Juke Box Saturday Night Podcast - Big Band Live Radio Remotes - Glenn Miller - Harry James - Stan Kenton

 The Grand Ole Opry started as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and his string quartet of old-time musicians." On November 2, WSM hired long-time announcer and program director George D. "Judge" Hay, an enterprising pioneer from the National Barn Dance program at WLS Radio in Chicago, who was also named the most popular radio announcer in America as a result of his radio work with both WLS in Chicago and WMC in Memphis. Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with 77-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28, 1925, which is celebrated as the birth date of the Grand Ole Opry.

The Complete Jack Benny Podcast - All Jack's Shows From 1932-1958 - Arizona Western - Eternal Triangle - Frank Parker's Musical Store

Midnight - Starring Claudette Colbert & Don Ameche - All-Star Radio Dramas of Classic Films - Lux Radio Theater

Die You're On Magic Camera - CBS Radio Mystery Theater

 La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman Who Goes Astray. It was originally entitled Violetta, after the main character. 

Listen To A Love Song was a pleasant, innocuous CBS music program from the summer of 1946, starring Tony Martin and Georgia Gibbs, and featuring The Lyttle Sisters & Chorus and Albert Sack's orchestra.  The announcing duties went to Jimmy Wallington, who assumes the persona of quite the wolf in promos for sponsor Bourjois, makers of Evening In Paris face powder.

The shows that remain with us today, however, are mostly sans Tony Martin, due to his July 19th appendectomy.  In his absence, Georgia Gibbs hosted the program alone, with a variety of guest stars, in shows that may have been slightly more raucous than the episodes with the ultra-smooth Martin.  Guesting on the program, in Tony Martin's absence, are Phil Harris, Victor Borge, and Woody Herman, replacing Martin's dreamy, romantic vocal styling with their own brand of music and, at least in the cases of Harris and Borge, musical mayhem.

The one show in this collection that does feature Tony Martin has no guest star, and is more of a straight program of exotic and romantic music.  This episode may have been more in line with what the makers of Evening In Paris, "the fragrance of romance", had in mind when they signed on to have the debonair Mr. Martin represent their product.

Listen To A Love Song first appears in the New York Times radio listings on April 20, 1946, replacing 'First Nighter' in the 7:30pm slot on Saturday nights.  Its last appearance is October 5 of that year, being replaced by 'The Vaughn Monroe Show' the following week.

Challenge of the Yukon - With Sgt. Preston and Yukon King - Cabin On The Trail - The Great Dog King - Chesterton Kids Podcast

Command Performance - Spencer Tracy - Loretta Young - Mary Lee - AFRS Presents Best in American Entertainment for WWII Soldiers Overseas - Episodes 17-18

 On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a beautiful Romani woman named Carmen...little does he know that soon, these two will be entangled in a tumultuous love affair that spells out tragedy for both parties. This novella, written and first published in 1845, has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera by Georges Bizet. - Summary by Mary Kay and Wikipedia