| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-02-05 | The first show of the syndicated series. Showing significant confidence by Coca-Cola and significant chutzpah by Morton Downey, this first syndicated program doesn't even have any Morton Downey! The first tune is, "Let Me Love You To-night." The program name is printed on the label (and is announced as), "Songs From Morton Downey." David Ross goes all-out for a meaningful reading of, "The Bells" (by Edgar Allan Poe). Prepared by D'Arcy Advertisin, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-02-06 | The first tune is, "Don't Fence Me In." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. Morton is still on his U.S.O. tour and is not heard during this program. Felix Knight substitutes. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-03-15 | The first tune is, "Together." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-03-16 | The first tune is, "Molly Malone." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-02 | The first tune is, "Evalina." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. David Ross reads, "A Ruined Garden" by Theodora Maynard. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-03 | The first tune is, "Don't Ever Change." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-18 | The first tune is, "I Walked In With My Eyes Wide Open" Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-19 | The first tune is, "Gonna Build A Big Fence About Texas." The program's guest is hat designer Lilly Dache. Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-24 | Sometime after February 16, 1945, Morton Downey returned from a U.S.O. trip and the program title was changed from "Songs From Morton Downey" to "Songs By Morton Doiwney." The first tune is, "I Wish I Knew." The program's guest is Betty Smith (author of, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"). |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-04-25 | The first tune is, "I Surrender Dear." Leah Ray sings, "Jealous." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-05-08 | This broadcast was obviously recorded in advance of V-E Day and sent to subscribing stations, "To be used on the day Germany surrenders or the first Downey show thereafter if it happens on a weekend." These instructions are printed on the label. This well-done show started with, "God Bless America" and ended with a beautiful, "Hymn For Soldiers and Sailors." David Ross reads an original poem. See also #2348 and #111622. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-05-08 | The network program was just called, "Morton Downey." Syndicated versions were known as, "Songs By Morton Downey." The first tune is, "Right As The Rain." This series was produced by D'Arcy Advertising. This program was scheduled in advance to be broadcast on the date above. However, since V-E Day was declared on May 8, 1945, a special "V-E Day" program, sent to broadcasters in advance, was likely heard instead on many stations. This show was aired on a later date, or not at all. See also cat. #2348 and #111624, which also can be considered valid versions of the May 8, 1945 program. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-05-09 | The first tune is, "Amor." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-05-22 | The first tune is, "What Makes The Sun Set?" The program's guest is actress Elissa Landi. "How in the world does she ever do it?" Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-05-23 | The first tune is, "Every Time I Fall In Love." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-19 | The first tune is, "I'm A Little On The Lonely Side." The program's guest is Bumpy Stevenson, who organized Red Cross activites in Europe during the war and who now plans to start a radio series. She was awarded a Bronze Star. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-20 | The first tune is, "I Hope To Die If I Told A Lie When I Told You I Loved You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-21 | The first tune is, "Poor Little Rhode Island." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-22 | The first tune is, "Remember Me To Carolina." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-25 | The first tune is, "Sing! It's Good For You." David Ross reads, "To Lesbia," by the Roman poet Catullus. Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-06-26 | The first tune is, "Every Dog-Gone Time." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-07-31 | The first tune is, "You Only Want Me When There's Nobody Else Around." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-06 | The first tune is, "I'll Buy That Dream." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-07 | The first tune is, "My Best Gal." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-08 | The first tune is, "June Comes Around Every Year." Program's guest is United Press war correspondent. She describes the first meeting of the American and Russian armies. Morton sings a nice, "Thanks For The Memories." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-09 | The first tune is, "You Belong To My Heart." Prepared by D'Arcy Advertising, New York City. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-19 | The first tune is, "You're Not Fooling Anyone But Yourself." In a stilted interview, guest Ann Sheridan confesses that she always gets "mike fright." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-22 | The first tune is, "Did You Ever Get That Feeling In The Moonlight?" Describing post-war Berlin. the program's guest is war correspondent Bill Slocum Jr. of the CBS network. He says, "Virtually every German city is as flat as a pancake." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-23 | The first tune is, "Remember Me To Carolina." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-24 | The first tune is, "I'll Be Yours." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-08-27 | The first tune is, "Miss You." Leah Ray sings, "The Atchison, Topeka and The Santa Fe." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-11 | The first tune is, "Soon, Soon, Soon." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-12 | The first tune is, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-13 | The first tune is, "I'm Gonna Love That Gal Like She's Never Been Loved Before." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-14 | The first tune is, "Question and Answer." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-19 | The first tune is, "Once In A While." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-20 | The first tune is, "Did You Ever Get That Feeling In The Moonlight?" |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-21 | The first tune is, "Some Sunday Morning." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-24 | The first tune is, "I'm Gonna A Build Big Fence Around Texas." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-25 | The first tune is, "Can't You Read Between The Lines?" |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-26 | The first tune is, "Sentimental Journey." The program's guest is Douglas Leigh (billed as "The Genius Of Light") who creates spectacular signs on Broadway. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-27 | The first tune is, "I'll Buy That Dream." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-09-28 | The first tune is, "If You Didn't Cry, Why Should I?" |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-01 | The first tune is, "I Don't Want To Be Loved." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-02 | The first tune is, "Here I Go, Just Dreaming Away." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-03 | The first tune is, "Love Me, My Pet Brunette." The program's guest is Helen Delaney, a telephone operator at Camp Shanks, New York. She handles the calls from the returning soldiers to their families. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-04 | The first song is, "Stars In Your Eyes." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-09 | The first tune is, "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-10 | The first tune is, "I'll Be Walking With My Honey Down Honeymoon Lane." The program's guest is Sergeant Homer Newton Oliphant of Yank magazine, who tells about Yank and being the first journalist to publish interviews with Japanese P.O.W.'s. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-15 | The first tune is, "How She Lied To Me." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-16 | The first tune is, "Some Sunday Morning." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-17 | The first tune is, "Mandy." The program's guest is Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who predicts a "brave new world" for the returning G. I.'s and makes predictions of the future (that are pretty accurate). |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-18 | The first tune is, "Fishin' For The Moon." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-19 | The first tune is, "It's A Wonderful Day." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-22 | The first tune is, "Can't You Read Between The Lines?" |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-23 | The first tune is, "When The Red Red Robbin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-24 | The first tune is, "It's A Grand Night For Singing." The program's guest is Mickey McKeyoe, General Eisenhower's driver in Europe. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-25 | The first tune is, "I'd Do It All Over Again." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-10-31 | The first tune is, "But I Did." The program's guest is Lucille Petrie, director of the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-01 | The first tune is, "Here I Go, Just Dreaming Away." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-02 | The first tune is, "Miss You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-05 | The first tune is, "Give Me The Simple Life." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-06 | The first tune is, "In The Middle Of May." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-07 | The first tune is, "I Though You Oughta Know." The program's guest is Lieutenant Commander Joel Fischer of the U. S. Coast Guard, whose job was to recover gold stolen by the Nazis. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-08 | The first tune is, "I Don't Wanna Be Loved By Anyone else But You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-09 | The first tune is, "Along The Navajo Trail." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-16 | The first tune is, "Sweetheart Of All My Dreams." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-19 | The first tune is, "Chickery Chick." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-20 | The first tune is, "Just Around The Corner." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-21 | The first tune is, "It's A Grand Night For Singing." The program's guest is James Stewart Gordon, photographer of famous people for magazines. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-26 | The first tune is, "An Old-Time Get-Together." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-27 | The first tune is, "It's De-Lovely." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-28 | The first tune is, "But I Did." The program's guest is Joy Hodges, star of the European production of, "Anything Goes." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-11-29 | The first tune is, "I Love Her, Oh, Oh, Oh." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-10 | The first tune is, "Pretty Kitty Kelly." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-11 | The first tune is, "Chickery Chick." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-12 | The first tune is, "Just A Little Fond Affection." Morton interviews Thomas McCarthy, a pharmacist from Waterbury, Connecticut. McCarthy has been sending over-the-counter drugs to the people of Italy at his own expense. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-26 | The first tune is, "It Might As Well Be Spring." The program's guest is toy designer Ann Farrell. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-27 | The first tune is, "Aren't You Glad You're You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-28 | The first tune is, "It's A Grand Night For Singing." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1945-12-31 | The first tune is, "The Wonder Of You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-01-01 | The first tune is, "My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-01-02 | The first tune is, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street." The program's guest is Edward Kossauer, a sixteen year old chemist, winner of the fourth Westinghouse Talent Search, and graduate of Stuyvesant High School. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-01-31 | The first tune is, "But I Did." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-02-01 | The first tune is, "When The One You Love Won't Love Back." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-02-04 | The first tune is, "Just Around The Corner." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1946-02-05 | The first tune is, "Noseybody." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-07-03 | The first tune is, "That Five O'Clock Feeling." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-07-06 | The first tune is, "Heartbreaker." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-07-10 | The first tune is, "I'm Just A Fella." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-08-07 | The first tune is, "Blue Shadows On The Trail." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-09-02 | The first tune is, "It Only Happens With You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-11-04 | The first tune is, "I May Be Wrong, But I Think You're Wonderful." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1948-12-14 | The first tune is, "Tune On The Tip Of My Heart." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-04-15 | The first tune is, "Just Once More." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-04-30 | The first tune is, "Red-Head." The quartet sings, "Goodbye Forever." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-10-04 | The first tune is "Who Do You Know In Heaven?" Possibly the first show of the season. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-10-13 | The first tune is "One More Time." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-10-23 | The first tune is "She Didn't Say Yes." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1949-11-22 | Morton's first tune is, "Make Believe That Your Glad When Your Sorry." He sings a delightful, "Don't Blame Me." Morton's at his very best! An unidentified quartet sings. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1950-01-12 | The first tune is, "I'm Having A Wonderful Time." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1950-02-04 | Morton's first tune is, "After You're Gone." The quartet sings , "Just A Dream Of You Dear." in a beautiful and pure barbershop arrangement of the song. An excellent show and Morton is in fine voice. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1950-02-12 | The first tune is, "Side By Side." The unidentified system cue announcer doing a one sentence promo for an Ezio Pinza appearance on a future show, reads the copy with a thick Italian accent. Not funny. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | 1950-05-28 | The first tune is, "Monday, Tuesday...I Love You." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | | The first tune is, "Way Back Home." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | | Morton's first tune is, "I Never Knew." Following this, he sings an excellernt arrangement of, "Stardust." |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | | The first tune is, "By The Light Of The Same Old Moon." Restful music and Morton's soothing voice. |
| Songs By Morton Downey | | | WABS-FM, WSAM-FM. The first tune is, "The Girlfriend." |
