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Hildegarde returns to the blog this week with another previously lost episode of her series “The Raleigh Room” originally broadcast on NBC.

In this post, we hear the episode of September 25, 1945 heard on the Armed Forces Radio Service as program 23 in the series, “Hildegarde”.  Hildegarde starts off the show with her chipper version of “It’s a Hap-Hap-Happy Day”.  Guests are comedian Willie Howard, Paulette Goddard and Harry Conover and one of his models, Marsha.

The show was transferred from an original AFRS vinyl transcription, matrix numbers HD5-MM-12784-1 and HD5-MM12785-1, probably pressed by RCA.  Date is from the transcription matrix.  The original disc has groove damage and has been sent through some click reduction software to improve the sound.

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Up next on the blog is an early episode of the long-running Treasury Department public service series, “Guest Star” that promoted the sale of US savings bonds.

In this show, Kenny Delmar plays host to Hildegarde who sings “Among My Souvenirs” and “My Belle Aime”.  The Savings Bond Orchestra with Miklos Schwab as the piano soloist gives us a short piece based on themes by Paganini.

The mp3 was taken directly from a Treasury Department vinyl disc, matrix number ND7-MM-5434-1C, probably pressed by RCA/NBC.  The show is dated January 18, 1947 in the vinyl trail-off area, which likely indicates when it was recorded.

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