What time is it?  It's Philco Radio Time here on the Library of Sound (LOS).   Your Humble Host has stumbled into the Bing Wing of the Vast Library of Sound and come up with Volume 170 featuring Bing Crosby's Philco Radio show.   A real good one too as this one features Peggy Lee, Oscar Levant the piano master & jazz violinist Joe Venuti and a very funny guy too.   This is another one direct from Your Humble Host's collection and is so much better sounding than the stuff you can scrounge up on the internet.   Enjoy this November 10, 1948 edition of a very entertaining Bing Crosby Show!

It's Volume 124 of Sounds Like Radio and today Marjorie's preparing for the arrival of the new baby.   She's doing this by directing Gildy & Bronco, her husband to move the furniture around.   Poor Bronco, he's a nervous wreck as it is with expecting the baby at any moment.   Got to give him something to relieve his shattered nerves, why not move furniture?   Huh?   From January 17, 1951 it's time now for this funny edition of The Great Gildersleeve.

But you know how Your Humble Host likes to lend a helping hand so he brings on Doris Day, Al Jolson, Patsy Cline, Bing Crosby, the Ronettes & Nat King Cole to do all the heavy lifting while Your Humble Host supervises the job.  Jimmy Dean even takes a break from his breakfast to tell us a funny story.  It's a good day for music and a good day for Marjorie.  Just listening to today's show will make it a good day for you too.

From out of the darkest corners of Your Humble Host's Vast Library of Sound we emerge with Volume 169.   From the man who doesn't know the words but we love it anyway, it's time for The Whistler!   The subject in this strange little tale is "Jealousy" and the original broadcast date is September 27, 1942.   Pucker up and get ready to whistle like The Whistler. 

It's Volume 123 of Sounds Like Radio and we find our hero being run ragged with nightly dates.   Why?   Bullard (Gale Gordon) is still competing for Gildy's girlfriend, Katherine Milford (Kathy Lewis, "Deidra" of the TV show Hazel) by going out on nightly double dates with Gildy, Katherine, Bullard and a girl Bullard takes along.   Gildy's pooped but is too afraid to admit it.   Oh boy, quite a situation, and a very funny show with one of the funniest endings to a Gildy show I've heard.   

Your Humble Host says no more except we have some fine music today to assist in this little predicament.   Johnny Cash, Kay Starr, Madeleine Peyroux all describe how Gildy feels, Bing Crosby tells us when it's best to rest, Hal Kemp and Skinny Ennis sing of the joys of a date, Jaye P. Morgan's on hand to wake up the boys and BONUS song time Pepino DiCapri sings (in English) from the soundtrack of a classic Italian movie of the early '60's Il Sorpasso translated-The Easy Life.   The picture featured with today's show is a colorized picture Your Humble Host did from the movie Il Sorpasso.   The movie is in b/w but after colorizing it I wish the whole movie was in color.  

Oh yeah, we got a goodie here and it's all for you!

Your Humble Host welcomes you to our Vast Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 168 as today we're hot on the trail of a mysterious murderer in this classic Nero Wolfe original story by Rex Stout, "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo".    Nero is outraged to find a dead girl who could have been his latest client now laid out dead on the floor with Nero's own scarf used to strangle the poor thing.   Who could have been in Nero's house to have done this?  Where did they come from, how did they get in, why didn't the girl cry out for help?   There are a lot of questions to consider and get to the bottom of.   Who better to do this?   Nero Wolfe, of course.   Join the master detective today for this neat little original story written by Rex Stout himself as it was originally broadcast March 13, 1982.   

It's time for Volume 122 of Sounds Like Radio with our hero the Great Gildersleeve!   Today we find the Gildersleeve family in a quandary as Marjorie, who's expecting wakes up in the middle of the night with a craving for sauerkraut!!!   Now where do you find sauerkraut in the middle of the night when it's not in the kitchen?   That's the quest Gildy and Bronco (Marjorie's husband (Richard Crenna) find themselves on in this January 3, 1951 episode.   It's a real adventure we'll be having.   

And when you're looking for sauerkraut where else would you turn, but to Your Humble Host.   Oh we have a wide variety of folks today to assist.   We'll hear from Dean Martin, Gogi Grant, we'll wind up the old Victrola to listen to a 1926 78 of Riley Puckett singing of his favorite side dish, also Bing Crosby, an in stereo Judy Garland original, Waylon Jennings and K.D. Lang.   Now that's what  I call going far and wide all in the name of Marjorie's craving.   And well, well, there's our little German girl serving up a nice hot dish of sauerkraut now in our feature picture for this week's show!  

Your Humble Host is back with another cassette tape from his personal collection of Shep tapes that I recorded in the 1970's.   Today from the Library  of Sounds (LOS) Volume 167 we hear my December 20, 1974 recording of Jean Shepherd as he talks about human nature, pollster questions, and his own life philosophy.   A fascinating and interesting show to say the least, with a lot of laughs thrown in.   Enjoy another excursion into the life and mind of Jean Shepherd!  

Your Humble Host is back with another dip into our Vast Library of Sound (LOS).   Let's see what we have today with Volume 166, AHH, it's time for Western action with Hopalong Cassidy!    Today Hoppy finds himself in hot water as he visits "Cold Country" from February 24, 1951.   Andy Clyde as California is here, maybe he's brought Hoppy's mittens, it's mighty cold in "Cold Country."  

Welcome to Sounds Like Radio Volume 121 where we find the Jolly Boys going into action to save a fellow Jolly Boy from getting fired.   In this Great Gildersleeve episode from December 13, 1951 the town's filled with gossip that someone's getting fired.   It will be a sticky situation with the solution they figure to save the job.   Another good Willard Waterman episode from his first year as Gildy.   Willard and the show's writing and characters just improve as the show goes along.   You'll hear how it happens as we move along through the 1950's with the Great Gildersleeve.   

And as always Your Humble Host is here to help as we suggest ways to help out the Jolly Boys.  Along for the ride are Doris Day, Boots Randolph, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby & Al Jolson and a quick duet from them, Jo Stafford, Bill Frawley (Fred Mertz of I Love Lucy) returns to sing a nice one, and Chet Baker sings all about how the Jolly Boys think about their buddy.   It's a show filled with neat music and a neat episode of the Great Gildersleeve.

P.S. Just to correct a mistake in today's show, it was Ethan Hawke that starred as Chet Baker in the movie "Born To Be Blue."

From the Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 165 Your Humble Host comes up with a show we haven't heard in a while, The Adventures of Sam Spade starring Howard Duff!   It's detective action as Sam investigates the "One Hour Caper" originally broadcast January 4, 1948.  It's an early broadcast of Sam and the sound quality may not be the best, but it's still a good show to listen to.  Join Sam & Effie, his faithful secretary, in today's caper!