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  • THE WHISTLER "Death Pays a Visit"

    Episode 159 aired on CBS Radio June 11, 1945. Jack Crowley needs $10,000 fast to cover the shortage in his accounts at the bank. Along comes laughing cousin Charlie for a weekend visit...with $10,000 in cash! The course of action called for seems obvious. Marvin Miller hosts this series.

    30 min
  • THE ENCHANTED HOUR "Prokofiev: Classical Symphony"

    Episode 18 aired over the Mutual Network on September 25, 1949. The Enchanted Hour, produced in Chicago, featured classical orchestral and operatic music. Directed by Jim Ramsey and Jack LaFrandre, Henry Weber and his orchestra play uninterrupted music by composers such as Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Handel, Debussy, Strauss, and Wagner.  Nancy Carr appeared often as soprano. This episode opens with The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the "Classical". It was Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it on September 10, 1917. It was composed as a modern reinterpretation of the classical style of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The symphony's nickname was bestowed upon it by the composer. It premiered on April 18, 1918 in Petrograd, conducted by Prokofiev. It has remained one of his most popular works.  

    31 min
  • TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Blind Justice"

    Aired March 11, 1951 on NBC Radio. It is 5:45 am, March 6, 1940, and Pete Salverson, owner of the roadside café in West Texas, is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen, he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness — the kind a blind man's dog might wear. 

    31 min
  • STAN FREBERG "St George and the Dragonet"

    "St. George and the Dragonet " is a short audio satire recorded August 26, 1953 by Stan Freberg for Capitol Records. It was released September 21, 1953 as a 45 rpm single (Capitol F2596), and reached No. 1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box record charts. This satire features the theme sound intro music (minus the spoken word part on this record) for the "Dragnet" TV-crime show series on NBC from 1951 to 1959, and 1967 to 1970.

    4 min

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