SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.

Stan Freberg presents The United States of America.

Aired June 3, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tom Conway stars as The Saint. The Saint agrees to meet a woman’s husband on the train and ends up investigating the husband’s murder. Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) and psychiatrists, among other roles. Conway played "The Falcon" in 10 episodes of the series, taking over from his brother, George Sanders, in The Falcon's Brother (1942), in which they both starred. He also appeared in several Val Lewton films.

The episode is entitled "Voodoo" from August 31, 1951. This was one of the most successful radio series created by British radio producer, Harry Alan Towers. It was produced during 1951-52 in the United Kingdom and syndicated world wide. The series is a prequel to the 1949 film, "The Third Man". It depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Harry Lime in a more light-hearted manner than that of the film.

Edward G. Robinson stars as Steve Wilson managing editor for the Illustrated Press in episode 192 from September of 1942. Steve and Lorelei find a dead body in a cheap hotel and a tall blonde murderess.

Bob Crosby from San Francisco on NBC in 1940. Episode 7. George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which was formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. He was the younger brother of famed singer and actor Bing Crosby. On TV, Bob Crosby guest-starred in The Gisele MacKenzie Show and was also seen on The Jack Benny Program. Crosby hosted his own afternoon TV variety show on CBS, The Bob Crosby Show (1953–1957). Crosby received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for television and radio. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crosby

Karl Haas chats about the music of Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907). Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to international consciousness, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana did in Bohemia. Grieg is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues depicting his image, and many cultural entities named after him: the city's largest concert building (Grieg Hall), its most advanced music school (Grieg Academy) and its professional choir (Edvard Grieg Kor). The Edvard Grieg Museum at Grieg's former home Troldhaugen is dedicated to his legacy. ---(WIKIPEDIA)

Episode of May 13, 1962 on CBS Radio Network starring Mandel Kramer (March 12, 1916 – January 29, 1989). He was an American Radio and TV actor. He is best known as the last Johnny Dollar from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series. Johnny Dollar gets into scuba gear near Cozumel Mexico in search for treasure and a killer.

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 and our in-house news authority, Lennie the Cabbie

On this episode of the AFRTS series Turn Back The Clock, Andy Mansfield features the music of Artie Shaw from the Big Band Era. Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Though he had numerous hit records, he was perhaps best known for his 1938 recording of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine." Before the release of "Beguine," Shaw and his fledgling band had languished in relative obscurity for over two years and, after its release, he became a major pop artist. The record eventually became one of the era's defining recordings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw

Episode 34 aired January 3, 1943. A gripping story about the spineless son of a District Attorney.

Balance of a reading of an article about the Lone Ranger's horse Silver.

The Saint travels out west to help a beautiful blonde with her new silver mine.

"The man who’ll fill your musical bill…Bill Stewart was a KLAC Los Angeles disc jockey in the 1960's. On his "Bill Stewart Show" he produced and announced more than 4,000 programs, many over AFRTS. When he was discharged from the army in November 1947 he continued his AFRTS programs while working on KLAC. His shows were heard on Armed Forces Radio Service for nearly 50 years. Stewart was born in New Brunswick, Canada. He served in the Canadian Air Force during World War II and was discharged due to a medical disability. He came to the United States and worked shortly at a radio station in Idaho until he was drafted into the U. S. Army. A longtime Burbank resident, Stewart died Feb. 26, 1993 of congestive heart failure and complications of diabetes, survived by his wife, Shirley Stewart.

An inveterate liar is loudly insistent that Dodge City's new banker is a swindler who will abscond with the townspeople's savings at his earliest opportunity.  Guest actors are John Dehner, Joe Duval and Vic Perrin.

January 7, 1951 Based on events of August 27, 1938. A dead body is found in a duffle bag in an empty freight car. 

Episode 121 aired December 14, 1944 on CBS Radio Network. Starring Robert Montgomery. A couple suspects that their lodger is really "The Avenger," a homicidal maniac. In 1888, London is terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders.

STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Ben Franklin discusses discovery of electricity, in stereo.

Episode 24 aired March 7, 1954 on NBC Radio Network. James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Britt Ponset. Two bandits hit on Britt who is mistaken for someone else resulting in a few minutes of gunplay.

September 4, 1952 -  A gang of bandits is trying to find one steer in a herd. It has a fortune in stolen diamonds hidden in a hollowed horn.

Episode 14 aired on the CBS Radio Network on Sunday evening October 13, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for fifteen episodes in 1957 from July 14 through October 20. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray and Peter Leeds, Peggy Taylor as the resident singer, and the musical direction of Billy May. The show aired in the 7:30 p.m. (ET) time slot following repeats of The Jack Benny Program {"The Best Of Benny"} on Sundays.  

Aired April 8, 1947. Richard Kollmar stars. Blackie and the cops find the body of one of the wealthy Rodgers sisters in their junk-filled house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Blackie

Episode 4 aired February 27, 1950 on NBC Radio. Joan Banks stars Randy Stone, played by Frank Lovejoy, meets Fran Fowler in the park. She's a nightclub singer with a serious problem. Joan Banks (October 30, 1918 – January 18, 1998) was an American film, television, stage, and radio actress (described as "a soapbox queen"), who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Banks

Excerpt from an NBC Radio broadcast on December 7, 1941. Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn, was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928 and NBC in 1940. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. Kaltenborn had very specific views about radio's role in presenting the news. Later in life he wrote on the subject in many of his books. He was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Kaltenborn also appears as himself in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._V._Kaltenborn

Aired August 8, 1956 an encapsulated highlights of NBC radio shows on the evening of Friday, March 4, 1938. Featuring Amos N' Andy with Walter Huston, Frank Black's Orchestra, Los Angeles rainstorm news, Abe Lyman's Waltz Time, Jimmy Fiddler From Hollywood and a big band radio remote with the Blue Barron Orchestra.

Episode 90 aired October 13, 1937 on CBS Radio. This "best remembered" of all the crime stoppers shows was billed as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." Producer-director Phillips H. Lord. Gang Busters, debuted in mid-January, 1936. If anything, the opening sound effects became even more elaborate and aggressive. The show opened with a barrage of blaring sound effects – a shrill police whistle, convicts marching in formation, police siren wailing, machine guns firing, and tires squealing. Then, an authoritative voice would announce the title of that night's program: "Tonight, Gang Busters presents the Case of the —." Finally, the opening would end with more blasts from a police whistle. This intrusive introduction led to the popular catch phrase "came on like Gangbusters."

This audio excerpt of MONITOR is from the 1956 first anniversary broadcast. When Monitor began on June 12, 1955 at 4pm, the first hour of the program was simulcast on NBC-TV. That initial June 12 broadcast lasted eight hours, from 4pm through 12 midnight. Following the Monitor beacon, Morgan Beatty was the first voice ever heard on Monitor. After an introduction by Pat Weaver, news headlines by Dave Garroway and a routine by Bob and Ray, Garroway cued Monitor's opening music remote: live jazz by Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All-Stars at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California. It was the first of many jazz remotes in the weeks to come.

1956 Monitor was a U.S. weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday. However, after the first few months, the full weekend broadcast was shortened when the midnight-to-dawn hours were dropped since few NBC stations carried it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(radio_program)

Episode 2812 aired January 24, 1951. "Tonto" voiced regularly by John Todd replaced on this episode.  The Apaches plan to attack an army wagon train carrying money and supplies for the settlers, with the help of evil white men. Early profile photo of Brace Beemer, radio's most popular voice of The Lone Ranger.

Episode 11, September 12, 1950. Martha Britt is a school teacher for the Indians and tries to prevent a second Comanche war.  The Nescalosa plains stretch to the horizon and the Squat settlement is in the center of those pine covered hills of the Indian reservation and far in the distance beyond the white sands of the desert is the flat top tableland called Red Rock Mesa. Hoppy and California assist the teacher to bring education to the Squat children.

Episode 12 aired March 2, 1951 on CBS Radio. Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

WMAQ, Chicago aircheck The Bob Arbogast Show evening of November 1, 1951. The Arbogast program contained comedy and satire on WMAQ from 1951-54, he went on to become a writer and voice-over performer on the West Coast. He was born April 1,  1927. He died March 21, 2009 at age 81.

Episode 25 aired on CBS Radio May 10, 1959. Starring John Dehner. Paladin wants to retrieve a church's holy relic from a poverty-stricken rancher.

The Rest Of The Story

October 27, 1952 on CBS Radio. Matt Dillon, US Marshall, has to serve papers on woman who refuses to leave land for development of THE RAILROAD.

Episode 25 aired on CBS Radio July 15, 1956. A trooper from Captain Quince's past. Patchen, joins the troop and creates stress. Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince in another saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire.

The "Favorite Story" of TV host Art Linkletter is episode 116 of this series with Ronald Coleman which aired December 3, 1949. Stars Hal March and Betty Lou Gerson. http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Favorite-Story.html         Produced at Los Angeles station KFI  Syndicated and Produced by Lawrence and Lee for Bullocks department store. First aired Tuesdays 9:00 - 9:30 pm. Narrator: True Boardman primarily, but varied from program to program.   Announcer: George Barclay. Music: Claude Sweeten, Bob Mitchell.

One of the first DJ music shows featuring a husband and wife team of Andy and Virginia Mansfield in "Turn Back The Clock" broadcast mostly on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service from 1948-61. It was the first "Music and Talk" radio show. OTRCAT.COM relates: Andy and Virginia Mansfield had been around radio for most of their lives. Virginia got her start as a dancer. She landed a job as a staff singer at an Ohio radio station, and eventually moved to Los Angeles to work on KHJ, KFI and KMPC. She worked in vaudeville with her husband Andy, and they were one of the first couples to perform together on television, appearing on the Mutual Don Lee Network in 1937.

The couple is best remembered for NBC's Andy and Virginia and Turn Back the Clock over the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 

"Men who wear the Air Force blue bring you A Serenade in Blue. To encourage civilians to join the Air Force. The US Air Force created this well-done musical program. Each Serenade in Blue program was written, produced, performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). Earlier 1950s - 1960s programs include The Air Force Symphony Orchestra and The Singing Sergeants, Col George S. Howard commander. (Photo). This program was recorded around 1963 at the USAF Band radio recording unit at Bolling Air Force Base where wild tracks were recorded featuring components of the USAF Band. Wild tracks of music, production themes and announcer voice track were loaded on individual AMPEX 350 tape decks and mixed down to create a fifteen minute audio recording which was sent to USAF recruiting in New York City for duplication on 12 inch vinyl record transcriptions which were mailed to practically every radio station in the country. --- Notes by R A Campbell, this podcast/blog editor and former USAF Band radio unit producer/announcer.

Episode 51 aired on CBS Radio August 29, 1948. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. John T. Unger is a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Hades, Mississippi on his way to St. Midas' preparatory school in Boston, the most exclusive and expensive prep school in the world. There, he hobnobs with the wealthy and meets another student named Percy Washington. Percy invites John to spend the Summer with his family "out West," and John, who loves being with the super-wealthy, agrees.

On the train ride West, Percy reveals that his father is the richest man in the world. He has a diamond the size of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. John soon discovers that Percy is telling the truth.

Episode 82 aired January 4, 1951 on NBC Radio. "The Rattlesnake Bandit" enjoys beating up his victims and then shoots them. Sergeant Friday investigates. 

Episode 45 aired February 24, 1974 on CBS Radio. Starring Mercedes McCambridge. Hereditary equestrian passion notwithstanding, a woman has to put up her horses for sale after her father's death.

We begin our look at the life and career of vocalist Maxine Gray. Text from Internet sources including Wikipedia and OTRCAT.COM: Although little-known beyond fans of Big Band Music and OTR, Maxine Gray's story is filled with survival and even success despite nearly crippling injuries and long odds. We will have future cameos of Maxine Gray but this first episode includes her recording of "Boom" with the Hal Kemp orchestra. (April 19, 1939)

A collection of skits by Bob and Ray. The pair started out at WHDH Radio in Boston in the late 1940's. Elliott and Goulding came to the attention of NBC in New York. They continued on the air for over four decades on the NBC, CBS, and Mutual networks, and on New York City stations WINS, WOR, and WHN. From 1973 to 1976, they were the afternoon drive hosts on WOR, doing a four-hour show. In their last incarnation, they were heard on National Public Radio, ending in 1987. They were regulars on NBC's Monitor, often on stand-by to go on the air at short notice if the program's planned segments developed problems, and they were also heard in a surprising variety of formats and timeslots, from a 15-minute series in mid-afternoon to their hour-long show aired weeknights just before midnight in 1954-55. 

A Collection of skits by Bob and Ray the American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990), the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.

Vincent Price stars in this story of a man on the way to his execution after being convicted of murdering his wife. But before being put to death, he will go to any lengths to avoid his punishment. Is his wife really dead? And how is a man able to elude the law using only his skills as a poet? Episode 96 aired on CBS Radio January 31, 1950.

Episode 2 A life insurance company sends a letter to Box 13 in hopes of getting Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) to locate a missing man who the insurance adjuster believes is alive. Original Air Date: Week of January 14, 1948 in syndication.

The Two and Only RCA ALBUM --  Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990), the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.

Karl Haas was a distinguished classical music performer and exegetist—a presenter, interpreter, and explainer—who for decades originated a widely-syndicated and highly successful radio program on the subject of classical music.

Dr. Haas began his broadcasting career in 1950 by hosting a weekly preview of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts on radio station WWJ in Detroit. He first attracted attention as a performing musician when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked him to play piano and conduct a chamber orchestra for a radio program. For them he performed a weekly piano recital with commentary in French on Quebec radio. The CBC encouraged him to talk about the music he was playing during the broadcast and gradually he complied.

http://www.electricka.com/etaf/etafhomepages/features/feature_list/biographies/karl_haas/karl_haas_home.htm

August 13, 1961 on CBS Radio. Mandell Kramer stars as Johnny Dollar. Murder and narcotics gets Dollar to a tiny Mexican town with an unusual name. Tri-Western Life Insurance Company calls our insurance investigator Johnny Dollar because one of their clients is mixed up in a narcotics incident and need Dollar's help. Mandel Kramer (March 12, 1916 – January 29, 1989) was an American TV actor and voice actor. As a voice actor, he is best known as the last Johnny Dollar from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio show. For 20 years he played police chief Bill Marceau on The Edge of Night (1959–1979). His other roles in old-time radio included 130 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater between 1974 and 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandel_Kramer

October 20, 1957 CBS Radio Episode 15 Final Show.  The Stan Freberg Show would prove to be enduring and wide-reaching. The program lasted just 15 episodes that reached over six million radio listeners, but was doomed when it failed to attract a sponsor. During this time, there weren’t really blocks of commercials as there are now: you would have one sponsor who would present the entire program. That’s all well and good if you’re super-popular like Jack Benny, but Freberg prided himself on being sardonic and mischievous. In other words, dangerous to attach your brand to.  

https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/the-stan-freberg-show-radios-last-comedy-series.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060311001906/http://www.dawsbutler.com/Freberg2.htm