My mother remembers listening to him when she was a child in the ‘40’s. Mr. Harvey was on the radio a looong time.
I’m 62 y.o. and I remember listening to him in the ‘50’s.
Years ago my mother worked at Marshall Field’s in Oak Park, IL. Occasionally Angel would come shopping and a few times my mother waited on her. She would use her credit card, which said “Mrs. Paul Harvey”. You had to have excellent credit back then to get a credit card.