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Saturday Dec 20, 2008
Kate Smith - Pgm 21
Saturday Dec 20, 2008
Saturday Dec 20, 2008
Originally heard on the CBS network, we offer in this post a special Christmas edition of the "Kate Smith Hour" as broadcast on AFRS, December 25, 1944. In the show, Kate sings "When My Ship Comes In" and then we hear a sketch by the cast of "The Aldrich Family". A highlight of the show is a stand-up routine by up and coming comic Jackie Gleason, who impersonates personalities such as Charles Laughton, Petter Lorre and Jimmy Durante and does a routine about falling in love with a jukebox. Kate wraps things up with "Ave Maria".
Goldin lists this as "possibly" an assembled show. AFRS distributed programs to their stations on vinyl discs that had to be prepared weeks in advance, so this show may have been a mix of material from other Kate Smith programs or a previous Christmas program in the series or some type of rehearsal. The show was transferred directly from an original AFRS vinyl transcription. By the way, do you recognize our Santa Claus on the label? He turns up on other AFRS Christmas issues and, more recently, on the label of one of the Uncle Remus discs featured in the blog last week. It's an early example of "clip art", I suppose.Version: 20230822
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