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Alka-Seltzer Time (also known as The Alka-Seltzer Show) was a 15-minute weekday radio series that aired on CBS Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1949 to 1954. The show featured baritone Curt Massey and Martha Tilton, also known as "the liltin' Martha Tilton", who performed "informal song sessions" with Country Washburne and His Orchestra. The announcer was Ford Pearson. The show included a variety of popular songs and some theme shows such as "Go West" and "Salute to Hawaii". Martha Tilton was a popular jazz singer who had worked with the likes of Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, while Curt Massey was a talented musician and composer, best remembered as the composer and singer of the Petticoat Junction TV show theme song. The pair continued to perform together during the late 1950s, even recording an album, "We Sing the Old Songs" (1957).