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On This Day, August 22: Sherlock Holmes and Gene Autry
Also featured: The Quiz Kids, Comic Weekly Man.
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On This Day, August 22: Burns and Allen and Boris Karloff's Creeps by Night
Also featured: FBI in Peace and War.
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On This Day, August 22: Mr. District Attorney and Skippy Theatre
Also featured: Gabriel Heatter, Spotlight Bands.
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On This Day, August 22: Guiding Light and College All-Star Game
Also featured: Railroad Hour, Mr. District Attorney.
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On This Day, August 22: Candy Matson and Pete Kelly's Blues
Also featured: Chandu, Meet the Press.
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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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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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Solving "Date Unknown" Radio Mysteries: Forensic Audio, Multi-Platform Transcripts & Primary Newspaper Scans
In Old-Time Radio (OTR) preservation, collector tapes have circulated for over half a century labeled with vague tags like "Date Unknown", "The Part 19", or completely blank titles. Across the 273,234 recordings in the RadioIndex…
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Unlocking 50 "Date Unknown" Radio Classics: Forensic Transcripts Solve Longstanding OTR Mysteries
Through systematic local Whisper SPEECH RECOGNITION dialogue extraction combined with Jerry Haendiges (jjonez) network logs, J. David Goldin's database, and contemporary broadcast logs, we have resolved 50 previously undated or corrupted radio recordings.
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Forensic Audio Archaeology: 48 Flagship Radio Mysteries Resolved with Exact Airdates
Decades of reel-to-reel tape copying and cassette circulation left dozens of high-profile radio broadcasts circulating under arbitrary collector labels like "The Part 15", character names, or missing airdates.
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Cracking 5 of the Hardest Mysteries in OTR History: From Soap Opera Shootings to Arch Oboler Horrors
Some Old-Time Radio recordings are easy to identify: the announcer speaks the date and title in the first ten seconds. But others have baffled collectors for over half a century because:
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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…