1936-1937 Season with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

1936-1937 Season with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

The Hooper rating for the season was 22.4 which put the show in 6th place overall. The top show was the Eddie Cantor program with 29.1.

No. 36 15th October 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Ruth Chatterton, Elisabeth Rethberg and Slip Madigan.

*One, Two, Button Your Shoe (a)

*Let’s Call A Heart A Heart (a) (c)

Ruth Chatterton interview

*On The Beach At Waikiki (a) (b) (c)

My Gal Sal Bob Burns (bazooka)

One Fine Day Elisabeth Rethberg

On The Wings Of Song Elisabeth Rethberg

Slip Madigan interview

*So Do I (a) (c)

Jealous Bob Burns (guitar)

*Pennies From Heaven with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Notes:

(a) JSP1076 - “Bing Crosby In The Thirties - Volume One”

Spokane 14 - “Bing In The Thirties - Volume Two”

CD- JSP 934A – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years 1932-1937”

(b) JSP1076 - “Bing Crosby In The Thirties - Volume One”

CD- JSP 934A – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years 1932-1937”

(c) CD "Bing Crosby and the Kraft Music Hall - Rare Original Survivors" (International Club Crosby 75th Anniversary Issue)

“Having had his fill of Tanforan (racetrack) and its steeds of assorted size, shape and speed, Bing Crosby picks up where he left off, on the Music Hall show. This means Bob Burns is promoted back to his original high level of comedian which is a ‘break’. We hear the Master of Ceremonies stigma weighed, heavily, upon him. Guests in the Music Hall will be prima donna, Elisabeth Rethberg - she of the near perfect voice, cinemactress Ruth Chatterton and St. Marys’ coach, Slip Madigan”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 15th October 1936)

It was Crosby’s return to the Music Hall after a vacation in Honolulu. The general songster and master of ceremonies bubbled over with witticisms and ad-libbed with Bob Burns causing much merriment and a near breaking up of the show.

Crosby is perhaps the most pleasant air host on the studio lists today. His guests, from the most temperamental of artists to the sillies of comedians, have found themselves at home one second after Bing says hello. He has the knack of putting the performer and the listeners at ease—an accomplishment that is rare.

Of course, his baritoning is too well known to need comment except to add that his voice sounded as good as ever after his micro phonic lay-off.

Ruth Chatterton and Elisabeth Rethberg were guests, with the former giving the answers in an interview and the latter singing classical numbers. It was a nice welcome home party for Bing.

(Tim Marks, Brooklyn Times Union, October 16, 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented, "Show spread so that we ended with no Dorsey number at all." He found the entertainment "Excellent".

No. 37 22nd October 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Josephine Antoine, Anne Shirley and Adolphe Menjou.

*I’m An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)

Adolphe Menjou interview

*Did I Remember?

Mutiny In The Brass Section Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Somebody Loves Me

Bob Burns bazooka solo

There Is A Tavern In The Town Anne Shirley

*Pennies From Heaven

Cara Nome Josephine Antoine

Long, Long, Ago Josephine Antoine with The Paul Taylor Choristers
Arkansas Traveler Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*South Sea Island Magic with Andy Iona Long's Hawaiians

“Movieland’s Anne Shirley and Adolphe Menjou and the Met’s, Josephine Antoine are guests of Bing Crosby on KPO at 7 pm. It seems fitting that Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, two crooners who went places should stage their radio shows on the same day, the same network and, very nearly, the same hour. But whereas Crosby is a comparative novice at ceremony mastering, Vallee is a real veteran. Today on KPO at 5 pm he celebrates his seventh radio birthday”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 22nd October 1936)

Bing Crosby is my idea of radio’s perfect master of ceremonies. He sings, has a sense of humor and can handle his lines with ease. He proved that last night when he interviewed Adolph Menjou and sang “Tavern in the Town” with Anne Shirley. Of course, Bob Burns was on hand with more of his confed chatter and a bit of the bazooka.

(Tim Marks, Brooklyn Times Union, October 23, 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented, "The Burns-Crosby duet idea failed to jell, was cut. Menjou spot excellent. Crosby has been in superlative voice both last week and this".

No. 38 29th October 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Emmanuel Feuermann, Elissa Landi and Cary Grant.

*I’m In A Dancing Mood

When Father Papered The Parlour Cary Grant

*Goodbyee with Cary Grant and Bob Burns

*The Way You Look Tonight

Just One More Chance Bob Burns (bazooka)

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Elissa Landi with The Paul Taylor Choristers

*Me And The Moon

*Button Up Your Overcoat

Chopin Nocturne Emmanuel Feuermann (cello)

Allegro Spirituoso                                                                    Emmanuel Feuermann (cello)
Tango                                                                                        Emmanuel Feuermann (cello)
Tap Dancer's Nightmare                                                   Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
*So Do I                                                                                     with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Bing Crosby’s Music Hall which manages to maintain a respectably high, guest star standing, goes KPO-ing at 7 tonight, with three visitors. You’ll hear screen favourites, Elissa Landi and Cary Grant and cellist, Emmanuel Feuermann, rated tops in the world, today. Miss Landi and Grant will be interviewed or had you already guessed?”

(“San Francisco Chronicle 29th October 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J.Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Two unpredictable bad spots 1. Bing muffled a top note 2. Landi lost a page. Bob had one very long story that took too long for the laughs. There was so much fun and frolicking by the cast it was probably not so enjoyable over the air. Grant was excellent."

No. 39 5th November 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Bruna Castagna, Gladys George and Warren William.

*You Turned The Tables On Me

Gladys George interview

*I’ll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs

The Prisoner's Song Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Warren William interview and sketch

O Don Fatale Bruna Castagna

Ouvre Ton Coeur Bruna Castagna

What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasin' You Bob Burns (guitar)

*S’Posin’

Parade Of The Milk Bottle Caps Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Let’s Call A Heart A Heart

“If there weren’t much pretty money and lovely publicity involved, Hollywood’s throbbing thespians would probably fight to the last ditch to keep off the air. After all, there isn’t much pleasure in working before a camera all day and rehearsing in a studio all night and furthermore you’d be surprised how many veteran stars suffer severe attacks of ‘mike fright’ when the cue signal is flashed. Bing Crosby is probably the one radio ace who realises this, that’s why the Hollywooders who appear on his show, do anything and everything, except act. In fact, they are forbidden to emote.

‘Be yourselves’ is Bing’s standing order and that’s why on last week’s Music Hall, you heard Cary Grant singing, cockney songs and Elissa Landi reciting poetry she’d written herself and they don’t have time to worry about ‘mike fright’. Tonight, on KPO, Gladys George, star of ‘Valiant Is The Word For Carrie’ and Warren William head the guest list and even Crosby doesn’t know what they’re going to do - That’s his story, anyway. The only predictable guest tonight is, Bruna Castagna, currently appearing with the San Francisco Opera Company. You can rest assured that she will sing and in her usual, spotless style”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 5th November 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Dennis replaced our regular engineer, McKenzie. Missed opening line or two of Crosby's intro to memory song. Entertainment excellent. Everybody seemed on their toes to save time, with the result that not only was 3:40 allotted for spread ample - but about 50 secs. more than needed! Previous weeks 5 min. spread was used frequently."

Refreshing amidst the deluge of punny programs, “Music Hall” consistently maintains a laudably obvious policy of appealing to a general but discriminating, audience. Provocative of food tapping was Bing Crosby’s opening number on Thursday. Gladys George brought to the Hall a few bright moments from her famous stage success, “Personal Appearance.” Hilarious was Bob Burns’ address to the women of the nation climaxed by his explicit request that they take a good look at their husbands. “Go on,” urged Burns, “take a look at him.” Then he paused. Inquired Burns after a brief silence: “Now lady, surely you could have done better than that!”

Warren William and Bing Crosby essayed a skit involving the suave William’s adventures as a yachtsman, high point of their exchange involving the somewhat extraneous subject of picking winning horses. To William’s request that Bing pick a good horse for him, Crosby replied “I will when I find one.” Studio audience in Hollywood thought his very funny since Bing is a notoriously poor judge of horseflesh. Once purchased an entire stable of broken down plugs when his wife Dixie wasn’t vigilant. Bruna Castagna’s excellent singing somewhat out of place on this show in so far as it seemed to slow tempo. Altogether the kind of show that causes station identification to seem a nuisance, so smooth is the performance,

("San Francisco Examiner", November 7, 1936)

No. 40 12th November 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Grete Stueckgold, Helen Vinson and Edmund Lowe.

*One, Two, Button Your Shoe

Edmund Lowe interview and sketch

*I Can’t Escape From You

In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Until Today

In A Monastery Garden Grete Stueckgold

*Learn To Croon with Grete Stueckgold

Helen Vinson interview and sketch

*A Fine Romance

T'Ain't Good Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Mighty Lak’ A Rose

“...it seems noteworthy that crooner, Bing Crosby will sing a duet with diva, Grete Stueckgold on KPO at 7. Other guests are Edmund Lowe and Helen Vinson”. (“San Francisco Chronicle” 12th November 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Script was superlative."

No. 41 19th November 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Harold Bauer, Patsy Kelly and Robert Armstrong.

*On A Typical Tropical Night

*If They Knock The “L” Out Of Kelly with Patsy Kelly (Bob Burns - piano)

*The Way You Look Tonight

Bob Burns spot and bazooka solo

Robert Armstrong interview

*Pennies From Heaven

*Exactly Like You

Waltz In A Flat Harold Bauer (piano)
Revolutionary Etude Harold Bauer (piano)

Oodles Of Noodles Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Empty Saddles with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Bing Crosby who did San Francisco in regal style last week and weekend, stages his usual ‘carbon copy’ program. We mean all of Bing’s programs, read like the one preceding, so, we always adjust our spectacles and look twice to make sure we aren’t printing last week’s. Patsy Kelly and Robert Armstrong of the films share top billing with concert pianist, Harold Bauer and it’s all on KPO at 7 pm”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 19th November 1936)

Herbert Polesie, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Bob Burns terrific tonight. Did one long spot - one gag for encore."

No. 42 26th November 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Lotte Lehmann, Rochelle Hudson and Ricardo Cortez.

*Did You Mean It?

Ricardo Cortez interview
*I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) with Ricardo Cortez

*Darling, Not Without You

Bob Burns spot and bazooka solo

*Sweet Lady

You're A Knockout Rochelle Hudson

Dedication (Schumann) Lotte Lehmann

Heimkehr Von Fest Lotte Lehmann

Midsummer Lotte Lehmann

Heaven On Earth Bob Burns (guitar)

*I’m In A Dancing Mood

Nocturne Delusion Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*So Do I with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Last week, a critic bobbed up with this: ‘Bing Crosby’s getting terrible. His voice cracked on a song the other night’. If Crosby’s voice didn’t have those frequent explosions, his popularity might wane. The so-called good singers learned, long ago, it is better to perform like Crosby than any other way. The first one to mention a crack in his voice would be Crosby”

(“Los Angeles Times” 29th November 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment excellent. Cortez was overboard a couple of times by reason of trying too hard - it made him sound like he was trying to be a big shot, which was unfortunate for him and us, and was not the case in fact."

No. 43 3rd December 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Alice Faye, Gene Raymond and Gregor Piatigorsky.

*You Turned The Tables On Me

*Will You with Gene Raymond

All I Do Gene Raymond

*The Night Is Young And You’re So Beautiful

You Got To Quit Kickin' my Dog Around Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Oh! You Beautiful Doll

Goodnight My Love Alice Faye

One Never Knows, Does One? Alice Faye

Valse Sentimentale Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)

Zapateado Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)

*Did I Remember

Cowboy Reel Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*South Sea Island Magic with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Battle Of The Guest Stars - One of the most brilliant line-ups ever offered by Rudy Vallee who is no slouch at brilliant line-ups, will be heard on KPO at 5 pm, today. Read - and gasp... Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Ed Wynn, The Don Cossack Chorus and banjoist, Eddie Peabody. Bing offers, Gene Raymond, Alice Faye and cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky who are nice people, all the same (KPO 7 o’clock)”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 3rd December 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment - flat and uninteresting. As it turned out, Gene Raymond wouldn't have been good even if he hadn't played and sung. But his musical efforts plus two not very bright numbers by Alice Faye made the whole show pretty musical and little talk. It never got off the ground and seemed two hours long."

No. 44 10th December 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Suzanne Fisher, Bruce Cabot and Anita Louise.

*One, Two, Button Your Shoe

Bruce Cabot interview

*In The Chapel In The Moonlight

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby Bob Burns (bazooka)

*I’ll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs

Gavotte Suzanne Fisher

Wood Thrush Suzanne Fisher with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Anita Louise (harp)

*Can’t We Be Friends?

I'd Like To Change Your Name To Mine Bob Burns (guitar)

The Lady Known As Lulu Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Close To Me with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Most likely to drive rational radio fans to drink are (1) overlong commercial announcements and (2) conflicting network shows. Right now, the latter problem overshadows the former. On Thursday night, whether you’ve realised it or not, air conditions come to a pretty terrible pass. At 7 pm, Bing Crosby, always using a pair of movie stars and a concert artist as shields does mortal combat with Columbia’s, ‘Then And Now’ and ‘March Of Time’. Somewhat beside the point is the observation that Crosby has been more than holding his own but it seems apropos to add that the first half of his program is by far the strongest. That’s because at 7.30 pm, ‘Time Marches On’ and thousands march off the Crosby wavelength, tonight and possibly Crosby is in part, responsible. This conflict will be on the air for the last time, KFRC’s ‘Then And Now’ comes to an end after a 13 week run that cost its sponsor about $260,000”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 10th December 1936)

No. 45 17th December 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Nadine Conner, Mary Astor and Jack Oakie.

*It’s De-Lovely

*She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain with Jack Oakie

*Midnight Blue

Bob Burns spot

Whispering Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Charmaine with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Mary Astor spot

*Darling, Not Without You

Pace Pace Mio Dio Nadine Conner

Home Sweet Home Bob Burns (violin-zither)

Arkansas sketch Bob Burns, Mary Astor and Jack Oakie, with Bing as narrator

With Plenty Of Money And You Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*So Do I with The Paul Taylor Choristers

"Radio fans with an eye to the future are directed to tonight’s Bing Crosby hour. Heading the guest stars will be Jack Oakie and Oakie has been named to succeed Rupert Hughes, later this month, as the conductor of the Tuesday night ‘Caravan’ programs. Also headlined are Mary Astor, who made her own headlines a few months back and Nadine Connor, (i) young Hollywood songstress.”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 17th December 1936)

“Bing Crosby’s program for Kraft is one of the season’s slickest examples of touching up a program with small details, snatches of saucy dialogue and other tricks and trappings - none of them remarkable but in the assembled show, producing a mood and a tempo that makes for popularity. Lines assigned to Bing Crosby have certain finessing with the type of stuff Ben Bernie does. This is not to suggest any imitative quality or any close resemblance but surely that the leisurely sort of whimsy, Crosby is doing, has a precedent of success on the air. Last Thursday, the 17th, was neither the best or the least of the recent Crosby broadcasts. It was very typical and as such, worth considering in some detail. It would be impossible to recall one gag, one memorable twist or one catchphrase. Yet the hour moved with a kind of radioesque sophistication. Crosby, if anything, overbuilt Nadine Connor (sic), a concert singer. His ballyhoo made it tough for her to deliver but the same ballyhoo humanised the singer and reduced the danger of turning off, among classical-avoiding listeners. Jack Oakie works well with Crosby and Burns. They tore off a hill-billy lampoon. Incidentally, this suggests Oakie-Crosby as a good screen comedy combo.”

(“Variety” 23rd December 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment - Excellent. General Remarks: A pleasure to do this one."

Note

Nadine Conner’s name is firmly stated in “The New York Times Index” and in several advertisements for Opera performances but other sources tend to use the more common “Connor”. Her only connection with Hollywood appears to have been in 1948, when she dubbed an aria for Betty Hutton in “Dream Girl”.

No. 46 24th December 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Jose Iturbi, June Travis and James Gleason.

*Adeste Fideles with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Bob Burns spot

Jingle Bells Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Trust In Me

James Gleason spot

*Diane

Arabesque No. 2 Jose Iturbi

Golden Fish Jose Iturbi

June Travis spot

*Did You Mean It?

*Pennies From Heaven with The Paul Taylor Choristers

*Silent Night with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Bing Crosby observes Christmas Eve in the Music Hall by presenting three famous guest stars, June Travis and Jimmy Gleason of the films will be interviewed and Jose Iturbi, noted concert pianist, comes back for his third appearance at 9 pm over NBC-WSMB”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 24th December 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment - Swell. General Remarks: Gleason worked each line so hard for laughs, that it wasn't nearly as good as in rehearsal, and also spread so disastrously that aside from cutting Jimmy's number, a great deal of good luck and juggling were necessary to have show end as it did - perfectly - choruses of Silent Night by Bing and Choir, Bing Christmas wishes, and sign off by Carpenter."

No. 47 31st December 1936

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Pat O’Brien, The Foursome and Art Tatum.

*With Plenty Of Money And You

Pat O’Brien spot

*In The Chapel In The Moonlight with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Bob Burns spot

The Music Goes 'Round And 'Round Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Stumblin’

Swing On Down To Memphis The Foursome

Rap Tap On Wood The Foursome

*When My Dreamboat Comes Home

Honeysuckle Rose Art Tatum (piano)

Lulu's Back In Town Art Tatum (piano)

"Old Songs medley with The Foursome

(The Girl I Left Behind - One, Two, Three, Four - Down By The Old Millstream -

I Had A Dream, Dear - Down In The Old Cherry Orchard

- Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine - In The Evening By The Moonlight

- Way Down Yonder In The Corn Field - Roll Dem Bones - Row, Row, Row

- Rag Time Cowboy Joe)

Listen To The Mocking Bird Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Close To Me with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Pat O’Brien, motion picture star, will make a return engagement as guest of Bing Crosby on the Music Hall program at 9 pm over NBC-WSMB, Bob Burns, bazooka-tooting Arkansas yarn spinner, the Paul Taylor Choristers and Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra will be heard as usual”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 31st December 1936)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment - Excellent. General Remarks: Especially dear to my heart was the ad lib spot of songs by Bing with the quartet. Especially maddening was the news at 6:30 that we could not do special lyrics on "Hey Babe, Say Babe" addressed to New Year, because Cole Porter said "No". The Hollywood publisher had sent wire at noon saying "OK"."

No. 48 7th January 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Helen Mack, Lawson Little and Grete Stueckgold.

*There’s Frost On The Moon (Spring In My Heart)

Bob Burns spot

Sweet Adeline Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Under Your Spell

Lawson Little spot

*Dear Old Girl

Vissi d'Arte Grete Stueckgold

Smilin' Through Grete Stueckgold with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Helen Mack spot

*Trust In Me

Bob Burns Family Drama with Bing, Lawson Little, Grete Stueckgold and Helen Mack

Home, Sweet Home Bob Burns (violin-zither)

*Let’s Call A Heart A Heart with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Grete Steuckgold (sic) (she’s very proud of having sung a duet with Bing Crosby) like Bergen, on the Variety Hour, does a fourth guest appearance this night at the Music Hall. And the blonde Swedish star of the Metropolitan and the crooner are planning to some more singing together. Lawson Little’s the other big name for the 60 minutes, he being the only golfer besides Bobby Jones to win the British amateur open and the United States amateur and open championships in one year.

(Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, January 7, 1937)

I have been credited with giving Bing Crosby a style of talking. . . . The reason early Crosby/Kraft radio shows sounded stilted was that Bing simply resisted talking. He didn’t want to be bothered with scripts and rehearsals. He just wanted to sing. Finally, we conceived the idea of putting lines in the guests’ scripts that were not in Bing’s script. No performer wants to wind up with egg on his face, and Bing rose to the bait. Always quick enough with a quip in the locker room at Lakeside, he fell back on this natural resource. Between this, and the language I wrote for him which he enjoyed speaking, the public image known as Bing Crosby evolved.

(Carroll Carroll from The Old Time Radio Book by Ted Sennett, pages 68–69)

No. 49 14th January 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Patricia Ellis, Edward Everett Horton and Guiomar Novaes.

*One, Two, Button Your Shoe

Edward Everett Horton spot

*I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby with Edward Everett Horton

*If My Heart Could Only Talk

Patricia Ellis spot

An Excuse For Dancing Patricia Ellis

*Oh! Miss Hannah

Bob Burns spot

I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home Bob Burns (bazooka)

*The Night Is Young And You’re So Beautiful

Guiomar Novaes spot

Ballet from Alceste Guiomar Novaes (piano)

The Children's Suite medley Guiomar Novaes (piano)

The "Goona Goo" Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*When My Dreamboat Comes Home

Bing Crosby has scheduled an unusual “guestar” lineup for his NBC “Music Hall” broadcast at 10 o’clock tonight, via WRVA. In addition to Bob Burns’ comic chatter and the music of Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra, plus his own effortless vocalizing, he will parade before the “mike” Patricia Ellis of the movies with Edward Everett Horton, screen and radio comedian, and Guiomar Novaes, 20-year old (sic - she was 41 at the time) Brazilian concert pianist. Crosby’s unusual informality in interviewing his guests, assisted and interrupted by the “Ozark’s Traveler,” Bob Burns, usually make for good listening. The program is one of tonight’s “best bets.”

(Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 14, 1937)

No. 50 21st January 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Sonny Workman, Lee Tracy and Rose Bampton.

*I’m In A Dancing Mood

Lee Tracy spot

*I Can’t Lose That Longing For You with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Bob Burns spot Bob Burns (bazooka)

The Prisoner's Song

*Swingin’ Down The Lane

Air de Lia Rose Bampton

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Rose Bampton with The Paul Taylor Choristers

*I’ll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs

Sonny Workman spot

Cowboy Reel Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*So Do I

Sonny Workman, one of the country’ leading jockeys, will be interviewed by Bing Crosby on KPO at 7p.m. Bob Burns will contribute his bit about Arkansas horses. Rose Bampton, from the Metropolitan Opera Company and Lee Tracy of the movies will round out the program.

(The Sacramento Bee, January 21, 1937)

“....then Bing Crosby goes KPOing at 7 pm with Lee Tracy and Rose Bampton of the Metropolitan Opera bandwagon. Miss Bampton will call Crosby, ‘Bing’ and he’ll call Miss Bampton, ‘Rose’ and everybody will be too, too chummy”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 21st January 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent - Bampton songs and especially dialogue spot superb. Burns had the 'flu - got by: temperature 102. General remarks: Until 12:45 it was doubtful, due to a local union ruling, whether or not we would have a band - in case we didn't, we had not (although no one but Taylor, Horton, Carroll, and Kuhl knew it) a show without a band - all Bing's numbers with choir, Horton extra attraction.

No. 51 28th January 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Rosalind Marquis, Josephine Tumminia and Victor McLaglen.

*There’s Frost On The Moon (Spring In My Heart)

Victor McLaglen spot

*In The Chapel In The Moonlight

Bob Burns spot

Just One More Chance Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Kalua

Rosalind Marquis spot

With Plenty Of Money And You Rosalind Marquis

*Under Your Spell

Tales Of Vienna Woods Josephine Tumminia

The Wren Josephine Tumminia

'Taint Good (Like A Nickel Made Of Wood) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Moonlight And Shadows with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Rudy Vallee at 5 and Bing Crosby at 7, stage their usual guest star wrangle, today. In Vallee’s corner are pianist, Percy Grainger and actor, Brian Aherne. Crosby pins his hopes on Victor McLaglen, San Francisco’s singing, Josephine Tuminia and movie starlet Rosalind Marquis”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 28th January 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "General remarks: Not as good as last week but good! McLaglen used no script - can't read."

No. 52 4th February 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Marion Claire, Basil Rathbone and William Frawley.

*With Plenty Of Money And You

Basil Rathbone spot

A Woman's Last Word (poem) Basil Rathbone

*There’s Something In The Air

Bob Burns spot

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles Bob Burns (bazooka)

*When My Dreamboat Comes Home

William Frawley spot

*Carolina In The Morning with William Frawley

*In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

The Jewel Song Marion Claire

The Mandolin Marion Claire

The Blue Danube Marion Claire

Love And Learn Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Close To Me

“Marion Claire, prima donna of the Chicago Opera and star of many light opera successes will be interviewed by Bing Crosby, during the Music Hall program over NBC-WSMB at 9 pm. Miss Claire’s latest stage musical was ‘The Great Waltz’”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 4th February 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent - and a new mood, what with Basil Rathbone reading Browning (an excellent job) and the casual afterpiece. Commercial: OK - but very long and apparently written by someone (word illegible) who has never heard of the "book" or heard the show, Tsk, Tsk. General remarks: Claire knocked me - (and everybody else) - cold on account her dress and nothing but her - and what a "her" in it. I'm just sayin', is all. She sang good, tho."

No. 53 11th February 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Edward Everett Horton, Dorothy McNulty and Toscha Seidel.

*You Do The Darnedest Things, Baby

Edward Everett Horton spot

The Maiden With The Ruben And The Jay Edward Everett Horton

*My Melancholy Baby

Bob Burns spot

Everybody's Doin' It Bob Burns (bazooka)

*The Night Is Young And You’re So Beautiful

Dorothy McNulty spot

There's Frost On The Moon Dorothy McNulty

*Goodnight, My Love

Gavotte Toscha Seidel (violin)

The Little White Donkey Toscha Seidel (violin)

The Skeleton In The Closet Ray McKinley (the drummer with Jimmy Dorsey, Bing covers for him on the drums)

*Pennies From Heaven with The Paul Taylor Choristers

“Edward Everett Horton, famous movie comedian will celebrate his first assignment to a starring role in Bing Crosby’s Music Hall program to be heard over NBC-WSMB at 9 pm. Toscha Seidel, celebrated violinist and Dorothy McNulty, young singer in motion pictures will also be Bing’s guests”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 11th February 1937)

“Doesn’t look like Jimmy Dorsey will stick on the Bing Crosby show much longer.....the rumors are flying and we’ll put our chips on Artie Shaw”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 11th February 1937) (Sorry, you lose!)

“Dorothy McNulty” will be better known to most as, Penny Singleton, who starred in the “Blondie” series of movies opposite Arthur Lake.

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: OK. Burns superb. General: Nice "easy" show.

No. 54 18th February 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Marion Claire, The Abbe Children and Sophie Tucker.

*I Love You From Coast To Coast

You'll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini) Sophie Tucker

*Blue Hawaii

Bob Burns spot

Some Of These Days Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Dardanella

Marion Claire song

I'll See You Again Marion Claire

*Sweet Is The Word For You

Abbe Children spot

*She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain with Abbe Children and rest of cast

*Sweet Leilani

“As is the accepted custom, Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby are Thursday night’s toppers as far as the guest talent goes.....Crosby’s line-up includes such notables as operatic soprano Marion Claire, Sophie Tucker and the three Abbe Children, whose chronicling of foreign travel has made them quite famous”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 18th February 1937)

“Marion Claire, beautiful operatic soprano, will return to Bing Crosby’s Music Hall, as guest soloist for the second time in two weeks. Crosby will also play host to Sophie Tucker and the Abbey (sic) Children, Patience, John and Richard whose book (‘Around The World In 11 Years’) on their life was one of the literary sensations of 1936”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 18th February 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. General: Carroll wrote script except Claire intro and dialogue and Crosby closing and this got very risk stressed. (illegible phrase) while directing rehearsal. They are far from (illegible) - but evidently got by. This is the first “warning" show given.

No. 55 25th February 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Josephine Tumminia, Sidney Skolsky and James Cagney.

*Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Skolsy, Cagney, Burns spot

*There’s Something In The Air

Bob Burns spot

They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Night And Day

La Capinera Josephine Tumminia

Il Bacio Josephine Tumminia

*Sweet Is The Word For You

Sidney Skolsky spot

The "Goona Goo" Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Moonlight And Shadows

“James Cagney, reputedly one of the screen’s toughest men and Bing Crosby, no sissy himself, will make a two-way attack on Sidney Skolsky, Hollywood columnist, during the Music Hall broadcast tonight. The object of the attack is to face Skolsky to reveal where and how he gets all the news and gossip he prints”

(“New Orleans Times-Picayune” 25th February 1937)

“James Cagney grooved pretty nicely into a guesting shot on Bing Crosby’s hour over NBC last week. Could have been better if a better script had been handed to him. As it was, his mike appearances were split up into four briefies; two of them drooping pretty badly before termination. Also there was no semblance of any farewells and up to the end of the program, probably many expected the cocky character, screen player would return. He would have been pressed more firmly, had he had his mike turn compressed into one whirl. Bad judgment was it also to build suspense with heaps of talk from Crosby about Cagney’s warbling then have Cagney beg off. Sidney Skolsky, syndicated Hollywood columnist was used on the program in the Cagney interludes. His voice registered much better that it did, recently, when guesting on a Lux shot over CBS. However, his script could have made him out to be a much more humble person. The treatment of making the writer out to be at once, the H.L. Mencken and the Samuel Pepys of the pic biz, doesn’t register well with listeners, many of whom are, doubtless, Skolsky readers”.

(“Variety” 3rd March 1937)

(Mary Garden was scheduled to appear but she withdrew at the last moment and was replaced by Josephine Tumminia. Sidney Skolsky might be more familiar as a sometime screenwriter and the producer of “The Jolson Story”.)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Very good - Miss Meyers was still arranging Burns' revised script after Bing had started opening song. General remarks: Cagney was excellent in first half of interview, got a bit stilted and fast as he ran into long speeches in last half. In memory spot and closing he was fine. Skolsky got steadily better - in closing he was swell."

No. 56 4th March 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, Grantland Rice, Mary Garden, Freddie Bartholomew, Mischa Auer and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

*Gee! But You’re Swell

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. spot

*Memories

Bob Burns spot

When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Sweet Leilani

Mischa Auer spot

*Mischa, Jascha, Toscha & Sascha with Bob Burns, Mischa Auer & Ken Carpenter

*What Will I Tell My Heart?

Grantland Rice spot

The Love Bug Will Bite You Ray McKinley, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Serenade In The Night

Freddie Bartholomew has played dramatic roles on the radio before but Bing Crosby brings him to the air tonight just to “be himself”. Other gust stars in the Kraft Music Hall for this broadcast at 7:00 p.m. (PST) are Mary Garden, famous opera personality; and Mischa Auer, comedy star of Universal Pictures. Freddie became a Hollywood star overnight after his performance in “David Copperfield” and has been in demand for radio ever since, although he has appeared just a few times. In the Crosby show he tells about himself for the first time in one of Bing’s human interest interviews.

(Wilmington Daily Press Journal, March 4, 1937.)

“Having been prodded, considerably by our Mr. Neil Hitt, we feel constrained to waggle a disapproving finger at the naughty local announcers who proclaim 37,000 times daily, ‘Bing Crosby now sings ‘Pennies From Heaven’. This is a recording as Mr. Hitt points out. After considerable probing through our best dictionaries, this is blatantly false. Each time the mike man reads the above line he infers, ‘We have Bing Crosby in our studios and you are about to hear him make a phonograph record’. We have been in one or two radio studios in our lifetime and we have yet to see Mr. Crosby in the act of making a record. So, we must side in with Mr. Hitt’s contention that the announcement should go like this, ‘Bing Crosby now sings ‘Pennies From Heaven’. This is a record’. By doing so, our announcers will remain well inside the boundaries of truth and shorten their labours by one complete ‘ing’ each of the 37,000 times they play ‘Pennies from Heaven’ (Announcers will please file their complaints or expressions of gratitude with Mr. Hitt - it was his idea in the first place)”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 4th March 1937)

(Let’s all be pedantic - “the mike man” should imply - his listeners will infer!)

(Mary Garden, the Scottish soprano, was claimed at the time to be ‘the World’s greatest opera singer’. “Grove’s Dictionary Of Music & Musicians’ has other thoughts - “Her personality counted for more in her performance than her vocal art which was defective or her histrionic skill which was limited and vitiated by many mannerisms”.)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Good. General: Auer got buck fever."

No. 57 11th March 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Mary Brian, Andres Segovia and Lee Tracy.

*Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Lee Tracy spot

*Too Marvellous For Words

Bob Burns spot

The Sheik Bob Burns (bazooka)

*The Darktown Strutters’ Ball

*In A Little Hula Heaven

Mary Brian spot

Slumming On Park Avenue Mary Brian

Tremolo Andres Segovia (guitar)

Danza Espanola Andres Segovia (guitar)

*I Can’t Lose That Longing For You

Bing Crosby will present Lee Tracy and Mary Brian of the films, and Andres Segovia, said to be the world’s greatest guitar player, on his NBC “Music Hall” broadcast at 10 o’clock tonight. Some years ago, Segovia started a one-man campaign to put the guitar back in the rank of the “serious” musical instruments. Since then, he has played hundreds of concerts in this country and abroad.

(Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 11, 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. General: Very hectic rehearsal!

No. 58 18th March 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin, Harriet Hilliard and Basil Rathbone.

*Slumming On Park Avenue

Basil Rathbone spot

*Trust In Me

Bob Burns spot

Try A Little Tenderness Bob Burns (bazooka)

*I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now

*The Mood That I’m In

Harriet Hilliard spot

Pennies From Heaven Harriet Hilliard

The Kid In The Three-Cornered Pants Harriet Hilliard

Slap That Bass Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

Gigue (Bach) Vronsky & Babin (pianos)

The Flight Of The Bumble Bee Vronsky & Babin (pianos)

Bob Burns song with guitar

*Blue Hawaii

How Do I Love Thee (poem) Basil Rathbone with the Paul Taylor Choristers

“Bing Crosby KPO 7 pm welcomes Harriet Hilliard, Basil Rathbone and the famous Russian two piano team of Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 18th March 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. General: Having a 1:40 (counting 10 seconds of silence before sign-off) hunk of stuff that is inflexible, to close show, which does NOT start precisely at 7:55:00 and not 07:45 or 08:15 is bad in any hour show. On a free-for-all like Kraft, once a year is enough."

No. 59 25th March 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Betty Jaynes, Gail Sondergaard and Walter Brennan.

*In A Little Hula Heaven

Walter Brennan spot

*My Little Buckaroo

Bob Burns spot

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet Bob Burns (bazooka)

Gail Sondergaard spot

*By The Light Of The Silvery Moon

*What Will I Tell My Heart?

The Adio Betty Jaynes

Midsummer Betty Jaynes

The Love Bug Will Bite You Ray McKinley, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Moonlight And Shadows

“This being Thursday, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby and Lanny Ross go at it again, flinging guests pell-mell through your loudspeakers in an earnest endeavour to do right by your ears. Vallee’s guests are topped by Tyrone Power. Crosby’s list shows, Gale Sondergaard and Walter Brennan and the sixteen year-old opera singer, Betty Jaynes of Chicago”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 25th March 1937)

Quite a ‘scoop’ for the guest list. Gale Sondergaard and Walter Brennan had just received their awards as Best Supporting Actress/Actor. She for ‘Anthony Adverse’ and he for “Come And Get It” (His first of three) This was the first time that the Academy accepted nominations in this category and the winners received a plaque rather than the customary Oscar.

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Good - Jaynes swell. General remarks: Burns told same story three times at end of monologue. So that took 8:10 instead of the six minutes he said it would. Then he played two choruses of Easter Bonnet (which ASCAP had not okayed) before remembering "Gray Bonnet" which he then played, finally. Net result - we had to cut Burns encore and guitar, also third commercial."

No. 60 1st April 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, George Palmer Putnam, Paul Mantz, June Travis, Charles Grimm, Amelia Earhart and John Barrymore.

*Boo-Hoo!

Amelia Earhart, George Palmer Putnam, Paul Mantz spot

*Sweet Is The Word For You

Bob Burns spot

April Showers Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Where The Blue Of The Night with The Paul Taylor Choristers,

John Barrymore spot (concludes with a speech from Hamlet)

*Goodnight, My Love

*Take Me Out To The Ball Game with June Travis and Charles Grimm (banjo)

*Serenade In The Night

Amelia Earhart is to make her first radio appearance since her Honolulu flight today on Bing Crosby’s Music Hall broadcast over KFI at 7 p.m. Miss Earhart, her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and her technical adviser, Paul Mantz, will discuss some aspects of the hop and outline plans for a forthcoming ‘round the world flight. And take a look at the rest of the guest list: John Barrymore, June Travis and Charles Grimm, manager of the Chicago Clubs! Paul Taylor’s Choristers will offer “When the Blue of the Night” for the third time on the series, by popular request.

(Los Angeles Times, April, 1, 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment - considering that only one of our names is a professional entertainer -excellent. General remarks: Spread on show occurred in just the wrong amount. If it had been a minute and a half less or a minute and a half more, it would have been perfect. Burns remembered his bazooka solo, for a change."

Another quite extraordinary visitor, with her husband, George Palmer Putnam, making us wonder if Bing could not have written an entire book about the guests that he welcomed to the Kraft Music Hall. It was a bare three months after this appearance, on July 2nd, that Amelia Earhart vanished. Although theories abound, no trace of her or the aircraft have been found to this day. One of the most bizarre stories associated with this event, is that in the early days of the search for the missing aviatrix, songwriters Harry Pease and Jack Meskell came up with the song, “They Needed An Angel In Heaven So God Took The Queen Of The Air”. Miraculously, good taste prevailed and no publisher would touch it!

No. 61 8th April 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Orchestra, Florence Lake, Kathryn Meisle and Victor McLaglen.

*Little Old Lady

Florence Lake spot

Victor McLaglen spot

Eka Ta Moena La Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Orchestra

*Sweet Leilani with Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Orchestra

Hau Hau E Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Orchestra

Bob Burns spot

Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Too Marvellous For Words

Love Went A'riding Kathryn Meisle

Goodnight My Love Kathryn Meisle

Springfield Florence Lake

*Ma! He’s Making Eyes At Me

Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*The One Rose (That’s Left In My Heart)

“Tears For Mr. Crosby - Studio Audience Is ‘Out’- Yet His Music Hall Is ‘In’”

“We don’t like to harp on a subject any better than you like to have a subject harped upon (Harp, harp, the larp) but we’re confronted, today with another angle of this studio applause business and there’s really no sidestepping of it. We refer to the Bing Crosby angle, of which we can find no more intriguing example to present of the anti-studio applause faction. Since first taking to the ether, Mr. Crosby has steadfastly refused to admit spectators to his program. It’s not because he doesn’t like to have strangers around but he concedes, readily, that they do more harm than good - even if they’re really nice about it and just sit in a corner without emitting a peep. And has the rich diet of handclaps and laughter harmed our Mr. Crosby’s radio standing? It has not. Definitely, irrevocably and - well you get the idea. Mr. Crosby also has a comedian on his program, his name is Robin Burns. Even without a background of chirps, cackles, screams and other outward displays of enthusiasm, Mr. Burns manages to be one of the very funniest and yet Mr. Burns’ rival funny men claim that they couldn’t give their all, do their best, ring the bell etc., if they couldn’t look beyond the microphone to find row upon row of happy, upturned faces ready to giggle and guffaw at the slightest provocation. Maybe we’re wrong but if Mr. Crosby and Mr. Burns can stay among the first five in the national ratings without relying on visible, voluble support couldn’t a few of the others. Incidentally, guesting in the Music Hall, tonight will be, Victor McLaglen and Florence Lake of the films and Kathryn Meisle of the concert stage. Mr. Crosby will refer to all, merely, as, ‘Vic’, ‘Flo’ and ‘Kathryn’”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 8th April 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment - Good - (but let's never have Florence again. She's nice. but...) General remarks: Show got plenty laughs, played easy, but only spread is under ? illegible)"

No. 62 15th April 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Percy Grainger, Lionel Stander, Frances Farmer and Harry Barris.

*Boo-Hoo!

Lionel Stander spot

*The Mood That I’m In

Bob Burns spot

Frances Farmer spot

The First Time I Saw You Frances Farmer

*(Back Home Again In) Indiana

Harry Barris spot

*Baby Blue Bassinet with Harry Barris

McGuire's Kick Percy Grainger (piano)

Cherry Ripe Percy Grainger (piano)

Slap That Bass Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Blue Hawaii

“The Australian composer/pianist, Percy Grainger leads the troupe of guests in Bing Crosby’s Music Hall and hard on his heels you’ll find Lionel Stander - he of the hacksaw voice, Frances Farmer also of the films and Harry Barris, who, with Crosby formed two thirds of Paul Whiteman’s famous old Rhythm Boys”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 15th April 1937)

“There will occur tonight, along about 7 o’clock or shortly after, through KFI, an event which is momentous in the radio industry. To the ordinary dialler in Podunk, it may mean little but to those who know the inside story, the re-union of Harry Barris and Bing Crosby, if only for a few minutes, is something to think about. You see, since Crosby became something of a dignitary in his own right, he hasn’t gone much for singing with others unless it be with a full chorus. So far as I know, he has not engaged in trio or duet work, his first love.

Tonight, he and Barris, once two of the famous Rhythm Boys from Paul Whiteman’s and Gus Arnheim’s Orchestras, get together for a spell of ‘hot’ singing. True, Al Rinker is not scheduled to be among those present but the other two should carry on. We should hear some of the ‘noodling’ which this pair made famous Also on the program will be the eminent pianist and composer, Percy Grainger, whose radio appearances are all too infrequent to suit me. Frances Farmer and Lionel Stander represent the motion picture industry and Bob Burns and Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra represent the regular cast of Kraft Music Hall.”

(“Los Angeles Examiner” 15th April 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Best show in a long while on basis of making most of the material at hand, and on the basis of pace and sweep from beginning to end. General remarks: The ice-cream pre-show announcement, and ice-cream talk all by flat from Chicago."

No. 63 22nd April 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Ernest Schelling, Rose Bampton, The Foursome and Walter Connolly.

*One In A Million

Walter Connolly spot

*Alabamy Bound

Bob Burns spot

A Kiss In The Dark Bob Burns (bazooka)

Suicidio! (Gioconda) Rose Bampton

*Sextet - Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) with Rose Bampton

I Got A Note The Foursome

Sweet Potato Swing The Foursome

*Little Old Lady

Nocturne A Raguze Ernest Schelling (piano)

Spanish Dance In G Major Ernest Schelling (piano)

*Moonlight And Shadows

Rose Bampton and Bing Crosby seem to be becoming fast friends. The mezzo soprano will guest on Bing’s broadcast, NBC-Red at 9 tonight, for the third time this season. I believe Bing is breaking a precedent tonight, too, by having two guest stars of concert caliber. Ernest Schelling, the pianist, will give a short recital during the program.

(Bill Roberts, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, April 22, 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. General remarks: Bing was really swell singing his first opera. He would have learned the last half of the aria if he had had time. We only got arrangement at 2 p.m."

No. 64 29th April 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Mischa Auer, Connie Boswell and Madeleine Carroll.

*You’re Here, You’re There, You’re Everywhere

Mischa Auer spot

*Sentimental And Melancholy

Madeleine Carroll spot includes Mad Hatter's Tea Party sketch.

*My Little Buckaroo

The Love Bug Will Bite You Connie Boswell

Serenade In The Night Connie Boswell

Bob Burns spot includes bazooka selection

*Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet

Jamboree Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Sweet Leilani

Grete Stueckgold was scheduled to appear on this programme but was obliged to cancel as her husband died on the date of the broadcast. Her place was taken, at very short notice, by Connie Boswell.

Bing Crosby’s show, which started out as a pain in the ears to a goodly share of dialers, has definitely settled down to become a Thursday “must.” At least I’d hate to miss it. Especially the unique manner the crooner has of calling upon Ken Carpenter to ring out the NBC chimes at the half-way mark. If you’re one who has been missing out on this choice bit of fun, all we can say is DON’T.

(Homer Canfield, Santa Ana Daily Register, April 29, 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Good, but uneventful. Because of the last minute hasty substitution of Boswell, because new time robbed of an hour of rehearsal, because Boswell was playing first day of her engagement at Los Angeles Paramount and had to rehearse between stage shows, the show did not get the polish it needed. Incidentally it was the toughest show to routine we ever had. Boswell had to be off by 6:30; Carroll had to be in 1st half, Auer next before Carroll. Auer and ? and Carroll before Burns ? break before comments on commercial.. Ok. General remarks: Grete Stueckgold arrived by plane Thursday a.m., phoned at 11:00 and agreed to duet "Ave Maria" with Bing, to be at studio for rehearsal at 12:10. At 11:10 her home and friend phoned to say Grete had just received a wire advising that Stueckgold's husband had dropped dead an hour earlier, no Grete to appear. Boswell moved up from May 6."

No. 65 6th May 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Janice Porter, Mary Garden and Basil Rathbone.

*How Could You?

Mary Garden spot

*Carelessly

Bob Burns spot

Basil Rathbone spot (concludes as he recites the poem "The Call")

*I’d Climb The Highest Mountain

*What Will I Tell My Heart?

Vissi D'arte Janice Porter

Little Pickaninny Kid Janice Porter and The Paul Taylor Choristers

*The One Rose (That’s Left In My Heart)

“More and more the conviction grows that Bing Crosby’s Music Hall is variety radio entertainment at its best. Mr. Crosby is, without doubt, the most ‘relaxed’ emcee on the air. He all but yawns his way through the script and his lazy humour is great stuff for ears, wearied by the glorified program conductors who, apparently, try to sound like machine guns and are every bit as devastating”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 5th May 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. It was not until we got on "the air" that we knew for sure that there would be a news flash ahead of us. And it was not until the news flash finished that we knew how long it would last. Cuts to accommodate this unknown quantity were made during the show. General remarks: The three minute news flash of the Hindenburg disaster didn't help especially since the announcer chose to end his news flash with the comment "Even now, the wreckage is still burning brightly." Garden was simply magnificent, Porter got a dose of buck fever and sang only well enough to make people wondering what bothered her. The second Porter number was good; the Vissi D'arte unfortunate. Rathbone excellent."

No. 66 13th May 1937

With Ken Carpenter, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Lionel Stander, Elissa Landi, Josephine Tumminia and John McCormack.

*Swing High, Swing Low

Lionel Stander spot

So Do I Love You (a) John McCormack (Edwin Schneider – piano)

Shannon River (a) John McCormack (Edwin Schneider – piano)

*September In The Rain

Elissa Landi spot

So Do I Elissa Landi and The Paul Taylor Choristers

*My Buddy

Tarantella Josephine Tumminia

The Blue Danube (Strauss) Josephine Tumminia

*Sentimental And Melancholy

The Love Bug Will Bite You Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Turn Off The Moon

Elissa Landi poem

Note:

(a) A portion of the show, featuring these two items and including some dialogue was issued on GOR CD101(CD) “A Little Bit Of Irish - Bing Crosby”

“John McCormack having retired and given up singing forever and a day, duly appeared on the Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall hour and sang a couple of numbers. Numbers weren’t important nor, for that matter, the fact that he’d come out of retirement at his very first moment after commencing it. What counted was that the Irishman was in rare good humour and had himself a royal good time all through the program, clowning with Crosby, Bob Burns (sic) and Lionel Stander. It was good fun throughout and if McCormack really means it about quitting the concert stage but wants to shift to some other branch of the biz he might consider being an MC. He could get away with it.”

(“Variety” 19th May 1937)

The contentious point in the above quote is the presence of Bob Burns. The CD “A Little Bit Of Irish” observes the following in its liner notes, “Bing Crosby introduced John McCormack as his guest on the Kraft Music Hall on 13th May 1937. During their conversation some humorous interruptions come from Bob ‘Bazooka’ Burns”. In fact, the ‘interruptions’ in the segment heard are from Lionel Stander and in addition, after a question from McCormack asking, “What can she find in France that she can’t find, right here, in America”, Bing is heard to say, “It’s a pity - it’s really a pity that Burns isn’t here - he’d know - he was over there with the Marines” and confirmation can be found in the Appendix note for Programme No. 68 and this further quote:“With Bob Burns on vacation, Crosby carries on, alone for KPOers at 6 pm. His guests include San Francisco’s coloratura, Josephine Tuminia, Elissa Landi, John McCormack and Lionel Stander.” (“San Francisco Chronicle” 13th May 1937)

No. 67 20th May 1937

With Ken Carpenter, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Lionel Stander, Lee Tracy, Connie Boswell and William Gargan.

*In A Little Hula Heaven

Lionel Stander spot

Lee Tracy spot

*Never In A Million Years

William Gargan spot

Pretty Molly Brannigan William Gargan

*Limehouse Blues

*Carelessly

September In The Rain Connie Boswell

*Basin Street Blues with Connie Boswell

Parade Of The Milk Bottle Caps Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

WW1 sketch

Swing High, Swing Low Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Sweet Leilani

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: OK. General remarks: Trouble with Tracy. For my money, show stunk. The experts agreed it was better show last week. Carroll at hospital."

Extract from article in BING magazine, spring, 2003 by Malcolm Macfarlane about New York Public Library collection

Kraft Music Hall - May 20, 1937.

This 78 rpm aluminium-based 12” acetate was part of the Lee Tracy collection and we know that Mr. Tracy was a guest on the show that night. Whilst we knew what songs Bing sang, no-one had heard them for years and again it was with eager anticipation that I sat there in my headphones sending a message for playback to commence. It soon became apparent that the only parts of the show that had been preserved were those featuring Lee Tracy. First we hear Bing and Lee talking about Lee’s latest film Behind The Headlines (also known as Tomorrow’s Headlines) then there is dialogue between Bing, Lee and Lionel Stander about Bing’s slang talk (“stationhouse”, “zingy” “long haircut” etc.) which brings laughter from the audience. The next cut has a WW1 sketch involving Bing, Lee, Lionel Stander and William Gargan. “Colonel” Stander whispers to “Major” Crosby that they are going to advance and whispers pass down the line to first “Captain” Tracy and then “Lieutenant” Gargan. The whispers go back and forth among the personnel until eventually someone says that the front line is 15 miles away and “Why are we whispering.” The payoff comes when “Colonel” Stander says that he has laryngitis! Unfortunately there are no songs from Bing on the recording, which was obviously done specifically for Lee Tracy.

No. 68 27th May 1937 (a)

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Zasu Pitts, Gail Patrick and Rudolph Ganz.

*How Could You?

Zasu Pitts spot

*My Melancholy Baby with Zasu Pitts

*You’re Here, You’re There, You’re Everywhere

Bob Burns spot

The Land Of The Sky Blue Water Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Time On My Hands with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Gail Patrick spot

*My Little Buckaroo (b)

Forgotten Waltz (Liszt) Rudolph Ganz (piano)

La Puerta Del Vino (Debussy) Rudolph Ganz (piano)

Lullaby For Bazooka Rudolph Ganz (piano) & Bob Burns (bazooka)

The Flight Of The Bumble Bee (Rimsky Korsakov) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Where Are You? with The Paul Taylor Choristers

Notes:

(a) The complete programme was issued on Spokane 7 - “Bing Crosby - On The Air”

(b) TRM20029 - “Radio Memories Of Bing Crosby”

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Excellent. General remarks: Pitts was of opinion her own lines weren't "funny". Carroll recovered from his operation in time to save ??? starting of a Tues. afternoon."

This is the earliest known example of a complete show from the series of which a copy survives. Ken Carpenter welcomes back Bob Burns after two weeks absence.

“Bob Burns returned last week to the Kraft Phoenix program, after a fortnight’s absence to fish the trout streams in the High Sierras. He has been sorely missed during his siesta, so he stepped right in, sounding fresh and helped lift the period to its old level. Bing Crosby seemed exuberant with Burns’ return and displayed more pep than he had done on the two previous editions. Zasu Pitts was the guest in the show and not too impressive. Her singing of ‘Melancholy Baby’ was choppy and not bravely ventured. Interruptions by Burns’ mild kidding detracted further. An announcement that Miss Pitts would carol in the forthcoming Wanger production, “52nd Street” for United Artists, wasn’t too good a ballyhoo in view of the performance. Boys and comedienne wound it up with a skit on Christopher Columbus putting the touch on Queen Isabella for his voyage of discovery. Burns was seaman and Crosby, King Ferdinand - Bit was quite funny”.

(“Variety” 2nd June 1937)

Here’s a question that has concerned me for some time. Bing Crosby recently introduced Rose Bampton to his radio audience as: “The Battling Bamp from the Met.” Furthermore, he introduced one of the world's greatest pianists, Rudolf Ganz, by saying “Meet my old pal, Rudy.” Now this informality may be charming to some and it may appeal to the sponsors of the crooner’s program, but I wonder if the line shouldn't be drawn somewhere in informality. When an artist rises to such heights as Bampton and Ganz, a certain respect should be paid them. Certainly no groveling or awe-inspired effulgences need be indulged in — but a straight-from-the-shoulder dignified introduction would be more in keeping with the type of artist. And also, the public may feel that it is not getting such a wonderful artist in “Rudy” as it is in “Rudolf Ganz, one of the world's greatest pianists.” What do you think?

(Radio Mirror, September 1937)

No. 69 3rd June 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, McLelland Barclay, Charles Ruggles and Natalie Bodanya.

*Wake Up And Live

Charles Ruggles spot (includes Julius Caesar skit)

*September In The Rain

Bob Burns spot

Wabash Blues Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Runnin’ Wild

*Never In A Million Years

McLelland Barclay spot

Waltz from Romeo and Juliet Natalie Bodanya

Paris In The Spring Natalie Bodanya

All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Turn Off The Moon

Charles Ruggles, screen comedian, will join up with Bing Crosby and Bob Burns in a familiar Music Hall ribbing match at 8 p.m. over station WBAP. It will be Ruggles’ first appearance on the Crosby opus. Natalie Bodanya. Metropolitan opera soprano, and McClelland Barclay, illustrator, also will be guests.

(Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 3, 1937)

“Bing Crosby is probably the shining light for air audiences. Not only are his audiences told NOT to applaud but they are requested to restrain their laughter to a studio chuckle”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 3rd June 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: OK. Burns most definitely below standard. Ruggles excellent and most pleasant to deal with. Bodanya equally pleasant but performance not as good as rehearsals indicated it should have been. General remarks: Bob returned from honeymoon with his timing cockeyed."

No. 70 10th June 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Harriet Hilliard, William Frawley and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

*It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane

William Frawley spot

*Sail Along, Silv’ry Moon (a) with William Frawley

*They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Bob Burns spot

That Old Gang Of Mine Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Casey Jones

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. spot (includes English gangsters sketch)

*There’s A Lull In My Life

Too Marvellous For Words Harriet Hilliard

Our Penthouse On Third Avenue Harriet Hilliard

Waddling At The Waldorf Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Where Are You?

Note:

(a) Broadway Intermission BR116 - “Crosbyana Volume II - The Fabulous Rice Tapes – 1937”

Harriet Hilliard, lovely songstress of radio and the screen and wife of baton-wielding Ozzie Nelson, who will drop in at the Music Hall over WBAP-NBC at 8 tonight for a chat and song with Bing Crosby and Bob Burns. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and William Frawley also will guest on the Crosby show.

(Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10th June 1937)

Swinging over to the Old Kraft Music Hall, which to our mind is the smoothest of all the air varieties, mainly because of that Krafty Crosby gent. That velvet patter of Bing's which is so swell and such a part of his top etherating comes from the pen of one Carroll Carroll, in case you'd like to know. Bing can handle the ten-syllable words, but when it comes to a bit of a British accent, he has trouble. The night Doug Fairbanks, Jr., showed up in the Hall, Bing and Bob Burns cooked up a jolly English skit. Well, of course, that was a pushover for Doug, what with his recent London sojourning, and Robin shoved the hill talk aside easily enough. But Bing had a terrible time. "After ten words," he griped, "I swing right back to Spokane, Washington!"

(Photoplay, September 1937)

“For more than a year now, rumours have been floating around that Jimmy Dorsey and his band will be leaving the Crosby show. Well, they’re finally coming true. Next month, the Dorsey swingsters move into Chicago’s Congress Hotel and chances are they’ll be replaced by a studio orchestra, although Joe Venuti or Artie Shaw are supposed to be in the running”

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 10th June 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Fairbanks sketch tops. Burns poor. Rest of show: Crosby songs O.K. Hilliard songs O. K. Dialogue not. Frawley verbose per se."

No. 71 17th June 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Jose Iturbi, Katherine De Mille, Humphrey Bogart and pole vaulters Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows.

*The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down

*The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (Parody) with Bob Burns

Humphrey Bogart spot

*On A Little Dream Ranch

Bob Burns spot

St. Louis Blues Bob Burns (bazooka)

Memory spot with Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows

*Garden Of Tomorrow

Katherine De Mille spot

Spinning Song Jose Iturbi

Garden In The Rain Jose Iturbi

*Sailboat In The Moonlight

Clarinet Marmalade Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Sweet Leilani

Pat O’Brien, Katherine DeMille of the movies, and Jose Iturbi, famous pianist, will be Bing Crosby’s guests in the “Kraft Music Hall” broadcast. O’Brien and Iturbi have been guests of Crosby before, but Miss DeMille, daughter of the famous movie director, Cecil B. DeMille, is a newcomer to the program. O’Brien and Miss DeMille will be interviewed by Crosby. Iturbi will take over the “serious-music department” for the evening, playing a group of his favorite selections.

(Tyler Morning Telegram (Texas), June 17, 1937) (Note: O'Brien withdrew and was replaced by Humphrey Bogart).

“Radio is his game and he’s so deaf you almost have to shout to make him hear. He’s small and of nondescript appearance. You’d never pick him out in a crowd and the chances are you’ve never heard his rather odd name. Carroll Carroll is the brains behind the success of Bing Crosby’s air show. He studies Bing constantly - not an affectation or colloquialism used by the crooning idol of radio escapes his sharp eyes which are trained to read the Crosby lips. He writes Bing’s scripts. Yes, Bing’s informed chatter on the air is all written and the reason you’d swear it was ad-libbed is because Carroll Carroll writes right down Bing’s alley and be it known to Bing’s credit that he appreciates Carroll’s talent. He takes one look at the script and says, ‘It’s swell’. When Crosby reads that script, he can’t help falling into a natural groove, thereby giving his hour the inimitable style and all the time Carroll Carroll watches him from the control booth, studying, studying. He has absorbed so much of Bing’s personality that he, consistently and successfully, transcribes it to typewritten paper, each week. The Crosby cast never assembles for rehearsals until Thursday morning. They work all day, cutting and changing and building up that ‘spark’ that accounts for its present Crosley Report rating. The show is seldom timed at the start of a broadcast. The crew have been working so hard all day that they have on hand a wealth of material, discarded during rehearsal to fill with should the program run short. So when you tune in tonight (KPO 6 to 7) and hear Bing winding out, in his own style, just realise that a little semi-deaf guy by the name of Carroll Carroll is doing his bit to preserve that personality in consistency”.

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 17th June 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Very good. General remarks: Fearful that 3:40 spread would hardly be enough, we went (?) only 2 minutes of it ....therefore had a deal of "Sweet Leilani" as finish!"

No. 72 24th June 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Florence George, Constance Bennett and Reginald Denny.

*They All Laughed

Constance Bennett spot

*Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (parody) with Constance Bennett

*Was It Rain?

Bob Burns spot

Oh, You Beautiful Doll Bob Burns (bazooka)

*Then I’ll Be Happy

Reginald Denny spot

*There’s A Lull In My Life

Ah! Non Giunge Florence George

Angel Florence George

Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*Dancing Under The Stars

“Bing Crosby gags around with Constance Bennett, Reginald Denny and Florence George, radio soprano and quite the good looker. Speaking of ‘La Bennett’, she causes something of a sensation every time she rolls up to NBC’s Hollywood studios for a guest appearance. In the first place, she flounces out of a Rolls Royce that’s longer than the Golden Gate Bridge. In the second place she carries a ‘booful’ spaniel dog whose hair, mind you, is marcelled and in the third place she sits, nonchalantly, on the studio stage during the broadcast and casts supercilious glances out over the audience. This causes the audience to giggle gleefully and just have the time. If there is anything a Hollywood audience loves, it’s to be glanced at superciliously”.

(“San Francisco Chronicle” 24th June 1937)

“Bing Crosby - Bob Burns Thursday night session over NBC Red for Kraft Phoenix Miracle Whip was not the only commercial plugging inserted. Two guests, Constance Bennett and Reginald Denny also slipped in some blurbing for their extra-film business ventures. It seems Miss Bennett peddles cosmetics and Denny is interested in a firm manufacturing model airplanes although the trade labels of neither were mentioned. All the chatter on their two separate sessions with Mr. C and Mr. B circled around their businesses. Usually, on the Kraft Show, guests get ribbed. The pair, last week, escaped completely and both bits, in consequence were much duller than customarily encountered on this sturdy show.”

(“Variety” 30th June 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Good. General remarks: The show fell to pieces at the very finish because Bing thought he didn't have time for his full half chorus after the closing over choir, so he didn't sing at all. The choir had only accompaniment so it petered out in a horrible death."

No. 73 1st July 1937

With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Paul Taylor Choristers, Toby Wing, Roland Young and Mischa Levitzki.

*Smarty (You Know It All)

Roland Young spot

*It’s The Natural Thing To Do

Bob Burns spot

*My Heart Stood Still

Waltz in E Minor (Chopin) Mischa Levitzki (piano)

Moment Musicale Mischa Levitzki (piano)

Etude On The Black Keys (Chopin) Mischa Levitzki (piano)

*All You Want To Do Is Dance

Toby Wing spot

The Flight Of The Bumble Bee Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

*The Moon Got In My Eyes with The Paul Taylor Choristers,

“Roland Young, the stage and screen comic, lived up to his best traditions as a sly humorist on his guest appearance on Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall program, last Thursday. Tops was the reference to Young’s ability to talk without seeming to open his mouth, with a suggestion that he’d do a Bergen/McCarthy act being carried out as he went through a ventriloquial routine with Burns. The pair were introduced as ‘Roland Bergen’ and ‘Bob McBurns’, the latter doing snappy dummy and crossfire banter. Mischa Levitzki, on same show, introduced as being on the broadcast for the fourth time, readily showed his capability, in three distinct types of selections - brilliant work on ivories. Levitzki indicated his versatility by joining in some of the gagging”.

(“Variety” 7th July 1937)

Cal Kuhl, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Entertainment: Very good. General remarks: A large spread wiped out our reprise and cut Carpenter closing to one line!"

Another curiosity here. This show, dated 1st July 1937, was Bing’s last show of the season but “Variety” of 14th July 1937 carried a section entitled ‘Third Annual Fall Radio Forecast’ in which the various agencies had been asked to outline the future radio plans of their clients. No less a person than John U. Reber, Vice President of Radio for J. Walter Thompson, submitted (among others) the following, “Thursday 10 - 11 pm, Kraft Music Hall from Hollywood. Bing Crosby went on vacation for around three months after July 8th broadcast. Crosby returns in September, date not definite. Bob Burns now emceeing show. Uses one musical name and at least two movie guests for interviews.”

Bing’s leave from the Kraft Music Hall was hardly a traditional vacation. In addition to several recording sessions, the newly opened Del Mar Turf Club was absorbing much of his time and he was involved in a series of sustaining broadcasts for NBC, from the track, interviewing patrons and riders alike. These inspired John Royle, NBC’s programme head to write to Crosby that, “Whenever he felt that he was getting too old to sell cheese or to lift his pipes for a ditty, he could turn to NBC for a sports announcing assignment”. He also followed the racing trail to Chicago and to the Yearling Auctions at Saratoga. During his absence, Bob Burns acted as MC and guests included George Raft, Lupe Velez, Frederick Jagel and Brian Aherne.

This was the last programme with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.

“A new orchestra takes the rostrum at the Music Hall when Johnny Trotter’s musical aggregation replaces Jimmy Dorsey’s group (KFI-6) on Bing Crosby’s one hour show. Bob Burns is conducting the weekly broadcast during Bing’s absence”

(“Los Angeles Evening Herald Express” 8th July 1937)

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