 An offer of sponsorship appeared early in the series of radio broadcasts resulting from the CBS contest of 1935.Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s she sang a mixture of popular and classical music on shows such as the Carnation Hour, the Magic Key, the Firestone Hour, Album of Familiar Music (Bayer Aspirin), American Melody Hour and Standard Hour.At one point “I was on CBS, NBC and Mutual at the same time,” she told Diane Ketcham.