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Wednesday nights on CBS in 1949, Bing Crosby ran the easiest half hour in radio, and on October 12 he threw out the script entirely. "Tonight's chirping for Chesterfield isn't going to be our usual pack of tunes," he tells Ken Carpenter. "We're unleashing a whole carton of melody." It's music lovers' night: ten songs, barely a joke in sight. Bing and Peggy Lee open with "How It Lies" and close on a hushed duet of "Again," and in between Peggy sings "A Wonderful Guy" from the brand-new South Pacific, Bing reprises "Cockeyed Optimist" at her request, croons "Some Enchanted Evening," "Amor" and Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You," and rides out "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the season's biggest hit, with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. Only the fourth week of Bing's Chesterfield run, with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and Buddy Cole at the keyboard. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_49-10-12_Peggy_Lee 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_49-10-12_Peggy_Lee

Flashgun Casey, ace cameraman of the Morning Express, covers the crime news of a great city in this 1954 CBS revival starring Staats Cotsworth. Grove Snyder, once the most famous crime reporter in town and now a broke old drunk, swears his explosive memoirs have been stolen. Casey figures it's a touch for five bucks, until Grove turns up shot dead. A torn page, a pair of loaded dice and a 25-year-old Prohibition massacre lead Casey to a secret someone has been willing to kill for, and a newspaperman who never gave up a source. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information

Ace Morning Express cameraman Casey and reporter Ann Williams head to a Broadway preview after bartender Ethelbert confesses he's sunk $100 into the musical 'Angel Face' as one of its backers. Backstage, the star is found stabbed with a nightclub boss's knife, a hundred-pound sandbag drops from the flies, and Casey's photographic memory has to place a face before the killer reaches the understudy. Staats Cotsworth stars as Casey with Jan Miner as Ann in this 1947 CBS mystery from Anchor Hocking. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels

Phil Harris and Alice Faye are about to sail for Europe, where Phil and Jack Benny will play the London Palladium, and everyone needs a smallpox shot first. Alice tells Phil the vaccinations are for the kids and plots with Dr. Brannigan to trick the biggest baby in the house into rolling up his sleeve. Julius the grocery boy makes it worse, a sedative sends Phil into a nightmare at Frankie Remley's pool-room doctor, and Alice sings Gershwin's 'Who Cares?' in this 1950 season finale of NBC's beloved Rexall comedy, starring Elliott Lewis as Frankie and Walter Tetley as Julius. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who can always be bought. This is the Father's Day broadcast of June 19, 1949. Andy, a French orphan who speaks no English, has landed in Frankie's life by mistake, and the welfare society won't let Frankie adopt him until he's married. So Frankie does the sensible thing: he places a "wife wanted" ad in the Police Gazette and signs it Phil Harris. Phil barricades the doors for the mob of women that never comes, until one very determined applicant does, and Frankie finds himself signing a marriage contract and booking a flight to Las Vegas for Andy's sake. Then word arrives that Andy has relatives in Chicago, Frankie needs out of the deal fast, and Phil hires Julius for ten dollars to play Frankie's obnoxious son. Alice sings "A Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who lives to make Phil's life harder. This is the October 3, 1948 premiere, the first broadcast under the Rexall banner after two seasons as The Fitch Bandwagon, and the writers turn the sponsor change into the plot. Phil and Alice head downtown to sign their new contract, Alice tells the boys to wait in the reception room, and within minutes Phil and Frankie are behind the drugstore cosmetics counter in borrowed smocks, demonstrating lipstick and rouge on each other for an unimpressed customer. Then Julius turns up, promising to tell the manager everything, and Phil chases him straight into the perfume display. By the time the contract reaches Phil's hand, he cannot hold a pen, and asking Frankie to sign for him turns out to be the worst idea of the afternoon. Phil sings "You Can't Do Wrong Doing Right." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1954 case, a once-feared gangster turned panhandler is fished out of the East River with a knife in his back. Clover works the bars of Third Avenue, a Broadway informant in a borrowed Hawaiian shirt, and a widow with a young admirer who quotes Cyrano. Where did a broke bum get $5,000, and who ended up holding the knife? Sheldon Leonard guest stars. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this April 1951 case, a dance-hall girl is stabbed in a Broadway taxi-dance palace and tells Clover she'll keep the knife as a souvenir. The trail runs through a gangster's devoted mother, a parolee who won't talk, and a confessor who can't even dance. Then the mobster himself is gunned down in an alley, and a stranger arrives with an offer: a thick envelope and a killer, delivered. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1949 case, a scandal columnist gets a typewritten note predicting a girl's murder that very night, and the prophecy comes true. Then a second note arrives, and a third name is on the list. Clover has a stack of typewritten notes, one night, and a killer who announces each victim before the crime. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, "exciting stories of man's escape from his everyday world." This February 1951 broadcast, featuring William Conrad, follows a man into Mexico on the trail of his missing wife, and the further he goes, the more certain he becomes that someone is following him. A tense, sun-baked tale of pursuit and suspicion. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower