Daily reports on old-time radio broadcasts added to the archive, dated and identified.
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This update restores and dates 12 historical broadcasts spanning modern jazz recruitment radio, mid-century listener trivia phenomena, pioneering western cowboy transcriptions, New England coastal shipwrecks, and Roaring Twenties/Thirties…
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This update restores and dates 15 historical broadcasts spanning classic BBC Radio literary adaptations, symphonic concert hours, country music heritage milestones, pre-Code Hollywood musical previews, foundational 1926 Chicago radio serials…
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This update restores and dates 12 historical broadcasts spanning big band swing interviews, biting radio satire, jazz torch vocals, country music government transcriptions, historical frontier drama, and early international travelogues: an…
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This update restores and dates 15 historical broadcasts across linguistic detective inquiries, sports legends in their prime, fast-paced Top 40 Boss Radio airchecks, space exploration history, and avant-garde gothic horror: 2 etymological…
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This update restores and dates 9 historical broadcasts spanning classic network comedy sketches, family sitcoms, early morning southwestern string band programs, celebrity sports interviews, and magazine dramatizations: 2 vintage 1948…
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This update restores and dates 16 historical broadcasts across country music foundations, broadcast journalism monuments, wartime rallies, binaural audio adventures, sports history, and northwestern regional folklore: 3 rare 1939 high-power…
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This update resolves 20 historical broadcasts across three distinct American radio traditions: the Veterans Administration transcription master discs of Here's to Veterans (featuring Al Jolson, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Percy Faith, and…
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This update restores and dates 13 historical broadcasts spanning 1930s musical romance, roving celebrity train and flight interviews, sports documentary tributes, micro-detective enigmas, Salvation Army dramas, and mid-century jazz: 4 sweet…
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This update restores and dates 19 historical audio broadcasts spanning legendary country radio transcriptions, network marital squabbling comedy, vaudeville storytelling, World War II Office of War Information mobilization announcements and…
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This update restores and dates 7 rare historical broadcasts spanning early-1930s syndicated adventure, wartime network daytime drama, holiday musical specials, and 1950s supernatural anthology dramatizations: 2 cliffhanger chapters of Gleason…
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This update restores and dates 15 historical broadcasts spanning classic 1930s Hollywood studio promotional radio discs, theatrical movie trailers, Armed Forces Radio jazz and hillbilly sessions, and early syndicated police procedurals: 4…
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This update restores and dates 17 historical broadcasts and archival audio profiles across 1930s daytime dramatic serials, oral histories of Golden Age radio giants, Paul Harvey news commentaries, mid-century commercial advertising jingles…
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This update restores and dates 16 historical broadcasts and audio documents across classic network domestic comedy, landmark commercial advertisements and military war bond appeals, and Armed Forces Radio Service orchestral transcriptions: 5…
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This update restores and dates 25 historical audio documents and radio broadcasts spanning dawn-of-sound turn-of-the-century acoustic discs, 1960s counterculture psychedelic spots, Paul Harvey's biographical radio twists, satirical science…
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This update restores and dates 14 historical broadcasts spanning late-1940s military variety shows, mid-40s Hollywood studio exposés, 1930s Southern vocal revues, psychological folklore dramas, Depression-era economic addresses, and Hawaiian…
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This update restores and dates 14 rare historical recordings spanning Roaring Twenties and early Depression dance bands, late 1930s aviation cliffhangers, Native American oral traditions, 1970s paranormal documentary dramas, and Manhattan…
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This update restores and dates 15 historical radio broadcasts spanning 1940s medical detective procedurals, Erik Bauersfeld's acclaimed Pacifica Radio Gothic horror adaptations, 1930s Hollywood vaudeville musical comedy, and rural broadcast…
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This update resolves 18 historical syndicated electrical transcription broadcasts across Goodman & Jane Ace's legendary comedy run of Easy Aces (1935–1936 NBC/CBS syndication master discs, cataloged via Terry Salomonson and Martin Grams master…
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This update restores and dates 14 historical broadcasts spanning momentous 20th-century audio archives, swing ballroom dance remotes, Cold War political broadcasts, and mystery serials: 6 iconic audio documents from Voices of History…
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This update restores and dates 23 classic radio broadcasts spanning Grand Ole Opry royalty, 1930s singing philosophies, swing era ballroom remotes, and Peabody-winning CBS children's audio dramatizations: 6 high-energy country and western…
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This update resolves and dates 25 historical radio broadcasts spanning 1960s satirical superhero serials, late-90s digital audio drama productions, WWII Armed Forces Radio Service swing parades, early 1930s aviation serials, and Hank…
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This update restores and dates 18 classic radio broadcasts spanning educational historical docudramas, Golden Age daytime serial melodramas, and swashbuckling literary adventure serials: 6 founding episodes of the celebrated state historical…
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This update restores and dates 23 historical radio broadcasts spanning Hollywood cinematic westerns, syndicated Sunday comic adaptations, WWII war correspondents, and classic daytime radio serials: James Stewart's celebrated NBC western…
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This update resolves and dates 16 historical radio broadcasts spanning iconic vaudeville comedy routines, experimental radio horror, musical satire, military variety, and diplomatic jazz transmissions: Abbott and Costello's legendary 'Slowly…