The Davey Tree Surgery Radio Hour was broadcast every Sunday 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM on WEAF for a period of time around 1930. The program use...

Edwin F. Goldman 1929 The Pure Oil Program is a bit obscure but it actually hosted Al Jolson's first radio appearance in 1929. So who wa...

I found this image online with no attribution but dated to January 12th, 1935. But I do recognize it as a column from the New York Daily New...

I really don't care for Leonard Maltin. He's a movie guy, when he moonlights in radio he's out of his element. We can discuss ...

At first, all I found was a single program announcement in an issue of the The Evening Independent newspaper dating to November 19th 1929....

Back in the 1920s WGY-AM in Schenectady, NY also operated a shortwave station with the call sign 2XAF . The WGY broadcast facilities wer...

Nat Shilkret had so many bands it's like he had multiple personalities. A native New Yorker, Naftule Schüldkraut was born in 1889 when...

 It wasn't in all their advertisements but it was on most of them. It was more of a layout or design error than anything. Smith brothe...

Harry Horlick's salon orchestra "The A&P Gypsies" were sponsored by the A&P grocery chain. Harry had a very unfortun...

First of all, WJY technically precedes WJZ . It's incongruous and that's because the first time the WJY calls  were used for only...

On CBS Ed East and Ralph Dumke were called the Quality Twins. But that was only in 1937 and 1938.  Before that they were players in the Ch...

You may have noticed that at least a dozen names on this list have had no business being on the list: side kicks, spouses, extended family, ...

Cocaine used to be pretty popular. I know it was the hip narcotic in the 1980s, but it used to be a pretty common ingredient even in soft ...

Enna Jettick made shoes. Sir Harry Lauder and 3 other unidentified singers performed on the program "Enna Jettick Melodies" whic...

Shinola was a brand of shoe polish that was sold in the 1930s. It was a product of the Shinola-Bixby Corporation. While no longer made, it i...

Today B.F. Goodrich is just a brand of tires marketed by the French-based company Michelin. The original Goodrich was an all-American compan...

The Clicquot Club Beverage Company was bought and dissolved by Cott Beverages in 1960, then Cott by Canada Dry in 1965. Nobody born after...