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Jason Remington in the Late Night Lounge as Little Orphan Archie presents another audio montage of old hits, vintage radio classics and comedy. The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program 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, one hit wonders, novelties and the in-house news authority, Lennie the Cabbie.

This AFRTS transcription features the music of Artie Shaw with DJ Andy Mansfield.

Billy Vaughn recorded the 1958 theme for the "It's Jim Ameche Time" radio show. This excerpt of the DJ show is from 1960.

1956. Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, June Foray. Stan Freberg Looks at Audiophiles 1956. Some things never change. From a 1956 radio show. The audio equipment may be different these days, but the conversations aren't.

Episode 40 aired February 14, 1943 on CBS Radio. A young woman has inherited a tendency to kill...or has she? Bill Forman stars.

March 3, 1943. Mr. Potts killed his business partner. However the police do not believe his confession as there is no body. Potts hires "The Saint" to convince the cops that he really did it. Vincent Price as Simon Templar...THE SAINT.

January 14, 1951 NBC Radio. Based on events of January 26, 1947. A double murder is blamed on a gambler with red hair, but hoofprints in the frost give Jace Pearson an important clue. Joel McCrea stars as Ranger Pearson.

The Swingin' Years" perpetuates the memory of swing music, popularized by such acts as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington. The program focused primarily on Swing, but also included many of the popular ballads of the era that topped the record charts from 1935 to 1955, that Cecil calls "The Swingin' Years". The music played on the program originally came from KFI's vast record library, as well as from Cecil's personal collection of 40,000+ 78 rpm records. As the show progressed, Cecil included audio clips of his interviews with some of the brightest stars of the big band era.  

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The Spike Jones Show is the name of several separate American comedy and variety series that aired on NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s. Spike Jones, son of a railroad agent, was born Lindley Armstrong Jones, getting his nickname from a telegraph operator who thought that Jones was skinny as a railroad spike. Madcap musician Spike Jones and his band, the City Slickers, perform spoof versions of well-known songs in this entertaining and hilarious half-hour show. Episode 1 on NBC June 3, 1945 included guest Charlie Ruggles. Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970) was a comic American character actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films.

Episode 125 January 11, 1945 on CBS Radio. "Drive-In" was written for Suspense by Mel Dinelli and Muriel Ray Bolton. A car-hop is threatened by a homicidal maniac. The script was also used on "Suspense" on November 21, 1946 and again on June 14, 1959. Nancy Kelly stars as a Hollywood working girl who sees death sitting beside her on her way home. Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress in film, theater and television. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's The March of Time and appeared in several films in the late 1920s. She became a leading lady upon returning to the screen in the late 1930s, while still in her teens, and made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946. She had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation. She returned to television for a handful of appearances in the mid-1970s.