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Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions.

WTIC Radio's Arnold Dean hosts an hour of big band music from the era of 1940's. This broadcast was aired on WTIC December 7, 1971.

OTR station with some JUKEBOX big band selections and a Hal Kemp radio remote from the golden age of old time radio...1930s - 1960s.

The Hopalong Cassidy radio program ran from 1948 to 1952, and was based on the popular movie and television series featuring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy. Episode 17 aired in syndication the week of April 23, 1950. 

While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos. While their place in popular culture dimmed greatly since their heyday in WWII. Here in our JUKEBOX episode 01 are several selections by some of these big bands

The series makes for a grand introduction to classical symphonic music at the Hollywood Bowl - selections include the opera Carmen sung in English, featured soloists Isaac Stern, Dorothy Eustis, Roman Totenberg, and Percy Grainger, with selections from Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Cellini. Leopold Stokowski organized the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra in 1945, drawing on talent from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and from various film studios. The 1946 season was celebrated as the Bowl's Silver Jubilee. The Armed Forces Radio Service was allowed to record all thirty-two concerts that season for broadcast overseas, and those recordings comprise this collection. Most of the performances are conducted by Stokowski, although guest conductors appear for some. This episode is the second in the series from July 11, 1949. Isaac Stern, violinist, is the guest artist.

Les Elgart was born August 3, 1918, in New Haven, CT, while Larry was born March 20, 1922, in nearby New London. In 1955, their band became The Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra, but the brothers split in 1959, each subsequently releasing his own series of LPs.

Edward R. Murrow brings us the news from the week on Friday April 13, 1951 on CBS Radio. Reports including In perhaps the most famous civilian-military confrontation in the history of the United States, President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the U.S. forces in Korea. The firing of MacArthur set off a brief uproar among the American public, but Truman remained committed to keeping the conflict in Korea a “limited war.”

James Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957), professionally known as Jimmy Dorsey, was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader.

Episode 31 aired on CBS Radio June 21, 1959. John Dehner as Paladin protects the Mennonite community in North Fork from a townspeople  determined to drive them out.