0200 GMT CALIFORNIA MELODIES WITH DAVID ROSE

This 1940-42 series features composer Dave Rose and singing star Maxine Gray putting on a concert each week featuring some of Rose's great compositions. The show was a huge orchestral production featuring Rose's music and was broadcast from Hollywood. The music was easy on the ears and quite pleasing and melodic. MORE AT OTRCAT.COM

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Included withingh our CRIME STOPPERS Collection is "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar". A radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.

The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama, with Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien and John Lund portraying Dollar in succession over the years. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account – America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator."

The format best remembered was instituted by writer-director Jack Johnstone. Each case usually started with a phone call from an insurance adjuster, calling on Johnny to investigate an unusual claim: a suspicious death, an attempted fraud, a missing person, or other mysterious circumstances. Each story required Johnny to travel to some distant locale, usually within the United States but sometimes abroad, where he was almost always threatened with personal danger in the course of his investigations. He would compare notes with the police officials who had first investigated each strange occurrence, and followed every clue until he figured out what actually happened. Johnny's file on each case was usually referenced as a "matter," as in "The Silver Blue Matter" or "The Forbes Matter".

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1715 GMT GLENN MILLER SHOW

Glenn Miller and his orchestra were featured regularly on the Chesterfield Cigarette-sponsored radio program from 1939 to 1942. The 15-minute broadcasts typically aired three times per week on CBS Radio. Miller served as both bandleader and host, introducing songs and chatting with occasional guest performers. The program helped cement Miller's status as one of the era's most popular bandleaders and provided a national platform for hits like "In the Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade." The show concluded when Miller joined the Army Air Forces in 1942.

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. His civilian band, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era.