BIG BANDS – SWEET AND SWING

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, September 2nd, 2000

CAMEL CARAVAN (10-14-39) Benny Good­man, the King of Swing stars with “the great­est assembly of swing artists in the world to­day.” Guests are Louis Armstrong and the Lynn Murray Choir. Satchmo joins the Good­man Sextet on “Ain’t Misbehavin.” Vocalist Louise Tobin sings “I Didn’t Know What Time it Was.” The Choir joins Armstrong for a ren­dition of “Shadrach.” The Goodman orches­tra plays “Moonlight Serenade” and “King Porter Stomp.” Ted Pearson hosts; George Bryan announces. Camel Cigarettes, NBC. (28 min)

LAWRENCE WELK ARMY SHOW (1959) From the Aragon Ballroom in Pacific Ocean Park in California, it’s Champagne Music Time. Vo­cals by Larry Dean, Rocky Rockwell (also on trumpet), and Dick Dale. Selections include “Let It Snow,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “When Your Lover has Gone,” and Linger Awhile.” U.S. Army, ABC/AFRS. (25 min)

HERE’S TO VETERANS (7-19-47) Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra present “In My Merry Oldsmobile,” Long, Long Ago,” “Every­body and His Brother,” “My Blue Heaven,” and “In the Mood.” Announcer is Eddie Hubbard. Veteran’s Administration. (15 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (7-21-77) Tex Beneke talks about his career in a conversation with Chuck Schaden and Karl Pearson recorded at the Union League Club in Chi­cago. Tex Beneke died on May 12, 2000 at the age of 86.

MOONLIGHT SERENADE (6-12-40) Glenn Miller and his orchestra broad­casting from the stage of the Civic Center in Chicago. Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, Ray Eberle and the boys in the band present “Outside of That I Love You,” “Say It,” “St. Louis Blues,” and a “something old, new, borrowed and blue” medley. Chesterfield Cigarettes, CBS. (14 min)

SPOTLIGHT BANDS (11-29-41) Freddy Mar­tin and his orchestra broadcasting from San Francisco with guest vocalist Martha Tilton plus Eddie Stone, Clyde Rogers, and the Mar­tin Men. Selections include “A Million Miles from Manhattan,” “Kiss the Boys Good-bye,” “Symphony Moderne,” “Whistling in the Night,” “Popocatapetl.” Coca-Cola, MBS. (29 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be Big Band Histo­rian Karl Pearson who will serve as our guide to these sweet and swing sounds of the big bands.