13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, AFN Frankenstein Castle Hoax, Stan Freberg, and Marx Brothers

Forensic Discoveries

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 recruiting, symphonic military dance bands, and Hollywood column journalism: Great American Songbook icons Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen singing their collaborative standards ('Blues in the Night', 'One for My Baby', 'That Old Black Magic') for The Heart Fund (1953), the complete recording of the infamous 1952 American Forces Network (AFN) Halloween radio hoax from Frankenstein Castle near Darmstadt, Germany, 3 classic commercial parodies from The Stan Freberg Show (CBS, 1957; including Contadina Tomato Paste on the Empire State Building and PPG Paints 'Moby Dick'), the original 1933 electrical transcription from The Paramount Movie Parade previewing the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, composer-pianists Alec Templeton and Morton Gould on Something for the Girls (1944), US Air Force dance band on Serenade in Blue (1958), Erskine Johnson's Hollywood news (1944), Howard Barlow's Voice of Firestone orchestra (1950), and 2 vocal episodes from The Squibb Show (1944).

1. Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen & AFN Frankenstein Hoax (1952–1953)

2. The Stan Freberg Show & Marx Brothers 'Duck Soup' (1933–1957)

3. WAC Recruiting, Serenade in Blue, Erskine Johnson, & Howard Barlow