Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra has been played on NTS in shows including Guest, featured first on 26 July 2020. Songs played include Asteroid Hop and Asteroid Hop.

Haskell got his first break in the music business through his mother, who knew Anita Steiman, who ran the publishing company for Lew Chudd, owner of Imperial Records. Steiman introduced him to Chudd, and Haskell eventually convinced Chudd to hire him. Chudd was a cut-throat operator who produced a steady stream of hits for Imperial by having Haskell copy the arrangement off of regional hits Chudd had sent to him from his...