Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1 Audiobook (Free)
- A Full Cast, Bob Bailey
- 7 h 19 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2014-04-01
Summary:
First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Buck chronicled the activities of freelanceinsurance investigator Johnny Money, “the person with the action-packed expenseaccount.” For fourteen years it was oneof the most popular detective shows within the air flow, lasting before final days ofnetwork radio dilemma in 1962. Each tale started using a phone call from aninsurance professional calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual declare.His investigations usually required him to visit about Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1 to distant locales and ofteninvolved murder. The stories had been recounted in flashback, as Money shown eachline item from his expenditure accounts: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare towards the airport.”
Over time, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar,including Charles Russell, John Lund, and Edmund O’Brien. However in 1955 BobBailey required over as the series was switching to a fresh powerful format ofseventy-five-minute storylines informed in five fifteen-minute installments, Mondaythrough Friday. While other radio shows were waning in the mid-1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was at itspeak. Specialists place these ventures in with the very best of the best of radio’sgolden age group. This collection contains thirty fifteen-minute episodes.
Shows include “The McCormack Matter,” “The Molly K Matter,” “The Chesapeake Fraud Matter,” “The Alvin Summers Matter,” “The Valentine Matter” and “The Lorcoe Gemstone Matter.”
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