It's time to take another stroll through the dark rain soaked streets of detective noir.   Our favorite tough guy private eye Philip Marlowe gets a $50 bill in the mail, he thinks it's from a Heart of Gold but he learns no one gets nothin' for nothin'.   The Library of Sound Volume 139 and Your Humble Host bring you The Adventures of Philip Marlowe today from October 24, 1948.   Marlowe earns that $50 the hard way, but we'll be right there with him with some moral support.      

In today's Sounds Like Radio Volume 115 we find our very own Throckmorton Gildersleeve worried about the education Leroy is getting in school.   Let's just say Gildy is lucky he isn't around now to see the daily horrors that are being indoctrinated into our kids today.   But that's for another kind of program.   We're here to have a brief respite from today's news disasters and enjoy some music and a few laughs with Your Humble Host and The Great Gildersleeve from May 21, 1947.  

Helping out with educating Leroy properly will be Frank Sinatra, the Andrew Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, the Park Avenue Hillbillie-Dorothy Shay (pictured here with today's show), Bing Crosby and last but not least Gogi Grant rounds out the education system.   

Today Your Humble Host has for you an extra funny and entertaining episode of one of the best comedy shows on radio.   It's the Jack Benny Show on today's Library of Sound Volume 138.   And what makes this so special is that a very rare appearance, in fact it may have been his only appearance, of the World's Greatest Entertainer Al Jolson on Jack's show.   That's right, 2 of the very best-Jack Benny and Al Jolson together on today's fun filled Library of Sound with Your Humble Host.   

The Shadow emerges from the clouds of your mind on the Library of Sound Volume 137!   Your Humble Host is proud to present a true radio classic, The Shadow in Prelude to Terror!   As it was originally broadcast January 29, 1939.   Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?   The Shadow knoooowwwwssss.

It's time for Sounds Like Radio Volume 114 and a Great Gildersleeve from May 14, 1947.   You may have noticed we've gone back in time and have not proceeded to the next normally heard Willard Waterman Gildy today which takes place in December of 1950.   Why?  Because the next several Willard Waterman Gildy episodes are all involving their Christmas season.   Rather than play Christmas shows for you in September and October we're going to delay those episodes until our own last week of November.  This way the current Waterman Christmas season will synchronize with our own Christmas season.   We're not skipping any, we're just not listening to them till the last week of November.

Instead today we're going back to the 2 months of Gildy episodes that occurred just BEFORE our Sounds Like Radio Episode One.  We started Sounds Like Radio Vol. 1 with the Oct. 22, 1947 show and today we're listening to the May 14, 1947 show.   Episodes we've never heard on Sounds Like Radio before.   

In today's show Peevy, our friendly neighborhood druggist has skipped town.  He's missing!!!   Where's he gone???   You'll even hear a very rare appearance of Mrs. Peevy today!!   We'll find out what's what and to help out will be Kay Starr, the Ink Spots, Jaye P. Morgan, Bing Crosby, Teresa Brewer & Dean Martin who will even sing us an encore classic.   

A classic Harold Peary Gildersleeve from the period just before we started here in Volume One.   Fear not we'll return to the Willard Waterman Christmas season of shows, not skipping any, starting in late November.

Now let's enjoy figuring out just Where Is Peevy?

From the Vast Library of Sound Volume 136 comes one of radio's classic mystery shows!   Your Humble Host is happy to bring you the very first episode of The Whistler from May 16, 1942.   The Whistler was a strange narrator of weird and unusual stories with a strange sense of amusement over the subjects of his tales.   Today's story is called "Retribution".    

The Whistler awaits for he knows many things and has been many places.   Listen as he tells you of one.

Call out for Effie, time for her to take notes as Sam Spade returns to the Library of Sound Volume 135 to tell of the "Death Bed Caper" as it was originally broadcast on June 20, 1948.   Your Humble Host is already on the edge of his seat biting his nails in nervous excitement.    What is Sam up to?  What dangers lurk?  Where's he going?   Who's the bad guy?  Is Sam on his death bed?   Why don't we just listen and stop asking silly questions?   Sounds good to me.   It's Sam Spade time!!

We're back right where we love it, Sounds Like Radio!   Today it's Volume 113 as little Leroy is asked by Sweet little Brenda to go to a Cotillion dance with her!   Leroy is one lucky dude today on The Great Gildersleeve from November 29, 1950.  Will Leroy and Brenda be doing the classic dance "The Stroll"?   Well, I don't know about Leroy but we sure will be doing the Stroll today with The Diamonds!  That's gonna get us in the mood for more great sounds from Miss Nibs--Georgia Gibbs, Al Jolson & Bing Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Tab Hunter, Ella Fitzgerald, the great Phil Harris and just for good measure-Nat King Cole.  Ohh a whole lotta shakin' goin' on and a whole lotta fun too.   

Your Humble Host is proud to bring you another original Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story on Volume 134 of our Vast Library of Sound (LOS).  Today it's the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the case of "The Five Orange Pips".   A classic Sherlock radio show too as this one is from November 28, 1966 and is one of the best.  Let's all don our Deerstalker hats to investigate along with Sherlock.

It's Back to School time and that means Jean Shepherd's thoughts turn to his own school daze.   On the Library of Sound Volume 133 Your Humble Host is all in a daze with just the thought of returning to school.  Oh how I dreaded it.  But maybe a funny little visit with Jean and his school thoughts and his buddy Jack Morton will make this time just a little better.   From 1971 here is a classic Shep show right out of the vaults and into your hearts on Sounds Like Radio's Library of Sound.