Radio's Golden Days

Here we bring you Alka Seltzer Time, Alka Seltzer Time which was a 15 minute Music show sponsored by Alka Seltzer and One-A-Day.
The stars of the show are Curt Massey, Martha Tilton, Country Washburn and His Orchestra, Fort Pearson, the announcer.

Ads described the show as "informal song sessions" by vocalists Massey and Tilton, who was often billed as "the liltin' Martha Tilton." The two singers, both Texas-born, performed with Country Washburne and His Orchestra, featuring Charles LaVere on piano.

At 5:45pm each weekday from 1930 until 1942 could be heard that juvenile serial adventure “Little Orphan Annie” which was based on the comic strip by Harold Gray. The stories were adapted for radio by Frank Dahm who would often write his own stories from imagination. Mr. and Mrs. Silo were farmers and were Annie’s parents by adoption. Joe Corntassle was the shy kid down the road who had a crush on Annie whose catch phrase was leapin’ lizards. Each show would start with that unforgetable theme tune:-
Who’s that little chatterbox? The one with pretty auburn locks? Who can it be? It’s Little Orphan Annie. She and Sandy make a pair. They never seem to have a care. Cute little she, It’s Little Orphan Annie. Bright eyes Cheeks a rosy glow. There’s a store of healthiness handy. Pint-size Always on the go If you want to know “Arf,” goes Sandy. Always wears a sunny smile. Now wouldn’t it be worth your while, If you could be Like Little Orphan Annie?

"Beauty and The Beast". A poor man's faithful daughter volunteers to live with a beast to save her father. The Let’s Pretenders perform the classic fairy story of Beauty and the Beast.

Broadway is My Beat 3/6/1949 (ep.2) - The Andrew Jenkins Case

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar - 12/07/1948 Milford Brooks III (Dick Powell Audition)

Casey Crime Photographer 2/26/44 - Clue in the Clouds

Casey, Crime Photographer, known by a variety of titles on radio was a media franchise from the 1930s to the 1960s. The character was the creation of novelist George Harmon Coxe. Casey was featured in the pulp magazine, Black Mask, novels, comic books, radio, film, television and legitimate theatre.

Philip Marlowe 6/12/47 Who Shot Waldo (ep. 1)

Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler and was first seen in movies portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the 1939 classic, "The Big Sleep." In 1947 the fictional detective was heard on radio beginning in 1947, and by 1949 was the most popular radio program in the country. It was one of the only popular radio programs to have no sponsor, except for a short period in 1950 when Ford automobiles were advertised on the shows.

Dragnet - 06/10/1949 (ep.2) Homicide

"Oyster Shucker" (October 6, 1953 ; aka "Pearl Smugglers")
In this episode, as a lowly 'Oyster Shucker', Rocky's taken on at the Fifty Fathoms Clam House. He inadvertently gets involved with a pearl smuggling scam, but will he get the girl - sassy Iris?

Frank Sinatra is on the job as Rocky Fortune. Footloose, fancy-free, and frequently unemployed Rocky bounces from job to job but he finds danger wherever he punches a clock. Old Blue Eyes brings his signature charm and swagger to the role in this single-season radio mystery series.

My Friend Irma 4/11/1947 pilot Jane Meets Irma dinner for Jane's Boss