Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune on Old Time Radio...Then

Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953.  ( Thursdays, as part of Crime Stoppers episodes on RADIOthen.network) The series ended its run in March 1954 after 25 episodes. The program was created by George Lefferts. Frank Sinatra voiced the title role of Rocky Fortune for the entire series. Rocky Fortune aired Tuesday nights on NBC at 9:35pm Eastern, immediately following Dragnet (and a five-minute John Cameron Swayze newscast). It was a sustaining series, meaning that NBC presented the program without corporate sponsorship. The premiere episode, "Oyster Shucker", originally aired on October 6, 1953. WIKIPEDIA

Frank Sinatra hosts Light Up Time on NBC Radio...late 1940's, early 1950's

Starring Frank Sinatra, Light-up Time is a swinging music program with special guest stars. A perfect compliment with a smooth smoke, Lucky Strike sponsored Light-out Time. RADIOthen.com MUSIC channel offers  AFRS broadcasts, with old blue eyes smooth talking the audience in Light-up Time an enjoyable quarter-hour music program perfect for after work. Don Wilson served as announcer on Light-up Time and co-hosts include Dorothy Kirsten, Jeff Clark and Jeff Alexander and His Orchestra. Find episodes at OTRcat.com

RADIOthen MUSIC presents SONGS BY SINATRA

The show was sponsored by Old Gold cigarettes and these complete shows include commercials for the cigarettes, sadly ironic more than 30 years later. Hear Sinatra, accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Axel Stordahl. It's fair to say that this frequently comic young Frank Sinatra, reading and occasionally blowing his radio script, is one of the less familiar personas of the singer, and like all radio shows of the era, these possess a period charm. (from Review by William Ruhlmann).

 

YOUR HIT PARADE

Your Hit Parade is an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups. Many listeners and viewers casually referred to the show with the incorrect title The Hit Parade.WIKIPEDIA Frank Sinatra Dorothy Collins Snooky Lanson Gisele MacKenzie Bobby Phillips Russell Arms Eileen Wilson June Valli Sue Bennett Virginia Gibson Alan Copeland Tommy Leonetti Jill Corey Johnny Desmond Raymond Scott Narrated by Andre Baruch