REMEMBERING Telephones and Trees this month as we offer records and recollections of Alexander Graham Bell’s incredible invention and J. Sterling Morton’s Arbor Day.   We’ll place a long distant call to the past to dial up some memories, melodies and mirth from the Andrews Sisters, the Smothers Brothers, Margaret Whiting, Nichols and May, Ken Alexander, Allan Sherman, Glenn Miller, Al Jolson and the Mills Brothers.

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ANDREWS SISTERS sing the complete lyrics to “Pennsylvania 6-5000” from their RCA Victor Bluebird recording.

ROBERT WHITE sings “Danny Boy” on a BBC-TV show.

MIKE NICHOLS AND ELAINE MAY in a classic Mother/Son phone conversation from their 1960 Broadway Revue.

SMOTHERS BROTHERS with Jack Benny and George Burns on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show. Excerpt from February 19, 1967.

ALLAN SHERMAN with Dean Martin and Vic Damone on Dean’s TV show, singing a medley of Allan Sherman’s hit songs

MARGARET WHITING with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell and Rose Marie on Merv Griffin’s TV show in 1978 performing excerpts from their hit stage revue, “Four Girls Four.”

GLENN MILLER AND THE ORCHESTRA present “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” as a great video looks back at America’s war industry 1940-1942. You’ll love this!