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Your Humble Host is in a very festive mood today on our new Christmas Special Volume 13. We not only feature some really great Christmas music but a very nice episode of the Great Gildersleeve for Christmas from December 20,1950. Some surprises and a few laughs along with beautiful Christmas sounds. What else could you ask for?
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It's time to smile a while (more like laugh out loud) with a Christmas edition of the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On today's Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 387 we have an all new Christmas Phil & Alice show from December 21, 1947 with very special guest Jack Benny!! Your Humble Host finds these Jack Benny and the Phil Harris shows to be the funniest on radio. Enjoy.
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It's that time again for a Jean Shepherd show and one for Christmas, no less. It's the Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 386 & Shep's in a mood today to reflect on the current scene. Sure Christmas is coming but that doesn't stop Shep from his look around at what he sees. Here's an early one broadcast December 13, 1965.
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It's BING time on the old Library of Sound Volume 385 as we celebrate Christmas with Bing's special guest's Hopalong Cassidy & Peggy Lee!! It's a lot of fun for all at Christmas time and that means fun for us too. The sound here is EXCELLENT as this comes from another of my tapes from the Bing Vault. Enjoy this Bing Crosby show from December 13, 1950. That's Hoppy you see in our picture with this show as he rode in a Christmas parade.
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Well, well Jack Benny is back for another round of Christmas Shopping. This year on the Library of Sound Volume 384 Jack is looking for a wallet for his announcer Don Wilson. Maybe this year Jack will have better luck than he did with those shoelaces in previous years. Your Humble Host is always happy to bring you one of the very funniest radio shows, the Jack Benny Christmas Show, this year we hear the December 19, 1948 episode.
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Well, what have we here from the Library of Sound Volume 155, it's Sherlock Holmes & the good Dr. Watson at Christmas time! Today our favorite British team, Carlton Hobbs & Norman Shelly are back to perform the classic Arthur Conan Doyle original Christmastale of "The Blue Carbuncle" as it was originally heard December 25, 1961. Your Humble Host is happy to bring you these Sherlock stories especially as they're based on the original Doyle writings. Let's travel back now to the late 1800's and hear all about that Christmas goose and his unusual egg.
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Your Humble Host is in a very festive mood today on our new Christmas Special Volume 13. We not only feature some really great Christmas music but a very nice episode of the Great Gildersleeve for Christmas from December 20,1950. Some surprises and a few laughs along with beautiful Christmas sounds. What else could you ask for? Enjoy our latest for Christmas.
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Your Humble Host is here with a Bing Christmas show you're sure to like. As Bing Crosby & Judy Garland are in top form joking and singing in a Bing Show from December 6, 1950. This is from my very own Bing Collection in the Bing Vault. Sound is better here than what you may find on the interwebs. Then as a Bing Bonus after the show Bing puts on his mod dancing shoes and starts grooving. Bing never knew he was so in the groove. Enjoy.
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Nero Wolfe Returns just in time to go to a Christmas Party. That's today's Nero Wolfe Christmas feature on Volume 60 originally broadcast on February 13, 1982. Based on the Rex Stoutoriginal story from 1958's "Four To Go" novel. Santa Claus & mystery have always gone together and so they do on a Christmas Edition of Sounds Like Radio's Nero Wolfe from our Vast Library of Sound!
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It's Volume 65 & Time to saddle up on your reindeer and head on out with Hopalong Cassidy and this Christmastime Adventure. From the Vast Library of Sound comes this Hopalong Cassidy Christmas show originally broadcast March 15, 1952. Join Andy Clyde as Hoppy's pal along with Your Humble Host as we find out all about the case of the "Santa Claus Rustlers"! Today's Hoppy Christmas Western!
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Your Humble Host today will be playing another of my very own Jean Shepherd tapes I recorded in the '70's. And bonus it just happens to be a Christmas Jean Shepherd show originally heard December 6, 1974 but I recorded it from an FM radio source on March 17, 1975. It's the Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 383 as we'll hear Shep talk about his precious gift while in the army, a 5 foot salami!! It was a perfect gift if you're in the army and the boys around all love a good chunk of tasty salami. Mmm, I'm getting in the mood for some myself. Drat, none in the house, put that on my shopping list. Enjoy this Christmas present from your Humble Host's very own Shepherd Vault.
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From Sounds Like Radio's Library of Sound come Volume 67, a Bing Crosby short show originally broadcast December 13, 1954. In this show you'll hear Bing talk about the Christmas time happening at the Della Robbia Boys Republic. Della Robbia wreaths are produced through a work experience program that teaches kids the true value of honest labor. A lesson many an adult today could learn. Listen as Bing sings some songs and talks about the wreaths at Della Robbia. An early Bing Christmas present here from Your Humble Host. Enjoy this15 minute short show.
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Today we have another goodie for you from The Shadow. Even better its an all new Christmas episode of The Shadow from December 21, 1947 called, (get ready for it) "Gift of Murderrrr". Oh boy, this definitely sounds like a job for the Shadow. Well, be calm Your Humble Host is here on the Library of Sound Volume 382 to bring in Christmas with this new episode of The Shadow! I know one guy who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, do you? Well, listen and find out.
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Well, by Golly, it's already that time of year again for a brand new Sounds Like Radio Christmas Special Volume 12!! Your Humble Host has some great Christmas music for you as we always have on our Christmas specials and another Great Gildersleeve Christmas show. A new GIldy from December 10, 1952 where Leroy gets a Christmas job working for Mr. Peevey. A funny show and with our neat Christmas music you may never have heard before (some was new to me too) please enjoy. Happy Yuletide to you.
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Welcome to your Humble Host's Annual Christmas Poetry Corner. Today I'll tell you the tale of The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus. A cautionary ode to those that scoff at Santa. A fun little poem I think you'll enjoy.
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Sounds Like Radio Presents Vol. 4 of our Special Christmas shows featuring music galore, surprises here too(!) & a Great Gildersleeve 12/22/48 episode. It's a special Christmas program celebrating with a lot of rare music classics and just plain good music along with a very nice Gildy show. Sit back and enjoy the show in your home or as you drive your way thru Christmas shopping & festivities all with Sounds Like Radio's Vol. 4 call-back Christmas Show.
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Welcome to a special edition of the Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 381 as Your Humble Host presents Judy Garland in her classic role of Dorothy in the Lux Radio Theater version of The Wizard of Oz!! It was December 25, 1950 Christmas night itself when this special show was first heard. Sit back use your imagination and relax or enjoy this show as you drive around this Christmas season, it's time for the Wizard of Oz!
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Your Humble Host is happy to bring you this post-Thanksgiving & Early Christmas Bing Crosby Philco Radio Time show with very special guest, Al Jolson!! This was one of the early appearances of the World's Greatest Entertainer on Bing ring dang do. And it's a Doozy. From December 3, 1947 to you on the Library of Sound Volume 380, enjoy.
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By Golly, it's Sounds Like Radio Volume 185 time as we celebrate Mrs. Potter's (better known as I Love Lucy's Mrs. Trumble) birthday on this Great Gildersleeve from December 3, 1952. That sneaky Egg Man has done it again and tricked Gildy into getting 2 ducks. Perfect for a Mrs. Potter birthday dinner. Your Humble Host enjoyed listening to this one and joining us today for Mrs. Potter's birthday are Burl Ives, Barbara Mandrell, Bing Crosby, Wanda Jackson (that's her in our picture with this show), Vaughn Monroe to head us out to the stores for Christmas shopping & Dinah Washington. Then we all get down with George McCrae for a little '70's style dancin'.
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Boris Karloff returns in today's Library of Sound (LOS) Volume 106 as he tells us the Rudyard Kipling Just So Story of How The Whale Got His Throat. Your Humble Host is proud to present these little stories and we hope you and your whole family will enjoy them too. Gather the kids for this short little tale from the Story Corner of the Library of Sound.
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