NATIONAL RADIO MONTH  Part 5

Originally broadcast on WLTD
Saturday, May 29, 1971

COMMAND PERFORMANCE (2-15-45) “Dick Tracy in B Flat” or “For Goodness Sakes, Isn’t He Ever Going to Marry Tess Trueheart?”  It’s the “first comic strip operetta” starring Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Bob Hope, Frank Morgan, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and Cass Daley.

MA PERKINS RE-CREATION (5-29-71) A live-in-our-studio re-enactment of  an original “Ma Perkins” radio script starring a number of Chicago radio and television personalities: Rita Ascot Boyd, Viola Berwick, Johnny Coons, Phil Bowman and Bob Kennedy.

MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (1940s) “The Man with the Black Beard” starring Mercedes McCambridge.  A woman has recurring dreams that a man with a black beard is trying to kill her.

CLUB 15 (1940s) Music and humor with Bob Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Margaret Whiting, the Pied Pipers and Jerry Gray and the orchestra.