1939-1940 Season with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra
The
audience share for the season is 23.3, which makes it the top musical
show but leaves it in seventh place in the Hooper ratings for evening programmes as a whole. For the third year running, the Edgar Bergen programme tops the table with a rating of 34.6 overall. Bob Hope’s show enters the ratings with 25.0, which earns it sixth place.
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Pat Friday, Bobby Riggs and Jackie Cooper.
*Go Fly A Kite
*Go Fly A Kite (parody) with Bob Burns
Jackie Cooper spot
*The
Dipsy Doodle
with Jackie Cooper (both on drums)
*Still The Bluebird Sings
Bob Burns spot
Down In Jungle Town Bob Burns (bazooka)
*A Man And His Dream
Bobby Riggs spot
Star Dust Pat Friday
*An Apple For
The Teacher
with Pat
Friday
*An Apple For The Teacher (parody) with Pat Friday and Bob Burns
*If I Was A Millionaire
*The Lamp Is Low
*A Man And His Dream
Summer
vacation is over for Bing Crosby. Tonight, at ten o’clock he returns to the
Music Hall to take over his regular job as head man. Bob Burns has a
welcome-home celebration all lined up. Jackie Cooper of the screen, Bobby
Riggs, America’s number one tennis ace and Pat Friday will be on hand to extend
a special welcome to the returning singing star.
(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 28th September, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Technical
comments: OK. Comments on Entertainment: Good. Comments on Commercials:
Long. Carpenter says he had trouble reading them. General remarks: Bing
back. Wonderful."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Albert Coates, Frank Albertson, Wendy Barrie and John Payne.
*(Alla En) El Rancho Grande
with The Music Maids
John Payne spot
Count Me Out Of Your Dreams John Payne
*Garden Of The Moon with John Payne
*What’s New?
Wendy Barrie spot
*Girl Of My Dreams
*Oh! You Crazy Moon
(a) with The Music Maids
Frank Albertson spot
*The Mountaineer's Sweetheart with Frank Albertson, John Payne & Wendy Barrie
Waltz (from Pickwick) Albert Coates (piano)
San Weller's Song Albert Coates (piano)
Wedding March (from Pickwick) Albert Coates (piano)
Shadrack John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Over The Rainbow
Note:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
The fact
that the vacationing Bob Burns will be missing from the line-up accounts for
the fact there’s an extra guest in the Kraft Music Hall today when Wendy
Barrie, John Payne, Frank Albertson of the film colony, and Robert Coates,
symphony conductor, will all be present. Crosby will do everything but the
bazooka solo in the broadcast over the NBC-WFBC network at 10 p.m…John Payne,
Wendy Barrie and Frankie Albertson will each submit to a verbal tiff with Bing,
the walking dictionary….Though he’s well known as a conductor, not many people
know that Robert Coates is an expert on the keyboard. He’ll do two numbers on
the piano around a chat with Bing….John Scott Trotter will take his orchestra over
“Shadrack” lightly. (NOTE: It is suspected that Robert Coates was in fact Albert Coates.)
(The
Greenville News (South Carolina), 5th October, 1939)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Erna Rubenstein, Reginald Gardiner, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rosemary Lane.
*An Apple For The Teacher with The Music Maids
Rosemary Lane spot
Lamplight Rosemary Lane
*South American Way (parody) with Rosemary Lane
*Moonlight Serenade
with The Music Maids
Reginald Gardiner spot
*Oklahoma, Hail!
*Still The Bluebird Sings
Erle Stanley Gardner spot
*Sunbonnet Sue
with The Music Maids
Melodie
Erna Rubenstein (violin)
Czardas Erna Rubenstein (violin)
*The Lamp Is Low
“Bing Crosby, KFI at 7, will present Rosemary Lane, Reginald Gardiner of stage and screen, Erle Stanley Gardener, author of mystery stories and Erna Rubenstein, an opera singer, violinist and dancer from Budapest. A publicity item says that Bob Burns will not return to the series until after Thanksgiving.”
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 12th October 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Technical
comments: OK. Comments on Entertainment: Good. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: R. Gardiner certainly has wonderful
timing."
No. 155 19th October 1939
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Doris-Jeanne Peterson, Walter Connolly, Preston Foster and Jack Oakie.
*The Man With The Mandolin
(a) with The Music Maids
Jack Oakie spot
*Down The Old Ox Road with Jack Oakie
*What’s New?
Walter Connolly spot
*I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now? (b)
with The Music Maids
*Blue Orchids
(c)
Preston Foster spot
*High
On Gopher Mountain
with Walter
Connolly, Preston Foster and Jack Oakie
Serenade (Schubert)
Doris-Jeanne Peterson (marimba)
Star Dust
Doris-Jeanne Peterson (marimba)
In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*A Man And His Dream with The Music Maids
Notes:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
(b) Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
(c) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Variety
will be the keynote of Bing Crosby’s program tonight when character actor Walter
Connolly, comedian Jack Oakie, movie villain Preston Foster and the 16-year-old
marimba player Doris Peterson all pay the Music Hall a visit…Miss Doris
Peterson has selected Schubert’s “Serenade” as her marimba number while the
Trotter orchestra will do a special arrangement of “18th Century Drawing Room.”
(Richmond Times-Dispatch, 19th October, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Technical
comments: OK. Comments on Entertainment: Fair. Comments on
Commercial: OK. Trouble on the local cut-in in L. A. General remarks:
Great difficulty getting a good pickup on Peterson's marimba."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Pat Friday, J. L. Kraft, Brian Aherne, Sterling Holloway and Kirsten Flagstad.
*An Apple For The Teacher
with The Music Maids
Brian Aherne spot
*Day
In, Day Out
(b)
Sterling Holloway spot
*She's Funny That Way (parody) with Sterling Holloway
*Love Is The Sweetest Thing
with The Music Maids
*If I Knew Then (What I Know Now)
Du Bist Der Lenz Kirsten Flagstad
Not Eveld (Twilight) Kirsten Flagstad
Morning Kirsten Flagstad
J. L. Kraft / 4-H spot
*The Spirit Of The Hill
Notes:
(a) The President of Kraft Phenix Cheese was on the programme to present medals to the 4-H Club National Dairy Production Demonstration winners.
(b) Bing Crosby Enterprises CD - "Bing Crosby Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook"
Bing
Crosby will be host to eleven guests tonight at 10 o’clock during his “Music
Hall” program. Kirsten Flagstad, Metropolitan Opera soprano; Sterling Holloway,
comedian; Brian Aherne, actor, and eight winners of 4-H Club College scholarships
will be heard during the program.
(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 26th October, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Technical
comments: OK. Comments on Entertainment: Swell! Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: OK. 4-H kids great - Flagstad out of this world etc."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Doris-Jeanne Peterson, Mark Hellinger, Charles Butterworth and Joan Bennett.
*(Alla En) El Rancho Grande
with The Music Maids
Joan Bennett spot
*What's New? (parody) with Joan Bennett
*Blue Orchids
Charles Butterworth spot
*Blow The Smoke Away
with The Music Maids
Sweetheart of Rappa Tappa Gong
Ken Carpenter
*The Man With The Mandolin with The Music Maids
Mark Hellinger spot
*Far Above Cayuga’s Waters
Czardas Doris-Jeanne Peterson (marimba)
Rhumba Medley Doris-Jeanne Peterson (marimba)
Rachmaninoff Prelude John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*South Of The Border
(a)
Notes
(a) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
The visiting foyer
of the “Music Hall" will be crowded once more when Bing Crosby entertains Joan Bennett,
Charles Butterworth, Mark Hellinger, and Doris Jean Peterson tonight. With Bob Burns
still on vacation, the Music Maids and John Scott Trotter’s orchestra carry on beside
Bing, in the broadcast over KTBS tonight at 9 o'clock. Joan Bennett, one of the lovelier of the screen
lovelies, makes it a point to hobnob with Crosby at regular intervals to brush
up on the newest in K. M. H. expressions. The foggy Charlie Butterworth will add
to the confusion when he "cuts up a few touches” with the master crooner. Mark
Hellinger exchanges tips on how to conduct a newspaper column for a little coaching
on methods of putting a song across.
(The Times, (Shreveport, Louisiana), 2nd November, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Technical
comments: OK. Comments on Entertainment: OK. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: Hellinger fine."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Lou Holtz, Larry Adler, Lucille Ball and Chester Morris.
*Are You Having Any Fun?
(a) with The Music Maids
*Are You Having Any Fun? (parody)
(a) with Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz spot
*If I Knew Then (What I Know Now) (a)
Lucille Ball spot
*My Melancholy Baby
with The Music Maids
*Day In, Day Out
Chester Morris spot
*Can't
We Talk It Over (parody)
with Lou Holtz, Lucille Ball and
Chester Morris
Estrellita Larry Adler
*Dinah with Larry Adler
South American Way Larry Adler
In An Eighteenth
Century Drawing Room
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Over The Rainbow
with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) Spokane 29 - “Bing In The Thirties - Volume 8”
An all-star
line-up headed by Bing Crosby will tackle the "Music Hall” microphone with such
triple-threats as Lou Holtz, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball and Larry Adler in
the backfield. The regular string of players in John Scott Trotter’s orchestra
and the Music Maids will also be on hand for the broadcast which will be heard over
WSB at 9 o’clock tonight. Larry Adler, a newcomer to the Music Hall, will
present several South American selections on his harmonica.
(The Atlanta Constitution, 9th November, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: Swell. Comments on
Commercial: OK after a slight cut. General remarks: An orchid show."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Jarmila Novotna, Reginald Gardiner, Louis Hayward and Eugene Pallette.
*Scatter-brain
(a) with The Music Maids
Louis Hayward spot
*What’s New?
Reginald Gardiner spot
*I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me (b)
*Yodelin’ Jive
with The Music Maids
Eugene Pallette spot
Die Tote Stadt
Jarmila Novotna
Amore Mio Jarmila Novotna
Brahms Lullaby Jarmila Novotna
Kitten On The Keys John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Over The Rainbow
with The Music Maids
Notes:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Spokane 29 - “Bing In The Thirties - Volume 8”
Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
(b) Spokane 29 - “Bing In The Thirties - Volume 8”
The
radio debut of Jarmila Novotna, often called the most
beautiful of opera singers, takes place on Bing Crosby’s Music Hall
tonight. On
hand to aid in the festivities over WMAQ at 9 o'clock will be a trio of
screen luminaries
consisting of Louis Hayward, Eugene Pallette, and Reginald Gardiner.
Mme.
Novotna's appearance on the Crosby hour, will be a sort of preview. She
doesn't make her Metropolitan debut until this fall when she will
be heard in “The Bartered Bride.” Crosby will endeavor to unmask “The
Man in the
Iron Mask,” which was the title-role Louis Hayward had in a recent movie. The booming bass
speaking voice of Eugene Pallette, well-known picture stealer, and the imitations
of Reggie Gardiner will both be aired in the course of an hour's entertainment.
King Croon Bing, of course, will warm up his vocal chords for renditions of, “Scatterbrain,” “Yodeling Jive,” in
which he'll be joined by the Music Maids, “My Prayer,"(sic) and for his Memory Song.
“I Can't Believe You’re In Love With Me.” John Scott Trotter leads his orchestra
for the accompaniment.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 16th November, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: OK. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: Just didn't seem to jell."
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Lou Holtz, Jacques Fray & Mario Braggiotti, Stuart Erwin and Shirley Ross.
*Are You Having Any Fun?
with The Music Maids
*Are You Having Any Fun? (parody) with Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz spot
*Nobody (parody) with Lou Holtz
*Lilacs In The Rain
Stuart Erwin spot
*Just
A Dream Of You, Dear
(a)
*After All
with The Music Maids
Shirley Ross spot
*Mine with Shirley Ross
Malaguena
Jacques Fray & Mario Braggiotti (pianos)
Home Sweet Home
Jacques Fray & Mario Braggiotti (pianos)
*South Of The Border
Notes
(a) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
They’ll be talking
turkey on the Music Hall program tonight when Bing Crosby will have Lou Holtz,
Stuart Erwin, Shirley Ross and the reunited piano team of Fray and Braggiotti
as the Thanksgiving guests. The meeting will start at 10 o’clock over the NBC
Red network with the Music Maids and John Scott Trotter’s orchestra set to “cut
up a few musical touches,” as Crosby would call it…Lou Holtz made a special trip
to the coast to appear with Bing two weeks ago. So strong an impression did he
make, he’ll return with Sam Lapidus stories this Thursday. The fast-speaking
Holtz intends to chin a bit with the professionally slow-witted Erwin. Shirley
Ross will sing a song or two after facing the microphone opposite King Croon.
The music department will set aside a pair of grand pianos for a pair of Fray
and Braggiotti arrangements.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch, 23rd November, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: Good. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: John didn't like this one but we are forced to disagree. Erwin and Holtz were swell."
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Florence George, Annabella and Harry Carey.
*Scatter-brain
with The Music Maids
*Scatter-brain (parody)
with Bob Burns (bazooka)
Annabella spot
*Make With The Kisses
Bob Burns spot
*Marcheta
*Stop! It’s Wonderful
(a) with The Music Maids
Harry Carey spot
Musetta's Waltz Florence George
Old Folks At Home
Florence George
Blue Orchids John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*To You, Sweetheart, Aloha
with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Bing Crosby gives thanks that his old
sidekick. Robin Burns, will take up his share of the entertainment in the Music
Hall tonight when the visiting foyer will be filled with such cinema notables
as Annabella, Florence George, and Harry Carey. This is the third Thanksgiving
celebration of the year for M. H., the first having occurred when Bing returned
in the fall, another one last week, and now once more for the bazooka tooter.
The hour that includes the Music Maids and John Scott Trotter’s orchestra among
its regular features is heard at 9 o'clock over WMAQ.
At first Bob Burns intended to spend his
vacation at home since his wife had suffered a spinal injury in a fall aboard
his boat. But Mrs. Burns showed
such improvement the pair was able to get as far away from home as New York and
Florida. Now the Sage of Van Buren is set to take up a long run.
Mrs. Tyrone Power, better-known as
Annabella, will be inducted into the rituals of the hall for the first time.
Such veterans of the Thursday night shindigs as Florence George, singing
actress, and Harry Carey, cowboy star, will try to make her feel at home from
the opening gong.
Bing's vocals are “Scatterbrain,” “Make
With the Kisses,” “Stop, It's Wonderful,” “To You, Sweetheart, Aloha,” “Musetta
Waltz” from “La Boheme,” “My Old Kentucky Home (sic),” and for his 1913 memory song,
“Marcheta.” John Scott Trotter's orchestra gives out with a special arrangement
of “Blue Orchids.”
(Belvidere Daily Republican, November 30, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: Good. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: None."
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Maria Ouspenskaya, The Kidoodlers and Jackie Cooper.
*Ciribiribin
(a) with The Music Maids
*Ciribiribin (parody)
(b) with Bob Burns (vocal & bazooka)
Jackie Cooper spot
*Tiger
Rag
with
Jackie Cooper (both on drums)
*After All
(a) with The Music Maids
Bob Burns spot
*Looking At The World Through Rose-Coloured Glasses (c) with The Music Maids
*Lilacs In The Rain
(d)
Maria Ouspenskaya spot
The Man With The Whiskers The Kidoodlers
Old MacDonald Had A Farm The Kidoodlers
William Tell Overture The Kidoodlers
*South Of The Border
Notes:
(a) Spokane 12 - “Bing In The Thirties”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Also includes parodied version of “Santa Lucia”
Spokane 12 - “Bing In The Thirties”
(c) Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
(d) Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
The Music Hall debut of
Mme Ouspenskaya, well-known actress of stage and screen will occupy the
attention of Bing Crosby and Bob Burns tonight when they’ve also invited Jackie
Cooper and the Kidoodlers, novelty instrument quartet, to be presented for the
roll call. The Music Maids and John Scott Trotter's orchestra fill the
bill for the broadcast over WMAQ, at 9 o'clock.
Madame Ouspenskaya had a
remarkable background in the theater before she made a definite hit in the
picturization of “Dodsworth.” This veteran of the Moscow Art theater has taught
drama students on Broadway and appeared in hit after hit in New York. She
recently played Charles Boyer’s mother in “Love Affair.”
Another interviewee in
the inimitable M. H. manner of Crosby will be Jackie Cooper who is now classed
as a veteran of the hall in spite of his years. Young Mr Cooper has just
appeared in “What A Life.”
Bing sings “Ciribiribin,”
“After All,” “Lilacs in the Rain,” “South of the Border:' and for his 1926
memory song, “Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses,” John Scott
Trotter trots out his famous arrangement of Ravel's “Bolero” for an orchestral
interlude.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, December 7, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: Fair. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: Have to watch commercial lead-ins."
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Efrem Zimbalist, Una Merkel and Jack Holt.
*Stop! It’s Wonderful
with The Music Maids
*Stop! It’s Wonderful (parody)
with Bob Burns
Jack Holt spot
*Girl Of My Dreams
Bob Burns spot
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
Bob Burns (bazooka)
*(Back
Home Again In)
Indiana
(a)
*Yodelin’ Jive
with The Music Maids
Una Merkel spot
Zigeunerweisen
Efrem Zimbalist (violin)
Chopin
Waltz
Efrem Zimbalist (violin)
March Of The Toys John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*To You, Sweetheart, Aloha
with The Music Maids
Notes
(a) Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
Variety is the
word for the talent assemblage in the Music Hall tonight when Bing Crosby doffs
his well-worn chapeau to Efrem Zimbalist, eminent concert violinist; Jack Holt,
star of action pictures; and Una Merkel, the southern belle who makes a habit of
stealing pictures from established stars. Of course, Robin Burns will be on the
precincts for the broadcast over WMAQ at 9 o'clock as will the Music Maids and
John Scott Trotter’s orchestra.
Zimbalist and
Hollywood just haven’t gotten together during the past year which accounts for
the fact this well-known artist is making his first appearance of 1939 in M. H.
He’s one of Bing's old pals and never fails to let his hair down with the
crooner in between selections on his Stradivarius.
Crosby and his
clan of youngsters have long been admirers of the cinematic achievements of the
seemingly indestructible Jack Holt, who is scheduled for an interview. There’s
a rumor going around that Una Merkel may leave her scatterbrained professional
antics at home and be serious during a “pear-shaped” chat but that's hardly
likely with Bob Burns around. Bing gives out with “Stop, It's Wonderful,” “Girl
of My Dreams,” “Yodelin' Jive,” “To You Sweetheart,
Aloha,” and for his memory song, “Back Home Again in Indiana.” As a special
pre-Christmas treat, John Scott Trotter has an arrangement handy of “March of
the Toys” from “Babes in Toyland.”
(Belvidere
Daily Republican, December 14, 1939)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, The Kraft Choral Society, Kenneth Brown, Billy Lenhart and Fay Bainter.
*Adeste Fideles
with The Music Maids
Fay Bainter spot
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
Fay Bainter
*Ciribiribin
with The Music Maids
Bob Burns spot
*In The Evening By The Moonlight
*Make With The Kisses
Polka
Kenneth Brown (accordion) and Billy Lenhart (bass fiddle)
Medley (Tiger Rag, Alexander's Ragtime Band, La Cucaracha) Kenneth Brown (accordion) and Billy Lenhart (bass fiddle)
Lullaby On Christmas Eve (Christiansen)
The Kraft Choral Society
The 150th Psalm (Franck)
The Kraft Choral Society
"The Infinite Shining Heavens" (Robert Louis Stevenson) Fay Bainter
*Silent Night
To get into the “mood Noel” as Bing Crosby calls the Christmas spirit, the
Kraft Choral Society will be on the Music Hall tonight, doing its part of the
broadcast from Chicago. Fay Bainter and two talented youngsters named Kenneth
Brown and Billy Lenhart join Bing, Bob Burns, the Music Maids, and John Scott
Trotter's orchestra for the Hollywood end of the festivities over WMAQ at 9
o'clock.
“Lullaby on Christmas Eve,” by F. Melius
Christiansen: and “The One Hundred and Fiftieth Psalm,” by Cezar Franck will be
sung by the choral society. The group is made up entirely of Kraft-Phenix
Cheese corporation employees. Kenneth Brown and Billy Lenhart are the
pair of juveniles who caused such a sensation in Universal's “The Underpup.”
Ken will bring his accordion and Billy, his bass-fiddle, when they face the M. H. microphone. Bing's songs include. “Adeste Fideles,”
“Ciribiribin,” “Silent Night.” “Make With the Kisses,” and “Memory in the
Evening by the Moonlight” (sic). John Scott Trotter's orchestra will have the stage
all to themselves in “Tambourine Chinois.”
(Belvidere Daily Republican, December 21, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: OK. Orchids. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: Kids out of this world, and got spontaneous applause. Chorus stretched, of course."
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Georges Barrere, The Kidoodlers and Claude Rains.
*(Alla En) El Rancho Grande
(a) with The Music Maids
The
Toy Town Jamboree
The Kidoodlers
Chinatown The Kidoodlers
Chopsticks The Kidoodlers
Claude Rains spot
"The Building Of The Ship" (extract - Lomgfellow) Claude Rains
*Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay
with The Music Maids
*Happy Birthday To Love
Bob Burns spot
The
Little Shepherd
Georges Barrere (flute)
*Yankee Doodle
with Georges Barrere (flute), Bob Burns (bazooka) and The Kidoodlers
Minute
Waltz
Georges Barrere (flute)
Toy Trumpet John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
*Auld Lang Syne
Note:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
When Bing Crosby
shuffles gently into the Music Hall for tonight's airing, following directly in
the wake of his famous “outboard shirt” will be Claude Rains, of the cinema:
Georges Barrere, of the concert stage; and Kidoodlers, of radio fame.
Robin Burns, the
Music Maids, bell-master Ken Carpenter, and John Scott '''Two Ton” Trotter's
orchestra, will take their regular turns at the WMAQ microphone starting at 9
o'clock.
The genial
Claude Rains divides his time between making pictures in Hollywood and working
on his farm in Bucks county, Pa. He usually talks over farm problems with
Squire Crosby on M. H. Mr. Rains' latest screen-role is that of Father Lemp in
“Four Wives” which is just being released throughout the country.
Georges Barrere
will attempt to show why music critics have dubbed him “the world's greatest
flautist.” He will use his platinum flute which equals to a concert grand piano
in value. In direct contrast, the Kidoodlers will play novelty numbers on
ten-cent toy instruments. Bing sings, '”I Thought About You,” “Wrap Your
Troubles in Dreams,” “Happy Birthday to Love,” “Tumbling Tumblewood,”(sic)
“Auld Lang Syne,” and for his 1908 memory song “Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay”.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, December 28, 1939)
Robert
J. Brewster, J. Walter Thompson Program Director, commented: "Comments on Entertainment: OK. Comments on
Commercial: OK. General remarks: Audience terrible. The old routine is better."
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Joan Brodel, Lucy Monroe (soprano) and Humphrey Bogart.
*You’re A Lucky Guy
(a) with The Music Maids
*To You, Sweetheart, Aloha
with The Music Maids
*Moonlight On The Ganges
(b)
*Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Love
In Bloom
Joan Brodel
Old
Spinning Wheel
Joan Brodel
June In January Joan Brodel
*Scatterbrain
(c) with The Music Maids
Notes:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
(b) Spokane 19 - “Music Hall Highlights”
Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Joan Brodel may be better known as film actress, ‘Joan Leslie’.
The screen bad man, Humphrey
Bogart, will reform his tactics long enough to appear with Bing Crosby on the
Music Hall broadcast tonight. Two singers. Lucy Monroe, opera star; and Joan
Brodel, night club performer, will be the other guests on the program over WMAQ
at 9 o’clock. Bob Burns, the Music Maids, and John Scott Trotter's orchestra
complete the bill for the night's divertisement. “Bogey,” as Bing calls
Humphrey, is a M. H. veteran. He'll compete with Crosby in shooting big words
at the ever-receptive microphone.
Bing sings,
“You’re a Lucky Guy,” “To You, Sweetheart, Aloha,” “Moonlight on the Ganges,”
“Tumblin’ Tumbleweed:” and for his 1926 memory song, “Scatterbrain.” Joan
Brodel will handle the vocals on “Love in Bloom,” “Old Spinning Wheel,” and
“June in January.”
(Belvidere
Daily Republican, January 4, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Hilda Burke, Alan Hale and Maureen O’Hara.
*Looking At The World Through
Rose-Coloured Glasses
(a) with The Music Maids
*Vagabond Dreams
*My Little Girl
(b) with Chorus
*When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
with Bob Burns, Alan Hale & Maureen O’Hara
*Holy Smoke! (Can’t You Take A Joke?) (a) with The Music Maids
*Missouri Waltz
Notes:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
(b) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall”
Hilda Burke,
soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Maureen O’Hara, English actress, and
the man of many supporting roles in the films, Alan Hale, make up the list of
personalities to be heard from by Bing on the Music Hall tonight….Maureen O’Hara
is currently being frightened on screens throughout the nation by Charles Laughton
as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” She’ll no doubt welcome the comparative quiet
of K. M. H. unless Bob Burns takes to shooting unfair questions at her.
(Richmond
Times-Dispatch, 11th January, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Dalies Frantz, Ida Lupino and Frank McHugh.
*You’re A Lucky Guy
with The Music Maids
*(Alla En) El Rancho Grande
with The Music Maids
*Ballin’ The Jack
*Happy Birthday To Love
*Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Bing Crosby turns the
key to his Music Hall over WMC at 9 tonight and welcomes one of the leading concert
pianists and two members of the film colony. The keyboard artist is Dalies
Frantz, making his first visit to the program in over a year, and the cinema performers
are Ida Lupino, English actress, and Frank McHugh, comedian. While Bing has
become widely known as a host through his greetings to a wide assortment of visitors,
each week, the famous Crosby vocal chords continue to predominate and rank the
crooner as a radio favorite.
(The
Commercial Appeal, 18th January, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Gloria Jean, Madeleine Carroll and Lon Chaney Jr.
*Stop! It’s Wonderful
with The Music Maids
*Stop! It’s Wonderful (parody)
with Bob Burns
*Vagabond Dreams
*Juanita
*Holy Smoke! (Can’t You Take A Joke?)
with The Music Maids
Prelude
in G Minor
John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
That rising young starlet,
twelve-year-old Gloria Jean, will meet Bing Crosby for the first time tonight
on the Music
Hall. Bing and Gloria will talk over plans for the new picture they’re to make
together called, “If I Had My Way.”
Madeleine Carroll and Lon Chancy, Jr., will also
drop in on Bing, Bob Burns, the Music Maids, and John Scott Trotter's orchestra
for the broadcast over WMAQ at 9 o'clock.
The glamorous Madeleine Carroll enjoys nothing
better than the informalities of M. H. She even outdoes Crosby’s "doubletalk”
on occasion.
When Bing tendered his invitation to Lon Chaney,
Jr., he found the son of the late master of cinema make-up was heading for
Hollywood from the east by train and therefore couldn't sign the contract until
he arrived. Lon Jr. had just attended the “Of Mice and Men” preview in which he
played the part of the dim-witted Lennie.
Crosby sings “Stop. It's Wonderful,” “Vagabond
Dream,” “Holy Smoke, Can't You Take A Joke?” “Jeannie with the Light Brown
Hair,” and will ask the listening audience if they remember “Juanita.”
Trotter's band lets go with a special arrangement of Rachmaninoff's “Prelude in
G Minor.”
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 25th January, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Gaspar Cassado, Jean Parker and Randolph Scott.
*Ciribiribin
with The Music Maids
*Just One More Chance
*Love’s Old Sweet Song
(a)
with The Music Maids
*I Thought About You
(b)
*Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Notes:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(b) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall”
Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
Bing Crosby Enterprises CD - "Bing Crosby Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook"
Bing Crosby will roll out the well-worn reception carpet in the old
Music Hall tonight to receive Randolph Scott, Jean Parker, both of the films,
and the noted cellist, Gaspar Casado (sic)…Randolph Scott will slip into the language
of the open spaces he employed in the westerns that gave him his picture start,
when he chats with Bob Burns. Jean Parker, the ideal ingenue, may be persuaded
to try a song with King Croon Crosby. The cellist, Gaspar Casado, a Spaniard by
birth, first attained prominence in his field by being the only man to play the
instrument with a metal bow. Bing sings. “Ciribiribin,” “Just One More Chance,”
“I Thought About You,” “Tumblin' Tumbleweed,” and will reach into the musical
past to come up with “Love’s Old Sweet Song” as his 1882 memory number.
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 1st February, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Mischa Levitzki, Ralph Bellamy and Walt Disney
*Confucius Say
(a) with The Music Maids
*Confucius Say (parody)
*I Thought About You
Chinatown
(b) Bob Burns (bazooka)
*Silver
Threads Among The Gold
(c)
*Indian Summer
*Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor’s Life For Me) with Walt Disney, Ralph Bellamy & Bob Burns
Valse Brilliante (Chopin)
Mischa Levitzki (piano)
Valse (Levitzki)
Mischa Levitzki (piano)
*When I Hold You In My Arms
with Mischa Levitzki (piano)
*Love Is The Sweetest Thing
with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall” (As “Confucious Say”)
(b) Bing sings the words “Egg Foo Yung” at the conclusion.
(c) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
Pinocchio’s papa, Walt Disney; Ralph Bellamy, movie actor; and Mischa
Levitsky, concert pianist, will present their calling cards to Bing Crosby in
the Kraft Music Hall, over WIBA at 9 o’clock tonight.
(The Capital Times (Madison. Wisconsin), 8th February, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Alice Ehlers, Frank Albertson and Marlene Dietrich.
*The Little Red Fox (N’Ya, N’Ya, Ya Can’t Catch Me) (a) with The Music Maids
*The Little Red Fox (parody)
with Bob Burns
You’ve Got That Look
Marlene Dietrich
The Boys In The Back Room
Marlene Dietrich
*If I Knew Then (What I Know Now)
*Beautiful Dreamer
with The Music Maids
*Devil May Care
*To You, Sweetheart, Aloha
with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Bing Crosby will have competition on his program over WBAP-WFAA and NBC
at 9 p.m. when Marlene Dietrich breaks into song. Frank Albertson will be
another guest with the regulars consisting of Bob Burns, the Music Maids and
John Scott Trotter’s orchestra. Miss Dietrich will engage in banter with Bing
and Bob before a session of warbling in her own style.
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15th February, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Robert Viroval, Sabu and Joan Bennett.
*Confucius Say
(a) with The Music Maids
*Confucius Say (parody)
*Was That The Human Thing To Do? (Parody) with Joan Bennett
Little White Lies Bob Burns (bazooka)
*Careless
*Sunday
(a) with The Music Maids
*Sweet Potato Piper
(a) with The Music Maids
The Violin Master Of Cremona
Robert Viroval (violin)
The Flight Of The Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) Robert Viroval (violin)
Note:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
“Robert Viroval, in Hollywood for a recital date guested last Thursday (22nd) on the Bing Crosby show for Kraft cheese.The
young violinist who quickly became a box office smash in a single New
York concert appearance, after his arrival from Prague, last year,
demonstrated the mellow tone and sensitive touch that recital audiences
have praised. His two numbers were shrewdly selected for a radio‘briefy’ of this kind, although they were limited in interpretative scope.
Sabu, the young elephant driver from India who has appeared in several pictures also guested on the program,
giving the answers in a lively interview about elephant driving as
compared to horseback riding, his headband as compared to a hat etc. Like the Viroval appearance it was skillfully scripted to highlight the youngster and incidentally, continue the flavor that makes the Crosby series one of the week’s standouts.”
(“Variety” 28th February 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin, Patricia Morison and Brian Donlevy.
*In An Old Dutch Garden
(a) with The Music Maids
*In An Old Dutch Garden (parody)
with Bob Burns (vocal & bazooka)
*Devil May Care
*De Camptown Races
*Say “Si Si”
(b) with The Music Maids
In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room The John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Beautiful Dreamer
Notes:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
(b) Spokane 19 - “Music Hall Highlights”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
“Bing Crosby and Bob Burns, KFI at 7 pm, will entertain Pat Morison, actress; Brian Donlevy, Irish-American actor and the piano team of Vronsky & Babin. John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra will play, ‘Eighteenth Century Drawing Room’ and Bing will sing, ‘Devil May Care’, ‘Camptown Races’ and ‘Beautiful Dreamer’”.
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 29th February 1940)
“Bob
Burns says that Crosby calls him ‘Robin’ except when they are on the
air, that he addresses Ken Carpenter as, ‘Kensington’ which is not his
first name. John Scott Trotter as, ‘J. Scott’ and the Music Maids as ‘the mice’. Half of the cast calls him ‘Bing’ and the other half, ‘Mr. B’”
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 7th March 1940)
Bob Burns has, obviously, not been paying attention! For some time Bing has been calling him ‘Robin’, on the air.
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Howard Hill, Rudolph Ganz and Priscilla Lane.
*Sunday
(a)
with The Music Maids
*Sunday (parody)
with Bob Burns & Ken Carpenter
*Careless
(b)
*I’m Waiting For Ships That Never Come In
*Give A Little Whistle
with The Music Maids
*The Singing Hills
*It Had To Be You
with Priscilla Lane
Notes:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(b) Brief unaccompanied parody
One of the loveliest of the Lane sisters, Priscilla, joins the eminent pianist,
Rudolf Ganz, and Howard Hill, expert archer, in the guest panel of Bing Crosby’s
show at 9 p.m….Miss Lane is currently featured in “Four Wives” and Ganz is
equally noted as a conductor and has appeared with leading symphony orchestras throughout
the world.
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7th March, 1940)
No. 176 14th March 1940
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, John Erskine, Lotte Lehmann and Pat O’Brien.
*In An Old Dutch Garden
with The Music Maids
*Love Is All
(a)
*When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
(c)
*Sweet Potato Piper
with The Music Maids
*Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(b)
Notes:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Jasmine JASMCD 3557 - “Bing Crosby – Cowboy Country Crosby Style”
(c) Universal CD B0027588-02 "Among My Souvenirs - More Treasures from the Crosby Archive"
Lottie Lehmann of the
Met and Bazooka Bob Burns – a combinations as contrasting as crepes suzette and
beer (make mine Bock) – is the tasty dish offered this week by Bing Crosby – 7 p.m.
on KPO. And along with it Bing plans on singing “In An Old Dutch Garden” and
the same program with Pat O’Brien, Hollywood’s best known Irishman, as gueststar
in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
(The Press
Democrat, 14th March, 1940)
“Heretical
Observation - Is it not possible that too much of a good thing is as
bad for the ears as it is for the stomach? Specifically, the Kraft program is now, so loaded with overdone Bing Crosby vocabulary stuff, that the whole program threatens to become the same. The
sentences are now as long as the twine on a make-believe gift box.
Simple, routine thoughts are dressed up as literary sunbursts. The program has lost part of its sparkle and any respect it ever possessed for brevity. This
was so, even in the brogue-bandying routine (St Patrick’s Day) among
Crosby, Pat O’Brien and Bob Burns which was amusing half as long as it
lasted. The poem recitation by O’Brien was, similarly, allowed to run its wordy course. Granting that the Kraft program
has been a big success and that it has contributed more than its mite
to radio technique, the time may be approaching for the introduction of
a new idea. There are suggestions of self-enchantment with the mere
sound of polysyllabics.”
(“Variety” 20th March 1940)
After the glowing closing sentence from the critique of Programme No. 173, someone seems to have got out of the wrong side of the bed!
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, The Kraft Choral Society, Victor Schertzinger and Humphrey Bogart.
*Say “Si Si”
with The Music Maids
*Devil May Care
*I’d Love To Live In Loveland (With A Girl Like You)
*Between 18th & 19th On Chestnut Street
with The Music Maids
End Of The Sabbath
The Kraft Choral Society
Oley Speaks
The Kraft Choral Society
Panis Angelicus (Franck) The Kraft Choral Society
*The Singing Hills
Bing Crosby’s guests on his “Music Hall” variety program…will include
Humphrey Bogart, screen star, and Victor Schertzinger, movie director, who was
the first film technician to write a musical score into a screen production.
(The Evening News, (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), 21st March, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Oscar Levant, Brenda Marshall and Errol Flynn.
*Yours Is My Heart Alone
*Give A Little Whistle
with The Music Maids
*Old Black Joe
*Ooh! What You Said
with The Music Maids
Prelude No. 2
Oscar Levant
*Missouri Waltz
Oscar
Levant, whose smattering of ignorance has made him a household term and has
produced a book on the subject, will visit Bing Crosby along with Errol Flynn
and Brenda Marshall at 9 p.m. over WBAP-WFAA and NBC. Flynn and Miss Marshall,
fresh from the set of “The Sea Hawk,” will converse with Crosby and Bob Burns.
Levant will play “Prelude No.2.” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28th March, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Anne Jamison, Virginia Bruce and Donald Budge.
*I’ve Got My Eyes On You
(a) with The Music Maids
Won't
You Come Over To My House
Virginia Bruce
*Love Is All
*Little
Girl
(b)
*Between 18th & 19th On Chestnut Street
with The Music Maids
*The Singing Hills
Note:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
Donald Budge, the tennis player, who turned “pro” when he ran out of competition in the
amateur ranks, will be on the other side of the microphone when Bing Crosby steps forward for a battle of words
in the Music Hall tonight. Other special guests for the broadcast over WMAQ at
9 o'clock are Virginia Bruce, of the films, and Ann Jameson, soprano… Since retiring
from amateur matches, Don Budge has been crossing tennis racquets with such veteran
stalwarts of the courts as Bill Tilden, Fred Perry, and Ellsworth Vines. He
plans to get some pointers on golf from Bing in return for giving the crooner a
few tennis tips. Crosby will sing. “I've Got My Eyes on You,” “Love Is Al1,” “The
Singing Hills,” and for his 1931 memory number, “Little Girl.” He's persuaded Virginia
Bruce to use her soprano voice on “Won’t You Come Over to My House?”
(Belvidere Daily Republican, 4th April, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Jeffrey Lynn, Lucille Ball and Fields & Fingerle.
*Say “Si Si”
with The Music Maids
*Last Night’s Gardenias
(a)
*Tell Me, Little Gypsy
(b)
*Ooh! What You Said
with The Music Maids
*Yours Is My Heart Alone
*Angel In Disguise
Notes:
(a) Spokane 19 - “Music Hall Highlights” (Date shewn as November 4th 1940)
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
(b) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Bing Crosby Enterprises CD: "Bing Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook"
A quartet of young
stars will drop in at the Kraft Music Hall tonight, over WIBA at 9 o’clock,
when Bing Crosby calls roll to open the hall. From the film colony, the program
will draw Lucille Ball and Jeffrey Lynn, and from the music world Crosby has
invited the piano team of Fingerle and Fields.
(The
Capital Times, (Madison, Wisconsin), 11th April, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Janice Porter, Donald Crisp and Anna Neagle.
*The Woodpecker Song
(a) with The Music Maids
*Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
*Alice Blue Gown
with Anna Neagle
*Beautiful Dreamer
with The Music Maids
*I’ve Got My Eyes On You
Sweethearts
Janice Porter
L'amour
Toujours L'amour
Janice Porter
Voi Lo Sapete Janice Porter
Kitten On The Keys John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Note:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
“Anna Neagle, Donald Crisp and Janice Porter guested Thursday night (18th) on the Kraft cheese program with Bing Crosby and Bob Burns. Although the fact wasn’t brought out clearly, Miss Neagle’s first stint was, apparently, from her forthcoming RKO picture “Irene”. Part
of the sketch she spieled in French, the rest in a thick brogue,
winding up with a duet with Crosby - all but the latter kind of
inconclusive. Carrying the accent theme further, Crisp next did a Jewish characterization, occasionally tossing in a couple of lines of his natural Scottish burr. Miss Porter of the Chicago Opera, sang a couple of light classic numbers, agreeably. In general, the program was up to its standard.”
(“Variety” 24th April 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Carol MacFarlane, Spring Byington and Basil Rathbone.
*Meet The Sun Halfway
with The Music Maids
*Last Night’s Gardenias
*My Gal Sal
*April Played The Fiddle
with The Music Maids
*Yours Is My Heart Alone
*Thou Swell with Carol MacFarlane
"A young lady who
lived next door to Bing Crosby in Los Angeles while he was still singing
in a trio hasn’t been forgotten by the crooner. Carol MacFarland is her name
and she’ll make her radio singing debut at the invitation of Bing in the
Music Hall Thursday at 10 p. m. over WEAF. Basil Rathbone and Spring Byington will be the
other guests, with the regulars Bob Burns, the Music Maids and John Scott
Trotter’s orchestra."
(Lima News, April 25, 1940)
Mike fright is a
common ailment. Carole MacFarlane, Bing Crosby’s ex-next door neighbor who made
her world debut on the Music Hall last week, succumbed to a bad case of it
after her first song. The tune was easy, but the words, supposed to be chatted
with Crosby, were hard. Bing ad-libbed until she got her air-legs, and Miss MacFarlane
carried on with her second ditty, though queazily.
(The
Tampa Tribune, 2nd May, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Annabella and Jose Iturbi.
*The Pessimistic Character (With The Crab-Apple Face) (a) with The Music Maids
*Imagination
*Sierra Sue
with The Music Maids
*Between 18th & 19th On Chestnut Street
with The Music Maids
Liebestraum (Liszt)
Jose Iturbi (piano)
*I Haven’t Time To Be A Millionaire
Note:
(a) Spokane 14 - “Bing In The Thirties - Volume Two”
“Gene Towne and Graham Baker, the Hollywood scripting team and professional cut-ups, guested on the Kraft program, last week, with Bing Crosby. As usual, on this series, there was no attempt at a formal appearance in a sketch or an interview. The noted screwballers tossed a few gags back and forth with Crosby and Bob Burns and then did more of the same with Annabella when she joined the quip-fest. It wasn’t exactly punchy but not bad, either. Jose Iturbi played a couple of pieces in sock fashion and also contributed a few laugh lines.”
(“Variety” 8th May 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, The Coolidge String Quartet, Kay Francis and William Boyd.
*The Woodpecker Song
(a) with The Music Maids
*The Woodpecker Song (parody)
*April Played The Fiddle
with Bob Burns (bazooka)
*Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me)
(b) with The Music Maids
*Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me (parody) (c)
*Devil May Care
Andante Cantabile
The Coolidge String Quartet
Molly On The Shore
The Coolidge String Quartet
*The Singing Hills
Notes:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”. A few lines are reprised, in parodied form, as an introduction for Bob Burns.
(b) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
(c) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Kay Francis and
William Boyd, screen stars, and the Coolidge String Quartet, will be guests of
Bing Crosby and Bob Burns on their “Music Hall” broadcast over the WEAF chain
at 10 o’clock.
(The Evening News
(Harrisburg), May 9, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Dave Butler, Jarmila Novotna and Brian Aherne.
*Meet The Sun Halfway
with The Music Maids
*Imagination
*Cecilia
(a)
with The Music Maids
*Angel In Disguise
(b)
Huckleberry Duck John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*Too Romantic
Note:
(a) Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Limited Edition Club JGB1003 - “Around The Hall - Volume Two”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Sepia CD 1224 "Bing Crosby in the Hall"
Ever loyal to the
graduates of the Music Hall, Bing Crosby has invited “the most beautiful opera
star in the world,” Jarmila Novotna, to make her second appearance on his
program during its broadcast to be heard over WSB at 9 o’clock tonight. Miss
Novotna made her debut in the hall before she made her operatic debut last fall
at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Brian Aherne, of the stage and screen,
and David Butler, who directed Bing’s new picture, “If I Had My Way,” will
complete the guest roster for the broadcast.
(The
Atlanta Constitution, 16th May, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Gloria Jean, Frank McHugh and Robert Preston.
*The Woodpecker Song
with The Music Maids
*Sierra Sue
with The Music Maids
*Down By The Ohio (Oh! My! Oh!)
(a) with The Music Maids
*Where Do I Go From You
Dancing Tambourine John Scott Trotter Orchestra
*If I Had My Way
(a) with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) Spokane 21 - “Bing And The Music Maids”
Bing
Crosby is bringing his favorite leading lady, little 12-year Gloria Jean, to the
Music Hall for a visit tonight when Robert Preston and Frank McHugh will also
be guests. Currently on exhibit throughout the country is Bing Crosby’s newest motion
picture, “If I Had My Way,” in which he is co-starred with Gloria Jean. Gloria
will sing a song or two from the picture as well as chat with her “Uncle Bing.”
Robert
Preston and Frank McHugh are a contrasting pair on the screen but all that changes
before the microphone. Preston plays menaces with McHugh cast for his laugh-getting
abilities. They’ll both be in there “pitching” for laughs tonight.
(The
Belvidere Daily Republican, 23rd May, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Elisabeth Rethberg, Chester Morris and Edna Best.
*The Pessimistic Character (With The Crab-Apple Face) with The Music Maids
*Angel In Disguise
*When You Look In Her Eyes
with The Music Maids
*If I Knew Then (What I Know Now)
*Yours Is My Heart Alone
The option for the Music Maids has been picked up six weeks in advance of its expiration.
Opera and Movie Performers to Appear With Bing
Crosby
TRIPLE
star entertainment is promised the radio audience tonight as the highlight of The
Music Hall program on WSUN at 9 o'clock when carefree Bing Crosby corrals Elizabeth
Rethberg, the Metropolitan soprano, Edna Best and Chester Morris, of the Hollywood
sound stages, as his guests of the evening. Morris has made many visits to the program
before, in fact, to the K. M. H. gang he is known as “Mysterious Morris”
because of his great interest, in the art of magic. Miss Rethberg, as everyone knows,
is an habitue of the Metropolitan Opera House during the regular season, but for
this time she will join in one of Crosby's famous chats and contribute two numbers
to the program. Besides the guests to be present for the Memorial Day outing on
the Crosby picnic, the regular cast composed of Bob Burns, The Music Maids and
John Scott Trotter and his orchestra will be on hand to add to the entertainment.
(The Tampa Times,
30th May, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Suzanne Fisher and John Payne.
*I Can’t Love You Anymore (Anymore Than I Do) (a) with The Music Maids
*I Haven’t Time To Be A Millionaire
*Hawaiian Paradise
with The Music Maids & Perry Botkin (guitar)
*Where Do I Go From You?
*Too Romantic
Note:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
The well-known soprano of opera fame, Suzanne Fisher, and
John Payne, one of the up and coming leading men of the films, have promised
Bing Crosby to hand him their calling cards for a Music Hall visit tonight. The
leading and only exponent of the bazooka, Robin Burns, the Music Maids, Ken
Carpenter, and John Scott Trotter's orchestra fill the bill for the airing over
WMAQ at 8 o'clock.
Bing Crosby is ever on the alert to introduce young Hollywood
talent on his program. He has presented John Payne on a previous occasion thus making
this a return appearance by “popular request.” John married one of Bing’s favorite
M. H. graduates, lovely Anne Shirley.
Ken Carpenter, the master bell ringer, is readying
several surprises for the graduation ceremonies in M. H. Last week Carpenter
irked Professor Crosby by saying he had only learned three things in M. H. and then
proceeded to give out with the three station-break chimes.
(Belvidere Daily
Republican, 6th June, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Marcel Hubert, Wendy Barrie and Ralph Bellamy.
*Playmates
(a) with The Music Maids
*Devil May Care
*She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia
(c) with The Music Maids
*When You Look In Her Eyes
with The Music Maids
*Make Believe Island
(b)
Note:
(a) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(b) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Sepia CD 1373 "Bing Crosby - Kraft Music Hall Time"
(c) Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
“Marcel Hubert, French cellist of note, a guest of Bing Crosby at 6 over KFI, will play his Montagnana cello of 1727 often called, ‘Le Roi Soleil’ because of its tonal quality and sunburst markings on its sides. He is the youngest cellist to win first prize at the Paris Conservatoire. Ralph Bellamy will be the second visitor to the Town (sic) Hall. The Music Maids could become a five-piece band. At least three are pianists, two play the saxophone, one the cello, two the violin and one the drums”
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 13th June 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Garson Kanin, Kirsten Flagstad and Roland Young.
*The Woodpecker Song
with The Music Maids
*Virginia Lee
(a)
*I Can’t Love You Anymore (Anymore Than I Do) with The Music Maids
*Juanita
(b)
*Imagination
Note:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
(b) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
“Kirsten Flagstad, one of the world’s outstanding singers, will be one of Crosby’s three guests at 6 over KFI. Madame Flagstad will sing two arias. Garson Kanin, 27 year-old RKO director and Roland Young, comedian will be Crosby’s other visitors. The Music Hall will change its broadcast time on July 4th to 5pm.”
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 20th June 1940)
27th June 1940 - No programme due to Republican Convention.
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Johnny Mercer, Nigel Bruce, Geraldine Fitzgerald and John Garfield.
*Mister Meadowlark
with Johnny Mercer
*You Tell Me Your Dream
with Chorus
*Cecilia
with The Music Maids
*Meet The Sun Halfway (parody)
(a) with John Scott Trotter (Vocal)
*Just Like Taking Candy From A Baby (b) with The Music Maids
*On Behalf Of The Visiting Firemen
(c) with Johnny Mercer
*Make Believe Island
Notes:
(a) This
parodied version is included as a tribute to a (purported) weight loss
of 40 lbs by John Scott Trotter, who had been dieting.
(b) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
(c) This item includes a final, parodied, chorus as a lead-in to the commercial by Ken Carpenter.
Bob Burns did not appear on this or the subsequent four programmes.
“Bob Burns is taking a six week lay-off in order to be in shape for the long summer ahead when Bing Crosby absents himself” (“Variety” 3rd July 1940)
John Scott Trotter has worked 186 weeks without a vacation.
Bing Crosby will
celebrate the new time of his "Music Hall” program by presenting a number of
stars to his audience when he switches to a 7 o’clock broadcast over KTBS
tonight. Formerly the Music Hall was heard at 8 o’clock. The outstanding guests
will include such notables of the stage and screen as John Garfield, Geraldine
Fitzgerald and song-writer Johnny Mercer. The Music Maids and John Scott
Trotter’s orchestra will also be on hand for the broadcast. Johnny Mercer, one
of Bing’s oldest friends, will introduce a new number which he has written
titled “Meadow Lark.” Mercer will perform it in duet with Crosby.
(The
Shreveport Times, 4th July, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Carol MacFarlane, Virginia Bruce, Lynne Overman and Eddie Albert.
*Down By The Ohio (Oh! My! Oh!)
with The Music Maids
*When I Grow Too Old To Dream (a)
*Devil May Care
*Sierra Sue
with The Music Maids
*Button Up Your Overcoat
with Virginia Bruce
The Wee Cooper Of Fife
Eddie Albert (vocal & guitar)
Till The Clouds Roll By Lynne Overman
You
Carol MacFarlane
You’re Lonely And I’m Lonely Carol MacFarlane
*I'll Never Smile Again (b) with The Music Maids
Note:
(a) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
(b) JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
Virginia Bruce, Lynne Overmann, Carol MacFarlane and Eddie
Albert will be Bing Crosby’s guests at 5 over KFI. They were scheduled for two weeks
ago but the show gave way to the Republican Convention. Miss Bruce will sing “Button
Up Your Overcoat” with Crosby and Albert will accompany himself on the guitar
in “Wee
Cooper
of Fife,” a 15th century Scotch ballad. Overmann will relate some stories and then will offer “Till
the Clouds Roll By.” From Miss MacFarlane, Crosby’s protege, you will hear “You”
from The Great Ziegfeld and “You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely” from Louisiana Purchase. The
Music Maids sing five songs in the forthcoming RKO picture, Too Many Girls and every two weeks for the past two years they have supplied the background vocals for a “Merrie
Melodies” cartoon.
(Zuma Palmer, Hollywood Citizen
News, July 11, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Oscar Levant, Lou Holtz, Olivia De Havilland and Alan Hale.
*I Can’t Love You Anymore (Anymore Than I Do) with The Music Maids
*When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano (a)
*Till The Clouds Roll By
with The Music Maids
*Fools Rush In (b)
Garden In Granada (Debussy)
Oscar Levant (piano)
Sonata in C Major (Scarlatti)
Oscar Levant (piano)
Fascinatin’ Rhythm (Gershwin) Oscar Levant (piano)
Notes:
(a) Limited Edition Club JGB1002 - “Around The Hall”
(b) Spokane 19 - “Music Hall Highlights”
Interfusion CD D26291 “A Bing Crosby Cavalcade Of Song”
Bing Crosby and
Oscar Levant will continue their discussion of Debussy and his music where they
left off a few weeks ago, when Levant makes his second guest appearance on the
Kraft Music Hall, tonight over WIBA at 7 o’clock. Other guests include Olivia
de Havilland, Alan Hale and Lou Holtz. As a concession to Crosby, Levant will
play Debussy’s “Garden in Granada,” as one of his piano solos.
(The
Capital Times, [Madison, Wisconsin], 18th July, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Mildred Dilling, Shirley Ross, Allen Jenkins and Raymond Massey.
*Just Like Taking Candy From A Baby
with The Music Maids
*Just Like Taking Candy From A Baby} (a) with The Music Maids &
Sweet Leilani (parodies)}
John Scott Trotter (vocal)
*Only Forever
*Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
(b) with The Music Maids
*I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
*I’ll Never Smile Again
Notes:
(a) This
item, sometimes known among collectors as “Falling Off My Diet”,
consists, in fact, of parodied versions of the songs mentioned. The subject being, once again, John Scott Trotter’s diet [See Programme No. 191 - Note (a)]
(b) CP1 - “Bouncing With Bing”
Limited Edition Club JGB1005 - “Slightly Latin”
JSP Records CD JSP6705 - "Here's Bing Crosby!"
Raymond Massey,
noted Canadian actor and star of the recent historical play by Robert Emmet
Sherwood, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” will be the principal guest on Bing Crosby’s
Kraft Music Hall program tonight. Massey will appear, not in character, but as
himself, something it is doubtful that if he has done on the radio before. The
actor is not the only one on the list. There is also Shirley Ross from the
movies, and Allen Jenkins, the dry comedian from the same source. Bing Crosby
is still carrying the load himself as Bob Burns will not be back until the middle
of next month.
(The
Gazette, [Montreal], 25th July, 1940)
With Ken Carpenter, The Music Maids, Muriel Angelus, The Kidoodlers, Lou Holtz and Pat O’Brien.
*That’s For Me
with The Music Maids
*When I Lost You
*Cecilia
with The Music Maids
*When The Moon Comes Over Madison Square
*When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano
Bing Crosby’s
Music Hall, KFI at 5, will be visited by Muriel Angelus, seen in Safari and The Great McGinty, Pat
O’Brien, Lou Holtz and the Kidoodlers. The latter go in for novelty vocal and instrumental
music. Crosby will sing two tunes from Rhythm on the River, his picture
which is completed but which has not yet been previewed. They are "That’s for Me" and "When the Moon Comes
Over Madison Square." His memory song will be "When I Lost You."
Before the members of the Music Maids began singing together, each had been in
unmusical work. Bobbie Canvin clerked in a
five-and-ten-cent store; Denny Wilson modeled dresses in a Paris shop; Alice Ludes
ran an elevator; Dotty Messmer was a telephone operator, and Jinny Erwin made
and sold cup-cakes.
(Zuma Palmer, Hollywood Citizen News, August 1, 1940)
With Bob Burns, The Music Maids, Lillian Cornell, Amparo Iturbi, Jose Iturbi and Charles Laughton
*Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
*Fools Rush In
*Mary’s A Grand Old Name
*Only Forever
*Legend Of Old California
“Radio will have to get along without Bing Crosby. That is the decision announced by the warbler in the war between ASCAP and the National Association of Broadcasters. Crosby is serving notice that his new contract with the J. Walter Thompson agency which handles the Kraft Music Hall air programs
will be reviewed in December, only with an inserted clause, allowing
his withdrawal if or when ASCAP songs are no longer available for his
broadcasts, pointing out that neither, himself or his fellow air
songsters are taking sides in the quarrel. Crosby asks, how can one publisher, meaning Broadcasters Music Incorporated, supply 137 publishers by the first of the year. In other words what will we have to sing? Larry Crosby, the star’s brother and business manager explained that neither side in the controversy has had any consideration for the name singers on the air. He said that there are 1100 authors writing ASCAP numbers and their works are being made available through 137 publishers. Bing and other singers need this flow of songs. Bing, himself, eats up about five tunes a week and the only place he can get them is through ASCAP”.
(“Variety” 14th August 1940)
“Bob Burns will return to the Music Hall at 5 over KFI. Crosby’s guests will be Charles Laughton, who certainly knows how to read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address; Lillian Cornell, singing actress in ‘Buck Benny Rides Again’; Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor and his sister, Amparo, a pianist.”
(“Hollywood Citizen News” 8th August 1940)
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