BIG BANDS OF YESTERYEAR

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, August 30, 1997

GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA (3-31-39) Remote broadcast from the Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, with vocals by Marion Hutton and Ray Eberly.

JAN GARBER AND HIS ORCHESTRA (10-22-60) Remote broadcast from the “beautiful air-conditioned Trianon Ballroom located at 62nd and Cottage Grove on Chicago’s South Side.”

GREATER NEW YORK (RELIEF) FUND (4-1-40) Excerpt. Benefit program from Madison Square Garden featuring the combined orchestras of Will Bradley, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. Fred Waring emcees.

ORRIN TUCKER AND HIS ORCHESTRA (4-19-48) Remote broadcast from the Marine Dining Room of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.

ARTIE SHAW AND HIS ORCHESTRA (10-25-39) Remote broadcast from the Café Rouge of the Hotel Pennsylvanian in New York City. Vocals by Helen Forrest and Tony Pastor.

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is Nostalgia Digest columnist and big band historian KARL PEARSON who will talk about the music and musicians of a great era.