TWTD Archive – April 28th, 1979
9TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 28th, 1999
We’re observing our ninth year on the air and an afternoon of anniversary broadcasts from radio’s golden age will highlight our own birthday party:
BILLION DOLLAR SHOW (8-28-52) Clips from the past and memories from Bob and Ray, Fred Allen and others on a program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first radio commercial (!). Sustaining, NBC. (15:15; 13:50)
COMMAND PERFORMANCE (1946) The 4th Anniversary broadcast of the Armed Forces Radio variety show prepared exclusively for military personnel around the world. Bob Hope introduces dozens of performers and clips from past Command Performance programs: Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage; Janet Blair; Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; G.I. Jill; Kay Kyser; Jerry Colonna; Linda Darnell; Mel Blanc; Fred MacMurray; King Sisters; Francis Langford. AFRS. (14:15; 14:20; 11:17; 17:25; 20:10; 8:15)
CHASE AND SANBORN 100th ANNIVERSARY (Nov., 1965) This was the first of all the radio retrospective (or nostalgia) shows broadcast following the Golden Age of Radio. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy host a cavalcade of sounds from radio’s heyday in observance of their long-time sponsor’s centennial. It was broadcast as an hour-long segment of Monitor, NBC’s answer to radio entertainment in the 1960s. Excerpts from the past feature Maurice Chevalier, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, Major Bowes, Rudy Vallee, W. C. Fields, Rosalind Russell, Fred Allen, Mae West, Alec Templeton, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Don Ameche, Mary Pickford, Charles Laughton, Jack Oakie, Ogden Nash, Ethel Barrymore and of course Edgar, Charlie, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. Chase and Sanborn, NBC. (14:50; 12:13; 13:10; 13:05)
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