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This update resolves 17 historical broadcasts spanning the wartime homefront campaigns and peak network comedy/mystery runs of The Jack Benny Program (Grape-Nuts Flakes & Lucky Strike runs), Fibber McGee and Molly (US Treasury War Bond drives…
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This update resolves 17 historic radio broadcasts across Hollywood country-western transcription programming, late-1960s psychedelic rock radio advertising, and sacred drama: 8 syndicated transcription shows from The Smiley Burnette Show…
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This update resolves 16 historic network broadcasts: 8 syndicated oddity vignettes from Robert L. Ripley's Ripley's Believe It or Not (1948, featuring the 1776 first 21-gun salute to the American flag, Emperor Hadrian's photographic memory…
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This update resolves 30 historic recordings across foundational acoustic sound recording, pivotal 20th-century historical moments, and classic comedy: 8 turn-of-the-century cylinder and 78 RPM master recordings from Early Recordings…
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This update resolves 26 landmark radio broadcasts: 8 personal philosophy broadcasts from Edward R. Murrow's acclaimed This I Believe (highlighted by former U.S. President Harry S. Truman stating his life creed, UCLA Chancellor Raymond B.…
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This update resolves 24 historic radio broadcasts across legendary Latin American radio adventure serials, syndicated network curiosities, and Midwest novelty jazz: 8 sequential serialized adventure broadcasts from Radio Cadena Nacional's…
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This update resolves 32 classic radio recordings across wartime music transcriptions, beloved children's story hours, and festive holiday drama: 8 syndicated War Department and U.S. Treasury discs from Treasury Song Parade (1943–1944…
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This update resolves 32 historical broadcasts and transcription masters: 8 festive BBC Radio holiday broadcasts from Jim's Christmas Stocking (including Tom Conti as Sherlock Holmes in The Blue Carbuncle and Kenneth Horne's Beyond Our Ken), 8…
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This update resolves 32 entertainment broadcasts, 1960s pop culture radio spots, golden age retrospectives, and narrative mysteries: 8 transcribed country-comedy variety episodes from The Smiley Burnette Show (1947), 8 iconic 1960s…
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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…