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Commercials made by Stan Freberg for Contadina Tomato Paste and Contadina Whole Peeled Tomatoes, featuring the voices of Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, and Sandra Gould.

Episode 25 aired March 14, 1954 on NBC Radio Network. A mean gambler arrives in town looking for his son after twelve years. Both of them have seen some interesting changes. James Stewart stars.

October 26, 1951. A prospector, who's an old friend, needs Roy's help.

Initially a disc jockey (a role he portrayed in the 1949 short subject Spin That Splatter), 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.

March 6, 1950. Randy Stone is held up and shot by seventy-year-old Professor Benson, who has a sure-fire roulette system. 

August 15, 1956. Recalling 30 years of network broadcasting NBC presented excerpts of programs from their audio archives. The A and P Gypsies with vocalist Frank Parker. Comedians Pick and Pat, a song by Eddie Cantor, commentary by Father Charles Coughlin, Rudy Vallee sings, Daniels and Lyons on The Ben Bernie Show and Deanna Durbin (Photo) sings Ave Maria.

Morgan Beatty was the first host voice ever heard on Monitor. Aircheck is from 1959 with Morgan Beatty. Monitor was a U.S. weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday.

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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 (Photo).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_McNamee

Notes from OTRCAT.COM:   https://www.otrcat.com/p/chevrolet-musical-moments

Edward R. Murrow reports the news of the day, June 20, 1952, on the CBS Radio Network. Sponsored by AMOCO gasoline.

From 1971. One of the AFRTS most popular DJs was Ira Cook whose personality comes shining through in every one of his recorded broadcasts; he is a white collared, narrow tie-wearing square, but he had an appreciation for popular music. https://www.otrcat.com/p/ira-cook-show