Happy Birthday, Howard Duff!
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?
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“It’s round-up time/On the Double-R Bar…”
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
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Happy Birthday, William N. Robson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 8th 2016
Though
September 30, 1962 is often acknowledged as the date when The Golden Age of
Radio ended, director-producer-writer Wi
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Happy Birthday, Lamont Johnson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2016
I’m
certainly not the first person to observe that the best directors—whether they
work in film, television, theater, or el
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The Strangest of Puzzles
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 12th 2016
Walter
Brown Gibson leaned back in his chair for a well-deserved stretch after
spending a number of hours hunched over his
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Rio!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 2nd 2016
In
Leonard Maltin’s old-time radio memoir The Great American Broadcast,
veteran announcer Jackson Beck recalled a most amus
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