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On This Day, August 22: Camel Caravan and Benny Goodman
Also featured: Stoopnagle and Budd, Squad Cars.
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Daily reports on old-time radio broadcasts added to the archive, dated and identified.
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On This Day, August 22: Silver Theater and Superman
Also featured: Cecil and Sally, Ripley's Believe It or Not.
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On This Day, August 22: A Date with Judy and Famous Jury Trials
Also featured: BBC Wartime News, Lone Wolf.
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On This Day, August 22: The Strange Seeker and Under Arrest
Also featured: Challenge of the Yukon, Judy Foster.
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On This Day, August 22: Mail Call and The Big Story
Also featured: Maisie, A Life in Your Hands.
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On This Day, August 22: Kraft Music Hall and The Shadow
Also featured: Rocky Jordan, Satan's Waitin'.
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On This Day, August 22: The Green Hornet and Gangbusters
Also featured: Night Cap Yarns, Alec Templeton.
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On This Day, August 22: The Crime Files of Flamond and I Love a Mystery
Also featured: Sheaffer Parade, Dr. Christian.
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On This Day, August 22: Full Update Across Sherlock Holmes and The Avenger
Also featured: Eddie Cantor.
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16 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Babe Ruth, W.C. Handy Blues, Admiral Byrd Antarctica, and The Boswell Sisters
This update restores and dates 16 monumental historical broadcasts spanning baseball history, the birth of American blues, polar exploration, close-harmony jazz vocalizing, pioneering bluegrass, science fiction radio, golden age advertising…
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12 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Laurel & Hardy, Bob Feller Sports History, and Cousin Brucie 77 WABC
This update restores and dates 12 exceptional archival recordings spanning comedy film music and touring history, legendary sports broadcasting, top-40 music radio culture, patriotic choral orchestrations, and wartime military drama: 3 iconic…
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10 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Phil Rizzuto Bill Stern, Glenn Miller, and WWII Sugar Rationing
This update restores and dates 10 significant historical recordings spanning mid-century sports broadcasting, WWII wartime home front civil mobilization, big band radio sponsorships, civil rights and cultural anthropology, Olympic athletics…
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14 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Stan Musial, Spencer Tracy, Stan Kenton, and Benny-Allen Feud
This update restores and dates 14 essential historical broadcasts spanning legendary baseball immortals, Hollywood acting royalty, progressive big band innovations, comedy feuds, and circus remote broadcasts: legendary broadcaster Harry Caray…
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12 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Jackie Robinson Satchel Paige, Shirley Booth Pilot, and Vincent Price
This update restores and dates 12 landmark historical broadcasts spanning pioneering African-American sports and civil rights broadcasts, rare unaired sitcom pilot auditions, gothic horror narration, wartime psychological warfare, and travel…
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16 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Groucho Marx, Orson Welles Heart of Darkness, Belsen Survivor, and Hindenburg Funeral
This update restores and dates 16 extraordinary historical broadcasts spanning legendary one-man stage performances, dramatic radio masterworks, Holocaust survivor eyewitness accounts, post-war European reportage, presidential archive…
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13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Bob Gibson, Honus Wagner, John Wayne, and Leo Gorcey Obituary
This update restores and dates 13 historical broadcasts spanning baseball legends across eras, Hollywood cinematic icons, national memorial news tributes, hot jazz cornet recordings, and depression-era variety entertainment: Keith Morris…
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13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, AFN Frankenstein Castle Hoax, Stan Freberg, and Marx Brothers
This update restores and dates 13 historical broadcasts spanning Songwriters Hall of Fame duets, famous Halloween broadcasting hoaxes, razor-sharp advertising satire, pre-code Marx Brothers cinema promotion, wartime Women's Army Corps musical…
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14 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Knute Rockne Locker Room Pep Talk, Baby Snooks, Lassie, and Duke Ellington
This update restores and dates 14 historical recordings spanning college football lore, peak golden age domestic comedy, beloved canine adventure serials, jazz history retrospective analysis, symphonic Christmas celebrations, orchestral pop…
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12 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Don Drysdale's Bullpen, Popeye the Sailor, Sonja Henie, and Jules Bledsoe
This update restores and dates 12 historical broadcasts spanning syndicated sports lore, vintage comic strip radio serials, 1930s Hollywood musical previews, blind virtuoso whistling, prohibition crime history, and landmark African-American…
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24 Historic Broadcasts Dated Across This I Believe, Ripley's Believe It or Not, and Firefighters
This update resolves 24 historic broadcasts from Edward R. Murrow's acclaimed CBS philosophical series This I Believe (1952–1953 master recordings), Robert L. Ripley's 1947 syndication run of Ripley's Believe It or Not, and the 1955 syndicated…
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13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Bob and Ray (Mary Backstayge), Whitey Ford, Bill Herbert Normandy Report, and Phil Baker
This update restores and dates 13 historical broadcasts spanning golden age radio satire, baseball hall of fame interviews, frontline D-Day combat journalism, vaudeville accordion comedy, depression-era sponsored serenades, disc jockey…
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15 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Bing Crosby, The Marx Brothers, Mildred Bailey with Teddy Wilson, and Hercule Poirot
This update restores and dates 15 historical broadcasts spanning 1950s network drive-time radio, legendary Broadway comedy royalty, golden age jazz collaborations, Belgian detective mysteries, master dramatic readings, daytime serial…
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15 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Winston Churchill, Jack Webb Dragnet Anti-LSD Warning, Jo Stafford, and Tennessee Ernie Ford
This update restores and dates 15 historical broadcasts spanning parliamentary rhetoric, iconic police drama PSAs, public health celebrity campaigns, hillbilly comedy variety, naval disaster eyewitness accounts, pre-swing hot jazz…
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13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Orson Welles Ceiling Unlimited, Hedda Hopper with Lucille Ball, and Ray Anthony with Patti Page
This update restores and dates 13 historical broadcasts spanning aviation war drama, Hollywood gossip columnists, pioneering country-pop auditions, romantic crooner variety, home-front wartime cooking, and overseas military soundtrack…