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With such greats as Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, One Night Stand was a popular musical program that lasted for over two decades on the radio. Update: 28 additional recordings

with Tiny, Sonny, Tony, and Jerry play music that's "sweet", "fast", and "quiet and restful", but all of the tunes have a feel good feelin' in this rare old time radio show. Announcer Jack Stillwell Cap't Stubby and Buccaneers sound similar to a barbershop quartet with first-rate harmonies and style. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Old-time radio enthusiasts can't miss a show by one of the most prolific and clever performers of his time. Update: 1 additional rare recording

A soap opera for the whole family, Point Sublime is set on the rugged California coast along historic US Route 1, the Pacific Coast Highway. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Big Band Entertainment and Trumped Tooting Update: 4 additional recordings

Long lost episodes fell out of "Fibber's Closet". This is the most complete Fibber McGee and Molly collection to date. Laugh with over 450 hours of laughs with Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly in this classic radio sit-com. Update: 1 additional rare recording vol 3

early true crime drama from 1932-33, these old time radio shows are true stories of actual murders dramatically retold. Update: file date fixes

Look Smart, Patsy! Detective Nick Carter now has better audio and additional episodes! Update: 1 additional rare recording

Hear the history of environmental policy from political speeches from 1963 through today. Update: 9 additional recordings 1933-2024

This is a hard hitting old time radio crime drama, with a distinctive feminine touch. Update: 3 additional recordings

Stories about men of industry have their own appeal, and what could be more industrious than running a railroad? The Green Valley Line may not stretch from coast to coast, but the communities it serves depend upon it. Update: sound quality improvements

Chesterfield Supper Club is a splendid music and variety show, sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes. Each night the host (Perry Como, Jo Stafford, or Peggy Lee) would perform live along with top name guest performers including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Nat King Cole, and more! Update: 1 additional recording

Listen to the great stars of stage and screen talk about where they came from and the exciting, "never-to-be-forgotten" moment they knew they made it as an actor...their Show Stopper ! Update: 1 additional rare recording

Originally a music program starring popular big bands of the day, this old time radio series evolved into a comedy-variety program with Cass Daley and later starred Phil Harris and Alice Faye. Update: 15 additional recordings

Listen to radio's bad boy on the block variety hour. This talent scout program made stars such as Alice Faye, Milton Berle, Joe Penner, Bergen & McCarthy, and even the Aldrich Family. Update: 10 additional recordings

This old time radio series contains a wide variety of mediums geared to attract young potential Army recruits and the series included mystery and drama shows. Update: 7 additional recordings

As we all gather around the picnic table to spend time with family and friends to ring in the unofficial start of the summer season; let’s remember those empty seats at those picnic tables who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us all to enjoy this time together. Update: 1 additional recording

Uncle Milty will always be "Mister Television", but he was side-splitting on radio as well. Tune into The Milton Berle Show. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

Also known as The Rudy Vallee Show where stars like Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Alice Faye, the Mills Brothers, and Kate Smith were first introduced to the world. Update: 13 additional recordings

A popular music recruiting program for the Army,Forward March enjoyed the service of draftee PFC Eddie Fisher. Update: 4 additional recordings

From early man to the Wright Brothers, learn about how the men of vision profiled contributed to the common good with their optical discoveries and inventions. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

This old time radio series tells the untold tales the Commanders-in-chief's everyday life. In order to challenge the audience to guess his identity, the President's name was not revealed until the end of the show. Update: 15 additional recordings

Best known for her singing voice and slapstick comedy, Cass Daley got her start in Ziegfeld Follies. Update: 1 additional rare recording

A sweeping saga of One Man’s Family, this serial from the creator of I Love a Mystery, Carlton E. Morse, ran for 27 years, and follows the Barbour family patriarch from San Francisco stock broker to grandfather and beyond. Update: 15 additional recordings

Joan Davis Guest Appearance Collection: Joan Davis spent her entire life in showbiz, working in vaudeville, movies, radio, and television, and was called "the funniest woman in the world". Update: 1 additional recording

Jean Hersholt is an actor who specialized in gentle, intelligent roles that called for warmth and feeling in Dr Christian. This series is that kind of show and can be enjoyed as drama, as nostalgia, and as just plain old radio entertainment. Update: 6 additional recordings

includes classic real broadcasts and Airchecks from your favorite radio stations in the 1960s. The Airchecks were used in DJs resumes and by local radio stations for quality control. Update: 56 additional recordings

The Standard School Broadcast began airing in 1928 under the sponsorship of Standard Oil of California, making it one of the earliest educational radio programs. Update: 3 additional recordings

One of the well loved Boswell Sisters, little Connee was the only sister to stay in show business after getting married. Update: 2 additional rare recordings

In 1941, Mutual had the bright idea of broadcasting Swing Bands remotely from various halls around the country and Spotlight of Bands was born. Update: 3 additional recordings

Radio Broadcasts are historical artifacts. In this collection, we present a timeline of the coverage of the shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, including the political climate which led up to the incident, coverage of the shootings, and the aftermath for America. Update: 53 additional recordings 1966-2022

Who would make a better soft-boiled detective than a New England Boy's School instructor and part time mystery writer? That is exactly what you get in The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Jack Moyle plays Rocky Jordan, the hard-boiled detective in exotic Cairo, Egypt. This collection also contains the only two known existing episodes of A MAN CALLED JORDAN (the predecessor series to ROCKY JORDAN). Update: sound quality improvements

Let Dr. Dan Danfield, criminal psychologist, give you a little of a criminal psychologist's caseload. Update: sound quality improvement

Evil doers and nogoodniks, beware! "CHANNNNNDOOOOOOO … the Magician!" is on the alert to thwart your nefarious schemes! Broadcast during the Depression and again in 1949, Chandu The Magician combines the best of crime fighting and Eastern Mysticism. Update: file name fixes

Although Victory was practically assured by the time "Crisis in War Town" debuted, the program highlights the small victories that contributed to the Over All Victory. Update: 2 additional recordings

This classic soap opera rags to riches story is about a orphan girl named Sunday who married a powerful and rich Lord Henry Brinthrope. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Eve Arden played the fun-loving but sometimes frazzled English teacher at Madison High School, Our Miss Brooks. The most famous teacher ever on radio, Connie Brooks was a wonderful combination of sincere and smart, and Eve Arden played her perfectly. Update: 3 additional rare recordings

Pretty but fictional Phyl Coe solved mysteries while pitching Philco Radio Tubes for her sponsor on The Phyl Coe Mysteries. Update: sound quality improvements

CLAUDIA is a lighthearted soap about the ups and downs of being a newlywed. Topics include dealing with in-laws, burning dinner, losing socks, buying really big dogs, and all the little moments that make up a life together. Update: 2 additional recordings and sound quality improvements

Enjoy popular dance and dinner music on the Manhattan Merry Go Round! Update: 1 additional rare recording

Under Arrest was a police procedural drama which would compare favorably with Jack Webb's Dragnet. Update: sound quality improvements

This new collection is best remembered for its Saturday slot stories, sometime heartwarming, sometimes tragic. Some shows offer twists or psychological tension, and seem to draw upon the writings of that honored New York short story writer, O.Henry. Update: sound quality improvements

By the early 1950's, sponsors were beginning to abandon radio for television, but nothing on the small screen had the class and sophistication of NBC's The Big Show. Although Mistress of Ceremonies, Tallulah Bankhead and her guests from the world of entertainment were definitely "upper crust", Miss Bankhead's friendly and accessible manner meant that the program was as entertaining in the parlor as it was in the garage. Update: sound quality improvements

Sponsored by General Electric to increase interest and layman's knowledge of science Update: 42 additional recordings

Music and variety shows for teenie boppers were often set in the location of an old time Soda Parlor at the corner drugstore. Update: 6 additional recordings

The Allied counterpart of the infamous Tokyo Rose, GI Jill was played by girl next door Martha Wilkerson. Update: 1 additional recording

Magazine Lively Dramas from One of America's Favorite Magazines Update: sound quality improvements

Starring Robert Young, Father Knows Best is one of the first and best-loved All-American sweet-hearted family situation comedies. Update: sound quality improvements

sponsored by the Salvation Army, gives dramatic accounts of regular people helping others through illness, tragedy, and heartbreak.Episodes illustrate problems can be solved with faith, optimism, and the help of good Samaritans. Update: 8 additional recordings

Recording a full day's broadcast in 1939 was a technological and historical feat! The day the Nazis invaded Poland is seen as the beginning of the Second World War. The staff of WJSV recorded the entire days broadcast, so we can learn about the events as they unfold. Update: sound quality improvements

Laugh with this old time radio comedic variety hour starring Alan Young, Francis Langford, Dick Powell, Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, and many others! Update: 1 additional episode and many sound upgrades

My Friend Irma tells the story of a extremely dim-witted blonde stenographer named Irma Peterson, played by Marie Wilson, and the daily high-jinx that she gets into with her screwy friends. Update: 2 additional recordings

Basil Rathbone was a British actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes in 1930s-1940s films. He appeared in over 70 films and had a successful stage career. Update: 1 additional rare recording

This flying adventure with mysterious Captain Midnight and his pals Chuck Ramsey and Patsy Donovan was sponsored by Skelly Oil and took an exciting and melodramatic view of aviation adventure. Update: 1 additional rare recording

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established by executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on May 6, 1935. The WPA was a work relief program that provided jobs for many individuals who had become unemployed during the Depression. Update: 4 additional recordings

During the months before Pearl Harbor, FDR appointed Elmer Davis to head up the Office of War Information. From this bully pulpit, Davis helped to whip the Nation into a fury over the aggressions of the Nazi's in Europe. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Best known as "Singin' Sam the Lawnmower Man" then "Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man", Harry Frankel's musical performances were later sponsored by Coca-Cola. This collection includes recordings from 1911 to the 1940s, including the Reminiscing with Singin Sam, Refreshment Time with Singin' Sam, 70 musical tracks, and more. Update: 2 additional recordings

American politician and businessman, Mitt Romney is a former governor of Massachusetts and the GOP's nominee for US President in the 2012. He has also served as a United States Senator from Utah since January 2019. Update: 2 additional recordings

This collection celebrates the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Update: 15 additional recordings 2006-2024

Billed as the "first science fiction old time radio show of science-fictioneers, by science- fictioneers, and for science-fictioneers," includes about the future of Mankind, Space Travel, and the World's Beyond. Update: 4 additional recordings, many sound quality improvements and filename fixes

This classic police drama is one of the earliest of the genres. A precursor to the popular police drama Dragnet, Calling All Cars portrayed the true crime stories of the Los Angeles Police Department. Update: sound quality improvements vol 2

Riding out of the sunny back lots of Hollywood, All Star Western Theatre delivered Republic Western-style entertainment with chuck wagon sized doses of fine music, broad humor and guest appearances by the best of the West. Update: 6 additional recordings and many sound upgrades

The drama of life under the Big Top has always made for great radio stories from all genres. Update: 32 additional rare recordings covering Ringling with Fitch 1943-1944, WGAR Circus Broadcast, and A Day at Ringling Barnum Circus

The Senate and the House of Representatives each go about their business of making laws independent of each other, however, there are several important occasions when both Houses meet in Joint Session. Update: 1 additional recording

After a long career in radio writing and directing, Burrows took a break to perform songs he wrote at nightclubs. These songs became so popular that he was invited to start his own old time radio show. Update: 1 additional recording

A foreign correspondent, Robert Arden made insightful commentary about current events of WWII. Update: 1 additional rare recording

His career started in a way that you would think an American political dynasty would, as a Senator in Waiting until he was 30 years old to take over the seat of his older brother, John F. Kennedy. Update: 1 additional recording

Before AFRS could broadcast a program donated by the networks, the show had to be "decommercialized". Sometimes this meant changing the show title and cutting out the sponsor pitch. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Featuring everyone's favorite old time radio Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, in a comedic and educational program. Update: 5 additional recordings

Advertised in Young Dr Malone Sponsored by General Food and Post Cereals, this cereal serial has it all – love, jealousy, hate, crippling diseases, rich philanthropists, treacherous characters, death and marriage. Update: 2 additional recordings

Old Doc Adams spends more time dealing with small town rumors and scandals than treating sick people. This early soap opera contains a complete drama in each episode, so don't worry if you miss a few days. Update: null

The fifteen minute format lends itself to quickly drawn weird stories, with a twist ending, so that the listener gets a sudden shock, like all good scary tales should deliver. Update: 1 additional rare recording and many sound upgrades

This collection contains his early old time radio appearances and recordings from his political career and presidency. Update: 3 additional recordings

Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom during WWII and great orator, wrote his own speeches and delivered them on many radio broadcasts. Update: 1 additional rare recordings from 1965

Orson Welles originally starred in and wrote for Ceiling Unlimited after returning from Latin America in 1942. It was a Patriotic drama series and recounted the heroic efforts of the Allied service men of WWII. Update: 8 additional recordings and many sound upgrades

This collection is a reminder to the about the violence in America. Hopefully learning from history someone can piece together an idea to reduce violence in America. Update: 2 additional recordings 1999-2024

Officially a speech made from the US President to Congress; however, the advent of radio made the State of the Union a public speech heard by Americans everywhere. Update: 1 additional recording

AFRS WWII jazz program Downbeat had different performers come into the studio to play and comment on their records. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Cows and audiences alike are content when listening to this rare and fine musical program by Carnation Milk. This long-running series features great performers such as Dinah Shore, Tony Martin, Jo Stafford, and Dick Hymes. Update: 1 additional recording

Airing toward the end of the Golden Age of Radio, My Little Margie actually started as a hilarious TV sitcom. Update: 2 additional recordings

Sometimes a teenage daughter can seem like nature's way of getting revenge on a successful man. Discover how Harry Archer deals with the world when you Meet Corliss Archer. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Sports can make a politician feel human and have a personal connection with the voters. Update: 1 additional recording with Nixon

Celebrate the first woman Vice President, Kamala Harris with this collection. Follow her career as a San Francisco District Attorney to California's Attorney General to California's Junior United States Senator to Vice President of the United States. Update: 42 additional recordings

This collection begins in 1972 the day after Joe Biden's 30th birthday being sworn in as a Senator through his Presidency in 2021. Update: 298 additional recordings 1983-2024

Former business man and television personality, Donald Trump is the 45th US president. Update: 77 additional recordings 2015-2024

one of the first news shows to send famed correspondents, Edward R Murrow, John Charles Daly, and William L. Shirer, around the world to give American eyewitness accounts to some of the most dramatic events in history. Update: 1 additional recording and sound upgrades

Ride along on shocking cases with the "Man from Homicide," a classic hard-boiled crime drama from the early 1950's. Update: 1 additional rare recording

This well-done, star-studded factual show is a wonderful resource for those interested in historical highlights. Update: 7 additional recordings 1937-1952

this serial follows world famous imperious explorer Harold Noice as he traveled through jungles of South America during the 1930s. Update: sound quality improvements

Enjoy the classic sounds of some of the biggest names in music from the 1940s and then listen to them do their part for the war effort by promoting Victory Bonds to help finance the war. Update: 2 additional recordings

Produced by the Hummerts, this detective series is one of radio's longest running shows. Update: 1 additional rare recording

Monty Woolley stars in this fun fish out of water sit-com. Update: 7 additional recordings

Richard M. Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America, and one of the most controversial. In 1974, he became the only US President to resign from office. Update: 1 additional recording

An Orchestral Treat from a Master of Easy Listening Music. Update: 1 additional rare recording

features Phil Spitalny and His Hour of Charm All Girl Orchestra and Choir with Evelyn and "Her Magic Violin".Evelyn actually "magically" helped form the all-girl orchestra by auditioning over 1000 female performers.Twenty-two piece charming female musicians were members, all of whom played multiple instruments and sang in the choir. Update: 3 additional recordings

Ma Perkins was one of the most successful radio Soaps, running for 27 years starring Virginia Payne for the entire run. Ms. Payne was just 23 years old when she started playing the no nonsense Ma. Update: 134 additional recordings

The election of Ronald Reagan would usher in a new conservative movement that has gone on for the better part of 40 years. Update: 52 additional recordings

The Land of the Lost is a children's deep-sea adventure program about two children who travel "in that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea."Lead by Red Lantern, the "wisest fish in the sea", Billy and Isabel discover lost objects on the ocean floor. Update: 8 additional recordings

Boston Blackie is too good natured to be hard boiled. Often accused by bungling cops, Boston Blackie is obligated to solve the case! Update: minor date fix