Glenn Miller Archives JUBILEE PART 2 Programs 101-200 AFRS/SSD Series H-11 BLUE Third Edition GREEN Second Edition Prepared by Dennis M. Spragg Updated December 23, 2020 101 AFRS program announcer: Melvin (Mel) Allen Mistress of Ceremonies: Ida James Studios: NBC Radio City (Rockefeller Center) New York Pre-recording dates: October 1944 Date of dubbing: October 16, 1944 Label information: Notes: (1) Mel Allen announces this program to be “another Broadway edition of Jubilee.” Side 1, wax info: ND4-MM-6963-1B Time 15:10 01 Drum Roll & theme: Mop - band vocal 02 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc) 02 Let‘s Have A Session 03 Perdido 04 I‘m Gonna See My Baby - v IJ 05 Dorothy‘s Boogie Side 2, wax info: ND4-MM-6964-1B Time 29:25 Fill to 30:00 06 One Meat Ball 04 Knock Me A Kiss - v IJ 02 Let‘s Hop - band vocal 01 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc) 01 AFRS Studio Orchestra No details 02 Claude Hopkins and his Orchestra Probably Nathanael Courtney Williams, Kenneth Roane, trumpets; Jimmy Archey, Floyd “Stumpy” Brady, trombones; Rudy Powell, alto sax; Joe Garland, Elbert “Skippy” Williams, tenor saxes; Ernest “Pinky” Williams, baritone & alto saxes; Claude Hopkins, piano; Eddie Gibbs, guitar; John Benjamin Peabody Brown, string bass; Wilbert Kirk, drums; band vocal. NOTE: Ida James states that the Hopkins Orchestra is at the “Zanzibar” at present. Rudy Powell can be aurally identified as alto sax soloist on “Let´s Hop”. Discographers have always listed Nathanael Williams and Courtney Williams separately, but it is one and the same person, according to Jean-Pierre Battestini, who interviewed him in the late 1980s. - 03 Stuff Smith Trio Stuff Smith, violin; Jimmy Jones, piano; John O. Levy, string bass. - 04 Ida James Ida James, vocal acc. by Phil Moore and his Orchestra: Johnny Letman, trumpet; clarinet; alto sax; Phil Moore, piano; Remo Palmieri, guitar; Doles Dickens, string bass; Wallace Henry “Bish” Bishop, drums. NOTE: Palmieri was with Moore at the “Cafe Society” from November 1944 to February 1945. Letman and Bishop joined Moore about November 1944. - 05 Dorothy Donegan Dorothy Donegan, piano soloist. - 06 Josh White Josh White, vocal & guitar, acc. by John Jacob Simmons, string bass. NOTE. It is announced that Josh White is presently appearing at the “Cafe Society”. 2 102 AFRS program announcer: Melvin (Mel) Allen Master of Ceremonies: Ralph Cooper Studios: NBC Radio City (Rockefeller Center) New York Pre-recording dates: October 1944 Date of dubbing: October 16, 1944 Label information: Notes: Side 1, wax info: ND4-MM-6965-1 Time 16:10 01 Drum roll & theme: Mop - band vocal 02 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump 02 Jumping In A Gin Mill 03 Stop, Look - v SS 04 Comedy Skit 05 Yacht Club Swing Side 2, wax info: ND4-MM-6966-1 Time 29:30 Fill to 30:00 05 Tea For Two 06 Comedy skit 02 Boogie Beat (Above All) 02 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump - 01 AFRS Studio Orchestra No details - 02 Claude Hopkins and his Orchestra Probably Nathanael Courtney Williams, Kenneth Roane, trumpets; Jimmy Archey, Floyd “Stumpy” Brady, trombones; Rudy Powell, alto sax; Joe Garland, Elbert “Skippy” Williams, tenor saxes; Ernest “Pinky” Williams, baritone & alto saxes; Claude Hopkins, piano; Eddie Gibbs, guitar; John Benjamin Peabody Brown, string bass; Wilbert Kirk, drums. NOTE: Ralph Cooper mentions that the Hopkins Orchestra has been on Jubilee shows for “the last three weeks”. “Boogie Beat” might not be the correct title for the final instrumental although it is announced thus. - 03 Stuff Smith Trio Stuff Smith, violin & vocal; Jimmy Jones, piano; John O. Levy, string bass. NOTE: “Stop, Look” is not the same tune as “Stomp, Look And Listen”. - 04 Ralph Cooper & “Pigmeat” Alamo Markham Comedy skit. Both Cooper and Markham are from the “Elk‘s Rendezvous” show. “Pigmeat” uses Cooper as straight man. - 05 Dorothy Donegan Dorothy Donegan, piano soloist. A big band, probably Hopkins´ comes in for the final flourish only. NOTE: Ralph Cooper relates: “We went over the to “Zanzibar” last night, and the piano playing of Dorothy Donegan had the customers hanging by their thumbs, swinging from their collarbones, and jiving from their eyebrows...”. - 06 Dan Burley, Ralph Cooper & “Colonel Stoopnagel” (“Henry Wadsworth Fatpole”) Comedy skit. NOTE: Pianist and journalist Dan Burley is the author of the “Original Handbook Of Harlem Jive”, first published in 1944. ”Colonel Stoopnagle” was a comedian of early radio who worked with a partner as “Stoopnagel and Budd”. 3 103 AFRS program announcer: Jim Lyons Master of Ceremonies: Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman Studios: NBC Hollywood Pre-recording dates: October 1944 Date of dubbing: October 9, 1944 Label information: Rubberstamp side one: 29:10 Notes: Side 1, wax info: HD4-MM-8286-1 Time 16:20 01 Drum roll & theme: Mop - band vocal 02 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump 02 In The Bag - vib LH, arr CH 03 Them There Eyes - v LM3 02 Hamp‘s Boogie Woogie - band vocal, p LH 02 Is You Is Or Is You Ain‘t My Baby ? - v DW Side 2, wax info: HD4-MM-8287-1 Time 29:10 fill to 30:00 04 Comedy skit 02 K-Ration Hop (“C” Jam Blues) - band vocal, vib LH 02 Flying Home - drums LH 05 Comedy skit 02 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc) - 01 AFRS Studio Orchestra No details - 02 Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra Probably Eugene “Snooky” Young, Joe Morris, Lamar Wright, Dave Page, Wendell Culley, trumpets; Jake Porter, Fred Beckett, Andrew Penn, Lester “Sonny” Craven, Allen Durham, trombones; Gus Evans, George Dorsey, alto saxes & clarinets; Arnett Cobb, Fred Simon, tenor saxes; Milton Buckner, piano; Lionel Hampton, vibraphone, piano, drums; Billy Mackel, guitar; Ted Sinclair or Charlie Harris, string bass; Fred Radcliffe, drums; Clyde Hart, arranger; Dinah Washington, vocal; band vocal. NOTE: On “Hamp‘s Boogie Woogie” Lionel Hampton plays two-finger piano, “assisted by Milton Buckner, who takes the low notes, Lionel Pops Hampton takes the high notes on his own composition, The Hamp‘s Boogie”. (Whitman) - 03 Loumell Morgan Trio Probably Loumell Morgan, piano & vocal; Ham Jackson, guitar & vocal; Jimmy Smith, string bass & vocal. - 04 Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Lionel Hampton & Ernest Whitman Comedy skit. - 05 Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Comedy skit. 4 104 AFRS program announcer: Jim Lyons Master of Ceremonies: Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman Studios: NBC Hollywood Pre-recording dates: October 1944 Date of dubbing: October 16, 1944 Label information: Notes: (1) The same program was used again as Jubilee No. 158, q.v. Side 1, wax info: HD4-MM-8328-1 Time 15:00 01 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc) 01 Nola - vib LH 01 It Could Happen To You - v RB 02 Tea For Two 03 Moonglow Side 2, wax info: HD4-MM-8329-1 Time 29:25 Fill to 30:00 04 Back Home Again In Indiana -v TC 05 Million Dollar Smile - v DW 01 Oh, Lady Be Good - d LH 06 Flat Foot Floogie (few bars only) - v TC 01 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc) - 01 Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra Probably Eugene “Snooky” Young, Joe Morris, Lamar Wright, Dave Page, Wendell Culley, trumpets; Jake Porter, Fred Beckett, Andrew Penn, Lester “Sonny” Craven, Allen Durham, trombones; Gus Evans, George Dorsey, alto saxes & clarinets; Arnett Cobb, Fred Simon, tenor saxes; Milton Buckner, piano; Lionel Hampton, vibraphone, piano, drums; Billy Mackel, guitar; Ted Sinclair or Charlie Harris, string bass; Fred Radcliffe, drums; Clyde Hart, arranger; Rubel Blakeley, vocal. - 02 Les Paul Les Paul, guitar soloist, acc. by Billy Mackel, guitar; Charlie Harris, string bass; Fred Radcliffe, drums. NOTE: Ernest Whitman: “And now the terrific combination of Les Paul‘s guitar backed up by Charlie Harris on the bass. Together for the first time, here we are now, another Jubilee premiere”. - 03 Lionel Hampton Lionel Hampton, vibraphone soloist, acc. by Milton Buckner, piano; Billy Mackel, guitar; Charlie Harris or Ted Sinclair, string bass; Fred Radcliffe, drums. The full Hampton Orchestra comes in for the final flourish only. - 04 The Town Criers Probably Lucy-Ann Polk, Alva Polk, Vernon Polk, Gordy Polk, mixed vocal quartet, acc. By the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. - 05 Dinah Washington Dinah Washington, vocal, acc. by the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. -06 Town Criers Probably Lucy-Ann Polk, Alva Polk, Vernon Polk, Gordy Polk, mixed vocal quartet singing a cappella. NOTE: This group consisted of two brothers and two sisters, aged 17, 18, 19 and 21. 5 105 AFRS program announcer: Jim Lyons Master of Ceremonies: Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman Studios: NBC Hollywood Pre-recording dates: October 1944 Date of dubbing: October 24, 1944 Label information: Rubberstamp side one: 29:25 Notes: (1) According to the AFRS ledgers, this program features Earl Hines, Betty Roché, Loumell Morgan, Garry Moore, Ernest Whitman, Ben Carter, Deacon McDaniels, Jim Lyons. Side 1, wax info: HD4-MM-8413-1 Time: 13:40 01 Introduction & theme: One O´Clock Jump 01 I Know That You Know 02 Mop Mop 01 Go Away Blues - v BR 01 Scoops Carry´s Merry Side 2, wax info: HD4-MM-8414-1 Program time: 29:25 - Fill to 30 (sic !) 02 Is You Is Or Is You Ain´t My Baby 03 Moonlight And Roses 01 The Father´s Idea 01 Signoff & theme: One O´Clock Jump (nc) - 01 Earl Hines and his Orchestra Probably Palmer Davis, Billy Douglas, Arthur Walker, Willie Cook, trumpets; Druie Bess, Walter Harris, Gus Chappel, trombones; René Hall, trombone & guitar; George “Scoops” Carry, clarinet & alto sax; Lloyd Smith, alto sax; Kermit Scott, Wardell Gray, tenor saxes; John Williams, baritone sax; Earl Hines, piano; Gene Thomas, string bass; David “Chick” Booth, drums; Betty Roché, vocal.