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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

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

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 20th 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s anecdotal old-time radio page-turner The Great American Broadcast, there’s a photograph of Parley Baer

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 8th 2016

A doorbell rings at a residence in the Midwest, and the all-too-trusting couple that resides inside welcomes their visitor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 1st 2016

The last time we got together here on the blog we celebrated Sheldon Leonard’s birthday…and I described his career as a “hy