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Christmas 1939 2 minute excerpt from The Baby Snooks Show. An American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when she first went on the air. The series began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Post Toasties Time (for sponsor General Foods). The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show.

The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge Vintage Radio program with Jason Remington ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz, blues, swing, country, pop and easy listening, spanning about an 80 year period. The programs contained audio from artists like Bob and  Ray, George Burns, Laurel and Hardy and Stan Freberg.

Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674)was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"

EPISODE 20  Robin Morrow narrates as well with an attractive and trustworthy baritone voice. Several of the stories are told in verse, and others in straight prose. The stories are both secular and religious, but uniformly transmit the joy of Christmas for all ages. Orchestral, choral, and studio organ music are all presented to balance the narration. Christmas legends and stories are told in a fresh new way, and stories of the joyous season that will warm the hardest heart. Christmas Fantasy is "driveway radio" for the Yule Season...(www.otrcat.com)

In the early 'Sixties, producer Robin Morrow put together a more grown-up oriented syndication, Christmas Fantasy. Rather than a single serialized narrative, Fantasy was a collection of different stories, myths, legends linked by the Christmas theme.

Because the episodes were not linked serially, if a listener found the broadcasts in the middle of the run there was no worry about catching up with the narrative. The series was sold to regional stations on thirteen vinyl disks, with a total of 26 episodes. However, given the time period and the quality of the program, it can be assumed that Mr. Morrow employed reel-to-reel tape technology to edit and produce the episodes. --www.otrcat.com

December 25, 1930. (Less than good quality audio). The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour (also known as The Rudy Vallée Show, The Fleischmann Yeast Hour, and The Fleischmann Hour) was a pioneering musical variety radio program broadcast on NBC from 1929 to 1936, when it became The Royal Gelatin Hour, continuing until 1939. This program was sponsored by Fleischmann’s Yeast, a popular brand of yeast. The person responsible for this major step ahead in broadcasting was NBC executive Bertha Brainard, who became head of programming for NBC in 1928. She began pushing for singer-bandleader Rudy Vallée to host a variety series by explaining that only a woman could understand the appeal of Vallée's voice.

AFRTS. Andy Mansfield hosts a program covering the career of Glenn Miller and his civilian and  Army Air Force bands.

Episode 18. Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th-century liberal Protestants. Today, Sears is primarily known as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849. It has been sung to two tunes, one by Richard Storrs Willis and another adapted by Arthur Sullivan from a traditional English air.

William Tritt, piano with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.