HAPPY NEW YEAR

Originally broadcast WDCB
Saturday, December 31st, 2005 

JIMMY DURANTE SHOW (12-31-47) Garry Moore and Red Skelton sub for Jimmy, who is in the hospital “for repairs.” Red appears as Junior, the mean little kid, who is supposed to be the New Year’s baby on New Year’s Eve. Garry and Red in a comic opera competing for singer Peggy Lee’s hand. With Candy Candido, Roy Bargy and the orchestra. Rexall, NBC. (29 min)

BREAKFAST CLUB (12-27-68) Don McNeill’s final broadcast after 35-1/2 years on the air. The program began on June 23, 1933 and out­lived the entire Golden Age of Radio. From the Clouds Room, high atop Chicago’s Allerton Hotel, Don and his Breakfast Club gang say good-bye to the radio audience. Heard are Sam Cowling, Cathy Taylor, Fran Allison (as Aunt Fanny), Captain Stubby, Bob Newkirk, Eddie Ballentine and the orchestra. Various sponsors, ABC. (25 min & 31 min)

EDDIE CANTOR SHOW (1-2-46) Eddie turns back the clock to his New Year’s Eve party where Father Time meets the Baby New Year. Cast includes Leonard Sues, Bert Gordon, singer Thelma Carpenter, Cookie Fairchild and the orchestra. Ipana, Trushay, NBC. (29 min)

NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCING PARTY (12-31-­45) An hour of New Year’s greetings from the top bands in America in a gala post-war cele­bration. Harry James from Hollywood; Count Basie from New York; Freddy Martin from the Coconut Grove; Woody Herman from the Meadowbrook; Gene Krupa from the Hollywood Palladium; Henry King from Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco; Louis Armstrong from Club Zanzibar, New York; Jimmy Dorsey from Casino Gardens, Ocean Park, California; Les Brown from Hotel Pennsylvania, New York; Artie Shaw from California; Stan Kenton from Hotel Sherman, Chicago; Tommy Dorsey from San Diego, California; Carmen Cavallero from Ciro’s in Hollywood; Louis Prima from Salt Lake City; Benny Goodman from Boston; Duke Ellington from Evansville, Indiana; Guy Lombardo from Hotel Roosevelt, New York. AFRS. (32 min & 29 min)