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Episode 52 was aired on the Mutual Radio Network on April 5, 1941. David Rose's orchestra with Going No Place Fast and The Prince and Princess. Maxine Gray sings So Sweet. Rose and Siboney and the Orpheus Can Can. Maxine Gray with Fishin' and Rose concludes the program with Nursery Rhyme. Bill Gordon is the host and announcer....
Episode 19 in syndication. Released December 26, 1948. "Hot Box". A letter arrives at Box 13 instructing Dan Holiday (Actor Alan Ladd) to bid on a small Chinese box at an antiques auction. Luckily for Dan, he arrives late at the auction because, minutes later something happens you will want to hear.
March 4, 1960 episode on CBS Radio. Including Word Carr's horror movie interview.
From AFRTS archive blog:
Bill Stewart was one of the KMPC talent that had the AFRTS gig. He was the Bill of the KMPC jingle..."Ira, Johnny, Bill and Dick!" Bill graced LA playing his mixture of Swing, jazz and MOR at several great stations. KMPC, 1951-59; KGIL, 1965-66; KRHM, 1966 and 1969; KGIL, 1973-75. For Armed Forces Radio he hosted "A Quarter Century of Swing." In 1969, the 30-year veteran was honored with a concert at the Palladium. For 20 years he did in-flight airline music programming. Bill died in 1993 of congestive heart failure. Bill Stewart, and a few other hosts, recorded and stored their shows at AFRTS-LA for four to six months prior to air. Bill Stewart never mentioned "it's the Monday edition" or "it's the Tuesday edition" the way Roger Carroll did for his series. Probably due to the inordinate delay in recording the Bill Stewart Shows. He just didn't know what day the show was to be aired. When Bill Stewart says "this song is a new release", it really isn't. . .it's four to six months old!
Mansfield's 898 episode of Turn Back the Clock for AFRTS. 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. Andy and Virginia Mansfield had been around radio for most of their lives. Virginia got her start as a dancer and wound up singing with acts like Paul Whiteman and Eddie Albert. She landed a job as a staff singer at WWW, Cincinatti, and eventually moved to Los Angeles to work on KHJ, KFI and KMPC.
Aired April 11, 1946 on CBS Radio. Guest is Ethel Smith (born Ethel Goldsmith; November 22, 1902[ – May 10, 1996). She was an American organist who played primarily in a pop or Latin style on the Hammond organ. She had a long recording career and appeared in many films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smith_(organist)
On this episode of Adventures In Good Music Dr. Karl Haas presents the music of film composer Miklós Rózsa (April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995). He was a Hungarian-American composer best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life". Rózsa achieved early success in Europe with his orchestral Theme, Variations, and Finale (Op. 13) of 1933, and became prominent in the film industry from such early scores as The Four Feathers (1939) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). The latter project brought him to Hollywood when production was transferred from wartime Britain, and Rózsa remained in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1946. During his Hollywood career, he received 17 Academy Award nominations including three Oscars for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben-Hur (1959), while his concert works were championed by such major artists as Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and János Starker.
Episode 3 aired FEBRUARY 25, 1949 on CBS Radio. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama with actor Charles Russell in title roll. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account – America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." In this episode Johnny goes to Singapore to expedite a shipment of tin and finds everyone looking for a mysterious "it." The show features a bad guy who sounds like a Sydney Greenstreet imitator. Johnny even tells him, "Your mother must have been frightened by Sydney Greenstreet!" Charles Russell, Mark Warnow (composer, conductor), Paul Dudley (writer), Gil Doud (writer), Richard Sanville (producer, director).
"The Whistler" was an American radio program running for a total of 13 years from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was one of the most popular mystery dramas of its' time. Signal Oil Company sponsored the program. The marketing catch phrase was: "Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." During the first two years of the show J. Donald Wilson was the writer and producer. During 1944 producer and director George Allen took over. Other directors included Sterling Tracy and Sherman Marks with final scripts by Joel Malone and Harold Swanton. 692 total episodes were produced. Over 200 of those episodes cannot be found and are no longer in existence. Episodes of The Whistler began with the ominous narration: I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. Those opening words were spoken along with the echo of footsteps and Wilbur Hatch's 13-note theme, whistled weekly by Dorothy Roberts for 13 years. Bill Forman had the title role of host and narrator. Others who portrayed the Whistler at various times were Gale Gordon (Lucille Ball's future television nemesis), Joseph Kearns (played Mr. Wilson on TV series Dennis the Menace), Marvin Miller (soon the announcer for The Bickersons and, later, television's Michael Anthony on The Millionaire), Bill Johnstone (who played The Shadow on radio 1938-1943) and Everett Clarke. The stories followed an effective formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone by their own stupidity. Ironic twist endings were common, as they had been on the show that most obviously influenced it, The Shadow. The Whistler narrated, often commenting directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective. The Whistler seldom featured any major Hollywood stars, but the quality of writing and performance made it a radio mainstay.
This episode aired on NBC Radio May 6, 1951. It is 1130 am a Monday morning in November 1939. Sheriff Ross Petsby turns his car in to a quiet residential street in Harpers Landing, Texas. Seated in the car with him is Mrs. Blackburn a medical assistant. She becomes increasingly nervous as they approach a sign marking the home of Dr Walter Hemet who has not been seen over the past few days despite his car being in the garage. The sheriff breaks down his door and enters to discover that the doctor has been shot to death. Starring Joel McCrea. Produced and Directed by Stacey Keach, Sr.
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