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One of the AFRTS most popular DJs was Ira Cook whose personality comes shining through in every one of his recorded broadcasts; he is a white collared, narrow tie-wearing square, but he had an appreciation for popular music

October 3, 1955 Howard chats with jazz vocalist June Christy on CBS Radio. June Christy (born Shirley Luster; November 20, 1925 – June 21, 1990) was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool. Afte...

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 M...

Episode 39 aired August 15, 1959 on CBS Radio. Comanche violence gravely escalates around Paladin as he guides the Honorable Diane Coulter to her brother's Arizona ranch. John Dehner stars as Paladin. 

Episode two aired August 10, 1951 on Mutual Radio. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) was an old-time radio program produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprised his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film,...

Episode 218 aired June 10, 1956 on CBS Radio. Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her back to New Orleans with him.

Episode 50 aired on NBC Radio August 14, 1947. Jim Ameche stars. NBC   SUSTAINING     Tuesdays, Sundays and Thursdays at various times         Summer Replacement for the AMOS 'n ANDY SHOW         DIRECTOR: Norman Felton

Episode 71 aired on CBS Radio June 2, 1937. Gang Busters is 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. So-called "true crime" magazines were highly popular in the 1930s and the movie G Men starring James Cagney, released in th...

Episode 38 aired on CBS Radio October 14, 1956. Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr bec...

Episode 21 aired November 5, 1946 and stars William Conrad and Jeff Corey. Jules Verne's famous science fiction novel of 1865 is dramatized. William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the dete...

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in episode 1 which aired August 3, 1951 on Mutual Radio syndication in USA. Also on BBC Radio in UK. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) is an old-time radio show produced 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 is...

Episode 103 aired on CBS Radio December 27, 1948. Starring Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990). He was an American film, radio and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. Merrill starred in the motion picture All About Eve and in his personal life was married his co-star Bet...

Episode 133 aired on NBC Radio December 27, 1951 and is dedicated to actor William Barton Yarborough (PHOTO) (October 2, 1900 – December 19, 1951) who was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama, primarily on the NBC Radio Network. He is famous for his roles in the Carlton E. Morse productions I Love a Mystery, where he played Doc Long, and One Man's Family, where he spent 19 years...

Episode 17 with Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized.  Original syndication  Date: April 28, 1948.

March 3, 1960. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning. The classic sign-on: "And now, from approximately coast to coast, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding present the CBS radio network." The classic sign-off: "This is Ray Goulding reminding you to write if you get work. Bob Elliott reminding you to hang by your thumbs."

Bill chatrs with Mort Garson who was one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop. Born July 20, 1924, in the Canadian city of St. John, New Brunswick, Garson attended the Juilliard School of Music, briefly graduating to the ranks of professional pianist and arranger before he was drafted to serve i...

Andy and Virginia turn back the clock to start this episode from 1960 on AFRTS with Moonlight Cocktail versions.

In syndication dated February 27, 1992. Adventures in Good Music, hosted by Karl Haas, 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. German-American musicologist Karl Haas started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroi...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962. Charles Russell stars as Johnny Dollar in the episode from October 12, 1949 on CBS Radio. 

Episode 179 aired on CBS Radio October 29, 1945. "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." Those opening w...

This episode aired April 15, 1951 on NBC Radio. Starring Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson) with Tony Barrett, Lillian Buyeff, Herb Ellis, Ken Christy, Byron Kane, Tom McKean, Lamont Johnson, Herb Vigran. A woman's complaint that her husband was murdered and inconsistencies in the stories of local law enforcement send two Rangers down to an oil boom town to investigate.

Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid (January 16, 1920 – June 21, 2013) was an American actor. In 1935, Reid debuted on the radio program The March of Time, which led to regular work on radio dramas during the golden age of radio. He portrayed Melvin Castleberry on the children's program Billy and Betty, and Philip Cameron on the serial Against the Storm and was a host on radio's version of The United S...

From 1958 Stan Freberg does a parody on "The old redhead" Arthur Godfrey. Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead. At the peak of his success, in the early-to-mid 1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, sometimes for...

Episode 37 aired on NBC Radio June 10, 1954 and stars James Stewart as Britt Ponset a traveling cowboy. He roams from town to town on his horse, Scar, picking up work with various ranchers and the railroad on occasion. He is widely known as "The Six Shooter". In this episode's cast are Carleton Young as the hotel clerk, Dal McKennon as Doc Cross, Paul Richards as Roy Cotton, Frank Gerstle as Gus C...

Orson Welles starts as The Shadow with Agnes Moorehead in episode 91 aired October 24, 1937 on CBS Radio. The Shadow finds himself in peril when going against a drug ring where he encounters the niece of the yogi who taught him his secret of invisibility.  She knows who the Shadow is, has powers of her own, and threatens to destroy him. An American radio series, The Shadow aired fro...