Skitch Henderson is host to this "Big Band Music Special" broadcast on WNEW TV Christmas day from 3:30pm to 4:30pm.
Up first is the Count Basie Orchestra.
There are a number of instrumental numbers and also included Leon Thomas singing "Shake Rattle & Roll." We hear Eric Dixon and Al Aarons featured in a number of instrumental including "One O'Clock Jump."
Part 2 of the broadcasts, as Skitch Henderson states, is a memoriam to Claude Thornhill and his orchestra. We hear a repeat of an early 1960's Big Band broadcast.
Orchestrations and vocals by the Joel Ikes singers include "Little Girl," "There's a Small Hotel," "Never on Sunday," "Samba Melody," "September Song," Night & Day," sung by The Snowflakes, "I Don't Know Why?" "Autumn Upturn," "Piano Roll Blues," "Muscat Ramble," " Polka Dots & Moonbeams," and orchestra leader Claude Thornhill's signature song, "Snowfall."