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The Big Story (radio and TV series) Big Town; Bing Crosby on Armed Forces Radio in World War II; The Bishop and the Gargoyle; Blackstone, the Magic Detective; Blind Date (radio series) Blind Date (American game show) Blondie (radio series) Blue Ribbon Town; Bob Crosby; Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders; Boston Blackie; Boston Blackie (radio ...
The Merchant Navy Show; The National Farm Radio Forum; Now I Ask You; Opportunity Knocks; Rawhide; The Rod and Charles Show; The Romance of Canada; Singing Stars of Tomorrow; The Small Types Club; Stage; Stag Party; Stories Read by John Drainie; Theatre of Freedom; This Is the Army; The Tommy Hunter Show; Trans-Canada Matinee; Treasure Trail ...
The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H. T. Webster's famed Caspar Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s. Conversely, some radio shows gave rise to spinoff comic strips, such as My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson. [19]
During a ten-month period lasting from January 1 to October 29, 1941, no music licensed by ASCAP (1,250,000 songs) was broadcast on NBC or CBS radio stations. Instead, the stations played songs in the public domain, regional music, and styles (like rhythm and blues or country) that had been traditionally disdained by ASCAP, resulting in many classical compositions being recorded by the big bands.
Arthur Bernard Leaner (June 30, 1908 – September 6, 1978), who was known professionally as Al Benson, was an American radio DJ, music promoter and record label owner in Chicago between the 1940s and 1960s. He was particularly significant for his promotion of rhythm and blues music and black involvement in the recording industry in Chicago. [1]
The 1940's Radio Hour is a musical by Walton Jones. Using popular songs from the 1940s, it portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942. The show opened at St. James Theatre on October 7, 1979 after 14 previews and closed on January 6, 1980 after 105 shows. [1]
Radio Daze (1996–1998) The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly; The Radio Guild (1929–1940) Rambling with Gambling (1925–2000) The Ranch Boys (1934–1956) Ray Perkins (1930–1941) Raymond Gram Swing (1936–1951) The Red Foley Show (1951–1961) Red Ryder (1942–1951) The Red Skelton Show (1941–1952) Religion in the News (1933–1950 ...
Trixie Smith, a popular blues singer, recorded "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)", one of the earliest uses of the terms rock and roll together in secular music. [58] The first Southern radio station to broadcast rural white music is WSB in Atlanta. [59] Rural folk performers begin to perform for local radio stations in Atlanta and Fort ...