Daily reports on old-time radio broadcasts added to the archive, dated and identified.
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This update restores and dates 20 historical broadcasts across historic wartime news, pioneering radio horror, syndicated supernatural thrillers, Top 40 broadcast imaging, and military morale programs: Bob Hope's legendary live D-Day invasion…
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This update resolves 25 historical radio broadcasts spanning 1970s speculative fiction audio art, Golden Age morning comedy, Armed Forces Radio Service electrical transcription master discs, and 1930s Native American folklore: 3 classic…
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This update dates and restores 26 classic radio broadcasts spanning iconic film-comedy duos, BBC supernatural radio adaptations, pioneering 1970s stereo audio drama serials, and hard-boiled detective profiles: 6 historical broadcasts and BBC…
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This update marks a monumental milestone with 32 standard broadcasts dated and indexed, spanning foundational 19th-century audio cylinders and historic speeches (including the earliest recorded voices of Florence Nightingale, the Bugler of…
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This update resolves 10 iconic private eye broadcasts from two of radio's most acclaimed detective sagas: Blake Edwards' Richard Diamond, Private Detective (starring Dick Powell, Camel Cigarettes NBC run) and the five-part serialized…
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This update resolves 24 historic radio broadcasts across classic American industrial biographical dramas, regional conservation and country Western musical shows, and 1970s satirical serials: 8 foundational episodes from the 1939 docudrama…
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This update resolves 22 historical radio broadcasts spanning legendary network comedy, pioneering science-fiction radio serials, syndicated medical human-interest drama, and military recruitment country music: 6 landmark broadcasts from The…
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This update resolves 28 legendary radio broadcasts spanning historic American sports championships, classic children's fantasy radio drama, the Golden Age of Swing, and live World War II battlefield and home front audio journalism: 8…
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This update resolves 25 historical radio broadcasts spanning country music masterworks, classic world literature, Armed Forces wartime music discs, and big-band sweet swing: 4 legendary early-morning 1951 WSM Nashville broadcasts from Hank…
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This update resolves 23 historical radio broadcasts spanning 1960s satirical pop serials, 1930s royal biographical docudramas, and early 1930s acoustic variety programming: 7 classic episodes from Dick Orkin's celebrated Chicago comedy…
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This update resolves 29 historic radio broadcasts across classic comedy satire, pre-WWII syndicated serials, narrative history, and international broadcasting: 8 legendary satirical broadcasts from Bob and Ray (1953–1976, featuring the…
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This update resolves 25 historical radio broadcasts across rockabilly/honky-tonk stage radio, Golden Age daytime serials, pivotal World War II news transmissions, and modern audio drama: 8 live Saturday night stage recordings from Dallas's…
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This update resolves 20 historic radio broadcasts across Shreveport country-music history, Vietnam War military broadcasting, and syndication detective puzzles: 8 live stage recordings from the legendary Louisiana Hayride (1954–1971…
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This update resolves 18 historic radio broadcasts: 13 iconic factual narrative chronicles from Paul Harvey's beloved syndicated ABC radio series Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story (1978–1983, featuring the origins of MLB hand signals by deaf…
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Milestone this update resolves 23 historic radio recordings across WWII military morale records, Hollywood country-western transcription radio, and counterculture pop artifacts: 8 rare wartime 12-inch 78 RPM transcription discs from the…
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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…