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Episode 515 Bob Bailey stars as Johnny goes to New Orleans to investigate a fire where the shop owner refused to file a claim.

Wolfman Jack, whose national rock show is blasted from the 250,000-watt XERF in Acuña, Mexico, buys KUXL, an R&B station in Golden Valley, (Hudson, MN). Jack relocates to Minnesota and begins recording his show at KUXL, shipping his tapes to Mexico each day.

Episode 137 aired on CBS Radio January 8, 1945. A woman returns from the dead for revenge of her murder. Bill Forman stars.

Episode aired September 18, 1949. The Saint tries to unravel a string of murders on a cruise ship.

Aired February 18, 1951 on NBC Radio. A sugar bowl helps Jace Pearson (Joel McCrea) find a killer. 

Chuck Cecil (December 26, 1922 – April 30, 2019) was a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingin' Years", a "Best of" radio show for the " big band " era in music, which lasted from 1935 to 1955. Cecil set the gold standard for big band era nostalgia with his legendary program “The Swingin’ Years”, which began a remarkable 60 year run on the air in 1956. The last show aired in July of 2016. This episode is from our AFRTS collection and features excerpts from radio broadcasts by several big bands from 1930's and 1940's..

Episode 143 aired May 31, 1945 on CBS Radio. Ronald Colman star. The mood of “August Heat” enhances its suspense and ominous foreshadowing. In W.F. Harvey’s short story, “August Heat,” the author creates suspense by constant references to the stifling heat of a summer day and a series of foreshadowing hints that propel the reader to an uncertain conclusion. Ronald Charles Colman was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States and having a successful Hollywood film career. en.wikipedia.org 

"The Great Pretender" was a popular song in 1956  recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on November 3, 1955. The Platters were the target for one of Freberg’s most famous pop record parodies later in 1956 (introducing the term “kling-kling-kling jazz”).

July 8, 1945 from the Army Air force convalescence Hospital in Santa Ana California the makers of Chase and Sanborn coffee bring you the Chase and Sanborn program starring Frances Langford with Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Tony Romano and special guest Vera Vague. The announcer is Ken Carpenter. Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!"

Episode 30 aired April 27, 1954 on NBC Radio. A hotel owner is robbed and murdered, but before he died, he said he thought it might be a man from a Wanted poster named Johnny Springer. Britt and the sheriff make plans to track him down.