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”

“The Ol’ Pea-Picker” as an announcer at WOPI-AM in Bristol, Tennessee

“Sixteen Tons” spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts
and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a
crossover star. It became Ford’s ‘signature song.’

The radio crime drama Dragnet, starring Jack Webb (above), debuted on television
in a special preview on NBC’s Chesterfield Sound Off Time on Sunday, December
16, 1951. The pilot was titled “The Human Bomb” and was adapted from a 1949
radio episode. After the pilot’s success, the Dragnet series officially began on
Thursday,  January 3, 1952.