August 7, 2009
Music Hall - Pgm 108
Bing Crosby returns to the blog this week in a rare episode of “Kraft Music Hall”.
AFRS, ever vigilant in eliminating advertising from programs, broadcast the series as “Music Hall”. Heard as program 108 in the series on AFRS and originally broadcast December 28, 1944, Bing is joined by John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, announcer Ken Carpenter, Eugnie Baird, Beatrice Kay, the Les Paul Trio, and the Charioteers. First song up is “Accentuate the Positive” with some fine harmony and vocal jive work by Bing and the Charioteers, Les Paul shows off his guitar chops on “Dark Eyes”, and there’s much more fun in store in this smooth, fast-paced half-hour.
According to Goldin, the show exists in a network version, but doesn’t appear to be in circulation. The program was transferred from an original AFRS transcription; program date is from the disc matrix.
Hats off to blog listener Michael Utz for his donation of the disc to the collection!
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Kurt said,
August 10, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Rand,
Actually, the network version is available out at Cobalt Club right now: http://testbox.cob.rit.edu/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=469&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=450
A number of us are trying to assemble as complete a run as possible of KMH but numerous gaps exist… if you have access and opportunity to surface any other rare episodes over the next several weeks (while we work through the Jolson/Eddy years) it’d be a wonderful thing!
Thanks as always for the great job you’re doing.
DavidinBerkeley said,
August 10, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
Zowie, another Bing! I’ll add it to my set and reburn the disc.