Music from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s never dies -- it shows up on radio shows like Tom Wilson’s “Somewhere in Time."

Wilson, an estate planning attorney who lives in Bloomfield Township, has produced his big band radio show for the past three years.

“It’s a gas," said Wilson.

“Somewhere in Time” is broadcast 9:20 a.m. weekdays on WBFH-FM (88.1), Andover High School’s radio station. The show is also broadcast 6:30 a.m. each weekday, 11:30 a.m. Monday and Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Thursday on WDTR-FM in Detroit.

Wilson is a trustee for the Oakland Schools intermediate district and a former member of the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education.

He had a brief radio career in the 1940s on WJLB-AM and filled in for vacationing deejays on WXYZ-AM and WWJ-AM. But Wilson was headed for a five-year career as a teacher and then as an attorney.

Music continued to beckon, though, so Wilson started “Somewhere in Time” in 1992.

His sidekick on the show is Sarah Swanson, 18, also of Bloomfield Township. The two became a radio pair after Wilson heard Swanson’s show on WBFH, “Partners in Rhyme,” when she was a senior at Andover.

“She doesn’t know this, but I listened to actually 19 (audition) tapes,” Wilson said.

Not only was Wilson impressed with Swanson’s radio style, he was taken with her ability to work the high-tech equipment they use on their show.

“She runs the equipment like crazy,” Wilson said.

Wilson’s play list is derived from hiw own old 33 1/3 records and digitally remastered compact discs of music from such notable as Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington, music composed long before Swanson was born.

“It was kind of weird in the beginning,” Swanson said. “This isn’t the kind of music I’d play at home.”

Swanson is the perfect foil for Wilson’s radio patter about topics like World War II ration cards. Swanson has also become so knowledgeable about the big band era she stuns audiences when she and Wilson take “Somewhere in Time” on the road to area convalescent homes and senior centers.

“They’re always shocked when they see me,” Swanson said. “Like she’s so young she won’t know anything.”

Dorsey and Ellington aren’t the only notable names on “Somewhere in Time.”

Veteran Detroit-area radio personality Dick Osgood, 93, is the show’s research consultant. And Wilson interviews former TV movie show host Bill Kennedy at least once a month.