father, but now that he's gone she's ready to start living. First aired on April 27, 1943 as its 39th episode out of nearly one thousand. Written by Lucille Fletcher (1912-2000).

Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music and occasional actress. She was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess". In 1950, she had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and eventually had 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965. Page's signature song, "Tennessee Waltz", was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 20th century, and is recognized today as one of the official songs of the state of Tennessee. It spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard's best-sellers list in 1950/51. Page had three additional number-one hit singles between 1950 and 1953, "All My Love (Bolero)", "I Went to Your Wedding", and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?".

Chicago DJ Howard Miller chats with pop singer Patti Page on his CBS Radio Network show, July 19, 1955. 

Slate and Sailor, Bogart and Bacall, are searching for Tommy Reed. Reed is a common man who is avoiding his wife for some reason. Is Reed dead? That always messes up a good plan. Episode 20 was released in Syndication by Bogart's Santana Productions and The Ziv Company. The series aired on 423 USA stations from 1951 - 1952. "Bogie and Betty" received $5K a week in 1950's money. $$$!!!...There were 78 transcriptions issued but some episodes were repeats. Let's check out "The search for Tommy Reed".

When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagon master, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry. Episode 6, aired December 28, 1958

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR - aired on CBS February 18, 1949 - ep_001_The_Perikoff_Policy stars Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar. aka "The Parakoff Policy".

The Two and Only RCA ALBUM --  Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990), the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.

Episode of May 26, 1948. A beautiful woman in San Francisco has amnesia, but does she have a real loss of memory? Or is it murder? Enter Simon Templar, The Saint, to solve the case of the blond who lost her head.

MOZART Piano Concerto No 15 in Bb k450 - Brendel ASMF

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 - Bernstein NYPO

BIZET Jeux d'enfant - Myung Wha Chung BASTILLE

BIZET L'Arlesienne Suite 2 - Dutoit MONTREAL

HANDEL Concerto Grosso No 1 Op 3 - Christopher Hogwood

CHASSON Poeme - Kyung Wha Chung, Dutoit ROYAL PO 

December 22, 1948. Blackie tries to solve a Christmas robbery. Appears that Santa Claus is an unwilling accomplice. Blackie, Mary  and Inspector Faraday plan a dinner but become involved in apprehending a jewelry shop thief. The jewelry store manager is convinced that four rings have been stolen. Richard 'Dick' Kollmar stars as Blackie and joins the cast with holiday greetings and extended organ theme at the conclusion of this episode. Kollmar was an American stage, radio, film and television actor, television personality and Broadway producer. He was the husband of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen (Photo).