1950
- 1951 Season with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra.
Produced by Bill Morrow and Murdo MacKenzie
The audience share for the season was only 10.0 and the show did not
figure in the top 20 ratings as assessed by Nielsen. The top radio show for the
season was the Lux Radio Theater with a rating of
only 21.0 reflecting the increasing impact of television.
No. 37 11th October 1950
(a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (20th September 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter.
With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires,
Judy Garland and Bob Hope.
*Where The Blue Of The Night (b) Opening Theme
*Sam’s
Song (The Happy Tune) (c) with Judy Garland
Get Happy
Judy
Garland
Comedy Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob
Hope & Judy Garland
‘Chesterfield’s New Boy’ Sketch (d)
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Hal Kanter
*I
Cross My Fingers
(e) with Rhythmaires
*Mona
Lisa
(f)
Comedy Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob
Hope & Judy Garland
*Goodnight,
Irene
(g) with Bob Hope, Judy Garland & Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of
The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) The complete programme was issued on Totem LP1009 - “Bing,
Bob & Judy” (Sleeve shews actual transcription
date as 20.9.50)
(b) Pre-show, Bing sings a fragment of “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive” and follows
with, “Well, here we go. First one, this
year, I guess”, when he is interrupted by Hal Kanter
(script writer) as, ‘Hubbell Ackerman Jr - CBS
Vice-President’. ‘Ackerman’ berates Bing
for appearing on NBC, a rival network, with Bob Hope.
(c) JSP702 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
- All The Clouds’ll Roll
Away”
Legends LECD119 (CD) - “Bing Crosby
- Volume 2”
Wisepack
LECDD612 (CD) - “The Essential Collection”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years 1946-1950”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Commercial Recording 23.6.50
(d) The comedy theme concerns Bob Hope’s recent signing for
Chesterfield. It appears to be Hal Kanter again, in the role of ‘Mr. Crampton’, Chesterfield’s
chief executive.
(e) JSP702 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy
Garland - All The Clouds’ll
Roll Away”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby –
The Vintage Years 1946-1950”
Commercial
Recording 22.6.50.
(f) JSP702 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy
Garland - All The Clouds’ll
Roll Away”
On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great
Moments With Bing Crosby And Friends From The
Radio Shows”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years
1946-1950”
Commercial
Recording 18.4.56.
(g) Parodied version with many asides, many
of which are lost to the listener, due to laughter from the
audience.
All Star Products LP2000 - “Bing
Crosby’s All Star Chesterfield Show”
JSP702 (CD) - “Bing Crosby &
Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll
Roll Away”
On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great
Moments With Bing Crosby And Friends From The
Radio Shows”
Jasmine JASCD 357/8 (CD) – “Bob Hope
& Friends – Put It There Pal”
Emi Gold 330 1122 (CD) – Crooners Clowning”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years
1946-1950”
“He called me up one morning. Bless him–he was
cute. ‘Judy,’ he said, ‘I know how busy you are’ (busy ME! That was a laugh!)
‘and I was wondering if I could
get you for three shows’. . . . He could get me for thirty shows, or three
hundred. That moment I felt the whole world change. It was real friendship. I
needed that job more than I needed money. I could always borrow money: you can’t
borrow a job, you can’t borrow the
chance to put faith back in yourself. Somebody else has to have faith in you
first. Well, Bing had faith in me—and thank God, I didn’t let him down.”
(Judy Garland, page 261)
Some performers knew how to make the people in
the radio studio their partners. Hal Kanter will never forget one night on the Bing
Crosby show when Judy Garland was the guest star. “Judy had had a lot of bad
publicity and had gone through a rough time. When she finally came out of the
hospital and was going to make her first public appearance on the show, at the
last minute she got stage fright and got scared to death. She said, ‘They’re
going to hate me; they won’t be listening to me, they’re going to look for scars
on my wrists. . . .’ She was an emotional mess, and Bing went in to reassure
her. Then when he walked out on stage as usual, he said, ‘We have an old friend
here tonight. She’s been away for a while, but she’s come back, and I know that
you missed her because we sure did. Give her a nice welcome; make her feel—make
her feel loved.’ Something like that, then ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Judy
Garland.’ She walked out on the stage and that audience just put their
arms around her and hugged her and kissed her . . . relaxed her. And
she did a show that was wonderful. But it was Bing’s sensitivity that dictated
that. I don’t know too many people who would have done that.”
(The Great American Broadcast, page 199)
“Those two boys - Bing Crosby and Bob Hope - with a big,
rollicking assist from Judy Garland must have made this parlay pay off big on
the Nielsen meters.
For a getaway with Hope now picking up a little cigarette money with the
Groaner, Arthur Godfrey and Perry Como, it didn’t miss far being a dream
show. Every
line served up by Bill Morrow, Hal Kanter and assorted aides was one long howl and the
music was on the same delectable level. From the tradey prologue down to the rousing finale of the
trio taking turns at parodying ‘Goodnight, Irene’ it was sock and go all the
way. Even a
harmless little throwaway line like, ‘Me too’ was built into high voltage humour and the
usual insults generated their own yocks. As for
instance, when Hope said to Crosby, ‘Men have gotten Oscars for less - didn’t
you?’
Young Gary
Crosby came in for his share of the exchange, now that he is following in his
father’s footsteps.
Out in the provinces they must have taken the opening spot with
bewildered amusement - Kanter as
CBS veep, Hubbell Ackerman Jr. gave Crosby a dressing down for
appearing on another network. ‘We want you to be more of a company man’, he
was told, ‘Hope had his chance to
come over to our network’. That nonsense out of the way, Crosby and Miss
Garland dueted ‘Sam’s Song’, each
took a couple of turns solo and Hope came on to kick the script around, though
not as much as in the past. The only break-up was by Miss Garland who can
do it better than most singers. The cigarette girl ‘bit’ was one solid round
of laughs that never let up until Crosby broke into song. The ‘Irene’ parody
at the close gave the show a walloping finish and sent the series away on a high
note of promise.
If radio is to be saved such shows as this will turn the trick. Ken Carpenter was
on hand to pound the ‘smell milder,
smoke milder’ slogan but he had plenty of help from the main men. If Crosby can keep
banging it in, in the weeks to come as he did on the tee-off, it’s going to take
some doing by the others to keep him out of the first ten.”
(“Variety” 18th
October 1950)
“They must be psychic at the Ward Wheelock Agency. A short time ago when father of Bing and Bob
Crosby was stricken, Art Bailey of the commission house ordered a couple of
extra ‘Club 15’s’ (The Bob Crosby Show) taped in advance, just in case. Both were used
after the old gent passed on. Bing Crosby’s take off for Chesterfield was
cancelled at his request although taped the week before.”
(“Variety”
18th October 1950)
No. 38 18th October 1950 (a)
Transcribed
in San Francisco (25th September 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Judy Garland and Bob Hope.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
(b) with Judy
Garland
*All My
Love
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Judy Garland
Friendly Star
Judy Garland
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing Crosby,
Bob Hope, Judy Garland & Hal Kanter
*The Third
Man Theme
(e) with Bob
Hope & Judy Garland
*High On The List
(f)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) The
complete programme was issued on Totem LP1009 - “Bing, Bob & Judy” (Sleeve
shews actual transcription date
as 25.9.50)
(b) JSP702
(CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll Roll Away”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years 1946-1950”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(c) JSP702
(CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll Roll Away”
On The Air OTA101978 (CD) - “Great Moments With Bing Crosby And Friends From The Radio
Shows”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years
1946-1950”
Commercial Recording 23.6.50
(d) The script has
‘Mr. Crampton’ (See
Programme No. 37 - Note (d)), suggesting that in order to maintain the
Chesterfield ‘Happy Family’ image, Bing and Bob should stop insulting each
other. This pep-talk leads to a parodied version of item (e).
(e) See Note
(d) above
JSP702 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Judy Garland - All The Clouds’ll Roll Away”
Jasmine JASCD 357/8 (CD) – “Bob Hope & Friends – Put It There
Pal”
CD- JSP 934C – “Bing Crosby – The Vintage Years
1946-1950”
(f) Commercial Recording 24.3.50
DIAL TONE: This will be Bob Hope’s hottest year.
Nothing can slow him down – not even bad scripts. Somewhere,
during the summer he must have stopped for an overall repair job. His
spark plugs are clean, his brakes relined, generator humming, bumpers polished,
wheels tightened and timing improved. Particularly the timing.
He proved it to some 700 localites, Monday night when he and Judy
Garland guested on Bing Crosby’s airwaver, to be CBSed October 11.
How this opus will sound on the air no man alive knows except balding
Bill Morrow, Crosby’s smart producer, who will trim the forty-one minutes of
tape to a neat half-hour radio package.
Bing’s return to the Marines Memorial Theater was like the first crisp,
biting breeze of autumn after a dull and dusty summer.
They were all back again – John Scott Trotter juggling his tonnage on
the podium, Buddy Cole chewing gum to the rhythm of his piano, Ken Carpenter
beaming in the announcer’s spotlight, Jud Conlon and his pretty Rhythmaires,
Co-Producer Murdo McKenzie impeccably dressed, and Bing, tanned and healthy,
“back from a gastronomic tour of France,” admitting he had “a little less hair,
but more um pah pah around the middle.”
All of these – and Judy Garland!
Judy, here to earn $5,000 – for a half hour’s work, was nervous and
uncertain. And she won the greatest ovation I’ve heard since Al
Jolson’s appearance with Bing last spring.
She muffed lines, tripped on words, lost her cues, but when she unloosed
that tingling, heart-warming throaty voice it was “Dorothy” again from “Wizard
of Oz” and “Meet Me in St. Louis,” and “Easter Parade,” and the accumulated
years, fears and tears tumbled from a gifted voice.
Judy was great – because of Bing and Bob.
When she blew a line, they blew six lines seven feet
farther. Bob brought the house down, rebuilt it, and knocked it over
again, time after time.
Bob, deliberately choking a joke, said: “I thought I could have my nails
done, while they were laughing. What the hell
happened?” Several times he walked off stage in mock
disgust. Once he confessed: “I don’t want any money for this” and
Bing asked him to put it on paper.
The comedy capers brought Judy back to her golden stride, swinging and
singing like she used to do. When it was over, she and Bob Hope
walked off stage, arm in arm – a job well done.
But Bob came back for a bonus aftershow.
He had to retape a sequence for his own show of October 3, and he
borrowed Bing’s engineers and equipment. His handling the audience
was a work of laughing art.
“Don’t try to be a jury,” he said. “Be happy. Or I’ll have to
go to San Jose to do it.”
His mugging and eye-rolling gave a triple punch to one punch line.
He had a line featuring the Victory Clothing Company. No
laughs. Bob created a whopper:
“That’s a store in Los Angeles. You wouldn’t know about it
here.”
And through it all, Bing, the “Mr Music” who sells cigarets, calmly
puffed his pipe.
(Dwight Newton, Day and Night, The San Francisco Examiner, September 27, 1950)
No. 39 25th October 1950
Transcribed in San Francisco. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Claudette Colbert.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Life Is So
Peculiar
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Harbour
Lights
(b) with
Rhythmaires & Ziggy Elman (Cornet)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Claudette Colbert
‘Triplets’
Sketch
(c) Bing
Crosby, Claudette Colbert, Joe Venuti & Ken
Carpenter
*La Vie En
Rose
(d) with Joe Venuti (Violin)
*Mona
Lisa
(e)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 24.3.50
(b) Another
mental aberration by Bing, as he introduces this item as, “Here’s a tune I
recorded twice, once about twenty years ago and again, just last month”.
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
(c) The
comedy theme is a ‘love story told from three different points of view -
American, French and Italian’. Bing is featured, variously, as ‘Buckskin’
Crosby, Andre and Domenico. To accompany each
vignette, Joe Venuti plays,
appropriately, snatches of “Goofus”, “La Vie En Rose” and “O Sole Mio” and the
‘French’ segment provides the framework for item (d).
(d) Commercial
Recordings 22.6.50 & 16.5.53
(e) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And
Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
United Artists UAK30115 - “The Golden Age Of American Radio Starring Bing Crosby”
Echo Jazz EJLP12 - “Bing Crosby - Big Band Days”
Echo Jazz EJCD12 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - Big Band Days”
Commercial Recording 18.4.56
PHENOMENA: Claudette
Colbert performed a local miracle Monday evening. She was here to
help Bing Crosby tape his October 25 show at the Marines Memorial Theatre.
A normal Crosby
recording makes Olsen and Johnson’s antics seem anemic. Sometimes it
takes an hour to do a thirty minute show. This time the
back-stage mood was as dignified as a “Theatre Guild” rehearsal.
Credit goes to
Miss Colbert. Her presence brought an unfamiliar decorum to the
proceedings. Yet it resulted in one of Bing’s funniest shows.
Miss Colbert
rejected Bing’s offer to play in his next picture with Bob Hope.She listed the
stars she has been featured with (Gable, Cooper, MacMurray, Ryan, Grant, etc.)
then explained: “When one is used to champagne, one doesn’t like to switch
to Seven Up.”
Her appearance was
a pleasant interlude in a stormy series, but normal chaos should return next
Tuesday when Bing plans to host Al Jolson.
(Dwight Newton, Day and Night, The San Francisco Examiner, October 19, 1950)
Transcribed in San Francisco on October 25. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Dorothy Kirsten.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Looks Like
A Cold, Cold Winter
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*All My
Love
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dorothy Kirsten
Ouvre Ton Coeur (Bizet)
Dorothy Kirsten
*Let’s Do
It Again
with Rhythmaires
*Accidents
Will Happen
(c) with
Dorothy Kirsten
*Indian
Summer
(d) with Dorothy
Kirsten
*Beyond The
Reef
(e) with
Rhythmaires featuring Loulie Jean Norman
& Danny Stewart (Hawaiian Guitar)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
(b)
Commercial Recording 23.6.50
(c) Glendale
GL9003 - “Dorothy Kirsten - Enchanted Evenings”
Commercial Recordings 11.4.50 & 21.6.50
(d) Commercial
Recording 7.2.51
(e) Commercial Recording 5.9.50
(f) This is undoubtedly the programme in which Al Jolson was scheduled to appear when he died on the 23rd October, at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, a few hours before the show was due to be recorded.
“Crosby, Cantor Shows To Salute Al Jolson”
(Headline)
“On the show to have been taped with Bing Crosby tonight,
(24th), Al Jolson was to be paid high tribute for his recent Korean trip. Jolson was to have
dueted with Crosby in a medley of
Jolson hits, with Joly also to
have soloed ‘Japanese Sandman’. Tonight’s taping was canceled by Crosby and
will be done Friday or Saturday instead. Writer and co-producer said a tribute will be
paid to Jolson and it is likely that the musical portion will comprise songs
identified with the Mammy singer.”
Four duets by Bing
Crosby and his guest, Metropolitan opera star, Dorothy Kirsten, highlight a
predominantly musical edition of CBS’ “Bing Crosby Show” over WCBS at 9:30.
(The Evening
Citizen, (Ottawa), 1st November, 1950)
No. 41 8th November 1950 (a)
Transcribed in San Francisco. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Dick Powell.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Life Is So
Peculiar
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Harbour
Lights
(c) with
Rhythmaires & Ziggy Elman (Cornet)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dick Powell
*Play A Simple Melody
(d) with Dick
Powell
Medley:
*I Only
Have Eyes For You
with Dick Powell
*You Must
Have Been A Beautiful Baby (e) with Dick
Powell
*Jeepers Creepers
(f) with Dick
Powell & Buddy Cole (Piano)
*Lullaby
Of Broadway
(g) with Dick
Powell & Rhythmaires
*Thanks
A Million
with Dick Powell
*Autumn
Leaves
(h) Bing
Crosby
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Wimp BCDP194850 - “Bing Crosby &
DickPowell”
(b)
Commercial Recording 24.3.50
(c)
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
(d) CD: Bing Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Commercial
Recording 23.6.50
(e)
Commercial Recording 14.10.38
(f)
Commercial Recording 11.6.56
(g) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And
Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
United Artists UAK30115 - “The Golden Age Of American Radio Starring Bing Crosby”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP711 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 4
GNP Crescendo GNPD9051 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
(h) Commercial Recording 7.9.50
Crooner will be
visiting groaner when the Bing Crosby show comes on the air over CBS-WGBS at
9:30 tonight. Dick Powell, who got his start both in radio and on the screen as
a soft-voiced singer before going in for tough private-eye roles, will revert
to type by joining Bing in a medley… There’ll also be a skit involving a case
of mistaken identity…
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 8th November, 1950)
No. 42 15th November 1950 (a)
Transcribed in San Francisco on November 6. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Toni Arden and Bob Crosby.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Silver
Bells
(b) with Toni
Arden
La Vie En Rose
(c) Toni Arden
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Bob Crosby
*Let’s Do
It Again
(d) with Bob
Crosby
*Beyond The
Reef
(e) with
Rhythmaires featuring Loulie Jean Norman & Danny
Stewart (Hawaiian Guitar)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) A
recording exists of Bing and Bob Crosby rehearsing "Love's Old Sweet
Song" for this show but the song was omitted from the broadcast,
(b) Jasmine
CD JASCD644 “I Can Dream Can’t I”
Commercial
recording 8.9.50
(c) Jasmine
CD JASCD644 “I Can Dream Can’t I”
(d) A parodied
version, with special lyrics, recalling their younger days.
Jasmine CD JASCD 651 “The Crosby Brothers”
(e) Commercial Recording 5.9.50
Brother will give
brother an assist when Bob Crosby joins Bing at 9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS, the
broadcast to come from San Francisco. Also present will be Toni Arden, night
spots chanteuse. The Crosbys will start off the show with “Let’s Do It Again”
and will wind it up with “Love’s Old Sweet Song.”
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 15th November, 1950)
Transcribed in San Francisco. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Paul Douglas.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Mele Kalikimaka
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Accidents
Will Happen
(b)
*All My
Love
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing Crosby
& Paul Douglas
*Nevertheless
(e) with
Rhythmaires
*That
Christmas Feeling
(f)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
(g) Closing
Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 7.9.50
(b)
Commercial Recordings 11.4.50 & 21.6.50
(c)
Commercial Recording 23.6.50
(d) The dialogue
includes recollections of the time when Paul Douglas replaced regular announcer,
Norman Brokenshire on Bing’s
earlier, ‘Music That Satisfies’ series, after the programme moved from New York
to Hollywood in 1933.
(e) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 20.7.76
(f)
Commercial Recordings 5.9.50 & 6.9.50
(g) After the closing theme, in this and several subsequent programmes, there is an additional, recorded commercial by Sherman Billingsley, legendary host and owner of the famous ‘Stork Club’.
The not-so-good
old days of 19 years ago when one was an announcer and the other a hopeful
young singer will be recalled when Paul Douglas visits Bing Crosby at 9:30
p.m., CBS-WGBS.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 22nd November, 1950)
Transcribed in San Francisco on November 9. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, The Firehouse Five
Plus Two and Ella Fitzgerald.
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*A
Marshmallow World
(a) with Ella
Fitzgerald and the Rhythmaires
Can Anyone
Explain?
Ella Fitzgerald with Rhythmaires
Tiger Rag
The Firehouse Five Plus
Two
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Ward Kimball
*Five Foot
Two, Eyes Of Blue
(b) with
The Firehouse Five Plus Two
*Silver
Bells
(c) with Ella
Fitzgerald & Rhythmaires
*Memphis
Blues
(d) with Ella
Fitzgerald & The Firehouse
Five Plus Two
*Autumn
Leaves
(e)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Parrot
PARCD002 (CD) - “Ella Fitzgerald And Bing Crosby - My Happiness”
Legends LECD118 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 1”
Wisepack LECDD612 (CD) -
“The Essential Collection”
Shout! CD DK 31516 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Sonoma SBX2 0385 (CD) “Bing Crosby Christmas”
Primary Wave Music CD "Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems"
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
(b) Limited
Edition Club JGB1006 - “Kinda
Dixie”
Parrot PARCD002 (CD) - “Ella Fitzgerald And Bing Crosby - My Happiness”
Jasmine CD JASCD 460 “”Stoking The Fire – The Whole Story – Vol.2 “
BCE 6 (CD) “Bing in Dixieland”
Commercial Recording 30.4.62
(b) Parrot
PARCD002 (CD) - “Ella Fitzgerald And Bing Crosby - My Happiness”
Shout! CD
DK 31516 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Varese Sarabande CD 3020668482 “Bing Crosby – A Crosby
Christmas”
Collectors’
Choice CD “The Crosby Christmas Sessions”
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
(d) Limited Edition
Club JGB1006 - “Kinda Dixie”
Parrot PARCD002 (CD) - “Ella Fitzgerald And Bing Crosby - My Happiness”
Shout! CD DK 31516 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Jasmine CD JASCD 460 “”Stoking The Fire – The Whole Story – Vol.2 “
BCE 6 (CD) “Bing in Dixieland”
(e) Bing Crosby Enterprises CD - "Bing Crosby Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook"
Commercial
Recording 7.9.50
The Dixieland
musical group called the Firehouse Five – Plus Two, which has had so much
success over on the West coast, will be guest of Bing Crosby at 9:30 p.m.,
CBS-WGBS. Sharing the honors with them will be
Ella Fitzgerald.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 29th November, 1950)
Some of
the brightest portions of Bing’s current season’s schedule have been the
appearances of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a highly individual jazz band made up of
Walt Disney artists and writers who began playing jazz music as a hobby. Bing
discovered this group last year, when the boys were invited by brother Larry to play for the Victory dinner at
Bing’s Pebble Beach Golf Tournament. The Firehouse Five have since appeared on
the radio show five times.
Bing’s
singing with the group has drawn a tremendous flood of fan mail, most of which
makes the point that he sounds more youthful with them. According to Ward
Kimball, Firechief and trombone
player, this is actually the case.
“We play
in a higher key than most of Bing’s current arrangements,” he explains, “so he
sings like he used to long ago.”
(from an
article in Modern Screen magazine, April, 1951)
No. 45 6th December 1950
(a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (2nd December 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Judy Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
*Rudolph
The Red-Nosed Reindeer
(c) with Judy
Garland & Rhythmaires
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody Judy
Garland
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
‘The Story Of Judith &
Yammy Yogurt’
Sketch
(d) Bing Crosby,
Judy Garland & Ken Carpenter
*Tortured
(e)
*Boise,
Idaho
(f) with Judy
Garland
*My Blue
Heaven
(g) with Judy
Garland
*These Lush
Moments
(h) with Judy
Garland
*(The Toys
Gave A Party For) Poppa
Santa
Claus
(i)
with Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Harbour
Lights
(j)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Broadcast Tributes BTRIB0005 - “The Long
Lost Bing ‘N’ Judy Off The Air
Performances”
An edited
version of the programme was also issued on AJAZ523 - “Bing Crosby At The Music Hall” (The transcription
ends abruptly after “Poppa Santa Claus” and does not include “Harbour
Lights”)
(b) Not
previously used during the current season, the Chesterfield jingle takes
precedence over the opening theme and is now sung, twice, during this and most
subsequent shows. Different words and music to the version last used in
Programme No. 36.
(c) An
extremely uninhibited rendering of this item, with additional lyrics, provokes
laughter from both the performers and the studio audience.
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(d) The comedy
theme is built around the efforts of ‘two struggling songwriters’ and provides
the framework for items (e), (f), (g) and (h). All the songs, with the exception of item (g)
were prominent in the ‘All Time Flop Parade’ sketches for Philco Radio Time.
(e) See Note
(d) above.
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(f) See Note
(d) above.
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(g) This
parodied item is based on the comedy premise that if a hit song could be written
about the ‘Mona Lisa’, there could be equal success, using Gainsborough’s, ‘Blue
Boy’, as the inspiration.
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shewn as
8.10.47)
(h) See Note
(d) above.
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(i)
Commercial Recording 7.9.50
(j) Commercial Recording 5.9.50
Judy Garland will
join Bing Crosby in a duet version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” tonight
at 9:30 over WDAE. This is Miss Garland’s third visit of the season to the “Bing
Crosby Show.” She and Bing will sing a special set of “Rudolph” lyrics written
by Bill Morrow, producer and head writer of the show.
(Tampa
Bay Times, 6th December, 1950)
No. 46 13th December 1950 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (9th December 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and Hopalong Cassidy (William
Boyd).
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee
*A Bushel
And A Peck
(b) with
Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
*And You’ll
Be Home
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Orange Coloured
Sky Peggy
Lee
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Hopalong Cassidy
‘Smoking Guns’
Sketch
Bing Crosby, Hopalong Cassidy, Peggy Lee & Ken
Carpenter
*Silver
Bells
(d) with Peggy Lee
& Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*White
Christmas
(e) with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Critter Records CBHC8901 - “Bing
&Hoppy”
(b) Sun 2110
(CD) – “Just The Way You Are –
Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
(c)
Commercial Recording 21.6.50
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Christmas”
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
(e) Commercial Recordings 29.5.42, 19.3.47, 10.4.54 & 24.12.55
Der Bingle will
try to demonstrate that Bing (Sagalong) Crosby is somebody to be reckoned with
too, when William Boyd, CBS’ Hopalong Cassidy, is guest on the CBS Bing Crosby
Show at 9:30 p.m. Crosby’s vocal guest is to be Peggy Lee…
(The
Times Dispatch, 13th December, 1950)
No. 47 20th December 1950 (a)
Transcribed in Hollywood on November 25 Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Lindsay Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Phillip
Crosby, Gary Crosby and Dixie Lee Crosby (b).
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Adeste Fideles
(c) with
Rhythmaires
*Jingle
Bells
(d) with Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
‘Poppa Santa’ Sketch
(e)
Bing Crosby, Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Lindsay Crosby
& Dixie Lee Crosby
*That
Christmas Feeling
(f) with Gary Crosby & Rhythmaires
*I’d Like
To Hitch A Ride With Santa Claus (g) with Lindsay Crosby & Rhythmaires
The Snowman
(h) Dennis
Crosby & Phillip Crosby with Rhythmaires
*That Christmas Feeling
(i)
with Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Lindsay Crosby & Rhythmaires
*Silent
Night
(j)
Closing Theme with Rhythmaires
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Ho-Ho-Ho Records 1088 - “A Warm And Wonderful Christmas Eve With Bing
& Frank” and on “Collectors’ Gold LP596 - “Happy Holiday with Bing &
Frank”
(b) Although
Bing made very many radio appearances of which there is insufficient knowledge
to speak, this appears to be the only example of his wife, Dixie Lee Crosby,
appearing with him on a show from one of his own radio series.
(c) Sung
first, in Latin and then in English accompanied by the studio audience.
Commercial Recordings 1934, 12.11.35 & 8.6.42
(d) Commercial
Recording 19.3.47
(e) The
opening of this item includes Bing singing, unaccompanied, a fragment of “Jingle
Bells” and the comedy theme concerns Bing’s imposture of Santa Claus for the
benefit of his sons, all of whom are ‘wise’ to the deception. The close of the
sketch leads, naturally, to items (f), (g), (h) & (i) which follow, quite closely, the format of the
commercial issue, “A Crosby Christmas”.
(f) See Note
(e) above.
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(g) See Note
(e) above.
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Christmas”
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
(h) See Note
(e) above.
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Christmas”
(i) See
Note (e) above.
The reprise
has Bing and Gary Crosby carrying the main theme with contrapuntal accompaniment
of “I’d Like To Hitch A Ride With
Santa Claus” by the other boys and the Rhythmaires.
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Commercial Recordings 5.9.50 & 6.9.50
(j)
Commercial Recordings 21.2.35, 13.11.35, 8.6.42, 19.3.47, 3.5.54
& 24.12.55
There’s a pleasant
surprise in store for Bing Crosby fans on his KNX at 6:30 show tonight. Yesterday we
ran a picture of the Old Groaner and his four sons as costars of the show. At
that time we didn’t know about the surprise. It seems Mrs. Bing Crosby, the
former Dixie Lee, will also be on hand playing her role as Mother Crosby. Mary
Jane Croft had originally been set for the part on the radio show but Dixie
decided to break her retirement from public life and requested the role herself.
So it will be a happy occasion when Bing, Dixie and their four sons celebrate
an early Christmas at home tonight.
(Walter
Ames, The Los Angeles Times, 20th December, 1950)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (14th December 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Jack Teagarden, Dinah Shore and Louis
Armstrong.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
Comedy Dialogue
(b) Bing
Crosby & Ken Carpenter
*A Bushel
And A Peck
(g)
with Dinah Shore & Rhythmaires
*Accidents
Will Happen
(c) with
Buddy Cole (Piano)
Nice Work If You
Can Get It Dinah
Shore
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
*Blueberry
Hill
(d) with Louis
Armstrong & Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Jack Teagarden
Rockin’ Chair
(f) Louis
Armstrong & Jack Teagarden
*Rockin’ Chair
(e) with
Louis Armstrong, Dinah Shore, Jack Teagarden
& Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*The
Tennessee Waltz
(h)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Bing does
some vocal ‘doodling’ over the opening bars before joining with, “Someone waits
for me”.
(b) During
the introductory dialogue, Ken Carpenter announces that Bing has been elected
‘Mr. Music’ by ASCAP and that January 1951 will be designated ‘Bing Crosby
Month’ in celebration of his 20th Anniversary in show business.
(c)
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(e)
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DK 31516 “Swingin’ With Bing”
The item is
a parodied version which is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Bing’s coming
‘anniversary’ celebration (See Note (b) above). The arrangement includes Bing
singing a line of “Louise” and a parodied fragment of “Small Fry”.
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(g) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(h) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Bing Crosby will
celebrate his 20th anniversary in show business during January 1951. Noting
this, CBS singing star Dinah Shore and two jazzland pals who “knew him when,”
Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden help launch the festivities as guests on the
Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.) Amid reminiscences of the old days, Crosby
and his guests will sing and play several new and old song favorites.
(The
Tampa Times, 27th December, 1950)
No. 49 3rd January 1951 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (24th December 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Fred Astaire.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Life Is So
Peculiar
(b) with Rhythmaires
*Nevertheless
(c) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
*The
Thing
(d) with Fred Astaire & Rhythmaires
*Just One
More Chance
(e)
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Beyond The
Reef
(f) with
Rhythmaires featuring Loulie Jean Norman & Danny
Stewart (Hawaiian Guitar)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Tap-Time Facit 142 - “Top Hat, White Tie And Golf Shoes”
(b) The
phrase “...there’s nothing to comb but hair” evokes laughter from the studio
audience, prompting a chuckle from Bing and the query, “Why do you laugh?”
(c) There is
audience reaction during the Rhythmaires' solo, which suggests Bing may be
clowning.
Commercial Recording 24.3.50
(d) This is a
largely, parodied version of the Phil Harris ‘hit’ and additional lyrics have
been provided, to suit the occasion and the participants.
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(e)
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(f)
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
A parody of “The Thing”
will be their specialty when Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby team up on the latter’s
show at 9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS. “Life Is So Peculiar” from his current “Mr. Music”
is listed among Bing’s numbers.
(The
Miami Herald, 3rd January, 1951)
“We used to do jokes about Bing’s lack of hair
or his quickly receding hairline. Very seldom did Bing ever say anything about a
script or ever complain. But we had Fred Astaire as a guest on one show, and we
had a joke. Fred said to Bing, ‘You used to be taller,” and Bing said, “Yeah,
well, I used to comb mine up.” And Fred evidently didn’t care for the joke; he
did not want to admit that he wore a piece, whereas [to] Bing it didn’t make any
difference.”
(Hal Kanter,
as quoted in The Great American Broadcast, page
177)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (8th January 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Bob Crosby and Bob Hope.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*Look’s
Like A Cold, Cold Winter
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Accidents
Will Happen
(c) with
Buddy Cole (Piano)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Bob Crosby
*Moonlight
And Roses
(d) with Bob Crosby
& Perry Botkin (Vibraharp)
Comedy
Dialogue
(e) Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope & Bob Crosby
Medley - ‘A Vocal
Tribute’:
(f)
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
(g) Bob
Crosby with Rhythmaires
*June In January
(h) with Bob
Hope & Bob Crosby
Spring Will Be A
Little Late This Year
(i) Bob
Hope & Bob Crosby
*It’s Been
A Long, Long Time
(j)
with Bob Hope & Bob Crosby
*Coming
Through The Rye
(k)
with Bob Hope & Bob Crosby
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
(l)
Bob Hope & Bob Crosby with Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*The
Tennessee Waltz with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Bing
indulges in some vocal ‘limbering up’ over the opening bars.
(b)
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
(c)
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(e)
This dialogue is significant in that it includes what
appears to be a genuine presentation of the Gold Disc for “Sam’s Song”, to Bing,
by Bob Crosby.
However, this does not seem to be so great a surprise as the obviously,
genuine, presentation by Bob Hope of a Gold ‘Gossard’ Girdle which produces quite raucous
hilarity.
(f)
Continuing with the theme of ‘Bing Crosby Month’ (See Programme No. 48 -
Note (b)), this is
another ‘tribute’
laced with the inevitable comic insults and includes parodies of
items (f), (g),
(h), (i), (j) and (k).
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(g) See Note
(e) above.
(h) See Note
(e) above.
Spoken comment only by Bing.
(i) See
Note (e) above.
(j) See
Note (e) above.
Bing sings only one line in addition to spoken comment.
(k See
Note (e) above.
(l) See Note (e) above.
Bing Crosby’s 20th
anniversary as a top name in show business, which has already been honoured on
various programs here and there, comes in for attention on the singer’s own
show at 9:30 tonight via CBS-WGBS. In celebration of the occasion, he’ll be
host to his brother Bob, a pretty successful singer himself, and his old verbal
sparring partner, Bob Hope.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 10th January 1951)
No. 51 17th January 1951
(a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (30th December 1950). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Toni Arden, Jack Teagarden and Louis
Armstrong.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Joe Venuti
*A
Marshmallow World
(b) with
Rhythmaires
And You’ll Be
Home
(c) Toni Arden
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
La Vie En Rose
Louis Armstrong (Vocal & Trumpet)
*Lazybones
(d) with Louis
Armstrong
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Jack Teagarden
Baby, Won’t You
Please Come Home
Jack Teagarden (Vocal & Trombone)
*My Honey’s
Lovin’ Arms
(e) with Toni
Arden & Ensemble
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*I
Surrender Dear
(f)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on JOYCE1128 - “One Night Stand With Bing Crosby’s
20th Anniversary In Show
Business”
(b)
Commercial Recording 8.9.50
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(d) This was a
re-broadcast of the version heard on Programme No. 19 (Refer to Index 4)
(e) Sounds
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The
‘ensemble’ consists of Louis Armstrong (Trumpet); Jack Teagarden (Trombone); Joe
Venuti (Violin); Perry Botkin
(Guitar); Matty Matlock
(Clarinet); Phil Stephens (Bass); Buddy Cole (Piano) and Nick Fatool
(Drums).
Commercial Recording 26.1.33
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Jack Teagarden and
Louis Armstrong, Joe Venuti and Toni Arden make up a quartet of guests for the
Bing Crosby show at 9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS. Each will appear individually or with
Crosby and the entire group will offer “My Honey’s Lovon’ Arms.”
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 17th January 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (20th January 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Toni Arden and James
Stewart.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
(a) Opening
Theme
*You’re
Just In Love
(b) with Toni
Arden & Rhythmaires
*Autumn
Leaves
(c)
My Man (d) Toni Arden
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & James Stewart
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (e) with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Bing
indulges in some vocal ‘doodling’ over the opening bars.
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(c)
Commercial Recording 7.9.50
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(e) Commercial Recording 13.12.50
Cinema’s James Stewart
tops the list of guests Bing Crosby will welcome when he comes on the air at
9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 24th January 1951)
No. 53 31st January 1951
Transcribed at Fort Ord on January 13 (a). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Toni Arden and The
Firehouse Five Plus Two.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Let’s Do
It Again
(b) with Toni
Arden & Rhythmaires
*And You’ll
Be Home
(c) with
Rhythmaires
But Beautiful
(d) Toni
Arden
Copenhagen
The Firehouse Five Plus
Two
*The Blues
My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me (e) with The Firehouse Five Plus Two
Comedy
Dialogue
(f) Bing
Crosby & Bob Hope
*It
Happened In Monterey
(g) with Bob
Hope
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Harbour
Lights
(h) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Before an
audience of Army personnel at the US Army Infantry Training Centre, at one time
said to the largest military reservation in the USA, located north-east of
Monterey.
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(c)
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(f) This
unannounced and unexpected appearance by Bob Hope, is wildly received by the audience. (See Programme No. 90 Note (a)).
(g) A
parodied chorus of this item in which Bing joins for only one line.
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Commercial Recording 7.8.58
(h)
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
Tonight’s guests on
The Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.) include Toni Arden, the Firehouse Five –
Plus Two and a brief visit from Bob Hope.
(The Tampa Times, 31st January 1951)
No. 54 7th February 1951 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (27th January 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Judy Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
*Just The Way You Are
(b) with Judy
Garland & Rhythmaires
*You And Your Beautiful Eyes
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing Crosby
& Judy Garland
*Hello Ma
Baby
(e) with Judy
Garland
*In My
Merry Oldsmobile
(f) with Judy
Garland
*Call Me Up
Some Rainy Afternoon
(g) with Judy
Garland
*Walking My
Baby Back Home
(h) with Judy
Garland
*In My
Merry Oldsmobile
(i)
with Judy Garland
You Made Me Love
You
Judy Garland
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (j)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Broadcast Tributes BTRIB0005 - “The Long
Lost Bing ‘N’ Judy Off the Air
Performances”
(b) Magic
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Legend WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
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(d) The comedy
dialogue develops into a series of vignettes depicting courtship in the ‘Gay
Nineties’
and these are
illustrated by items (e), (f), (g) & (h).
(e) See Note
(d) above.
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(f) See Note
(d) above.
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Legend WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Magic DAWE3 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
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Commercial Recording 30.6.39
(g) See Note
(d) above.
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Legend WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Magic DAWE3 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
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(h) See Note
(d) above.
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(i)
This reprise of item (f) is an entirely parodied version which serves to
bring the theme (See Note
(d)) up to date.
Magic AWE3 - “Bing Crosby & Friends”
Legend WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Magic DAWE3 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Friends”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Commercial Recording 30.6.39
(j) Commercial Recording 13.12.50
Gay ‘90s courting
customs will be reviewed in musical skit by Bing Crosby and his guest, Judy
Garland, at 9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 7th February, 1951)
No. 55 14th
February 1951
Transcribed in Hollywood. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Dorothy Kirsten.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*You And Your Beautiful Eyes
with Rhythmaires
*And You’ll
Be Home
(a) with
Rhythmaires
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
Dorothy Kirsten
Comedy
Dialogue
(b) Bing
Crosby & Dorothy Kirsten
*’The ‘Soap
Opera’ Opera’ Sketch
(c) with
Dorothy Kirsten & Rhythmaires
*The Night
Is Young And You’re So
Beautiful (d) with Buddy Cole
(Piano)
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Whispering
Hope
(e) with
Dorothy Kirsten
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 21.6.50
(b) The
dialogue explores the comic possibilities of the Metropolitan Opera taking over
the ‘soap’ operas which were (and still are) one of the staple ingredients of
television and provides a lead-in to the vocal item (c).
(c) This
musical skit of ‘soap’ operas performed in the style of Grand Opera, features a
medley of popular classical themes, with added parodied lyrics and includes,
“Habanera” from Bizet’s “Carmen”
and “La Donna E Mobile” from Verdi’s “Rigoletto”.
(d) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial
Recording 21.7.76
(e) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Soap Opera as contrasted
with the kind called grand results in an original musical opus, “Soap Opera at
the Met,” with which Bing Crosby and guest Dorothy Kirsten will wind up their
discussion at 9:30 p.m., CBS-WGBS. In a serious mood, they’ll also sing “Whispering
Hope.”
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 14th February, 1951)
No. 56 21st February 1951 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (10th February 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee (b) and Tallulah Bankhead.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue Bing
Crosby & Tallulah Bankhead
*Just The Way You Are
(c) with
Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires
Would I Love You?
(Love You, Love You)
Peggy Lee
‘Just A Gigolo (And
Gigolette)’ Sketch (d) Bing
Crosby, Tallulah Bankhead
& Ken Carpenter
*Just A
Gigolo
(e)
*Just A
Gigolo (Reprise)
(f)
with Tallulah Bankhead
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Beyond The
Reef
(g) with
Rhythmaires featuring Loulie Jean Norman
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Flankenzudeutsch Istanbul MDTB05 - “Bing’s
Beaus”
(b) A
somewhat curious oversight in that Peggy Lee’s name is omitted from the
announced cast.
(c) Sun 2110
(CD) – “Just The Way You Are –
Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee”
(d) The sketch
provides the framework for items (e) & (f).
(e) See Note
(d) above.
Commercial Recording 2.3.31
(f) See Notes
(d) & (e) above.
A reprise of the last chorus
only.
Commercial Recording 2.3.31
(g) Commercial Recording 5.9.50
Hey, this should be
good – radio’s two leading baritones, Tallulah Bankhead and Bing Crosby, making
merry together. And that’s what they’ll be doing on Crosby’s half-hour on
KNX-CBS at 6:30 tonight. Also taking part will be songstress Peggy Lee.
(Bill
Bird, Pasadena Independent, 21st February, 1951)
Transcribed in Hollywood. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Nat King Cole Trio
and The Andrews Sisters.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*All My
Love
(a) with
Rhythmaires
Lullaby Of
Broadway The Andrews Sisters
*Can Anyone
Explain? (No! No! No!) (b) with Rhythmaires
Orange Coloured
Sky Nat
King Cole (Vocal) & Trio
*Sam’s
Song
(c) with Nat
King Cole & Rhythmaires
*The
Tennessee Waltz
with The Andrews
Sisters
Mona Lisa
Nat King Cole
*Harbour
Lights
(d) with
Rhythmaires & Bobby Guy
(Cornet)
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (e)
with The Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole & Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 23.6.50
(b) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(c) Shout! CD
DK 31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Commercial
Recording 23.6.50
(d)
Commercial Recording 5.9.50
(e) HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And
Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
United Artists UAK30115 - “The Golden Age Of American Radio Starring Bing Crosby”
Golden Age GA5023 - “One Hour From The Bing Crosby Radio Shows”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP711 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 4” (Recording
date shewn as 8.2.51)
Andros Records ANDS4566 -
“The Andrews Sisters ‘Live’”
GNP Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
The Radio Years RY18 (CD) - “Bing Crosby On Radio In The Thirties” (Date shewn as
“(1938)”)!
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
Shout! CD
DK 31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Two popular vocal
groups, the Andrews Sisters of Columbia’s Club 15 (WDAE, Monday through Friday,
7:30 p.m.), and Nat King Cole and his trio are Der Bingle’s guests in an
all-musical edition of The Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.)
(The Tampa Times, 28th February, 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (5th March 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Judy Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
(a) Bing
Crosby & Ken Carpenter
*Sparrow
In The Treetop
(b) with Rhythmaires
*Sentimental Music
(c)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
Mean To Me Judy
Garland
‘Sarah Spade,
Private Eye’ Sketch
Bing Crosby, Judy Garland & Ken Carpenter
*You’re
Just In Love
(d) with Judy
Garland & Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*If
with Rhythmaires &
Bobby Guy (Cornet)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) The
dialogue confirms that this was the first show to be recorded since Bing’s
kidney stone
operation on
February 12th.
(b)
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
(c)
Commercial Recording 2.2.51
(d) Legend WM1973 -
“Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry
Lillis Crosby”
Windmill WMD260 - “Favourite Melodies” (Shewn as “I Wonder Why”)
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Legends LECD119 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - Volume 2”
Wisepack LECDD612 (CD) - “The Essential Collection”
American Masters CD - 'Bing Crosby Rediscovered: The Soundtrack'.
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Judy Garland joins Bing Crosby in a sprightly session of song and banter
on a return visit to his show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.)
(The Tampa Times, 7th March, 1951)
Transcribed in Hollywood. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Jack Pepper and Judy
Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*St.
Patrick’s Day Parade
(a) with Rhythmaires
*Any Town
Is Paris When You’re Young (b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
‘Bounce-Along
Garland’ Sketch
(c) Bing
Crosby, Judy Garland, Jack Pepper & Ken
Carpenter
*Stop Your
Gambling
(d) with Judy
Garland & Jack Pepper
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*If
(e) with Rhythmaires & Bobby Guy
(Cornet)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Varese Sarabande CD 3020668762 “Bing Crosby – When Irish
Eyes Are Smiling”
Commercial Recording 1.2.51
(b)
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
(c) The
sketch, introduced by Ken Carpenter, is based on the concept of a feminine
version of Hopalong Cassidy, with Bing as the ‘Schoolteacher’, Judy as
‘Bounce-Along’ Garland and ‘Black’ Jack Pepper as the villain. There are several
deviations from the script, by Bing, mainly inspired by some rather noisy sound
effects and the sketch closes with the vocal item (d)
(d) See Note (c)
above.
Parrot PARCD005 (CD) - “Hollywood Guys And Dolls - Bing Crosby & His Hollywood Guests
- Volume
1”
(e) Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Judy “Bounce-Along”
Garland meets Bing “Sagalong” Crosby in a wild and wooly Western skit.
(Tucson
Daily Citizen, 14th March 1951)
No. 60 21st March
1951
Transcribed
in Hollywood (17th March 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Les Paul & Mary Ford and Judy
Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*You And Your Beautiful Eyes
with Rhythmaires
*Sentimental Music
(a)
How High The Moon
Les Paul & Mary Ford
*Mockin’ Bird Hill (Tra-La-La Twittle Dee Dee) (f) with Mary Ford
& Les Paul (Guitar(s))
Carolina In The Morning
Judy Garland
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
*How Could
You Believe Me When I Said
“I Love
You” When You Know I’ve
Been A Liar All My Life?
(b) with Judy Garland
Comedy
Dialogue
(c) Bing
Crosby & Judy Garland
*How Could
You Believe Me When I Said
“I Love
You” When You Know I’ve
Been A Liar All My Life?
(d) with Judy Garland
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Would I
Love You? (Love You, Love You) (e) with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 2.2.51
(b) Legend
WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm -
Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(c) The
comedy dialogue serves to link item (b) and the reprised version item (d)
(d) See Note
(c)
Legend WM1973 - “Frances Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
(e) Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
(f) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Judy Garland pays
her third visit in a row to the Bing Crosby Show, sharing the spotlight with
Les Paul and Mary Ford, popular husband-and-wife recording team.
(The
Tampa Daily Times, 21st March 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (24th March 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Judy Garland.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Sparrow
In The Treetop
(a) with Rhythmaires
*If
(g) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody Judy
Garland
Comedy
Dialogue
(b) Bing
Crosby & Judy Garland
*Limehouse Blues
(c) with Judy
Garland
*April
In Paris
(d) with Judy
Garland
*Isle Of Capri
(e) with Judy
Garland
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Judy Garland & Rhythmaires
*Any Town
Is Paris When You’re Young (f) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Parrot
PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And
Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
(b) This item
and subsequent interpolated dialogue serves to link items (c), (d) & (e) and
the medley is
inspired by Judy
Garland’s impending visit to Europe, mainly to appear at the London
Palladium.
(c) See Note
(c) above.
Legend WM1973 - “Francis Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(d) See Note (c)
above.
Legend WM1973 - “Francis Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
(e) See Note
(c) above.
Legend WM1973 - “Francis Ethel Gumm - Harry Lillis Crosby”
Parrot PARCD003 (CD) - “Bing Crosby And Judy Garland - When You’re Smiling”
JSP977C CD "Judy Garland - Classic Duets"
Commercial Recording 11.8.58
(f)
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
(g) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
It will be four
times in a row when Judy Garland visits Bing Crosby at 9:30 p.m. CBS-WGBS.
Charles Durand and Guy Brion are to be co-guests.
(Marion
Aitchison, The Miami Herald, 28th March 1951)
No. 62 4th April 1951 (a)
Transcribed in Palm Springs on March 31. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Dinah Shore and Hopalong Cassidy
(William Boyd).
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*’Way Down
Yonder In New Orleans
(b)
with Rhythmaires
*Mockin’ Bird Hill (Tra-La-La Twittle Dee Dee) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Dinah Shore
Makin’ Whoopee Dinah
Shore
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Hopalong Cassidy
‘In Old Palm
Springs’ Sketch Bing
Crosby, Hopalong Cassidy, Dinah Shore & Ken
Carpenter
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Would I
Love You? (Love You, Love You) (c) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Critter Records CBHC8901 - “Bing &
Hoppy”
(b) Commercial Recordings 28.6.60, 16.1.75 & 17.1.79
(c) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Two CBS radio
favorites, Bill “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd of the Saturday night Western adventure
series and singing star Dinah Shore of the Jack Smith – Dinah Shore – Margaret Whiting
Show will be on the guest roster of the Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.). The
half-hour of fun and songs will also include Jack Pepper, comedian composer and
singer of novelty tunes.
(The
Tampa Times, 4th April 1951)
Crosby Show Delights Crowd at Plaza Theater
Bing Crosby, his guests, Dinah Shore, Bill Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy),
Happy Peters and all of Bing’s cast on his Chesterfield show, delighted a
packed house at the Plaza theatre last Saturday night when they taped their
show for recording Wednesday night.
It was a happy informal gathering with plenty of music and a lot of good
gags. The show was recorded here for presentation later on a coast to coast
hook-up. In the course of the evening Crosby introduced Ziggy Elman, famed
trumpet man, who played his well known “And the Angels Sing” as a solo. The
band was John Scott Trotter’s and has been with Crosby for years.
Consensus of Villagers who see a lot of broadcasts was that “it was one
of the best yet.”
(The Desert Sun, April
6, 1951)
No. 63 11th April 1951 (a)
Transcribed in Palm Springs. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Marilyn Maxwell, Lindsay Crosby and
Louis Armstrong.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
*You’re
Just In Love
(b) with
Louis Armstrong & Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Marilyn Maxwell
*Here Comes The Springtime (And There Goes My Heart) with Marilyn Maxwell & Rhythmaires
Lazy River
Louis Armstrong (Vocal & Trumpet)
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Lindsay Crosby
*Moonlight
Bay
(c) with
Lindsay Crosby
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Marilyn Maxwell & Rhythmaires
*May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (d) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the first half of the programme (up to and including “Lazy River”)
was issued on JOYCE1128 - “One Night Stand With Bing Crosby’s 20th Anniversary
In Show Business” (“You’re Just In Love” is shewn on sleeve and label as, “So In Love” and “Here Comes The Springtime (And There Goes My Heart)” is shewn on the label only as, “Ho-De-Li-Hi-De-Li”).
(b) Sounds
Rare SR5010 - “More Fun”
Shout! CD DK 31517 “Swingin’ With Bing”
(c) Slightly
odd, that the first airing for Chesterfield of Bing’s recent commercial waxing
with Gary Crosby, should be performed here with his youngest son. There are only
minor variations in presentation between this and the commercial issue, serving
to demonstrate that the seemingly, casual, vocal comments have, in fact, been
carefully scripted.
Even Bing’s ‘spontaneous’ chuckles occur in approximately the same
places.
See Programme No. 64 Notes (d) & (e)
Commercial Recording 22.3.51
(d)
Commercial
Recording 13.12.50
Thirteen-year-old Lindsay
Crosby, youngest of Der Bingle’s four sons, joins Louis Armstrong and Marilyn
Maxwell on the guest roster of CBS’ “Bing Crosby Show” over WCBS at 9:30. A
suggestion of professional rivalry between Lindsay and his oldest brother,
Gary, crops up in the scheduling of a duet of “Moonlight Bay” by Bing and
Lindsay. The combo of Bing-and-Gary have just recorded that tune.
(The
Ottawa Citizen, 11th April 1951)
'I dropped in on Bing Crosby’s taping session
for his Wednesday evening show to watch Der Bingle give his youngest son, 12 year-old Lindsay,
another lesson in microphone technique. I think Bing lost the bout, however.
Everything was done in the typical casual air of Palm Springs. Bing was attired in
his familiar off-the-hips sport shirt, which was topped by the casuals worn by
announcer, Ken Carpenter and musical director, John Scott Trotter.
Lindsay staggered onto the stage in cowboy boots
obviously, a couple of sizes too large for him. He was the hit of the show for the audience
standpoint with a duet of ‘Moonlight Bay’ with his famed dad. You can hear the
show on Wednesday, at 6.30 on KNX’
(Walter Ames ‘Los Angeles Times’ 10th April
1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (11th April 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and Gary Crosby.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Them There
Eyes
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
(b) with
Rhythmaires
*Play
Ball
with Rhythmaires
*Mockin’ Bird Hill
(Tra-La-La Twittle Dee Dee)
(c) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Gary Crosby
*When You
And I Were Young Maggie Blues (d) with Gary
Crosby
*Moonlight
Bay
(e) with Gary
Crosby
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Any Town
Is Paris When You’re Young (f)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Koala
AW14129 - “Swing With Bing” (Shewn as “Them Ther_ Eyes”)
Shout! CD DK 31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Commercial
Recording 20.11.30
(b)
Commercial Recording 5.2.51
(c) Koala
AW14129 - “Swing With Bing”
(d) This item and
item (e) are, without doubt, the commercial versions with Matty Matlock and his All Stars.
See Note (e) below.
(e) See Note
(d) above.
An
interesting comparison can be made with the version of the same song, performed
with Lindsay Crosby, (See Programme No. 63 Note (b)), which contained minor
differences in lyrics, timing and accompaniment and also appears to have
audience reaction consistent with a ‘live’ presentation, including a prolonged
and quite rapturous ovation, at the close. None of these factors is apparent in either
this item or item (d).
Precision Records & Tapes NCP711 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 4 (Recording date shewn as
11.4.51).
GNP Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
(It may
seem pointless to have included the above-mentioned issues, as this version of
the song has appeared many times on both microgroove and compact discs. However, there are
some scraps of (original?) dialogue which have been retained. The introductory
patter has been heavily edited to leave only a single line but the most
interesting difference occurs at the end of the song when, over the closing
applause, Bing can be heard saying, “That was OK, Gary”. To which Gary
replies, “Thanks, Dad”. These remarks are not apparent in the
broadcast version, in which Bing can only be heard saying, “We’re a smash!”.
Commercial Recording 22.3.51
(f) Koala
KO14207 - “You Keep Coming Back Like A Song”
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
Fraternal
competition involving vocal tilts with “Moonlight Bay” reaches the finals on
tonight’s Bing Crosby Show when Bing sings the tune with his oldest son Gary. The
team also team up for an up-to-date novelty, “When You and I Were Young, Maggie
Blues.” As a solo “Der Bingle” sings “Play Ball,” a salute to the new baseball
season.
(The
Tampa Times, 18th April 1951)
No. 65 25th April 1951 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (19th April 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Rose Marie and Louis Armstrong.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*The Rovin’ Kind with
Rhythmaires
*If
(b) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
(c) Bing Crosby
& Rose Marie
My Blue Heaven
Rose Marie
On the Sunny Side
Of The Street (d) Louis Armstrong
(Vocal & Trumpet) with Ensemble
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
*Gone Fishin’
(e) with
Louis Armstrong
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Old
Soldiers Never Die
(f) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) The
complete programme was issued on Memorabilia MLP705 - “When Radio Was King”
(b) Bing
holds the final note during the Rhythmaires’ accompaniment until, in mock
desperation, he says, “Finish, yet, will ya” and as the applause fades, he adds, “Oh! What a
long ending.
That’s the longest ending in history!”
and goes on to mimic the
group’s closing warbles.
(c) The
comedy dialogue is interrupted by ‘gag’ trumpet solos from Bobby Guy of John
Scott’s Orchestra who, it transpires is Rose Marie’s husband.
(d)
The
‘ensemble’ comprises Matty
Matlock (Clarinet), Johnny Sear (Drums), Phil Stephens (Bass), Perry Botkin
(Guitar),
Mel Henke (Piano), Bill Taylor
(Trombone) and Jack Chaney (Tenor Sax).
(e) It should
be noted that the first broadcast of this classic duet (together with item (f),
coincides with the mastering date, allocated by Decca, for the commercial
issue.
However, there are many variations between this version and the
commercial issue. (Refer to Index 4 and see Note (f) below).
Sounds Rare SR5010 - “More Fun”
All Star Products LP2000 - “Bing Crosby’s All Star Chesterfield Show” (As
“Gone Fishing”)
MCA MCAD4-10887 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - His Legendary Years 1931-1957”
(The following recording information is noted in a booklet which
accompanies the last named issue - ‘CBS Radio Studios, Hollywood. Saturday (3 hours) 14th April 1951. The Bing Crosby
Show sponsored by Chesterfield, broadcast 25th April’
In
addition, acknowledgements are made to Memorabilia - “When Radio Was King” (See
Note (a)) and it does seem somewhat bizarre that MCA have found it necessary to
resort to a ‘private’ disc as the source for this alternate ‘master’.
Shout! CD DK 31516 “Swingin’ With Bing”
Commercial
Recording 25.4.51 (Mastering date)
(f) See Note
(e) above.
Unlike
“Gone Fishin’”, the only
detectable difference between this version and the commercial issue, is the fact that some of the opening bars are
lost from the Decca issue. This could be explained by the studio
applause which accompanies the opening in the broadcast version. Bing dedicates
the song to General Douglas MacArthur whom, though out of favour with President
Truman, for his proposals concerning the conduct of the Korean War, was still
regarded as something of a folk hero by many Americans.
Commercial Recording 25.4.51 (Mastering date)
Rose Marie, radio’s
erstwhile “Baby” Rose Marie, and Louise (sic) Armstrong, one of Der Bingle’s
jazz land cronies, are to be guests on CBS’ Bing Crosby show at 9:30 p.m. Rose Marie,
who avers she started singing professionally when she was three and retired
when she was five, will sing a nostalgic favorite, “My Blue Heaven.”
(The
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 25th April 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (18th April 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Bert Wheeler and Walter O’Keefe.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Sparrow
In The Treetop
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bert Wheeler & Walter O’Keefe
*Once Upon A Nickel
with Bert Wheeler & Walter O’Keefe
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Mockin’ Bird Hill (Tra-La-La Twittle Dee Dee) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby, Bert Wheeler & Walter O’Keefe
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 8.2.51
(b) Commercial Recording 5.2.51
Celebrating his birthday,
Bing Crosby invites two of his old-time days, Bert Wheeler and Walter O’Keefe,
to join in the festivities on CBS’ “Bing Crosby Show”. They reminisce about the
“good old days” when Wheeler was one of the hottest stars of vaudeville, and
Crosby and O’Keefe were sharing a one-room apartment. All of this leads the
trio into a nostalgic number titled Once Upon a Nickel.
(The
Ottawa Citizen, 2nd May, 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (21st April 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Teresa Brewer and Fred Astaire.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Them There
Eyes
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Maria
Bonita
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Teresa Brewer
How Could You
Believe Me When I
Said “I
Love You” When You Know
I’ve Been
A Liar All My Life? Teresa
Brewer
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
*Never Been
Kissed
(c) with Fred
Astaire & Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*I
Apologise
(d) with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) Parrot
PARCD005 (CD) - “Hollywood Guys And Dolls - Bing Crosby & His Hollywood Guests -
Volume 1”
Commercial Recording 20.11.30
(b)
Commercial Recordings 5.2.51 & 23.6.75
(c)
Amalgamated ROBT30 - “Roberta - The Original Production”
Parrot PARCD006 (CD) - “Hollywood Guys And Dolls - Bing Crosby & His Hollywood Guests -
Volume 2”
(d) Bing introduces
this item as, “a song I recorded, some years ago, with the Dorsey boys”
Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 19.8.31
One great song and dance man meets another on the Bing
Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.). It is a reunion between Bing and Fred Astaire,
who converse about horses and a fanciful vaudeville routine with that “Music,
Music, Music” gal, Teresa Brewer, to make it a threesome. The gay session of
song and chatter includes such current favorites as “I Apologize.”
(The Tampa Times, 9th May, 1951)
Transcribed in San Francisco (a). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, The Cass County Boys and Burl
Ives.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Them There
Eyes
(b) with Rhythmaires
The Old Chisholm
Trail
The Cass County Boys
*The Rovin’ Kind
(f)
with The Cass County
Boys
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Burl Ives
On Top Of Old
Smoky
(c) Burl Ives
with Rhythmaires
*The Little
White Duck
(c) with Burl
Ives
*Shenandoah
(Across The Wide Missouri)
(d) with The
Cass County Boys & Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Too Late
Now
(e)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Auditorium.
(b)
Commercial Recording 20.11.30
(c) JASBOX
14-4 (CD) - “Burl Ives: the Golden Years of The Wayfaring Stranger”
(d) Bing introduces
this item as “Across The Wide
Missouri”, adding that he has been advised by ‘Brother’ Ives that ‘it was
originally a sea shanty’. According to folk music historians, quite the
opposite applies.
The song began as a land ballad and found its way down the
Mississippi/Missouri rivers, to
the open sea.
Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 20.7.59
(e) Taped
examples of a ‘blow-up’ version of this item exist in many collections. As this was the
first
of only two
airings of the song, it would be reasonable to surmise that the ‘blow-up’
originated
during the
transcription of this particular show.
Shout! CD
DK 31515 “Swingin’ With Bing”
(f) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
American
folk songs and ballads highlight the variety-spiced musical session on tonight's
Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.) It is real old-fashioned songfest as Bing welcomes
balladeer Burl Ives and the Cass County Boys, singing instrumentalists featured regularly
on the Saturday night Gene Autry Show. Crosby injects a bit of early Americana
into the show by acknowledging his appointment as an honorary engineer of the Erie
Railroad on its 100th anniversary and citing a few historical railroading notes.
(The
Tampa Times, 16th May, 1951)
Bing Crosby, down pounds since his operation, put on a show as
wonderfully entertaining as ever, with the usual flub dubs and miscues that
always delight a studio audience. Once, while singing “Too Late
Now,” he stopped to rehearse with his pianist, finally gave up and adlibbed his
own words.
“It’s too late now to learn this song.
Besides, I don’t feel very strong.
“It’s too late now.”
Of course, the final version, to be aired May 16, will be spotlessly
perfect. During the two hour rehearsal Bing records every
number. The best version is used, but not necessarily the one heard
by the studio audience.
Bing records again tonight, hosting Louis Armstrong, Teresa Brewer and
Jack Teagarden.
(Dwight Newton, The San Francisco Examiner, April 30,
1951)
Transcribed in San Francisco on April 30. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Teresa Brewer, Jack Teagarden and Louis
Armstrong.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*’Way Down
Yonder In New Orleans
(a) with
Rhythmaires
*Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
(b) with
Rhythmaires
The Oceana Roll
Teresa Brewer
*When You
And I Were Young Maggie Blues (c) with Teresa
Brewer
Comedy
Dialogue
(d) Bing Crosby,
Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden
A Song Is Born
(e) Louis
Armstrong (Vocal & Trumpet) with Jack Teagarden
(Vocal & Trombone) & Ensemble
*Gone Fishin’
(f) with
Louis Armstrong
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*I
Apologise
(g) with
Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recordings 28.6.50, 16.1.75 & 17.1.79
(b)
Commercial Recording 5.2.51
(c) Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
Commercial Recording 22.3.51
(d) The second half
of the programme (from this item onward), was issued on JOYCE6050 - “Big Band’s
Greatest Vocalists - Bing Crosby”. The most risible impertinence is that “Magic
Is The Moonlight” from a Kraft
Music Hall programme of 8th February 1945 has been inserted into the programme
after “I Apologise” and before the close. See also Programme No. 83.
(e) The
‘ensemble’ consists of Matty
Matlock (Clarinet), Perry Botkin (Guitar), Buddy Cole (Piano), Phil Stephens (Bass) and Nick
Fatool (Drums).
Sounds Rare
SR5010 - “More Fun” (Sleeve note
states, ‘Broadcast May 23, 1951, CBS Studios, Hollywood’.
(f) Shout! CD
DK 31517 “Swingin’ With Bing”
See Programme No. 65 Note (e) and refer to Index 4.
Commercial
Recording 28.4.51 (Mastering
date)
(g) Commercial Recording 19.8.31
Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and songstress Teresa
Brewer pay return visits to CBS’ Bing Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.). A hot
number for the occasion is “A Song Is Born,” performed by Armstrong, Teagarden
and a jazz band. Miss Brewer sings a tune out of Crosby’s musical past, “Oceana
Roll,” and duets “Maggie Blues” with her host.
(The Tampa Times, 23rd May, 1951)
No. 70 30th May
1951
Transcribed
in Hollywood (5th May 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Charles Durand, Guy Brion and Helen O’Connell.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*I Whistle
A Happy Tune
(a) with
Rhythmaires
The Loveliest Night
Of The Year
Helen O’Connell
*Tell
Me
(b) with
Helen O’Connell
Be My Love
Charles Durand & Guy Brion
*Maria
Bonita
(c) with Rhythmaires
*Shenandoah
(Across The Wide Missouri)
(d) with Charles
Durand, Guy Brion & Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Too Late
Now
(e) Bing Crosby
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 9.4.51
(b)
Commercial Recording 19.2.57
(c) As the
applause following this item fades, Bing can be heard indulging in some
light-hearted banter with the Rhythmaires. As he is closer to the microphone, only
his remarks can be heard but due to his colour
blindness, his quips backfire on him and the ‘one-sided’ conversation runs as
follows, “Very formal here, this evening, bowing and....Never seen such a formal
atmosphere....must be those pink tulle gowns....It isn’t pink tulle?.....What is
it?.....Look’s pink to me!....What’s the matter with my socks?...They don’t have
to match!....They fit, they’re warm!”
Commercial Recordings 5.2.51 & 23.6.75
(d) Commercial
Recording 20.7.75
(e) See
Programme No. 68 Note (d)
Songstress Helen O’Connell and a pair of night club entertainers
from Hawaii join Mr. Music in placing the accent on rhythm during the Bing
Crosby Show (WDAE, 9:30 p.m.). Miss O’Connell, former vocalist with Jimmy
Dorsey, has chosen as her solo number a hit from the movie “The Great Caruso.”
A second selection from the same source, “Be My Love,” will be featured by the
Hawaiian harmonizers, Charles Durand and Guy Brion.
(The Tampa Times, 30th May, 1951)
“Bing & Bob Pose 80G Dilemma”
(Headline)
“The trade is watching with interest to see which way the
Chesterfield sponsorship smoke blows this fall. Particularly as it relates to the ciggie company’s continued claim in the
AM sweepstakes.
Chesterfield is carrying one of the heaviest bankroller loads in
radio. These
include the Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Arthur Godfrey triumvirate. The Godfrey morning
spread on CBS is no trouble, in view of its enviable lead in rating status on
daytime programming but in the case of both Hope and Crosby, Chesterfield is
playing around with $40,000 a week shows and the fact that both have been
strangers to the Top Ten Nielsen columns this season has only served to accent
the transitional jitters when sponsors are re-appraising AM budget
allocations.
Like other ciggie clients,
Chesterfield is staking more and more of a claim in video with Hope, all set
next season, to make the TV plunge for the ciggie bankroller, (after getting his video feet
wet, this season under the Frigidaire auspices) “
(“Variety”
30th May 1951)
No. 71 6th June 1951
Transcribed
in San Francisco (4th June 1951) (a). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, George Jessel and Martha Tilton.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*Row, Row,
Row
(b) with Rhythmaires
How High The Moon Martha
Tilton with Rhythmaires
*Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
(c) with
Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & George Jessel
*California
Moon
with George Jessel
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*I
Apologise
(d) with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) From the
Marine Memorial Auditorium
(b) On the
first occasion that this item is aired for Chesterfield, Bing’s interpretation
seems somewhat unrehearsed and experimental. Between slight ‘fluffs’ and chuckles from
both himself and the audience, he
asides, “I’m a little old for this”. He also gets into to trouble with the closing
lines, “....then his head he would rest....twenty bars rest and ........” This awkward phrase
was amended to, “then this clever young dude, kicked on that old Evinrude and........” in the later
version for Chesterfield and the commercial issue.
Commercial Recording 8.6.51
(c)
Commercial Recording 5.2.51
(d) Commercial Recording 19.8.31
George Jessel, singer-comedian turned Hollywood
producer, is to be special guest of Bing Crosby for show put on in San
Francisco which CBS-WGBS will carry at 9:30 p.m.
(The Miami Herald, 6th June, 1951)
Transcribed in San Francisco. Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Teresa Brewer and Bert Wheeler.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*How High
The Moon
(a) with
Rhythmaires
Alexander’s Ragtime
Band
Teresa Brewer
*On Top Of
Old Smoky
(b) with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Bert Wheeler
*Down By The O-Hi-O
with Bert Wheeler
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Any Town
Is Paris When You’re Young (c)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 22.6.60
(b)
Commercial Recording December 1960
(c) Commercial Recording 8.2.51
Bert Wheeler, comedian of Broadway, Hollywood, radio
and TV, joins the free wheeling merriment on the Bing Crosby show (WDAE, 9:30
p.m.)
(The Tampa Times, 13th June, 1951)
No. 73 20th June 1951 (a)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (13th June 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Teresa Brewer, Joe Venuti and Tommy Dorsey.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Joe Venuti
*(Why Did I
Tell You I Was
Going To)
Shanghai
(b) with
Rhythmaires
Wang Wang Blues
Teresa Brewer
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Tommy Dorsey
*Diane
(c) with Tommy
Dorsey (Trombone) & Chorus
The Hot Canary
Joe Venuti (Violin)
*Oh! Lady
Be Good
(d) with Tommy
Dorsey (Trombone) & Joe Venuti (Violin)
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Bonne
Nuit
(e)
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a) An edited
version of the programme was issued on Antron 9000 - “Bing Crosby ...And His
Special
Guests”
(b) Magic
DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings” (Those who possess this compact disc and have been
appalled by its overall ‘lo’ fidelity may extract some grim humour from the
pretentious piffle on the inlay which states, ‘Restored And Re-Edited In The
Digital Domain’!)
Commercial Recording 8.6.51
(c) Broadway
BR111 - “Crosbyana”
Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
Sepia CD 1360 "Chesterfield Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby"
(d) Broadway BR111
- “Crosbyana” (As “Lady Be Good”)
Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings”
Bing draws a laugh with the line, “Oh! Have some pity...How did I get up
here, in this key?”
(e) Commercial Recording 20.6.51
There will be a hot time on the airlanes when the Bing
Crosby Show brings forth the varied musical talents of the Groaner, Tommy
Dorsey, Joe Venuti, and songstress Teresa Brewer. Listeners will hear Dorsey’s
new arrangement of the old ballad “Diane,” Venuti’s rendition of the “Hot
Canary,” and “Wang Wang Blues” as Teresa Brewer’s solo.
(The Tampa Times, 20th June, 1951)
Transcribed
in Hollywood (16th June 1951). Announced by Ken Carpenter. With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Laurie Anders, Ken Murray and Burl
Ives.
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*Where
The Blue Of The Night
Opening Theme
*I’ve Got
To Fall In Love Again
(a) with
Rhythmaires
Noah Found Grace
In The Eyes Of The Lord (b)
Burl Ives with Rhythmaires
Comedy
Dialogue
Bing Crosby & Ken Murray
*I Like
The Wide Open Spaces with
Ken Murray & Laurie Anders
*On Top Of
Old Smoky
(c) with Burl
Ives & Rhythmaires
*Chesterfield Jingle
with Rhythmaires
*May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (d)
with Rhythmaires
Where The Blue Of The Night
Closing Theme
Notes:
(a)
Commercial Recording 8.6.51
Magic DAWE48 (CD) - “Bing Swings” (As “I’ve Just Got To Fall In Love”)
(b) JASBOX
14-4 (CD) - “Burl Ives: the Golden Years of The Wayfaring Stranger”
(c) JASBOX
14-4 (CD) - “Burl Ives: the Golden Years of The Wayfaring Stranger”
HRB Music
BCP1001 - “Bing Crosby And
Friends”
Japanese MCA9301 - “Bing Crosby Radio Show”
Golden Age GA5023 - “One Hour From The Bing Crosby Radio Shows”
Precision Records & Tapes NCP710 - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years -
Volume 3”
GNP Crescendo GNPD9052 (CD) - “Bing Crosby - The Radio Years”
Hallmark 303372 (CD) - “Bing Crosby & Friends - The Radio Years”
Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY903 - "Bing Crosby - Love Is"
Commercial Recording Dec 1960
(d) Commercial Recording 13.12.50
It’s
too bad that some people get vacations. Bing Crosby, for instance. Bing winds
up his season tonight and thus my Wednesday nights will be ruined until he
returns. His sponsor could have had him make enough records for the vacation
period.
So
the guy who said he would record his programs when he darn pleased gets away with
another season of being the laziest success in the world. We have it on the
word of his father that “Bing is the lazy member of the family.”
Tonight
Bing gives a lot of people a break, He will sing a spiritual, “Noah Found Grace
in the Eyes of the Lord,” penned by Robert Schmertz, teacher at Pitt.
He
will have cute little Laurie Anders, Ken Murray’s “cowboy” who became famous with
her “I Like the Wide Open Spaces.”
Then
he’ll bring on Burl Ives and just before Burl starts to do what he calls
singing I’ll turn my radio oft and feel sorry until I'm informed that Bing is back.
That will be Oct. 3.
(Sy Steinhauser, The Pittsburgh Press, 27th June,
1951)
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