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#10403: "AMERICA'S GREATEST BANDS"
Order1955-07-30, CBS, 10 min.
June 25th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 Paul Whiteman hosted this summer series. He presents different big name bands each week. This series is a summer replacement show for The Jackie Gleason Show. Presented are four different big bands each week. On this episode, Jazz drummer Louis Bellson and his band are featured.
#10405: "AMERICA'S GREATEST BANDS"
Order1955-08-06, CBS, min.
June 25th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 Paul Whiteman hosted this summer series. He presents different big name bands each week. This series is a summer replacement show for The Jackie Gleason Show. Presented are four different big bands each week. Guests: Buddy Morrow, Mitch Miller
#10404: "AMERICA'S GREATEST BANDS"
Order1955-08-13, CBS, 10 min.
June 25th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 Paul Whiteman hosted this summer series. He presents different big name bands each week. This series is a summer replacement show for The Jackie Gleason Show. Presented are four different big bands each week. Guests: Ray Anthony and his band.
#10401: "MUSIC '55"
Order1955-08-16, CBS, 28 min.
July 12th, 1955-September 13th, 1955 (CBS) Live, half-hour musical/variety series, featuring the sounds of Stan Kenton and his band. Guests: Calvin Jackson, Cab Calloway, Peggy King.
#10353: "AND HERE'S THE SHOW"
Order1955-08-20, NBC, min.
July 9th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 (NBC) Half-hour summer replacement series for the George Gobel Show. This program served as a showcase for new talent. Hosted by Ransom Sherman, and featuring young comedian, Jonathan Winters, and the Double Daters. Also featured Stephanie Antie, Kay O'Grady, Tommy Knox, and Ted Canterbury. Highlights: Ransom Sherman in a "Build Own Barbeque" routine Jonathan Winters in a "Service Station Attendent" skit Ransom Sherman and Jonathan Winters in a sportscaster interviewer routine, "Baseball Pitcher."
#10406: "AMERICA'S GREATEST BANDS"
Order1955-08-20, CBS, 25 min.
June 25th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 Paul Whiteman hosted this summer series. He presents different big name bands each week. This series is a summer replacement show for The Jackie Gleason Show. Presented are four different big bands each week. Guest: Drummer Gene Krupa.
#10394B: RALPH FLANAGAN RADIO SHOW, THE
Order1955-08-20, Mutual, min.
Ralph Flanagan was a big band leader and musical composer. He composed and arranged for such big band leaders as Sammy Kaye, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.His instrument of expertise was the piano. His 1950s radio show was heard on the Mutual Radio network. Dixieland music. Guests: La Playa Sextet.
#10402: "MUSIC '55"
Order1955-08-23, CBS, 28 min.
July 12th, 1955-September 13th, 1955 (CBS) Live, half-hour musical/variety series, featuring the sounds of Stan Kenton and his band. Guests: Rock 'N' Roll performer Lillian Briggs, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Burl Ives, vocalist Geri Southern.
1955-08-26, WRCA, 87 min.
- Steve Allen
- Andy Williams
- Debbie Reynolds
- Milton Berle
- Steve Lawrence
- Skitch Henderson
- Gene Rayburn
- Erroll Garner
- Micki Marlo
- Pete Ruggilo
- Hy Averback
September 27, 1954 - January 25, 1957. This broadcast was the last from Hollywood which was the home of Tonight! Starring Steve Allen from June 27 to August 26, 1955. It was also the last time Hy Averback appeared as announcer. The basic format of The Tonight Show was established during Allen's tenure: an opening monologue, a segment involving the studio audience (through interviews or games such as "Stump the Band"), and a simple set (a desk and chair for the host, a couch for the guests) were all trademarks of the Allen era. Allen inaugurated the out-of-town broadcast (the first one was done from Miami), the one guest show (Carl Sandburg was the first solo guest), and the one topic show (entire programs were devoted to such subjects as narcotics, civil rights, and black music). Allen also established the practice of paying his guests only "scale," the minimum fee required by union-network contract (this practice led to a highly publicized feud between Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan and later between Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan, as Sullivan paid top dollar for his guests). Though Allen's Tonight! show closely resembled the shows of his successors, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, it was a more musical show; Allen himself was an accomplished musician and composer (he wrote his theme, "This Could Be The Start of Something"), and he employed a nucleus of musical regulars on his show. In addition to announcer – sidekick Gene Rayburn, the show featured singers Steve Lawrence (who was only seventeen when he began singing on Allen's local show), Eydie Gormé (who subsequently married Steve Lawrence), Andy Williams (who later hosted several series of his own), and Pat Marshall (who was succeeded by Pat Kirby). Skitch Henderson led the Orchestra.
#5924: ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
Order1955-08-27, WNBC, 80 min.
- Janet Blair
- Mort Marshall
- Russell Nype
- George Gaynes
- Laurel Shelby
- Iggie Wolfington
- Adina Rice
- Mildred Traces
Television Adaptation of the 1943 Kurt Weill, musical fantasy about the romantic life of a barber and the statue of Venus that pursues him. No television close is recorded.#10351: TWO FOR THE MONEY
Order1955-09-10, CBS, min.
September 30th, 1952- August 11th, 1953, (NBC) August 15th, 1953-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS), March 23rd, 1957- September 7th, 1957, (CBS). This prime-time general knowledge quiz show was a Goodson-Todman production. Comedian Herb Shriner was emcee and hosted the show for most of its run. The show was later hosted by Dennis James and Sam Levenson. Herb Shriner monologue.
#10352: "MISS AMERICA 1956"
Order1955-09-10, CBS, min.
Miss America for 1956 is crowned. Sharon Richie, Miss Colorado, wins the top prize. Co-hosts are Bert Parks, John Daly, Bess Meyerson, and Lee Meriwether, (Miss America 1955).
#10359: "AMERICA'S GREATEST BANDS"
Order1955-09-17, CBS, min.
June 25th, 1955- September 24th, 1955 Paul Whiteman hosted this summer series. He presents different big name bands each week.
1955-09-19, WNBC, 80 min.
October 18, 1954-June 24, 1957. Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Some of television's most notable single programs were presented on this highly acclaimed series, one of the most costly to be produced during the "Golden Age Of Television."
Frank Sinatra stars in this story of family life in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.1955-09-28, WNBC, 11 min.
- Mel Allen
- Whitey Ford
- Jackie Robinson
- Don Hoak
- Casey Stengel
- Gil Hodges
- Vin Scully
- Gil McDougald
- Carl Furillo
- Don Zimmer
- Frank Kellert
- Don Bessent
- Jim Gilliam
The World Series, GAME ONE, September 28, 1955, at Yankee Stadium. The Brooklyn Dodgers vs New York Yankees. This is the NBC TV broadcast with Vin Scully calling the play by play. Jackie Robinson’s most famous time stealing home plate came against the New York Yankees in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1955 World Series. He was called safe, much to the dismay of Hall-of-Fame catcher Yogi Berra, who even in retirement insisted Robinson was out. The Dodgers icon racked up 197 stolen bases in 1,382 career games. Robinson led the National League with 29 stolen bases when he was named Rookie of the Year in 1947, and he paced the Majors with 37 two years later en route to earning the MVP Award. *This successful single straight steal of home in a World Series has been, to date, the last time this feat was accomplished, over 68 years ago (Hear Jackie Robinson state to Mel Allen why he stole home when the Dodgers were trailing the Yankees, in the 8th inning, during this game on ATA#107, July 29, 1961). Top of the eighth inning, Carl Furillo singles to center field. Gil Hodges flies out to left field. Jackie Robinson gets on base when his ground ball goes through the legs of New York Yankee third baseman, Gil McDougald...Furillo advancing to third base and Jackie winding up at second base. Don Zimmer flies out to center field allowing Furillo to tag up from third base making the score now 6 to 4, in favor of the New York Yankees. Robinson tags up from second base and advances to third base. Frank Kellert pinch hits for Brooklyn Dodger pitcher reliever, Don Bessent. On the second pitch by Whitey Ford, Jackie Robinson steals home, only the fifth player to accomplish this feat in World Series history, and the last to do so. NOTE: Not included in this air check is Kellert's single, after Robinson steals home. We pick up Vin Scully's play by play with Casey Stengel leaving in Whitey Ford to continue pitching and Don Hoak pinch running for Kellert, whose single is missing from this recording. Jim "Junior" Gilliam pops out to third base ending the inning. Mel Allen is heard doing a Gillette commercial with Casey Stengel. Brooklyn Dodger Line-Up as described in www.baseball-reference.com Jim Gilliam LF Pee Wee Reese SS Duke Snider CF Roy Campanella C Carl Furillo RF Gil Hodges 1B Jackie Robinson 3B Don Zimmer 2B Don Newcombe P Don Bessent P Clem Labine P Frank Kellert PH Don Hoak PR NOTE: In a phone conversation with Vin Scully (October 19, 2021), Phil Gries plays the steal of home by Jackie Robinson audio track to which Scully states that his "trademark was to call a play and then shut up." This conversation between Vin Scully and Phil Gries can be heard on the ATA website Home Page (Scrawl down right column to locate). When Jackie Robinson stole home Scully stated, "Robinson is dancing off third, shaking up the crowd. Robbie is coming to the plate. The throw to Berra. He steals it!" Only the roar of the crowd can be heard for over a minute afterwards, with no additional commentary from the greatest baseball announcer of all time, Vin Scully, as agreed upon by most baseball journalist historians. NOTE: Angeles City Council on Friday officially renamed Elysian Park Avenue after the revered announcer, Vin Scully, who's been the voice of the Dodgers for 67 years. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) By: Ed Sherman September 14, 2016 There are many ways to measure the incredible longevity of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. Given my background, I will go with the sportswriter perspective. When Scully made his debut in 1950, Grantland Rice, the most influential sportswriter of all time, was writing columns about Jackie Robinson for a Dodgers teams located in Brooklyn. Now that is some longevity. Well, it turns out old Vin couldn’t go on forever. After 67 years in the booth, he finally is hanging up the microphone at the end of the Dodgers season. It truly has been an epic run for Scully, and the fanfare will be unprecedented for his final game broadcasts. In the vast pantheon of great announcers in baseball history, there is no debate about No. 1. “He’s so much greater than anyone who has ever done this,” Cubs radio announcer Pat Hughes told me for a Chicago Tribune column on Scully. “It’s not even close. It’s an embarrassment of riches. He’s the best, he’s done it the longest and he’s been with one franchise. It’s amazing all of this can be said about one man.” Scully will leave behind numerous lessons for current and prospective members of the media. First and foremost is his emphasis on preparation. Hughes and Cubs TV announcer Len Kasper each made a point of marveling at how much research Scully does for a broadcast. Yet something Kasper said really gets to the essence of what makes Scully so great. “It’s so striking that what he says, and the words he uses, plays as well on paper as it does on a broadcast,” Kasper said. “He’s like a great author. His pen is his voice.”
1955-10-00, , min.
In January, 1955, the US Congress passed "The Formosa Resolution." It gave President Eisenhower the authority to defend Taiwan. The United States actively defended the Republic Of China. When the United States arranged to re-supply ROC garrisons on Jinmen and Mazu, it eased the crisis and brought it to an end.
#10372A: GEORGE GOBEL SHOW, THE
Order1955-10-08, NBC, min.
NBC October 2nd, 1954-March 10th, 1959 CBS October 11th, 1959-June 5th, 1960, George Gobel hosted three different variety series. The first was a half-hour program October 1954 thru June 1957. The second also for NBC was an hour broadcast alternating with the Eddie Fisher Show, both starring and guesting on each others program each week (September 1957 thru March 1959). Third series for Gobel had him appear on CBS TV from October 1959 thru June 1960 back with a half-hour format. During his NBC run George Gobel would do an "Alice" skit, parodying his own real life domestic life with wife, Alice. Jeff Donnell (1957-1958) and later Phyllis Avery (1958-1959) played the role of Alice. Usually there would be a guest star and a skit or two following a down home spun stand-up monolgue at the beginning of the program by "lonesone" George Gobel. Guest: Fred MacMurray. First show of season.
#10373: TWO FOR THE MONEY
Order1955-10-08, CBS, min.
September 30th, 1952- August 11th, 1953, (NBC) August 15th, 1953-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS), March 23rd, 1957- September 7th, 1957, (CBS). This prime-time general knowledge quiz show was a Goodson-Todman production. Comedian Herb Shriner was emcee and hosted the show for most of its run. The show was later hosted by Dennis James and Sam Levenson. Host Herb Shriner shows home movies of where he grew up.
#10380: SHOWER OF STARS
Order1955-11-03, CBS, 23 min.
September 30th, 1954-April 17th, 1958 (CBS) Shower Of Stars was a once-a-month replacement series for CBS's popular Thursday night entry, "Climax," with host William Lundigan. A wide variety of shows took place including a variety of spectaculars and dramatic shows. The show was first hosted by William Lundigan who was later replaced by Jack Benny. Guests: Frankie Laine, Marilyn Maxwell, Gracie Allen. Frankie and Marilyn sing a duet, " Love In Blume." Gracie Allen does a comedy skit with Jack Benny. Jack does a skit entitled, "The Sportsman." William Lundigan does a commercial for Chrysler Corporation.
1955-11-05, CBS, 7 min.
July 3rd, 1954-September 18th, 1954 (CBS) October 1st, 1955-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS) Musical variety series hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Introduced as a one-hour show in 1954, it was a summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason resurrected the show in the fall of 1955, trimming it to a half-hour, preceding his own show. In 1956, comedian Jack Carter became the permanent emcee of the show, which saw both Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin make their national TV debuts. Guest: Frank Fontaine, who sings "When You're Smiling" and performs a skit based on the character John L.C. Savonne. The Savonne character preceeded Fontaine's "Crazy Guggenheim" character in the "Joe The Bartender" skits he performed on The Jackie Gleason Show.
#10852: 1955 YEAR IN REVIEW
Order1955-12-00, , min.
The year 1955 is reviewed.
1955-12-04, WNBC, min.
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 Bernstein: The art of conducting an orchestra. The importance of the conductor. Host: Alistair Cooke.
1955-12-12, WNBC, 47 min.
- Tex McCrary
- Mary Martin
- Sid Caesar
- Helen Hayes
- Marilyn Monroe
- Tennessee Williams
- Jinx Falkenburg
- Hal Wallis
- Marlon Brando
- Daniel Mann
- Anna Magnani
- James Wong Howe
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Tex and Jinx speak with Sid Caesar, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, Hal Wallis, and Marilyn Monroe before the New York City premiere of the movie "The Rose Tattoo." Also interviewed by Jinx Falkenburg is director of "The Rose Tattoo," Daniel Mann. He speaks admirably working with Ann Magnani as does Marlon Brando who also praised James Wong Howe's cinematography. Brando and Marilyn Monroe have words for one another, as well as Sid Caesar who is in awe sitting next to Monroe. Marilyn talks about the Actor's Studio and there are some very funny moments recorded of Brando asking Monroe to do an improvisation. Tex McCrary interviews Helen Hayes. A gem of a broadcast archived originally by Archival Television Audio, Inc. MORE complete than any of the bootlegged unauthorized versions posted to you tube that came from me originally. This version reflects the original master 16" ET transferred to 1/4" audio tape in 1960. NOTE: JOHN McCRARY 9/10/2001 Dear Phil, [Letter in response to receiving a requested audio air check by Jinx Falkenburg ("Tex & Jinx" live radio broadcast) with guests Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Sid Caesar] "Thank you again for the cassette. As I mentioned on the phone, my mother, Jinx (Falkenburg), has always said that that interview with Marilyn (Monroe) - Dec. 12, 1955 - was her most difficult interview ever." Sincerely, John McCrary
1955-12-12, WNBC, 36 min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Today's Guests: comedian Sid Caesar, actor Marlon Brando, and actress Marilyn Monroe. SEE MORE COMPLETE VERSION OF THIS BROADCAST (ATA#10829)
#10388: JACK BENNY PROGRAM, THE
Order1955-12-18, CBS, 18 min.
October 28th, 1950- September 15th, 1964 (CBS) September 25th,1964-September 10th, 1965 (NBC) Jack Benny's half-hour show mixed variety and situation comedy with a company of regulars: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, announcer Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and Mary Livingston. Jack visits the home of Edgar Bergen. Frances Bergen, wife of Edgar, sings, "Just You Believe."
1955-12-18, CBS, 5 min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971 ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN) Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive. The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture. Guest: Senor Wences
1955-12-22, Live, 70 min.
- Liberace
- Humphrey Bogart
- Bob Hope
- Frank Sinatra
- Jan Murray
- Red Buttons
- Phil Silvers
- Alan King
- Lauren Bacall
- Maurice Chevalier
- Clark Gable
- Joe E. Ross
- Eddie Weiner
- Charles Coburn
- Lou Holtz
- Gene Baylos
- Solly Violinsky
The most complete recording known running almost ten minutes longer than what has been uploaded to the internet of this rowdy uncensored early Humphrey Bogart Friar's roast, recorded live almost 70 years ago. Paying "tribute" to our guest of honor is Master of Ceremonies, Red Buttons, HIstorian of the Friars Club, Eddie Weiner, Joe E. Ross (missing from you tube uploads), Alan King, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Coburn, Lou Holtz, Gene Baylos, Phil Silvers (missing from you tube uploads), Solly Violinsky, Lauren Bacall, and Humphrey Bogart (part of his speech missing from you tube uploads). Red Buttons reads telegrams of congratulation from Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable and Bob Hope each using a term for copulation in their quotes). Processed from an original recording with flaws (edits, under and over modulation, clicks and gaps) acquired over 30 years ago, Phil Gries, founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc., has improved the quality and flow of this extraordinary Friar's Roast lampooning Humphrey Bogart just 13 months before his death at age 56.
#10390: PERRY COMO SHOW, THE
Order1955-12-24, NBC, 5 min.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. Guest: Xylophone comedian Roger Ray.
1955-12-28, WNBC, min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Today's Guests: Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, Andy Griffith, theater critic Brooks Atkinson, Brooklyn Dodger fan Hilda Chester, and actress Julie Harris.
#10778: NEWS REVIEW 1955
Order1955-12-30, NBC, min.
News review of 1955 by NBC radio.
#10381: SHOWER OF STARS
Order1955-12-31, CBS, 7 min.
September 30th, 1954-April 17th, 1958 (CBS) Shower Of Stars was a once-a-month replacement series for CBS's popular Thursday night entry, "Climax," with host William Lundigan. A wide variety of shows took place including a variety of spectaculars and dramatic shows. The show was first hosted by William Lundigan who was later replaced by Jack Benny. Guest: Morey Amsterdam does a standup comedy routine.
#13011: $64,000 QUESTION, THE
Order1956-00-00, WCBS, 4 min.
June 7th, 1955-November 9th, 1958 The $64,000 Question was the first of television's big-money shows in prime time. It was hosted by Hal March. In this episode, a professional wrestler wins $8,000 in a category about flowers.
#13015: TONIGHT! WITH ERNIE KOVACS
Order1956-00-00, WNBC, 2 min.
The opening of the Tonight! show with Ernie Kovacs as host. In the summer of 1956, host, Steve Allen, of The Tonight Show, (then titled Tonight! from September 27, 1954 - January 25, 1957) reduced his nightly appearances. Ernie Kovacs was brought in to host on Mondays and Tuesdays. Allen hosted his last Tonight! show on January 25, 1957, as the series' first era came to a close.
#13029: $64,000 QUESTION, THE
Order1956-00-00, WCBS, 6 min.
June 7th, 1955-November 9th, 1958 The $64,000 Question was the first of television's big-money shows in prime time. It was hosted by Hal March. In this episode, contestants on the subject of William Shakespeare and dueling. Host: Hal March.
#13030: HUNTER, THE
Order1956-00-00, WCBS, 9 min.
July 3rd, 1952-September 24th, 1952- (CBS) September 26th,1954-December 26th, 1954 (NBC) A half-hour cold war spy series. Barry Nelson starred as Bart Adams, American undercover agent in the CBS version and Keith Larsen played the role in the NBC version two years later. The series was directed by Oscar Rudolph who directed some episodes of The Lone Ranger. In this episode, The Hunter clashes with a modern Nazi Superman.
#10384: GEORGE GOBEL SHOW, THE
Order1956-00-00, NBC, 15 min.
NBC October 2nd, 1954-March 10th, 1959 CBS October 11th, 1959-June 5th, 1960, George Gobel hosted three different variety series. The first was a half-hour program October 1954 thru June 1957. The second also for NBC was an hour broadcast alternating with the Eddie Fisher Show, both starring and guesting on each others program each week (September 1957 thru March 1959). Third series for Gobel had him appear on CBS TV from October 1959 thru June 1960 back with a half-hour format. During his NBC run George Gobel would do an "Alice" skit, parodying his own real life domestic life with wife, Alice. Jeff Donnell (1957-1958) and later Phyllis Avery (1958-1959) played the role of Alice. Usually there would be a guest star and a skit or two following a down home spun stand-up monolgue at the beginning of the program by "lonesone" George Gobel. Guest: Arthur Treacher does a comedy skit with George.
#10172: CEREBRAL PALSY TELETHON
Order1956-01-04, WTVJ, 10 min.
A 16 & 1/2 hour live telethon for Cereral Palsey telecast from South Florida on CBS affiliate station WTVJ Channel 4. Hosted by Jack Paar and Toni Gilman. Jack Paar would go on one year later to host THE TONIGHT SHOW. This TV audio air check counts down the last minutes of the telethon which raised $400,000. Jack Paar mentions how special this cause has been by the good people in the viewing audience, and in the studio. He emotionally thanks all who have participated, including Bob Keeshan (whom we hear talking to a youngster) who only three months prior began his children's show CAPTAIN KANGAROO which would go on to become the longest running kids show in television history (29 years). The CP telethon began, Saturday night January 4th at 10:30pm and concluded Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm. After sign-off the announcer mentions a long list of names of all the CBS shows which were pre-empted during the telethon's broadcast.
1956-01-08, CBS, 12 min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971 ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN) Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive. The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture. Guest: Comedian Myron Cohen does a 12-minute standup comedy routine.
#10532: MGM PARADE
Order1956-01-12, ABC, 36 min.
September 14th, 1955- May 2nd 1956 (ABC ) George Murphy hosted this half-hour series that presented clips from vintage films, biographies of stars, and previews of upcoming motion pictures. Murphy was lated replaced by Walter Pigeon as host. Five different episodes: January 12th, Febuary 8th, Febuary 15th, Febuary 22nd, and Febuary 29th, 1956. 36 minutes. Review of the film "Powers Girl."
#10276: CEREBRAL PALSY TELETHON
Order1956-01-14, WTVJ, 10 min.
A 16 & 1/2 hour live telethon for Cereral Palsey telecast from South Florida on CBS affiliate station WTVJ Channel 4. Hosted by Jack Paar and Toni Gilman. Jack Paar would go on one year later to host THE TONIGHT SHOW. This TV audio air check counts down the last minutes of the telethon which raised $400,000. Jack Paar mentions how special this cause has been and the good people can do with their donations. He emotionally thanks all who have participated, including Bob Keeshan (whom we hear talking to a youngster) who only three months prior began his children's show CAPTAIN KANGAROO which would go on to become the longest running kids show in television history (29 years). The CP telethon began, Saturday night January 14th at 10:30pm and concluded Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm. After sign-off the announcer mentions a long list of names of all the CBS shows which were pre-empted during the telethon's broadcast. Duplicate of #10172. Co-hosts: Jack Paar and Toni Gilman.
#10531: LOOK UP AND LIVE
Order1956-01-29, CBS, 28 min.
January 3rd, 1954-January 21st, 1979 (CBS) Long-running Sunday morning religious program, a fixture on CBS for two dozen years. Merv Griffin hosted the show briefly in 1955. In later years, different religious and cultural themes were explored. On this episode, host Merv Griffin is joined by the jazz band of the Don Elliott quartet and sings "That's All" with the Elliott quartet.
1956-02-00, NBC, min.
- Steve Allen
- Andy Williams
- Skitch Henderson
- Gene Rayburn
- Elaine Stritch
- Pat Kirby
- Ted Lewis
- Steve Lawrence
- Eydie Gorme
- Turk Murphy
- Willie McLeish Smith
- Meg Miles
- Three Haircuts
- Roy Kral
- Jackie Cain
September 27,1954-January 25,1957 Tonight! starring Steve Allen begins airing locally at 11:15pm, for 15 minutes, sponsored by Knickerbocker Beer. From 11:30 to 1:00am the broadcast aired nationally. Eight different Steve Allen Tonight Show excerpts, compilations from telecasts of February, 1956. Elaine Stritch sings "Easy Street" and one other song. Pat Kirby sings "Everytime" Andy Williams sings "Stormy Weather" Top innovator of jazz music, Willie McLeish Smith plays "Zig-Zag" Piano "Finger Busting." Turk Murphy- jazz musician struts his stuff Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme duet "I Sing Flat" Meg Miles- sings "St. Louis Blues " "Sing On Baby" and "You Shed a Tear For Me." Steve Allen sings a 1936 Benny Goodman tune: "When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South " Ted Lewis sings: "Be Yourself" "Still Going Strong " With original clarinet plays 1917 Beginnings "The Good Old Tiger Rag" The Three Haircuts comic routine American jazz vocal team, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral (February 20th, 1956) sing "Cheerful and Yearful" "You Smell So Good" and " Mountain Greenery"
#13327: TEX AND JINX SHOW, THE
Order1956-02-06, WRCA, min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINK SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Tex McCrary interviews movie director Elia Kazan. More on Fidel Castro from Havana. Castro in a press conference, says he is a Communist and a believer in "real democracy." Description of the scene at the Spots Palace where Batista's men are being tried for "war crimes."
1956-02-09, WNBC, min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Today's Guest: Lloyd Nolan.
1956-02-12, WNBC, 28 min.
September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. This episode stars Tom D'Andrea and Larry Blake. Includes comedy routine by Jonathan Winters and Joey Carter. Also, horror bit with Bert Wheeler, Tom D'Andrea, and Larry Blake.
1956-02-13, WNBC, min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Today's Guests: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
1956-02-15, , min.
The illness on Presidential campaign, Truman on 1952 campaign.
#10314: "GODFREY AND FRIENDS"
Order1956-02-15, CBS, 16 min.
- Royal Canadians
- Guy Lombardo
- Kenny Gardner
- Arthur Godfrey
- Carmel Quinn
- Tony Marvin
- Frank Parker
- Janette Davis
January 12th, 1949- June 26th, 1957 (CBS) Talk show starring host Arthur Godfrey. Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians make a guest appearance on the show. Godfrey will discuss with Mr. Lombardo the secret of his popularity, which persists despite the fact that his orchestra has played the same style of music for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Lombardo directs three musical number instrumentals with the band, including one with Arthur Godfrey playing the banjo. Also included are the tune to the "Third Man" and Kenny Gardner sings "Frankie and Johnny." Cast regulars include Frank Parker, Tony Marvin, Janette Davis, and Carmel Quinn.
#10315: SHOWER OF STARS
Order1956-02-16, CBS, 7 min.
September 30th, 1954-April 17th, 1958 (CBS) Shower Of Stars was a once-a-month replacement series for CBS's popular Thursday night entry, "Climax," with host William Lundigan. A wide variety of shows took place including a variety of spectaculars and dramatic shows. The show was first hosted by William Lundigan who was later replaced by Jack Benny. The Andrew Sisters sing a medley of songs.
1956-02-19, WNBC, 7 min.
September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. Guest: Groucho Marx and a clip from his popular TV show, "You Bet Your Life."