The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Herb Shriner Time
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Herb Shriner Time featured the Midwestern humorist as host of the program. He opened with a “ homespun monologue,” that often referred to hi…
Ladies Be Seated
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Ladies Be Seated wa s a daytime game show. The recordings in the Hehn collection are from 1945 when the series was on ABC and sponsored by A…
Scrapbook Of Champions
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Scrapbook of Champions was produced by WFUV, a station owned by Fordham University in the Bronx borough of New York City. The program was st…
Irene & Allan Jones
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Irene Hervey and Allan Jones were movie stars, not the most famous of movie stars, but certainly familiar to most movie-goers from the 1930s…
Firefighters
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Firefighters was a syndicated series that aired in more than 200 markets from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. It followed the adventures …
Paul Whiteman
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Paul Whiteman was composer and bandleader who became known as the “King of Jazz.” His orchestra was one of the most popular dance bands in t…
Whispering Streets
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Whispering Streets began as a 25-minute 5-day-a-week daytime program on ABC Radio. The host was writer "Hope Winslow" played by Ge…
Joyce Jordan, MD
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Joyce Jordan, MD was a soap opera that began in 1938 and ran to 1952, and had a brief return in the first half of 1955. The program began as…
Ben Bernie
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Ben Bernie was a popular bandleader of the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for his composition of "Sweet Georgia Brown" which was pop…
First Nighter
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First Nighter was one of the earliest radio anthology series, with a new presentation each week, usually of the comedy-drama genre. It was d…
According to the Record
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According to the Record was a five-minute syndicated feature that was available to local stations and local advertisers from 1943 to 1957. T…
Al Pearce and His Gang
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Al Pearce was a radio comedian and entertainer who was on the air from 1928 to 1947. His catch phrase "Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I h…
Bert Andrews (news commentary)
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Bert Andrews was a Washington, DC reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Andrews reported from both European and Pacific fronts in WW2. H…
Crossroads
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Crossroads (sometimes referred to as At the Crossroads ) was a 1956 public service program to educate people about the Social Security progr…
Don't Touch That Dial (nostalgia interview program)
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Don’t Touch That Dial aired on KCSN-FM in Los Angeles, CA for almost 30 years. This episode is from February 9, 1978 and has Harvey Tow, Jim…
Jack Berch Show
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Jack Berch was a singer and raconteur whose daytime program was an alternative to the often dreary plotlines of soap operas. His goal was to…
Walter Winchell (Jergen's Journal)
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Walter Winchell was the famous news reporter and gossip columnist whose famous radio program was sponsored by Jergens. He opened the broadca…
Fred Waring Show
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Fred Waring was one of the most famous bandleaders and proponents of choral singing of the Twentieth Century. Fred and his “Pennsylvanians” …
Clara, Lu, and Em
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C l ara, Lu, and Em (sometimes Clara, Lu, 'n Em ) is considered to be the first daytime serial (soap opera) broadcast over a radio network. …
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (half hour episodes)
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar related the adventures of "the man with the action-packed expense account." This has become a much-belov…