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Crime Classics
Elliot Lewis' cult radio series is represented here by an entertaining episode, first heard over CBS on Wednesday, November 11, 1953. In "Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife: Why She Was No Good For Him," William Conrad portrays Edward Teach - better known as Blackbeard the Pirate - who arrives in Nassau i …
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Speed Gibson
From badges to maps to cards to photos to code books - and even a newspaper - many of these pieces are excellent examples of radio-toy tie-ins - particularly the “Speed Gibson's Great Clue Hunt” Paper Sheet. This rare 1938 piece allowed listeners to track the movement of the Flying Clipper as it mov …
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Mystery in the Air
Mystery in the Air was a Summer series consisting of mystery / horror shows. The series was hosted by Peter Lorre who also played the title role in a few of the shows. The shows were well done and all entertaining! This collection is also included in the Peter Lorre Collection.
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Red Skelton
The format of the series was similar to Skelton's radio program. Each show began with Skelton performing a monologue based on topical material, followed by a musical interlude. He would then perform in a series of blackout sketches featuring one or more of his characters. The sketches were a mixture …
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Bergen & Mccarthy
Born in Decatur, Michigan in 1903, Edgar Bergen developed a talent for ventriloquism at a young age. When Bergen asked a local carpenter to create a dummy, the wisecracking Charlie McCarthy was born. The duo began their career as talent show headliners, performing in Chicago while Bergen attended No …
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Twilight Zone
Serling has come to the top of his profession in a remarkably short span of time. He was born in Syracuse, New York, on December 25, 1924, the son of a wholesale butcher. He grew up in Binghamton, New York, and attended local public schools; he was president of his high school class and editor of th …
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Johhny Dollar
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Gasoline Alley
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John F. Kennedy Speech
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Bill Murray 1910
The songs that Billy Murray popularized are classic American tunes, from "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" to "Give My Regards to Broadway," and from "Harrigan" to "K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)." You'll notice that a number of the songs were composed by George M. Cohan: more than any other recording art …
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Mr Toad
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Studios and released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the eleventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. This film was the final of Disney's 1940s "package films" (featu …
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Fred allen
Allen began his network radio career in 1932 after working vaudeville and Broadway with such comedy icons as Al Jolson, Ed Wynn, George Jessel, and Jack Benny. This was a time when the United States was in a deep economic depression, and radio in its infancy. In his autobiography Treadmill To Oblivi …
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Police Headquarters
Bruce Eells Associates produced this 15-minute series that was then an early syndication, via Broadcasters Program Syndicate/Bruce Eells and Associates syndication. As was usual then, music filled the first part of the show, so that the local station announcer could do a commercial or two. So the wr …
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Blondie Radio part 2
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Blondie Radio
Born Arthur Silverlake in Kentucky in April 1905, Arthur Lake was born into show business, as his parents had a vaudeville act which he joined while still a youth. In the late 1910s, the family made its way to California, where Arthur Lake would soon enter films as a juvenile lead. In 1924, Lake sig …
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George Burns
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Whos On First Abbott & costello
Little known fact: They were the first non-baseball playing celebrities to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. They were inducted in 1957. Abbott: Well, Costello, I'm going to New York with you. Bucky Harris the Yankee's manager gave me a job as coach for as long as you're on the team. Cos …
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Abbott & Costello
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Dragnet
A very favorite of mine , i just love to sit back and enjoy this show
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