Broadcast 17 December 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 479
- Genre
- theatre
Proudly We Hail was a public service show for the Army and Air Force that first aired for a period of four months in 1941 on CBS. The show returned to the airways from 1946 through 1957 and aired on as many as 1300 radio stations. The 1941 shows were billed as a program designed "to strengthen the mainstream of the defense machine – the workers in the arsenal of democracy – during a time of unlimited national emergency". This was the time of the buildup of tensions in the Far East and just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Major Bowes and Jane Froman kicked off the first 30 minute show on the CBS network…
1948 · 21947 · 41946 · 6
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1946
1947
1948
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T] · 10 Jul 1946
- 2. PWH The Biggest Man In Town [T] · 31 Jul 1946
- 3. PWH A Song Is Born [T] · 4 Sep 1946
PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T]
10 Jul 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 10 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH The Biggest Man In Town [T]
31 Jul 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 31 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH A Song Is Born [T]
4 Sep 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 4 September 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH Empire State Building [T]
9 Oct 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 9 October 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH His Honor Pays A Debt [T]
13 Nov 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 13 November 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH The Idea Merchant [T]
18 Dec 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 18 December 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH The Light Shines Brightly [T]
22 Jan 1947 · 15 min
Broadcast 22 January 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH Valiant Coward [T]
26 Feb 1947 · 14 min
Broadcast 26 February 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
17 Dec 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 17 Dec 1947.
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17 Dec 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 December 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1948
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theatre on the air then
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What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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