July 7th, 1956- September 1st, 1956 (CBS) 

Saturday night half-hour musical variety series hosted by bandleader Russ Morgan and featured singer Helen O'Connell.

Guest: Guy Mitchell. 

                 October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Edwin Lester- Los Angeles-San Francisco Light Opera Association operetta about a case of mistaken identity concerning Rosalinda, her husband, their maid and a tenor, all involved in a romantic quadrangle.             

July 7th, 1956- September 1st, 1956 (CBS) 

Saturday night half-hour musical variety series hosted by bandleader Russ Morgan and featured singer Helen O'Connell.

A medley of Johnny Mercer songs sung by Johnny Mercer. 

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

August 7th, 1956- October 29th, 1956 (NBC)

Fifteen-minute musical series, preceding the network news. First seen on Tuesdays, later on Mondays. Officially titled "The Golden Touch Of Frankie Carle." 

Guest: Singer Joanne Gilbert

Series premiere.     

Note: Joanne Gilbert is the daughter of Ray Gilbert, the composer whom with lyricist Allie Wrubel won the Academy Award for best original song, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." Joanne sings the song from the 1946 Walt Disney film, "Song Of The South."          

August 7th, 1956- October 29th, 1956 (NBC)

Fifteen-minute musical series, preceding the network news. First seen on Tuesdays, later on Mondays. Officially titled "The Golden Touch Of Frankie Carle." 

Guest: Singer Matt Daniels.



                             

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

Some commercials included.           

               October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Patrick Malloy's short story about a small traveling circus stranded in a Kansas town in 1905, experiencing a drought.             

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

American Musical Comedy. 

The history of American Musical Comedy over the last 100 years.

Note: Final fifteen minutes of the broadcast. 

Guest: Leonard Bernstein.

Host: Alistair Cooke.     

Excerpt.               

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

  Jimmy Shearer sings old songs.                        

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

April 29th, 1953-February 22nd, 1957 (NBC).

Coke Time was a fifteen-minute musical series seen on Wednesday and Friday evenings, before NBC news and hosted by singer Eddie Fisher. Singer Jaye P. Morgan would make frequent appearances on the show. It was sponsored by Coca-Cola.  

In this episode, Eddie Fisher sings "Love Me Tender."                                       

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

            October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957
Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." This special color broadcast opens with the words, "The following program is brought to you in compatible color." For the first few years, NBC introduced all broadcasts presented in color with this introduction, prior to replacing the word "compatible" with the word "living" in 1957.
 
Classic fairy tale about a farm boy who trades the family cow for magic beans and climbs the beanstalk that grows from the beans, confronting an ogre. There are ten different songs presented in this live musical fantasy.                          

1953-1955 Syndicated.

A half-hour musical series starring pianist Liberace and his brother George. 

The show's opening is heard.                                                 

Presented on "SATURDAY COLOR CARNIVAL" Nanette Fabray recreates her starring role in the 1947 musical about a charming con-man and his attempt to convince a young couple that they will profit from the sale of their family property. 

This television Special opens with announcer, Don Pardo, exclaiming:

"Ladies and gentlemen. The following program is being brought to you live, from New York, in COMPATIBLE COLOR, pioneered and developed by RCA."   

Two songs, "I Still Get Jealous" and "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?" have served to keep in mind "High Button Shoes," the 1947 Broadway show they come from. The style of shoe suggests the period - 1913. the place is New Brunswick, New Jersey, home of Rutgers University. And the central figure of the plot is one Harrison Floy, a charming con man who has returned to New Brunswick, his home town, where live some of the few people left who don't know him for what he is.

As Sara, Nanette Fabray re-creates her 1947 role; Joey Faye is also back as Pondue, Floy's partner in crime. 

Book by Stephen Longstreet. 
Music and Lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

HIGHLIGHTS:

"I Still Get Jealous" ---------------------------Nanette Fabray

"Lulu Fadoo"--------------------------Nanette Fabray, Hal March

"The Birdwatcher's Song"----------------Nanette Fabray & Chorus

"Get Away for a Day"---------------------------------Don Ameche

"Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?"--------Nanette Fabray & Chorus
"Can't You Just See Yourself?"--------------------------------- 
                          Hal March, Nanette Fabray, Don Ameche

"On a Sunday by the Sea" -- Hal March, Nanette Fabray & Dancers

"Cops and Robbers Ballet"-----Dancers with Hal March, Joey Faye

"Your My Girl"---------------------------------------Don Ameche

"Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers"------Hal March & Chorus

NOTE: This "Saturday Spectacular" presentation was broadcast only six days prior to the usage/ application, for the FIRST time, of 2" QUAD video tape which would be used to reproduce a Live quality replay time delayed television program ("Douglas Edwards with the CBS Evening News" - November 30, 1956). 

Such reproduction usage would soon change the way television would be broadcast in the future. By 1960 such usage of Video Tape greatly relegated most of television' prime time broadcasting from LIVE to VIDEO TAPE.
                     

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

July 13th, 1956-September 24th, 1957

Polka Music broadcast live from Chicago, performed by Polish-Americans. It was hosted by Bruno "Junior" Zielinski and featured the Stan Wolowic band.                                                                             

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

      

Featuring Sam Donehue.              

Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader. For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia for the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented. Jack Lescoulie brings in the New Year at Times Square.   

The best-known New Year's Eve shows on radio and then television was hosted by bandleader Guy Lombardo, who hosted 21 consecutive New Year's Eve shows from 1956 to 1976 on CBS, and for a time in syndication. Lombardo's first radio broadcast on New Year's Eve was heard on December 31, 1928 over CBS Radio, and for a time he even split hosting duties by broadcasting on CBS Radio before 12 Midnight EST and on NBC Radio after Midnight. Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed "Auld Lang Syne" by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck 12 Midnight, ushering in the start of a New Year. 

Once the Lombardo orchestra began their annual television shows, there would be a live segment from Times Square, which was (and still is) the focal point of the nation's largest New Year's celebration. In the early years of Lombardo's television specials, Robert Trout reported on and counted down to Midnight in New York's Times Square; but for most of Lombardo's years on television, another legendary newsman, Ben Grauer, had the honor. (Grauer, by the way, also reported from Times Square for NBC Radio on celebrations following the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945.

The first New Year's Eve special on television was broadcast on December 31, 1941 on WNBT New York, and consisted of entertainment broadcast from the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA Building in New York's Rockefeller Center.[3]

Due to World War II, there would be no more New Year's Eve specials on television until December 31, 1945. WNBT produced a remote broadcast of festivities in Times Square. While NBC had begun to feed programs to WRGB is the Albany area and WPTZ in Philadelphia, information is unavailable as to whether either or both of these stations broadcast the program, or if it was seen just locally in New York.[4]

Unless New Year's Eve fell on a weekend, NBC would carry a special New Year's version of "The Tonight Show" each year beginning in 1954, including coverage of the arrival of the New Year in Times Square.

Dick Clark himself had actually emceed one New Year's Eve TV special prior to 1972; on December 31, 1959, he emceed a 90-minute New Year's special on ABC. One of the guests was Frankie Avalon. But it would be the last time Clark would do a New Year's Eve television special for the next thirteen years.

By the 1970s, Lombardo's big band music skewed to an older generation, so Dick Clark started his telecast in 1972 to compete.  

New Year's Eve celebration, ushering in 1957 with bandleader Guy Lombardo. Robert Trout reports from Times Square.                                

September 5, 1949-June 7, 1954 (NBC); June 14, 1954-June 16, 1963 (ABC). This was the final broadcast of the season. "Voice of Firestone," which began on radio in 1928, was a Monday-night perennial for more than two decades before coming to television in 1949; for the next five years it was simulcast on NBC radio and television, until a dispute between the sponsor and the network over the Monday time slot led Firestone to shift the program to ABC. The half-hour musical series presented all kinds of music, but emphasized classical and semiclassical selections. Each week a guest celebrity was featured, and for many years the principal guests came from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Firestone Orchestra was conducted by Howard Barlow, and the show was hosted by John Daly during its years on ABC; Hugh James was the announcer. "Voice of Firestone" was seen as a series of specials from 1959 until 1962; it returned as a weekly series in the fall of 1962 for a final season (September 30, 1962-June 16, 1963).   

Salute To Richard Rodgers.           

October 2, 1950-June 24, 1954 (CBS). August 26, 1954-September 12, 1957 (NBC). A dramatic anthology series in a half-hour format on CBS and in a one-hour format on NBC.

During the NBC TV 1954 season, the program was hosted initially by James Mason, and  succeeded by Otto Kruger, and Gordon MacRae.

Presented on "LUX VIDEO THEATRE." The Victor Herbert-Henry Blossom comic opera about an Irish rebel who falls in love with a beautiful English girl.             

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

In this episode, Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, and Gisele McKenzie sing the popular songs of the week,                                                                              

Julie Andrews portrays Cinderella in this classic tale of her passion to attend the Prince's ball. She is aided by her Godmother, who creates the coach, coachmen and gown for her, and off she goes to meet the Prince. Rodgers and Hammerstein's first original musical for television. 90 minute version of the old fairy tale of Cinderella, without altering the basic story. It's still about a poor girl, mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, whose fairy godmother enables her to meet Prince Charming at a ball. The Prince falls in love with her and eventually seeks her out, through the aid of the glass slipper, and makes her his bride.
In writing the book for the show, Oscar Hammerstein 2d has made the stepmother and stepsisters not very bright, rather than cruel,and has turned the fairy godmother into a down-to-earth lady, also adding two lovable characters in the form of the King and Queen.
Julie Andrews, star of "My Fair, Lady," heads an all-star cast with Jon Cypher, newcomer to starring roles, as Prince Charming. Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated Richard Rodgers music; conducted by Alfredo Antonini. 

Complete broadcast with open and close. Sound recorded direct line. Excellent.     

Highlights: 

"Where is Cinderella?"- Orchestra 
"In My Own Little Corner"- Julie Andrews 
"The Prince Is Giving a Ball"- Howard Lindsay, Dorothy Stickney 
"Today's The Day Of The Ball"- Singers
"Impossible"- Julie Andrews, Edith Adams 
"Gavotte"- Dancers
"Ten Minutes Ago"- Jon Cypher, Julie Andrews 
"Stepsisters Lament"- Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley 
"Waltz For a Ball"- Dancers
"Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?"- Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher 
"Lovely Night"- Julie Andrews, lika Chase, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley.

Cast:
Cinderella- Julie Andrews 
Prince Charming- Jon Cypher 
Fairy Godmother- Edith Adams 
King- Howard Lindsay
Queen- Dorothy Stickney 
Stepmother- Iika Chase
Stepsister Portia- Kaye Ballard 
Stepsister Joy- Alice Ghostley 





Duplicate of 5969.                                                

Julie Andrews portrays Cinderella in this classic tale of her passion to attend the Prince's ball. She is aided by her Godmother, who creates the coach, coachmen and gown for her, and off she goes to meet the Prince. 

Complete broadcast with open and close. Sound recorded direct line. Excellent.     


Duplicate of 5969.                                                

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

Leonard Berstein analyzes Bach's music and techniques with excerpt from "The St. Matthew Passion" and other choral works.

Guest: Leonard Bernstein.

Host: Alistair Cooke.     

Excerpt: Open.                  

Julie Andrews portrays Cinderella in this classic tale of her passion to attend the Prince's ball. She is aided by her Godmother, who creates the coach, coachmen and gown for her, and off she goes to meet the Prince. 

Complete broadcast with open and close. Sound recorded direct line. Excellent.                                        

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

Dorothy Collins sings the top tune of the week, "Round and Round."                                                                                       

July 20th, 1950-September 7th, 1950 (ABC)
October 15th, 1950-March 11th, 1951 (Dumont Network)
April 2nd, 1951-June 25th, 1951 (ABC)
September 19th-May 11th, 1952 (ABC)
July 11th 1952-August 29th, 1952 (CBS)
October 12th, 1952-April 26th, 1953 (Dumont Network)
June 28th, 1953-October 4th, 1953 (CBS)
October 12th, 1953-April 12th, 1954 (NBC)
June 15th, 1954-September 14th, 1954 (NBC)
June 28th, 1955-September 13th, 1955 (NBC)
April 5th, 1956-September 27th, 1956 (CBS)
April 9th, 1957-September 16th, 1957 (NBC)
September 29th, 1958-September 6th, 1960 (NBC)

The Arthur Murray Party was one of a handful of shows broadcast on all four major commercial television networks during the 1950s. Ballroom dancing was the theme of the show each week. Mostly a summer replacement series, it featured guests who performed comedy sketches and songs. Each show featured ballroom dancing contests. Arthur Murray's wife, Kathryn Murray was the show's host.   

In this episode, the guests are Rock and Roll DJ Alan Freed and singer Guy Mitchell who sings "Rock-A-Billy-Rock."                                                         

Alan Freed's guests are Edith Adams, Andy Williams, and Lillian Briggs. 

This SPECIAL ABC TV broadcast is the second of his two half-hour Rock'N' Roll Reviews. The first SPECIAL was broadcast one week earlier on ABC TV (May 4, 1957). 
Freed conducts the orchestra.

All Excerpts of songs performed:
-Jimmy Bowen and the Rhythm Orchids: "I'm Stickin' With You." 
-Lillian Briggs: "I Want You To Be My Baby."
-Edith Adams: "He Don't Want To Be Kissed."
-Charlie Gracie: "Fabulous."
-Edith Adams sings a medley of the best  of Rock 'N' Roll with the Alan Freed Orchestra, including, 
"I'm Hoping That You Come Back To Me,"
"I'm All Shook Up,"
"Party Doll."

NOTE: This television audio air check from ATA was donated to The Library of Congress, who requested having a copy, on December 29, 2009. 

Host: Alan Freed                                                                                          

               October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Mickey Rooney plays song and dance man, George M. Cohan one of the great figures of Broadway. He was for years successful in every aspect of the theater - actor, producer, manager, playwright, song writer, and song and dance man. The focus of this musical biography reflects Cohan's last decade or two of his life when he lost his touch as a creator of popular musicals.

The play emphasizes Cohan's days as a vaudevillian with the Four Cohans (George, his father, mother and sister Josie) and the musical comedies he wrote and starred in. 

Garry Moore narrates.

Songs include:
 "Give My Regards To Broadway," "Harrigan," "Shoes That Hurt," "The Lively Bootblack," "They're All My Friends," "I'm Going to Telegraph My Baby," "I'm Awfully Strong for You," "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" "Grand Old Flag," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Mary Is a Grand Old Name," "So Long Mary," "The ABC Song," "Life Is Like a Musical Comedy," "Over There," "An Old Guy Like Me," "You Remind Me of My Mother," "Indians and Trees," and finale by entire cast: "Give My Regards To Broadway."

Directed by Sidney Lumet who recently directed his first motion picture, " Twelve Angry Men."

Considered a "LOST" broadcast by The Paley Center For Media.


                                       

October 21st, 1956-June 13th, 1957 (NBC)

Hour-long musical comedy series scheduled approximately every other week. Series star Ray Bolger played himself and Elaine Stritch co-starred as the operator of the Greenwich Village Inn. 
Originally seen on Sunday afternoons,it later shifted to various time slots during the week.   


This episode is "The Old Soft Shoe."                                          

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.   

Musical excerpts only from four different shows. Dates are September 2nd, 7th, 21st, and October 5th, 1957. 
      

September 29th,1957-March 21st, 1961 (CBS)

An irregularly scheduled collection of culturally outstanding dramas usually presented monthly. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLES FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 


Presented on "DUPONT SHOW OF THE MONTH." Rex Harrison portrays a visiting Englishman who takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles. First show of the series.

Highlights: 

Play It Cool- dancers
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" Cha-Cha, Carol Channing
"Go West Young Man," Eddy Arnold
"Shine On Harvest Moon," Baby bumblebee
"Silvery Moon," Singers and dancers
"Streets Of Laredo," Singers and dancers
"Basin Street Blues," "Trouble I've Seen," Louis Armstrong 
"Blues In The Night," Peggy Lee
"Sit Down, You're Rockin The Boat," Stubby Kaye
"Didn't It Rain," Mahalia Jackson 
"Bill Bailey," Lizzie Miles, Turk Murphy
"The Birth Of The Blues," Dinah Washington 
Blues Sequence, Benny Goodman, Diahann Carroll
Jazz Sequence- Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong. 

                                             

September 29th,1957-March 21st, 1961 (CBS)

An irregularly scheduled collection of culturally outstanding dramas usually presented monthly. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLES FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 


Presented on "DUPONT SHOW OF THE MONTH." "My Fair Lady" star Rex Harrison portrays a visiting Englishman who takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles. First show of the series.

Note: First in a series of special ninety-minute shows to be seen monthly at various times. Tonight's show produced by Paul Gregory. 

Highlights: 

Play It Cool- dancers
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" Cha-Cha, Carol Channing
"Go West Young Man," Eddy Arnold
"Shine On Harvest Moon," Baby bumblebee 
"Silvery Moon," Singers and dancers
"Streets Of Laredo," Singers and dancers
"Basin Street Blues," "Trouble I've Seen," Louis Armstrong 
"Blues In The Night," Peggy Lee
"Sit Down, You're Rockin The Boat," Stubby Kaye
"Didn't It Rain," Mahalia Jackson 
"Bill Bailey," Lizzie Miles, Turk Murphy
"The Birth Of The Blues," Dinah Washington 
Blues Sequence, Benny Goodman, Diahann Carroll
Jazz Sequence- Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong. 

Duplicate of 10496. 

                                             

September 18th, 1957-June 11th, 1958 (CBS)

Musical variety series with popular recording artists singing their hits and hosted by Patti Page. Originally a one-hour show, it was cut back to a half-hour beginning March 26th, 1958.
Vic Schoen Orchestra. 

On this episode, actress Rhonda Fleming makes her singing debut.              

          October 27, 1953 - June 21, 1955 (ABC TV)
             July 6, 1955 - June 12, 1963 (CBS TV)

The first two years on ABC The U.S. STEEL HOUR presented mostly one hour dramatic plays. With their move to CBS there was more diversity in the subject matter. 

For this broadcast "The U.S. Steel Hour" departed from its usual dramatic format presenting a musical version of "The Importance of Being Earnest," Oscar Wlde's farce about mixed identities, snobbery and the fancy of a young girl for a dashing man she's never met and who doesn't really exist. 

Dorothy Collins and Edward Mulhare star in this adaptation.

Songs, include, "Mr. Bunbury," "Perfection," "My Eternal Devotion," "My Eternal Devotion," "A Wicked Man," "Metaphorically Speaking," "Lost, and "My Very First Impression"

NOTE: The one television musical Dorothy Collins appeared in her career. In ten years this showcase anthology series presented over 200 live plays, the likes we will never see again on contemporary television. 
UCLA FILM & TV ARCHIVE has over 80 U.S. STEEL productions in their collection, but not "WHO'S EARNEST" which also is not archived by The Paley Center for Media or The Library of Congress. 

                                                             

September 18th, 1957-June 11th, 1958 (CBS)

Musical variety series with popular recording artists singing their hits and hosted by Patti Page. Originally a one-hour show, it was cut back to a half-hour beginning March 26th, 1958.
Vic Schoen Orchestra. 

On this episode, actress Rhonda Fleming makes her singing debut with "Don't Take Your Love From Me." 
                           

Wall-To-Wall music is the order of the day as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra host this CBS-TV musical special. Also appearing are Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Bing's son Lindsay Crosby, The Four Preps, clarinetist Edmond Hall, Trombonist James Young, pianist Billy Kyle, Bob Hope, bass player Squire Gersh, drummer Barrett Deems, The Norman Luboff Choir, The dance team of Conn and Mann, and Warren Hull, spokesperson for Edsel.    

This special was to be the first CBS rebroadcast on video tape.