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William H. Stewart, a former Los Angeles disc jockey who was heard on Armed Forces Radio Service for nearly 50 years. He died at a Burbank hospital. He was 69. A longtime Burbank resident, Stewart died Feb. 26,1993 of congestive heart failure and complications of diabetes.

The Casa Loma Orchestra was an American dance band active from 1929 to 1963. Until the rapid multiplication in the number of swing bands from 1935 on, the Casa Loma Orchestra was one of the top North American dance bands. With the decline of the big band business following the end of World War II, it disbanded in 1947. However, from 1957 to 1963, it re-emerged as a recording session band in Hollyw...

KARL HAAS presents "Duets", "Canadian Artists" and music for "Stately Occasions" excerpts from his radio series Adventures In Good Music.

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".

Episode 180 Harvest Of Death. Marvin Miller is host. "The Whistler" was an American radio program running for a total of 13 years from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was one of the most popular mystery dramas of its' time. Signal Oil Company sponsored the program. The marketing catch phrase was: "Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler."  Durin...

Episode 40 aired April 22, 1951 on NBC Radio. 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 starring Joel McCrea as Ranger Jayce Pearson. When a young family all die a post mortem shows that they had died of botulism from contaminated canned sausage meat.  Their deaths are believ...

Episode 205 aired August 8, 1946 on CBS Radio. Ernest Bowers is badly injured in a car accident, but there is a problem. Earnest is a cataleptic. Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves and mind. The physical conditions when a cataleptic has a spell closely resemble death and include the primary stages of rigor mortis. Ernest carries a note at all times inside his coat pocket stating that he is a cat...

"John and Marsha" is a 1951 American novelty comedy single written and performed by Stan Freberg and released on Capitol Records. Consisting of only two words: "John" and "Marsha", the recording is a back-and-forth dialogue between a man and a woman ranging in varied emotion. His first recording "John and Marsha", was a parody of the radio soap operas from the day that consisted of a male and fema...

The Six Shooter starring James Stewart episode 38 When The Shoe Doesn't Fit. Aired on NBC Radio June 17, 1951. As Britt rides to town to look for his next job, he encounters a peddler, and a household made up of Cindy and her step sisters and step mom. There’s a big party to welcome back a young man who went off to college. However it seems the plainly dressed Cindy won’t be going. It takes a litt...

The Shadow aired on Mutual Radio October 31, 1937   Episode 92 The Three Ghosts stars Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law and order is, in reality, Lamont Cranston. Years ago in India, Cranston learned many strange secrets from a Yogi priest, keeper of the the Temple of the Cobras at Delhi. He taught him the power t...

Sam Spade aired on CBS Radio July 4, 1948 - B093 The Rushlight Diamond Caper stars Howard Duff as Spade. The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil. When a simple job of gu...

This episode of The Saint starring Vincent Price aired June 11, 1950 on NBC Radio. First episode of the 1950 summer series that filled in for Phil Harris & Alice Faye, on Sundays at 7:30pm (EST).  The Saint is called in by the girlfriend of a fight manager who is afraid a big gambler will murder him.

March 11, 1952 Episode 62. When a dying man declares he was poisoned, an autopsy reveled he died of Asiatic cholera. Ben Wright stars.

PAUL HARVEY's "The rest of the story" topic: Arthur Murray.  Arthur Murray (born Moses Teichman, (April 4, 1895 – March 3, 1991) was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.

26 By Corwin aired on CBS Radio August 31, 1941 Episode 17. In this story, a poor young woman is moved to want everything she is exposed to in popular culture with a hilarious outcome. The series was able to make fun of the products that sponsored most shows because they were allowed to run without sponsorship. Norman Corwin created this script which stars Elsa Lanchester as Mary and Ruth Gordon a...

Night Beat from June 12, 1950 - (episode 19). Football Player and the Syndicate stars Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone with guest William Conrad as Tom Paxton.

NBC Recollections at 30 - April 10, 1957 - episode 42 Information Please, Greta Garbo, Marian Anderson.

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 comp...

This brief episode of NBC Monitor was recorded from WCOP in Boston on March 16, 1968. The host is Gene Rayburn with a report from NBC Newsman Peter Hackes. A WCOP newscast presented by announcer Jim Dixon. I suspect the primary NBC station in Boston, WBZ,  did not carry Monitor but did carry the hourly newscast from NBC. Thus WCOP aired Monitor and excerpted NBC commercials for a locally...

Mutual Broadcasting System 1953. Larry Haines as Mike Hammer. The premiere of That Hammer Guy on December 30, 1952, was the beginning of a ninety-one episode series of hard-boiled Mickey Spillane mystery and adventures. The series premiered with Inner Sanctum workhorse Larry Haines as Mike Hammer, aided by Jan Miner in the role of Velda, Hammer's secretary and love interest, as well as several oth...

Mercury Summer Theater - June 28, 1946 - 04 Jane Eyre. Aired on CBS. This is actually from the 1946 series The Mercury Summer Theater of the Air which involved shorter versions of stories broadcast on the original series. The quality is still above most radio fare of the time though. The air date was 06-28-1946. Alice Frost as Jane.

This episode aired June 30, 1953. Starring Barbara Britton and Richard Denning. CBS network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Coat Of Arms". The first program with Barbara Britton and Richard Denning in the cast. In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America (in a tie with CBS's The Adventures of Ellery Queen). The program, which was...

This is episode 2583 released on August 4, 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. The last episode in our series.

Episode 01. Jim Ameche is narrator of Story Book. Storyteller Jim Ameche shares surprising and interesting ‘infotainment’ pieces from The Story Book of Life. The relatively short format (episodes ran about 12 minutes) had room at the beginning and end for local advertisement, and Story Book even had a pause in the middle for another ad. The stories would appeal to later fans of Paul Harvey’s The R...