HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY
IRVING BERLIN

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, May 7, 1988

SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS (1-11-43) “Holiday Inn” starring Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore in musical highlights from the 1942 film featuring the music of Irving Berlin. Announcer is Truman Bradley. Lady Esther products, CBS. (14:45; 14:30)

IRVING BERLIN STORY (1950s) Doug Bogart interviews Irving Berlin who reminisces about his career and his craft against a background of outstanding Berlin music and comments by Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. An audio-autobiography. BBC. (13:00; 15:20; 12:19; 19:00)

MAGIC KEY OF RCA (2-19-36) Excerpt of a program featuring Ray Noble and his orchestra, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, and Richard Himber and his orchestra presenting for the first time on the air, music from Irving Berlin’s new motion picture, “Follow the Fleet”. Milton Cross and Ben Grauer. RCA Victor, NBC. (18:30; 13:51)

PHILCO RADIO TIME (5-7-47) Bing Crosby welcomes guests Al Jolson and Irving Berlin for some musical fun and memories. John Scott Trotter and the orchestra, Ken Carpenter. Philco, ABC. (6:05; 12:40; 9:30)

OUR SPECIAL GUESTS will be the Lake Shore Harmony Four and The Villagers, members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, plus the Skylarks, Unlimited, vocal group who will entertain throughout our program, live from our studio at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago at River City.