Happy Birthday, Jim Backus!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 25th 2017
He was an actor who did it all:
stage, television, movies…and for us fans of the aural medium, plenty of
old-time radio. J
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Happy Birthday, Alonzo Deen Cole!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 22nd 2017
Before
radio audiences eagerly anticipated each week the memorably unsettling sound of
a creaking door (on Inner Sanctum My
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“On, King! On, you huskies!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 3rd 2017
The
Detroit, Michigan station known as WXYZ—“the last word in radio”—was already
responsible for introducing two dramatic p
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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
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“…I take this same train every week at this time…”
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
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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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