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Arturo 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.

This 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 af...

Episode 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 reg...

Late lounge with Little Orphan Archie. Novelty songs, one hit wonders and comedy from the mid 20th century.

This 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...

Episode 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 O...

STAN 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 joc...

Episode 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.

Episode BO59 aired November 9, 1947 on NBC Radio. Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade.

This episode aired on NBC Radio July 2, 1950. Vincent Price stars as Simon Templer. Simon investigates the death of a band leader.

21st 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 Ameri...

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. 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...

Episode 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. 

Ed 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.

Excerpts 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).

Orson 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.

Episode 2580 aired in syndication July 28, 1954.

Audiophile 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 per...

This 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.

Guest 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 (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.

Peggy 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, unde...

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.

Episode 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.

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