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Our final episode of the life of big band singer Maxine Gray. Original text was published on OTRcat.com. This episode concludes with an appearance of Maxine Gray on a KHJ produced program dated October 15, 1944. Nobody's Children. The Nobody's Children Foundation is a nonprofit non-governmental organization, which provides a broad scope of assistance to abused children, their parents, and guardians.

COUNT BASIE at Birdland's fifth anniversary. NYC December 16, 1954. Excerpted from live television on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with host Steve Allen. George Shearing and vocalist Sarah Vaughan with others.

CHARLIE BARNETT June 3, 1944. From KHJ, Los Angeles over Mutual Network.

FRANKIE MASTERS January 26, 1947 broadcast from The Majestic Theater, San Antonio, Texas.

BENNY GOODMAN "Swing School" November 16, 1937, NYC. Vocalist Martha Tilton. Announcer (Doctor) Dan Seymore.

GENE KRUPA August 15, 1945 from The Astor Hotel, Times Square NYC from WOR over MUTUAL Network. Vocalist Anita O'Day.

ANSON WEEKS from Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California.

JOAN BROOKS SHOW with ARCHIE BLYER's Orchestra on CBS Radio June 7, 1944.

ARTIE SHAW ORCHESTRA Edited out takes from broadcasts 1936-1938.

GLENN MILLER Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC, NBC October 25, 1940.

HARRY JAMES U.S. Marine Corps transcription. Vocalist Peggy King (Photo, 1961).

JIMMY DORSEY Hollywood Palladium, NBC. Vocalist Bob Eberly.

BEN POLLACK, NYC.

BOB CROSBY Ford V-8 Review 1936.

CHARLIE BARNET NYC, CBS, November 22, 1948.

RUSS MORGAN Air National Guard transcription. Vocalist Rosemary Clooney. Announcer Bill Cullen.

AL OVERLAND Montana Skyline Supper Club, Billings. 1948.

ANSON WEEKS Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California. February 24, 1932. 

Episode 2574 from July 14, 1954. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

OTRcat.com has a nice description of the Keyboard Immortals series of programs featuring actual performances recorded on piano rolls. Hear selections performed by Debussy, Chopin and other classical composers. Audiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer (piano roll player) in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls and created this radio show in his living room.

Wonderful stories wound into beautiful orchestral music.

This episode opens with a classic hit of Tex Ritter.

This episode features the band of Al Overton in Billings MT. NBC's All Star Parade of Bands with Stan Kenton (Photo). A tribute by the US Air Force Band component, The Airmen of Note, with a tribute to Glenn Miller. The final remote is from Los Angeles with the Dale Jones Orchestra.

Ira Cook Show (AFRTS): After seeing action in WW II Ira Cook became  a Los Angeles area DJ,. Cook put together a daily show for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.  Many episodes of it are available on www.RADIOthen.network.

Remote from Los Angeles with the Boyd Rayburn Orchestra. Buddy Morrow's band with Rosemary Clooney for The National Guard. Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra on CBS Radio.