Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from Wednesday, December 30, 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin (above) had the title
roles when the series debuted. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes written
by Richard Lockridge. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million faithful listeners.
Writer Richard Lockridge
“Someday We’ll Be Together" is the last of twelve number-one singles for Diana
Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. It is the final Supremes song featuring
Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career and was
also the last American number-one hit for the 1960s.
Note: “Someday We’ll Be Together” was also the last record played by Dave
“Record” Stone (shown below) when radio 910 KISN in Portland, Oregon was
silenced on Thursday, September 2, 1976.
Don McNeill (left) conducts an interview with Dean Mullaney of the Library
of American Comics in 1947.
The Breakfast Club was a long-run morning radio variety show heard on the NBC
Blue Network and ABC radio and also briefly aired on television (1950-51 prime-time
edition on ABC). It ran from June 23, 1933 through Friday, December 27, 1968 with
host Don McNeill. The show originated in Chicago, Illinois.
It was Thursday night, July 31,1930 that radio listeners tuned to CBS hear the first appearance of "The Shadow" as James La Curto portrayed the part in the Detective Story Hour. Street and Smith publishers sponsored the initial show’s. The program shifted to Mutual on September 26, 1937 with a new voice for Lamont Cranston, the young and relatively new theater and radio personality: Orson Welles. Bret Morrison
was the voice of “The Shadow” for most of 1943, and John Archer took over near the end of 1944. Morrison returned in September, 1945, and remained the voice through 1954. After its run with various players, sponsors, and time slots, “The Shadow” remained on the Mutual network until the last episode, Murder by the Sea, was
aired on Sunday, December 26, 1954.
Bret Morrison
This is the opening of The Shadow, played by the legendary
Orson Welles. This episode is "The Circle of Death", which
originally aired November 28, 1937.
Barbara in 1976 with WIGL-FM air personality Ron Tatar
Country music singer Barbara Ann Mandrell become one of country’s most
successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was inducted into
the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Barbara was the first performer and
is currently one of the few females in country music history to win the Country
Music Association’s "Entertainer of the Year" award twice (the other being
Taylor Swift), and she has also won the CMA’s "Female Vocalist of the
Year" twice.
Mandrell’s first No. 1 hit was 1978’s "Sleeping Single in a Double
Bed”
