Daily reports on old-time radio broadcasts added to the archive, dated and identified.
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This update resolves 32 historical radio broadcasts and wartime military transcription discs: 8 syndicated network broadcasts from Robert L. Ripley's Ripley's Believe It or Not (1939–1947), 8 sequential dramatic broadcasts from the classic…
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This update resolves 30 philosophical essays, early radio comedies, and daytime drama broadcasts: 8 personal statement broadcasts hosted by Edward R. Murrow on This I Believe (1952–1954, featuring Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck and Broadway…
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This update resolves 13 longstanding electrical transcription mystery puzzles from the 1947–1948 syndicated series Five Minute Mysteries. Circulating in collector circles under fragmented tape labels like "Broken Window" or "Alice Killed"…
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This update resolves 16 historical biographical and dramatic serial broadcasts: 8 documentary profiles of legendary Golden Age broadcasters and actors from Audio Files: Radio Biographies (1978–1979, featuring writer-director Norman Corwin…
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This update resolves 31 wartime music, western harmony, juvenile serial drama, and holiday anthology radio master recordings: 8 War Bond musical broadcasts from the Treasury Song Parade (featuring Frank Sinatra, Georgia Gibbs, Bea Wain…
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This update resolves 32 historical entertainment, narrative mystery, holiday, and live country music broadcasts: 8 retrospective audio history episodes from Frank Bresee's The Golden Days of Radio (1969–1971, featuring Jack Benny, Bob Hope…
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This update resolves 32 acoustic discs and radio master broadcasts: 8 pre-1920 acoustic 78 RPM recordings from Early Recordings (featuring Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Alma Gluck, Henry Burr, and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band), 8 historical…
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This update resolves 24 historical radio master recordings across three Armed Forces and syndicated institutions: 8 Wartime Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts of GI Jive hosted by GI Jill (Martha Wilkerson, featuring Benny Goodman, Glenn…
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This update resolves 28 historical radio master recordings across four unique archival categories: 8 Australian aviation serial episodes from Grace Gibson's The Air Adventures of Biggles (1950–1951), 8 General Electric science documentary…
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This update resolves 29 action, drama, western music, and sacred drama master radio recordings: 6 aerial dogfight and espionage episodes from The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen (1936–1937), 8 five-alarm emergency drama broadcasts from…
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This update resolves 25 historical master recordings across four American radio institutions: 7 Veterans Administration master concert transcriptions of Here's to Veterans (featuring Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Ray Anthony, and Merle Haggard)…
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This update resolves 30 classic radio broadcasts across four long-running serial giants: 8 early episodes of Johnny Patrick & Helen Troy's Cecil and Sally (August 1930), 7 network master broadcasts of Goodman & Jane Ace's Easy Aces (October…
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This update resolves 21 historical holiday and storytelling broadcasts: 14 festive radio classics (including Rowan Atkinson & Tony Robinson in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Ronnie Barker's Porridge holiday…
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This update resolves 24 longstanding mystery recordings across two iconic dramatic canons: Orson Welles' legendary London production of The Black Museum (Scotland Yard's repository of murder relics, Towers of London / Mutual 1952 syndication)…
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This update resolves 18 historical master radio broadcasts across three golden eras: 5 network master editions of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story and ABC News Commentaries (exploring Christopher Columbus, Ernest Hemingway's youth, Julian…
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This update resolves 24 historical master recordings across three historic radio collections: 9 post-war documentary and dramatic transcriptions from United Nations Radio (starring Helen Hayes, Ronald Colman, Eddie Albert, and Clifton…
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This update resolves 19 historic broadcasts: 7 wartime and post-war Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) master transcription discs (including Harlem Hospitality Club featuring Little Miss Cornshucks & Amanda Randolph, Frank Sinatra singing…
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This update resolves 16 wartime Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) master transcription recordings: 9 star-studded editions of Personal Album (beamed to Allied troops across Chungking, Casablanca, and the Pacific featuring Lena Horne with Cpl.…
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This update resolves 19 historical master recordings: 8 wartime syndicated musical comedy transcriptions of The Hoosier Hot Shots (featuring their signature washboard, slide whistle, and novelty jazz hits like Rosie the Riveter and Sioux City…
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This update resolves 15 historic network and war-effort broadcasts: 9 flagship 1942 wartime episodes of the US Treasury Department's Treasury Star Parade (starring Orson Welles in Violet Atkins' The Chetniks, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, and…
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This update resolves 11 historical master recordings: 7 original network signature theme song transcription discs (including the iconic Signal Oil eerie whistling introduction from The Whistler, Orson Welles' Ceiling Unlimited for Lockheed…
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This update resolves 17 historic radio productions: 8 weekly broadcast retrospectives hosted by radio historian Frank Bresee on The Golden Days of Radio (including master audio from Kraft Music Hall with Bing Crosby & Al Jolson, John…
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This update resolves 23 historical broadcast recordings across four classic radio institutions: 7 biographical master dramatizations from Graymoor Monastery's acclaimed religious anthology Ave Maria Hour (featuring Civil War chaplain Father…
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This update resolves 10 historic transcribed broadcasts: 6 syndicated 1935–1936 daily episodes of the country store humor series Eb and Zeb (including the original 1935 audition disc and key master syndicated episodes), and 4 wartime episodes…