No, not the Singing Brakeman, that's Jimmie Rodgers. This is the lesser known Whistling Brakeman, George E. Nearpass III. Sources altern...

  I do like it when I find a radio with identifiable presets. It means we get to play a game I call Find That Radio. It also helps that this...

  How or when Crosley wrote the above pamphlet I do not know. It's obscure ephemera. But powell has always been involved writing his own...

On The air, the Encyclopedia of Old-Time radio by John Dunning describes the 30-minute program in one sentence: "Singer Doris day with ...

4VEH  transmitted its first radio program in Haiti on June 2, 1950. the station was founded by a missionary named Green Tolbert Bustin. T...

In 1940 they advertised 1130 WJJD-AM as "The Largest Independent radio Station in the Nation."It was probably even true at 20,0...

Born in 1924, Chester "Chet" Atkins is known today almost entirely for his country guitar picking.  He was also a lifetime radio...

I know all of two songs by Merle Travis but I bet you know them too. "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons" were both...

This is a 78rpm Federal Perma Disk it's dated and labeled in pencil leaving less mystery than usual. The scrawl isn't even in the...

 They were called the Thinking Man's Hillbillie. I'm not making that up. That's their actual marketing lingo from the 1950s....

At long last this research project has come to an end. I have asked the question repeatedly why these people are famous within radio and the...

I have often wondered aloud why almost all religious radio in the U.S. is of a Christian eschatology. There is precious little else.It used ...

After a week of Stupid DJ tricks I start to lose interest. In real-time, I lose interest even faster than that.  I don't care if they...

If this persons handwriting was more clear, tracking this one down would have been easier. It's very frustrating to find a disc that act...