Variety & Music

Broadcast History: 31 December 1944 to 23 September 1945 and 3 October 1945 to 27 March 1946

Broadcast History: 1930-33, 1934-45, and 30 April 1945 to 30 April 1972
Theme Tune: Seems Like Old Times (Beautiful Dreamer in the earliest days of Arthur Godfrey Time)

Broadcast History: 2 September 1931 to 27 February 1932, 8 March 1932 to 20 July 1932, 4 January 1933 to 15 April 1933, 16 October 1933 to 11 June 1935, 2 January 1936 to 9 May 1946, 16 October 1946 to 1 June 1949, 21 September 1949 to 25 June 1952, 9 October 1952 to 30 May 1954 and 22 November 1954 to 28 December 1956
Theme Tune: When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day

Broadcast History: 1 March 1942 to 20 December 1949 and 7 October 1945 to 21 April 1946

A surprising fact about this series is that all talent was donated, in other words no one received payment – not even the stars. This was even more remarkable when you see the list of stars who contributed to the entertainment. Stars of the silver screen like Charles Laughton, Red Skelton, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, to name but a few. Anybody who was anybody got in on this act and those guys serving away from home were glad of it.

When the war ended it was decided that it would still be necessary to carry on producing the show and it continued to be broadcast to the serving men and women of the United States Armed Forces right up to the end of 1949.

Broadcast History: 28 November 1925, then 14 October 1939 to 28 December 1957

The Railroad Hour was a radio series of musical dramas and comedies broadcast from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Even though the shows do feature scripts, it was all about the songs