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.
Vagabonds Of The Prairies, The (6)
Valdez and His Orchestra, Miguelito (1)
Valenti and His Orchestra, Vic (1)
Valentine and His Orchestra, Eddie (1)
Valentine Preservation Hall Band, Kid Thomas (1)
Vallee and His Coast Guard Band, Rudy (2)
Vallee and His Orchestra, Rudy (7)
Vallee and The Connecticut Yankees, Rudy (2)
Van and His Orchestra, Arthur (3)
Van Damm and His Orchestra, Alfred (2)
Van Damme Quartet, The Art (1)
Van Damme Quintet, The Art (71)
Van Dorn and His Orchestra, George (3)
Van Horne and The Swing Choir, Randy (1)
Van Steeden and His Orchestra, Peter (177)
Van Steeden and His Orchestrta, Peter (2)
Vandis and His Orchestra, Emil (2)
Vanini and His Highway Five, Caesar Joe (2)
Vaughn and His Orchestra, Billy (13)
Vaughn and His Orchestra, Denny (2)
Vel-Tones, Owen Bradley and The (1)
Ventura and His Combo, Charlie (2)
Ventura and His Orchestra, Charlie (1)
Ventura and His Orchestra, Ray (3)
Venuti and His Orchestra, Joe (7)
Venuti and The Blue Five, Joe (4)
Victor Salon Orchestra, The (1)
Victor Symphony Orchestra, The (1)
Victory All-Star Orchestra, The (1)
Victory War Chest Orchestra, The (1)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, The (6)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, The (1)
Viennese String Ensemble, The (1)
Vincent and The Blue Caps, Gene (1)
Vincent and The Blue Chips, Gene (2)
Virginia Mazer R. L. Dukas (1)
Viseur and His Orchestra, Gus (1)
Viva America Orchestra, The (2)
Vlas-Daczenco, Alexander (185)
Voices Of Walter Schumann, The (2)
Von Hallberg's Oriental Orchestra, Sven (2)
Von Steeden and His Orchestra, Peter (1)
Von Steuben High School Chorus, The (1)