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Episode 515 Bob Bailey stars as Johnny goes to New Orleans to investigate a fire where the shop owner refused to file a claim.

1965 Wolfman Jack , whose national rock show is blasted from the 250,000-watt XERF in Acuña, Mexico, buys KUXL, an R&B station in Golden Valley, (Hudson, MN). Jack relocates to Minnesota and begins recording his show at KUXL, shipping his tapes to Mexico each day.

Episode 137 aired on CBS Radio January 8, 1945. A woman returns from the dead for revenge of her murder. Bill Forman stars.

Episode aired September 18, 1949. The Saint tries to unravel a string of murders on a cruise ship.

Aired February 18, 1951 on NBC Radio. A sugar bowl helps Jace Pearson (Joel McCrea) find a killer. 

Chuck Cecil (December 26, 1922 – April 30, 2019) was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingin' Years", a "Best of" radio show for the " big band " era in music, which lasted from 1935 to 1955. Cecil set the gold standard for big band era nostalgia with his legendary program “The Swingin’ Years”, which began a remarkable 60 year run on the air...

Episode 143 aired May 31, 1945 on CBS Radio. Ronald Colman star. The mood of “August Heat” enhances its suspense and ominous foreshadowing. In W.F. Harvey’s short story, “August Heat,” the author creates suspense by constant references to the stifling heat of a summer day and a series of foreshadowing hints that propel the reader to an uncertain conclusion. Ronald Charles Colman was an English-bor...

"The Great Pretender" was a popular song in 1956  recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on November 3, 1955. The Platters were the target for one of Freberg’s most famous pop record parodies later in 1956 (introducing the term “kling-kling-kling jazz”).

July 8, 1945 from the Army Air force convalescence Hospital in Santa Ana California the makers of Chase and Sanborn coffee bring you the Chase and Sanborn program starring Frances Langford with Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Tony Romano and special guest Vera Vague. The announcer is Ken Carpenter. Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an Am...

Episode 30 aired April 27, 1954 on NBC Radio. A hotel owner is robbed and murdered, but before he died, he said he thought it might be a man from a Wanted poster named Johnny Springer. Britt and the sheriff make plans to track him down.

August 2, 1946. Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle star. The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 years.

NBC  1958   Monday through Friday 3:05 - 3:30 pm. Another compelling story of smart women and the manly-men they fall in love with.

- April 10, 1950 - (episode 10) Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone. Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river. She had been receiving unsigned notes, all of which say, "I know your secret!"

Excerpts from vintage NBC Radio broadcasts. Fanny Brice, Joe Penner, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

ARTIE SHAW brief bio and Ritz Carlton, Boston. Radio show August 19, 1930 on NBC Network. Helen Forrest, vocalist. COUNT BASIE NBC Parade Of Bands from Birdland, NYC July 7, 1956. TED WEEMS on Beat The Band radio show April 7, 1940 with vocalist Perry Como. Garry Moore is host. BEN POLLACK radio remote broadcast. DICK JURGENS Hotel Clairmont remote on NBC Jun 26, 1946.  BENNY GOODMAN Camel Ca...

Jim Lowe hosts this episode of NBC's MONITOR from 1963 celebrating comedian Jimmy Durante on his 70th birthday. Plus other features of the day on the NBC Radio weekend news service.

Martin Block interviews famous easy listening music conductor Percy Faith on the National Guard public service transcription. But first we hear a "Summer Montage" with Faith's recordings of The Theme From A Summer Place, Summer Breeze and Summer of '42.

Our final episode of the life of big band singer Maxine Gray. Original text was published on OTRcat.com. This episode concludes with an appearance of Maxine Gray on a KHJ produced program dated October 15, 1944. Nobody's Children. The Nobody's Children Foundation is a nonprofit non-governmental organization, which provides a broad scope of assistance to abused children, their parents, and guardian...

COUNT BASIE at Birdland's fifth anniversary. NYC December 16, 1954. Excerpted from live television on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with host Steve Allen. George Shearing and vocalist Sarah Vaughan with others. CHARLIE BARNETT June 3, 1944. From KHJ, Los Angeles over Mutual Network. FRANKIE MASTERS January 26, 1947 broadcast from The Majestic Theater, San Antonio, Texas. BENNY GOODMAN "Swing School" Novem...

GLENN MILLER Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC, NBC October 25, 1940. HARRY JAMES U.S. Marine Corps transcription. Vocalist Peggy King (Photo, 1961). JIMMY DORSEY Hollywood Palladium, NBC. Vocalist Bob Eberly. BEN POLLACK, NYC. BOB CROSBY Ford V-8 Review 1936. CHARLIE BARNET NYC, CBS, November 22, 1948. RUSS MORGAN Air National Guard transcription. Vocalist Rosemary Clooney. Announcer Bill Cullen....

Episode 2574 from July 14, 1954. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

OTRcat.com has a nice description of the Keyboard Immortals series of programs featuring actual performances recorded on piano rolls. Hear selections performed by Debussy, Chopin and other classical composers. Audiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer (piano roll player) in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls and created this rad...

Wonderful stories wound into beautiful orchestral music.

This episode features the band of Al Overton in Billings MT. NBC's All Star Parade of Bands with Stan Kenton (Photo). A tribute by the US Air Force Band component, The Airmen of Note, with a tribute to Glenn Miller. The final remote is from Los Angeles with the Dale Jones Orchestra.

Ira Cook Show (AFRTS): After seeing action in WW II Ira Cook became  a Los Angeles area DJ,. Cook put together a daily show for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.  Many episodes of it are available on www. RADIOthen.network.