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1944 Radio News

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1944
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485

News from 1944.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1944 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs.

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Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 5

  1. V-Disc B Al Jolson with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra April Showers & Ma Blushin' Rose

    · 5:28

  2. V-Disc A Boston Pops Orchestra (Arthur Fiedler cond) - Jalousie

    · 3:46

  3. V-Disc B Boston Pops Orchestra (Arthur Fiedler cond) - El Capitan

    · 2:06

  4. V-Disc B Boston Pops Orchestra (Arthur Fiedler cond) - Washington Post March

    · 2:14

  5. AFRS Mosquito Network The All Navy Show

    · 22 min

  6. BBC Night Air Raid

    · 1:02

  7. Jo Stafford I'll Walk Alone

    · 3:41

  8. Kraft Dinner

    · 0:53

  9. RSH Lord Haw Haw Calling Invasion Forces - Want To Be Happy

    · 3:28

  10. MBS The Mystery Chef Butter-Stretcher Recipe

    · 14 min

  11. Parkay

    · 0:56

  12. Senator Truman Bonds Appeal

    · 1:01

  13. WJR Jimmie Fidler's Hollywood

    · 14 min

  14. Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry All You Fascists Bound To Lose

    · 1:35

  15. V-Disc A Don Redman & his Orchestra - Message

    · 0:04

  16. V-Disc A Don Redman & his Orchestra - Pistol Packin' Mama

    · 3:29

  17. V-Disc B Don Redman & his Orchestra - Redman Blues

    · 4:46

  18. V-Disc A Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys - New San Antonio Rose

    · 2:34

  19. V-Disc A Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose

    · 2:31

  20. V-Disc B Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers - The Train Song

    · 3:01

  21. V-Disc A Frank Sinatra - The Music Stopped

    · 2:51

  22. V-Disc B Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night

    · 2:53

  23. V-Disc B Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight

    · 2:34

  24. V-Disc A Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra - Contrast

    · 1:52

  25. V-Disc A Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra - Julia

    · 2:30

  26. V-Disc B Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra - John Silver

    · 4:06

  27. V-Disc A Spike Jones & his City Slickers - As Time Goes By

    · 2:38

  28. V-Disc A Spike Jones & his City Slickers - Barstool Cowboy From Old Barstow

    · 2:25

  29. V-Disc B Spike Jones & his City Slickers - Hotcha Cornia

    · 2:18

  30. V-Disc B Spike Jones & his City Slickers - Jungle Town

    · 2:13

  31. V-Disc A Bing Crosby - Moonlight Bay

    · 2:59

  32. V-Disc A Bing Crosby - Ridin' Herd On A Cloud

    · 2:00

  33. V-Disc B Phil Brito - Come Back To Sorrento

    · 2:22

  34. V-Disc B Phil Brito - I Used To Love You But It's All Over Now

    · 2:31

  35. CBC Matthew Halton The Fall Of Ortona

    · 5:11

  36. NBC War Telescope Amazing Examples of Allied Power

    · 14 min

  37. CBS World News Today

    · 24 min

  38. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  39. NBC War Telescope Will Hitler Survive This War?

    · 14 min

  40. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  41. BBC Wynford Vaughn Thomas In Anzio

    · 1:06

  42. NBC War Telescope 800 Planes Attack Frankfort

    · 14 min

  43. CBS World News Today

    · 24 min

  44. CBC Marcel Ouimet Honouring The Living And The Dead

    · 4:50

  45. V-Disc A Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys The Great Speckled Bird & Low And Lonely

    · 4:17

  46. V-Disc B Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra - The Honey Song & Don't Sweetheart Me

    · 5:04

  47. V-Disc A Bing Crosby - A Yank In a Tank

    · 1:19

  48. V-Disc A Bing Crosby - Please

    · 3:06

  49. V-Disc B Bing Crosby - What Do You Do In the Infantry?

    · 2:18

  50. V-Disc B Bing Crosby & the Charioteers - Sleep, Kentucky Babe

    · 2:07

  51. V-Disc A Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder - Rock Me

    · 2:40

  52. V-Disc A Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder - That's All

    · 1:58

  53. V-Disc B Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder - Rock Daniel

    · 2:31

  54. V-Disc B Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder - Trouble In Mind

    · 2:33

  55. V-Disc A Vaughn Monroe - Something Sentimental

    · 3:02

  56. V-Disc B Mildred Bailey with Teddy Wilson - Scrap Your Fat

    · 4:24

  57. V-Disc A Harry James & his Orchestra - Easter Parade

    · 3:18

  58. V-Disc B Harry James & his Orchestra - Carnival Of Venice

    · 2:27

  59. V-Disc B Harry James & his Orchestra - Ciribiribin

    · 2:27

  60. V-Disc A&B Toscanini & the NBC Symphony Orchestra - The Blue Danube Pt 1&2

    · 8:18

  61. V-Disc A Ted Fiorito and his Orchestra - Can't Get Stuff In Your Cuff & I Said No

    · 4:16

  62. V-Disc B Tony Pastor & his Orchestra - 'Deed I Do

    · 4:42

  63. CAN MacArthur At Flag Raising Ceremony On Manila

    · 0:49

  64. NBC Skelly News Of The World

    · 15 min

  65. NBC War Telescope French Underground Leader

    · 14 min

  66. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  67. NBC War Bond Parade

    · 54 min

  68. AFRS Uncle Sam Presents Glenn Miller AEF Band

    · 15 min

  69. NBC War Telescope Britian Is a Fortress

    · 14 min

  70. CBS World News Today

    · 24 min

  71. NBC News

    · 13 min

  72. NBC War Telescope A European View of the War

    · 14 min

  73. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  74. CBS Crisco Radio Newspaper

    · 15 min

  75. V-Disc A Military District of Washington Band - Men Of Ohio

    · 2:01

  76. V-Disc A Military District of Washington Band - Military District of Washington March

    · 2:01

  77. V-Disc B Military District of Washington Band - Old Soldiers Never Die

    · 2:12

  78. V-Disc B Military District of Washington Band - Our Bugler

    · 2:08

  79. V-Disc A Capt Glenn Miller & the AAFTC Orch - Tail End Charlie

    · 2:34

  80. V-Disc A Capt Glenn Miller & the AAFTC Orch - The Squadron Song

    · 2:27

  81. V-Disc B Capt Glenn Miller & the AAFTC Orch - Blue Champagne

    · 1:53

  82. V-Disc B Capt Glenn Miller & the AAFTC Orch - Don't Be That Way

    · 1:52

  83. V-Disc A Carson Robison - 1944 Nursery Rhymes

    · 2:35

  84. V-Disc A Carson Robison - Message

    · 0:26

  85. V-Disc A Carson Robison - The Charms of the City Ain't Fer Me

    · 2:04

  86. V-Disc B Roy Acuff & his Smokey Mountain Boys - Pins and Needles

    · 2:48

  87. V-Disc A The Southern Sons - Two Wings

    · 2:30

  88. V-Disc A The Southern Sons - We'll Anchor Bye and Bye

    · 1:55

  89. V-Disc B The Southern Sons - Message

    · 1:05

  90. V-Disc B The Southern Sons - Ring Dem Golden Bells

    · 3:23

  91. V-Disc A Tony Pastor & his Orchestra - How Sweet You Are

    · 3:13

  92. V-Disc A Tony Pastor & his Orchestra - Message

    · 0:20

  93. V-Disc B Artie Shaw & his Orchestra - Adios Mariquita Linda

    · 3:33

  94. V-Disc A Boston Symphony Orchestra (Serge Koussevitsky) - Berlioz Rakoczy March

    · 3:52

  95. V-Disc B Boston Symphony Orchestra (Serge Koussevitsky) - Schubert Rosamunde Ballet Music

    · 3:52

  96. V-Disc B Mitchell Ayers Orchestra & the Andrews Sisters

    · 5:50

  97. NRK News Of Norway

    · 2:13

  98. NBC War Telescope Men on the Front Line

    · 14 min

  99. CBS World News Today

    · 24 min

  100. AFRS Pied Pipers Mairzy Doats

    · 2:38

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