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One of the first DJ music shows featuring a husband and wife team of Andy and Virginia Mansfield in "Turn Back The Clock" broadcast mostly on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service from 1948-61. It was the first "Music and Talk" radio show. OTRCAT.COM relates: Andy and Virginia Mansfield had been around radio for most of their lives. Virginia got her start as a dancer. She landed a job as a staff singer at an Ohio radio station, and eventually moved to Los Angeles to work on KHJ, KFI and KMPC. She worked in vaudeville with her husband Andy, and they were one of the first couples to perform together on television, appearing on the Mutual Don Lee Network in 1937.

The couple is best remembered for NBC's Andy and Virginia and Turn Back the Clock over the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 

Benny Goodman "The King of Swing" holding court at the Madhattan Room on October 23, 1937 and broadcast live over CBS Radio. From the legendary Big Band ballroom which hosted major artists and popular radio broadcasts at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

"Men who wear the Air Force blue bring you A Serenade in Blue. To encourage civilians to join the Air Force. The US Air Force created this well-done musical program. Each Serenade in Blue program was written, produced, performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). Earlier 1950s - 1960s programs include The Air Force Symphony Orchestra and The Singing Sergeants, Col George S. Howard commander. (Photo). This program was recorded around 1963 at the USAF Band radio recording unit at Bolling Air Force Base where wild tracks were recorded featuring components of the USAF Band. Wild tracks of music, production themes and announcer voice track were loaded on individual AMPEX 350 tape decks and mixed down to create a fifteen minute audio recording which was sent to USAF recruiting in New York City for duplication on 12 inch vinyl record transcriptions which were mailed to practically every radio station in the country. --- Notes by R A Campbell, this podcast/blog editor and former USAF Band radio unit producer/announcer.

Episode 51 aired on CBS Radio August 29, 1948. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. John T. Unger is a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Hades, Mississippi on his way to St. Midas' preparatory school in Boston, the most exclusive and expensive prep school in the world. There, he hobnobs with the wealthy and meets another student named Percy Washington. Percy invites John to spend the Summer with his family "out West," and John, who loves being with the super-wealthy, agrees.

Episode 82 aired January 4, 1951 on NBC Radio. "The Rattlesnake Bandit" enjoys beating up his victims and then shoots them. Sergeant Friday investigates. 

Episode 45 aired February 24, 1974 on CBS Radio. Starring Mercedes McCambridge. Hereditary equestrian passion notwithstanding, a woman has to put up her horses for sale after her father's death.

We begin our look at the life and career of vocalist Maxine Gray. Text from Internet sources including Wikipedia and OTRCAT.COM: Although little-known beyond fans of Big Band Music and OTR, Maxine Gray's story is filled with survival and even success despite nearly crippling injuries and long odds. We will have future cameos of Maxine Gray but this first episode includes her recording of "Boom" with the Hal Kemp orchestra. (April 19, 1939)

On Mutual Radio December 14, 1940. David Rose starts off with his arrangement of the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales Of Hoffman. Maxine Gray sings I Hear A Rhapsody. The orchestra plays Chiribiribin. Guest violinist Jan Rubini plays Kiss Me Again and When Day Is Done. Rose's original Brooding. Maxine Gray sings Rain On The Roof and the program concludes with Rose's Plantation Moods.

A collection of skits by Bob and Ray. The pair started out at WHDH Radio in Boston in the late 1940's. Elliott and Goulding came to the attention of NBC in New York. They continued on the air for over four decades on the NBC, CBS, and Mutual networks, and on New York City stations WINS, WOR, and WHN. From 1973 to 1976, they were the afternoon drive hosts on WOR, doing a four-hour show. In their last incarnation, they were heard on National Public Radio, ending in 1987. They were regulars on NBC's Monitor, often on stand-by to go on the air at short notice if the program's planned segments developed problems, and they were also heard in a surprising variety of formats and timeslots, from a 15-minute series in mid-afternoon to their hour-long show aired weeknights just before midnight in 1954-55. 

A Collection of skits by Bob and Ray the American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990), the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.