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Excerpts from NBC Radio broadcasts featuring The Vincent Lopez Orchestra, Boris Karloff on Lights Out, Buddy Clark sings, comedian Col. Stupnagle, NBC News coverage of ship Normandy fire and music from 1938 Contented Hour.

Stage, screen and TV star Barry Nelson first became a Monitor host in 1963 and remained on the program until 1967.  After hosting Saturday afternoon Monitor for a couple of years, he became Sunday afternoon’s host in ’65, and on this first-Sunday-of-the-New Year in 1966. This episode features Frank Sinatra.

Aired in syndication around July 19, 1954. The Lone Ranger was played by several actors:

Tonto was played throughout the run by actor John Todd (although in a few isolated occasions, he was replaced by Roland Parker, better known as Kato for much of the run of sister series The Green Hornet). Other supporting players were selected from Detroit area actors and studio staff. These included Jay Michael (who also played the lead on Challenge of the Yukon, or Sgt. Preston of the Yukon), Bill Saunders (as various villains, including Butch Cavendish), Paul Hughes (as the Ranger's friend Thunder Martin and as various army colonels and badmen), future movie star John Hodiak, Janka Fasciszewska (under the name Jane Fae), and Rube Weiss and Liz Weiss (later a married couple, both actors in several radio and television programs in Detroit, Rube usually taking on villain roles on the "Ranger", and Liz playing damsels in distress). The part of nephew Dan Reid was played by various child actors, including Bob Martin, James Lipton, and Dick Beals.

Live piano performances were recorded with incredible accuracy at the dawn of the 20th Century using Welte Vorsetzer player piano technology. These classic performances are the basis for Keyboard Immortals Play Again In Stereo.

America's greatest stentorian radio voice after the passing of Walter Winchell. He studied at the University of Tulsa on a scholarship. From 1948 to 1953, he served as announcer of Tulsa radio station KWGS but he became best known as the voice of "The Passing Parade' and "Patterns In Sound".

Jim Ameche (Don's brother) was the first to succeed with a nationally syndicated DJ show in the 1950s. James Ameche (August 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin – February 4, 1983, Tucson, Arizona) was a familiar voice on radio and long running transcription on AFRTS.

Ira Cook, Actor: McCloud. Composer and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, sixteen of which were at KMPC. 

In syndication episode 19 was released May 7, 1960. Hoppy turns bank robber to help a criminal straighten out. The afternoon sunlight comes in through the small window of the sheriffs office blinding the sullen young man seated on the chair in the middle of the room. William Boyd stars in his best known character role. 

For AFRTS from the Jubilee season recorded on July 16, 1946. Leopold Stokowski, conductor. Brahms Academic Festival Overture and Symphonic excerpts from Wagner operas.