1948-1949 Season with
the John Scott Trotter Orchestra.
Produced by Bill Morrow and Murdo MacKenzie
Philco Radio Time attains an
audience share of 15.7 for the season. It reaches nineteenth position in the Hooper
ratings. The top evening program was the Lux Radio Theater with 28.6.
Transcribed
in Hollywood on September 6. Announced by Ken
Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Gary, Phillip, Dennis & Lindsay Crosby and Claudette Colbert.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening
Theme
*You
Call Everybody “Darling”
with
Rhythmaires
*My
Happiness
(a)
Comedy Dialogue
(b) Bing Crosby & Ken Carpenter
‘The Flower Incident’ Sketch
Bing
Crosby, Claudette Colbert and Gary, Phillip,
Dennis & Lindsay Crosby
*Blue
Shadows On The Trail
(c) with Gary, Phillip, Dennis & Lindsay
Crosby
*A Tree
In The Meadow
(d)
Comedy Dialogue
Bing Crosby,
Claudette Colbert and Gary, Phillip,
Dennis & Lindsay Crosby
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing
Theme
Notes:
(a) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(b) This dialogue is a fairly lengthy
lead-in for the sketch which follows.
(c) Bing’s minimal contribution consists of one “Woo, woo, woo” in an
exaggerated imitation of the other boys’ backing for Gary’s singing.
Viper’s Nest VN-1003 (CD) – “Bing Crosby – Live Duets”
Commercial Recording 11.12.47
(d) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
“Back for a third
semester, under Philco auspices, the Bing Crosby Show is still one of radio’s
choice half-hours and the pivotal point for ABC’s sock Wednesday night comedy lay-out
which now finds Milton Berle, Groucho Marx and El Bingo, slotted back to
back. If anything, ABC has strengthened
its hold on the Wednesday audience pull and the play off will probably be found
in the ‘48/’49 Hooper’s. Transcribed or
live the Groaner can do no wrong. The
same glib artistry is once more in evidence, be it his off the cuff banter with
Ken Carpenter, John Scott Trotter or his guest stars. His vocal nifties
or the assorted intros to the comedy patterned commercials (in this instance on
behalf of the new Philco produced long-playing record machines).
Play-off
of the initial transcription for the new Crosby season, on the 29th, found the
show grooved to the expected high entertainment level with its tradey by-play on Hope’s new sponsor and the Philco
bank-rolling etc., strictly geared in the Crosby idiom. Claudette Colbert
as the guest star on the initialler, parlayed her comedic talents with a
visitation by the four Crosby boys for a loosely scripted kicking around of the
gong. There
were some obviously contrived and deliberate fluffs on the lines but the whole
sequence, though overdrawn was so naturally patterned to the Crosby technique
that it provided far more pleasure than embarrassment. The qualitative
scripting has always been and remains one of the show’s plus factors and the
Trotter Orchestra ‘assist’ rates a deep bow!”
(“Variety”
6th October 1948)
No. 74 6th October
1948 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Judy
Garland.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Love
Somebody
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Rambling
Rose
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
‘Take It And We’ll
Break Your Arm’ Sketch
Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Ken Carpenter &
John Scott Trotter
Over The
Rainbow
Judy Garland (Buddy Cole - Piano)
*For Me And
My Gal
(d) with Judy
Garland
*Who
(e) with Judy
Garland
*Embraceable You
(f) with Judy
Garland
*Confess
(g)
with Judy Garland & Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) A heavily
edited version of the programme was issued on JSP Records CD702 (CD) - “Bing
Crosby And Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll Roll Away” and on CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years
1946-1950”. The running order has been slightly altered
but all vocal items are included together with some dialogue.
(b) The
Rhythmaires’ vocal accompaniment includes an arrangement of “Careless
Love”.
Magic AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(c) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(d) United Artists
UAK30115 - “The Golden Age Of American Radio Starring Bing Crosby”
HRB Music BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
Golden Age GA5023 - “One Hour From The Bing Crosby Radio Shows”
Startone ST201 -
“Hollywood On The Air Presents Judy Garland”
GNP/Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(e) All Star
Products LP2001 - Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
Startone ST201 - “Hollywood On The Air Presents Judy Garland”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(f) All Star
Products LP2001 - Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
Startone ST201 - “Hollywood On The Air Presents Judy Garland”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Commercial Recording 12.11.47
(g) JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Bing Crosby, the
man who gave to the world the Golden Groan, will be joined in song and banter by
Judy Garland on tonight’s WTJS-ABC broadcast of The Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m. In
the banter portion of the show, Miss Garland and Bing take an astringently humorous
view of radio quiz-and-give programs and discuss the possibilities of a cut in the
prize money. All this stems from the cuts that have taken place in Hollywood salaries
and movie personnel, matters of more than passing interest to both performers. In
the Crosby-Garland version of the new midget quiz-and-give radio shows, winners no longer will receive round-trip
tickets to distant parts of the world, but one-way tickets only. Nor will manufacturers
be quite as free with sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, etc. As
regards the latter products, Bing suggests the possibility that winners will
get just the ice cubes.
(The
Jackson Sun, 6th October, 1948)
“Bing Crosby’s coin, reportedly, is behind a new and
apparently, as yet, unnamed transcription network which is being prepped for a
September 1949 tee-off - if the promoters can get at least 300 stations into the
fold. Some 75
to 100 Mutual outlets, among others, are said already to have been inked to
tentative affiliations by two representatives currently touring the country on
behalf of the proposed web. Trade hears that the operation, jointly
financed by the Crosby Foundation and the Chemical National Bank, is offering a
minimum of five and a quarter hours of commercial time weekly as a starter,
provided 300 stations can be lined up. Programs would include, sources say, a
Crosby stanza sponsored by Philco, his current bank-roller on ABC. Whether this would
be the same show or a separate one, however, isn’t known.”
(“Variety”
13th October 1948)
No. 75 13th October
1948
Transcribed
in Vancouver B.C. on September 22 (a)
Announced by William Gargan (b). With Joe Venuti, Marilyn Maxwell and Ray
Milland.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Hair Of
Gold, Eyes Of Blue
(c)
*It’s
Magic
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Marilyn Maxwell
*Side By
Side
(d) with Marilyn
Maxwell
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Ray Milland,
Marilyn Maxwell &
William Gargan
‘Detective Story’
Sketch
Bing Crosby, Ray Milland,
Marilyn Maxwell &
William Gargan
*A Tree In
The Meadow
with Joe Venuti (Violin)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Ray Milland,
Marilyn Maxwell &
William Gargan
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) This
benefit for the Sunset Memorial Centre is unique in being the only programme in
the Philco series which was transcribed outside of the USA.
(b) The
introduction and credits are, in fact, spoken by Bing. He introduces
William Gargan as M.C. who
assumes Ken Carpenter’s normal role, i.e., participating in the opening comedy
dialogue and reading the commercials.
(c) Bing
alters the first line of the song, to suit the location, from, “I came down from
Butte, Montana” to, “I came down from West Vancouver”.
(d) Wallysrite Records BGMM42 - “Those
Bombastic Blonde Bombshells”
Commercial Recording 29.4.27
Bing Crosby will
have a celebrated show entourage including Ray Milland, Marilyn Maxwell, William
Gargan and Joe Venuti when he presents the Bing Crosby Show tonight at 9:00 p.
m; over the American Broadcasting Company and WJTS from Vancouver, B. C. Designated
“Chief Thundervoice,” Bing will be welcomed as an honorary member of the Squamish
Indian tribe and will “make thunder with his voice,” in the bouncy cowboy song “Hair
of Gold,” following which he will sing one of the country’s top favorite ballads,
“It’s Magic.”… On the narrative-and-nonsense portion of the program, Milland will
give listeners a hilarious account of his recent trip to England and his fellow
guests will try to match his yarn with a description of their journey to
Vancouver. From there, they will move into a detective sequence when Milland announces
that he long has nourished a wish to become a radio sleuth. In no time at all, his wish will be granted as he finds himself
embroiled in a riotous mystery skit titled “Ray Milland-Private Mounted Eye.” Gargan
will fill in as announcer for Ken Carpenter and John Scott Trotter and his orchestra will provide the music.
(The
Jackson Sun, 13th October, 1948)
Transcribed
in Spokane on September 28 (a).
Announced by William Gargan. With Marilyn Maxwell and Dan Dailey.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(b)
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Marilyn Maxwell & William Gargan
*Rambling
Rose
(h)
Philco
Commercial
(c) Bing
Crosby, Marilyn Maxwell & William Gargan
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dan Dailey
Thanks
(d) Dan
Dailey
*Something
To Remember You By
(e)
with Marilyn Maxwell
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Dan Dailey & Marilyn Maxwell
*Ja Da
(f) with Dan
Dailey & Ensemble
*Love
Somebody
*My
Happiness
(g)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From The
Post Theatre.
(b) Pre-show,
the strains of the orchestra are heard and William Gargan gives a comedy introduction for Bing, singing
the opening theme.
(c) The
commercial is adapted as a sketch, in which Bing and Marilyn Maxwell play
newly-weds and William Gargan,
their local Philco dealer.
(d) Sung in a
caricature of Bing’s (early) style.
(e) Wallysrite Records BGMM42 - “Those
Bombastic Blonde Bombshells”
Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial recording 22.2.75
(f) An
instrumental item with Bing (Drums) and Dan Dailey (Trombone). The ‘ensemble’
consists of Joe Venuti (Violin), Buddy Cole (Piano) and Perry Botkin
(Guitar).
Bing’s sole vocal contribution is the ‘ad-lib’ line, “We do your
laundry!”.
(g) Magic AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(h) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Bing Crosby will bring
his songs and suave nonsense to Spokane, Wash., his own home town for tonight’s
broadcast of the Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m. over the American Broadcasting Company
and WTJS. Dan Dailey, Marilyn Maxwell and William Gargan, subbing for announcer
Ken Carpenter, will join Bing on the show, during which, for the first time in quite
a spell, he will play the drums in an instrumental version of “Jada.” Dailey,
known as “Dynamic Dan” to his friends in the movie colony, will disclose some inside
information on his climb to cinema fame and imitate Bing singing “Thanks”… In memory
of the days when he used to “Beat the Skins,” Bing's drumming during the “Jada”
number will be joined by Dailey on the trombone. Perry Botkin, guitarist, Buddy
Cole, pianist, and Joe Venuti and his violin.
(The
Jackson Sun, 20th October, 1948)
“Crosby Groans Under
Strain Of Wide Interests” (Front Page Headline)
“To those close to Bing Crosby, his groaning is not the
result of any larynxal strain,
it’s all because of the physical anguish of carrying such a load of interests
extraneous to picture making, broadcasting and recording. Whichever way you
turn these days you’ll be confronted by products of the Crosby Research
Foundation, Crosby Enterprises and the Crosby, in person. All that meets the
eye however, is not a particular concern to the Groaner, financially or
otherwise.
There are sundry other Crosby’s who handle his businesses. For instance the
Crosby Research Foundation is officered by Larry (President), Bob
(Vice-President) and H.L Snr. -
that’s Bing’s pop - (Secretary/Treasurer). Bing is the Company’s smallest stockholder
having been cut in for a $1000 worth of certificates. It’s Crosby
Enterprises that gets the personal touch being that it is a parent corporation
of his diverse interests which include his picture making, interest in Ampex Recorders and radio package for
Philco.
His Decca
recordings are not in the corporate structure. His brothers, Everett and Larry, are pleading
with him to market his own label. Among his personal interests are $20,000
worth of stock in the Pittsburgh Pirates, 25,000 acres of Nevada on which he
grazes 4,000 head of beef cattle and a stock interest in Jock Whitney’s vacuum
pack frozen orange juice for which he turns disk jockey. There is also the
little matter of three television stations in his native state of Washington but
that’s for the future. Crosby’s annual income has been variously
estimated from one and a half to two million and what he can keep for himself is
a matter of speculation. Only Bing and his attorney adviser, John
O’Melveny know just how the blue chips are stacked. The Crosby Research
Foundation is more or less of a clearing house for inventors and none is turned
away without a hearing. The Foundation is also interested in uranium
and other mineral deposits which it refers to the Atomic Energy Commission.”
(“Variety”
20th October 1948)
Transcribed
in San Francisco on October 9 (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Peggy Lee, William Gargan and William Powell.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, William Gargan & Ken Carpenter
*Hair Of
Gold, Eyes Of Blue
(b)
*Ain’t
Doin’ Bad Doin’ Nothin’
(b) with Joe
Venuti (Violin)
Love Your Magic
Spell Is Everywhere
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & William Powell
‘The Gay Nineties’
Sketch
Bing Crosby, William Powell, William Gargan &Peggy
Lee
*You Came A
Long Way From St. Louis (c) with
Peggy Lee
*It’s
Magic
(d)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) In aid of
the Boys’ Clubs of the Bay Area and the Bellarmine Preparatory College Building Fund.
(b) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(c) Commercial Recording 18.11.47
(d) This item
develops into a slightly parodied version, with reference to both Bing and Peggy
Lee’s birthplaces.
Parrot PARCD001 (CD) - “Peggy Lee With Bing Crosby - It’s A Good
Day”
Wisepack Legends LECD118
(CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 1”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Riff CDPRGA
50290 (CD) – “Bing And His Gal Pals”
Commercial Recording 11.8.58
(e) Magic AWE1 -
“Bing’s Magic”
Shout! CD DK31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Bing
Crosby will salute
this city’s Gay Nineties period with a rollicking comedy sketch in
which he will be joined by William Powell, Peggy Lee and William Gargan
on tonight’s
broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p.m. over the American Broadcasting Company and
WTJS. In the patter portion of the show, the demise of a deer plays a prominent
part - one that Bing and Gargan shot recently at Elko, Nev. Both men fired their
guns at the same moment, according to the story, and each insists that his shot
was the lethal one. Before the argument is finally settled, a good deal of amusing
proof is advanced by the two demon Nimrods, all of which is pondered by announcer
Ken Carpenter who returns to the program after a brief vacation. Suave actor
Powell discusses the contemporary scene with Bing before the two turn back, in
a comedy sketch, to the events of the Gay Nineties in San Francisco. In the sketch,
Bing and Powell play dashing young blades who have set their minds on capturing
the hand of Miss Lee. Gargan will be heard in the role of Miss Lee’s hard-hearted
father.
(The
Jackson Sun, 27th October, 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Edgar
Bergen (with ‘Charlie McCarthy’ and ‘Mortimer Snerd’).
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*You Call
Everybody “Darling”
with Rhythmaires
*Dolores
( a)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Edgar Bergen
*At The
Flying “W”
(b) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
(c) Bing Crosby,
Edgar Bergen, ‘Charlie McCarthy’
& ‘Mortimer Snerd’
*Put ‘Em In A Box (Tie ‘Em With A Ribbon) (d) with ‘Mortimer Snerd’ & Rhythmaires
*I’d Love
To Live In Loveland
(e)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen &‘Charlie
McCarthy’
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Varese Sarabande CD 3020669052 “Bing Crosby – Crosby
Classics”
Commercial Recording 23.12.40
(b)
Commercial Recording 17.12.47
(c) The
comedy theme has Bing, attempting to teach ‘Mortimer Snerd’ how to sing item (d).
(d) See note (c)
above.
HRB Music BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
(e) Commercial Recording 24.12.47
Bing Crosby will make
a valiant bid for the Hall of Fame when he tries to teach Mortimer Snerd how to
croon during tonight’s WTJS-ABC broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m.,
on which Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, naturally, will be guests. The singing
lesson, one that is apt to be long remembered, comes about as a result of a rumored
break between Bergen and his wooden wunderbars, gossip having it that both Charlie
and Mortimer intend to go it alone. It all began, a brooding and dejected Bergen explains, when
Charlie learned to talk by himself, undoubtedly the most improbable feat of this
era. Mortimer heard the rumor, took it seriously, and decided to get into some
big industry like crooning, with Bing as his mentor. Happily, Bing is able to
talk Charlie and Mortimer out of this notion and the rock maple moppets agree to string along with Bergen, the sound expert…For
Mortimer’s singing lesson, Bing has chosen “Put ‘Em In A Box,” a number selected
with some forethought.
(The
Jackson Sun, 3rd November, 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With The Rhythmaires, Ziggy Elman (a), Red Nichols, Joe Venuti, Peggy Lee and
Oscar Levant.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Ain’t
Doin’ Bad Doin’ Nothin’
(b) with Joe
Venuti (Violin)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Oscar Levant & Peggy Lee
Medley:
(c)
*Wildflower
(d) with Oscar
Levant (Vocal)
*Look For
The Silver Lining
(e) with
Oscar Levant
Take Me Back To
Manhattan
Oscar Levant (Vocal)
What Is This Thing
Called Love?
(m)
Peggy Lee
*Mandy
(f) with
Oscar Levant
*Exactly
Like You
(g) with
Peggy Lee
*You Are
Too Beautiful
(h)
*Blame It
On My Youth
(i)
with Oscar Levant
*Lady, Play
Your Mandolin
(j) with Oscar Levant
*I Got
Rhythm
(k)
with Peggy Lee (Joe Venuti - Violin)
*They Can’t
Take That Away From Me
(l)
with Peggy Lee
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Although
the Rhythmaires and Ziggy Elman are mentioned in the credits, the Rhythmaires’
presence cannot be detected in any of the vocal items and, unusually for a
listed ‘guest’, there is no further acknowledgement of Ziggy Elman’s presence but it could be assumed that he
participates in item (k), at least.
(b) Commercial
Recording 18.11.47
(c) Oscar
Levant provides piano accompaniment (augmented at times, by the orchestra) and
some vocal contributions, which are specially noted. There are also
comedy dialogue links, featuring the principals, between all items.
(d) Magic AWE1 -
“Bing’s Magic”
(e) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(f) Magic AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
Sounds of Yester Year DSOY2268 “Bing’s ABC Of Life"
Commercial Recording 9.9.54
(g) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
Parrot PARCD001 (CD) - “Peggy Lee With Bing Crosby - It’s A Good Day
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Sounds of Yester Year DSOY2268 “Bing’s ABC Of Life"
Commercial Recording 19.2.57
(h) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(i)
Magic AWE7 - “Dark Moon”
Commercial Recording 1.12.53
(j) A
‘fluffed’ beginning to this item, as Bing sings the first two lines then breaks
off with, “That was an introduction, wasn’t it?.....Oscar! Attendez pour le moment” (Sings) “Lady....” (There is a
crashing run on the piano by Oscar Levant)....”What are you gonna play - a vamp?” Levant replies, “We’ll play a vamp for about
two or three hours and then you’ll sing” - All this to the obvious delight of
the studio audience.
Magic AWE7 - “Dark Moon”
(k) In
addition to Joe Venuti, Bing also mentions Buddy Cole, Red Nichols and Perry
Botkin asparticipants. See also Note (a).
Parrot PARCD001 (CD) - “Peggy Lee With Bing Crosby - It’s A Good Day”
Wisepack Legends LECD118
(CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 1”
Rajon CDR0046 (CD) – “The
Great Bing Crosby – Volume 2”
Commercial Recording 22.2.75
(l) Sun
2108 (CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Commercial Recording 12.11.47
(m) Sounds of Yester Year DSOY2268 “Bing’s ABC Of Life"
Bing Crosby will
swap sweet unpleasantries with the sardonic tongued Oscar Levant on tonight’s Bing
Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m., over WTJS-ABC during a program on which Peggy Lee will
be a featured guest. In a quiz session with Levant, Bing inquires about a septuagenarian
named Jolson and learns that Al is a man with exactly no disrespect for a buck,
an attitude which causes no surprise on the part of the interrogator.
(The
Jackson Sun, 10th November, 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With The Rhythmaires, Kay Starr and Adolphe Menjou.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Buttons
And Bows
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Until
(b) with
Rhythmaires
The Lonesomest Gal In Town
Kay Starr
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Adolphe
Menjou
‘The Giant Moth
Attack’ Sketch
Bing Crosby, Adolphe Menjou & Ken Carpenter
*Galway
Bay
(c)
Notes:
(a) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
(b) Magic AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
Sounds of Yester Year DSOY2268 “Bing’s ABC Of Life"
(c) Commercial Recording 27.11.47
Bing
Crosby will have singer Kay Starr and Adolphe Menjou as his guests on tonight’s
WTJS-ABC broadcast of the Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m. For her first
appearance on the top tune and comedy show, Miss Starr will do a torchy version of “I’m The Lonesomest
Gal In Town” a song for which she has been widely acclaimed. Possessor of one of
the biggest voices in radio, Kay is constantly the butt of a rumor that she works
without a microphone.
According
to a second rumor, Bing invited Menjou to be his guest on the theory that opposites
attract, the latter being noted for one of the most extensive wardrobes in
Hollywood. In any event, he will exchange good-natured banter with Bing on the subject
of what constitutes a well-dressed man, a distinction not commonly associated with
Der Bingle.
Turning
from habiliments to their greatest enemy, the moth, Bing and Menjou discuss ways
of permanently exterminating this menace to the family budget and arrive at an
entirely dubious solution. This leads the pair to a hilarious sketch built
around a monster moth attack which darkens the Sun and destroys practically all
the wearing apparel in the country. Carl Stephenson's famous short story, “Leiningen
Versus The Ants,” provided the basis for the sketch about the moth attack.
(The
Jackson Sun, 17th November 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on November 10.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With The Rhythmaires, Dorothy Kirsten and
Bert Lahr.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Cuanto Le Gusta
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dorothy Kirsten
Ouvre Ton Coeur (Bizet)
Dorothy Kirsten
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Bert Lahr
‘Burlesque Days’
Sketch
Bing Crosby, Bert Lahr & Dorothy Kirsten
*Friendship
(a) with Bert
Lahr & Dorothy Kirsten
*These
Foolish Things
(b) with Dorothy
Kirsten
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) This item
is introduced by Ken Carpenter as an operatic excerpt and is commenced in such
style with ‘solos’ from each of the trio.
Parrot PARCD006 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & His Hollywood Guests -
Hollywood Guys And Dolls- Volume
2”
(b) Commercial Recording 15.12.44
(c) An early
script indicates that the show was to be recorded on November 8 and
Bing was to include the song "My Darling, My Darling". Also there was
to be a "memory spot" featuring Bing, Bert Lahr and Dorothy Kisten
singing several old songs. This seems to have been replaced by the
"Burlesque Days" Sketch.
Metropolitan
Opera
star Dorothy Kirsten and comedian Bert Lahr will aid Bing Crosby in the
music and merriment department on the Bing Crosby Show tonight at 9:00
p. m. over
WTJS-ABC. Reminiscing about old-time “Dutch” comics, Bing and Bert will
roll back
the years to the turn of the century to offer a “Schultz and Rudolph”
dialect routine,
which will be interrupted by Miss Kirsten in time to turn the dialogue
into a three-way
rendition of “Friendship.” Not one to pass too lightly over Thanksgiving turkey-eating time, Bing and announcer
Ken Carpenter will discuss their hungry plans for the drumsticks, giblet gravy and
cranberry sauce they anticipate on the following day.
(The
Jackson Sun, 24th November 1948)
“Highest offer ever to be made for an American performer to
play London was made to Bing Crosby. Maurice Winnick, a London bandleader and producer, has
cabled Crosby, offering a £10,000 (around $40,000) for eight days at the Empress
Hall, London.
According to the offer Crosby would do only one show daily, for 8 days,
for a stipend of $5,000 daily.”
(“Variety” 24th November 1948)
No. 82 1st December 1948
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee, Bob
Crosby and Cathy Crosby (a).
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Buttons
And Bows
with Rhythmaires
*On A Slow
Boat To China
(b) with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby & Cathy Crosby
*Hair Of
Gold, Eyes Of Blue
with Bob Crosby & Cathy Crosby
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby & Peggy Lee
*A Little
Bird Told Me
(c)
with Bob Crosby, Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
*Until
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby & Cathy Crosby
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Not to be
confused with other ladies of the same (or similar) name In Bing’s life, this is
BobCrosby’s daughter.
(b) Precision
Records & Tapes NCP707 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years Volume 2” (Date
shewn as
15.12.48)
GNP Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Wisepack Legends LECD119
(CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 2”
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Hallmark
303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
Riff CDPRGA
50290 (CD) – “Bing And His Gal Pals”
Commercial Recording 28.7.58
(c) Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Jasmine CD JASCD 651 “The Crosby Brothers”
Bing Crosby will dig
freely into his rich past when his Brother Bob turns up for a visit during tonight’s
WTJS-ABC broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m. Brother Bob will have company
with him in the person of his nine-year-old daughter, Cathy, a youngster with a
remarkably lyrical voice, and her uncle Bing will also have a vocalist Peggy
Lee as a guest. On the patter and good-natured banter portion of the show, Bing
and Bob will hark back to their school days in Spokane, where the two spent their
youth, and recall some of the amusing incidents in which they took part. Following
that, the two will take an amiable look at conditions in the band world: a region
with which the brothers are reasonably familiar. During the latter chatter, Bob’s
daughter, Cathy, will move into the scene with a shrill request to “stop the musical
memories.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 1st December 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Kay Starr, Joe
Venuti and Morton Downey.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Cuanto Le Gusta
(i)
with Rhythmaires
Was That The Human
Thing To Do?
Kay Starr
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Morton Downey & Joe Venuti
Medley:
(a)
*My
Melancholy Baby
(b) with
Morton Downey
*Mexicali
Rose
(c)
with Morton Downey
*That Old
Feeling
with Morton Downey
*If I Had
My Way
(d) with
Morton Downey & Rhythmaires
*As Time
Goes By
(e) with
Morton Downey
*I’ll Be
Seeing You
(f)
with Morton Downey
*My Blue
Heaven
(g) with
Morton Downey (Joe Venuti - Violin)
*My
Darling,
My Darling
(h)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Items are
linked with comedy dialogue by Bing and Morton Downey.
(b) All Star
Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
Commercial Recording 12.12.38
(c)
Commercial Recordings 11.7.38 & 16.6.54
(d) Commercial
Recording 31.3.39
(e)
Commercial Recording 20.7.76
(f) All Star
Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
Commercial Recording 17.2.44
(g) All Star
Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
Commercial Recording 17.4.56
(h) All Star Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
(i) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
“Bing
Crosby’s reunion with two other Paul Whiteman alumni on Wednesday’s (8th) Philco
show provided a session of entertainment rich in reminiscences of the
Twenties.
‘Pops’ Whiteman probably did not draw an ‘in absentia’ guest shot fee but
he should have.
The way Morton Downey and Joe Venuti and Crosby took Whiteman apart made
him an integral part of the display. Whiteman was alternatively pictured as living
the life of an Oriental potentate, while LeGreeing his hirelings into line. One of this trio,
Venuti, was the only one who played a legitimate instrument. Crosby held a rain
catcher (a French horn) and Downey was given a sax, sans reed. Once, Crosby told,
he was caught blowing some sour oompahs into his instrument, he was next in the
fiddle section, holding a violin with rubber strings.”
(“Variety”
15th December 1948)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and
Bob Hope.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night Opening
Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee & Ken Carpenter
*A Little
Bird Told Me
(a) with
Peggy Lee
Then I’ll Be
Happy
(I Wanna Go Where You Go) Peggy
Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
(b) Bing
Crosby & Bob Hope
*On A Slow
Boat To China
(c) with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope
*Maybe
You’ll Be There
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Peggy Lee
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Parrot
PARCD001 (CD) - “Peggy Lee With Bing Crosby - It’s A Good Day”
(b) There is
a one-fingered piano solo of “Thanks For The Memory” before Hope’s
entrance. Bing
and Bob re-enact a ‘conversation’ between two Mexican golf caddies, producing
the inevitable script ‘fluffs’ and ad-libbing.
(c) United
Artists UAK 30115 - “The Golden Age Of American Radio Starring Bing Crosby”
(Date shewn as 24.5.50 - Some
‘fly’ editing has taken place on this issue to make it appear that a portion of
the Chesterfield Show of this date, which also featured Bob Hope, precedes this
item).
Parrot PARCD001 (CD) - “Peggy Lee With Bing Crosby - It’s A Good Day”
Commercial Recording 28.7.58
“Bing Crosby traded gags with guest star, Bob Hope in one
of the best of The Philco shows on the ABC net, last Wednesday night
(15th). The
patter was free and easy with Crosby and Hope travelling down that well trod
road of reminiscences and recriminations. The boys bring out the best in each other and
they work together like an old team which can dump a prepared line for an ad-lib
at the proper spot.
Although transcribed and presumably, closely edited, this show had a
spontaneous quality rarely felt on the live comedy airers. One casual crack about Crosby bucking for a
CBS Capital Gains deal was aimed strictly for trade circle hepsters but was left in, anyway. Crosby and Peggy
Lee topped off the session with a couple of numbers rendered in their usual
palatable style.”
(“Variety”
22nd December 1948)
No. 85 22nd December
1948 (a)
Transcribed in Hollywood. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires and The Bob Mitchell Boy’s Choir.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Adeste Fideles
(b) with The
Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir & the Rhythmaires
*The
Christmas Song
(c)
*Jingle
Bells
(d) with The
Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir & the Rhythmaires
*White
Christmas
(e)
*The Small
One (A Christmas Play) (f)
with Ken Carpenter & supporting cast
*Silent
Night
(g)
with The Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir & the Rhythmaires
Silent Night
Closing Theme - The Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir
Notes:
(a) Refer to
notes for Programmes Nos.11 and 49.
(b) Sung in
Latin and then in English, accompanied by the vocal groups.
Commercial Recordings 1934, 12.11.35 & 8.6.42
(c)
Commercial Recording 19.3.47
(d) Commercial
Recording 27.9.43
(e)
Commercial Recordings 29.5.42, 19.3.47, 10.4.54 & 24.12.55
(f)
Commercial Recording 20.3.47.
(g) Commercial
Recordings 21.2.35, 13.11.35, 8.6.42, 19.3.47, 3.5.54 & 24.12.55
Bing Crosby will narrate
one of the most moving of all Christmas stories, Charles Tazewell’s “The Small
One,” during tonight’s broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p.m., over the
American Broadcasting Company and WTJS. The Mitchell Boy Choir, which appeared
with him in “Going My Way” and other films, will be Bing's special guests on the
same program and will be heard with him singing “Adeste Fidelis,” “Jingle Bells”
and “Silent Night.” Several of Hollywood's best known actors will join Bing in the
narration of “The Small One.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 22nd December 1948)
“Philco Television Playhouse’s
presentation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ on NBCTV, Sunday Night (19th) was a warm,
tender and wholly evocative interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. As an epilogue,
Bing Crosby made what was advertised as his first appearance on video, via films
with a rendition of ‘Silent Night’ but this highly publicised stint was
completely overshadowed by the preceding dramatisation. Film production on
the Crosby number which had the Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir backing up, was
disappointingly flat.
There was no mention of the fact that this section of the show was filmed
but viewers probably guessed it from the faded texture of the screen image. Crosby,
incidentally, has been seen on video before this in several of his old pics.”
(“Variety” 22nd December 1948)
No. 86 29th December 1948
Transcribed
in Hollywood on December 13.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and
The Mills Brothers.
Where The Blue Of
The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby, Peggy Lee & Ken Carpenter
*Cuanto Le Gusta
(b) with
Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
*The Night
Has A Thousand Eyes
(c)
I Got Lucky In The
Rain
Peggy Lee
Two Blocks Down And
Turn To The Left
The Mills Brothers
*Maybe
You’ll Be There
(d) with
Peggy Lee
Tea For Two
(e) String
Trio
*You Tell
Me Your Dream (f)
with The Mills Brothers
*On The
Banks Of The Wabash
(g) with The
Mills Brothers
*Far Away
Places (h)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Orchestra
only. Ripples
of laughter from the audience suggest that Bing may be clowning.
(b) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
Golden Age GA5023 - “One Hour From The Bing Crosby Radio Shows”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP711 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 4” (Recording
date shewn as 22.12.48)
GNP/Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Radio Years RY18 (CD) - “Bing Crosby On Radio In The Thirties” (Date
shewn as 1938)
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Riff CDPRGA
50290 (CD) – “Bing And His Gal Pals”
(c) Magic
AWE1 - “Bing’s Magic”
Shout! CD DK 31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
(d) Magic AWE1 -
“Bing’s Magic”
Wisepack Legends LECD119
(CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 2”
On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great Moments With Bing Crosby And Friends
From The
Radio
Shows”
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
(e) The trio
consists of Joe Venuti (Violin),
Perry Botkin (Guitar) and Phil Stevens (Bass).
(f) All Star
Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
(g) All Star
Products LP2001 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Philco Show”
(h)
Varese Sarabande CD 3020669052 “Bing Crosby – Crosby
Classics”
Commercial Recording 25.11.48
Bing Crosby will
bring some of the nation's top musical talent to his microphone tonight when he
welcomes the Mills Brothers, Peggy Lee, and Joe Venuti to The Bing Crosby Show
at 9:00 p, m, over WTJS-ABC…One of the first strictly instrumental numbers in
many a month of Philco Shows will be done on the program by Joe Venuti, Perry Botkin
and Phil Stevens - a jivey arrangement of the hit tune from “No, No Nannette” -
"Tea for Two”… Incidentally Crosby and the cast of his WTJS-ABC show will
receive the National Safety Council’s Green Cross of Merit for the part they
played in the successful safe winter-driving campaign last year. Bing is a
member of the NSC’s Motion Picture and Radio Committees and the award will be
presented to the “Groaner” during tonight’s broadcast. Also included in the
presentation telegram which Bing received from Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the National Safety Council, were announcer Ken Carpenter, musical director
John Scott Trotter and The Rhythmaires, all of whom are featured on Bing’s show.
(The
Jackson Sun, 29th December 1948)
No. 87 5th January 1949
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Harry James
and Betty Grable.
Where The Blue Of
The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*I’ve Got
My Love To Keep Me Warm
with Rhythmaires
*On A Slow
Boat To China
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue (c) Bing
Crosby, Ken Carpenter & John Scott
Trotter
Cottontail
(d) Harry James
(Trumpet)
‘The Horse Sale’
Sketch
(e) Bing
Crosby, Betty Grable, Harry James
& John Scott Trotter
What Did I Do? Betty
Grable
*My
Darling, My Darling
(f)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Orchestra
only (See Programme No. 86). There is laughter from the studio audience
and it seems apparent from Ken Carpenter’s opening remarks that Bing has been
‘conducting’ the orchestra.
(b)
Commercial Recording 28.7.58
(c) The
comedy theme, culminating in item (e), derives from Bing’s attempts to sell a
broken-down horse to Harry James. He first, outlines his scheme to Ken
Carpenter and introduces his ‘accomplice’ - John Scott Trotter as ‘Colonel Fred
J. Miles’.
During the ‘drive to the James’ residence’, Bing turns on the car radio
to hear a ‘Japanese disc-jockey’ introduce item (d)
(d) See note (c)
above.
(e) See note (c) above.
(f) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Bing
Crosby will give
the new-year something to talk about when he welcomes Betty Grable and
her husband
Harry James to his program at 9:00 p. m. over the American Broadcasting
Company
and WTJS. In one of her very infrequent radio appearances Betty will
sing a
torchy version of “What Did I Do” a number that lends itself ideally to
her type
of singing. In the patter portion of the show, Bing hits upon a broadly
nefarious
scheme to get rid of a broken down horse who has been eating his head
off in
the stable. It is Bing’s idea to sell him to Miss Grable and Harry
James, a couple
who have little if any use for any kind of horse, being solidly
addicted to more
modern means of transportation, that fact however is not made known to
Bing, until he gets a small lesson in nefariousness himself.
(The
Jackson Sun, 5th January, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and
Johnny Mercer.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*A Bluebird
Singing In My Heart (The Tra La
La La Song) (a) with
Rhythmaires
*I Got
Lucky In The Rain
Trouble Is A
Man Peggy
Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer
*Small
Fry
(b)
with Johnny Mercer
‘Georgia Mountain
Life’ Sketch
(c) Bing
Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Peggy Lee,
Ken
Carpenter & John Scott Trotter
*On A Slow
Boat To China
(d) with
Johnny Mercer & Peggy Lee
*So Dear To
My Heart
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 31.12.47
(b) New
updated lyric which is entirely different from the commercial issue.
Commercial Recording 1.7.38
(c) A bit of
rustic nonsense with Ken Carpenter narrating and playing the ‘circuit riding
judge’ and John Scott as “Grandpappy Trotter”. The sketch closes with item (d).
(d)
See note (c)
above. A
parodied version, dueted first by
Bing and Peggy Lee (“A Slow Mule To Memphis”) then by Johnny Mercer and
Peggy Lee (“A Slow Mule To Macon”). Later, the trio delivers a short reprise.
Commercial Recording 28.7.58
The South will be
on the spot tonight at 10 when Bing Crosby welcomes two top entertainers – songstress
Peggy Lee and composer-comedian-singer Johnny Mercer – to his program over
WCON-ABC. In the patter portion of the show, Bing and Johnny will exchange some
good-humored banter about the foibles of the South (from which Mercer hails).
Seems the two don’t see eye-to-eye on certain Southern customs, and Bing will
offer a few pointed suggestions about improvement, while Mercer will counter
with a description of his family’s planation which will put him in the “stranger-than-fiction”
category. Sounds like fun.
(The
Atlanta Constitution, 12th January, 1949)
“Three Net Duel For Crosby”
(Headline)
“The big guns of three networks will be turned on Fort
Crosby, this week with the simultaneous arrivals of William S.Paley of Columbia and James Carmine of
Philco. The
latter’s mission is clearly defined, to talk a new contract with the
actor/singer before the old one runs out in June. As for Paley, he’ll be around to throw the
cheque book at any or all who can dress up his network, with a flirty look in
his eye for El Bingo but on that score he’ll have plenty of competish from ABC which has gotten used to him by
now and NBC’s Sid Strotz who has Crosby in his Sunday
plans.
Naturally, Carmine has the last say but Crosby will have a voice in any
decision that will be made. Wherever Crosby goes, should he choose to
stray from ABC, it will entail a reversal of policy on pre-recorded shows. CBS has already
weakened on this front and NBC, it is said, is willing to make such a concession
as the price of bringing Crosby back to the network.
In his new
home, up on Monterey peninsular, just South of ‘Frisco, Crosby has fitted out a
recording studio that is said to approximate anything the networks have. It is slyly hinted
that Crosby may do some of his shows from there, taped on Ampex of which he is a heavy stockholder. NBC is making
frantic moves to repair the Sunday damage to its comedy block and would like
Crosby in there, not necessarily slotted opposite Jack Benny. The Jordans (Fibber and Molly) and Dennis
Day, have been overtured on
switching to the Sabbath but so far ‘no dice’. There’s a note of vindictiveness in NBC’s plan to rebuild its Sunday
powerhouse and the spleen would be vented on those deserters, Jack Benny and
Amos ‘n’ Andy.
Horace Heidt ‘may be moved
out of the Number One spot on radio’ if his rating doesn’t pick up. He’s in there for
thirteen weeks, on probation, that is. Crosby, it is said doesn’t like the idea at
all of giving battle to Benny. No one in the know is writing off Paley’s Hollywood visit as a social
call just because he’s bringing along the missus. The Jack Benny’s are tossing a
soiree for the
Paley’s on January 15th that will
bring out the town’s creme de la
creme and many a deal will start
with a handshake.”
(“Variety”
12th January 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on January 2.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Lasses White,
Ruby Dandridge, Ernest Whitman and Hattie McDaniel.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Little
Jack Frost Get Lost
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Maybe
You’ll Be There
‘Beulah’
Sketch
(b) Bing
Crosby, Hatty McDaniel, Ernest
Whitman,
Lasses White, Ruby Dandridge & Ken Carpenter
*Galway
Bay
(c)
Mine, All Mine
(d) Lasses
White
*A Little
Bird Told Me
(e) with
Hattie McDaniel & Ernest Whitman
*The
Missouri Waltz
(f) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Commercial
Recording 17.11.52
(b) The
sketch is built around the characters portrayed in Hattie McDaniel’s radio (and
later,
television) programme. The comedy theme concerns Bing’s attempts to get his
car fixed,
becoming involved in the domestic situation at ‘Beulah’s’. The sketch provides
the
framework for items (c) and (d) and leads to item (e).
(c) During
the course of the sketch {item (b)}, the radio is switched on in time to hear
Ken Carpenter as a disc-jockey, introducing this item and due to the dictates of
the script, we have the unusual situation of Bing dueting with one of his own recordings.
Commercial Recording 27.11.47
(d) See note (b)
above.
(e) See note
(b) above.
Viper’s
Nest VN-1003 (CD) – “Bing Crosby – Live Duets”
(f) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 9.6.39
Bing Crosby will entertain
a band of entertainers when Hattie McDaniel and the cast of her Beulah radio
show visit him on tonight’s broadcast of the Bing Crosby Show at 9:00 p. m., over
the American Broadcasting Company network and WTJS. Accompanying Hattie will be
Ernie Whitman. Ruby Dandridge and Lasses White, all of whom have won wide popularity
for their work in radio. Long one of Bing’s favorite cinema and radio characters.
Miss McDaniel has run up something of a record of her appearances in these two fields.
One of the movie roles for which she won high praise from the critics was that of
Mammy in “Gone with the Wind.” In the patter portion of the show, Bing will play the part
of a man whose car has broken down, and, in seeking help, runs across Hattie and the Beulah
cast, none of whom is of much assistance. In the end, Bing is forced to resort to
a non-mechanical genius who answers to Crosby…As part of the banter, Bing will
sing a short duet with himself, a reasonably ingenious trick in any league.
(The Jackson Sun, 19th January, 1949)
“CBS Has Crosby Surrounded” (Front
Page Headline)
“CBS Chairman, William S Paley from all indications has
scored his most notable coup with Bing Crosby reported as the latest of the
stars to latch on to ‘Paley’s
Comet’. Out of
the three networks jockeying for Crosby’s services, that have been operating in
high gear for the past week with Paley and ABC Prexy, Mark Woods, among those on hand to major domo
the manoeuvres, it look’s like Paley, alone, who is emerging triumphant. Nobody’s talking
about it in any positive fashion, for Hollywood appears to have learnt its
lesson on the penalty of 24 sheeted Capital Gains manoeuvres and thus inviting
D.C. repercussions but unimpeachable sources disclose that El Bingo is
practically in Paley’s backyard,
as far as Paley and CBS are concerned, this one is his greatest achievement, for
not only is a Crosby radio/television deal involved but the contractual
intricacies extend into Crosby’s Paramount Pictures deal. In effect it puts
CBS in the picture business through its buy-in on the Crosby-Par set-up. Just how closely
this manoeuvring encroaches on Capital Gains appears to be speculative at the
moment.
A high CBS spokesman made the ‘off
the record’ revelation that through the negotiations, Paley is buying into the
multiple showbiz corporations headed up by Crosby (of which there are about six)
but it is entirely exclusive of Crosby’s Decca holdings which won’t be
disturbed.
Chiefly, it gives Paley an exclusive on the singer as a radio/television
personality, transferring him from his present Wednesday night, ABC occupancy
into a similar Wednesday time segment on CBS, thus permitting the capture of a
sustained listening habit. CBS is already in negotiation with Philco,
Crosby’s current sponsor for continuance of the same bankrolling set-up. The purported
CBS/Paley ‘understanding’ (nothing’s been signed, as yet) comes at a time when
the Capital Gains fever is running low in the film/radio Mecca and in the face
of denials that Crosby is doing anything more definite than talk.”
(“Variety”
19th January 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (3rd January 1949). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and Abe Burrows.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*The Night
Has A Thousand Eyes
So Dear To My
Heart
Peggy Lee
*I Got
Lucky In The Rain with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Abe Burrows
It Ain’t Love I’m
Just Sick
Abe Burrows
‘The Purple
Phantom’ Sketch
(b)
Bing Crosby, Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
*We Are The
Bandits Bold (c)
with Abe Burrows
*When
You’re In Love With The Lover You Love (d)
with Peggy Lee
*California
(e) with
Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
*Tara
Ta-Larra Ta-Lar
(f)
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Bing can
be heard whistling during Ken Carpenter’s introduction.
(b) The
sketch takes the form of a comic operetta, written and narrated by Abe Burrows
(See also Programmes Nos.94 and 103) and provides the framework for items (c),
(d) and (e).
Accordion accompaniment is provided by Milton DeLugg and the parts of ‘The Purple Phantom’ and the
heroine, are played by Bing and Peggy Lee.
(c) See note
(b) above.
(d) See note (b)
above.
(e) See note
(b) above.
(f)
Commercial Recording 25.11.48
“Abe
Burrows who calls himself ‘a singer who can’t sing’, guested on Bing Crosby’s Philco road show along with
vocalist, Peggy Lee, last Wednesday (26th). It turned out to be one of the season’s
highs. High
spot of the show was a Burrows operetta, burlesquing the ‘Oklahoma!’- type
musical with Crosby and Miss Lee giving him an assist. It was
sure-fire.
Yocks started with a
‘jolly bandit-type song’, increased with a ‘love-type ditty’ and reached a
crescendo with a grand finale, ‘California’. Burrows said he’s terrific on television (a
lot of the guys in the trade will go along with him on that). He addended that he’s looking for a
bankroller: ‘If I stay out of work another year, is that a Capital Gain?’”
(“Variety”
2nd February 1949)
“Bing Bags Another Million”
(Headline)
“That $13,000,000 said to be laying around in CBS’ coffers,
spoiling to be spent, is now only $12,000,000. Bill Paley, last week, made a $1,000,000
notation on his cheque book stub after talking long distance to Bing Crosby, up
on the Monterey peninsular, following a few days conference with John O’Melveny,
Bing’s attorney and business intimate. The cool million went for a 25% interest in
one of the two Crosby Corporations which controls his radio and picture
activities. It
proved to be the ‘sweetener’ that stirred the deal to a full boil. Although everyone
concerned with the big push by the Paley raiders have had their lips buttoned,
it is fairly well established that Bing’s guarantee by CBS for a 39 week season
is approximately $500,000. This figure is said to be around $200,000
more than his current Philco-ABC seasonal take. The differential being in the nature of a
bonus arrangement because of Columbia’s greater collection of high power
stations which would necessitate fewer of the whistle stops which are now
supplementing the ABC line-up.
It is also
fairly certain that Crosby will hold the same 9 pm time on Wednesday which both
Philco and Crosby are said to have demanded and which is okey dokey with Paley because it fits so snugly into his plan to
build up another big night. He’s well satisfied with Sunday, Monday and
Thursday. The
big argument of Crosby’s that had to be batted down by Paley before the Groaner
would say, “I do” was the type and potency of programs to precede and follow
him. Now it’s
up to Paley to make good his promise, so the pressure is on again with MCA
running interference and doing the missionary work.”
(“Variety”
26th January 1949)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Gertrude Niesen and Jimmy Durante.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Little
Jack Frost Get Lost
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*My
Darling, My Darling
You Gotta Start Off Each Day With A
Song Jimmy
Durante
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante
& Gertrude Niesen
Heat Wave Gertrude
Niesen
*It’s Not
His Mind It’s His Music
(c)
with Jimmy Durante &
Gertrude Niesen
*Pretty
Baby
(d)
with Rhythmaires
*Far Away
Places
(e)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante & Gertrude
Niesen
Where The
Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Auditorium. (At the time of the transcription, Bing was
suffering from a heavy cold and this is apparent in the vocal items).
(b)
Commercial Recording 17.11.52
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(d) JSP CD702 (CD)
- “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll Roll Away”
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1946-1950”
Commercial Recording 3.12.47
(e) Commercial Recording 25.11.48
The warmth of
Gertrude Niesen’s voice
and the shadow
cast over the nation’s gopher holes when Jimmy Durante’s nose
intercepts the beam
of the spotlight will be Bing Crosby’s way of staving off “Six more
weeks of Winter”
during his Groundhog Day broadcast over WTJS-ABC tonight at 9:00 p. m.
As Bing’s
first guest, Durante will get things off to a rollicking start with a
description of his new business in San Francisco, an enterprise that
seems destined, in Bing’s opinion, to be a conspicuous success. That
patter will
be interrupted by Miss Niesen, who will sing a torrid arrangement of the popular, if not exactly
timely, “We’re Having a Heat Wave,” after which a humorous sketch dealing with Bing's
new home at Carmel. Cal., will feature Durante in the role of interior decorator.
(The Jackson Sun, 2nd February, 1949)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Connie Haines
and Groucho Marx.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*I’ve Got
My Love To Keep Me Warm
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Medley:
You Made Me Love
You
Connie Haines
The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
(c) Connie
Haines
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx and Ken Carpenter
‘Dr. Marx’s Clinic’
Sketch
(d) Bing Crosby,
Groucho Marx & Connie Haines
*When It’s
Night Time In Little Italy
(e) with
Groucho Marx
*Tara
Ta-Larra Ta-Lar
(f) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b) The Rhythmaires’ accompaniment amuses Bing and at one point he quips, “Are you all right?”
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(c) There is
a shout in the background during this item, to which Connie Haines replies,
“Pardon?”
Although what is said is unintelligible, it would seem from audience
reaction, that the unidentified voice could be Bing.
(d) The sketch
opens with Groucho Marx singing a snatch of a parodied version of “I Got Lucky
In The Rain”.
In his role as the surgeon, Groucho removes Bing’s ‘solid gold tonsils’,
thereby turning him into a soprano. This ‘soprano voice’ (Pat Patrick), essays
the first line of “Where The Blue Of The Night”.
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(f)
Commercial Recording 25.11.48
Bing Crosby can reasonably
expect to be tossed in a blanket of banter when he welcomes Groucho Marx to his
broadcast tonight at 9 p. m., over the American Broadcasting Company network and
WTJS. Singer Connie Haines will be Bing’s other guest on the show. San
Francisco’s sea food will provide the theme for Bing’s and Groucho withering
chit-chat over which there will be an occasional spray of sardonic jest about the
town’s hilly terrain. All this leads somewhat illogicality to Groucho’s discovery
that Bing is a sick man and on a hasty trip to a quonset hut clinic presided
over by the mustachioed maestro, with Miss Haines playing the part of a nurse. After
one of the most cursory examinations in medical history, Groucho decides that
Bing needs his tonsils out and proceeds to operate using all the technique he picked
up during a week s employment in a Chicago abattoir. By some miracle, Bing comes
out alive.
(The Jackson Sun, 9th February, 1949)
“Bing Crosby, who recently transferred his future
radio-television allegiance to CBS’ William S. Paley for a million dollars is
mulling a two-way program operation that maybe the answer to radio stars going
video yet domiciling in Hollywood. The whole problem of shifting their base of
operation to New York, key production centre of television, has become
increasingly vexing to top air personalities who, despite recognising that
sooner or later they must embrace TV, are nonetheless reluctant to relinquish
Californian climes.
With Hollywood retaining its grip on coast to coast radio production, the
LA to New York problem has been a major factor in stymying the pacting of big-time personalities for telly. It was considered
inevitable that someone would evolve a formula that in one fell swoop would
permit for simultaneous radio-video-casting to the theme of, ‘California, Here I
Stay’ and if Crosby pioneers the practice - which would involve taping (for AM
and kinescoping for TV) at one and the same time, it’s considered a certainty
that it would spark a succession of star-studded, simul-casts, emanating from the Coast. It would also
provide the impetus for the taping (such as Crosby, Groucho Marx etc.) of major
radio programs from here on in - a practice that has already been given the
blessing of Paley and NBC Prexy (until this year, it was strictly
verboten on both of the major networks).
Crosby it
is reported, is peddling his show for next season. Philco is now
paying him $25 (sic) a week for his taped program on ABC but the crooner it is
understood wants $27,500 for next season. That’s for radio alone but he wants a
simultaneous AM-TV show-casing on Columbia. This will be feasible by training the video
cameras on his program while its being tape-recorded, weeks in advance of
airing and kinescoping the stanza for a day and date release of the transcribed
TV version.
Such a parlay would also permit a separate sponsorship of the video
edition, with a commercial cut-in to dovetail with the AM commercial insert.”
(“Variety”
9th February 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on February 2.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Kay Starr and
Bob Burns.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Pretty
Baby
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*A Bluebird
Singing In My Heart
(The Tra La La Song)
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Kay Starr & Ken Carpenter
So Tired
Kay Starr
Comedy
Dialogue
(c) Bing
Crosby, Bob Burns & John Scott Trotter
*Just A
Gigolo
(d) with Bob Burns
(Bazooka)
*Galway
Bay
(e)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Burns & Kay Starr
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Bing
reaches a little for the last notes and concludes by singing, “Too high.....too
high”
Commercial Recording 3.12.47
(b)
Commercial Recording 31.12.47
(c) Bob Burns, Bing’s old sparring partner from the Kraft Music
Hall who had his own thirty minute radio show on NBC until 1946 and is now, a
rancher, claims that his animals are more contented when listening to Bing’s
voice and persuades him to make a ‘new recording’ of item (d).
(d) See note (c) above. A light-hearted version with laughter and
asides from Bing.
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Commercial Recording 2.3.31
(e)
Commercial Recording 27.11.47
Bob Burns, the man
who yielded to the overwhelming demand of his admirers and quit radio for a farm,
will tote his battered bazooka all the way from Arkansas to make a guest appearance
on Bing Crosby’s broadcast tonight at 9:00 p.m. over the American Broadcasting
Company network and WTJS. Bing also will have some help from Kay Starr, a girl who
knows a great deal about the way to handle a torchy song. In the patter portion
of the show, Bing and Burns dig into their rich pasts to fetch up a spate of reminiscence,
much of which concerns the rare old, fair old, golden days when the two worked
together in radio and television was hardly more than a gleam in Dr. Allen Dumont's
eye. From there, the boys go to work, figuratively, of course, on Burns' farm, a
rocky patch of ground which supports him in a manner endorsed by the more
austere type of hermit. Burns has some relatives around the place and they come
in for a bit of critical attention from him. Finally, he reports that his livestock
are all brooding over the fact that a recording he used to play to them--one of
Bing’s called “Just a Gigolo”--is worn out, a matter that is solved by having Bing
make another with Burns’ help.
(The
Jackson Sun, 16th February, 1949)
“CBS Sells Crosby (But Not To Philco)” (Front
Page Headline)
“Bing Crosby, who recently took the Capital Gains route to
CBS, has been sold by the network - all that remains is the signaturing. Columbia is keeping the new client under
wraps, pending the signed, sealed and delivered notation but a high net
spokesman admits that it is not Philco. Philco currently sponsors Crosby on ABC and
is paying $25,000 for the tape-record program. It’s known that CBS has been peddling the
Crosby package in recent weeks, at a larger figure and is now acknowledging that
the new bankroller will be paying more than $27,500 for him. The new sponsor is
reported to be Chesterfield and the deal is for Crosby’s radio show which will
continue to be taped in advance at the Coast but, as in all new Columbia
negotiations, it also embraces television with the new client having the first
TV crack at Crosby.
Crosby wants to kinescope his video show at the same time that it is
being tape-recorded, thus permitting for a simultaneous AM-TV spread. Crosby gets a
Wednesday night spot on CBS starting in the Fall although the exact time hasn’t
been set as yet.”
(“Variety”
16th February 1949)
“Bing’s 10G Fee On Ford Theatre” (Headline)
“Kenyon Eckhardt blew the lid off the $5,000 ceiling for
guest shots on Ford Theatre with well over the ceiling fees for Bing Crosby for
doing ‘Dixie’, next month. The Groaner will be paid $10,000 and Bob Hope
draws his established fee of $7,500 for ‘The Awful Truth’”
(“Variety” 16th
February 1949)
“As we became more familiar with tape, and as
blank tape became available from 3M and others, we found that we could do all
sorts of things that weren’t possible on disc. One time Bob Burns, the hillbilly
comic, was on the show, and he threw in a few of his folksy farm stories, which
of course were not in Bill Morrow’s script. Today they wouldn’t seem very
off-color, but things were different on radio then. They got enormous laughs,
which just went on and on. We couldn’t use the jokes, but Bill asked us to save
the laughs. A couple of weeks later he had a show that wasn’t very funny, and he
insisted that we put in the salvaged laughs. Thus the laugh-track was born. It
brought letters, because those big guffaws sounded ridiculous after the corny
jokes.
We considered the ability to splice in laughs a
technical achievement. We had to trim carefully so that, where we went into or
came out of a laugh, the levels would be the same as those on the laugh we were
replacing. It was pretty tricky; we had no way of fading in or out.”
(John T. Mullin, writing in High
Fidelity, April, 1976)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on February 7. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy
Lee and Abe Burrows.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Then I’ll
Be Happy (I Wanna Go Where You
Go) (a)
with Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
*So In
Love
(b) with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Abe Burrows
Tender Little
Foolish Moments
Abe Burrows
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Abe Burrows
‘The Duke Of Dittendorten’ Sketch
(c) Bing
Crosby, Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
*Dittendortenites Love Their
Pumpernickel
(d) with Abe
Burrows
*Royal
Wedding
(e) with Abe
Burrows
*It Means
That We Are We
(f) with
Peggy Lee
*Happy,
Happy, Happy Days
(g) with Abe
Burrows & Peggy Lee
*So Dear To
My Heart
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby, Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
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(b) Viper’s
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(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
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Commercial
Recording 4.1.49
(c) The
sketch is another comic operetta by Abe Burrows (See Programmes Nos.90 and 103)
and provides the framework for items (d), (e), (f) and (g).
(d) This item is a
parodied version of “The Blue Danube” and there is a reprise in the form of a
sung commercial (“Dittendortenites Love Their Philco Radios”) just
prior to Ken Carpenter’s reading of the usual commercial.
(e) See note
(c) above.
(f) See note
(c) above.
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(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee” (as “When A Man
Is A Man”)
(g) See note
(c) above.
Abe
Burrows, author of the song “Darling, Do You Remember the Night We Didn’t Do
Anything” and other unromantic-type tunes, and songstress Peggy Lee will be
Bing Crosby’s guests on tonight’s broadcast at 9:00 p. m., over the American Broadcasting
Company network and WTJS. In the patter portion of the show, Bing and Burrows will do a
typical-romantic-type operetta in which a typical mythical kingdom is at stake.
As the typical wise old counsellor, Burrows urges Bing to marry the Duchess of Dortendditten
pointing out that, since she is something of a wanton, he has nothing to lose but
his money, his reputation and his peace of mind. When Bing hesitates, Burrows resorts
to a strictly low form of persuasion by singing to him, offering a little number
called “Royal Wedding.” In retaliation, Bing counters with a song title “We Are
We,” which does much to explain that he is he and that Miss Lee is she. In this
number, he will have some help from Miss Lee. The operetta is brought to a
typical happy end with a typical happy ending song called “Happy Happy Happy
Days.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 23rd February, 1949)
“CBS, it is reported, pitched up Bing Crosby to
Kraft, his longtime sponsor in the Thursday night, NBC slot but the client
turned a deaf ear on the proposition, in view of the fact that Crosby took a
powder on the show, a few seasons ago. Oddly enough, it was the longtime association with the
Kraft cheese product which purportedly, influenced Crosby to nix recent overture
made by rival concern, Borden’s, to pick up the tab on his upcoming CBS program.”
(“Variety” 23rd February 1949)
No. 95 2nd March 1949
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Dinah Shore
and Burl Ives.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(b) Opening
Theme
*Sunflower
(c)
with Rhythmaires
*So
Tired with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dinah Shore
Always True To You
In My Fashion Dinah
Shore
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Burl Ives & Dinah Shore
*They Had
To Carry Carrie To The Ferry
(d)
*Clementine
(e) with Burl
Ives & Dinah Shore
Lavender Blue
(Dilly Dilly)
(f)
Burl Ives
*Far Away
Places
(g)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Burl Ives & Dinah Shore
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b) Bing
interrupts himself with a humorous ‘dig’ at one of the instrumentalists as
follows. “....of the night… Flashy… someone....Pay him by the note, hm?”
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Commercial Recording 29.10.63
(d) Bing sings a
chorus of this to (his own?) ukulele accompaniment.
(e) A very
light-hearted version with additional guitar accompaniment by Dinah Shore, amid
much
laughter
and ad-libbing which includes a fragment of “The Whiffenpoof Song” by Bing.
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Stranger”
Commercial
Recording 14.6.41
(f) JASBOX 14-4
(CD) - “Burl Ives: the Golden Years of The Wayfaring Stranger”
(g) Commercial Recording 25.11.48
Burl Ives, the man
mountain of minstrelsy, and Dinah Shore, will be Bing Crosby’s guests on tonight’s
broadcast at 9:00 p. m. over the American Broadcasting Company network and WTJS…
In the good-natured banter, Bing and Miss Shore swap some salty chatter about the
song business with which they are reasonably familiar, and in the course of
their chit-chat they touch upon a number of fresh anecdotes about the game. As
a finale to their suave persiflage, Miss Shore will sing the bubbly new Cole
Porter tune, “True to You Darling, in My Fashion.” Troubadour Ives, a handy man
around a goat, will bring Bing some news of his ranch at San Fernando Valley, after
which both boys take a somewhat acidulous view of the other’s chances of surviving
in television. After trading a spate of oral wallops, the contest reaches a
no-decision finish. Miss Shore will team up with Bing and Ives to tryout a real
television routine offering “Clementine,” following which Ives will chant one of
his most popular numbers, “Lavender Blue.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 2nd March, 1949)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee,
Elliott Lewis and Phil Harris.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Busy Doing
Nothing
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*So In
Love
(c) with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing
Crosby, Phil Harris, Peggy Lee,
Elliott Lewis & John Scott Trotter
When Is
Sometime?
Peggy Lee
*If You
Stub Your Toe On The Moon
(e)
with Rhythmaires
*Once And
For Always
(f)
with Peggy Lee
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b)
Commercial Recording 27.12.47
(c)
Commercial Recording 4.1.49
(d) The comedy
theme concerns an attempt by Phil Harris to ‘unload’ an unwanted ‘lodger’ in the
shape of
‘Frankie’, his guitarist, played by Elliott Lewis.
(e) Viper’s
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Commercial
recording 30.12.47
(f) Viper’s
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(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Commercial Recording 18.12.47 & 27.12.47
Phil Harris, a familiar
figure in radio and an unfamiliar figure in public libraries and art galleries,
will join Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee on tonight’s broadcast at 9:00 p. m., over the
American Broadcasting Company network. The two will help Bing introduce some of
the songs from Bing’s new Technicolor movie, “Connecticut Yankee”… In the battle
of banter feature of the show, Harris brings his guitar player Frank Remley, to
Bing in quest of a job. Although out of work, the guitarist is pretty gainfully
unemployed according to Harris since he is living off the maestro. The latter is
nothing if not fulsome in his praise of the guitarist’s talents and Bing is on
the point of hiring him but decides to have his knowledge tested - a chore he calls
upon John Scott Trotter to perform. Trotter does a highly competent job and polishes
off the indigent but well-nourished guitarist in record time.
(The
Jackson Sun, 9th March, 1949)
No. 97 16th March
1949
(a)
Transcribed
in San Francisco on February 21 (b).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Peggy Lee, Joe Venuti, Jack Teagarden
and Louis Armstrong.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*You
Was
(c) with Peggy
Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing Crosby,
Louis Armstrong, Joe Venuti &
Jack Teagarden
Panama Louis
Armstrong (Trumpet), Joe Venuti (Violin) &
Jack Teagarden (Trombone)
Lazy River
Louis Armstrong (Vocal & Trumpet)
*Lazybones
(e) with
Louis Armstrong (Vocal)
Rockin’ Chair Louis
Armstrong (Vocal & Trumpet & Jack
Teagarden (Vocal & Trombone)
*Galway
Bay
(f)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee &
Jack
Teagarden
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) A large
part of the programme was issued on Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”. All of the musical
numbers with the exception Of “Galway Bay” are included and most of the linking
dialogue is featured.
(b) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre. See item (e) below.
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(d) Includes a
fragment of “Skeleton In The Closet” sung by Bing in reminiscence of the film
“Pennies From Heaven”.
(e) All Star
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From The Radio Shows”
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(f)
Commercial Recording 27.11.47
Louis Armstrong, that
great man himself, known to a large army of fans as “Mr. Jazz in Person,” will
join Jack Teagarden, Joe Venuti and Peggy
Lee as Bing Crosby’s guests…Other top-ranking instrumentalists who will be
heard along with them are Buddy Cole, Perry Botkin, Red Nichols, Nick Fatool, Bobby
Guy, Lou McGarrity and Jack Mayhew. In the good-natured banter canter which is
a feature of the program, Bing, Armstrong and Teagarden dig freely into their
rich pasts, using needles for the purpose. They manage to excavate a spate of rusty
reminiscence dealing with their early days in music, a period identified in many
minds with the Stanley Steamer automobile.
(The
Jackson Sun, 16th March, 1949)
“Bing Crosby’s half-hour, CBS program to tee-off in
September will cost Chesterfield from $30,000 to $35,000 a week. It’s understood
that CBS which owns and sold the package, guarantees Crosby $8,500 a show, net
to himself.
How much more he will receive on the bonus plan is not yet been
estimated. No
time has been set, although it will be Wednesday and the format of the show is
still nebulous.”
(“Variety” 16th March 1949)
No. 98 23rd March 1949
Transcribed
in San Francisco on March 4 (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Ethel
Merman.
*Where The
Blue of The Night Opening
Theme
*Busy Doing
Nothing
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*So
Tired
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Ethel Merman
Medley: -
Your All Time Flop Parade
(d)
Rhythmitis
Ethel Merman
*Grace
*There’s A
Flaw In My Flue
with Ethel Merman
*On A Rainy
Day with
Ethel Merman
*Silver
Coated Moon
(e) with Ethel
Merman
*Once And
For Always
(f)
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Ethel Merman
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b)
Commercial Recording 27.12.47
(c) Magic
DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
(d) See Programme
No. 39 Note (c).
Ken Carpenter reads the usual ‘commercials’ which include brief vignettes
featuring Bing, Ethel Merman and John Scott Trotter. On this occasion,
the product advertised is ‘Air’.
Viper’s Nest VN-1003 (CD) – “Bing Crosby Live Duets”
Parrot
PARCD005 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And His Hollywood Guests - Hollywood Guys And Dolls
- Volume 1”
(All vocals from the medley are included with the exception of “Silver
Coated Moon”)
Riff CDPRGA 50290 (CD) – “Bing And His Gal Pals”
(e) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
(The
selection represented on the above-mentioned issues is a curious hybrid,
comprised of a ‘cod’ commercial from ‘The Flop Parade’ on Programme No. 70 plus
this song).
(f) Commercial Recordings 18.12.47 and 27.12.47
Ethel Merman, the
girl with a voice as high as a star, will be Bing Crosby’s guest on tonight’s broadcast…
Miss Merman, who recently finished a three-year run on Broadway in “Annie, Get
Your Gun,” made a special trip to the west coast to be with Bing on the March
23 broadcast…In the badinage portion of the show, Miss Merman will tell Bing about
her trip to the coast, a pilgrimage on which she had a small amount of trouble with
her car. The subject is one that Bing knows something about, since he has had
some trouble with a small car of his own. Following this, Miss Merman agrees to
join Bing in a new “Flop Parade,” which is a parody on a popular radio program.
(The
Jackson Sun, 23rd March, 1949)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Dennis
Day.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(b) Opening
Theme
*Sunflower (c) with
Rhythmaires
*Why Can’t
You Behave
(d) with Buddy Cole
(Piano)
Comedy Dialogue (e) Bing
Crosby, Dennis Day & ‘Mildred’
*Clancy
Lowered The Boom (f) with
Dennis Day
*While The
Angelus Was Ringing
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Dennis Day & ‘Mildred’
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b) Bing
interrupts his opening theme after “Someone....” with, “You’re pretty busy,
aren’t
you?....Yes!” There is no explanation for this comment.
(c) Magic
DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
Commercial Recording 29.10.63
(d) Magic DAWE48
(CD) - “Bing Swings”
Commercial Recording 4.1.49
(e) During
the comedy dialogue the role of Dennis Day’s ‘girl friend’ (‘Mildred’) is played
by Janet Waldo.
(f) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends” and Japanese
MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio
Show”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP707 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 2”
GNP/Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
Varese Sarabande CD 3020668762 “Bing Crosby – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
Dennis Day, a highly
solvent young man with an Irish tenor, and two radio shows, will be Bing Crosby’s
guest on tonight’s broadcast. Bing and Dennis will sing “Clancy Lowered the Boom,”
a recent Day recording which has become a national best-seller. The version the
boys have prepared for the broadcast departs substantially from the disc, being
done in what is the called the high, wide and hilarious style…In the badinage and
banter segment of the show, Day comes to Bing with a problem of the heart. His
girl friend, played by Janet Waldo, has fallen in love with Bing in the manner usually
described as “helplessly” and Day figures that Nature will offer some corrective if he can bring the two principals together.
His instinct proves to be a sound one.
(The
Jackson Sun, 30th March, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on March 13.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Kay Starr and
James Stewart.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*If You
Stub Your Toe On The Moon
(a)
with Rhythmaires
*Once In
Love With Amy
(b)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Kay Starr
You Broke Your
Promise
Kay Starr
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Ken Carpenter
‘The Babysitter’
Sketch
Bing Crosby & James Stewart
*You
Was
(c) with
Kay Starr
*While The
Angelus Was Ringing
(d)
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & James Stewart
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Note:
(a) Commercial
Recording 30.12.47
(b) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(c) Viper’s Nest VN-1003 (CD) – “Bing Crosby Live Duets”
(d) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
James Stewart, a young
man whose unmarried state is gradually assuming the importance of a national disaster,
will share the guest spotlight with Kay Starr on Bing Crosby’s show tonight… Stewart’s
bachelorhood provides the theme in the badinage and banter portion of the show,
being a subject of some familiarity to most people. In this case, Bing hits upon
the idea of having his guest try his band at baby-sitting on the theory close to
the hearts of all gamblers that beginners are apt to be lucky. The baby is a beginner as Bing points
out and so is Stewart. So the odds on a happy outcome are top heavy. Never was a
man more mistaken, though. As it turns out, Stewart, a man who knows when he’s licked,
walks out on the infant after his (Stewart’s) crooning brings on some of the loudest
wailing ever produced by a radio sound effects department.
(The
Jackson Sun, 6th April, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and
The Gonzaga University Glee Club.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee & Ken Carpenter
*Easter
Parade
(a)
with Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
*A Bluebird
Singing In My Heart
(The Tra La La La
Song)
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Gonzaga
Men
(c) with The
Gonzaga Glee Club
*You Tell
Me Your Dream
with The Gonzaga Glee Club
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee
*Down The
Old Ox Road
(d) with
Peggy Lee & The Gonzaga Glee Club
Comedy
Dialogue
(e) Bing
Crosby, Peggy Lee, Ken Carpenter & John Scott
Trotter
Were You There When
They Crucified My Lord? The Gonzaga Glee Club
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 1.6.42
Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
(b)
Commercial Recording 31.12.47
(c) Written
by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, this song was officially adopted by
Gonzaga University.
(d) Varese Sarabande CD 3020669052 “Bing Crosby – Crosby
Classics”
Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recordings 16.6.33 and 3.5.54
(e) This item develops into a series of vignettes, purportedly depicting Bing’s college days at Gonzaga University.
Bing Crosby, alumnus
of Gonzaga, the university which hasn’t won a football game in seven years, will
play host to the school’s glee club on tonight’s broadcast of the Bing Crosby Show
at 9:00 p. m…. Peggy Lee also will be on hand to sing and chat with Bing about
the deleterious effects of higher education…In the rib and jape portion of the show,
Bing's career at Gonzaga undergoes the searching scrutiny of announcer Ken Carpenter,
Al (sic) Kantor and Miss Lee, with Bing emerging from the session in a somewhat
battered condition. Later in the program, the Gonzaga Glee Club will sing, with
some help from Bing, “Gongaza Men,” the school's new official song written by Johnny
Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen. Bing and the 30 members of the club will do “You Tell
Me Your Dreams,” and Miss Lee will join Bing in the popular "Down the Old
Ox Road.” The closing song, sung by the Glee Club, will be the spiritual “Were You
There.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 13th April, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on April 4.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Walter O’Keefe
and Rudy Vallee.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Cruising
Down The River
(f)
with Rhythmaires
*Why Can’t
You Behave?
(a) with
Buddy Cole (Piano)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee & Walter O’Keefe
‘Early Days’
Sketch
(b) Bing
Crosby, Rudy Vallee & Walter O’Keefe
My Time Is Your
Time
(c)
Rudy Vallee
*I
Surrender, Dear
(d)
*Hand Holdin’ Music
(e)
with Rudy Vallee & Walter O’Keefe
*While The
Angelus Was Ringing
with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee & Walter O’Keefe
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 4.1.49
(b) The
sketch depicts the ‘young’ Bing trying to break into show business, by
attempting to enlist the aid of the already successful Rudy Vallee. The sketch includes
items (c) and (d).
(c) See note
(b) above. One
Chorus only.
(d) See note (b)
above. A
snatch only, by Bing as he demonstrates his crooning technique.
Commercial Recordings 19.1.31, 31.3.39 and 24.4.54
(e) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
Japanese MCA 9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP711 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 4” (Recording date shewn as 13.4.49)
GNP/Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
(f) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Rudy Vallee and Walter O’Keefe visit Bing Crosby tonight at 9 p.m. over
WJTS-ABC to talk about the trio’s early days in show business…One of Walter O’Keefe’s
newest compositions, “Hand Holding Music,” a hill-billy ballad gets the full
introductory treatment as Bing, Rudy Vallee and O’Keefe sing it for the first
time on the air. Rudy Vallee comes in for plenty of kidding from the other two
as they rehash their early vaudeville days…
(The Jackson Sun, April 20, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on March 21.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and
Abe Burrows.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*How It
Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies (a) with
Rhythmaires
Bali Ha’i Peggy
Lee
*Be-bop
Spoken Here
(b) with
Peggy Lee
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Abe Burrows
‘Upper Peabody
Tech’ Sketch (c) Bing
Crosby, Abe Burrows & Peggy Lee
*Upper
Peabody Technological College (d) with Abe
Burrows & Rhythmaires
She’s The
Sweetheart Of Delta Delta Tau (e) Abe
Burrows & Peggy Lee
*John C.
Schultzenhammer High
(f)
with Abe Burrows
*Some
Enchanted Evening
(g)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 18.3.49
(b) Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Commercial
Recording 14.4.49
(c) The
sketch takes the form of another comic operetta, written by Abe Burrows (See
Programmes Nos.90 and 94).
Accordion accompaniment is provided by Milton DeLugg and the ‘score’ consists of items (d), (e)
and (f).
(d) See note (c) above. There is also a short reprise of this item serving as the finale for the ‘operetta’.
(e) See note
(c) above.
(f) See note
(c) above.
(g) Commercial Recording 10.3.49
“I’m-a-Singer” Abe Burrows will toss in his pom-pom with
“I’m-a-Crooner” Bing Crosby to premiere a college type operetta, titled “Zeta Ate
a Theta,” during the comic-type comedian’s third come-back on the WTJS-ABC broadcast
of The Bing Crosby Show tonight at 9:00 p.m. The song satirist’s original operetta
will feature a long-grin overture. “Upper Peabody Tech,” and “Victory Song” sung
by Bing, Abe, and Peggy Lee, as well as “Delta Delta Tay” and the “High School Song.”
Bing and Peggy will introduce a new be-bop novelty, and
Burrows, who is said to sing in Nelson Eddy’s key with Andy Devine’s tonal purity
and Archie-of-Duffy’s-Tavern’s diction, will explain be-bop talk. According to Burrows,
the expressions “cool, crazy and that’s the most” are commonly translated “fine,
wonderful and terrific.”…
During a Bing Crosby rehearsal at ABC, the informality
of the session often is highlighted by the unscheduled arrival of other celebrities
of radio and films, who drop in to exchange hellos with Der Bingle. At a recent
rehearsal, for example, Buddy Clark, Gordon MacRae, Dennis Day and Wingy Manone
were individual guests within the space of two hours.
(The Jackson Sun,
27th April, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (18th April 1949). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Carole Richards and Alec Templeton.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*Everywhere
You Go
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Again Carole
Richards
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Alec Templeton
‘A Connecticut
Disc-Jockey In
King Arthur’s Court’ Sketch
(c) Bing
Crosby & Alec Templeton
I Took My Harp To A
Party
(d) Alec Templeton
(Piano & Vocal)
*I Like
Kissing
(e) with
Carole Richards & Alec Templeton (Piano)
Buon Giorno, Bing Crosby
(f) Alec
Templeton (Piano & Vocal)
*Far Away
Places
(g) with Alec
Templeton (Piano)
*Philco
Commercial
(h) with Alec
Templeton (Piano & Vocal), Carol Richards
& Ken Carpenter
*Bali Ha’i
(i)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) The
programme opens with much laughter and Bing can be heard saying, “Are you
ready?....I don’t feel it yet....I’m waiting for the message....I don’t get the
message....Now I got it!” before commencing the
opening theme.
(b)
Commercial Recording 18.3.49
Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
(c) The
comedy theme has Bing and Alec Templeton as mediaeval disc jockeys introducing
various
‘requests’. Alec Templeton also assumes the parts of
Beethoven and Verdi and plays
fragmentary, illustrative piano solos. Items (d), (e), (f)
and (g) are included within the framework
of the
sketch.
(d) See note (c)
above.
(e) See note
(c) above.
(f) See note
(c) above. A
parody to the music of Verdi.
(g) Performed
in a comic manner with Alec Templeton providing piano accompaniment in
pseudo-Verdi style.
(h) An
extended sung commercial which is a continuation of the theme developed in item
(c). Performed
in operatic style (‘Opera Commerciale Di Philco’), there are strong similarities,
particularly in the orchestral overture, to the version heard on Programme No.
71 {item (g)}.
(i)
Magic AWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
Commercial Recording 10.3.49
Alec
Templeton, a very deft gent at a piano keyboard, and singer Carol Richards will
be Bing Crosby's guest on tonight’s broadcast …Miss Richards, making her first appearance
on the show, will fly here from Las Vegas, Nev., where she currently is appearing
at “El Bingo” Club, a pleasure den connected neither with Bing nor with the bucolic
pastime of the same name. She is well known to most Hollywoodites for her work
at the Oasis, where she has performed a number of times during the past three
years. Templeton and Bing, a couple of old hands at the badinage business, will
trade pleasantries about the world of music as a prelude to a brand new operetta
the two agree to collaborate on. During the chit-chat, Templeton will do a song and piano
solo version of the popular “I Took My Harp to a Party.” In the second portion
of the show, Bing and Miss Richards will salute the vernal urge with “I Like Kissing,”
following which Templeton and Bing will do “Far Away Places.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 4th May, 1949)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (a).
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Peggy Lee and Alec Templeton.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*How It
Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies (b) with
Peggy Lee
*Riders In
The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (c) with
Perry Botkin (Guitar) & Issy Rosenbaum
(Bass)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Alec Templeton & Peggy Lee
*Far Away
Places
(d) with Peggy Lee
& Alec Templeton (Piano)
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby, Alec Templeton & Peggy Lee
‘Trip To Hawaii’
Sketch
(e) Bing
Crosby, Alec Templeton & Peggy Lee
*Blue
Hawaii
(f) with
Peggy Lee & Alec Templeton (Piano)
Bali Ha’i
(g) Peggy
Lee
*Sweet
Leilani
(h) with Alec
Templeton (Piano & Vocal)
*Philco
Commercial
(i)
with Peggy Lee & Alec Templeton (Piano &
Vocal)
*Some
Enchanted Evening
(j)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Theatre.
(b) Sun 2108
(CD) – “El Rancho Grande – Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
Commercial
Recording 18.3.49
(c) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 22.3.49
(d) A repeat
performance of the version described in Programme No. 104 Note (g). This time with the
additional assistance of Peggy Lee.
Commercial Recording 25.11.48
(e) The
sketch includes, incongruously enough, a bagpipe solo by Alec Templeton and
provides the framework for items (f), (g) & (h).
(f) See note (e) above. Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recordings 23.2.37 & 24.4.54
(g) See note
(e) above.
(h) See note
(e) above.
Alec Templeton’s contribution consists of a vocal impression of chords
played by an Hawaiian guitar.
Commercial Recordings 23.2.37 & 3.5.54
(i)
This sung commercial, (“You Ought To Get A Portable Philco”) concludes
with a brief parody of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.
(j)
Commercial Recording 10.3.49
For the
second successive week, Alec Templeton, the talented and versatile pianist, and
singer Peggy Lee will be Bing Crosby’s guests tonight… The two will travel down
from Hollywood, a trip made necessary by the fact that Bing is here to shoot a number
of scenes for his forthcoming movie, “Ridin’ High,” a picture with a race track
theme. Templeton has created a new musical commercial for the San Francisco broadcast,
a humorous song-and-piano number which uses for background music a number of
well-known “blues” tunes, He wrote the piece at Bing’s suggestion, following
the enthusiastic response that greeted a musical commercial he composed for last
week’s broadcast, called “Opera Commercial.”
(The
Jackson Sun, 11th May, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood on May 2
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Rhonda Fleming
and Johnny Mercer.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Careless
Hands
(a) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer
*The Glow
Worm
with Johnny Mercer with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Rhonda Fleming
*When Is
Sometime?
(b)
with Rhonda Fleming
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer & Rhonda Fleming
‘A Georgia Cotton
Chopper In
King Trotter’s Court’ Sketch
Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Rhonda Fleming,
Ken Carpenter & John Scott Trotter
*Small
Fry
(c) with Johnny
Mercer
*Again
(d)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 22.3.49
(b) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(c) Updated
version, see Programme No. 88 Note (b).
Commercial Recording 1.7.38
(d)
Commercial Recording 23.6.60
Johnny Mercer, a man
who would just as soon write a song as sing one, and Rhonda Fleming, currently appearing
in the movie, “A Connecticut Yankee,” will be Bing Crosby’s guests on tonight’s
broadcast… A pal of Bing's since their days together with Paul Whiteman, Mercer
has turned out half a dozen hit tunes, including “Lazybones,” “Spring Is in My Heart,”
“While We Danced at the Mardi Gras” and “Pardon My Southern Accent.” Miss Fleming
won the job of appearing opposite Bing in “A Connecticut Yankee” by adlibbing a
scene with him in a test sequence.
(The
Jackson Sun, 18th May, 1949)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Dorothy Kirsten.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*Why Can’t
You Behave? (b)
with Buddy Cole
(Piano)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dorothy Kirsten
My Man’s Gone
Now Dorothy
Kirsten
*Riders In
The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (c) with
Perry Botkin (Guitar) & Phil Stevens (Bass)
‘Which Way Did They
Go,
Pardner?’
Sketch
(d) Bing
Crosby, Dorothy Kirsten, Joe Venuti & Ken
Carpenter
*La Pasta
Marinari
(e) with
Dorothy Kirsten & Joe Venuti
*I’m An Old
Cowhand
(From The
Rio Grande) (f)
with Dorothy Kirsten & Joe Venuti
*You’ve
Been Poisoned By Giuseppe
(g)
with Dorothy Kirsten & Joe Venuti
*Long Live
The Isle Of Stromboli
(h)
with Dorothy Kirsten & Joe Venuti
*Again
(i)
with Dorothy Kirsten
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Whistled
only.
(b)
Commercial Recording 4.1.49
(c)
Commercial Recording 22.3.49
(d) This comic
‘horse opera’ includes a version of “Home On The Range” played as an operatic
overture by the orchestra and also includes items (e), (f), (g) and (h).
(e) See note
(d) above.
Bing ‘fluffs’ his opening on this item, to the amusement of the studio
audience but after singing his part in operatic style, quips, “Better than you
thought, huh?”
(f) See note
(d) above. A
parodied version.
Commercial Recordings 17.7.36 and 3.5.54
(g) See note
(d) above.
(h) See note
(d) above.
(i) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 23.6.60
Horse Opera
replaces the Met when beautiful and blonde Dorothy Kirsten visits Bing Crosby tonight
at 9:00 p. m. over WJTS-ABC for a session of hilarious western drama. Jazz violinist
Joe Venuti joins Bing and Miss Kirsten in a parody on “I’m An Old Cow Hand,” in
the role of “Sagalong Cassidy.” Bing feels his oats as a star of the sage
brush, when the tune is done by the trio in real operatic fashion.
(The Jackson Sun, 25th May, 1949)
We
went down to
NBC to watch and hear Bing Crosby cut his last radio
show for
the season, and what fun. There’s always so much clowning around and
sometimes several songs sung, that never reach radio audiences by the
time the show
is edited to meet the half-hour time limit. We had to laugh, being very
“clothes conscious,” noting that Crosby, as usual, was wearing his
“sloppy
shirt motif, hanging carelessly outside his trousers,” but he obviously
goes to
the trouble of having his droopy drapes monogrammed, yet! Because there
were
his initials, all neatly hand embroidered on the breast-pocket!
Metropolitan
Opera star Dorothy Kirsten was on this show with him, and singing like
a bird.
But, honest, this is what she was wearing! A kelly-green, short-sleeved
cocktail dress of heavy silk shantung, with a high back and plunging
neckline.
A diamond and sapphire necklace (short but lavish with gems), a gold
wrist
watch and other unimportant gold bracelets, a big topaz and gold ring,
and gold
kid pumps! Now there’s a combination of clothes, jewels and shoes to be
studiously avoided!
(Photoplay, September, 1949)
No.
108 1st June
1949
(a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood.
Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires.
*Where The
Blue Of The Night
(b)
Opening Theme
*Buttons
And Bows
(c)
with Rhythmaires
*Cuanto Le Gusta with
Rhythmaires
*My
Happiness
*It’s
Magic
(d)
*So Dear To
My Heart
(e)
*Galway
Bay
(f)
*Cruising
Down The River
with Rhythmaires
*Maybe
You’ll Be There
*I Got
Lucky In The Rain
(g)
with Loulie Jean
Norman
*So In
Love
(h)
*On A Slow
Boat To China
(i) with
Gloria Wood
Medley:
(j)
*Far Away
Places
(k) with
Buddy Cole (Piano)
*So
Tired with
Buddy Cole (Piano)
*Powder
Your Face With Sunshine
with Buddy Cole (Piano)
*Some Enchanted Evening
(l)
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) This
final show for Philco is noteworthy in that there are no guests and the content
consists of an almost non-stop review of the top tunes of the past year. Bing sings all
fifteen of these popular songs of the day, many of them million-sellers for
other artistes, although he recorded only three of the titles, himself, during
the actual period covered. This, undoubtedly, due to the Musician’s
strike of 1948.
(b) Pre-show,
Bing can be heard making an unintelligible remark which vastly amuses the studio audience.
(c) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(d) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(e) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(f) Commercial Recording 27.11.47
(g) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(h) Commercial
Recording 4.1.49
(i)
Commercial Recording 28.7.58
(j) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(k) Commercial Recording 25.11.48
(l) Sepia CD 1353 "Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 10.3.49
Bing Crosby’s
final Philco Radio Time before summer vacation sets in finds the Great Groaner
offering a solid session of songs, in a recap of the 15 top tunes of the past
year. The show, to be heard tonight at 9:00 p.m., will be minus guests, as
Crosby, instead of following the usual format of the program, segues from one
tune to another. This special “All Crosby” show will have several famous
musicians “sitting in” for the occasion. Appearing as regular sidemen will be
Ziggy Elman, Red Nicholls, Joe Venuti and Buddy Cole. Lulie Jean Norman and
Gloria Wood, both pretty members of the Rhythmaires, will get duet spotlighting
on some of the songs.
(The
Jackson Sun, 1st June, 1949)
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