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Aired over NBC Radio February 8, 1951. Several men have disappeared without a trace. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday is assigned to homicide detail and notices there is evidence of foul play. After months the leading suspect in the case is located and it’s Friday’s job to pick him up.

From January 9, 1951 Dave Garroway record show on NBC Radio featuring record selections with vocalist Mel Torme and others and a chat with Dick Powell radio's Richard Diamond. David Cunningham Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American radio and television personality. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Garroway enlisted in the U.S. Navy. While stationed in Honolulu...

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889 – 12 May 1960) was a prolific and versatile English composer, though best known for his choral music and, in particular, songs. Gibbs also devoted much of his career to the amateur choral and festival movements in Britain. He attained a high level of popularity: his work "Dusk" was requested by Princess Elizabeth on her 18th birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Episode 43 aired on CBS Radio February 21, 1974. Attending a club meeting this man discovers his extraordinary gift of bringing characters to life from his imagination.

Box Thirteen was one of the best things Alan Ladd ever did. It was a high quality show which relied on his charisma and talent rather than a large budget. Box 13 actually began running on KNX in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 16, 1948 at 7pm replacing "Escape". A clueless acquaintance wants Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) to fly to Mars with him in his home made rocket and has a ticket to a radio broadcast. S...

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.

Bill Stewart, and a few other hosts, recorded and stored their shows at AFRTS-LA for four to six months prior to release. This episode ends with a skit of The Bickersons. Originally it was a radio comedy sketch series that began September 8, 1946, on NBC, moving the following year to CBS where it continued until August 28, 1951. The show's married protagonists, portrayed by Don Ameche and Frances...

Aired on NBC Radio September 14, 1948. Afraid that racketeers behind the killing of a construction foreman may not be aware that the only witness against them is a victims blind sister. Lorelei, of The Illustrated Press, has taken Anna to her apartment for safety. Steve Wilson, managing editor of The Illustrated Press has a plan to uncover them. Edward Pawley stars as Steve Wilson.   https://...

From January 1, 1953, Live from Birdland, NBC Radio presented Basie's All Stars. William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations lik...

The California Ramblers were an American jazz group that recorded hundreds of songs for many different record labels throughout the 1920s. Four members of the band – Red Nichols , Jimmy Dorsey , Tommy Dorsey , and Adrian Rollini – went on to front big bands in later decades. The band was formed in 1921 by banjoist Ray Kitchenman. Its members were from Ohio but chose the name California Ramblers. T...

Radio Broadcast by Karl Haas who called this program Ethos of Pathos. Includes pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and others. Adventures in Good Music was radio's most widely listened-to classical music program and aired nationally in the U.S. from 1970 to 2007. The program was also syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. Archive.org catalogs several Old Time Rad...

Mercury Records presents The Case of the Midnight Marauder with Jim Ameche as Dick Tracy.  https://childrensvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/dick-tracy-the-case-of-the-midnight-marauder/

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." In addition to top-rated radio shows, he hosted "Patterns in Music" on NBC-TV in the 1960s. In 1964, he created the concept of airlines providing in-flight audio entertainment and his John Doremus Inc. supplied airlines with 14-channels of...

Around 1960s, typical introduction to one of John Doremus' radio segments.  

March 20, 1960 on CBS Radio with Bob Bailey starring as Johnny Dollar. Johnny gets ready to solve a series of grocery store robberies in Colorado. Peter Philmore executive with Surety and Mutual Insurance Company in Denver calls to get Johnny's help to solve a series of grocery store cash robberies on Saturday nights in his 'mile high city'.

1956. Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, June Foray. Stan Freberg Looks at Audiophiles 1956. Some things never change. From a 1956 radio show. The audio equipment may be different these days, but the conversations aren't.

Episode 40 aired February 14, 1943 on CBS Radio. A young woman has inherited a tendency to kill...or has she? Bill Forman stars.

March 3, 1943. Mr. Potts killed his business partner. However the police do not believe his confession as there is no body. Potts hires "The Saint" to convince the cops that he really did it. Vincent Price as Simon Templar...THE SAINT.

January 14, 1951 NBC Radio. Based on events of January 26, 1947. A double murder is blamed on a gambler with red hair, but hoofprints in the frost give Jace Pearson an important clue. Joel McCrea stars as Ranger Pearson.

The Swingin' Years" perpetuates the memory of swing music, popularized by such acts as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington. The program focused primarily on Swing, but also included many of the popular ballads of the era that topped the record charts from 1935 to 1955, that Cecil calls "The Swingin' Years". The music played on the program originally came from K...

The Spike Jones Show is the name of several separate American comedy and variety series that aired on NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s. Spike Jones, son of a railroad agent, was born Lindley Armstrong Jones, getting his nickname from a telegraph operator who thought that Jones was skinny as a railroad spike. Madcap musician Spike Jones and his band, the City Slickers, perform spoof versions of w...

Episode 125 January 11, 1945 on CBS Radio. "Drive-In" was written for Suspense by Mel Dinelli and Muriel Ray Bolton. A car-hop is threatened by a homicidal maniac. The script was also used on "Suspense" on November 21, 1946 and again on June 14, 1959. Nancy Kelly stars as a Hollywood working girl who sees death sitting beside her on her way home. Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was...

Commercials made by Stan Freberg for Contadina Tomato Paste and Contadina Whole Peeled Tomatoes, featuring the voices of Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, and Sandra Gould.

Episode 25 aired March 14, 1954 on NBC Radio Network. A mean gambler arrives in town looking for his son after twelve years. Both of them have seen some interesting changes. James Stewart stars.

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