Blog - Page 45 - Radio Spirits

Happy Birthday, Sydney Greenstreet!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 27th 2016

Despite appearances in only two dozen films in an eight-year time span, Sydney Hughes Greenstreet—born on this date in 1879

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 9th 2016

On April 8, 1941, an actor named Earle Graser was killed in an automobile accident. A tragic event to be sure, but what co

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 5th 2016

On this date in 1943, one of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s longest-lasting and most popular programs premiered in the fo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2016

Have you ever wondered why a lot of the announcers from the AFRS versions of your radio favorites sound like Howard Duff?

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 23rd 2016

By the beginning of the 1950s, television had started to make major inroads as the preferred home entertainment source for

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 21st 2016

“America’s favorite singing cowboy,” Gene Autry, began his long-running radio series Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch in January o