[captainclock1988]

Levi;
  I think that I may have found your mystery radio, it was possibly a 6R687R https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/zenith_6r687r_ch6b06.html You mentioned a lyre in the grille and I remembered to look for that rather then looking at radio phono combos with the control panel under a lid. 
Regards
Arran

Hello Arran, Yes that is the one I had, I didn't know what the model number was or what the tube lineup was in it or when it was made, I just knew I liked it and I did use it for quite a while with failing filter caps (it had a 60 cycle hum coming through the speaker but it wasn't loud enough to make it so you couldn't listen to it, because I did use it quite a bit to mainly listen to records on it which the one I had someone at some point in time in the radio's life had removed the original 78 RPM only record changer and installed in its place an old Sears Silvertone 4-speed "Stereo" record changer from the early 1960s so that they could continue to listen to records on it well into the LP era.

When I looked at the tube lineup for this radio I realized that it had the infamous 6X5 rectifier tube which was known to fry power transformers when it shorted out, and now I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps the rectifier wasn't to blame for the radio going up in smoke, and not the filter caps... 

Another thing about this radio I had was that the radio function didn't work on the radio, whenever I attempted to use it in radio mode the radio was dead silent, I couldn't get a peep out of it, I couldn't even get the local 10kW conservative talk radio station, that was also a part time Southern Gospel Station on the weekends and on weekday mornings in (that's what it was at the time, its now a full time Southern Gospel Station) and my question is, what would of caused the radio portion of the radio to be completely dead but the record player portion of the radio to still be functional?