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Episode 50 aired on Mutual Radio Network March 22, 1941. First David Rose conducts In Dear Old Southland, I Love Thee and 4:20Am. Maxine Gray sings Love Is. The Rose orchestra with Chopin's Prelude and Saint Saens Danse Macabre. Maxine Gray with Perfidia and the Rose orchestra ends this episode with a tune called Big Ben.

Episode 17 with Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized.  Original syndication  Date: April 28, 1948.

March 3, 1960. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning. The classic sign-on: "And now, from approximately coast to coast, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding present the CBS radio network." The classic sign-off: "This is Ray Goulding reminding you to write if you get work. Bob Elliott reminding you to hang by your thumbs."

Bill chatrs with Mort Garson who was one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop. Born July 20, 1924, in the Canadian city of St. John, New Brunswick, Garson attended the Juilliard School of Music, briefly graduating to the ranks of professional pianist and arranger before he was drafted to serve in World War II. Upon returning from duty, Garson cemented a reputation as a top session hand, tackling arranging, conducting and composing.

Andy and Virginia turn back the clock to start this episode from 1960 on AFRTS with Moonlight Cocktail versions.

From 1944 episode 35 on CBS Radio. Kenny Baker was born on September 30, 1912 in Monrovia, California, USA. He was an actor an d singer, known for Silver Skates (1943), Hit Parade of 1941 (1940) and The Mikado (1939).  He died on August 10, 1985 in Solvang, California. Baker first appeared on Jack Benny's weekly radio program on November 3, 1935, having been hired to replace singer Frank Parker. Parker had been very popular on the Benny program, and with his departure, it was widely believed that Benny would lose a large part of his audience; however, Kenny Baker is said to have won audiences over almost instantly, even surpassing Parker in popularity. Baker portrayed a high-voiced, innocent young man on the show, who would frequently cause the Jack Benny character frustration with his "silly" remarks. Baker's final regular appearance on Benny's radio show aired on June 25, 1939, leaving the $3,000 per week job because he no longer wanted to play the character. He was subsequently replaced by singer Dennis Day. After his four-year stint on the Benny program.

In syndication dated February 27, 1992. Adventures in Good Music, hosted by Karl Haas, was radio's most widely listened-to classical music program, and aired nationally in the U.S. from 1970 to 2007. The program was also syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. German-American musicologist Karl Haas started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan. It was awarded the Peabody Prize.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962. Charles Russell stars as Johnny Dollar in the episode from October 12, 1949 on CBS Radio. 

Episode 179 aired on CBS Radio October 29, 1945. "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." 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.

This episode aired April 15, 1951 on NBC Radio. Starring Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson) with Tony Barrett, Lillian Buyeff, Herb Ellis, Ken Christy, Byron Kane, Tom McKean, Lamont Johnson, Herb Vigran. A woman's complaint that her husband was murdered and inconsistencies in the stories of local law enforcement send two Rangers down to an oil boom town to investigate.