1942-1943 Season with the
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
Audience share is
23.1 during the season, which relegates the show to thirteenth place in the
Hooper ratings. Bob Hope heads the tables with a rating of 40.9. Bing’s salary
is $5,000 per broadcast.
With
Ken Carpenter, Mary Martin, The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, Victor Borge, Colonel S.R. Harris and Cass Daley.
*I’ve
Got A Gal In Kalamazoo
(a)
with
The Music Maids & Hal
Welcome Back To KMH
Ken Carpenter
& Mary Martin
Ten Little Soldiers
Mary
Martin
Cass Daley spot
Medley:
Frenesi, Daddy, My
Sister And I, Scatterbrain, Six Lessons
From Madame La Zonga,
I’ll Never Smile Again, Deep In
The Heart Of Texas,
There’ll Be Some Changes Made (b) Cass
Daley
*Conchita, Marquita Lopez
with
The Music Maids & Hal
Victor Borge spot
*Be
Careful, It’s My Heart
Ride, Red, Ride
The Charioteers (James Sherman - Piano)
All I Need Is You
The Charioteers (James Sherman - Piano)
*When You’re A Long, Long Way From Home
Colonel S.R. Harris spot
*Only Forever with Mary Martin
March from The Love
Of Three Oranges (Prokofiev) John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*A Boy In Khaki, A Girl In Lace
Notes:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(b) All titles are parodied versions.
‘Less gab and more music has been decreed for Kraft Music Hall when Bing
Crosby resumes on October 1st. Each program will have eight to ten
numbers’
(“Variety” 23rd September 1942)
"A 21-bell salute, please, Mr. Carpenter. Bing is
back. Forsaking the golf course and the race track for the nonce, Mr. Crosby supplants
brother Bob and again takes his place as the backbone and general raison d’être
of the old KMH. The show is still same expert blend of music, comedy and guest
stars and that inimitable spirited of good fellowship and effortless entertainment.
In addition to the usual regulars, there are the Charioteers.
Bing starts off with Kalamazoo, and as soon as the first notes are out you know that
everything is all right again. Later on he gives the old Crosby once-over to Conchita Lopez; Be Careful, It’s My Heart and Boy
in Khaki, and the season’s pops come into their own.
With Ken
Carpenter, Mary Martin, The Music
Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, Victor Borge, Milton Berle and Desi Arnaz.
*Ev’rything I’ve Got
with The Music Maids & Hal
Cow Cow Boogie Mary Martin
*Love Is
A Song
Milton Berle spot
Little David The Charioteers
Victor Borge spot
*Wait Till
The Sun Shines, Nellie
with Mary Martin
Colonel Harold Shannon spot (US Marines)
Can't Get Out Of This Mood The Charioteers
Desi Arnaz spot
Say Si Si Desi Arnaz
*By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
Dearly Beloved Mary Martin
Dengozo John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*White Christmas with The Music Maids & Hal
(A classic
example of ‘everything you read need not necessarily be true’ occurs when, in the programme
synopsis for this show, “The Chicago Daily Tribune” describes Desi Arnaz as ‘a songstress’!)
Comedian Milton
Berle and Desi Arnaz, Cuban screen, radio and night-club singer, will be Bing
Crosby’s guests in the KTBC “Music Hall” tonight at 8 o’clock.
(The Shreveport Times, 8th October 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Good. Bing had a terrible cold but got by all right. Borge started slow and nervous and worked into it."
With Ken
Carpenter, Mary Martin, The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, Victor Borge, Captain E. J. Burns, Charles
Ruggles and Cass Daley.
*I’ve Got
A Girl In Kalamazoo
with The Music Maids & Hal
Take Back Your
Gold
Mary Martin
Cass Daley spot
It’s The Last Time
I’ll Fall In Love
Cass Daley
*At
Last
Victor Borge spot
Jeg Elsker Dig (Ich Liebe Dich) (Grieg)
Victor Borge (piano)
De Glory Road
The Charioteers
*People
Like You And Me
(a) with Mary
Martin
Charles Ruggles spot
I’m Getting Tired
So I Can Sleep
Mary Martin with The Music Maids & Hal
*My
Buddy
(b)
Chaplain Burns spot
Dizzy
Fingers
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*My
Devotion
(c)
Note:
(a) Startone ST225 - “Bing And Mary”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Comedy introduction includes a snatch of “Goin’ Home”
(c) Startone ST225 - “Bing And Mary”
Cass Daley, the
comedienne of a thousand faces – most of them nightmarish, who rolls ‘em in the
aisle regularly with her raucous-voiced singing of zany ditties, again will be
a guest of Bing Crosby in the Music Hall tonight at 8 o’clock over WMAQ.
Completing the guest roster will be veteran film and stage comedian Charles
Ruggles and Capt. E. J. Burns, a chaplain of the U. S. army.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 15th October 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment:
Good. Daley really worked like a beaver, and even took a fall at the
end of her spot. We all disagree with Reber about the Charioteers'
number."
With Ken
Carpenter, Mary Martin, Victor Borge, The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, M/Sgt
Raymond B. Hunt, Judy Canova and
Andrew Tombes.
*Ev’rything I’ve Got
with The Music Maids & Hal
Clancy
Mary Martin
Judy Canova spot
Some Of These Days
Judy Canova
Swing For Sale (a)
The Charioteers
*S’Posin’
with The Music Maids &
Hal
Victor Borge spot
*Moonlight
Becomes You
*You Tell
Me Your Dream
with The Charioteers
Andrew Tombes spot
Serenade In Blue
Mary Martin
M/Sgt Raymond B. Hunt spot
*A Cranky
Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank
(b) with
Chorus
Pan Americana
(Herbert)
John Scott Trotter
Orchestra
*White Christmas with The Music Maids & Hal
Notes:
(a) Jasmine CD JASCD 714 "Swing Low, Sweet Charioteers"
(b) Sandy
Hook SH2100 - “The Music And Sound
Of World War II”
Sandy Hook SH2100 (CD) - “The Music And Sound Of World War II”
Judy Canova,
Andrew Tombes, stage and vaudeville performer for 40 years, now a character
actor in western films, and Master Sgt. Raymond B. Hunt, of 32nd
Armored Regiment were booked for the Music Hall, KFI at 6.
(Zuma Palmer, Hollywood Citizen News, October 22, 1942)
IN
REVIEW—The switch in format which apparently is to bring more singing to Bing
Crosby’s Music Hall makes this hour a much brighter revue and should improve
the program’s audience rating. At least, I find the music much more pleasant
that the show’s former routine which was heavy with script patter designed to
be funny.
The
master of ceremonies robe fits neatly about Bing's shoulders, and he supplies
enough light chatter to carry the hour aided in the chore nicely by Announcer
Ken Carpenter. The Crosby vocals, of course, top the program, for he's one of
the best popular singers in the business—if not the best.
The
Charioteers who have been singing on the show recently are a distinct asset.
Their harmonies are really lovely. Mary Martin is good in certain types of
melodies she offers on the hour. She's best, I think, in the sequence in which she's
heard with Bing when the two revive an old-timer. However, Miss Martin is weak
in line reading.
Victor
Borge’s comedy is pleasant enough and at times the comedian can be downright
funny.
John
Trotter’s Orchestra is one of the best. Trotter does an excellent job in
handling the vocalists on this hour and upon occasion the orchestra is capable
of handling an instrumental assignment which fits nicely into the program's
general pattern.
I
believe the guest names on this hour contribute their best efforts when
permitted to appear within the bounds oi their natural talents. They fail
miserably at times when they are asked to do something in the field of
entertainment with which they are unfamiliar. There are a few serious players,
no doubt, who can be made over for a brief moment into comedians. But it is much
better for such a program as this to permit each guest “to give" within
the limits of entertainment to which he or she is accustomed.
(Robert S. Stephan, The Plain Dealer, October 25, 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Good. Tombes spot a riot. We should use him again. First time on the air and he was nervous, but really delivered."
No. 267 29th October 1942
With Ken
Carpenter, Mary Martin, Victor Borge, The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers,
Photographer 1st Class Ted Huzerro USN, Eve Arden and Bob Hope.
*Praise
The Lord And Pass The
Ammunition
(a) with The Charioteers
Photographer 1st Class Ted Huzerro USN spot
My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier)
Mary Martin
Bob Hope spot
*Road To Morocco
with Bob Hope
*My
Devotion
(b)
Variations on
‘Happy Birthday To You’
Victor Borge (piano)
I’m Getting Tired
So I Can Sleep
Mary Martin
The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
The Charioteers
Eve Arden spot
Summertime
The Charioteers
*Dear Old Pal Of Mine
Another Bob Hope spot
*Mister
Five By Five
(c) with
The Music Maids & Hal
Memphis Blues John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*A Boy
In Khaki, A Girl In Lace
Notes:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(b) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(c) Startone ST225 - “Bing And Mary”
“Bob Hope will lead the guest list on Bing Crosby’s Music
Hall. With
Bing, he’ll premiere scenes and songs from their latest co-starring film, ‘Road
To Morocco’”
(“Washington Post” 29th October 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Great."
With Ken
Carpenter, Mary Martin , The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, Leo “Ukie” Sherin, Victor Borge, Mrs. Helen Fletcher, Colonel LeRoy P. Hunt, Richard Haydn and Cass
Daley.
*The
Marines’ Hymn
with Chorus
Colonel LeRoy P. Hunt spot
How Come You Do Me
Like You Do?
Mary Martin
Cass Daley spot
*Where Were
You Last Night?
(a) with Cass Daley
*By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
Victor Borge spot
Runnin’ Wild
The Charioteers
*Rolleo Rolling Along
(b) with Mary
Martin & The Music Maids
Richard Haydn spot
So Long
The Charioteers
*Sunday
Mrs. Helen Fletcher spot (Junior Red Cross)
*At
Last
Ukie spot
I See Your Face
Before Me
Mary Martin
Anvil
Chorus
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Daybreak
(b) & (c)
Notes:
(a) Bing’s
contribution is restricted to spoken comments only.
(b) Startone ST225 - “Bing And Mary”
(c) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
Joining Cass Daley
and Richard Haydn as guests on the Music Hall, KFI at 6, will be Col. Leroy P.
Hunt of the First Raider Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps., and Mrs. Helen
Fletcher, liaison officer of the Junior Red Cross.
(Zuma Palmer, Hollywood Citizen News, November 5, 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: O.K."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Hal, The Charioteers, Leo “Ukie” Sherin, Victor Borge, Mrs. Dolores Garcia Schober, Mrs. Vicente Lim, Ginny Simms, Edgar Buchanan and Edward
Brophy.
*Praise
The Lord And Pass The
Ammunition
with The Charioteers
Mrs. Vicente Lim spot (from Phillippines)
Mister Five By
Five
Ginny Simms
Edward Brophy spot
The Rose Of Tralee
The Charioteers
*Moonlight
Becomes You
Victor Borge spot
*Dearly
Beloved
with Ginny Simms
*Ain’t Got
A Dime To My Name
with The Music Maids & Hal
Edgar Buchanan spot
Brother Bill
The Charioteers
*June In January
Mrs. Schober spot (airplane factory worker)
Can’t Get Out Of
This Mood
Ginny Simms
Anvil
Chorus
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
Ukie spot
*Dear Old Pal Of Mine
Ginny Simms, popular
radio and screen vocalist, will join Bing Crosby, the Charioteers, The Music
Maids and Hal, Victor Borge, Ken Carpenter and John Trotter for a session of the
Music Hall tonight at 8 o’clock over WMAQ. Ginny will be the first of a series of
guest stars who will fill in during Mary Martin's absence to undergo an appendectomy
and take a rest. Dorothy Lamour will be the Hall’s guest vocalist for November 26,
Thanksgiving Day. In addition to Ginny Simms, Bing will welcome comedian Edward
Brophy and Edgar Buchanan, well-known character actor of the films, as special guests for the November 12
airing.
(Belvidere
Daily Republican, 12th November 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Very good, especially Mrs. Lim, who was just terrific. General remarks: Tremendous spread."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, The Charioteers, Leo “Ukie” Sherin, Victor Borge, Freddie Slack, 'Slapsie' Maxie Rosenbloom, Broderick Crawford and Ella Mae Morse.
*A Cranky
Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank
with The Music Maids & Hal
Sgt. William Fralish spot (tank trainer)
Cow Cow Boogie
Ella Mae Morse (with
Freddie Slack on piano)
Maxie Rosenbloom spot
Yamen The Charioteers
*Daybreak
Victor Borge spot
Brahms'
Waltz
Victor Borge (piano)
*Please Think Of Me
*Down The Road A-Piece with Ella Mae Morse & Wilfred Williams (with Freddie Slack on piano)
Broderick Crawford spot
*The
Yankee Doodle Boy (parody)
with Broderick Crawford
They Died With Their Boots Laced Ella Mae Morse (with Freddie Slack on piano)
*Over The Rainbow
Ukie spot
It Ain't
Necessarily So
The Charioteers
Dance Of The Marionettes John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*When You’re A Long, Long Way From Home with The Music Maids & Hal
Lloyd Nolan,
best-known to movie-goers as the intrepid sleuth Michael Shayne, Ella Mae Morse
and Freddie Slack, composers of the popular “Cow Cow Boogie,” and Slapsie Maxie
Rosenbloom will drop in for an hour of merriment with Bing Crosby and his colleagues
in the Music Hall tonight at 8 o’clock over WMAQ.
(Belvidere
Daily Republican, 19th November 1942) (NOTE: It appears that Broderick Crawford replaced Lloyd Nolan.)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Maxie great. Slack and Morse O.K., but specialized as all get out. Fralish a very bad reader. First bad serviceman."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, Victor Borge, The Charioteers, Virginia Weidler, Janet Blair and George Tobias.
*Praise
The Lord And Pass The
Ammunition
with The Charioteers
Lt. C. Dickenson spot (air medal, three Navy crosses)
*You’d Be
So Nice To Come Home To
with Janet Blair
George Tobias spot
Stormy Weather The Charioteers
*Moonlight
Becomes You
Victor Borge spot
Ev’rything I’ve Got Janet Blair
Brother Bill The Charioteers
Virginia Weidler spot
*People
Like You And Me
with Virginia Weidler
*San
Antonio Rose
with The Music Maids &
Hal
Patricia Thomas spot (CAA instructor)
All The
Things You Are
Janet Blair
Habanera John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*My Buddy
Janet
Blair, former vocalist with the band of the late Hal Kemp and now the
newest star in the Hollywood firmament, heads Bing Crosby's guest list
for the NBC-KMJ Music Hall broadcast at 6 o'clock this evening. She
will join Crosby in a vocal number and will trade repartee with others
of the cast and Virginia Weidler, young movie star, and George
Tobias, character actor. Miss Weidler also will join Crosby in a
duet...Representatives of Crosby's sponsor, Kraft Cheese Company,
announced today that the program will be cut to one half hour,
beginning with the broadcast of January 7th. War conditions are given
as the reason for the change. The general outline of the programs
will remain as at present.
(The Fresno Bee, 26th November 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: Good, except for Tobias spot. He seems more character than funny. Spot too. Blair swell."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, Victor Borge, The Charioteers, Marcy McGuire, Henrietta Horak (WAAC) and Dorothy Lamour.
*Ain’t Got
A Dime To My Name
with The Music Maids & Hal
Lt. Tom Skinner spot
Shadrack The Charioteers
Dorothy Lamour spot
*Road To Morocco (parody)
with Dorothy Lamour
Constantly Dorothy Lamour
Victor Borge, spot
Stardust The Charioteers
*Dearly
Beloved
Marcy McGuire spot
A Touch Of Texas Marcy McGuire
*Good
Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip
with The Music Maids &
Hal
Henrietta Horak spot
He's My Guy Dorothy Lamour
March Of The Toys John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*White Christmas
The Music Hall,
KFI at 6, will present Dorothy Lamour, Marsha Maguire, 16, RKO player, Henrietta
Horack , WAAC officer, and a glider pilot, in addition to the regulars.
(Zuma Palmer, Hollywood Citizen News, December 3, 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entertainment: OK."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, The Charioteers, Margaret Lenhart, Jinx Falkenburg, Richard Haydn and Cliff
Edwards.
*This Is
The Army, Mr. Jones
with Chorus
Lt. Commander I. S., Hartman spot
Manhattan Serenade Margaret Lenhart
Cliff Edwards spot
Singin' In The Rain Cliff Edwards
*Every
Night About This Time
with The Music Maids & Hal
Richard Haydn spot
Ride, Red, Ride The Charioteers
*Why Don’t You Fall In Love With Me? with Margaret Lenhart
Jinx Falkenburg spot
Let's Keep Smiling The Charioteers
*Bye, Bye,
Blackbird
with The Music Maids
*There Are
Such Things
March Of The Toys John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Daybreak
With Margaret
Lenhart and Cliff Edwards as his singing guest stars and the lovely Jinx
Falkenburg and comedian Richard Haydn as his cinema guests, Bing Crosby will
wrap up another hour-long edition of Music Hall at 9 p.m. Miss Lenhart, a
soprano, was last heard over NBC on Al Pearce’s program, and Edwards as “Ukelele
Ike” has a record of disc sales that still makes cash registers jingle jangle.
Miss Falkenburg, tennis expert, swimmer, magazine cover girl and model, is
Columbia Pictures newest star. Haydn is fondly remembered for his role of the
old professor in “Ball of Fire” and his frequent NBC guest appearances.
(The Bristol News Bulletin, 10th December 1942)
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, The Charioteers, Kay Aldridge, Edgar Buchanan, Lieutenant Frances Shoup and Trudy Erwin.
*San
Antonio Rose
with The Music Maids &
Hal
Lieutenant Frances Shoup spot
*Who
Wouldn’t Love You?
with Trudy Erwin
Edgar Buchanan spot
*Moonlight
Becomes You
Kay Aldridge spot
Oh! Dem Golden Slippers The Charioteers
*Basin
Street Blues
with The Charioteers
*For Me
And My Gal
with The Music Maids & Hal
J. L. Kraft speech
Prayer The Kraft Chorus
Prince Of Peace The Kraft Chorus
Patton speech Edgar Buchanan
I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep Trudy Erwin
Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Dearly Beloved
Kay Aldridge,
former Powers model and now a serial cinema queen; Edgar Buchanan, former
Pasadena dentist who is attaining fame as a film comedian; Lieutenant Frances
E. Shoup of the WAVES and Trudy Erwin, former member of the Music Maids and now
with Kay Kyser, will be Bing Crosby’s guests at 8 o’clock tonight over WMAQ.
(The Rock Island Argus, 17th December 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented:
"Technical: OK. Engineer got buck fever on second Kraft Chorus
number and cut out last third. In his favor is the fact that the chorus
spread very badly so by the time he cut them, although they still had
one-third to go, they had used exactly
the amount of time Chicago had given us for the whole number. Slightly
bad diction made it hard to follow their lines! Entertainment: OK."
No. 275 24th December 1942 (a)
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, The Charioteers, Janet Blair, Andrew Tombes, Jack Carson and Fay Bainter.
*Adeste Fideles
with the studio audience & company
Steam Is On The Beam
Janet Blair
Jack Carson spot
Red River
Valley (b)
The Charioteers
*Why Don’t
You Fall In Love With Me?
(c) with The Music Maids & Hal
Letter to
Virginia
Fay Bainter (Reading)
Sweet Little Jesus
Boy
The Charioteers
*You’d Be
So Nice To Come Home To
(c) with Janet Blair
Andrew Tombes spot
*Good
Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip (d)
with The Music Maids &
Hal
J. L. Kraft letter spot
That Soldier Of
Mine
Janet Blair
*God Rest
Ye Merry Gentlemen
(e)
The Toy
Trumpet
John Scott Trotter
Orchestra
*Silent
Night
Notes:
(a) The
complete programme was issued on Spokane 13 - “Kraft Music Hall –December
24th 1942”.
(b) Jasmine CD JASCD 714 "Swing Low, Sweet Charioteers"
(c)
So Rare: Treasures From The Crosby Archive – Collectors’ Choice Music
CD WWCCM21092
(d) Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
(e) Spokane 6 -
“Bing Crosby - Happy Holiday”
Vintage
Jazz Classics VJC-1017-2 - “Bing Crosby - The Christmas Songs” (Date shewn as 1st January 1942)
The comedy introduction includes Bing singing a few lines of “Good King Wenceslas”
Although credited
with sky-rocketing Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” to its immense popularity through
film and record, Bing Crosby won’t be allowed to sing it on his Kraft airshow Thursday
(24). Sensing there would be a rush of the tune, Martin Gosch, producer of the
Abbott and Costello program for Camel, cleared the song a month ago and immediately
put in his bid with NBC, which shut off the ballad from any other show airing within
two hours on either side of the Camel entry.
(Variety, 23rd December, 1942)
8 p.m. - Music Hall (WIBA). Bing
Crosby sings “Silent Night” and “Adeste Fideles,” and presents Fay Bainter,
Jack Carson, Andrew Tombes, and Janet Blair of the movies.
(Wisconsin State Journal, December 24, 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented:
"Entertainment: This was a great Christmas show. Every one did excellent
work. Blair was liked by the East. Charioteers "Little Jesus" was
really great. Bainter her usual high standard of excellence. "Silent
Night" complete on end. Worked perfectly."
No. 276 31st December 1942
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Hal, The Charioteers, Janet Blair, Richard Haydn, Johnny Mercer and Betty
Hutton.
*Hip, Hip, Hooray! with The Music Maids & Hal
Button Up Your Overcoat Janet Blair
Betty Hutton spot
Doing It For Defense Betty Hutton
*There Are Such Things
Babalu The Charioteers
Runnin’ Wild The Charioteers
Richard Haydn spot
*Every Night About This Time with The Music Maids & Hal
Johnny Mercer spot
Salt Lake City Blues Johnny Mercer
*On Behalf Of The Visiting Firemen with Johnny Mercer
*Let’s
Start The New Year Right
with The Music Maids & Hal
*Old
Glory
with The Music Maids &
Chorus
Signing off the
old year, Bing Crosby will have a full cargo of guests on tonight’s broadcast.
There will be Richard Haydn, Betty Hutton, Johnny Mercer and Janet Blair. Crosby
and Mercer are certain to team up on some of their recording efforts.
(The Minneapolis Star, 31st December 1942)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Entetainment: Great,"
(This programme was the last Kraft Music Hall in the 60-minute format.
Starting in the New Year, the shows were reduced to 30 minutes. This was a direct
result of the war.
More cheese than ever was being produced but the Government had blocked
off large allocations for the armed forces and lend-lease, requiring sales
promotion to yield to a goodwill exercise.)
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Janet Blair, Lieutenant Ralph W. Sweringer and Charles Ruggles.
*This Is
The Army, Mr. Jones
with The Music Maids & Chorus
Lt. Ralph W. Sweringer spot
Bye And Bye When The Morning Comes The Charioteers
*Why Don’t You Fall In Love With Me? with The Music Maids & Phil
Charles Ruggles spot
Street Of Dreams Janet Blair
*Ballin’ The Jack
Habanera John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Over The Rainbow
(a) with
The Music Maids & Phil
Note:
(a) So Rare: Treasures From The Crosby Archive – Collectors’ Choice Music CD WWCCM21092
(Last week, it was “The Music Maids and Hal”, this week “The Music Maids and Phil” - The Army had taken “Hal” away!)
Streamlined and
compact, Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall will go into a half-hour broadcast beginning
tonight on WIBA at 8 o’clock. Bing’s guests for the evening are Janet Blair and
Charles Ruggles of the screen.
(The
Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), 7th January, 1943)
Hal
Hopper is in the Army. So now those Hollywood Singers, the Music Maids and Hal,
will be known as Music Maids and Phil (Hanna, the old Al Pearce tenor).
(William
Moyes, Behind the Mike, The Oregonian,
January 14, 1943)
The
Kraft Music Hall last week (7) marked the turn into its ninth
consecutive year
of network broadcasting by telescoping its running time into half of
what it
has been all these years. The event was strictly a casualty of the war.
There’s
more cheese being produced by the corporation than ever before but the
Government has blocked off such a large proportion of it for the
armed-forces
and lend-lease that the question for Kraft became no longer one of
stimulating
sales, but rather that of maintaining a highly valuable goodwill
franchise, namely,
its weekly radio show. It solved that problem by reducing the length,
and not
the quality. All the elements that have made the ‘Hall’ one of the most
ingratiating packages of entertainment on the air are still intact. The
only difference
is that Bing Crosby doesn't sing as many songs and the name guest
performers
number one instead of an average two. The halving of the show may, as
has often
happened in network radio, result in a slight drop in rating, but
there's no
question that the listeners will still flock in substantial numbers to
the old stand on the dial of a Thursday evening to harken to Crosby's
quaint laryngeal
lyre and the smooth banter that overlays the interludes of crossfire
and
interview.
The
initial half-hour stanza found the country's current No. 1 minstrel-man
blending present pop tunes with standard melodies with dulcet hepness and
getting smart vocal support from Janet Blair, the Charioteers and Eight Maids
and Hal. Charles Ruggles made his guest stay sprightly amusing with a routine
on a Broadway pitchman. Another visitor was Lieut. Ralph W. Sweringer, who as
commander of Naval task forces in the Pacific, has had 10 different encounters
with the japs to date. Worthy of a special commendatory note is the fine bit of
home-front comment on the air that served the program for its fadeout, with
Crosby, of course, doing the delivery.
(Variety, 13th January 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
OK, Maybe a little heavy on strings. Entertainment: OK. Blair not up to
par, probably due to fight with Columbia. Commercial: OK, but long.
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Janet Blair, Lieut. Col. James Newman (balloon barrage unit) and Cass Daley.
*Hip, Hip,
Hooray!
with The Music Maids &
Phil
Lieut. Col. James Newman spot
Embraceable
You
Janet Blair
*Please Think Of Me
Cass Daley spot
I Ought To
Dance
Cass Daley
*Bob
White
with The Charioteers
*Lonesome
And Sorry
(a)
*There Are
Such Things
Note:
(a) The comedy
introduction includes Bing singing snatches of, “Looking At The World Through
Rose Coloured Glasses” and “Charmaine”
Cass Daley,
wild-eyed mugging songstress of the films, and Janet Blair will be Bing Crosby’s
guests in the Music Hall tonight at 8 o’clock over WMAQ.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 14th January, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented:
"Technical: O.K. Orchestral balance is now pretty good. Piano,
muted brass figures and fiddles in intro and orchestra choruses will
still need to be watched. Entertainment: Good. Commercial: O.K.
and short."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Pte. Mickey
Rankin and Andy Devine.
*Good
Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip
(b)
with The Music Maids &
Phil
Pte. Mickey Rankin spot
Stormy Weather
The Charioteers
*I’ve Heard That
Song Before
(c)
Andy Devine spot
*Some Sunny
Day
(a) with
The Music Maids & Phil
Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
The Charioteers
*Brazil
Note:
(a) As a
prelude to this item, John Scott Trotter sings a few lines of ‘Way Down Yonder
in New Orleans’ and Ken Carpenter then comes in with a few lines of ‘Stumbling
All Around’. Both are unaccompanied.
(b) Universal CD B0027588-02 "Among My Souvenirs - More Treasures from the Crosby Archive".
(c) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time".
Andy Devine,
raspy-voiced comedian of the films, comes to the Music Hall to visit Bing
Crosby tonight at 8 o’clock over WMAQ. Devine’s falsetto whisperings will
provide plenty of fun, but little competition for Bing and his M. H. regulars…
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 21st January, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Fair - still does not hang right or seem to be
right. Devine O.K. once he got rolling. General remarks: Charioteers and
piano started in different keys on second number."
No. 280 28th January 1943
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Ginny Simms
and Frank McHugh.
*Anchors
Aweigh
with The Music Maids &
Phil
*You’d Be
So Nice To Come Home To
(a) with
Ginny Simms
Yes, Indeed!
The Charioteers
Frank McHugh spot
*Why Don’t
You Fall In Love With Me?
with The Music Maids &
Phil
I’m Getting Tired
So I Can Sleep
Ginny Simms
*As Time
Goes By
Note:
(a) Spokane 5
- “Der Bingle - Those Great World War II Songs”
Double Gold DBG53042 (CD) - “Bing Crosby Those Great World War II Songs”
Comedian Frank
McHugh will drop in for the doings in the “Music Hall” over KTBS at 8 o’clock
tonight. In honor of President Roosevelt’s birthday, Bing Crosby the Hall genial
emcee, will sing “Anchors Aweigh,” one of the Chief Executive’s favorite songs.
Also, there will be a special plea for listeners to join in the March of Dimes
to help the fight against infantile paralysis.
(The Shreveport Times, 28th January, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical: O.K. Entertainment: Very good. Commercial: O.K. Only one. Kraft allowed us to cut two to make room for our allocation."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, and Victor Borge.
*For Me
And My Gal
(a) with The Music Maids & Phil
*Constantly
(b) with
Trudy Erwin
Night Train To
Memphis
The Charioteers
*Sweet
Little You
Victor Borge spot
Over There Victor Borge
*Brazil
(a)
Note:
(a) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Spokane 23 - “Bing & Trudy - On The Air”
Trudy Erwin
ex-Music Maid, ex-Kay Kyser band
had landed the resident female singing spot on Kraft.
Two Music Hall veterans
will return for a visit with Headman Bing Crosby tonight over KTBS at 8 o’clock.
They are Victor Borge, who has been making a series of theatre appearances, and
Trudy Erwin, Kay Kyser vocalist and former Music Maids member.
(The Shreveport Times, 4th February, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: OK. Victor was probably best he has ever been with
exception of "punctuation" and his vaud routines."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, Richard Haydn and Edgar Buchanan.
*Abraham
with The Music Maids &
The Charioteers
Edgar Buchanan spot
*I’ve Heard
That Song Before
*Something To Remember You By with Trudy Erwin
Richard Haydn spot
When The Shepherd Leads The Sheep Back Home
The Charioteers
*Moonlight
Becomes You
(a)
Note:
(a) On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great Moments
With Bing Crosby And Friends From The Radio
Shows” (Date shewn as 18th
February 1943)
Local Writer Finds
Bing Crosby Most Unaffected Actor In Film Capital.
Hollywood,
Calif. – (Special) - Of the many celebrities a reporter is likely to meet in
Hollywood, Bing Crosby gets my vote for being the most unaffected by success. I
reached this conclusion after attending a rehearsal (and show) for his Kraft
Music Hall program (heard each Thursday evening over the NBC network). For Bing
Crosby is as natural and informal “in person” as the roles he portrays and the
songs he croons.
It
was about one-thirty on a Thursday afternoon in the studio-theatre of NBC’s
mammoth line station here. John Scott Trotter, (Charlotte, North Carolina)
arranger and director of his own orchestra on the show, in short sleeves and
with tie away, was polishing up a number to be played as accompaniment for
Bing, Trudy Erwin, “The Music Maids and Phil”, and “The Charioteers”, (regulars
each week) when a slim youngish man with rather rosy complexion walked briskly
onto the stage. “Bing,” someone on stage whispered.
“Hi,
folks,” the singing star, host and master of ceremonies raised a hand in
greeting to the cast and the few guests down in the theatre. He unrolled his
script and knocked the ashes from his pipe – which he is never without.
Why,
that can’t be the great Bing Crosby, I thought. He looks too informal. And that’s
just what he was. Wearing a faded blue gabardine sports shirt – tail out –
nondescript slacks, soft shoes and felt hat entwined with what appeared to be a
snake skin band, he might have just dropped a hoe in his Victory Garden or made
a birdie on the ninth hole – then rushed directly to the studio. (He is a
stickler for punctuality). A long pencil
hung across one ear. He adjusted a mike.
“A-b-r-a-h-a-m,”
he crooned and shuffled his feet. The rest of the cast fell in with him.
Trotter swung his baton and copious hips. Rehearsal for the number moved along.
From
a controls booth, the producer barked, “Mr. Trotter, let’s move “The Charioteers”
down stage. No – that won’t do – back up stage.” Bing shuffled his feet,
hummed.
“There
now, Mr. Crosby, we’ll do “Abraham” again.” The star of the show gripped his
pipe in his hand and breathed into the mike.
“That’s
better. But, Mr. Crosby - that man again.” Bing smiles. “Er-er, Mr. Crosby,
suppose we move the “Music Maids” in a little.” Bing places his pipe on a stool,
takes his pencil from behind his ear and doodles on his script.
There
is a break in the lyric to allow Bing to recite a passage from Lincoln’s
Gettysburg address. He muddles through. The cast laughs. John Scott grins and
waves his baton. The producer, visibly amused, comes on stage, “Let’s try it
again, Mr. Crosby.”
Bing
(intentionally) muffs the lines again, shuffles his shoes and winks sheepishly across
the footlights at his sparse audience. The stage is in uproar. The producer
feigns desperation, grins and disappears into the booth.
The
rehearsal progressed into another stage: the “drama,” in which several other
radio and screen personalities were being presented as guest stars! Ed Buchanan
playing the part of a warden in a model prison. Richard Haydn as “The Professor”
and tosser of such classics as “Boogie Woogie Cow Song,” and others. During
this phase the master of ceremonies heckled the actors, ad libbed throwing the
act off time.
The
sound man, meanwhile wheeled out what appeared to be a huge wooden coffin and
began adding various sound effects to the melee. In one place in the script a “battle”
between prison inmates and the guard was to be staged. The sound man started “shooting”.
Each time a gun was discharged, Bing whooped like an Indian and sought ambush –
which brings to mind the story of how Crosby acquired his nickname…
…But,
back to Kraft Music Hall – “It Seems to Me I’ve Heard That Song Before”. And Bing
introduces a new “hit” on the air.
“That’s
all. Be back at five-thirty” announces the producer.
John
Scott Trotter, who along with “The Music Maids”, has been on the show since
1936 (sic), puts on his coat and straightens
his tie. Musicians lay aside instruments.
The
regulars and guest stars saunter away. Bing lights up his pipe, smiles down
across the footlights and walks quickly off stage.
“How
in the world will they ever whip up anything out of that jumble?” I wondered
and stuck around to see. For the entire show was never dress rehearsed, only individual
acts were timed – Bing seemed so unconcerned.
What
I did not know until later when I talked with the singing star, is that each
Tuesday he is handed the script. At home he goes over every line – makes corrections
or any cut he thinks necessary and rehearses – thoroughly – his songs.
So,
by the time he appears back on stage for a brief “warm up” for the studio
audience – with no change of costume except a washed face and sans hat and pipe
– he has everything under control. His shows always turn out as smooth as the
product he plugs – like the one I saw rehearsed.
(Marion Brown, Burlington Daily News (North Carolina), April 10, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Weak. Jokes still not big enough. Commercial. O.K.
But they are getting longer again."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, Fay
McKenzie and Alan Hale.
*A Touch
Of Texas
with The Music Maids & Phil
Fay McKenzie spot
*Blues
In The Night
(a) with Fay
McKenzie
La Cachita
Fay McKenzie
When The Shepherd Leads The Sheep Back Home The Charioteers
*Angel
Child
Alan Hale spot
*Hit The Road To Dreamland
(b) with
Trudy Erwin
*There Are
Such Things
Notes:
(a) A few lines
in Spanish
(b) Spokane 23 - “Bing & Trudy - On The Air”
Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
Alan Hale, one of
Hollywood’s best known characters, and Fay McKenzie, rising young screen star,
will be Bing Crosby’s guests. Bing often orders lunch during rehearsal by ad libbing
the necessary words and working then into whatever tune he happens to be
singing at the moment. As is probably well understood by now, the “groaner” can
do just about anything with words and music, and probably will, as he and Trudy
Erwin, his new songstress, the Music Maids, and John Scott Trotter will take
care of the musical scores on the program.
(The Cincinnati Enquirer, 18th February, 1943)
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, and Bert Lahr.
Medley:
*A Yank
And A Tank
*The US
Field Artillery March
with The Music Maids &
Phil and The Charioteers
(The Caissons Go Rolling Along)
*The Army
Air Corps Song
Bert Lahr spot
*I’ve Heard That Song Before
*Make Believe
Bert Lahr spot
Get On Board, Little Chillun The Charioteers*As Time
Goes By
Professor Bing
Crosby has invited a distinguished guest lecturer around to the Music Hall in
the person of Bert Lahr, an old alumnus of the College of Mirth.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch, 25th February, 1943)
R. J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical: O.K. Entertainment: Good. Lahr rushed a little on first spot, but was fine on second. Commercial. O.K. but long."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, and Cass Daley.
*A Touch
Of Texas
with The Music Maids & Phil
Cass Daley spot
Can’t Get Stuff In
Your Cuff
The Charioteers
*It’s Always You (c)
*My Heart
Stood Still
(a) with
Trudy Erwin
Cass Daley spot
This Is Worth
Fighting For
(b) Cass
Daley
*Brahms' Lullaby
Notes:
(a) Spokane
23 - “Bing & Trudy - On The
Air”
(b) Parodied
version
(c) On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great Moments
With Bing Crosby And Friends From The Radio
Shows”
With Cass Daley as
guest, Bing Crosby will have nothing to worry about but to try to keep the roof
on the Kraft Music Hall over WIBA at 8 tonight.
(The Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 4th March, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: O.K. Commercial. O.K.
but long."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, Major Ruth
Cheney Streeter and Eddie Bracken.
Medley:
*Anchors
Aweigh
(a) with
The Music Maids & Phil &
The Charioteers
*The
Marines’ Hymn
(a)
*Hit The Road To Dreamland
(a) with
Trudy Erwin
*Please
Think Of Me
*I Wonder
What’s Become Of Sally
Eddie Bracken spot
My Gal Sal
The Charioteers
*You’d Be
So Nice To Come Home To
Note:
(a) JOYCE
6052 - “Bing Crosby From The Forties” (“The Marines’ Hymn” is shewn as “The Halls Of Montezuma”)
(Cass Daley was due to appear on this programme but was obliged to cancel due to ill health - Substitute was Eddie Bracken who wanted his guest fee to go to Cass Daley. She refused to accept and by mutual agreement the cheque was donated to the Red Cross)
…Bing’s other
guest will be the first lady of the marines, Maj. Ruth Cheney Streeter,
director of the Women’s Reserve U. S. marine corps.
(The Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 11th March, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Orchids. Daley got sick at last moment and Bracken
substituted at last minute with elevator spot. Commercial: O.K.
but long. NBC put a cheese rationing announcement ahead of us and
then clipped our closing commercial."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy
Erwin and Bert Lahr.
*Hip, Hip,
Hooray!
with The Music Maids &
Phil
Bert Lahr spot
*Taking A Chance On Love (a)
*It’s Easy To Remember with Trudy Erwin & The Music Maids
Sketch with Bert Lahr
Four Buddies
The Charioteers
*Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?
Note:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
In spite of a jinx
hanging over the Kraft Music Hall, the show will go on as usual tonight, with
Bing Crosby and Bert Lahr as guest, over WIBA at 8 o’clock. Cass Daley,
scheduled for the other guest, is still hospitalized – Crosby is hobbling around
with an injured foot – and one of the script girls swallowed a piece of glass.
(The Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 18th March, 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Lahr kicked every joke in what looked like a great script right out of the window. Commercial: O.K. but long."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids &
Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin
and Bert Lahr.
*Great
Day
with The Music Maids &
The Charioteers
*It’s
Always You
*Sometimes
I’m Happy
with Trudy Erwin & The
Music Maids
Bert Lahr spot
I Love Life Bert Lahr
Dear Old Girl The Charioteers
*As Time
Goes By
Bert Lahr, radio’s
most persistent guest star, again will visit Bing Crosby on Kraft Music Hall, tonight
over WIBA at 8 o’clock. …Meanwhile, Bing “The Groaner” Crosby still sports a
cane to help him about the premises because of injuries sustained in a brush
with an automobile in Phoenix, Ariz. Nevertheless, Bing still does all right at
the mike, even though he’ll be sitting down.
(The
Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 25th March, 1943)
R. J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented:
"Technical: O.K. New mike
on strings excellent. We must remember to lower mike for Trudy. Entertainment:
Orchids. Exactly the show John and Jack outlined in a teletype which arrived
the morning of the show. Commercial: O.K. but
long."
No. 289 1st April 1943 (a)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy
Erwin, Leo “Ukie” Sherin and Lucille Ball.
*You Are My
Sunshine
(b) with
The Music Maids & Phil
Leo “Ukie” Sherin spot
*Darling,
Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
(b) (i)
*With A
Song In My Heart
(c) with
Trudy Erwin
Lucille Ball spot
Wade In The Water
The Charioteers
*That Old
Black Magic
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme (all vocal items are included) was issued on Lee Bee
Discs
SPECS SJ101 - “Bing Crosby’s Redheads - Lucille Ball And Spike Jones”
(b) JOYCE
6052 - “Bing Crosby From The
Forties”
(i) V-Disc 166-A
(c) The comedy introduction includes Bing singing a snatch of “My Time Is Your Time”.
April fool nonsense,
tom-foolery, and what have you will be the main order of business tonight at 8
over WIBA when Bing Crosby and his Kraft Music Hall crowd cut loose in a
celebration of the new month. Heading the program will be Lucille Ball,
titian-haired screen star, who has just scored a new movie success in the
Hollywood version of “DuBarry Was a Lady.”
(The Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 1st April, 1943)
R. J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical: O.K. Entertainment: Orchids again. Commercial: O.K. but long."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, Leo “Ukie” Sherin and Rags Ragland.
*MacNamara’s Band
with The Music Maids & Phil
Leo “Ukie” Sherin spot
*Please
Think Of Me
*Among My
Souvenirs
with Trudy Erwin
Rags Ragland spot
My Melancholy
Baby
The Charioteers
*We Mustn’t
Say “Goodbye”
with The Music Maids &
Phil
“Rags Ragland, the comedian featured in Metro’s ‘DuBarry Was A Lady’ guested at the Bing Crosby, Kraft Music Hall program, Thursday night and gave the stanza a five minute laugh-fest that was
solid all the way. In his rapid crossfire exchange with Crosby, the ex-burlesque
trouper, last seen on Broadway in ‘Panama Hattie’, demonstrated a knack for
delivery and timing that was exceptional. Not even the occasional sorry pun that crept
into the material could conceal the fact that Ragland, with proper assist from
the script department, offers fine possibilities as a radio comedian. Crosby, himself,
was right on the beam while the contributions of the program’s regulars, Trudy
Erwin, The Charioteers and the
John Scott Trotter Orchestra, rounded out a sock half hour of diversified
entertainment”
(“Variety” 14th April 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Good. Rags gave a very solid performance. It could
be Bing should be given a higher percentage of the laughs. Commercial: O.K. but long."
With Ken
Carpenter, The Music Maids & Phil, The Charioteers, Trudy Erwin, Leo “Ukie” Sherin, Rear Admiral Ralston S. Holmes and Frank
McHugh.
*Hip, Hip,
Hooray!
(a) with The Music Maids & Phil
Rear Admiral Ralston S. Holmes spot
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Trudy Erwin
*Oh! How I
Miss You Tonight
Frank McHugh spot
*By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
(b) with The
Charioteers
*That Old
Black Magic
(c)
Notes:
(a) JOYCE
1117 - “One Night Stand With Bing Crosby At The Music Hall”
Nostalgia LPF22014 - “Bing Crosby - 20 Golden Greats”
JOYCE 6052 - “Bing Crosby From The Forties”
(b) V-Disc
166-A
(c) JOYCE 6052 - “Bing Crosby From The Forties”
Bing Crosby Enterprises CD - "Bing Crosby Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook"
“Trudy Erwin will sing a solo for the first time on the
Music Hall, KFI at 6 – it will be ‘Stardust’” (Sorry,
wrong number! - Compiler)
(“Hollywood
Citizen News”15th April 1943)
R.
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director commented: "Technical:
O.K. Entertainment: Had an allocation which, due to the fact that Navy
gave us Admiral Holmes, more or less killed the show."
(In order
to remain consistent with the pattern of presentation, so far, it has been
decided to designate this programme as the last in the “1942/43 Season”. It should be noted
that Bing returned to the Kraft Music Hall on the 17th June, thereby missing his
normal July/August break. He did not, entirely, forego his vacation,
holidaying in Mexico City before returning to the US, dropping in, unannounced
and without any publicity, on a tour of various Army Camps. During his absence
from the “Hall” , Bob Crosby deputised for him and the shows of April 22nd & April 29th were also hosted by Fibber
McGee and Molly with the shows of May 5th and May 20th and 27th jointly hosted with Lum ‘N’ Abner.)
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