Wednesday Nov 18, 2009
In this post, a bit of a mystery - an unnumbered and undated episode of the Armed Forces Radio series "Mail Call".

The host of the program is Jane Nye. The King Sisters kick off the show with "Candy". Betty Grable, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby appear in a sketch that parodies "The Princess and the Pirate". The program also includes appearances by Dick Haymes, Ken Murray, Marilyn Maxell. It sounds like it's probably an "assembled" show, with Nye's segments recorded to introduce segments from other Armed Forces Radio programming.
The show was transferred from a unusual 14" microgroove lacquer that sounds like a dub of an original AFRS disc and appears to date from the 1960s. Christopher McPherson donated the disc to the blog and, believe it or not, the disc came from the estate of Mae West.
Goldin lists his particular "Mail Call" episode, but I couldn't find any other references to the show. Is the original vinyl disc still out there somewhere?
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