VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, April 22, 2006

CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW (1945) Edgar Bergen welcomes model agency chief John Robert Powers, who joins Orson Welles, Joan Merrill, Jim Ameche, Effie Klinker, Ray Noble and the orchestra. Welles looks 50 years into the future (1995). Bergen is a professional photographer, who seeks the perfect model. AFRS rebroadcast. (30 min)

DEATH VALLEY DAYS (8-27-36) The true story of “Outlaw Sam Bass” is told by the Old Ranger (Jack McBride). Dressar Dahlsted announces. 20 Mule Team Borax, NBC. (30 min)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (4-5-43) “The Road to Morocco” starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ginny Simms. Radio version of the 1942 film. Bing sells Bob to a slave trader in mysterious Morocco. Cecil B. DeMille hosts. Cast fea-tures Verna Felton, Janet Waldo, Denis Green. Lux soap, CBS. (18 min & 25 min & 14 min)

THE WHISTLER (5-12-48) “Chain Reaction” starring Frank Lovejoy and Joan Banks. A pilot is offered $5,000 to salvage gold in the Caribbean. Signal Oil, CBS. (29 min)