From 1955 it's the NBC Radio show Best of All. This episode featuring a salute to the National Association of Negro Musicians. Honoring African-Americans involved in classical music. The program is hosted by Marian Anderson, the famous contralto, who performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals, with renowned orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, between 1925 and 1965.

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Daniel Robert Bankhead was the first African American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. He had played for the Negro leagues starting in 1940, where is was also a powerful hitter. Bankhead served in the Marine Corps Reserve during World War Two, and achieved the rank of sergeant. He was signed by the same man who signed Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey. Even though Robinson was the first Black man to play in the Majors, there is no recording of his monumental premiere. But we have Dan Bankhead's debut as a major league starting pitcher which occurred on April 22nd, 1950 at Ebbets Field. So sit back and enjoy the sound of history as Dan Bankhead and the Dodgers battle the New York Giants.

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From it's early days in the 1920's news was an important part of radio. The first newscasts were little more than announcers reading press releases and police reports. In the 1930s and 40s, network newscasts evolved into audio versions of newspaper columns. During the World War Two and into the 1950s there was the arrival of the radio news anchor, who presented reporters on the scene, with commentary confined to the people actually making the news. You're hear this transition develop over decades of radio news coverage.

Elmer Davis on CBS Radio in 1939

HV Kaltenborn on NBC Radio in 1940

Walter Winchell in 1941, American Radio's most popular newsman at the time, and was heard on the Blue Network, which later became ABC.

Fulton Lewis Jr on the Mutual Radio Network in 1942.

Raymond Gram Swing on ABC Radio in 1945

Mutual Newsreel Digest in 1950

Taylor Grant suffers the news anchor's nightmare on ABC in 1953.

The legendary Edward R. Murrow on CBS Radio in 1957.

Frank Bourgholtzer on NBC Radio in 1961.

Charles Osgood before he became famous in 1966 on ABC Radio

Bill Maher Jr, father of the famous comedian on Mutual Radio in 1969.

Mike Stanley on CBS in 1969.

James Limbach on Associated Press Radio in 1977.

Al Williams on the Mutual Black Radio Network in 1978.

David Leslie on ABC in 1978.

Ed Gullo on RKO Radio in 1979.

Pat Prescott on the National Black Network in 1981.

Becky Bailey on Mutual in 1988.

Jim Lounsbury on the United Press International radio network in 1989.

Sheri Preston on ABC radio in 2004.

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