Your Navy Show "Tommy Dorsey On Sunny Side Street"

DON WILSON

 

Your Navy Show - 1952 US Navy Public Service Transcription ep008 Tommy Dorsey orchestra. Opens with On the Sunny Side of the Street. Don Wilson is host. Don Wilson (September 1, 1900 – April 25, 1982) was an American announcer and actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of The Jack Benny Program. Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as "Opus One", "Song of India", "Marie", "On Treasure Island", and his biggest hit single, "I'll Never Smile Again".

TOMMY DORSEY

LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE "Building bridge"

Little Orphan Annie is an American radio drama series based on the popularity of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. It debuted on Chicago's WGN in 1930, then moved to the NBC radio network Blue Network on April 6, 1931. It aired until April 26, 1942. Together with Skippy (1932–1935) it is seen as the oldest US children's radio program. Radio historian Jim Harmon attributes the show's popularity in The Great Radio Heroes to the fact that it was the only radio show to deal with and appeal to young children. WIKIPEDIA has more about the radio series

A Salute to the Law "Young Shoplifter"

 

Salute to the Law ran from 1939 to 1940 and was an overly moralistic view of crime and punishment. The arresting officer would not only serve to prevent crime but to serve as a moral guider as well. Most stories involve young women who have turned to crime only to be rescued by the officer in question and put on the right path.

ELLERY QUEEN "Nikki Porter's Killer"

Episode 21 dated March 5, 1947 appears to be a syndicated series for local commercial insertions. CBS Network also aired an early series. This episode features guest Gypsy Rose Lee, ecdysiast. Martin_Grams_Jr_Articles/Adventures_Of_Ellery_Queen.htm

FATHER KNOWS BEST "Should Women Work"

Young and Whitley

 

Starring Robert Young, Father Knows Best is one of the first and best-loved All-American sweet-hearted family situation comedies. The series began on August 25, 1949 on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nilsson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran, and Sam Edwards. Sponsored through most of its run by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until March 25, 1954.

OTR-DESTINATION FREEDOM "Story Of 1875"

Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using Caldwell's assassination in late 1875 as symbolic of the lot of emancipated Blacks and their white supporters. BIOGRAPHY

BERGEN and McCARTHY SHOW "Orson Welles"

 

 BERGEN and McCARTHY SHOW "Orson Welles"

One in this long-running series of comedy/variety programs sponsored by Chase & Sanborn coffee. This program features as host ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is aided by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Live musical performances are interspersed with short comedy sketches. As the show opens, Orson Welles and McCarthy trade humorous insults. Air date on NBC appears to be October 29, 1944.

OLD TIME RADIO MUSIC SHOW "Musical Moment"

 

This episode of the Chevrolet Musical Moment program August 25, 1938. Kay Thompson performs. Chevrolet used music to attract car buyers. In the 1930's Chevrolet dealers could by syndicated episodes of Musical Moments to broadcast in their local market area. This underscores one of the biggest differences between Chevy and their rival, Ford -- marketing. Musical Moments was produced by the World Transcription Service in 1935 and 1936, and local Chevrolet dealers could pay (or, possibly were required to pay) for them to be played over their local stations. Music was provided by David Rubinoff and his Orchestra, who were veterans of The Chase and Sanborn Hour and Rubinoff had his own program on NBC during the same period as the Musical Moments broadcasts (Rubinoff's $100,000 Stradivarius violin was nearly as famous as he was). Announcing duties and the description of the latest Chevy models were handled by Hugh Conrad or Graham McNamee. Fifteen minutes of music might not have been enough to get you to by a 1936 Chevy for Christmas, but it certainly could have put the notion in your brain! (These notes were from OTRcat.com) 

 Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909 – July 2, 1998) was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer. She is best known as the creator of the Eloise children's books and for her role in the movie Funny Face.

OLD TIME RADIO "Amos n Andy Music Hall"

 

CBS Radio Final broadcast November 1960. Using the premise that the Kingfish had set up a radio station in the Lodge Hall of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, Amos & Andy playing records between comic sketches and were often joined by a guest celebrity. Amos 'n' Andy is a situation comedy set in the African-American community. It was very popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s on both radio and television. Amos and Andy began as one of the first radio comedy series, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago. Although the characters had been a part of the radio scene since 1928, by the time the Music Hall began airing in 1954, the franchise was still important enough to attract some of the biggest names in the music, radio and movie industry as guests.

BARRY GRAY "Milton Berle"

 

Initially a disc jockey (a role he portrayed in the 1949 short subject Spin That Splatter), Barry Gray was working for radio station WOR in 1945 when bandleader Woody Herman called in while Gray was talking about him. Gray broadcast the call, and the spontaneous live interview was such a hit with both his listeners and station bosses, that the talk radio format resulted. Gray subsequently began doing listener call-ins as well. However, the technical aspects of early Cold War broadcasting were challenged by the live call-in, over-the air format. U.S. government restrictions and problematic consequences could not stop Gray's talk show success in putting listeners on the air, with or without WOR and the government's permission. His audience loved it, and grew exponentially. WOR officials realized the attraction of the talk format, and Gray worked an overnight shift there from 1945 to 1949, interviewing everyone from entertainment to politics. This episode from October 14, 1949 features comedian Milton Berle and motion picture mogul Leon Friend.

BOSTON BLACKIE "Aggie Rogers Murder"

 

Aired April 8, 1947. Richard Kollmar stars. Blackie and the cops find the body of one of the wealthy Rodgers sisters in their junk-filled house. WIKIPEDIA

BIG STORY "Unfinished Love Song"

 

Episode 35 aired on NBC Radio November 26, 1947. (1947-1955). The Big Story is an American radio and television crime drama which dramatized the true stories of real-life newspaper reporters. Howard Beaufait, a reporter for the Cleveland News, frees an innocent man from jail. WIKIPEDIA

BARRIE CRAIG, Confidential Investigator, OLD TIME RADIO

 

Episode "Paper Bullet" aired on NBC Radio December 5, 1951. Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955. Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg and Betty Lou Gerson. Don Pardo was the announcer. Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot written and directed by Blake Edwards. It was presented on ABC's Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as "Death the Hard Way" (October 17, 1954). A few years earlier Gargan had played a similar character in Martin Kane, Private Eye.

William Dennis Gargan (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) |

  Dominick George "Don" Pardo (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014)

OLD TIME RADIO: THE AVENGER "Giant Brain"

A mad scientist has created servant robots, and now plans to implant one with a composite brain made from humans. Charles Michelson Inc. of New York City distributed The Avenger in syndication via transcription. The series syndicated began nationally October 25, 1945 through April 18, 1946. It was the first program distributed by WHN Transcription Service, which previously had distributed only commercials.

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NBC Recollections at 30 Episode 6

KATE SMITH 

 

Aired July 25, 1956 includes excerpts of NBC radio shows with Gene and Glenn, Jack Benny and Kate Smith, The Goodwill Hour, Tap dancing chorus, Fiber McGee and Ben Bernie. This episode was followed by a newscast by NBC announcer Howard Reig with news of the day...July 25, 1956. No doubt a fill to bring the network to close out a half hour for affiliates.

OLD TIME RADIO "Gang Busters"

 

Episode 524 was broadcast on the evening of April 10, 1948. Gang Busters was 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. WIKIPEDIA

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "W C Fields, Dixie Lee Crosby"

Host, Ed Herlihy

DIXIE LEE CROSBY

 

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Episode 5 aired July 18, 1956 on NBC Radio. Charlie McCarthy Show with W C Fields, Little Jack Little singer, VOX POP interviews, Al Pierce, Ben Bernie with Bobby Breen and Dixie Lee Crosby from a 1936 show.

OLD TIME RADIO "Tribute to Irving Berlin"

 

Radio tribute to Irving Berlin August 3, 1938. Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp using his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever. More from WIKIPEDIA BIO: of IRVING BERLIN

NBC Recollections at 30

Host, ED HERLIHY

 

    

    To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company,       NBC created a series of shows called Recollections at 30. Using a vast number   of archival recordings. Recollections at 30 host Ed Herlihy would assemble   some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. Some of these shows followed a theme, such as the shows The Crash of the Hindenburg, The Big Bands, and Abraham Lincoln. Others concentrated on popular radio programs, such as Truth or Consequences, and Lights Out. People were honored, like Judy Garland, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Irving Berlin. The second episode aired on June 27, 1956 and featured Minstrels of the 1930's, Easy Aces, Al Jolson with Maxie Rosenbloom, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, actor Leslie Howard, and soprano Rosa Ponselle.

OLD TIME RADIO "Fibber McGee and Molly"

 

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March 20, 1956 episode 1378 on NBC Radio. Fibber McGee and Molly was a 1935–1959 American radio comedy series. The situation comedy was a staple of the NBC Red Network from 1936 on, after originating on NBC Blue in 1935. One of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, it ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend Monitor from 1957 to 1959.