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 The Mel Torme Show. October 12, 1948. NBC net. Commercials deleted. Mel appears in a situation comedy with a collegiate setting. He sings, "You're The Top" with Barbara Eiler. Mel plans to do a western show on television. "It's deals like this that made Zane gray." Mel's not bad reading his lines, but the screaming girls in the audience are very impressed. Mel Torme, The Meltones, Dean Elliott and His Orchestra, Barbara Eiler, Charles Wolfe, Frank Danzig (director), John Brown (producer), Sidney Miller, Hy Alexander (writer), Ben Perry (writer), Art Ballinger (announcer), Johnny Roventini (commercial spokesman).

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Melody House

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Melody Showcase - Sammy Kaye

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Melody Souvenirs. June 18, 1947. The Texas Quality Network, Dallas origination. Imperial Sugar. The first tune is, "The Possum Song." "The sweetest quarter-hour on the air.". Don Gordon (piano), The Imperial Quartet, Norvell Slater (announcer). 
 
Melody Souvenirs. June 23, 1947. The Texas Quality Network, Dallas origination. Imperial Sugar. The first tune is, "Between The Devil and Deep Blue Sea." "The sweetest quarter-hour on the air.". Don Gordon (piano), The Imperial Quartet, Norvell Slater (announcer). 

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Oct 21 1940 - Winston Churchill

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A third one: Melody Souvenirs 6-25-47:

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Mayor Impellitteri's Christmas Party for Handicapped and Underprivileged Children, at City Hall
December 23, 1950

Party for over 200 of New York's underprivileged children, brought to City Hall by buses for "Christmas merry-making" from five area hospitals, one from each borough. Each received a boxed lunch, stocking, and Christmas hats, candy, and noisemakers. There is also a stack of "mysterious" Christmas packages. The children await the arrival of Santa while the reporter describes the decorations and entertainment. Mayor Impellitteri gives a speech, thanks the organizers and performers, and introduces Santa, who talks to the children and leads them in a Christmas song set to the tune of "Happy Birthday." A doctor talks briefly and the children sing the same Christmas song to Mrs. Impellitteri. Then the children are told to line up for presents. They ask questions about the reindeer. The reporter describes the chaotic scene.

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A Memo From Molly - Olan Soule and Barbara Luddy

Memo From Molly. August 19, 1951. CBS net, WBBM, Chicago origination. Lucerne Concentrated Milk/Safeway. Olan Soule, Vincent Pelletier (commercial spokesman), Roy Rowan (announcer), Gordon T. Hughes (producer, director), Sarah Selby, Jess Kirkpatrick, Stuffy Singer, Dick Stanger (? writer)

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Men of the Sea - Australian

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The MGM Musical Comedy Theatre. February 20, 1952. MGM syndication, WLOS, Asheville, North Carolina aircheck, Mutual net. "Yolanda and The Thief". The C. F. Sauer Company, Duke's Mayonnaise, Kix. An amusing fantasy with an excellent music score about two con men out to steal $200 million from trusting Yolanda, who believes she has a guardian angel. The WLOS broadcast date was possibly November 26, 1952. Boris Karloff, John Conte, Lisa Kirk, John Griggs, Wendell Holmes, Ed Stokes (announcer), Howard Dietz (host), Raymond Katz (producer), Marx B. Loeb (director).

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The Message Of Israel. February 12, 1938. NBC net. The program is produced in co-opoperation with The United Jewish Layman's Committee. The first 14:32 of the program only. Rabbi Levy speaks from Boston and answers the question: "Why do we suffer?". Lazar Weiner (choir director), Jonah Wise (rabbi, Central Synagogue, New York City), Harry Levy (rabbi, Temple Israel, Boston), The Choir Of Central Synagogue, Fritz Lefner (baritone

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Oct 22 1962 - JFK

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Memo From Molly 7-1-51 Boy of the Month:

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Michael Piper, Detective. February 06, 1942. Blue Network. "The Erie Basin Murder Case". Canada Dry. The program is also known as, "Michael and Kitty." Michael and Kitty watch a small sealed box at a seaside auction sold to a Portuguese sailor with a parrot on his shoulder. Murder follows immediately. The last show of the series. John Gibson, Elizabeth Reller, Lyn Murray, Dot Felix (?).

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Mickey Mouse's 10th Birthday - A Tribute to Walt Disney

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Midmorning Matinee. May 31, 1939. Mutual-Don Lee net, KHJ, Los Angeles aircheck. Sears. The first tune is, "Chestnut Tree." Most of the program is a "consumer quiz." It is possible that the program was heard only over KHJ, Los Angeles. Hal Hodge (host), The Singing Strings, Bob Mitchell (organ), Lowell Cartwright (announcer)

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Midnight Merry Go Round

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Oct 23 1940 

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From Goldin: Melody Lane With Jerry Wayne. November 30, 1942. Mutual net. Groves Cold Tablets. A dress rehearsal. Jerry sings, organ and piano solos. The first tune is, "The Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers.". Jerry Wayne, Pauline Alpert (piano), Louise Wilcher (organ).

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Oct 24 1943

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The Mighty Casey. June 28, 1947. Program #15. Mutual net. Sustaining. A comedy show based on the fictionalized adventures of the mighty baseball player. Casey is trapped into playing against the Pottsdam Panthers, an all-girl team!. Millard Mitchell, Walter Kinsella, Nancy Sheridan, Woody Close (producer), Chick Vincent (director), Emerson Buckley (conductor), Ralph Paul (announcer). 

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Miller High Life Supper Club

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The Mills Brothers Dodge Program. 1936. Dodge syndication. Dodge. The boys sing, "Old Fashioned Love" and "Lazy Bones.". The Mills Brothers, Victor Young and His Orchestra, Hanley Stafford (commercial spokesman). 

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Mind Over Music

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Merv Griffin Sings 3-14-47:

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert
December 16, 1948

Special Christmas concert featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Schutz.

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Mid-Century Speech Conference
December 29, 1950
WNYC

"Criteria for Criticism in Radio," discussed by Prof. Charles A. Seipmann, Joseph H. Ream, Harriet Van Horne, Elizabeth Forsling, Robert L. Shayon, and Saul Carson.

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BobbyP wrote:Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert
December 16, 1948

Special Christmas concert featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Schutz.

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Is it my equipment or is anyone else having problems hearing this?

lasombra wrote:

BobbyP wrote:Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert
December 16, 1948

Special Christmas concert featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Schutz.

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Is it my equipment or is anyone else having problems hearing this?

I can hear it, but I think it's just a big room with minimal miking.

Oct 25 1940 - John L Lewis

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The Mindy Carson Show. August 29, 1950. NBC net. Army ROTC recruiting. The first tune is, "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else.". Mindy Carson

The Mindy Carson Show. September 18, 1950. NBC net. Sustaining. The first tune is, "An Apple For The Teacher." The announcer mentions that Mindy is currently appearing at the Roxy Theatre. Mindy Carson, Don Pardo (announcer), Fred Weihe (director). 
Goldin lists 4 more.

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The Minstrel Train. June 28, 1945. Mutual net. An audition program. The train's first stop is Louisville, Kentucky. The first tune is, "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers." See cat. #86493 for a similar audition. Showboat entertainment with a thin continuing plot. Bob Dixon (announcer), Tiny Ruffner (billed as "Colonel Tiny"), Gene Lowell and His Orchestra, John Baker, Molasses and January, John Brewster, Judy Lang, Jane Randolph.
 
The Minstrel Train. July 11, 1946. An audition recording (possibly WOR-Mutual). The program has a mostly all-girl cast, the interlocutor is a male. The Clark Sisters are heard, supposedly from Portland, Oregon. The first tune is, "Strike Up The Band." The end-men are, "Miss Bones" and Miss Moans." The jokes are dreadfully old. See cat. #1548 for a similar audition. The Clark Sisters, Emerson Buckley and His Orchestra, Tiny Ruffner, Art Van Horn (director), Noel B. Gerson (writer), Carl Warren (announcer), Elizabeth Morgan, Florence McMichael, Cecil Roy.

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The Miracle Of America. August 20, 1950. CBS net. Sustaining. A program produced in co-operation with The Advertising Council, urging listeners to send for the booklet of the same name. The program originates from Hollywood. Jack Benny and his friends visit the race track. Frank Sinatra sings, "The House I Live In." Charles Laughton describes the ceremony three months earlier as he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen. Bing Crosby gives advice to his son Gary about girls and dating. Dick Haymes sings, "The Lord's Prayer.". Robert Young (host), Bob Crosby, Jo Stafford, The Modernaires, Jerry Gray and His Orchestra, Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Maurice J. Tobin (Secretary Of Labor, speaking from Washington, D. C.), Frank Sinatra, Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra, Charles Laughton, Jack Smith, Dinah Shore, Frank De Vol and His Orchestra, Charles Sawyers (Secretary Of Commerce), Bing Crosby, Gary Crosby, Lucille Norman, Lud Gluskin and His Orchestra, Earl Warren (Governor of California), Dick Haymes, Sterling Tracy (producer, director), Leith Stevens (composer). 

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Mirth and Madness. June 07, 1944. NBC net. Sustaining. The fastest-paced show imaginable! Funny too! The cast does, "Aladdin and His Lamp." Madness! 9:00 A. M. Julie Conway (vocal), Jack Kirkwood, Dan Reid, Irving Miller and His Orchestra, Gay Seabrook, Bob Sherry, Bill Grey (announcer), Jack Hill (producer). 

Plus 2 more

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Here's one Goldin doesn't list. Mindy Carson 8-7-50 1st song I Cried for You:

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Mirth and Melody. December 02, 1948. ABC net. Sustaining. A minstrel show format originating in New Orleans. The first tune is, "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans." "Nicodemus Brown" sounds like Eddie Green. Basil Adlam and His Orchestra, Dick Woollen (? director), Eddie Green, Ernest Whitman, Frank Cooper (producer), Harry Babbitt, Ken Christy, Les Thompson (harmonica), Martha Tilton, Nickodemus Brown, Owen James (announcer), Snag Werris (writer), The Darktown Quartet.

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Miss Hattie - Ethel Barrymore

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Miss Pinkerton Inc.. July 12, 1941. CBS net, KNX, Los Angeles aircheck. Sustaining. The first show of the series. A comedy-detective series. A lady lawyer inherits a detective agency and solves her first case by capturing three jewel thieves. Art Gilmore (announcer), Carl Foreman, Charles R. Marion (writer), Dick Powell (writer), Edwin Max, Elliott Lewis, Frank German, Gale Gordon, Hanley Stafford, J. Donald Wilson (producer, director), Joan Blondell, Lenny Conn (composer, music director), Sara Berner. 

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Mobil Gas News

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Oct 26 1951 - Edward R Murrow

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Masquerade 3-19-49 Audition:

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Oct 27 1939 - Martin Dies - Ferreting Out Subversives

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The Modern Adventures Of Casanova. 1952. Mutual net. Commercials deleted. The descendent of the famous Italian diplomat is secretly an agent for Interpol, an international crime fighting organization. Christopher Casanova is sent to Jamaica to recover the priceless arm from a statue stolen from the Caribbean Museum in Kingston. It was one of the missing arms of the Venus de Milo!. Errol Flynn, Walter Schumann (composer, conductor), Ben Wright, William N. Robson (director), Peter Dixon (writer), Nan Boardman, Peg La Centra, Ramsay Hill, Ed Begley, Walter King.

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Modern Romances. 1944. Program #1. NBC Orthacoustic syndication. "Goodbye Darling". Commercials added locally. The classic dilemma of the girl who learns her fiance is missing in action, falls in love with another man, only to find her first love is horribly wounded, but still alive. The date is approximate, the open and close were added locally

Modern Romances. June 07, 1944. WEAF, New York. "There's No Profit Loving". C-N. A deaf girl, who has been hit by a truck, shows her parents how to live their lives. 

There are a lot more of these I only have 2.

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The Modern Touch - Art Van Damme

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The Mohawk Treasure Chest. October 07, 1934. Red and Blue nets. Mohawk Carpet Mills. Two short baseball anecdotes are read by Frank Singiser. The show was preceded the broadcast of the world series. Ralph Kirberry ("The Dream Singer"), Harold Levey and His Orchestra, Frank Singiser (announcer)

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Memo from Lake Success 10-30-49 Atomic energy:

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From Australia

MOMENT OF PERIL Series: 239250 Label: Hepworth Episode duration: 30 mins Episodes produced: 52 

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Moments Of Melody. 1936. NBC syndication. One of the first efforts by NBC of program syndication. "A brief interval of restful music, of selections that are favorites the world over.

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Moods at Midday

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Moon Mullins. January 31, 1947. CBS net. An audition recording. A well-produced comedy about the well-known denizens of the Plushbottom Boarding House. Uncle Willie imposes on Moon for $10 bail. Moon teaches Kayo how to play Blackjack. Lord Plushbottom plans to attend a costume party as an Indian. He winds up with a suit of armor instead. Frank Willard (creator), Sheldon Leonard.

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Oct 28 1941

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From Goldin: Moon Mullins. March 25, 1940. The third show of the series, but described as an audition. The Plushbottoms have traded Moon's only suit to pay for a collect telegram and find themselves the owners of a goldmine. The first 13:46 of the program only. Frank Willard (creator).

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Oct 29 1941 

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The Morey Amsterdam Show. May 06, 1948. A closed circuit presentation. The boss of "The Golden Goose" wants his nephew Gregory in the act. Morey sings a "Yucca Puck" routine. The date is subject to correction. Morey Amsterdam, Hubbell Robinson Jr. (director of programs), Irving Mansfield (producer), George Bryan (announcer), Shirley Mitchell, Henry Sylvern and His Orchestra. 

Goldin lists more of these - 7 more any out there??

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I have these in the M's - Morning Melodies - AFRS

The Dixieland Breakfast Club. March 30, 1951. Program #1388. AFRS origination. AFRS program name: "Breakfast Melodies." The program originates from Miami. The first tune is, "I Ain't Going To Give Anyone Any of My Jelly Roll.". Rush Hughes (m.c.), Preacher Rollo and The Five Saints, Tony Parenti and The Rag Pickers, Marie Marcus, Tommy Justice, Jerry Gorman. 

The Dixieland Breakfast Club. June 04, 1951. Program #1392. AFRS origination. AFRS program name: "Morning Melodies." The second tune is, "Merzan To Me.". Tommy Justice; Marie Marcus; Jerry Gorman; Rush Hughes (m.c.); Tony Parenti and The Rag Pickers; Preacher Rollo and The Five Saints;

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Morning Melodies - AFRS

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Mostly Dixie 

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From Goldin: The Morey Amsterdam Show. January 14, 1949. WMGM, New York. Fatima, Arrid, Italian Swiss Colony Wine. Phil Goulding (OK) announcing, Bill Goohan (?) sings and plays the piano. the program features a live orchestra and studio audience. Linda Lovely, "Us The Folks Mumble," Beginner's Burglary Kit. Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Phil Goulding (announcer), Bill Goohan (?).

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Mostly Music - sounds local from Denver KLZ

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Mother and Dad - CBS

Goldin has 3 others listed

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Mother Murphy's Boarding House - Judith Allen

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Motor Oil Revue. March 01, 1930. Program #1, record B. National Refining syndication. En-Ar-Co Oil and Gasoline. The first tune is, "There's A Fly On Auntie's Nose." "Recorded for A.T. Sears and Sons Inc., Chicago." Hubbell Advertising Agency, Cleveland. The transcription, pressed by Columbia, has a "times played" chart around the circumference of the label. Possibly the last 14:04 of the program. Rube Bloom plays his own composition, "Soliloquy" (written in 1928). This is the definitve piano solo of this famous tune. The "Motor Oil Revue" series began in March, 1930. It was heard on 11 stations during 1930, on 14 stations by February 1931. The program ends with "a fox trot with a futuristic trend, bordering on the fantastic." It's "Pompanola" (written in 1928). Ted Husing (host), The White Rose Gasoline Quartet, The En-Ar-Co Orchestra (also referred to as "The White Rose Gasoline Orchestra"), Irving Kaufman (vocalist, also called, "The En-Ar-Co Tenor").

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Oct 30 1939

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From Goldin: Mother O' Mine. 1941. NBC net. Clapp's Baby Foods. "A story of the greatest love in all the world, mother love." Mother Morrison tries to get Benny to surrender. Paul agrees to defend him. The date is approximate.

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