JACK BENNY MONTH #4

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 28, 1998

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-17-52) After a New York publisher declines to publish Jack’s song, he dreams the New York Symphony Orchestra plays it at Carnegie Hall. Jack’s song #7. AFRS rebroadcast. (24:47)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (5-12-46) Broadcast from the Civic Opera House in Chicago with 3,724 people in the audience, Jack’s guests are Quiz Kids Harve Bennett Fishman, Joel Kupperman, Ruthie Duskin, and Richard Weixler. Jack invites the kids over for a quiz session with his regular gang, Mary, Phil, Roch­ester, Dennis, and Don. Lucky Strike Ciga­rettes, NBC. (26:42)

CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE (3-24-40) “June Moon” starring Jack Benny in a radio version of the Broadway comedy by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman. Jack stars as a song writer from Schenectady who goes to the big city of New York to write a romantic hit. Orson Welles is host and producer of this series and the cast for this broadcast features Benny Rubin, Bea Benadaret, Lee Patrick, Virginia Gordon. Campbell Soup, CBS. (28:00; 30:30)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-8-45) Broadcast from Turney General Hospital in Palm Springs. Jack dreams that guest, actor William Powell is his butler. AFRS rebroadcast. (27:15)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (3-2-52) From Palm Springs, guests Frank Sinatra, George Burns, Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye form a quar­tet to sing Jack’s song, “When You Say ‘I Beg Your Pardon’ Then I’ll Come Back to You.” This is the eighth and last program in our se­quence of Jack’s Song broadcasts. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (27:51).