VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, July 17, 1999

FIBBER MC GEE AND THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF RADIO (5-26-74) Fifth show in the seven-part series. The Thursday Programs: Abbott and Costello; Baron Munchausen; Kraft Music Hall; Aldrich Family; Rudy Vallee; Just Plain Bill and other soap operas; Green Hornet; Bing Crosby. Chrysler Airtemp. (53 min in two seg­ments)

ROCKY FORTUNE (3-23-54) Frank Sinatra stars as Fortune, “that footloose and fancy free young gentleman” whose employment agency gets him a position with an experi­mental concern called the Zenith Foundation for the Promotion of Interplanetary Travel. Cast includes Howard Culver, Don Diamond, Dan Risk. AFRTS rebroadcast. (24 min)

TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK (4-6-54) Frank Sinatra’s transcribed quarter-hour program during which he sings and plays records. Sus­taining, NBC. (14 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (5-7-79) Musician Leon Lichtenfeld recalls his work during the early days of radio in Chicago in a conversation with Chuck Schaden recorded in the Those Were The Days studio. Mr. Lichtenfeld died in 1989 at the age of 94. (40 min)

RECOLLECTIONS AT THIRTY (11-21-56) Pro­gram 19: Fred Allen and Jack Benny; Helen Kane; “Jumbo” on the Rudy Vallee Show; Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour. Sustaining, NBC. (24 min)

PHILCO RADIO TIME (5-7-47) Bing Crosby welcomes guests Al Jolson and Irving Berlin Bing sings “Country Style;” Al sings “Lazy;” Berlin sings “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.” Crosby and Jolson sing Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” John Scott Trot­ter and the orchestra. Ken Carpenter an­nounces.