HERE'S TO VETERANS

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Radio Spotlight – Here’s To Veterans: Saluting Service with Song and Spirit

In a time when the wounds of war still ache and the stories of heroism echo across the country, Here’s To Veterans stands tall as a heartfelt tribute to America’s fighting men—both past and present. Produced by the Veterans Administration, this stirring program aired from 1946 through 1947 and offered more than entertainment—it offered recognition, reassurance, and remembrance.

Each weekly episode, typically a brief 15-minute interlude, was packed with music, morale, and meaningful messages. At a time when many radio shows focused on escapism or commercial jingle-jangling, Here’s To Veterans brought something different to the dial: a sense of duty, dignity, and pride in those who wore the uniform.

What made the show sparkle was its simple sincerity. Popular entertainers of the day—singers, big band leaders, and screen stars—volunteered their time to deliver tunes and tributes. Their voices lent not just charm but credibility to the cause. Whether it was a crooner lifting spirits or a band swinging through a favorite number, the music always carried a message of gratitude.

Between the melodies, the narration would gently remind listeners of the work the Veterans Administration was doing to care for returning soldiers—offering information about benefits, healthcare, job programs, and education under the GI Bill. It was radio with a purpose, making sure those who served knew they had not been forgotten in the hustle of peacetime.

Listeners—especially veterans and their families—found comfort in hearing that they still had a place in the American story. And for those too young to have served, the show acted as a window into the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation.

Here’s To Veterans may not have made headlines or topped the ratings charts, but in every 15-minute salute, it delivered something more valuable than fame: honor.
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HTV 0001 460523 Hit Parade Extra
HTV 0003 460616 Sioux City Sue
HTV 0004 Lisbeth Scott, Martha Tilton
HTV 0007 Jean Tennyson Jan Peerce Robert Weede
HTV 0008 Kate Smith
HTV 0011 Gus Heanschen's Orchestra
HTV 0012 Frank Sinatra & Axel Stordahl
HTV 0013 Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
HTV 0020 Buddy Clark
HTV 0021 Dorothy Steger Angelo Raffaele
HTV 0026 Frank Morgan
HTV 0030 Fibber Mcgee And Molly Mayor Latrivia
HTV 0031 Dinah Shore
HTV 0032 Bob Hope
HTV 0033 Don Ameche
HTV 0034 Bing Crosby
HTV 0036 470220 Duffys Tavern missing 5 min
HTV 0039 470110J.Benny Mary Letter Mother
HTV 0039 Spike Jones Show
HTV 0040 Jack Smith Show
HTV 0040 L-A
HTV 0041 470622 AC
HTV 0044 Kenny Baker
HTV 0045 Dennis Day
HTV 0047 BS
HTV 0055 Breakfast Club
HTV 0057 Jack Parr Show
HTV 0058 King Cole Trio Time
HTV 0062 Harvest Of Stars
HTV 0063 Eve Arden
HTV 0066 I Wanna Be Happy
HTV 0067 Look Me In Eyes Op Clip
HTV 0070 The Great Gildersleeve
HTV 0071 The Contented Hour
HTV 0072 Peg O My Heart
HTV 0076 Fibber McGee & Molly
HTV 0077 American Album Of Familiar Music
HTV 0079 Eddy Howard Show
HTV 0080 Highways In Melody
HTV 0082 Club 15
HTV 0083 Dick Haymes Show
HTV 0084 Jimmy Durante Show
HTV 0085 My Friend Irma
HTV 0086 The Al Jolson Show
HTV 0091 Spike Jones Spotlight Review
HTV 0098 The Percy Faith Program
HTV 0099 The Jack Smith Show
HTV 0102 American Melody Hour
HTV 0103 Phil Harris Alice Faye
HTV 0104 Call For Music
HTV 0107 Carle Comes Calling
HTV 0108 Hoagy Carmichael Sings
HTV 0128 Tell Me
HTV 0129 Night Has A Thousand Eyes
HTV 0131 Two Ton Baker
HTV 0132 Howard Barlow Program
HTV 0133 Music Hall
HTV 0133 The Music Hall
HTV 0134 Jane Pickins Show
HTV 0134 The Jane Pickins Show
HTV 0135 Supper Club
HTV 0135 The Supper Club - duplicate
HTV 0136 Music America Loves Best
HTV 0136 Music America Loves Best - duplicate
HTV 0137 The Jack Benny Program
HTV 0138 We Three
HTV 0141 Skip Farrell & Brooks Randall
HTV 0142 The Jack Berch Show
HTV 0143 Morey Amsterdam Show
HTV 0144 Shep Fields Orchestra
HTV 0145 Louis Prima Orchestra
HTV 0146 Frankie Masters Orchestra
HTV 0147 Frankie Carle Orchestra
HTV 0148 Eddy Condon Orchestra
HTV 0149 Chuck Foster Orchestra
HTV 0150 Lawrence Welk Orchestra
HTV 0151 Griff Williams Orchestra
HTV 0154 Band Of America
HTV 0155 Sammy Kaye
HTV 0156 Four Piano Ensemble
HTV 0163 Lost April
HTV 0164 Pussy Willow
HTV 0177 Elliot Lawrence
HTV 0178 Russ Morgan
HTV 0200 Ray Anthony Orchestra
HTV 0203 Somebody Stole My Gal 1950
HTV 0256 Red Norvo
HTV 0257 Phil Harris
HTV 0258 You Were Meant For Me 1951
HTV 0263 Dave Rose
HTV 0264 Ziggy Elman
HTV 0265 Jess Stacey
HTV 0266 Roy Rogers
HTV 0273 Victor Young
HTV 0274 Jump For Joe
HTV 0275 Dancing In Dark 1952
HTV 0278 Paul Weston
HTV 0279 Ray Anthony Orchestra
HTV 0308 Ray Turner
HTV 0309 Harry Owens
HTV 0310 Theres No Tomorrow
HTV 0311 Jimmy Dorsey
HTV 0319 Tommy Dorsey
HTV 0320 JackOwens
HTV 0328 That Old Diesel Iron Horse
HTV 0334 Pete Daily
HTV 0335 Benny Carter
HTV 0339 Dont Talk About Me When Im Gone 1953
HTV 0340 Silas Lee From Tennesse 1953
HTV 0341 Mr. Callahan 1953
HTV 0342 Indian Love Call 1953
HTV 0349 Joe Fingers Carr Down Yonder
HTV 0354 Jan Garber
HTV 0355 Bob Crosby
HTV 0358 Duke Ellington
HTV 0359 Barclay Allen
HTV 0360 Hugo Winterhalter
HTV 0361 Three Suns
HTV 0364 Andre Previn
HTV 0371 I Didnt Want To Love You
HTV 0375 Delicado 1954
HTV 0376 Thunderbird
HTV 0378 Fire House Five
HTV 0379 Lawrence Welk
HTV 0380 540320 Mel Blanc
HTV 0393 First Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey
HTV 0394 Les Baxter
HTV 0412 Pete Rugolo
HTV 0413 Percy Faith
HTV 0430 Paul Whiteman
HTV 0431 The Mulcays
HTV 0436 Stan Freberg
HTV 0436 Stan Freberg
HTV 0445 550000 Dick Stabile And Dean Martin
HTV 0446 550000 Francis Scott
HTV 0456 Walter Schumann
HTV 0457 Crew Cuts
HTV 0458 George Auld
HTV 0459 Micki Marlo
HTV 0460 Four Knights
HTV 0461 Henri Rene Eartha Kitt
HTV 0464 550000 Florian Zabach
HTV 0465 550000 Lawrence Welk
HTV 0468 Gloria Wood
HTV 0479 Breeze Brings My Baby Back To Me
HTV 0480 Fiddlin Bullfighter
HTV 0486 Dick Stewart
HTV 0487 Roger Wagner Chorale
HTV 0494 Jaye P Morgan
HTV 0521 Joe Fingers Carr
HTV 0521 VA 10 Spot Announcements
HTV 0535 570000 Tommy Reynolds
HTV 0536 570000 Milton Berle
HTV 0537 When You Wish Upon A Star
HTV 0538 When White Lilacs Bloom Again
HTV 0539 Diahanne Carroll
HTV 0540 Les Elgard
HTV 0548 The Andrews Sisters
HTV 0561 Plymouth Rock
HTV 0562 Timber Train
HTV 0577 Come And Get It
HTV 0580 Stan Freberg
HTV 0613 Russ Morgan
HTV 0614 Dennis Farnon
HTV 0623 Ray Anthony Orchestra
HTV 0625 Yellow Rose Of Texas
HTV 0641 Morris Stoloff
HTV 0642 Toni Arden
HTV 0649 Salli Terri
HTV 0650 Dick Maltby
HTV 0654 Tutti Camarata Mary Martin
HTV 0655 Pam Garner
HTV 0656 Joe Lilly The Skylarks
HTV 0657 Gordon Jenkins
HTV 0667 Si Zinther
HTV 0668 Stuart Hamblin
HTV 0671 Ray Anthony Orchestra
HTV 0675 Stan Jones
HTV 0676 Joe Bushkin
HTV 0690 You Made Me Love You 1960
HTV 0691 Lazy Mary
HTV 0692 Wangwang Blues
HTV 0693 Swinging On A Star
HTV 0694 Stardust Cha Cha
HTV 0695 Hep Kats Summer Talk
HTV 0696 Aint She Sweet 2
HTV 0697 An Evening With Lerner And Lowe
HTV 0698 Look Look
HTV 0699 Before I Reach Towno
HTV 0700 You Gotta Look Up
HTV 0701 Yours Is My Heart Alone
HTV 0708 World Is Waiting For Sunrise
HTV 0709 Seven League Boots
HTV 0727 Mexican Jumping Bean
HTV 0732 Guzuentite Polka
HTV 0738 Opus In Chartruse
HTV 0774 Bernies Tune
HTV 0887 Crawdads
HTV 0888 Bill Loose Show
HTV 0896 Magpie
HTV 0897 Vardi A Trip Around New York
HTV 0923 Puddle Jumpin
HTV 0924 How Great Thou Art
HTV 0940 Nat King Cole Show
HTV 0941 Henry Jeromes Folk Music
HTV 0944 Buddy Hackett
HTV 0945 Goodtime Singers
HTV 0949 Frank Miller And Easy Riders
HTV 0953 Ill Cry Instead
HTV 0954 Freddie Martin
HTV 1006 Tonight
HTV 1066 Hey There
HTV 1067 Pat Boone
HTV 1291 Charlie Louvin
HTV 1292 Jean Sheperd
HTV 1294 Seems Like Only Yesterday
HTV 1302 Gov Jimmy Davis
HTV 1303 Merle Haggard
HTV 1305 Billy Vaughn
HTV 1307 Eddie Jason And Cowsills
HTV 1308 Lawrence Welk
HTV 1310 George Hamilton
HTV 1311 Guy Lumbardo
HTV 1312 Eddie Heywood
HTV 1313 Frank Sinatra
HTV 1314 Nat King Cole
HTV 1315 Jerry Gray
HTV 1320 Lou Rawls
HTV 1323 Buck Owens
HTV 1324 Nancy Wilson
HTV 1325 Tommy Leonetti
HTV 1338 Josh White Jr
HTV 1339 Andy Russell
HTV 1340 Helen Reddy
HTV 1341 Al Martino
HTV 1343 Lawrence Welk
HTV 1345 Dale Evans
HTV 1347 Heartbreak Mountian
HTV 1348 Miles Davis
HTV 1349 Vicki Carr
HTV 1350 S Kenton
HTV 1351 Buddy Merrill
HTV 1352 Marty Robbins
HTV 1353 Art Tatum
HTV 1355 Jazz Classics All Stars
HTV 1357 Coleman Hawkins
HTV 1359 Jerry Mulligan
HTV 1360 Dorsey Burnett
HTV 1362 Jass Classics Woody Herman
HTV 1364 Jazz Classics Nat King Cole
HTV 1365 Buddy Merrill
HTV 1366 Tina Turner
HTV 1374 Charlie Pride
HTV 1376 Cootie Williams
HTV 1381 Great Jazz Classics Duke Ellington
HTV 1382 A Sunshiney Day
HTV 1384 Charlie Barnett
HTV 1393 Jack Benny Show
HTV 1394 Overture To Tommy
HTV 1399 Burns And Allen
HTV 1400 Goodtime Charlies Got Blues
HTV 1401 Duffys Tavern
HTV 1408 Don Ellis
HTV 1409 Jud Strunk
HTV 1410 Vaughn Monroe
HTV 1412 Whole Lotta Shakin Going On
HTV 1413 Wooly Bully
HTV 1414 Ray Stevens
HTV 1415 Fibber Mcgee Molly
HTV 1418 Bing Crosby
HTV 1419 You Will Be My Music
HTV 1420 Bickersons
HTV 1421 Wilburn Brothers
HTV 1422 Ray Anthony
HTV 1423 Contented Hour
HTV 1425 Everybodys Had Blues Sometime
HTV 1426 Jimmy Durante
HTV 1430 Sweet Caroline
HTV 1431 Club 15
HTV 1433 Jack Carson
HTV 1436 Dinah Shore
HTV 1438 There Used To Be
HTV 1440 Great Gildersleeve
HTV 1443 Milton Berle
HTV 1446 Jolson
HTV 1450 Lum And Abner
HTV 1452 Duke Ellington
HTV 1459 Tex Beneke
HTV 1462 Four Freshmen
HTV 1467 Jackie Gleasons Orchestra
HTV 1468 Youre As Right As Rain
HTV 1469 One Upon A Time
HTV 1476 I Want To Hold Your Hand
HTV 1478 Heres That Rainy Day
HTV 1479 Joe Fingers Carr
HTV 1482 Johnny Mercer
HTV 1485 Kay Starr
HTV 1490 Red Nichols
HTV 1493 Stan Kenton
HTV 1494 Artie Shaw
HTV 1496 Les Baxter
HTV 1501 Julia Lee
HTV 1504 Jack Teagarden
HTV 1512 Andy Kim
HTV 1513 Benny Carter
HTV 1564 Jack Hylton
HTV 1565 Paul Delicato
HTV 510900 Hallucinations
HTV Ac
HTV Free Again
HTV Hallucinations 1951
HTV In My Merry Oldsmobile
HTV Lost Faces
HTV Melody In F D.Rose G.Gibbs
HTV National Barn Dance Everybody Kiss Your Partner
HTV Rosalee
HTV Straighten Up And Fly Right

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