Information on Searching Artists
This section is an alphabetical list of every person who received air credit (or should have received air credit) on every program in the archive. Alphabetizing a list of names would be easy if everyone had a first and a last name. But they don't and one has to start making decisions. Alphabetized by first or last name? The "program names" are alphabetized by the actual name of the program, not a person. "The Jack Benny Show" is therefore listed under "Jack" and not "Benny." I ignore "The," "A" and "An" for greater clarity. In the "people" section, I've had to deal with those with three (or more names) like "Adam Clayton Powell," those who usually use only initials ("H.V. Kaltenborn") or a combination (like "J. David Goldin") and other variations. "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra" is filed under "Goodman," as is his trio, his quartet, etc. Caution: many names look like they are spelled incorrectly, but they may not be (then again, some of them probably are). This apparent error may in fact be a reference to someone you never heard of who spells his name differently. Steven Allen is not the same person as Steve Allen, the comedian/ musician/author. John Kennedy was both a NBC announcer in the mid-30s and a president. They were not the same guy.
I've tried to eliminate all titles. Therefore, unless I didn't know the first name, you'll see no "Generals," "Doctors," "Governors," "Bishops" or other honorifics. Hyphenated names, those that end with "Jr." and those with lineage descriptors (John Jones III) were invented just to make life difficult. I couldn't bring myself to list the king of England as "Windsor, George." You will probably agree with some of my decisions and disagree with others. At least I tried to be consistent.
Fain and His Orchestra, Elmer (1)
Fairchild and His Orchestra, Cookie (89)
Fairchild and The Treasury Orchestra, Cookie (1)
Fairfax and Her All Girl Orchestra, Joan (1)
Faith and Buddy Cole Orchestra, The Percy (1)
Faith and His Orchestra, Larry (1)
Faith and His Orchestra, Per (1)
Faith and His Orchestra, Percy (134)
Farber and His Orchestra, Bert (6)
Farley and His Orchestra, Ed (2)
Farm and Home Quartet, The (38)
Farmers, Toots Marshall and His Castle (1)
Farnon and His Orchestra, Robert (1)
Farrell and His Chorus, Skip (1)
Fascinato and His Orchestra, Jack (2)
Fasshauer and The Homesteaders, Carl (2)
Featherstone and His Orchestra, Jimmy (9)
Federal Symphony Of New York (1)
Federal Symphony Orchestra Of New York (1)
Feld and His Orchestra, Ben (4)
Felice and His Orchestra, Ernie (1)
Fenton and The Cremo Orchestra, Carl (2)
Ferdinando and His Orchestra, Felix (1)
Ferguson and His Orchestra, Maynard (1)
Fi's, Ernie Felice and The Hi (4)
Fiedler and His Orchestra, Arthur (2)
Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur (12)
Field, 581st Air Force Band from Mitchell (1)
Fielding and His Orchestra, Jerry (15)
Fields and Hall Mountaineers (2)
Fields and His New Music, Shep (1)
Fields and His Orchestra, Irving (1)
Fields and His Orchestra, Shep (29)
Fields and His Reception Center Orchestra, Herbie (1)
Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, Shep (11)
Fields and His Septet, Herbie (1)
Fina and His Orchestra, Jack (8)
Fina and His Waldorf Astoria Orchestra, Jack (1)
Finston and His Orchestra, Nat (13)
Fio Rito and His Orchestra, Ernie (5)
Fio Rito and His Orchestra, Ted (93)
Fire Chief Double Quartet, The (3)
Fire Chief Orchestra, The (14)
Firehouse Five Plus Two, The (8)
Firestone Symphony Orchestra, The (93)
Fis, Rex Middleton and The Hi (2)
Fischer and His Orchestra, Carl (3)
Fisher and His Orchestra, Buddy (2)
Fisher and His Orchestra, Mark (1)
Fisk University Choir, The (2)
Fitzgerald and Her Orchestra, Ella (7)
Fitzpatrick and His Orchestra, Eddie (5)
Fitzsimmons and The Old Crown Orchestra, Guy (1)
Five, Louis Jordan and His Tympany (1)
Five, Mary Sawyer's Frivolous (1)
Five, Phil Napoleon and The Memphis (2)
Flanagan and His Orchestra, Ralph (29)
Flato and His Orchestra, Lud (9)
Fletcher and His Cowboys, Tex (1)
Flower, The Choir Of The Shrine Of The Little (1)
Floyd and His Orchestra, Chick (1)
Fogarty and His Orchestra, Howard (1)
Foley and The Cumberland Valley Boys, Red (2)
Forbstein and His Lucky Strike Orchestra, Leo (1)
Forbstein and His Orchestra, Leo (1)
Force, The Sky Orchids Band Of The Royal Air (1)
Forces, The British Band Of The Allied Expeditionary (2)
Ford Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, The (3)
Ford Symphony Orchestra, The (9)
Forrester and His Orchestra, David (59)
Forward America Orchestra, The (1)
Foster and His Orchestra, Chuck (24)
Foster and His Orchestra, Richard (1)
Fotine and His Orchestra, Larry (5)
Fountain and His Jazz Band, Pete (1)
Fountain and His Orchestra, Pete (1)
Fountainaires, The Sealtest (10)
Fountaineers, The Sealtest (3)
Four Chicks and Chuck, The (1)
Four Gardeners Quartet, The (2)
Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, The (1)
Four Spirits Of Rhythm, The (1)
Four, Ruth Denning and The London (1)
Four, The Prairie Schooner (1)
Fowlers's Oak Ridge Quartet, Wally (1)
Fox and His Orchestra, Roy (1)
Foy and His Orchestra, Dick (3)
Franks and His Rainbow Boys, Tillman (1)
Freeman and His Jazz Quartet, Stan (6)
Freeman and His Orchestra, Tony (3)
Freeman and His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra, Bud (1)
Freeman and The KNBC Orchestra, Tony (1)
French and The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, Albert Papa (1)
French Broadcasting System Orchestra, The (1)
French National Orchestra, The (1)
Friml Jr. and His Orchestra, Rudolph (2)
Froeba and His Backroom Boys, Frankie (3)
Froman and His Orchestra, Lou (1)
Frost and His Orchestra, Chet (1)
Funk and His Orchestra, Larry (5)
Fuqua and The Moonglows, Harvey (1)