Here are the names of hundreds and hundreds of broadcast announcers, commercial spokesmen, hosts, m.c.’s, and narrators who worked for sponsored, sustaining, and special programs which featured or included the big bands. However unlikely some of these program titles seem, we have confirmed that they, indeed, had a name bandleader as a featured attraction or guest. Listed under each person’s name are select examples of the radio programs that they were a part of and the year(s) of that work. According to our sources, sometimes a program is called by its sponsor’s or product’s name and another time it’s referred to it by the star performer’s name - but they may be the same program.

Many of the sponsored programs, as well as sustaining remote broadcasts, were heard in the USA on a network, such as NBC Blue or NBC Red, CBS, Mutual, or ABC, and typically originated in a major location, such as , Hollywood / Los Angeles, or Chicago. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) began operation in 1926. Its ownership was originally divided among the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) headed by David Sarnoff, General Electric (GE), and Westinghouse. WEAF served as the flagship station of NBC-Red and WJZ the anchor of NBC-Blue; both were in New York City. It was said that the colors represented either NBC’s color-coded program charts or the pencil lines which the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) engineers drew to indicate the wire paths for each network. In terms of highest-rated programming, the NBC Red network bested the NBC Blue network, but the Blue presented lots of public service and cultural programming including dance band remotes. The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) was started in 1928, based on the United Independent Broadcasters (UIB) network which William S. Paley had purchased. The UIB had received financial backing from the Columbia Phonograph Company, so its name was initially changed to the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting Company, then, when Columbia Phonograph withdrew, the name was simplified to the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1929, Paley bought WABC in New York City to be CBS’ flagship station. The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) was founded in 1934. It was different from NBC and CBS because, rather than offering most of its programming from studios in high-profile New York City and Hollywood, the Mutual member stations around the country cooperatively shared much of their programming. Not too many years later, because NBC and CBS had the most powerful stations and the best locations, MBS complained to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they couldn’t get a competitive foothold. In 1941 the FCC decided it was not in the public’s interest for one company to operate more than one national radio network, forcing NBC to sell its Blue network. Edward J. Noble, whose fortune came from Life Savers candy, bought NBC-Blue and in 1944 it was renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). There are three other ventures that we want to mention when considering the big bands on radio, and specifically during World War II: the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and the American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE). The AFRS created its own programs like “Command Performance,” “G.I. Journal,” “Jubilee,” and “Mail Call.” They also featured “One Night Stand” broadcasts which were transcribed from the originating station for later airing through the AFRS, but also appear to have done their own remotes. The AFRS was later expanded to the Armed Forces Radio and Service (AFRTS). The BBC, started in 1922 and headquartered in London, is the world’s oldest national broadcaster. Its programs have kept to a high standard and are considered a public service. ABSIE was operated in 1944-45 by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) to support the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Starting in the late 1940s (but most prominently in the 1950s and ‘60s), other radio programs which featured big bands were syndicated to select stations on behalf of, for example, the Treasury Department, the National Guard, the Marine Corps, the Social Security Administration, or the Veterans Administration.

BILL ABERNATHY MEL ALLEN HY AVERBACK Blue “A Date with the Duke” ‘45 AFRS “Command Performance” ‘44 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘52 Blue remote (Cedar Grove, New CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘42 Arthritis and Rheumatism Jersey) ‘39 CBS remote (New York City) ‘37 Foundation “Bob Hope Blue remote (New York City) ‘41-’42 (as “Melvin Allen”) All-Star Show: A Dream Come True” ‘49 Blue “Sunset Serenade” ‘41-’42 CBS “Saturday Night Swing Club” CBS “Judy Canova Show” ‘54 NBC remote (Cedar Grove, New ‘37 Jersey) ‘40 CBS “Red Feather Round-Up” ‘48 March of Dimes “March of Dimes JIM AMECHE Is On the Air” ‘50 CASWELL ADAMS Disabled American Veterans Navy “Billy May Show” ‘56 “Fund Appeal” Mutual (WOR, New York City) Navy “Les Brown Show” ‘53 “Nothing Serious” ‘42 NBC “Charlie McCarthy Show” ‘43 Navy “Stan Kenton Show” ‘57

Navy “Stand By for Music” ‘55? JOE ADAMS BILL ANDERS Navy “Navy Star Time” NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” CBS “Broadway Is My Beat” ‘53 NBC “Bob Hope Show” ‘51-53 ‘54-’56 NBC “Bob Hope Swan Show”

BOB ANDERSON ‘48-’49 MASON ADAMS AFRS “Jubilee” ‘43 NBC “Pepsodent Show” ‘48 Nat’l Guard “Let’s Go to Town” Office of Price Stablization” Stars ‘53-’54 for Defense” ‘52 ORVAL ANDERSON JOEL ALDRICH ABC “Screen Guild Theatre” ‘51

CBS “Perry Como Show” ‘55? CHARLES ARLINGTON BEN ALEXANDER CBS “Saturday Night Swing Club” ‘37 NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” ‘49

VAN DES AUTELS JACK ALLEN ZIV “Your Movietown Radio Nat’l Guard “Let’s Go to Town” ‘54 Theatre”

MEL ALLEN

BILL BALDWIN Red “Swing Concert / Joe Sullivan BILL BIVENS Benefit” ‘37 AFRS “Yank Bandstand” ‘45? CBS “Chesterfield Time” ‘43

CBS “Charlie McCarthy Show” HUGH BARTLETT ‘49, ‘52 BUDDY BLACK CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘50-’51 NBC remote (Toronto, Canada) ‘41 WGN (Chicago) remote ‘55

JACK BAILEY ANDRE BARUCH MARTIN BLOCK Blue “Duffy’s Traven” ‘44 CBS “Guy Lombardo Time” ‘50-’51 Nat’l Guard “Guard Session” NBC “Waltz Time” ‘41 ‘57, ‘63-’64 ART BALLINGER NBC “Your Hit Parade” ‘51 Nat’l Guard “Let’s Go to Town” ‘52-’54 NBC “Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show” syndicated “Lucky Strike ‘41 Presents” ‘40 NBC “Chesterfield Supper Club” ‘45-’50

KENNETH BANGHART HARRY BEAUMONT FORD BOND NBC “Best of All” ‘55 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 American Cancer Society “Cancer

Crusade” ‘52 PAUL BEDFORD JIM BANNON NBC “Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show” Red “Chase and Sanborn Hour” ‘39 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 ‘40 Red “Kraft Music Hall” ‘34 RED BARBER JOHN BEGUE CBS “Old Gold Show” ‘44 NBC remote (Chicago) ‘52 ALLEN BONSER CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘42 GEORGE BARKLEY BERN BENNETT Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘50 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote KENNETH BOWLES (New York City) ‘45 CBS Old Gold Program” ‘34 CBS “Camel Caravan Rock and Roll NORMAN BARRY Dance Party” ‘56

NBC remote (Chicago) ‘37

ANDRE BARUCH

TRUMAN BRADLEY BILL BRINGLE HUGH BRUNDAGE CBS “Hinds Honey and Almond simulcast by five New Orleans AFRS “Jubilee” ‘45-’46 Cream Program” ‘40 stations including WWL Mutual-Don Lee “Alvino Rey and CBS “Lady Esther Screen Guild “Buy Bonds By Radio” ‘42 his Music” ‘39 Theatre” ‘46 Mutual-Don Lee “Maxine Gray CBS “Lady Esther Serenade” ‘42 PAUL BRINSON Entertains” ‘39-’40 NBC “George Burns and Gracie Chartoc-Colman “Ted Lewis Allen Show” ‘40 Show” ‘47 GEORGE BRYAN NBC “Rudy Vallee Drene Show” ‘44-’46 CBS “Camel Caravan” ‘39 NBC “Tommy Dorsey Show” KEN BROADLY CBS “Dixieland Music Shop” ‘39 ‘42-’43 CBS remote (Los Angeles) ‘35 CBS “Peter Lind Hayes Show” ‘54 Red “Raleigh Cigarette Program NBC “Camel Caravan” ‘39 Starring Red Skelton”

‘41-’43 NORMAN BROKENSHIRE Brunswick Radios “Brunswick LARRY BRUFF Brevities” ‘29 MEL BRANDT CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘40-‘42 Mutual “Detect-A-Tune” ‘46

Christmas Seals “Guy Lombardo NBC “Monitor” ‘56 Show” ‘59 JIM BURKE

CBS remote (Atlantic City), ‘54 GEORGE BROWN FRANK BRESSEE Mutual remote (Chicago) ‘53 AFRS “Golden Days of Radio” JIM BURTON

Mutual-Don Lee “Alvino Rey and DOUG BROWNING DON BRIGGS his Music” ‘39 ABC “Nat’l Guard Assembly” ‘47 Mutual-Don Lee “Maxine Gray Blue “Sunset Serenade” ‘41 ABC “Paul Whiteman Hour” ‘46-’47 Entertains” ‘40 NBC “I Sustain the Wings” ‘43-’44 ABC “Paul Whiteman Record Club” NBC “Uncle Sam Presents” ‘43-’44 ‘47-’48 DAWS BUTLER Treasury Dept “Treasury Star

Parade” ‘44 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘48

TRUMAN BRADLEY

PAT CANEL HARVEY CAREY Red “Kraft Program” ‘33-’34 CBS “Let’s Listen to Lopez” ‘64 [ sic— HARRY CARAY? ] Red “Lucky Strike Hour” ‘33 CBS remote (Chicago) LARRY CARL EVERETT CLARK CBS remote (New York City) ‘65 NELSON CASE WBBM (Chicago) “Nate Gross Show” ‘46 Blue “Information Please” ‘38

KEN CARPENTER NBC “Coty Salute to Youth” ‘35 HARRY CLARK ABC “Philco Radio Time” ‘47-48 NBC “Lady Esther Serenade” ‘36 NBC remote (New York City) ‘38 CBS “Greater New York Relief AFRS “Command Performance” Fund” ‘40 ‘42-’46 CBS remote (Cedar Grove, New AFRS “Jubilee” WAYNE CHAIKIN Jersey) ‘41 CBS “Bing Crosby Show” ‘49-’53 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 CBS “Elgin Christmas Day Greeting WARREN CLARK to America” ‘45 CBS “Judy Garand Show” ‘52 CHARLES CHAN Mutual remote (Denver, Colorado) ‘53? CBS “Nelson Eddy Show” ‘52 NBC remote (Chicago) ‘51, ‘53

NBC “Bing Crosby Show” ‘51 BOB CLAYTON NBC “Biographies in Sound: ERNEST CHAPPELL Recollections At Thirty” ‘56 CBS “Spotlight Revue” ‘48 ABC “Ted Malone” ‘47 NBC “Charlie McCarthy Show” Blue “Chamber Music Society of ‘44-’49 Lower Basin Street” ‘43 FRED COLE NBC “Chase and Sanborn Show”

‘45 NBC “Fame and Fortune” ‘40 NBC “Kraft Music Hall” ‘41-’49 LARRY CHRISTIAN Rexall “Rexall’s Parade of Stars” ‘40 NBC “Lifebuoy Show” ‘44 WGN (Chicago) remote ‘55

NBC “Ray Noble Show” ‘38 FRED COLLINS NBC (KFI, Los Angeles) “The Santa HOWARD CLANEY Anita Handicap ‘35 Nat’l Guard “Let’s Go to Town” NBC “Lucky Strike Hour” ‘32 syndicated “Henry Busse and his ‘55-’56?, (as “Jim” Collins) NBC “Waltz Time” ‘46 Montmartre Orchestra” ‘35 ‘60-’61

NBC “All Star Parade of Bands” ‘53-’56

KEN CARPENTER

NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52-’53 BOB CONSIDINE JACK COSTELLO NBC “Dorsey Brothers Orchestra” Nat’l Guard “Guard Session” ‘65 NBC “Concert Encores” ‘52 ‘55 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 NBC “My World Is Music” ‘53 JOHN CONTE NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” NBC “Recollections At Thirty” ‘42, ‘44-’45 ‘56-’57 NBC “For the Record” ‘44 NBC “Let’s Go Nightclubbing” ‘46 NBC remote (New York City) ‘56 NBC “George Burns and Gracie NBC remote (New York City) ‘40 NBC “Stars in Jazz” ‘53 Allen Show” ‘37-’38 NBC “Teentimer’s Club” ‘46 Veterans Administration “Here’s to Veterans” Treasury Dept “Guest Star” TED COLLINS ‘50, ‘55-’57 ABC “Kate Smith Calls” ‘49 ROYCE COWAN CBS “Kate Smith Hour” ‘45 JOE COOK CBS remote (Dallas, Texas) ‘36 CBS “Kate Smith Show” ‘44 NBC “Shell Show” ‘37

BRODERICK CRAWFORD BUD COLLYER LOU COOK BBC “American Band f the AEF” NBC “Benny Goodman Music ‘45 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘49 Festival” ‘46 BBC “Swing Shift” ‘45

NBC “I Sustain the Wings” ‘43-’44 HUGH CONOVER ALISTAIR COOKE Red “Rudy Vallee Hour” ‘38 CBS “Vaughn Monroe Show” ‘48 BBC “Radio Rhythm Club” ‘41 CBS “Vaughn Monroe’s Camel LOU CROSBY Caravan” ‘51 ALEX COOPER Blue “Cugat Rhythm Revue” ‘42 WABC (New York City) AFRS “Jubilee” ‘48 “Personally, It’s Off the Treasury Department “Guest Star” Record” ‘43 ‘57 TIP CORNING WILLIS CONOVER CBS “Guy Lombardo and his MILTON J. CROSS Orchestra” ‘41 Office of Economic Opportunity ABC “Piano Playhouse” ‘49 “Voices of Vista” American Heart Association “Heart to Heart” ‘55

BUD COLLYER

JOHN CONTE

Blue “Chamber Music Society of GENE DEGRAY PAUL DORMAN Lower Basin Street” ‘40 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 CBS “Elmer Davis and his Weekly Blue “Magic Key” ‘35-’39 War Review” ‘43 NBC “Red Cross Flood Relief” ‘37 CBS remote (Memphis, Tennessee) Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘51 KENNY DELMAR ‘58 NBC “Music America Loves” Best ‘46 PAUL DOUGLAS BILL CULLEN NBC “Your Hit Parade” ‘52 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote AFRS “Command Performance” (New York City) ‘44 ‘42-’43 BOB DIXON Blue “Canada Dry Program” ‘39 DON CURLIN “March of Dimes” 52 CBS “Chesterfield Time” ‘38-’39

Mutual-Don Lee “Alvino Rey and CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘40-’41 his Music” ‘39 JOE DOAKS CBS “Saturday Night Swing Club” ‘37 Mutual-Don Lee “Tune Up

JOHN DALY America” ‘42 DAN DOWD CBS “What’s My Line?” ‘50-’67 DICK DODIE March of Dimes “March of Stars On the Air for the March of NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 Dimes” ‘59

NBC “New Year’s Eve All-Star Parade of Bands” ‘56 MICHAEL DOLAN HUGH DOWNS NBC “Monitor” ‘58 Mutual-Don Lee remote NBC “Music for Moderns” ‘53 (Hollywood) ‘45

ED DARLINGTON HOWARD DOYLE CBS remote (New York City) ‘44 STEVE DONOHOE Mutual remote (New York City) ‘37 March of Dimes “Music Fights NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 Red remote (New York City) ‘39 Infantile Paralysis” ‘46

GREG DONOVAN

DOUG DAVIES NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands”

CBS remote (Las Vegas) ‘68 ‘53

NBC remote (Chicago) ‘48, ‘50

PAUL DOUGLAS

JIM DOYLE GEORGE DVORAK JOHN FALL NBC “Abbott and Costello Show” AFRS “Jubilee” ‘46-’48 NBC remote (Columbus, Ohio) ‘40 ‘46 Mutual-Don Lee remote (Culver City, California) ‘46 GEORGE FENNEMAN PAUL DUBOV Marine Corps “Ray Anthony Show” BBC “Swing Shift” ‘44-’45 CHARLIE EDWARDS ‘55 NBC “I Sustain the Wings” ‘45 AFRS “Downbeat” ‘44 Navy “Navy Swings” ‘62 NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” ‘52-’53 PAUL DUDLEY RALPH EDWARDS

BBC “American Band of the AEF” U.S. Rubber Company “Ben Bernie ‘45 Show” pre-war ED FITZGERALD NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 HOWARD DUFF BRUCE ELLIOTT AFRS “Chamber Music Society of Mutual “Bands for Bonds” ‘47 ED FLEMING Lower Basin Street” ‘44 CBS remote (New York City) ‘42 AFRS “Esquire All-American Concert” ‘44 LARRY ELLIOTT AFRS “Jazz At the Philharmonic” CBS “America Dances” ‘39 ART FORD ‘44 Treasury Dept “Treasury Star March of Dimes “1949 March of AFRS “One Night Stand” ‘44 Parade” ’42-’43? Dimes” ‘49 AFRS “Spotlight Bands” ‘45-’46 NBC “Monitor” ‘73 O.W.I. “Uncle Sam Presents” ‘43 BOB EMERY WNEW (New York City) “Saturday Night Swing Session” ‘47 Mutual “Buddy Rogers Show” ‘50

WALLY DUNLAP BILL FORMAN AFRS “One Night Stand” remote DICK ENROTH (New York City) ‘47 Mutual remote (Chicago) ‘43 NBC “Charlie McCarthy Show” ‘44-’45 CBS remote (Atlantic City, New Jersey) ‘45 NBC “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of BILL EWING Musical Knowledge” ‘44-’45 CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘44-’47 EDDIE DUNNE NBC “Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show”

Chartoc-Colman “Ted Lewis ‘48-’54

Show” 47 Veterans Administration “Here’s to

Veterans”

LOUIS FOSTER NBC, “Perry Como’s Kraft Music ART GILMORE Hall” ‘61 CBS remote (Memphis, Tennessee) CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘37 Red “Hour of Charm”’51 ‘52 Civil Defense Administration “Stars for Defense” ‘57 ROGER FOSTER DAVE GARROWAY Office of Price Stabilization “Stars for Defense” ‘52 NBC “Philip Morris Night with ABC “Damon Runyon Memorial Horace Heidt” ‘48 Concert” ‘48 BOB GOERNER GORDON FRASER CBS remote (San Francisco) ‘54 March of Dimes “Music Fights NBC “Bill Stern Colgate Sports CBS “Rhythms By Raeburn” ‘45-’46 Infantile Paralysis” ‘47 Newsreel” 47, ‘50

NBC “The Circle” ‘39 BILL GOODWIN AIME GAUVIN CBS “Camel Caravan” ‘37 ALAN FREED WMGM (New York City) “Doctor CBS “Edgar Bergen Show” ‘54 Jazz” ‘52 CBS “Camel Rock and Roll Dance CBS “Elgin Thanksgiving Tribute to Party” ‘56 Our Armed Forces” ‘42 CHARLES GAYLORD CBS “George Burns and Gracie BEN GAGE World Broadcasting System Allen Show” ‘42-’43 “Ben Pollack and his CBS “Joe Penner Show” ‘36-’37 CBS “Joan Davis Time” ‘48 Orchestra” ‘30 CBS “New Burns and Allen Show” NBC “Pepsodent Show” ‘41-’42, ‘44 ‘41-’42 NBC “Recollections At Thirty” ‘56 HAL GIBNEY NBC “Bob Hope Show” ‘53-‘55

AFRS “Jubilee” ‘46 NBC “Camel Caravan” ‘40 EDDIE GALLAHER NBC “Charlie McCarthy Show” ‘43-’44 Navy “Music On Deck” BILL GILLIAN NBC “Jack Oakie College” ‘37 NBC “Those Fabulous Dorseys” ‘53 NBC “Paul Whiteman Presents” FRANK GALLOP ‘43 CBS remote (New York City) ‘36 JOE GILLESPIE NBC “Pepsodent Show” ‘38-’39, ‘41 Mutual “Cresta Blanca Carnival” ‘43 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53

NBC remote (San Francisco) ‘50, ‘53

BILL GOODWIN

CHARLES GOODWIN BEN GRAUER TONY GREENHOUSE Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘42 Blue ”Baker’s Broadcast” ‘34-’35 ABC remote (Berkeley, California) CBS remote (New York City) ’37 Blue “Kellogg’s College Prom” ‘35 ‘47 NBC “Tums Treasure Chest” Blue “Magic Key” ‘35-’36 ABC remote (San Francisco) ‘47 ‘42-’43 Blue “Radio City Matinee” ‘35 Blue remote (New York City) ‘38 KEN GRIFFIN GALE GORDON NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘43 CBS “Wonder Show” ‘38-’39 ‘53 NBC “Charlie McCarthy Show” ‘45 MERV GRIFFIN NBC “Johnny Presents” ‘59 RICHARD GORDON Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘65 Red “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour” CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘49 ‘34-’36 Red “Magic Key” ‘39 WAYNE GRIFFIN DOUG GORLAY syndicated “Lucky Strike Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘43, ‘45 NBC “Lifebuoy Show” ‘44 Presents” ‘39 Treasury Dept “Treasury Song for Today” FRED GRIMES FRANK GRAHAM AFRS “Hot Off the Record Press” ‘52? CBS “Electric Hour” ‘46 BARRY GRAY NBC “Rudy Vallee Philip Morris Mutual “Navy Bulletin Board” ‘44 Show” ‘46 BILL GRISKEY

NBC “Concert Encores” ‘53 JIM GRAY PETER GRANT NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 Red “Avalon Time” ‘39 Fifth Army Recruiting “Musically NBC remote (Chicago) ‘52 Yours” ‘47 NBC “Your Saturday Dance Date” ‘50 TAYLOR GRANT JACK GRAYSON WNEW (New York City) “Second CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘42 Ann’l American Swing JOHN GROVER Festival” ‘45 Standard Oil “Standard School ABE GREEN Broadcast” ‘50 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote (New York City) ‘49

BEN GRAUER

HOWARD HALL TOM HANLON HELMUT H. HELMUT NBC remote (Omaha, Nebraska) CBS “Ford Show” ‘47 RRG (German National Radio) ‘54 “Cotton Club” 31

ART HANNES RADCLIFF HALL SKITCH HENDERSON AFRTS “One Night Stand” remote NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” (New York City) ‘59 Army Reserve “Skitch and ‘53 Company” ‘73 NBC program of Kenton records Narwood Productions “The Music due to transmitter difficulty BOB HANNON Makers” ‘53 NBC “Waltz Time” ‘44 Nat’l Guard “Guard Session” ‘68

ROBERT HALL PAUL HENNINGS CBS “Tommy Dorsey Show” ‘54 NBC remote (New York City) ‘52 CBS remote (Virginia Beach, Virginia) ‘61 GENE HAMILTON JOHN HARPER Blue “Chamber Music Society of CBS “America Dances” 39 DICK HERBERT Lower Basin Street” ‘41 Air Force “Manhattan Melodies” NBC “My World Is Music” ‘53 BOYD HARRIER Thesaurus “Great Days We Honor” ‘55 CBS remote (Virginia Beach, ED HERLIHY Virginia) ‘58 American Cancer Society “Fund Appeal” ‘48 MARK HAMILTON ALOIS HAVRILLA American Cancer Society “Cancer Air Force “Manhattan Melodies” Crusade” ‘50-’51 Blue “Paul Whiteman’s Musical ‘54? NBC “Big Show” ‘51 Varieties” ‘36 NBC “Dorsey Brothers Show” ‘56

K.K. HAMPTON NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” ‘49 ALVIN HELFER Mutual “Swing Music, A NBC “RCA Victor Campus Club” ‘38 Demonstration of a Phase Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘41 NBC “Recollections At Thirty” ‘57 of Modern Music” ‘36 NBC remote (New York City) ‘56

NBC “Shaeffer Parade” ’46-‘48

WALTER HERLIHY GEORGE HOGAN TOM HUDSON ABC “Music By Maltby” ‘47 CBS “Saturday Night Swing Club” NBC “Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show” ‘36 ‘42

GEORGE HICKS JOHN HOLBROOK HARWOOD HULL Standard Oil “Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel” ‘33 CBS “Call for Music” ‘48 NBC “Duffy’s Tavern” ‘51 NBC “Horace Heidt’s Youth Opportunity Program” ‘49 JOHN HICKS WARREN HULL

CBS “Spike Jones Show” ‘49 CBS “Melody and Madness” ‘39 HARRY HOLCOMBE NBC “Log Cabin Jamboree” ‘37-’38 CBS “Camel Caravan” ‘39 BUD HIESTAND NBC “Camel Caravan” ‘39-’40 Blue “Baker’s Broadcast” ‘37 CHET HUNTLEY

CBS “Electric Hour” ‘48 CBS “Columbia Workshop” ‘46 BUD HOLMAN CBS “New Edgar Bergen Hour” ‘55-’56 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 TED HUSING NBC “George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” ‘40-’41 CBS “Tribute to Irving Berlin” ‘38 JOHN HOLMAN NBC “Rudy Vallee Hour” ‘38 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 Veterans Administration “Here’s to TOM HUTCHINS Veterans” ‘48 Mutual “Wings for Tomorrow” ‘45 WED HOWARD

BOB HITE CBS remote (St. Louis, Missouri) ‘49 BOB IRVING CBS “Casey, Crime Photographer” NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 ‘54

CBS “Dorsey Brothers Show” ‘56 WAYNE HOWELL CBS remote (New York City) ‘56 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 CHARLES IRVING NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” ‘49 Chartoc-Colman “Ted Lewis Show” ‘47 BOB HOFFER NBC “Wayne Howell Show” ‘50

CBS remote (Tierra Verde, Florida)

‘63

HAL JACKSON RUSS JORDAN BOB KERR Social Security, “The Genius of CBS remote (Las Vegas) ‘66 KFI remote (Los Angeles) ‘62 Duke” ‘74

FRED JORGENSEN JIM KEYS JAY JACKSON ABC remote (San Francisco) ‘47 NBC “Those Fabulous Dorseys” ‘53 Chrysler-Plymouth “Sammy Kaye

Showroom” ‘49 Civil Defense “Stars for Defense” DICK JOY DEL KING ‘59-’61 Blue “Horace Heidt Show” ‘44 NBC “Red Skelton Show” ‘39 CBS remote (California) ‘45 Red “Avalon Time” ‘38-’39 TOM JAFFREY CBS “Spotlight Revue” 48 syndicated “Hollywood Spotlight” ED KING ‘35 CARLTON KADELL NBC “Girl Scout Birthday” ‘49 Transco “Cocoanut Grove AFRS “Mail Call” ’45 NBC remote (Los Angeles) ‘53 Ambassadors” ‘31-’34 CBS “Music From Hollywood” ‘37 NBC remote (San Francisco)

HUGH JAMES LARRY KEATING JOE KING Blue remote (New York City) ‘40 CBS “Bob Crosby Show” ‘46 CBS “Philip Morris Playhouse On NBC remote (New Rochelle, New Broadway” ‘52 York) ‘39 NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘45 CBS “Spotlight Revue” ‘48 NBC “Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show” NBC Pepsodent Show” ‘41-’42

‘40 Red remote (New York City) ‘40 JOHN MILTON KENNEDY JOHN REED KING CBS remote (New York City) ‘39 Blue “Open House Party” ‘43

OWEN JAMES ABC remote (Los Angeles) ‘47 ALAN KENT WALLY KING Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘45 NBC “Sensations in Swing” ‘40

KEITH JAMESON

BBC “American Band of the AEF” BRUCE KERN ‘44-’45 NBC “Shaeffer Parade” ‘46

HUGH JAMES

WALTER WOLF KING CHARLIE LAKE JIM LOWE CBS “Eddie Cantor Camel CBS remote (New Orleans) ‘53 NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” Caravan” ‘38 ‘53 NBC “Concert Encores” ‘53 DICK LANE DURWOOD KIRBY NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 CBS “Bob Burns Show” (aka CBS “Herb Shriner Show” ‘48 “Lifebuoy Show”) ‘42-’43 Mutual “On the Beam” ‘48 JOHN LUND BILL LAZAR CBS “Bob Crosby Show” ‘46 GENE KIRBY CBS “Songs By Sinatra” ‘45 ABC remote (New York City) ‘48 CHARLES LYON TIM LEIMERT CBS “Melody Ranch” ‘53 KLEVE KIRBY AFRS “Jubilee” ‘44 NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘46 NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘44 NBC “Sammy Kaye’s Sunday Serenade” ‘42 NBC “Shaeffer Parade” ‘47’48 JACK LESCOULIE

CBS “Stage Show” ‘55 KEN LYON ART KIRSCHOFF NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 JACK LITTLE

AFRS “Jubilee” ‘47 JIM LYONS TONY LA FRANO AFRS “Just Jazz” ‘50 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘44-’45 Mutual “Music Depreciation” ‘44

Mutual “Tommy Dorsey Playshop” JERRY LONDON ‘46 FRANKLYN MacCORMACK CBS remote (Palm Springs, California) ‘60 NBC “Wayne King and his Orchestra” ‘45 JOHN LAING

CBS remote (New York City) ‘38 FRANK LOVEJOY JOHN MacILVENE Mutual-Don Lee “Maxine Gray CBS “Columbia Workshop” ‘46 Entertains” ‘40 CBS “Horace Heidt’s Youth

Opportunity Program” ‘53

FRANKLYN MacCORMACK

DON MacLAUGHLIN BILL MARTIN JODY McCREA NBC “Carnation Contented Hour” CBS remote (New York City) ‘68-’70 Army “Army Bandstand” ‘58 ‘46

BOB MARTIN DAN McDONALD FRED MAHON Mutual remote (New York City) ‘45 AFRS “One Night Stand” (New ABC “Saturday At the Shamrock” York City) ‘46 ‘50 CBS remote (New York City) ‘50 CHARLES MARTIN

NBC remote (Chicago) ‘49 LARRY MANN LEO McELROY

NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 remote (Los Angeles) ‘64 GILBERT MARTIN

Blue “Behind the Mike” ‘41 KNOX MANNING MACK McGARRY Blue “Radio Hall of Fame” ‘44 CBS “Melody and Madness” ‘39 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 Textile Broadcasts Inc. “Show Stoppers” ‘46 TONY MARVIN PAT McGEEHAN CBS “ABCs of Music” ‘50 HARRY MARBLE CBS remote (New York City) ‘42 NBC “Raleigh Cigarette Program Starring Red Skelton” CBS “Raymond Scott Show” ‘43-’44 ‘44-’45 PETE MATTHEWS

NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 JOHN McINTIRE LOU MARCELL Red “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour” KFWB “This Is America” ‘41 JACK McALLEN ‘34

ABC remote (Cedar Grove, New JERRY MARSHALL Jersey) ‘46 TOM McKEE WNEW (New York City) “Second AFRS “Jubilee” ‘47-’48 Ann’l American Swing BILL McCORD Blue remote (Youngstown, Ohio) Festival” ‘45 ‘42 NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands”

‘53

NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53

GRAHAM McNAMEE HARRY MITCHELL FRANK MUNN NBC “The Fleischmann’s Yeast AFRS “G.I. Journal” ‘43-’45 NBC “Waltz Time” ‘43-’44 Hour” ‘32, ‘36 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote Red “Royal Desserts Hour” ‘38 (Hollywood) ‘43-’44 TOM MURCINE Red “Royal Gelatin Hour” ‘37-’38 CBS “One Night Stand” remote NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 Red “Rudy Vallee Hour” ‘38-39 (Hollywood) ‘43

CBS remote (Hollywood) ‘50 EDWARD R. MURROW WARREN MILES VAUGHN MONROE CBS “Saturday Night Swing Club” NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 ‘37 Army Nat’l Guard “Let’s Go with Music” ‘57? CHARLES MILLER WAYNE NELSON NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 BOB MOON CBS “Vaughn Monroe Show” ‘51

AFRS “Jubilee” ‘44 Chartoc-Colman “Ted Lewis Show” ‘47 LINDY MILLER

NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52-’53 GARY MOORE GIL NEWSOME NBC “Beat the Band” ‘40-’41 Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘42-’43 MARVIN MILLER CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘42 AFRS “Command Performance” ‘49 WARREN MORAN AFRS “Jubilee” ‘47 Mutual “Spotlight Bands” ‘45 CBS remote (New York City) CBS “Music By Ray Noble” ‘45 ‘64, ‘66-’67

CBS “Songs By Sinatra” ‘46

NBC “Chesterfield Supper Club” DAVE MORTON ‘48 Mutual “Story of Swing” ‘38 NBC “Raleigh Cigarette Program

Starring Red Skelton” ‘44 Civil Defense Administration “Stars JOE MULVAHILL for Defense” ‘59 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53

GIL NEWSOME

KEN NILES TIM NOLAN ROY OBINGTON AFRS “Front Line Theatre” ‘43 NBC (KPRC, Houston, Texas) CBS remote (Cedar Grove, New AFRS “Yank Bandstand” ‘46 “New Year’s Eve All-Star Jersey) ‘44 Parade of Bands” ‘68 Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘42

CBS “Danny Kaye Show” ‘45 DOUG OLIVER GENE NORMAN CBS “Lady Esther Serenade” ‘34 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘47-’48 CBS “Old Gold Program” ‘34 AFRS “Just Jazz” ‘51-’52 CBS “Woodbury Soap Show” ‘34 DON OTIS

NBC “Abbott and Costello Show” AFRS “One Night Stand” ‘45 ‘43-‘45 STUART NOVINS

NBC “Chesterfield Music Shop” ‘44 “Concert in Rhythm” ‘40 NBC “Rudy Vallee Philip Morris Show” ‘46-’47 NBC “Let’s Go Nightclubbing” ‘46 TOM O’BRIEN

“Let’s Go Nightclubbing” ‘45-’46 WENDELL NILES BERT PARKS

AFRS “G.I. Journal” ‘45 Army / Air Force “Take a Break” ROD O’CONNOR AFRS “Jubilee” ‘45 ‘47 NBC “Chesterfield Music Shop” Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘51 CBS remote (New York City) ‘37 ‘44-’45 Mutual remote (Cedar Grove, New Jersey) ‘42 NBC “Pepsodent Show” ‘42-43, WALTER O’KEEFE ‘45-’47 NBC “Abbott and Costello Show” NBC “Lucky Strike Hour” ‘32 NBC “Tommy Dorsey Show” ‘46 ‘47

Red Cross Fund Campaign “Bob NBC “Bandstand” ‘56-’57 Hope Show” ‘48 BOB O’NILES NBC “Camel Caravan” ‘39 Veterans Administration “Here’s to NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 NBC “Cugat Rhythm Revue” ‘41 Veterans” ‘46, ‘48 Veterans Administration “Here’s to Veterans” ‘47 JACK O’REILLY DICK NOEL WABC remote (New York City) ‘37 Mutual remote (Cedar Grove, New CBS remote (New York City) ‘57-’58 Jersey) ‘49 CBS “The Camel Rock and Roll Mutual remote (New York City) ‘50 Dance Party” ‘56

KEN NILES

BERT PARKS

FRANCIS PATAY TED PIERSON RON RAWSON Mutual remote (Cleveland, Ohio) AFRS “Command Performance” ‘51 Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘49 ‘40 March of Dimes “Star Carousel” ‘58 TOM REDDY FORT PEARSON NBC “Camel Caravan” ‘39 Naval Air Reserve “Naval Air Blue “Clara, Lu and Em” ‘36 Reserves Show” NBC “Beat the Band” ‘40-’41 DOUG PLEDGER NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘43-’44 NBC “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘39 ABC remote (Ocean Park, Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘49 NBC “Shaeffer Parade” ‘46 California) ‘46

Office of Price Stabilization “Stars BILL REED for Defense” ‘51? RALPH PORTNER NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53

ABC remote (Santa Monica, VINCENT PELLETIER California) ‘52 TOBE REED NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 Blue “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘43 ARCH PRESBY NBC “Lifebuoy Show” ‘44 BILL PENNELL Blue “Bughouse Rhythm” ‘36 Red “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘41-’43

Blue “Your Dubonnet Date with Xavier Cugat” ‘43 ALLEN PRESCOTT BOB RICKMAN NBC remote (New York City) ‘41 HOWARD PETRIE Air Force “Manhattan Melodies” ‘58 CBS “Camel Comedy Caravan” ‘43 WARD QUAAL CBS “New Edgar Bergen Hour” Mutual remote (Chicago) ‘42 ‘55-’56 LIONEL RICOU

remote (New York City) ‘51 HARRY RALSTON BOB PFEIFFER AFRS “One Night Stand” remote GLENN RIGGS CBS remote (New York City) ‘57 (Los Angeles) ‘46 ABC “Radio Hall of Fame” ‘45-’46

Blue “Philco Summer Hour” ‘44-’45 ROB PHILLIPS PHIL RANSOM Blue “Radio Hall of Fame” ‘43-’45 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote AFRS “Jubilee” ‘49 (San Francisco) ‘45 March of Dimes “Yessiree… It’s Mr. B!” ‘53

JOE RIPLEY JERRY ROY Army / Air Force “Stars On Mutual “Rudy Vallee Show” ‘50 NBC remote (New York City) ‘67-’68 Parade” ‘51 NBC (from BBC, London) NBC (Las Vegas) “New Year’s Eve Army “Voice of the Army” ‘50 “International Bandstand” All-Star Parade of Bands ‘58 ‘68

DAN RISS MARK ROGERS MICHAEL ROY Chartoc-Colman “Ted Lewis Show” ‘47 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘43-’44 NBC remote (Chicago) ‘63 CBS “Spike Jones Show” ‘49 JERRY ROBERTS CBS “Spotlight Revue” ‘48 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote DICK ROME CBS “Vaughn Monroe Show” ‘45 (Newark, New Jersey) ‘45 CBS remote (Washington, D.C.) ‘39 Mutual “Spotlight Bands” ‘45 NBC “Abbott and Costello Show” KEN ROBERTS ‘47 DAVID ROSS NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” ‘49 Mutual “Your Dubonnet Date with Judson Radio Program Corp. Xavier Cugat” “Friendly Five Footnotes” Navy “Eddy Duchin Show” ‘49 ‘32 TINY RUFFNER ZIV “Guy Lombardo Show” ‘49 Mutual “Endorsed By Dorsey” ‘46 FRED ROBBINS Army / Army Air Force “Stars On JACK ROURKE OLLY RUNNION Parade” ‘51 CBS “Call for Music” ‘48 CBS “Saturday At the Chase” ‘51 Blue “Eddie Condon’s Jazz

Concert” ‘44-’45 Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘56 ROY ROWAN JOHN RUSSTANG CBS “Camel Rock and Roll Dance Mutual “Family Theatre” ‘48 Party” ‘56 ALAN ROBINSON CBS “People Are Funny” ‘53 Blue remote (New York City) ‘40-’41 BASIL RUYSDAEL

syndicated “Lucky Strike RALPH ROWLAND Presents” ‘40

Air Force “Manhattan Melodies”

SAM SALERNO CBS “Atlantic Family” ‘36 FREDERICK SHIELDS CBS remote (Las Vegas) ‘68 CBS “Club Fifteen” ‘47-’52 Red “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour” CBS “Jack Carson Show” ‘44-’47 ‘33 CBS “Melody and Madness” ‘39 Treasury Dept “Treasury Star CHUCK SCHADEN Parade” ‘43 CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘40, ‘42 “Those Were the Days” ‘70-’09 Marine Corps “Red Nichols Show” ‘51 TOM SHIRLEY WILL SCOTT Miller Transcriptions “Glenn AFRS “ONS” remote (Hollywood) AFRS ”Jubilee” ‘48 Miller’s Moonlight ‘43 Serenade” ‘51

NBC “Your All-Time Hit Parade” ‘43 JAY SIMS DAN SEYMOUR Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ABC “Guy Lombardo and his ‘50-’62 CBS remote (New York City) ‘43 Musical Autographs ‘46 Treasury Dept “Guest Star Show of the Month” ‘69 Blue “Guy Lombardo and his DICK SINCLAIR Musical Autographs” ‘44-’45 KFI remote (Los Angeles) ‘63 DAVE SHAW Blue “Jerry Wayne Show” ‘45 remote (Norwalk, California) ‘65 CBS “Camel Caravan” ‘37-’39 AFRTS “One Night Stand” (Hollywood) ‘59 CBS “This Is New York” ‘38 GEORGE SKINNER CBS “Young Man with a Band” ‘39 HERB SHELDON WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio) “Saturday Mutual “Guy Lombardo and his Night Date” Musical Autographs” ‘46 NBC “Atlantic Spotlight” ‘44 Mutual “Spotlight Bands” ‘46 Rensie Watch “Flight with Music” ‘46 BURLEIGH SMITH Navy WAVE “Something for the Girls” ‘44 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘49 NBC “Quaker Party” ‘38 BOB SHEPARD Remote (New York City) ‘39 Mutual “Spotlight Bands” ‘46 DICK SMITH NBC (Worcester, Massachusetts) “New Year’s Eve All-Star DEL SHARBUTT ROBERT SHERWOOD Parade of Bands” ‘68 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘48 NBC “Shell Chateau” ‘36

DAN SEYMOUR

DEL SHARBUTT

VERNE SMITH EARL STEVENS MIKE STOKEY AFRS “Jubilee” ‘43-’46 CBS remote (New York City) ‘44 AFRS “One Night Stand” remote CBS “Adventures of Ozzie and (Los Angeles) ‘46 Harriet” ‘45, ‘47-’49, ‘51-’54 NORM STEVENS “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Fun and JOHN STORM Knowledge” ‘47 CBS remote (New York City) ‘64 NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” NBC “Bob Burns Show” ‘43 ‘53 (aka “Lifebuoy Show”) JAMES STEWART NBC “Furlough Fun” ‘42 AFRS “One Night Stand” ‘44 Office of Price Stabilization “Stars DEEMS TAYLOR

for Defense” ‘52 Blue “Radio Hall of Fame” ‘44 JAY STEWART NBC “Music America Loves Best” BILL SPARGO NBC “Duffy’s Tavern” ‘47 ‘46

Red remote (New York City) ‘38 JOHN STEWART DICK TERPLER BOB STAMFORD NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 NBC “Concert Encores” ‘52

Texas Quality “Showtime” ‘47 PAUL STEWART GEORGE THOMAS HAL STARK NBC “Jack Pearl Show” ‘36 CBS “Treasury Bandstand” ‘46 NBC “Raleigh and Kool Cigarette CBS remote (Chicago) ‘50 Program with Tommy PETER THOMAS Dorsey” ‘38 Social Security “Bring Back the

RICHARD STARK Bands” ‘66-’68 Red “Hour of Charm” ‘41 ED STODDARD CBS “Rhythms By Raeburn” ‘45 ROLLIE THOMAS

DAVID STARLING Mutual-Don Lee “Alvino Rey and KFI remote (Santa Monica, ED STOKES his Music” ‘39 California) ’59 Mutual, “Spotlight Bands” ‘46 Mutual-Don Lee “Maxine Gray Entertains” ‘40

Mutual-Don Lee “Maxine Gray in CARLISLE STEVENS Vocal Pictures” ‘39 CBS remote (New York City) ‘33

ALAN THOMPSON NBC “Fame and Fortune” ‘41 JOHN WALD Hoosier WCNB (Connersville, “Little Matchmaker” ‘52 Indiana) ‘50 DAVE VAILE NBC “All-Star Parade of Bands” AFRS “Command Performance” ‘43 ‘53 BUD THOMPSON NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 LYLE VAN FRANK WALDECKER Red remote (New York City) ‘40 Mutual “Treasury Varieties” ‘48 JOHN TILLMAN CBS remote (Sea Girt, New Jersey) WESTBROOK VAN ROBERT WALDROP ‘41 VOORHIS Blue “Magic Key” ‘36

syndicated “Chevrolet Program: NBC “Shell Show” ‘37 LES TREMAYNE Musical Moments” ‘35 (as “Hugh Conrad”) NBC “Bob Crosby Show” ‘44 MIKE WALLACE

CBS remote (New York City) 45 HARRY VON ZELL BUDDY TWISS CBS “Spotlight Revue” ‘47-’48 AFRS “Mail Call” ‘44-’45 Red “Chase and Sanborn CBS “Stagestruck” ‘53 Program” ‘41-’42 AFRS “Command Performance”

Red “Fitch Bandwagon” ‘41 ‘43, ‘47

Blue “Duffy’s Tavern” ‘43

CBS “Phil Baker Show” ‘36 ROGER TUTTLE CBS “Radio’s Biggest Show” ‘46 NBC “New Year’s Eve All-Star Parade of Bands” ‘56 NBC “Birds Eye Open House” ‘46

NBC “Stars in Jazz” ‘53 NBC “It’s Time to Smile” ‘40

NBC “Johnson’s Wax Show” ‘34

NBC “Your All-Time Hit Parade” ‘44 FRED UTTAL Red “It’s Time to Smile” ‘43 CBS “Chesterfield Time” ‘38-’39 Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘55-’56 CBS “The Esso Marketer” ‘36

CBS “Ken Murray Lifebuoy-Rinso Program” ‘36

HARRY VON ZELL

JIMMY WALLINGTON BILL WAYNE ERNIE “BUBBLES” Blue “Over Here” ‘42 CBS remote (Chicago) ‘45 WHITMAN Blue “Radio Hall of Fame” ‘45 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘43-’46 CBS “Camel Comedy Caravan” ‘42 HANK WEAVER CBS “Blueberry Hill” ‘43 CBS “Texaco Star Theatre” ‘44 CBS “Rhythms By Raeburn” ‘46 CBS “Texaco Town” ‘36-’37 RALPH WIDMAN Marine Corps “Bob Crosby Show” Navy “Music On Deck” ‘49 JOE WEEKS

Marine Corps ”Harry James AFRS “One Night Stand” remote Show” 57 (New York City) ‘48 BUD WIDOM NBC “Ben Bernie Show” ‘35 AFRS “Jubilee” ‘45, ‘48-’49 NBC “Big Show” ‘50 BOB WEEMS NBC “Carnation Contented Hour” AFRTS “One Night Stand” remote HARLOW WILCOX ‘48 (Atlantic City, New Jersey) ‘58, ‘60 Brunswick “The Phoenix Hosiery NBC “Cavalcade of Stars” ‘55 Program” ‘31

NBC “George Burns and Gracie CBS “Amos ‘n’ Andy Music Hall” Allen Show” ‘41 ILSE WEINBERGER ‘54 NBC “Martin and Lewis Show” Office of War Information / ABSIE CBS “Nash Kelvinator Musical ‘51-’52 “Wehrmacht Hour” ‘44 Showroom” ‘45-’46 Red “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour” Lavena Cosmetics “Hal Kemp and ‘33-’35 his International Favorites” “Swingin’ N Sweet,” ‘56? NORRIS WEST ‘34 Treasury Dept “Treasury Star CBS “American School of the Air” NBC “Ben Bernie Show” ‘35 ‘45 Parade” ‘43 Red “Fibber McGee and Molly” ‘36-’38 MARK WARNER JACKSON WHEELER Standard Radio Co. “Kay Kyser and his Blue “Spotlight Bands” ‘43-‘45 Mutual remote (Los Angeles) ‘40 Gentlemen From the CBS “Joe Penner Show” ‘37-’38 Carolines” ‘34 BOB WARREN

NBC remote (New York City) ‘49

JIMMY WALLINGTON

HARLOW WILCOX

DICK WILLARD BOB WILSON FRANK WILSON Mutual “Luncheon with Lopez” ‘45 NBC “New Year’s Eve Parade of Red “Freedom’s People” ‘42 Bands” ‘54

GEORGE WILLARD LOUIS A. WITTEN COLEMAN WILSON NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘52 NBC “Ed Wynn Texaco Show” ‘35 WMCA (New York City) “New AFRS “One Night Stand” remote NBC “The Fire Chief Concert” ‘36 ‘44 World A’Coming” ‘44 Taystee Bread “Taystee Breadwinner” ‘33-’34 GORDON WILLARD DON WILSON CBS remote (San Francisco) ‘46 AFRS “Command Performance” BILL WOLFE ‘42, ‘44 CBS remote (Chicago) ‘52 AFRS “Mail Call” ‘43-‘45

BOB WILLIAMS AFRS “New Year’s Dancing Party” CBS “Which is Which?” ‘45 ‘45 JOHN ALLEN WOLFE CBS “Moonlight Serenade” ‘42 CBS “America Dances” ‘40 DANNY WILLIAMS Christmas Seals “1948 Party” ‘48 Navy “Land’s Best Bands” ‘50-’51 NBC “Concert in Miniature” ‘53 CHARLES WOODS Navy, “Your Navy Show” ‘52 Treasury Dept “Guest Star” ‘49 Navy / Naval Reserve “Harry

VINCE WILLIAMS James Show” ‘49 ABC “One Night Stand” remote NBC “Lucky Strike Program JOHN S. YOUNG ‘44-’47 Starring Jack Benny” Red “Paul Whiteman Buick ‘44-’52 Program” ‘33 WILLIAM B. WILLIAMS NBC “Jack Benny Program for Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts WNEW (New York City) remote ‘66 Flakes,” ‘42-’44 DAVE ZALE NBC “Victor Borge Show Starring CBS “Treasury Bandstand” ‘45 GORDON WILLIS Benny Goodman” ‘46-’47 Red “Jell-O Program Starring Jack CBS remote ‘47 Benny” ‘36-’42

CBS “Rhythms By Raeburn” ‘45

DON WILSON

Many of the announcers who worked in radio moved over to television. Those who announced for TV programs which featured big bands included HY AVERBACK (NBC “Comedy Hour” ‘50), ANDRE BARUCH (NBC “Your Hit Parade” ‘51-’57), ART FORD (WNTA Newark, New Jersey “Art Ford Jazz Party” ‘58), DAVE GARROWAY (NBC “Texaco Star Theatre: Swing Into Spring ‘58), EDWARD R. MURROW (CBS “Person to Person” ‘57), WENDELL NILES (NBC “Colgate Comedy Hour” ‘55), DON PARDO (NBC “Colgate Comedy Hour” ‘51, ‘53 and NBC “Saturday Night Live” ‘76), BERT PARKS (NBC “Bandstand” ‘56), DEL SHARBUTT (CBS “Your Hit Parade” ‘59), and WILLIAM B. WILLIAMS (PBS “Kennedy Center Tonight” ‘82). Several other TV announcers deserve credit for their longevity or focus on or inclusion of a band(s), such as JACKSON BECK (CBS “A Drum Is a Woman” ‘57), RALPH GLEASON (National Educational Television / KQED “Jazz Casual” ‘61, ‘63-’64, ‘68), LOUIS NYE (CBS “Those Happy Days” ‘70), ED McMAHON (NBC “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” ‘62-’92), JOHNNY OLSEN (CBS “Glenn Miller Time” ‘61), and BOB WARREN (ABC “Lawrence Welk Show” ‘55-’71 and syndicated “Lawrence Welk Show” ‘72-’82). And lastly, the house announcers who worked on TV variety shows and specials, and even comedy shows that employed big bands. Those voices include FRANK BARTON (NBC “Bob Hope Comedy Special” ‘64-’65 and NBC “Bob Hope Special” ‘69-’70, ‘73), ART HANNES (NBC “Colgate Comedy Hour ‘55), CHARLES MARTIN (NBC “Colgate Comedy Hour” ‘50), HAL SAWYER (NBC “Colgate Comedy Hour” ‘53-’54), JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE (CBS “Revlon Revue” ‘60), and DICK TUFELD (ABC “Hollywood Palace” ‘64, ‘69).

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