The Magic Key of RCA

The Magic Key of RCA was a weekly hour-long radio show broadcast on NBC between September 1935 and September 1939. It was a variety show featuring a symphony orchestra (usually an early version of what became the NBC Symphony Orchestra, but occasionally a guest orchestra appears), guest artists including Metropolitan Opera stars (such as Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior), solo instrumentalists (such as Efrem Zimbalist and Ignace Paderewski), dance and swing bands (such as Ray Noble, Fats Waller and Tommy Dorsey), comedy sketches and extracts from plays. The programme was also a showcase for NBC's international links with regular shortwave relays from around the world. The vast majority of the 204 programmes survive in the Library of Congress and this page is intended to be an inventory of what was broadcast based on hearing the actual show.

 

 

29 Sep 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Wagner Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude; Felix ‘Holiday’ from Tall City suite; Strauss Blue Danube Waltz (Vienna Symphony Orchestra from Vienna via shortwave); Bond ‘I Love you truly’; Paganini/Lehar ‘Liebe de himmel auf erde’ (Maria Jertiza sw from Vienna); Bell of New Orleans from Thanks a Million (Paul Whiteman orchestra); Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold (c. Walter Damrosch); hookups with Hollywood, Hawaii, Manila, Tokyo and Geneva; ‘I’m sitting high on a hill top’ (Paul Whiteman orchestra); sketch (Amos & Andy)

 

6 Oct 1935 no broadcast due to World Series

 

13 Oct 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black [opening 8 mins missing] Vallee Melody (Rudy Vallee); Saint-Saëns Rondo & Capriccioso (Albert Spalding); Verdi ‘Pace Pace’ from La Forza del Destino & ‘Cielito Lindo’ (Dusolina Giannini (sop) sw from Berlin); ‘Gentleman doesn’t obviously believe in making love’ & ‘There’s a tavern in the town’(Rudy Vallee); sketch from Hollywood (Jimmy Gleason & Helen Broderick); Gluck Orpheus melody (Albert Spalding vn and Andre Benoit pf); Dvorak Symphony no.9 finale

 

20 Oct 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Moskowski Malaguena; Swedish Folk song & Alfvén Swedish Flag Song (University of Stockholm Male Chorus sw from Stockholm); Meldey (Richard Himber orchestra); Brahms Hungarian Dance no.6; sw hookup with Paris; Chopin ‘Ballad in A Flat’, Schumann ‘Warum’ & Chopin ‘Butterly etude’ (Harald Bauer); Broadway Rhythm (Richard Himber); scene from Othello (Walter Huston & Nan Sunderland sw from Chicago); Gershwin medley

 

27 Oct 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Smetana ‘Dance of the Comedians’ from the Bartered Bride; Massenet ‘Meditation’ from Thaïs (Jessica Dragonette (sop)); ‘Accent On Youth’ & ‘24 Hours A Day’ (Jan Garber from Chicago); ‘Baby Doesn’t Know Much’ & ‘Baby’s Best Friend Is His Mother’ (Beatrice Lillie); Delibes ‘Czardas’ from Coppelia; Lehar ‘Vilia’ from the Merry Widow (Jessica Dragonette); Salute To Navy Day hookups with various Navy Stations; Victory March, Navy Blue and Gold & Anchors Away

 

3 Nov 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Tchaikovsky ‘Waltz’ from Sleeping Beauty; Strauss ‘Simplicius Waltz’ & ‘My Song Goes Round The World’ (Joseph Schmidt sw from Amsterdam); ‘It’s Written In The Stars’ (Edith Wright) & ‘I’ve Got A Note’ (Cliff Preston & Tommy Dorsey Orchestra); Chopin Polonaise in A Flat (Josef Lhevinne); ‘A Touch Of Brimstone’ extract (Roland Young et al); Lecuona Malaguena; ‘You Are My Lucky Star’ from Broadway Melody (Eleanor Powell); Medley Of Broadway Tunes

 

10 Nov 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Halvorsen March Of The Boyars; Charpentier ‘Depuis Le Jour’ from Louise (Suzanne Fisher); ‘Here’s to Romance’ & ‘Midnight in Paris’ (Enrique Madrigue & Victor Dance Band); Scene From ‘Mutiny On The Bounty’ (Franchot Tone); Violin Piece (Efrem Zimbalist sw from Amsterdam); Grofe ‘Mardi Gras’ from the Mississippi Suite; Massenet ‘Recitative & Gavotte’ from Manon (Suzanne Fisher); Saint-Saëns Marche Heroique

 

17 Nov 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Gliere Russian Sailors Dance from the Red Poppy; Bizet ‘Toreador’s Song’ from Carmen & Handel ‘Where’er You Walk’ from Semele (Conrad Thibault); Behind The Barracks, Night Breeze, Goldfish, Skipping Rope (Carlos Salzedo); Brahms Symphony No 1 (opening of 1^stmovt); Tchaikovsky Symphony no.4 (end); Herbert Favourite Melodies (Victor Light Opera Company); Wieniawski ‘Romance’ from violin concerto No 2 In D Minor (Albert Spalding) Wagner ‘Träume’ & ‘Winterstürme’ from Die Walküre (Lauritz Melchior); Borodin ‘Dance Of The Archers’ from Prince Igor

 

24 Nov 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Hookups from Hawaii; Kreisler Tambourin Chinois; Tenor song Herbert Ernst Grohe SW from Berlin, Germany); ‘Begin the Beguine’from Jubilee (Xavier Cugat); A Scene from Pride and Prejudice (Helen Chandler); Goldmark ‘March’ from the Queen of Sheba; Wagner ‘Elsa’s Dream’ from Lohengrin & Strauss ‘Wiegenlied’ (Lotte Lehman); Grofe ‘Huckleberry Finn’ from Mississippi Suite

 

1 Dec 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Grainger Molly On The Shore; Enchanting Rhythms (Eduardo Donato & Orchestra sw from Buenos Aires); Gershwin Porgy & Bess Excerpts (Todd Duncan & Ann Brown & Abby Mitchell); Porter ‘No Other One’ & ‘Isn’t This A Lovely Day’ (Eddie Duchin); Grieg Hyldningsmarsch; ‘Saturday's Children’ (Anderson) Excerpts (Richard Barthelmess And Jean Muir); ‘You Are My Lucky Star’ & ‘I’ve Got A Feeling You’re Foolin’‘ (Eddie Duchin); Lacombe ‘Los Toros’ from La Feria Suite

 

8 Dec 1935 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Leopold Stokowski Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3; Bizet Dance Provençale; Debussy Fetes; Macdonald Rumba; Sibelius Swan of Tuonela; Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan; Liebesnacht (broadcast ends before end of piece)

 

15 Dec 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Bizet Carmen Prelude; Limehouse Blues (Bora Minovich & Harmonica Rascals sw from London); ‘Dinner For One Please James’ & ‘Way down yonder in New Orleans’ (Ray Noble & Al Bowlly); Ponchielli ‘Dance Of The Hours’ from La Gioconda; Rossini ‘Una Voce Poco Fa’ from The Barber of Seville & ‘Manning in the Luxembourg Gardens’ (Rose Bampton); Love Locked Out (Ray Noble And His Orchestra With Al Bowlly); Monologue ‘Trains’ (Reginald Gardner); ‘Who Can Equal Thee’ & ‘Song Of The Volga Boatmen’ (Don Cossack Chorus); Ippolitov-Ivanov ‘Procession of the Sardar’ from Caucasian Sketches

 

22 Dec 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black German ‘Merrymaker’s Dance’ from the Nell Gwynne Suite; Santa Claus is coming to Town & I’m getting sentimental over you (Tommy Dorsey); ‘Boy Meets Girl’ excerpt (New York Players); Wagner Ride of the Valkyries; ‘The Rose of Tralee’ (John McCormack sw from Ireland, incomplete due to atmospheric conditions); ‘Don’t give up the ship’ & ‘The Music goes round’ (Tommy Dorsey); Disney characters from Hollywood; Grofe ‘On the trail’ from the Grand Canyon Suite; German ‘Torch Dance’ from Henry VIII Suite

 

25 Dec 1935 Cleveland Orchestra c.Artur RodzinskiWeber Oberon Overture; Thomas ‘Connais Tu Le Pays’ from Mignon & Mozart ‘Allelujah’ (Lucrezia Bori); Strauss Don Juan; Albeniz ‘Triana’ from Iberia suite; Glazunov ‘La Primavera’ & Yradier ‘La Paloma’ (Lucrezia Bori) ; Strauss Tales From The Vienna Woods; Dvorak The Furiant

 

29 Dec 1935 NBCCO c. Frank Black Moszowkowski Bolero; ‘Where Am I?’ & Strickland ‘Mah Lindy Lou’ (James Melton); Alexander’s Ragtime Band & Dixieland Band (Helen Ward & Benny Goodman from Chicago); Gounod ‘Jewel Song’ from Faust & Gershwin ‘Summertime’ from Porgy & Bess (Helen Jepson); Bach ‘Gavotte’ & Terges ‘Etude’ (Andres Segovia sw from Madrid); Tchaikovsky ‘Waltz Of The Flowers’ from the Nutcracker Suite; Verdi ‘Parigi O Caro’ from La Traviata (Helen Jepson & James Melton); Tchaikovsky ‘Czardas’ from Swan Lake

 

5 Jan 1936 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Kirsten Flagstad & Guy Lombardo.

 

12 Jan 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Lecuona Andalucia; Broadway Rhythm from Broadway & Fostor Old Black Joe (Pickens Sisters); Sketch (Adele Astaire & Ben Grauer); Strauss Blue Danube & Hungarian Air & Czardas (Casanova & her Zigane); Chabrier Espana Rhapdosy; Grainger Country Garden & Liszt Liebestraum no.3 (Percy Grainger) Wolf-Ferrari Dance of the Camarrists from Jewels Of The Madonna; Sketch (Stoopnagle & Bud); Mussorgsky Gopak from the Fair at Sorochynsti

 

19 Jan 1936 no broadcast due to dedication of Theodore Roosevelt memorial

 

26 Jan 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Bizet Farandole from L’arlesienne suite; Chinese New Year Celebrations (hookups with San Francisco & Honolulu); Medley (Richard Himber & his Ritz Carlton Orchestra);

Delibes Bacchus from Sylvia; Puccini ‘E Lucevan Le Stelle’ from Tosca & Tosti ‘L’ultima Canzone’ (Giovanni Martinelli); Susanna from Music Goes Round (Richard Himber & His Ritz Carlton Orchestra); Sketch (Frank Fay); Bizet Gypsy Dance from Carmen

 

2 Feb 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Schubert Marche Militaire; Medley From Ziegfeld Follies (Varsity Eight); Hookup with Monastery Of St Bernard (sw from Switzerland) ; Mascagni Intermezzo from L’amico Fritz; Donizetti O Mio Fernando from La Favorita (Marion Anderson); The Band That Jack Built, She Shall Have Music & Sweet Sue (Jack Hylton & His Orchestra); One Night In Monte Carlo & Alone and a Table for Two (Morton Downey); Taban Sierra Moreno from Fetes de Seville

 

9 Feb 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Wagner March from Tannhauser; Shields O Happy Fair, Steal Away & Brothers sing on (Yale Glee Club); ‘Thirteen Hours By Air’ from Soundstage (Joan Bennett & Fred Mcmurray); Nicodé ‘In The Tavern’ from Scenes from the South; Follow The Fleet Medley (Guy Lombardo & Ray Noble & Richard Himber)

 

16 Feb 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Berlioz Hungarian Dance from The Damnation of Faust; Meyerbeer ‘O Paradiso’ from L’Africaine (Armand Tokatyan); hookups with Montreal and Miami; Ippolitov-Ivanov At Rest from Turkish Fragments; Sketch (Lum n Abner); Verdi ‘Ritorna Vincitor’ from Aïda (Dusolina Giannini); Mascagni Santuzza-Turridu Duet from Cavalleria Rusticana (Giannini & Tokatyan); De Falla 1^stSpanish Dance from La Vide Breve

 

23 Feb 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Tchaikovsky Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Dubinois Rolling Fire & Infante Gracia from Andalucian Dances (Hanna Kline & Pauline Gilbert(Piano)); Playlet ‘Love On A Bet’ (Gene Raymond & Alice Frost); Grofe Mardi Gras from the Mississippi Suite; Bizet ‘The Maids Of Cadiz’ & Lehar ‘Love Is A Pilgrim’ (Francia White); hookup with New Orelans; ‘Everything’s in rhythm’ & ‘I’m the fellow who loves you’ (Rudy Vallee); Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.1

 

1 Mar 1936 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra c. Eugene Ormandy Bach Servant Is My Longing; Wagner Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin; Sketch ‘Sunday Driving’ (Cornelia Otis Skinner); Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Brahms Hungarian Dance no.6; Chopin Scherzo In C Sharp Minor (Mischa Levitski); Sketch ‘Nurses Day Out’ (Cornelia Otis Skinner) Weinberger Polka & Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper

 

8 Mar 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Smetana ‘Polka’ from the Bartered Bride; ‘Parlez Moi Votre Chose’ & ‘It’s A Thrill All Over Again’ (Lucien Boyer); 3 Songs from Stags At Bay (Russ Morgan); Verdi ‘Triumphal March’ from Aida; Playlet ‘Call It A Day’ ( Glen Anders et al); Wagner ‘In Fernem Land’ from Lohengrin & Grieg ‘Jeg Elsker Dig’ (Lauritz Melchior)

 

15 Mar 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Saint-Saëns ‘Gigue’ from Henry VII ballet; Schubert German dances (Vienna Choir Boys); ‘Stomping at the Savoy’ & ‘Goody Goody’ (Benny Goodman and his Orchestra); sketch (Sheila Barrett); Massenet ‘La Fête; from Scènes Napolitaines;Saint-Saëns ‘Amour, viens aider’ from Samson et Daliliah & Korngold ‘I mean to say I love you’ from Give us this night(Gladys Swarthout)

 

22 Mar 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Glazunov Hungarian Dance from Raymondo; Massenet ‘Le Rêve’ from Manon & Dream Lover (Lanny Ross) hookup with Newark New Jersey Aerodrome; Berlin ‘Let Yourself Go’ from Follow the Fleet, Noble ‘The touch of your lips’ (Ray Noble And His Orchestra); Debussy March Ecossaise; Strauss ‘Frühlingstimmen’ (Erna Sack sw From Dresden); Lecouna ‘Gitanerías’ from the Andalucia suite

 

29 Mar 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Wolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; ‘Down Among The Dead Men’, ‘When as I view your comley grace’ & Ten Thousand Miles Away (John Goss & His London Singers); Beethoven Romance In G & Brahms Hungarian Dance No 21 (Efrem Zimbalist); Rachmaninov Humoresque; Playlet ‘School For Scandal’ (Brian Aherne & Ina Claire & Charles Coburn) Medley (Jack Jackson & His Victor Orchestra sw from London) Dvorak Slavonic Dance No 2

 

5 Apr 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Mozart The Marriage Of Figaro Overture; Meyerbeer ‘Ah Mon Fils’ from Le Prophete & Del Riego ‘Thank God For A Garden’ (Doris Doe); hookups from Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Berlin, Basle; Paris, Madrid, Bangkok, Manila & Tokyo; Rimsky-Korsakov Gypsy Scene & Fandango from Capriccio Espagnole; Two traditional melodies (The Bina Mossman Glee Club sw from Honolulu; playlet ‘Justice’ by John Galsworthy (Leslie Howard & Co) Massenet La Dance from Scenes Napolitaine

 

12 April 1936 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Leopold Stokowski Bach A Stronghold sure is our God; Wagner Parsifal Act 3 music; Two ancient liturgical melodies; Tchaikovsky Song without words; Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture

 

19 Apr 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Coleridge-Taylor La Caprice de Nanette from the Petite Suite; The Jolly Roger, Deep River & The story of a tack (RCA Victor Glee Club); Sarsate Romanza Andulcia & Chopin Waltz in E Minor (Bronislaw Huberman); Nevermore & If you were to stop loving me (Francisco La Muto’s Orquesta Tipica sw from Buenos Aires); Delibes Dance, Marche et Finale from La Source; except from The Three Musketeers (Ralph Forbes and Heather Angel); You from the Great Ziegfeld & Rhythm save the world (Tommy Dorsey); Herbert ‘Habanera’ from Natoma

 

26 Apr 1936 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Meredith Willson

 

3 May 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Chadwick Jubilee; Verdi ‘Questa e Quella’ from Rigoletto & Buzzi-Peccia Povero Pulcinella (Mario Chamlee); Dvorak Symphony no.9 (1^stmovt); Bizet Seguidilla from Carmen (Gladys Swarthout); Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in D minor (1^stmovt) (Frank Black pf) Ponchielli ‘Ma chi vien?’ from La Gioconda (Gladys Swarthout & Mario Chamlee); MacDowell Scherzo from Sonata Tragica

 

10 May 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Tcherepnin Scene de Ballet from Le Pavillon d’Armide; Ponce ‘Estrellita’ & Marchesi ‘La Foletta’ (Erna Sack sw from Leipzig); Interview with The Abbey Children; Padavigo ma voi & Tango Gypsy (Xavier Cougat); Borodin Ballet Music from Prince Igor; Wieniawski Polonaise in D & Brahms Hungarian Dance no.7 (Ruggiero Ricci); Sketch University of Pennsylvania Mask & Wig Club; Rehfeld Spanish Dance

 

17 May 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Godard In the Village from Scenes Poetiques; Alistair Cooke sw from London; Rancho Grande & Partner it’s the Parting of the Ways (The Westerners); Sketch from One Rainy Afternoon (Mary Pickford); Tchaikovsky Nur wer die sehnsucht kennt & Strauss Zueignung (Hulde Lashanska); selections from Slaughter on 10^thAve (Richard Rogers)

 

24 May 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Luigini Czardas from Ballet Russe; ‘Maman ne vend pas la maison’ & ‘Vieni, Vieni’ (Le Petit Mirsha sw from Budapest); Chopin Scherzo & Schumann Traumerei (Harold Bauer); Moszkowski Malaguena from Boabdil; I’m Gonna Sit Right Down & Write A Letter & Christopher Columbus (Fats Waller); Playlet ‘If Men Could Play’ (Hugh O Connell); Massenet Gavotte from Manon & Strauss Tales From The Vienna Woods (Helen Jepson); Kreisler Liebesfreud

 

31 May 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Chopin Polonaise Militaire; Ponchielli ‘Cielo e mar’ from La Gioconda (Jan Peerce); ‘Summertime’ ‘Tormented’ & ‘Robins and Roses’ (Richard Himber); Thomas ‘Je suis Titania’ from Mignon (Virginia Rae); ‘You pass me by without a look’ & ‘These foolish things’ (Jean Sablon sw from Paris); Kreisler Tambourin Chinois; sketch with Oliver Wakefield; Romberg ‘Auf Wiedersehn’ from The Blue Paradise (Jan Peerce & Virginia Rae); Macare Scherzo Fandango

 

7 Jun 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Coates Covent Garden from the London Suite; Swiss Yodellers (sw from Switzerland) ; ‘Nobody’s Darling But Mine’ & ‘What Would You Give In Exchange’ (Tennessee Ramblers); Saint-Saëns ‘Amour! Viens Aider’ from Samson & Delilah & Strauss Cäcilie (Marion Telva); Gounod Waltz & Finale from Faust; ‘Us On A Bus’ & ‘On A Beach At Bali Bali’ (Shep Fields); Sketch South View Golf Club (Colonel Stoopnagle); Mendelssohn Violin Concerto In E Minor (last movt) & Kreisler Schön Rosemarin (Joseph Knitzer); Lacome Zarzuela from La Féria

14 Jun 1936 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra c. Frank Black Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger; Tannhauser Overture & Bacchanale; Tristan Prelude & Liebestod; Die Walküre Ride Of The Valkyries

 

21 Jun 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Massenet At the Inn from Scènes Alsaciennes; Wagner Elsa’s Dream from Lohengrin & Grieg Ich Liebe Dich (Helen Traubel); ‘It’s a sin to tell a lie’ & ‘It’s high time I got the low down on you’ from New Faces (Ruby Newman); Lacombe ‘La Reja’ from La Feria Suite; sketch from Shiela Barrett; Mozart ‘Il Mio Tesoro’ from Don Giovanni; ’Ay, Ay, Ay’; Barthelemy ‘Chi se nne scorda cchiu’ (Tito Schipa); Coates Knightsbridge March from the London Suite

 

28 Jun 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Bizet Act 1 prelude from Carmen; sketch from Fibber McGee & Molly; ‘You’ from the Great Victor & ‘Tormented’ (Ruth Etting); Bunker Hill sketch; Saint-Saens Bacchanale from Samson et Daliliah; Verse Speaking Choir from Chicago; Liszt Liebestraum, Paganini The Chase, Debussy The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Rudolph Ganz); Massenet Parade Militaire

 

5 July 1936 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Charles O’Connell Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture; Beethoven Minuet in G; Gliere Dance of the Russian Sailors; Pierné March of the Soldiers; Turina Sacro-Monte; Hills Empty Saddles from Rhythm on the Range; Saint-Saens Dance Macabre; Wagner Lohengrin Prelude; Debussy Canope, Minstrels, Clair du Lune (loud clicks); Bach (arr Caillet) Fervent is my longing; Dvorak Scherzo from New World Symphony

 

12 July 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Coates ‘At the fair’ from the Countryside Suite; Chopin Fantasy Impromptu & Tiger Rag (Morton Gould & Bert Shefter); Medley ‘Sweet & Low’; ‘Take my Heart, ‘Would you’ from San Francisco; Stomping at the Savoy’ (Richard Himber); De Falla 2^ndSpanish Dance from La Vida Breve; Lvov ‘The Last Supper’ & Tchaikovsky ‘Song of the Reapers’ (Russian Symphonic Choir); Mendelssohn ‘On wings of song’ & Suk ‘Burlesque’ (Efrem Zimbalist) ; Rimsky-Korsakov ‘The Dance of the Buffoons’ from the Snow Maiden

 

19 July 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Ilynsky ‘Orgy of the Spirit’ from Moure and Anitra; ‘Stormy weather’ & ‘Sing me a swing song’ (Midge Williams); hookup with Richmond; Delibes Introduction & Mazurka from La Source ; ‘Dark Eyes’ & ‘Perpetual Motion’ (Charles Magnante); sketch with Frank Page; Verdi ‘Ernani involami’ from Ernani & Manning In the Luxembourg Gardens (Rose Bampton); Bizet Gypsy Dance from Carmen

 

26 July 1936 [incomplete, missing sides 2 and 4 of 4] NBCCO c. Frank Black German Two Dances from the Henry VIII Suite; Gounod Jewel Song from Faust, Kreisler ‘Stars in My eyes’ from The King Steps Out (Carol Deis) ; Mendelssohn Scherzo in E Minor; ‘Hi di Hi’ & ‘Take me’ (Bill Robinson)

 

2 Aug 1936 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Charles O’Connell: Macdonald Rumba; Purcell Passacaglia; Pierné Entrance of the Little Fauns; Tchaikovsky Arabian Dance from Nutcracker suite; Handel Hornpipe from Water Music; Tchaikovsky Russian Dance from Nutcracker suite; Diamond (arr) Turkey in the Straw ; Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla; Bach Komm Süsse Tod; Sibelius (arr Caillet) Romance; Dvorak Humouresque; Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

 

9 Aug 1936 [incomplete missing sides 1 & 3 of 4] NBCCO c. Frank Black Romberg ‘Give me a roll on the Drums’ from Melody ; hookup with Milwaukee; ‘Ay, Ay, Ay’ (arr for orch); sketch by Walter C. Kelly; Dett Juba Dance.

 

16 Aug 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Rimsky-Korsakov ‘The Dance of the Buffoons’ from the Snow Maiden; Pagans ‘Malaguena’, ‘Caminito’ & ‘Taboo’ (Corinna Mura); Kern ‘Old Man River’ from Showboat (arr Black); ‘My Temptation’, ‘Diana’ , ‘Panam’ ‘The Lost Chord’ (Phil Spitalny’s all female orchestra & all girl Glee Club); sketch Walter O’Keefe; Grainger Molly on the Shore

23 Aug 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Wagner March from Tannhäuser; ‘Until the real thing comes along’ & ‘He was a handsome young soldier’ (Hildegard); hookup with San Francisco; Grofe On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite; ‘On a coconut island’, ‘Oh my goodness’ & ‘Did I remember’ (Shep Fields); hookup with Madrid; Scarlatti Sonata in A Major, Chopin Waltz in C Sharp Minor (Mischa Levitsky); further hookup with Madrid

 

30 Aug 1936 NBCCO c. Frank Black Coates Knightsbridge March from the London Suite; hookup with Salt Lake City; ‘There are two sides to every story’ & ‘Knock, Knock’ (George Hall); Wagner ‘Dich teure Halle’ from Tannhäuser & Strauss Cäcilie (Helen Traubel); Herbert ‘Autumn Frolic’ from Woodland Fancies; hookup with Madrid;Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor last movt & Debussy ‘The Girl With the Flaxen Hair’ (Albert Spalding); Delibes ‘March of Bacchus’ from Sylvia

 

6 Sept 1936 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Charles O’Connell Bizet Carmen Overture; Mendelssohn on Wings of Song; Kern ‘The Way you look tonight’ (c. Lucien Caillet); Liadov Russian Folk Dance; Bizet Minuet from L’arlésienne Suite; De Falla Ritual Fire Dance; Bach (arr Lucien Caillet) Prelude in E Major (some groove Skips) ; Gilbert & Sullivan Mikado medley (D’Oyly Carte Opera Company); De Cas ‘Claironerie’; Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker

 

13 Sept 1936NBCCO c. Frank BlackGerman ‘Gypsy Dance’ by Edward; hookup with Iowa; ‘On Our Golden Wedding Day’ & ‘Shortening Bread’ (The Cadets Quartet); Strauss Overture from Die Fledermaus; ‘Did I Remember’; ‘The Mountains of Moor’; & ‘I'll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs’ (Morton Downey); Henry Fonda and June Walker perform a scene from ‘The Farmer Takes A Wife’; Herbert ‘Danse Ballont’

 

20 Sept 1936NBCCO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari ‘Dance of the Comoros’ from The Jewels of the Madonna; ‘Midnight Blue’ & ‘Mommy Nez’ (Pickens Sisters); ‘Blue in the Blue’, ‘Love In Your Eye’ & ‘Tiger Rag’ Original Dixieland Band; Pollock ‘Dance Espanol’; Wagner ‘Dich, teure Halle’ from Tannhäuser &Grieg ‘Jeg elsker deg’ (Kirsten Flagstad sw from Stuttgart, Germany); Doc Rockwell skit ; Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 6

 

27 Sept 1936NBCCO c. Frank Black Gounod Ballet Music from Faust;‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,’ ‘It Ain't Right,’ and ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ (Caspar Reardon); , Island; A symphony of Roses: ‘Rose in the Bud,’ ‘Wild Rose,’ ‘Mighty Like a Rose,’ ‘Only a Rose,’ and ‘Roses of Piccardy.’ An introduction to, who sings ‘The Old Ark's a Movin',’ ‘Mah Lindy Lou,’ and ‘Go Down Moses’ (Paul Robeson sw from London);‘Did I Remember’ and ‘La Bamba.’ (Jane Froman); Rimsky-Korsakov ‘The Dance of the Buffoons’ from the Snow Maiden

 

4 Oct 1936 no broadcast because of World Series

11 Oct 1936NBCSO c. Frank Black Pollock Bolero;anniversary hookups with London, Paris, Rome, Berlin; Rossini ‘Una voce poco fa’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Erna Sack sw from Berlin); hookups with to Basle & Vienna; ‘Night in Manhattan,’ ‘I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs’ & ‘Melancholy Baby’ (Eddie Duchin); hookup with Montreal,Chicago& Hollywood; Smetana Overture to The Bartered Bride; hookups with Honolulu, Sura, Batavia, and Buenos Aires; ‘Amelia Luce’ (Eduardo Donato sw from Buenos Aires); ‘Just for Today,’ ‘The Ould Turf Fire,’ and ‘The Star of the County Down’ (John McCormackfrom Nashville, Tennessee); Lecuona ‘Malaguena’ from the Andalucia Suite.

18 Oct 1936NBCSO c. Frank BlackTchaikovsky ‘Polonaise’ from Eugene Onegin; ‘Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup’ and ‘Alone’ (Jean Sablon sw from Paris, France); hookup with Hayden planetarium; Mozart ‘Mada Mina’ from Don Giovanni & ‘Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes’ (Norman Cordon); Mendelssohn Piano concerto in G Minor (last movt) & Mendelssohn Spinning Song (Ernest Hutchinson); Balcony scene from Romeo and Juliette (Alexander Kirkland and Jean Dante);Taban Sierra Moreno from Fetes de Seville

25 Oct 1936NBCSO c. Frank BlackGlinka overture to ‘Russian and Ludmila’; two light opera songs ( Herbert Ernst Groh sw from Berlin), Striegler Scherzo Cappricioso’ (Saul Goodman, tympanist); Lecuona ‘Guadalquivir’ from the Andalucia suite; skit by Robert Benchley; excerpts from the ‘White Horse Inn’ (Robert Halliday and Kitty Carlisle)

1 Nov 1936NBCSO c. Frank BlackGliere ‘Dance of the Russian Sailors’ from The Red Poppy; ‘Donut’ (The Duncan Sisters); ‘Honeysuckle Rose,’ ‘Love in Your Eyes’ and ‘I'm an Old Cowhand’ (Lennie Hayton) ;Sadero ‘In Meze Al Mar’, ‘O Meine Que,’ and ‘Home Sweet Home’ (Dusolina Giannini sw Berlin); Dvorak Carnival Overture ; hookup with Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island; ‘Ah Moon of My Delight’ from In a Persian Garden; ‘Love, What Are You Doing to My Heart’ (Frank Parker)

 

8 Nov 1936NBCSO c. Frank Black Brahms Academic Festival Overture; Bach Prelude in A Minor; Children’s Dance & Andalucia (Julio Martinez Oyanguren); Medley from Red Hot and Blue (Leonard Joy); sketch with Tom Powers; Wagner Die Walküre (Act 3 excerpt) (Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr, from San Francisco Opera c. Merola); Massenet ‘La Fête’ from Scènes Napolitaines

 

15 Nov 1936 NBCSO c. Frank BlackSmetana ‘Polka’ from the The Bartered Bride; John B. Kennedy gives a history of radio; ‘Oh, Miss Hannah,’ ‘The Way You Look Tonight,’ and ‘I'm an Old Cowhand’ The Revellers Quartet; Beethoven Overture from Prometheus; Puccini ‘Vissi d'arte’ from Tosca, La Forge ‘Hills’ & Flotow ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ from Martha (Helen Traubel) ; scene from ‘Rembrandt’ (Charles Laughton and Alexander Korda sw from London); Charles Sanford Skilton ‘War Dance’

 

22 Nov 1936NBCSO c. Frank BlackMascagni Intermezzo from L'amico Fritz; Schubert ‘Hark, Hark, the Lark’ & Lesser ‘California’ (Efrem Zimbalist sw from Geneva; Romberg Medley from ‘Forbidden Melody,’ (Carl Brisson and Ruby Mercer); Infante's ‘Ritmos’; ‘There's Frost on the Moon’ ‘For Sentimental Reasons’ & ‘That's a Plenty’ (Tommy Dorsey) ; sketch (Walter O'Keefe); Coates Knightsbridge March from the London Suite

 

29 Nov 1936NBCSO c. Frank BlackRachmaninov Prelude in G Minor by Sergei; Schubert's ‘Ave Maria’ & ‘My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord’ (Marian Anderson, sw from Prague); hookup with Hanover, New Jersey; Franz Ries ‘Perpetual Motion’ from the third violin suite; ‘Penthouse Serenade,’ ‘It's De-Lovely’ & ‘William Tell’ (Paul Whiteman) Gershwin ‘I Got Plenty of Nothing’ from Porgy and Bess & ‘Don and Ella’ (The King's Men with Bob Lawrence) skit (Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd)

6 Dec 1936 NBCSO c. Frank BlackBorodin ‘Dance of the Archers’ from Prince Igor;Arensky waltz from a suite for two pianos & Mendelssohn Scherzo in E Minor (Pauline Gilbert and Hannah Kline); sketch (Sheila Barrett); ‘Spanish Serenade’; Steiner musical themes from ‘The Garden of Allah’; ‘Sweetheart, Let's Grow Old Together,’ ‘I've Got You Under My Skin,’ and ‘Moya My Girl’ (Morton Downey); ‘Vida Mia’ (Oswaldo Fresedo sw from Buenos Aires); Wieniawski ‘Souvenir de Moscou’ & Beethoven ‘Turkish March’ from The Ruins of Athens;(Ruggerio Ricci);Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 15

 

13 Dec 1936NBCSO c. Frank Black Kreisler Tambourin Chinois; ‘Mobile Bay’, ‘Twilight’, ‘Johsua Fit the Battle of Jericho’ & ‘Here’s to good old Yale’ (Yale Glee Glub); ‘The World is Mine tonight’ from The Gay Desperado & ‘The Ghost of the Rhumba’ (Jane Froman); Humperdinck ‘The Witch’s Ride’ from Hansel & Gretel; Kern ‘Swing Waltz’ from Swingtime & ‘The Tango’ ‘Rhythm in my Hair’ (Emil Coleman); Tchaikovsky Piano concerto in B flat minor last movt , Greig ‘To the Springtime’ (Percy Grainger) ; scene from Tobacco Road (Jack Kirkland and James Barton); Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

 

20 Dec 1936 NBCSO c. Frank Black Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor; Schubert ‘Ave Maria’ & ‘Rainbow on the River’ (Bobby Breen); Saint-Saens ‘Amour! Viens Aider’ from Samson et Daliliah, Bizet ‘Habanera’ from Carmen (Gertrude Wettergren); Mendelssohn Italian Symphony 1^stmovt; ‘That’s why they call me Shine’ & ‘Bjoangles of Haarlem’ (Bill Robinson); sketch (Robert Benchley); Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.1

 

27 Dec 1936 NBCSO c. Frank Black Ippolitov-Ivanov Holiday; ‘Hymn of the Cherubim’ ‘Violin in the Street’ and ‘Bogona’ (Moscow Cathedral Choir); Medley (Richard Himber); Mozart ‘Oh what bitter grief is mine’ ‘The star of County Down’ & Cadman ‘The silent hour of prayer’ (John McCormack); Infante ‘Gracia’ Dances Andalucia; sketch (Oliver Wakefield sw from London; Wagner ‘Träume’ & Grieg ‘En drøm’ (Kirsten Flagstad); Massenet ‘Fetes Boheme’ Scenes Pittoresque

 

3 Jan 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Chopin Poloniaise Militaire; ‘Tichi’ & ‘Vieni Vieni’ (Le Petit Mirsha sw from Milan); Chopin Three Ecossaisses & Waltz in A Flat (Ania Dorfmann); Weill excerpts from ‘The Eternal Road’; ‘Hallelujah’ & ‘A thousand dreams of you (Fats Waller); sketch (Doc Rockwell); Halévy ‘Si la rigueur’ from La Juive, Mozart ‘Se vuol ballare’ from Le Nozze di Figaro & Kramer ‘By every thought’ (Ezio Pinza); Bizet Gypsy Dance from Carmen.

 

10 Jan 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Berlioz Rákóczi March from the Damnation of Faust; ‘Stagefright’ & ‘Heatwave’ (Carl Cress & Dick McDonner); Bartok (arr) ‘Orphan Song’, ‘I’m going to Budapest’, ‘Humouresque’, ‘Peasant Dance’, & Lagny ‘Orban’ (Budapest University Chorus); sketch (Buck & Bubbles); scenes from Reflected Glory (Tallulah Bankhead); Wagner ‘Du ärmste kannst wohl nie ermessen’ from Lohengrin & Rubenstein ‘Romance’ (Lotte Lehmann); Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.5

 

17 Jan 1937 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Charles O’Connell Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture; Debussy Clair Du Lune; Granados ‘La Priera’ & Lecouna ‘Malaguena’ (George Copland); Turina Sacro-Monte; report from DC; Bach (arr Lucien Caillet) Prelude in E Major ; Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla; Bach Komm Süsse Tod; Massenet “Le Rêve” from Manon & Malotte ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ (René Maison) Weber Invitation to the Dance

 

24 Jan 1937 NBCSO c. Frank BlackIppolitov-Ivanov ‘Turkish March’; Lehar ‘Love is a pilgrim’ from Eva & ‘Summernight’ from Sing me a love song (Lucille Manners); sketch (Reginald Gardner) ; Porter ‘Easy to Love’ from Born to Dance & Berlin ‘Slumming in Park Avenue’ from On the Avenue (Ray Noble); Bach Gavotte, Sarega ‘Allegro’ & Torroba ‘Danza’ (Andres Segovia); Wagner ‘Inbrunst in herzen’ from Tannhäuser & Sjöberg ‘Tonenra’ (Lauritz Melchior); Wolf-Ferrari ‘Meeting of the Camarrists’from Jewels of the Madonna

 

31 Jan 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Schubert Overture to Alfonso and Estrella; ‘Mamma don’t allow no music’ sketch (Rufe Davis); ‘Mr Ghost goes to town’& ‘Head over heels in Love’ (Tommy Dorsey); Meyerbeer ‘O Paradiso’ from L’Africaine & Tosti ‘L’ultima canzone’ (Giovanni Martinelli); reports on flooding in the US

 

7 Feb 1937 NBCSO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; sketch ‘David & Goliath’ (Bert Swore & Lou Lubin); Chopin ‘Nocturne in C sharp minor’& Francoeur ‘Vivo’ (Raya Garbousova); Gluck ‘Che faro senza Eurydice’ (in German) & Reger ‘German Slumber song’ & Hildach ‘Spring song’ (Kirsten Thorborg); Brahms Symphony no.3 (3^rdmovt) c. Damrosch; Gerswhin Rhapsody in Blue (Jaques Fray & Mario Braggiotti); ‘Miss Bent Bows’ (Gertrude Lawrence)

 

14 Feb 1937 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Gina Cigna & Carlos Salzedo

 

21 Feb 1937 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Albert Spalding & Frederick Jagel

 

28 Feb 1937 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Bidu Sayao & Henri Deering

 

7 Mar 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Hadley ‘Entrance of Montezuma’ from Azora; report from Sarasota; ‘Melancholie’ & ‘When my dreamboat comes home’ (Jean Sablon); Saint-Saens Jota Aragonese; Medley from Slumming on Park Avenue & Elllington ‘Sophisticated Lady’ from Red hot and blue (Richard Himber)’ excerpt from ‘Brother Rat’ (Frank Albertson et al); Gounod ‘Waltz Song’ from Romeo et Juliette & Bellini ‘Lullaby for Liana’ (Josephine Antoine); Justin Elie ‘Dance of the Cavemen’ from the Kiskeya Suite

 

14 Mar 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Bizet ‘Dance of the Hindus’ from the Pearl Fishers; Lover ‘Molly Born’ & ‘The Palatine’s Daughter’ (Robert Irwin); Mozart ‘Andante’ from Violin Concerto no.7 (Georges Enescu); Wagner ‘Elsa’s Dream’ from Lohengrin’ (Helen Traubel); Franck Symphony in D 4 last movt c. Enescu; except from ‘White Headed Boy’ (Dudley Diggs & Sarah Allgood); Infante ‘Ritmo’ from Danses Andalouses

 

21 Mar 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Ilyinsky Scherzo finale from Suite for Orchestra; Kern ‘Can’t help lovin’ that man’ and ‘Make believe’ from Showboat & ‘Dark Eyes’ (Jaques Fray & Mario Braggiotti); Verdi ‘Invocation’ from act 1 of the Masked Ball & Bizet ‘Seguidilla’ from Carmen (Bruna Castagna); report on the 4H club; Pollock Dance Espagnole; Weiss ‘Gigues’ & Malats ‘Serenade’ (Andres Segovia); ‘Nun me sceta’ from City of Song, Strauss ‘Launisches Glück’ & ‘My song goes around the world’ (Josef Schmidt); Ippolitov-Ivanov ‘Caravan at Rest’ from the Turkish Fragments Suite

 

28 Mar 1937 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Ormandy Buxtehude (arr Lucien Caillet) Passacaglia in D Minor; Wagner Dance of the Apprentices from Meistersinger; Verdi ‘Ave Maria’ from Otello (Elisabeth Rethberg); Tchaikovky Pathetique Movt 3; Harl Macdonald Poem for Orchestra on Aramaic and Hebraic Themes; Marx ‘Marienlied’ & “Hat dich der liebe” Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture

 

4 Apr 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Reznicek Overture to Donna Diana; ‘A love like ours’ (Fernand Gravey sw from Paris); report from a plane above DC; Elgar ‘Bei Murnau’ from the Bavarian Highlands; ‘Song of India’, ‘In a sentimental mood’ & ‘Basin St Blues’ (Paul Whiteman); Saint-Saens ‘Study in thirds’ , Gluck ‘Gavotte’ & Berkeley ‘Polka’ (Ethel Bartlett & Ray Robertson); Verdi ‘D’amor sull rose’ from Il Trovatore & Barber ‘I hear an army’ (Rose Bampton with Barber on piano); Massenet ‘Aragonaise’ from Le Cid

 

11 Apr 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Massenet ‘Navaraise from Le Cid; report form Denver; ‘La Cumparsita’ & ‘Don Juan’ (Juan D’Arienzo sw from Buenos Aires); Marchesi ‘La Foletta’ & Delibes ‘Bell song’ from Lakme (Erna Sack sw from Berlin); Elgar Overture in D minor; ‘A love who lost’ (Dudley Diggs & Sarah Allgood); Verdi ‘Dio mi potevi’ from Otello & Jordan ‘Hører du’ (Lauritz Melchior) ; Gound Ballet music from Faust

 

18 Apr 1937 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Ormandy Bach (arr Lucien Caillet) Fugue in F Minor; Debussy Fetes (c. Jose Iturbi); Bizet Carmen Overture (c. Charles O’Connell) Franck Andate from Grand Piece Symphonique (c. Charles O’Connell); Bach Agony of Christ (c.Stokowski) ; Debussy Moonlight (c.Stokowski); Verdi ‘O Don fatale’ from Don Carlos (Marion Anderson); Chopin Waltz in A flat (Jose Iturbi) ; Wagner Ride of the Valkyries

 

25 Apr 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Raff Overture to the Italian suite; relay from Cleveland; excerpts from ‘Babes in Arms’ (Ray Hetherton et al); Pergolesi ‘Tre giorni son che Nina’ (Tito Schipa sw from Milan); Sibelius Finlandia; excerpt from Richard II (Maurice Evans et al); Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty; Andre Maquarre Scherzo Fandango

 

2 May 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Chadwick Jubilee; Herbert ‘Kiss Me Again’ & Foster ‘My old Kentucky Home’ (Rosa Ponselle); talk about National Music Week; Spialek Finale from Sinfonietta; Kern ‘Old Man River’ arr for orchestra; Romani ‘O divina Afrodite’ from Phaedra , ‘Carry me back to Old Virginny’ & ‘Home Sweet Home’ (Rosa Ponselle); Dvorak Symphony No.9 [part of final movt]

 

9 May 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Coleridge-Taylor Caprice de Nannette; ‘Beale Street Blues’ (Howard Yancey); report from London on the coronation; Medley (Larry Burke); Macdonald 3^rdmovt from Concerto for two pianos (Jeanne Behrend & Alexander Kelberine c. Macdonald); excerpt from ‘Excursion’ (Whitford Kane et al); Saint-Saens Havanaise & Brahms Hungarian Dance no.21 (Efrem Zimbalist)

 

16 May 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla; Tchaikovsky ‘O blessed are they’ (Chicago acapella choir); reports on Charles Lindbergh; ‘In the Spring’, ‘Close your sleepy eyes’ & ‘The Jive is Jammin’ (The King’s Jesters); Mascagni Prelude to Iris; sketch with Sylvia Clark; Strauss ‘Tales from the Vienna Woods’ & Buzzi-Peccia ‘Nina Caride’ (Vivian Della Chiesa); Goldmark ‘Entrance and Processional’ from the Queen of Sheba

 

23 May 1937 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Charles O’Connell Gliere ‘Dance of the Russian Sailors’ from the Red Poppy ballet; Wagner ‘Wacht Auf’ from Die Meistersinger; Gluck ‘O del mio dolce ardor’ from Paris & Hélène (Helen Jepson) Bach (arr Caillet) Fugue a la gigue; Bach ‘Far from Thee’; CPE Bach Magnificat; Zamachson Chorale and Fugue (Charles M. Courboin organ); Leoncavallo ‘Bird song’ from Pagliacci (Helen Jepson);Bizet ‘Gypsy Dance’ from Carmen; Graduale from the Spanish Mass (University Choir); Berlioz Rákóczi March from The Damnation of Faust

 

30 May 1937 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Yoichi Hirsoka & Tommy Dorsey

 

6 June 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Strauss Overture to Die Fledermaus; ‘Old Folks at Home’ (Marcel Dupré sw from France); ‘Jonny one note’ & ‘Panama’ & ‘Medley’ (Phil Spitalny and his all female orchestra); Handel Viola Concerto in A Minor 2^ndmovt, Tartini ‘Presto’ (William Primrose); Leoncavallo ‘Vesti la guibba’ from Pagliacci (Giovanni Martinelli sw from Rome Italy incomplete due to poor reception); Saint-Saëns ‘Introduction and Entrance of the Clowns’; sketch ‘Trouble Night’(Katherine Lock and Jules Garfield); Grainger ‘Molly on the Shore’

 

13 June 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Kreisler Tambourin Chinois; Beethoven ‘In questa tomba’, Strauss ‘Zueignung’ (Sandor Sved sw from Vienna); Salzedo ‘Chanson dans la nuit’, ‘Did I remember’ (Margaret Brill); ‘You can’t run away from love tonight’ & ‘Swanney River’ (Bunny Berigan); Entr’acte from Naughty Marietta; scene from ‘Victoria Regina’ (Helen Hayes & Vincent Price’; ‘You can’t take that away from me’ & ‘They all laughed’ (Wynn Murray); Brahms Hungarian Dance no.1

 

20 June 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Herbert Overture to Orange Blossoms; ‘I’m going to tell God all my troubles’ & ‘I’m gonna drive steel’ (Southernaires); report from the weather bureau; ‘Inspiration’ ‘Como arrullo de palmas’ (Xavier Cugat); Strauss ‘Wine women and song’; sketch ‘Female of the species’ (Margalo Gillmore); Giordano ‘Gerard’s monologue’ from Andrea Chenier, Ditchmont ‘Ma little banjo’ & ‘Prayer of Father Serrat’ (John Charles Thomas)

 

27 June 1937 NBCSO c. Frank Black Herbert selections from Sweetheart; Halévy ‘Rachel quand du seigneur’ from La Juive, Romberg ‘Softly as in the morning sunrise’ from New Moon (Jan Peerce); Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Mischa Mischakoff); report from Chicago; ‘Lullaby of Broadway’, ‘Alone together’ & ‘There’s a lull in my life’ (Richard Himber); Delibes ‘Maids of Cadiz’ , De Falla ‘Jota’ & ‘Cielito Lindo’ (Lucretia Bori)

 

4 July 1937 Magic Key Orchestra c. Frank Black Herbert ‘Habanera’ from Natoma; ‘The Merry-go-round broke down’ & ‘Ma Lindy Lou’ (The Revellers); report from Scout Jamboree; Rossini William Tell Overture , ‘American Patrol’ (Edwin Goldman); ‘Talking through my heart’; report on ‘Make a wish’ (Bobby Breen); Tango; sketch (Irwin S. Cobb) ; Sousa Stars and Stripes for Ever

 

11 July 1937 Magic Key Orchestra c. Frank Black Coates ‘Knightsbridge March’ from the London Suite; sketch – incomplete (Tex O’Rourke); 1^stsong (opening missing), ‘How carelessly you gave me your heart’ & ‘You’re just too marvellous for words’ (Jean Sablon); report from Iceland; Kern Medley from High Wide and Handsome; ‘It looks like rain’ & ‘Smarty’ (Shep Fields) ; melodrama ‘She’s only a bird in a gilded cage’; Meyerbeer ‘Page’s aria’ from Les Huguenots, Schubert ‘Hark, Hark the Lark’ (Suzanne Fisher) ; Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.2

 

18 July 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Donaldson ‘Danse Babar’ from Congo Sketches; sketch (Oliver Wakefield); ‘Where or when’, ‘I know now’ & ‘Alone’ (Jean Sablon); Kern ‘The way you look tonight’; Schubert ‘Aufenthalt’, Donaudy ‘Spirate pur, spirate’ & Bizet ‘Agnus Dei’ (Marion Anderson sw from Buenos Aires); sketch (Oliver Wakefield); Melodrama; Liadov Danse Amazon

 

25 July 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Rachmaninov Humouresque; sketch (Tex O’Rourke); ‘What a night for love’ & ‘ Speak to me of love’ (Jean Sablon); Sarasate Introduction and Tarantelle & Bach ‘Air on a G String’ (Efrem Zimbalist); orchestral piece (announcement missing); melodrama; Verdi ‘Ritorna Vincitor’ from Aida, Rachmaninov ‘In the silence of the night’ (Florence Easton)

 

1 Aug 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Mascagni Intermezzo from L’Amico Fritz; sketch Tex O’Rourke; ‘Impaccio’ (Vina Bovy sw from Buenos Aires); ‘Love is never out of season’ ‘Satan takes a holiday’ (Ozzie Nelson); melodrama ‘Red sails in the sunset’; De Falla Spanish Danice no.1

 

8 Aug 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Smetana ‘Polka’ from The Bartered Bride; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; ‘My heart and I’ & ‘Whisper in the Dark’ (Tony Russell); De Falla ‘Farruca’ & Villa Lobos ‘Polichinelle’ (Jesús Maria Sanromá); Fantasy arrangement of ‘The night is young’ and ‘You are so beautiful’; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; Saint-Saens ‘Printemps qui commence’ from Samson et Dalilah & Sjøberg ‘Tonerna’ (Gladys Swarthout); melodrama

 

15 Aug 1937 MKO c. Nathaniel Skilkret, Shilkret ‘The first time I saw you’; sketch (Robert Benchley); Kern ‘Bill’ from Showboat & ‘Night over Shanghai’ from the Singing Marines (Doris Weston); excerpt from ‘Flight from Glory’ (Walter Abel et al); Puccini ‘E lucevan le stelle’ from Tosca & Herbert ‘Neapolitan Love Song’ (Frank Forrest) ; Maytime melody; Two traditional Hawaiian songs (Honolulu serenaders sw from Hawaii); sketch Robert Benchley; ‘Gold will but most anything’ melodrama

 

22 Aug 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Rogers ‘Lover’; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; Gordon & Revel ‘Afraid to Dream’ from You can’t have everything’ & ‘These foolish things remind me of you’ (Jean Sablon) ; melodrama; Tango and Rhumba medley; report from New York; Bemberg ‘Now Joan ardently’ from the Death of Joan of Arc [some groove skips] & Strauss ‘Heimliche Aufforderung’ (Marion Telva) ; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; Lacombe ‘Los Toros’ from La Feria Suite

 

29 Aug 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Gounod Ballet Music from Faust; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; ‘My heart runs away’ & ‘Tu sai’ (Jean Sablon) ; Song of India & ‘The Big Apple’ (Tommy Dorsey); ‘Parade of the Wooden Soldiers’; melodrama; report from Manila; Herbert ‘Springsong’ from Natoma & Albeniz ‘La Partita’ (Francia White); Elie ‘Dance of the sun God’ from the Kiskaya suite

 

5 Sept 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Hadley Prelude to Act 2 of Azora; sketch with Tex O’Rourke; ‘Moon at Sea’ & ‘Un poisson de l’eau’ (Jean Sablon) ; report form Chicago; ‘Dark Eyes’ medley; ‘Ah! May the red rose live always’, ‘O Susanna’ & ‘Jeannie with the light brown hair’ (Richard Cooks); sketch with Tex O’Rourke; melodrama

 

12 Sept 1937 MKO c. Frank Black American Legion March; American Legion report; ‘Songs we sang in France’ & ‘Dance my conrades’ (Syracuse Male Chorus); ‘Over there’ (George M Cohan); Bach ‘Bourée’, Salzedo ‘The modern music box’ & Pernitz ‘The old fashioned music box’ (Margaret Brill) ; ‘The lady in Red’ ; ‘You are so fragile’ , ‘Whispers in the dark’ (Jean Sablon); sketch with Tex O’Rourke; Gluck ‘O del mio dolce ardor’ from Paride ed Elena & Salter ‘The cry of Rachel’ (Doris Doe); Guian ‘Sheep and Goat’

19 Sept 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Tucci Danza Chilena ; ‘Standing with me sword in my hand’, ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ & ‘On my journey’ (Fisk Jubilee Singers); sketch with Tex O’Rourke; ‘Ebb tide’ & ‘Afraid to dream’ (Jean Sablon); Caravan medley; reports from Around the World;

 

26 Sept 1937 MKO c. Frank Black ‘Love is sweeping the country’; comedy sketch (Jean and Glen); ‘Louisiana Hayride’; ‘Can I forget you’ & ‘Un poisson de l’eau’ (Jean Sablon); ‘Carpathian Folk Song’ & ‘Song of the marching men’ (Orpheus Male Choir); Two tangos (Pedro Laurence sw from Buenos Aries); Massenet ‘Gavotte’ from Manon & Charles ‘When I have sung my songs’ (Queena Mario); comedy sketch (Jean and Glen); Herbet Spanish Serenade

 

3 Oct 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Gliere ‘Dance of the Russian Sailors’ from the Red Poppy; ‘A bad boy’ (Danielle Darrieux); Medley (Jolly Coburn); Massenet ‘C’en es fait’ from Herodiade & Hollister ‘Rhymes of a Rover’ (John Charles Thomas); Brahms Variations excerpts; world news; MacGimsey ‘To my mother’, Malotte ‘David and Goliath’(John Charles Thomas)

 

10 Oct 1937 no broadcast due to the World Series

 

17 Oct 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Ginka Overture to Ruslan & Ludmilla; hookup from Greenland; Wagner ‘Winterstürme’ from Die Walküre, Bridge ‘O that it were so!’ (René Maison); Pollock Dance Espagnole; ‘Can I forget you?’, ‘Rio de Janiero’, ‘Harbour Lights’ & ‘The Moon got in my eyes’ (Mary Small); world news; Hahn ‘Si Mes Vers Avaient des Ailes’ , Hageman ‘Do not go my love’ (René Maison); Coates ‘Knightsbridge March’ from the London Suite

 

24 Oct 1937 MKO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; ‘A sweet and pretty thing’ , ‘Posin’ (Tune Twisters); Verdi ‘Ritorna Vincitor’ from Aïda & Strauss ‘Morgen’ (Elisabeth Rethberg); Goldmark ‘Entrance of the Queen and March’ from the Queen of Sheba; Navy report; Verdi ‘Pace, Pace’ from La Forza del Destino & Wolf ‘Er Ist’s’ (Elisabeth Rethberg); Grainger Molly on the Shore

 

31 Oct 1937MKO c. Frank Black Bach Sarabande; Samba & ‘Salita Rico’ (Laura Suarez); C.P.E Bach Symphony no. 3 (NBC String Symphony); news reports; Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky; scene from ‘The Lady has a heart’ (Vincent Price & Elissa Landi)

 

7 Nov 1937 Chicago MKO c. Roy Shield Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Overture; Thomas ‘Connais tu la pays’ from Mignon (Gertrude Wettegren); Medley (Wurlitzer Plectophonic Orchestra); Chesnokov ‘Hallelujah’ ‘Roll Chariot’ (Chicago acapella choir); Herbet ‘Spanish Serenade’, Granados ‘Romanza’, Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnole Medley; report from Eve Curie in Paris; Melatine ‘Gib mir dein herz’, Massenet ‘Il est doux’ from Herodiade (Gertrude Wettegren); Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.1

 

14 Nov 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Ries Perpetuum Mobile; Rossini ‘Una voce poco fa’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia & Warte ‘Madrigal Espagnole’ (Lucrecia Sarria); ‘Carmenito’ & ‘Avio muchachos’ (Tipica Orchestra sw from Buenos Aries); ‘When day is done’; Rossini ‘Largo al factotum’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia & ‘Just a memory’ (Conrad Thibault); sketch (Alexander Walcott); Mozart ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Don Giovanni (Sarria & Thibault); Ilyinsky ‘Orgy of the Spirits’ from Noure and Anitra

 

21 Nov 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Strauss Die Fledermaus Overture; Gounod ‘Jewel Song’ from Faust & Sibella ‘Jeremetta’ (Virginia Rea); report from Spain; Bach Concerto in A Major (1^stmovt), Rameau ‘The Hen’ & ‘Tamourin’ (Ernst Victor Wolfe); Ellington ‘Caravan’; ‘When they played the Waltz’ (Robert Walston & Margalo Gillmore); Herbert ‘I list the trill’ from Natoma & ‘Comin through the rye’ (Virginia Rea); Saint-Saëns ‘Gigue’ from the Henry VII suite

 

28 Nov 1937 Chicago MKO c. Roy Shield Massenet ‘Fête Bohème’; Meyerbeer ‘Shadow song’ from Dinorah & Scarlatti ‘La Violette’ (Vina Bovy); news report from Havana; Strauss fantasy & ‘Rio Rita’ (Marek Weber); Guion ‘Turkey in the Straw’; Wolfe ‘De Glory Road’ (Edward Davies); sketch (Vic and Sade); Gounod ‘Waltz Song’ from Romeo et Juliette & Koechlin ‘Si tu le veux’ (Vina Bovy); Brahms Hungarian Dances no 18 & 21.

 

5 Dec 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Wolf-Ferrari ‘Meeting of the Camora’ from the Jewels of the Madonna; ‘Massa’s in the cold, cold ground’, ‘Shortin’ Bread’ & ‘Old folks at home’ (Golden Gate Jubilee Singers); news report from Copenhagen; Verdi ‘Ecco l’orrido campo’ from Un Ballo in Maschera (Gina Cigna) ; unannounced orchestral piece; ‘Night and day’, Improvisation & arrangement of ‘The Lost Chord’ (Alex Templeton); Verdi ‘Pace, Pace’ from La Forza Del Destino’ (Gina Cigna); Brahms Hungarian Dance no.6

 

12 Dec 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Thomas Overture to Le Caïd; ‘Veni Veni’ & ‘Trees’ (Joe Lilly Singers); Bach Bourrée in B Flat minor, Moskowski ‘Waltz’ (Edward Vito); Wagner ‘In fernem land’ from Lohengrin, Jordan ‘Høre du’ (Lauritz Melchior); Mendelssohn Piano concerto no.2 1^stmovt (Frank Black); Wagner ‘Meine Liebe Schwann’ from Lohengrin, La Forge ‘Into the light’ & Grieg ‘Jeg elsker deg’ (Lauritz Melchior); Tarenghi Serenade

 

19 Dec 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Bizet ‘Dance of the Hindus’ from Les pêcheurs de perles; news report from Guyana; Chopin ‘Romanza’ from concerto in E minor (Moriz Rosenthal); Black arr ‘Ebbtide’; extract from ‘The Candle in the Forest’ (Peggy Wood et al); Strauss ‘Humouresque’ (Moriz Rosenthal); German ‘Gigue’ from Henry VIII suite

 

26 Dec 1937 MKO c. Frank Black Rachmaninov ‘Humouresque’; ‘Cielito Lindo’ & ‘L’amor’ (Laura Suarez); ‘Two cigarettes in the dark’, ‘Medley’ &Templeton ‘Toccata’ (Alex Templeton); Beethoven Egmont overture (c. Enescu); ‘Hail Finland’, ‘Beyond the Forest’, ‘Evening Reverie’ & Sibelius ‘Boat Ride’ (Helsinki University Chorus); Mendelssohn Andante from the Violin Concerto (Georges Enescu)

 

2 Jan 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla; Wagner ‘Dich teure Halle’ from Tannhäuser, Schubert ‘Ave Maria’ & Strauss ‘Zueignung’ (Kirsten Flagstad); Mascagni ‘Intermezzo’ from L’amico Fritz; excerpt from ‘Julius Caesar’ (Orson Welles et al); Beethoven ‘Die ehre Gottes’, Grøndahl ‘Mot Kvæld’ & Speaks ‘Morning (Kirsten Flagstad); Bizet ‘Farandole’ from L’arlesienne suite; Roger ‘At parting’ & Charles ‘When I have sung my songs’(Kirsten Flagstad); Bizet ‘Intermezzo’ from L’arlesienne suite

 

9 Jan 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Infante ‘Ritmo’; Grieg ‘Jeg elsker dig’ (Kirsten Flagstad); hookup with Norway; Grieg ‘En drøm’ & Rogers ‘The Star’ (Karen Flagstad sw from Oslo) ; Black arr. Fantasy on Dark Eyes; Wagner ‘Winterstürme’ from Die Walküre & Wagner ‘Nothung! Nothung!’ from Siegfried (Carl Hartmann); Porter ‘I get a kick out of you’ & ‘Gypsy in my soul’ (Joan Edwards); interview with Eleanor Roosevelt; Wagner ‘Allmächt’ger vater’ from Rienzi (Carl Hartmann); Gounod Ballet music finale from Faust

 

16 Jan 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Chabrier ‘España’; Bullard ‘Winter Song’, ‘Sweet and Low’ & ‘The Shadow March’ (RCA Victor Glee Club); Mozart ‘finale’ from C Major Piano Concerto (Emma Boynet); Kern medley; sketch ‘All the men and women merely players’ (Dame May Whitty et al); Ravel ‘Alborada del Gracioso’ (Emma Boynet); Delibes ‘March and Procession of Bacchus’ from Sylvia

 

23 Jan 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Black arr. ‘Without a song’; Puccini ‘Un bel di’ from Madama Butterfly & ‘Cielito Lindo’ (Dusolina Giannini); ‘Farruca’ & ‘Grand Jota’ (Vincente Gomez); news report from Hawaii; Ries ‘Perpetuum Mobile’; ‘Springtime’, ‘The only one’ & ‘Our last waltz together’ (Marie Hiller and the 8 men of Manhattan); Mascagni ‘Voi lo sapete’ from Cavalleria Rusticana & Tosti ‘Marechiare’ (Dusolina Giannini); Rimsky-Korsakov ‘Dance of the Clowns’ from the Snow Maiden

 

30 Jan 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Pollack ‘Bolero’; ‘Marinella’ & ‘You took the words right out of my heart’ (Nola Day); news from Buenos Aires; Mozart ‘O Isis’ from Die Zauberflöte & Mozart ‘Non piu andrai’ from Le Nozze di Figaro (Ezio Pinza); Jerome Kern medley; Scarlatti Sonatina in E, Albeniz ‘Sevilliana no.3’ & Navarro ‘Little Dance’ (Jose Iturbi); Handel ‘Alma Mia’ from Floridante & ‘Deep River’ (Ezio Pinza); Bizet ‘Serenade Espagnole’ from Carmen

 

6 Feb 1938 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Eugene Ormandy Bach (arr. Caillet) Preludium and Fugue in F Minor; Bach Komm Süsse Tod; Mozart ‘Voi che sapete’ & ‘Non so pui’ from Le Nozze di Figaro (Ria Ginster); Tchaikovsky Symphony no.6 movt 3; Wolf ‘Er Ist’s’ & Hagemann ‘Do not go my love’ (Ria Ginster); Mussorgsky excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition

 

13 Feb 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Moskowski Malaguena; ‘Bewildered’ & ‘Down with love’ from Hurray for What (Jean Ellington); Damrosch ‘An Abraham Lincoln Song’ (c. Damrosch); news report from Guatemala; Borodin ‘Polovtsian Dance no.2’ from Prince Igor; sketch ‘Mr & Mrs Waylan at home’ (Sara Allgood et al); Rubenstein Trot de Cavalerie

 

20 Feb 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Raff Overture to the Italian Suite; ‘I’m against rhythm’ & ‘Posin’ (Tune Twisters); sketch ‘Balcony Scene’ (Margalo Gillmore et al); Ponchielli ‘Dance of the hours’ from La Gioconda; news report from Mexico City; Goldwyn Follies Medley - ‘Love is here to stay’ (Felix Knight); ‘Spring is here again’ (Helen Jepson); ‘I love to rhyme’ (Tune Twisters); ‘Love walked in’ (Charles Kullmann); Verdi ‘Sempre Libera’ from La Traviata (Helen Jepson); Verdi ‘Libiam’ from La Travaita (Helen Jepson & Charles Kullmann); Tchaikovsky ‘Hungarian Dance’ from Swan Lake [last two numbers have severe pitch issues]

 

27 Feb 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Wolf-Ferrari‘Dance of the Comoros’ from The Jewels of the Madonna; Medley of Songs of the Old West & ‘You’re a sweetheart’ (The Revellers); Donizetti ‘O mio Fernando’ from La Favorita (Bruna Castagna); news from San Franciso; Black arr. ‘You are music’ ; Chopin ‘Nocturne op.62’ & Chopin ‘Tarantelle op.43’ (Ania Dorfmann); Black arr. ‘Whistle while you work’; Bizet ‘Habañera’ & ‘Seguidilla’ from Carmen (Bruna Castagna);Ilynsky ‘Orgy of the Spirit’ from Noure and Anitra

 

6 Mar 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Delibes ‘March and Procession of Bacchus’ from Sylvia; Medley (George O’Connor); Haydn ‘Theme & Variations’, Salzedo ‘Pirouetting Music Box’, Salzedo ‘Behind the Barracks’ & ‘Salzedo ‘Believe me’ (Carlos Salzedo); Bizet ‘La fleur que tu m’avais jetée’ from Carmen, Rossini ‘La Danza’ & Tosti ‘O Sole mio’ (Jan Kiepura); Grainger ‘Molly on the shore’; sketch ‘Mr & Mrs Waylan at home’ (Sara Allgood & Whitford Kane); Maciejewski ‘On your coral red lips’, Polish Folksong (Jan Kiepura)

 

13 Mar 1938 MKO c. Frank BlackNicodé ‘In The Tavern’ from Scenes from the South; sketch ‘Mary had a little lamb’ (Norman Corwin et al); Mozart Piano Quartet in E Flat 1^stmovt (Pasquier Trio); Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana arr as ‘Ave Maria’, Thomas ‘Gavotte’ from Mignon (Gladys Swarthout);Smetana ‘Furian’ from the Bartered Bride; Herbet selections from ‘Eileen’; news reports from Colombia; ‘Blue Dawn’ from Romance in the Dark & Charles ‘When I have sung my songs’ (Gladys Swarthout);Lacombe ‘Los Toros’ from La Feria Suite

 

20 Mar 1938MKO c. Frank Black Goldmark ‘In Spring’ Overture; Grieg ‘Brothers sing on’ & Sibelius ‘The broken melody’ (Yale Glee Club); news report from Montreal; Ponchielli ‘Suicidio’ from La Gioconda (Zinka Milanov); Black arr ‘The toy Trumpet’ from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Grofe ‘The Melodic Decade’ (c. Grofe World Premiere); ‘Poor wayfaring stranger’ & ‘The animals are coming’ (Yale Glee Club); Mascagni ‘Voi lo sapete’ from Cavalleria Rusticana & Strauss ‘Traum durch die Dämmerung’ (Zinka Milanov)

 

27 Mar 1938 St Louis Symphony Orchestra c. Vladimir Golschmann Beethoven Coriolanus Overture; Wagner ‘Elsa’s Dream’ from Lohengrin (Helen Traubel); Strauss Don Juan; Mendelssohn Scherzo from the Octet; Wagner ‘Du bist der lenz’ from Die Walküre & Grieg ‘Ich liebe dich’ (Helen Traubel); talk; Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

 

3 Apr 1938 MKO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; Puccini ‘Vissi d’arte’ from Tosca & Strauss ‘Zueignung’(Lotte Lehmann); Brahms Hungarian Dance no.1; Brahms ‘Das Mädchen Spricht’, Schubert ‘Weigenlied’ & Pfitzner ‘Gretel’ (Lotte Lehmann); news of life; Saint-Saëns ‘March Francaise’ from the Algerian Suite; salute to Army Day

 

10 Apr 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Coleridge-Taylor ‘La Caprice de Nanette’ from the Petite Suite; ‘Life of the party’ ‘Darkness on the Delta’ & ‘The Dipsy Doodle’ (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet); news report; Mendelssohn Scherzo in E Minor; Strauss ‘Springtime in the air’ from the Three Waltzes (Karen Marie Flagstad); Strauss Medley of Waltzes; sketch (Alexander Wallcott); Edwards ‘By the bend in the river’ (Karen Marie Flagstad); ‘Eg Ser Der Utfor Gluggjen’& ‘Ola Glomstulen’(Kirsten & Karen Marie Flagstad); Delibes ‘Czardas’ from Coppelia

 

17 Apr 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Glazunov Carnival Overture; Wagner ‘Nur eine waffe’ from Parsifal (Lauritz Melchior); Tribute to Shakespeare (Eva Le Gallienne et al); Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Bizet ‘Carilion’ from L’Arlesienne Suite no.1; news from Bermuda; Wagner ‘Prize Song’ from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Lauritz Melchior); Dvorak Finale of Symphony no.9

 

24 Apr 1938 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra c. Eugene Goosens Brahms Academic Festival Overture; Gluck ‘Divinites due styx’ from Alceste & Purcell ‘When I am laid’ from Dido and Aeneas (Marjorie Lawrence); Beethoven ‘Allegro Molto’ from Eroica Symphony; Debussy ‘Fetes’; Wolf ‘Gebet’, ‘Der Rattenfenger’ & ‘Gesang Weyla’s’ (Marjorie Lawrence); Goosens ‘Bacchanale’ from Three Nature Poems

 

1 May 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Chadwick ‘Jubilee’ from Symphonic Sketches; Damrosch ‘Danny Deever’, Foster ‘Jeannie with the light brown hair’ & Cadman ‘Land of the sky blue water’ (John Charles Thomas); David Sarnoff talks about National Music Week; MacDowell ‘Sonata Tragica’ 2^ndmovt; Speaks ‘Sylvia’ & Buck ‘On the sea’ (RCA Victor Glee Club); Gershwin Porgy & Bess medley; O’Hara ‘Sing a while longer’, Johnson ‘Steal Away’ & Kern ‘Old Man River’ (John Charles Thomas)

 

8 May 1938 NBCSO c. Walter Damrosch Goldmark Overture & Springtime; Brahms Symphony no.2 3^rdmovt; Lekeu Adagio in C Minor; news report from Nicaragua; Honegger Pacific 231; Chasins ‘Parade’; Philip James ‘Mikestruck’ from Station WGZBX

 

15 May 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Title music from ‘Great Day’; sketch (Ceclia Loftus); Black arr. ‘Symphony of Roses’; news report from Panama; Verdi ‘Cortigiani’ from Rigoletto & ‘Danny Boy’ (Leonard Warren); sketch (Ceclia Loftus); Black arr. ‘Rhythm of the rumba’

 

22 May 1938 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Eugene Ormandy Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture (some groove skips towards the end) ; Debussy Fêtes (again some groove skips); news from Colombia; Harl Macdonald Poem for Orchestra on a Hebraic Theme; Debussy ‘Claire du Lune’ arr. Lucien Caillet (c. Charles O’Connell); Liszt Les Préludes (also some groove skips)

 

29 May 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Coates ‘The Man from the Sea’ from The Three Men suite; Bellini ‘Casta Diva’ from Norma, Schubert ‘Auftenhalt’ (Marion Anderson); news from Peru; Torque ‘Pasa Doble’; Medley from ‘I married an angel’; Bizet ‘Agnus Dei’, ‘Honor, Honor’ & ‘Deep River’; Black arr. Memorial Day Tribute

 

5 Jun 1938 MKO c. Frank Black ‘Two hearts in three quarter time’; ‘Lovelight in the starlight’ ‘Christopher Robin’ (Morton Downey); news from Peru; ‘Harmonica Hop’ Clinton arr. ‘Martha’ (Larry Clinton); ‘Chinese Lullaby’; play ‘David the Giant Killer’ (Homer Smith et al)

 

12 Jun 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Reis Perpetuum Mobile; Bortniansky ‘Cherub Song’ & Rimsky-Korsakov ‘Carnival Song’ from the Snow Maiden (Art of Musical Russia Choir); ‘After you’ve gone’ & ‘You leave me breathless’ (Benny Goodman); news from Chile; Black arr. ‘With a song in my heart’; ‘Tornado in rhythm’, ‘The man I love’ & ‘Dig-a-dig-a-doo’ (Benny Goodman); Opera Medley (Ann De Ohla); Mussorgsky ‘Gopak’

 

19 Jun 1938 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Ann de Ohla, Georges Barre & Yella Pessi

 

26 Jun 1938 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Rose Marie & Ann de Ohla

 

3 Jul 1938 MKO c. Frank Black ‘Bright shines the moon’; ‘My Margarita’ & ‘Would you like to take a walk’ (The Revellers); news from Rio di Janiero; ‘I’ll dream tonight’ & ‘Reverie’ (Larry Clinton); ‘Songs of safety’ & ‘Heroes of Peace’ (Irving Caesar); Sousa March; Rossini ‘Largo al factotum’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia & Tchaikovsky ‘None but the lonely heart’ (Igor Gorin)

 

10 Jul 1938 George Gershwin tribute MKO c. Nathaniel Shilkret; Medley from Of thee I sing; ‘The Man I love’ (Jane Froman); Medley from Girl Crazy; Medley from Porgy & Bess pt1; Gershwin medley; Medley from Oh Kay!; news from Caracas; Medley from Shall we Dance?; Rhapsody in Blue excerpt; Medley from Lady Be Good & Tiptoe; Gershwin Medley; Medley from Porgy & Bess pt2

 

17 Jul 1938 incomplete only sides 1 & 3. MKO c. Frank Black Tavan Sierra Morenne; Massenet ‘Gavotte’ from Manon & ‘Kerry Dance’ (Anne Jamieson); news from Dominican Republic incomplete; Massenet ‘La Danse’ from Scènes Napolitaines; Alfred Robyn ‘A Heart that’s free’ (Anne Jamieson); Smetana ‘Furian’ from the Bartered Bride; sketch (Cornelia Otis Skinner) incomplete

 

24 July 1938 Philadelphia Summer Orchestra c. Ormandy Strauss Fledermaus Overture; De Falla ‘Interlude and Dance’ from La Vida Breve; news from Haiti; Grainger Londonderry Air (arr. for Strings); Harl Macdonald ‘Cake Walk’ from Cake Walk Symphony; Wagner ‘Hymn to the evening Star’ from Tannhäuser; Wolfe ‘De Glory Road’ (Edward Rocker); Lucien Caillet Pop goes the Weasel Variations (c. Charles O’Connell); Wagner Dance of the Apprentices from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

 

31 July 1938 Chicago MKO c. Roy Shield Jimenez Tower of Gold Overture; Massenet ‘Vision fugitive’ from Hérodiade & Mussorgsky ‘Drinking Song’ from Boris Godunov (Edward Davies); news from Havana (inaudible due to sw conditions); ‘There’s a new moon’ & ‘Turnip Greens’ (Vass Family); David Rose, Swing etude; Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture, Ketèlbey ‘In a monastery garden’ & Rimsky-Korsakov ‘Flight of the bumblebee’ (Marimba Orchestra); sketch (Vic & Sade); Charles ‘When I have sung my songs’ & Kern ‘The song is you’ (Edward Davies)

 

7 Aug 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Coleridge-Taylor Caprice de Nanette; Saint-Saëns ‘Amour viens aide’ from Samson et Dalilah & Charles ‘Clouds’ (Gladys Swarthout); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Medley & ‘Margarita’ (Richard Himber); news report; Herbet Medley from Orange Blossom; Coward ‘Where are the songs we sung’ from Operette (Gladys Swarthout); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

14 Aug 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Herbert Medley from Sweethearts; McGimsey ‘Shadrack’ & Dixieland Band’ (Songsmiths Quartet); Tavan ‘Sierra Morenne’ from the Spanish Suite; Gounod ‘Ange andorable’ from Romeo et Juliette (Susanne Fisher & Clifford Menz); ‘When twilight comes’ & ‘Don’t cross your fingers cross your heart’ (Sammy Kaye); playlet ‘Mr & Mrs Waylan go shopping’ (Sara Allgood and Whitford Kane) ; Herbert ‘Do you know’ from the Madcap Duchess; Smetana ‘Czardas’ from The Bartered Bride (Susanne Fisher & Clifford Menz); Hebert ‘Autumn Frolics’ from the Woodland Fancies Suite

 

21 Aug 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Moskowski Bolero; talk by Clifton Fadiman; Puccini ‘Che gelida manina’ from La Bohème (Todor Mazaroff sw from Holland); ‘Campbells are swinging’, Porter ‘You never know’ & ‘Tippermouth’ (Larry Clinton); Veracini ‘Largo’ & Wieniawski ‘Scherzo Tarantelle’ (Cesare Sodero Jr c. Cesare Sodero Sr); sketch (Franklin Adams); Gluck ‘Che faro senza Euridice’ from Orfeo & Beach ‘The Years of the Spring’ (Doris Doe); Marquarre Scherzo Fandango

 

28 Aug 1938 MKO c. Frank Black German Gypsy Dance; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Wait till the sun shines’ & ‘The Gospel Train’ (Golden Gate Quartet); Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no.12 (Beverage Webster); ‘Maple leaf Rag’, ‘The wave a stick blues’ & ‘Says my heart’ (Ozzie Nelson); McGimsey ‘Land of Degredation’ & Rogers ‘With a song In my heart’ (Conrad Thibault); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Coates ‘Oxford St March’ from the London Suite

 

4 Sept 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Coates ‘At the fair’; talk by Clifton Fadiman; sketch on Beethoven (Irene Wicker); ‘Stop beating round the Mulberry bush’, ‘I’ll see you in my dreams’ & ‘Copenhagen’ (Tommy Dorsey); Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty; talk by Clifton Fadiman; Tchaikovsky arr. Farrar ‘Romeo & Juliet’, Grieg ‘Ich liebe dich’ (Marion Telva); sketch ‘Radio’ (Pauline Lord et al)

 

11 Sept 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Lacombe ‘Los Toros’ from La Feria Suite; talk by Clifton Fadiman; Stravinsky ‘Russian Dance’ from Petrushka, De Falla ‘Ritual Fire Dance’ from L’Amor Brujo (Pierre Luboshutz, Genia Nemanoff); ‘When a prince of a fella’ ‘You’re the very last word in love’ & ‘When the circus comes to town’ (Gray Gordon); Coates ‘Northwards’ from the Four Way Suite; talk by Clifton Fadiman; Wagner ‘Dich teure halle’ from Tannhäuser & Romberg ‘I give my heart’ (Grete Stuckgold); talk by Clifton Fadiman; ‘The Waylans make the front page (Sarah Allgood and Whitford Kane)

 

18 Sept 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Gounod Ballet Music from Faust; ‘Music maestro please’ & ‘You’ from the Great Ziegfeld (Joan Briton);Nicodé ‘In The Tavern’ from Scenes from the South; ‘Begin the Beguine’ & ‘What is this thing called love’ (Artie Shaw)talk by Clifton Fadiman; Beethoven Romance in G, Brahms Hungarian Dance no.21 (Efrem Zimbalist)

 

25 Sept 1938 NBC String Orchestra Bach Sarabande from Violin Partita no.1; Haydn Variations in F Minor, Mozart Rondo in A Minor; Chopin Ballet op.52, Chopin Mazurka in F sharp minor op.59, Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor; Wagner ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde; Schubert Moment Musicale (Ignace Paderewski sw from Lucerne); Debussy String Quartet in G minor 1^stmovt; Black arr. Mendelssohn Song without words

 

2 Oct 1938 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Lotte Lehmann & Oscar Levant

 

9 Oct 1938 no broadcast due to World Series

 

16 Oct 1938 no listening copy located NY Times lists appearance of Virginia Rea, Elizabeth Lennox & Alex Templeton

 

23 Oct 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Medley of sea songs; Verdi ‘Pace Pace’ from La Forza del Destino, Bayly ‘Long, Long Ago’, Tyson ‘Sea Moods’ (Rose Bampton); Chadwick Jubilee; Navy Day salute

 

30 Oct 1938 San Francisco Opera Orchestra c. Gaetano Merola Verdi Overture La Forza del Destino; Verdi ‘O don fatale’ from Don Carlos (Ebe Stignani); Verdi ‘The Virgin of the Angels’ from Don Carlos (Norman Cordon & Ebe Stignani); Rossini ‘Largo al factotum’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Richard Bonelli); news from San Francisco; Mozart ‘Il Mio tesoro’ from Don Giovanni (Dino Borgioli); Mascagni ‘Easter Hymn’ from Cavalleria Rusticana & Bizet ‘Habañera’ from Carmen (Ebe Stignani); Mascagni ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana; Verdi ‘A mio furor’ from Don Carlos (Ebe Stignani, Richard Bonelli, Dino Borgioli)

 

6 Nov 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Moskowski Malaguena; Mozart ‘Rondo’ from Violin Sonata in B flat Major & Monti ‘Hungarian Czardas’ (Yoichi Hiraoka); ‘March of Time’; Puccini ‘Vissi d’arte’ from Tosca, Rossini ‘La Danza’ & Herbert ‘Thine Alone’ from Eileen (Helen Jepson); talk by Clifton Fadiman; Sanders ‘Saturday night’; scene from ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois’ (Raymond Massey et al); Glazunov ‘Autumn’ from The Seasons

 

13 Nov 1938 MKO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; Wagner ‘Meine liebe schwann’ from Lohengrin & Jorden ‘Drikke’ (Lauritz Melchior); talk by Clifton Fadiman; Mozart Largetto & Allegretto from A major quintet for Clarinet & Strings (Benny Goodman & Budapest Quartet); orchestral melody; play ‘Offertory’ (Katherine Locke et al); Verdi ‘Dio mi potevi’ from Otello & Jorden ‘Høre du’ (Lauritz Melchior);MacDowell ‘Scherzo’ from Sonata Tragica

 

20 Nov 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Pollock Danse Espagnole; ‘The farmer in the dell’ & ‘Jonah in the Whale’ (Songsmiths); talk by Clifton Fadiman; Dvorak Adagio from Cello Concerto (Emmanuel Feuermann); Carmichael ‘Stardust’; playlet ‘Grandma’s in the parlour’ (Minnie Dupree et al); Tipton ‘Spirit Flower’, Kern ‘Our song’ & Strauss ‘Tales from the Vienna woods’ (Margaret Speaks)

 

27 Nov 1938 Chicago MKO c. Roy Shield Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.8; talk Ransom Sherman; Massenet ‘Il est doux’ from Herodiade & Rossini ‘La Danza’ (Vivian Della Chiesa); sketch (Swar and Lubin); dance medley; Kern ‘Sweet Adeline’ (Gertrude Lawrence); Bizet ‘Farandole’ from L’Arlesienne Suite; play ‘The end of the Dance’ (Gertrude Lawrence et al); Reger ‘Slumber Song’ & Grieg ‘My Johann’ (Vivian Della Chiesa); German ‘Merrymakers Dance’ from Nell Gwynn Dances

 

4 Dec 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Raff Overture from the Italian Suite; Friml ‘Donkey Serenade’ & Medley (Fairchild & Carroll); Verdi ‘Ritorna Vincitor’ from Aïda (Maria Caniglia); Black arr. ‘When day is done’; Kern medley (Leonard Joy); sketch (Shiela Barrett); Verdi ‘Tacea la notte’ from Il Trovatore (Maria Caniglia)

 

11 Dec 1938 MKO c. Frank Black Chopin Polonaise Militaire; Gluck ‘Divinites du Styx’ from Alceste & Duparc ‘La vie antérieure’ (Marian Anderson); Moskowski ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ from the 1^stSuite for Orchestra; sketch Eric Blore; Sibelius ‘On great lone hills’, Gibold ‘Hi ho I love you’ (Victor Glee Club); Black arr. Ellington ‘Caravan’; sketch Eric Blore; ‘Heaven, Heaven’, ‘Tramping’ & ‘Honor, Honor’ (Marian Anderson)

 

18 Dec 1938 no listening copy found NY Times lists appearance of John Charles Thomas

 

25 Dec 1938 no listening copy found NY Times lists appearance of Beniamino Gigli & Vienna Boys Choir

 

1 Jan 1939 [2 hour special] MKO c. Frank Black Wagner Lohengrin Act 3 prelude; hookups from London and Paris; Wagner ‘Elsa’s Dream’ from Lohengrin (Kirsten Flagstad); speech from Lennox R. Law; sketch from ‘The Beachcomber’ (Charles Lawton et al); Borodin ‘Archer’s Dance’ from Prince Igor; news from Hollywood; ‘My revereie’ & ‘Temptation’ (Larry Clinton); news reports; Earl Wild ‘Dance for Piano and Orchestra’ (Earl Wild pf); Mozart ‘Aprite un po’ quegli occhi’ from Il Nozze di Figaro & Tosti ‘L’Ultima Canzone’ (Ezio Pinza); Goldmark ‘Rustic Wedding March’ (c. Damrosch); sketch; excerpt from ‘The Rivals’ (Eva le Gallienne et al); Charles ‘When I have sung my songs’ & Roland ‘O lovely night’ (Kirsten Flagstad)

 

8 Jan 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Mozart Overture to The Impressario; Mozart ‘Deh vieni non tardi’ & ‘Voi che sapete’ from Don Giovanni (Elisabeth Schumann); tribute to Stephen Foster; Liszt ‘Frishka’ from Hungarian Rhapsody no.2; Strauss ‘Morgen’ & ‘Ständchen’ (Elizabeth Schumann); sketch (Elsie Janis)

 

15 Jan 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Coates Knightsbridge March; Verdi ‘Qui Radames verra’ from Aïda & De Falla ‘Seguidilla Murciana’ (Sylvia Brema); sketch (Robert Wildhack); Strauss Waltz medley; play ‘Cadenza’ (Margalo Gillmore); Grainger ‘Country Gardens’; ‘Sing for your supper’, ‘Johnny One Note’ (Wynn Murray et al); Lacombe ‘Los Toros’ from La Feria Suite

 

22 Jan 1939 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra c. Fabien Sevitsky Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Wagner ‘Prize Song’ from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Lauritz Melchior); Debussy ‘L’apres d’un faune’; Mendelssohn Symphony no.4 1^stmovt; Strauss ‘Heimliche Aufforderung’, Walter Branson ‘Music of the Spring’ (Lauritz Melchior); Leo Sowerby ‘Money Musk’; Berlioz ‘Rákóczi March’ from the Damnation of Faust

 

29 Jan 1939 Victor Salon Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shilkret (Tribute to Victor Herbert); Badinage; Medley from The Red Mill; ‘Kiss Me Again’ from Mademoiselle Modeste (Anne Jamieson); ‘Air de ballet’ & ‘Alfresco’; ‘Panamericana’; ‘I’m falling in love’ & ‘Italian street song’ from Naughty Marietta (Jan Peerce & Anne Jamieson); Medley from Babes in Toyland (Jan Peerce & Anne Jamieson); Medley from The Fortune Teller (Jan Peerce, Anne Jamieson & Thomas L. Thomas); ‘A sweet mystery of life’ & ‘Neath the Southern moon’ from Naughty Marietta (Thomas L. Thomas); Medley from Sweethearts

 

5 Feb 1939 MKO c. Frank Black German ‘The Merrymaker’s Dance’ from the Nell Gwynne Suite; Handel ‘Soupirer et plueurer’ from Julius Caesar (Marjorie Lawrence); sketch (Tom Howard & George Shelton); Black arr. ‘Falling in love with love’ from the Boys from Syracuse; ‘No star is lost’ & ‘Little Lad’ (Sammy Kaye); playlet ‘A sunny morning’ (Eva Legallion et al); Strauss ‘Zueignung’ & ‘Doun the Burn’ (Marjorie Lawrence); Coates ‘Oxford St March’ from the London Suite

 

12 Feb 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Thomas Overture to Le caïd; Massenet ‘Il est doux’ from Herodiade (Grace Moore); talk on the Gettysburg Address; ‘Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho’ & ‘Go down Moses’ (J. Rosamund Johnson Choir); Sanders ‘Saturday Night’; Saint-Saens ‘Wild Horses’ from Carnival of Animals’, Bach ‘Siciliano’ & Scott ‘Dance Negra’ (Byron Janis & Joyce Paul); Kreisler ‘The old refrain’ & ‘Stars in my eyes’ from The King Steps Out (Grace Moore); Coates ‘Northwards’ from the Four Ways Suite

 

19 Feb 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Vincent Youmans ‘Great Day’; selections from Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas (Lucille Manners, Felix Knight & Walter Preston); news from San Francisco; Borodin ‘Archer’s Dance’ from Prince Igor; sketch ‘The Shamrock Laundry’ (Sara Allgood, Whitford Kane); Lalo Symphony Espagnole movts 3 & 4 (Nathan Milstein)

 

26 Feb 1939 Special Ignace Paderewski programme Beethoven Moonlight Sonata; Schubert Impromptu in A flat major; Chopin Ballade in A flat op.47; Chopin arr Liszt ‘My Joys’ & The Maiden’s Wish’ ; Chopin Polonaise in A flat op.53; Paderewski Minuet in G [played twice]

 

5 Mar 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Godard ‘In the village’ from Scènes Poètique; Rossini ‘La calunnia’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Ezio Pinza); Moskowski ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ from the 1^stSuite for Orchestra; news from the Yankee Clipper; Kreutzer arr Black ‘Good Morning Mr Kreutzer’ ; medley from ‘Stars in their eyes’ (Ethel Merman & Jimmy Durante); ‘Deep River’& Edwards ‘After’ (Ezio Pinza);Nicodé ‘In The Tavern’ from Scenes from the South

 

12 Mar 1939MKO c. Frank Black Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3; Verdi ‘Celeste Aïda’ from Aïda (Jan Kiepura); ‘One for the Money’ (Nancy Hamilton); Jessel ‘The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers’; Bach ‘Komm süsse tod’, Palestrina ‘Adoramus te Christi’, Psalms 23 & 121, Abt ‘Ave Maria’, ‘Der krippe Jesu’ & ‘Dream of bygone days’ (Hamilton College Choir); Kern ‘Waltz in Springtime’; ‘Tell my tonight’ from ‘Be Mine Tonight’ & Di Capua ‘O Sole Mio’ (Jan Kiepura); Dvorak Slavonic Dance no.15

 

19 Mar 1939 MKO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; ‘I have eyes’ from Paris Honeymoon & ‘This can’t be love’ from the Boys from Syracuse (Loretta Lee); Herbert ‘Spanish Serenade’; scene from ‘The School for Scandal’ (Pauline Lord); ‘Peter Ilyich on the flying trapeze’ & ‘Capriciousness no.24’ (New Friends of Rhythm); Black arr. ‘Can I forget you?’; scene from ‘Distant Drums’ (Pauline Lord); medley from the Swing Mikado; Elie ‘Orgie’ from Suite Babylon

 

26 Mar 1939 MKO c. Frank BlackGliere ‘Dance of the Russian Sailors’ from The Red Poppy; Rossini Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Comedian Harmonists); report from the New York World’s Fair and Paris; Mendelssohn Piano concerto in G Minor 4^thmovt & Chopin Trois Ecossaises (Ania Dorfmann); Black arr. ‘Symphony of Roses’; Ketelby ‘In a Persian Market’ (Comedian Harmonists); scene from ‘When the Whistle Blows’ (Nancy Carroll et al);Smetana ‘Dance of the Comedians’ from the Bartered Bride

 

2 Apr 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Medley of Army favourites; McGimsey ‘Shadrack’ & Dix, ‘The Trumpeter’ (Conrad Thibault); Sousa ‘Stars and Stripes for Ever’; army day celebrations including hookups overseas

 

9 April 1939 Philadelphia Orchestra c. Eugene Ormandy De Falla ‘Interlude and Dance’ from La Vida Breve; Gounod ‘O ma lyre immortelle’ from Sappho (Marjorie Lawrence); Bach Air for the G String; Weinburger ‘Polka and Fugue’ from Schwanda the Bagpiper; Enescu Romanian Rhapsody no.1; Frank ‘Easter Adoration’ & Bonner ‘Dearest Thou o Soul’ (Marjorie Lawrence); Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture

 

16 Apr 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Saint-Saëns Marche Francaise; Arne ‘Air from Milton’s Comus’, Debussy ‘Beaux Soir’ & Bizet ‘Toreador’s Song’ from Carmen (John Charles Thomas); talk on radio; Black arr. Ellington ‘Caravan’; sketch (Bob McGimsey); play ‘Low Heeled Walking Shoes’ (Lulu McConnell et al); Fenner ‘When children pray’, ‘The Green-eyed Dragon’, Foster ‘My journey’s end’ (John Charles Thomas); Grainger ‘Mock Morris’

 

23 Apr 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Coates ‘The Man from the Sea’; Verdi ‘Re dell’abisso affretati’ from Un Ballo in Maschera (Bruna Castagna); sketch (Sheila Barrett); Black arr. Carmichael ‘Stardust’; Massenet ‘Ferme les yeux’ from Le Roi De Lahore (Bruna Castagna); Black arr. ‘Bright Shines the Moon’; scenes from the Hot Mikado (Bill Robinson, Eddie Green, Rose Brown, Bob Parish)

 

30 Apr 1939 [30 min broadcast due to broadcast by President Roosevelt at the New York World’s Fair] MKO c. Frank Black Sousa ‘Semper Fidelis’; talk by Grame MacNamee on Television; Charpentier ‘Depuis la jour’ from Louise & ‘Tra la la’ (Jarmilla Novotna); playlet ‘Henry VIII and Catherine Parr’ (Robert Morley & Margalo Gillmore)

 

7 May 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Herbert ‘Autumn Frolics’ from the Woodland Fancies Suite; Herbert ‘I list the trill’ from Natoma & Giannini ‘Tell me O Blue Blue Sky’ (Rose Bampton); report on National Music Week; Grofe Symphony in Steel; MacDowell (arr. Black) ‘Scherzo’ from Sonata Tragica; Menotti ‘Where the air dreams of summer’ from the Old Maid and the Thief & Johnson ‘City called heaven’ (Robert Weede); Lucius Hosman Southern Rhapsody; Gershwin ‘Bess you is my woman now’ (Rose Bampton & Robert Weede); Spialek ‘Holiday’ from Tall City Suite

 

14 May 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Coates ‘Northwards’ from the Four Way Suite; ‘The touch of your hand’, ‘Three little words’ & ‘Harp Fantasy on an old American theme’ (Casper Reardon); Puccini ‘E lucevan le stelle’ from Tosca & Leoncavallo ‘Mattinata’ (James Melton); Dvorak Symphony no.9 finale; playlet ‘Who’ll buy my lavender’ (Jane Cowell); Gershwin ‘Summertime’ from Porgy & Bess, Porter ‘Begin the Beguine’ from Jubliee (James Melton); Rimsky-Korsakov ‘Dance of the Acrobats’ from the Snow Maiden

 

21 May 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Brahms Hungarian Dance no.6; excerpts from Mexicana; Kreutzer arr. Black ‘Good Morning Mr Kreutzer’; Bach ‘Little Fugue in G Minor’, Gershwin Medley & Magnante ‘Accordiana’ (Charles Magnante & accordion quartet); Black arr. ‘Deep Purple’; playlet ‘Peg o’ my heart’ (Loretta Taylor et al); Berlin ‘Heatwave’

 

28 May 1939 MKO c. Frank BlackWolf-Ferrari Il Segreto Di Susanna Overture; ‘Our Love’ & ‘Gotta get some shut eye’ (Joan Edwards); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘I’m gonna tell God all my troubles’ & ‘Glory Bound’ (The Southernaires); Black arr. ‘Begin the Beguine’; playlet ‘The anniversary’ (Ruth Chatterton); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Memorial Day poem by Arthur Guiterman

 

4 Jun 1939 MKO c. Frank Black ‘I married an angel’; ‘The Barber’s Hitch’ & ‘High Voltage’ (New Friends of Rhythm); sketch (The Family Man); Black arr. ‘Great Day’; sketch (Eddie Green); O.Strauss excerpts from the Chocolate Soldier

 

11 Jun 1939 MKO c. Nathaniel Skillkret Kern selections from Swingtime; ‘Them there eyes’ (The Freshmen); sketch ‘The Tridget of Greva’ (Parker Fenley et al); ‘The Arkansas Traveller’; ‘Blue evening’ & ‘What goes on behind your eyes’ (Dick Todd); ‘And the angels sing’; ‘An awful lot of dreamin’ (The Freshmen); Medley from The Red Mill

 

18 Jun 1939 Philadelphia Summer Orchestra c. Eugene Ormandy Weber Euryanthe Overture; Mozart ‘Non so piu’ from Le Nozze Di Figaro & Sullivan ‘The moon and I’ from The Mikado (Muriel Dickson); interview; Bach Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring; Zamecnik ‘Indian Dawn’ ‘Dark Eyes (RCA Victor Glee Club and Girls’ Chorus); MacDonald Rumba; Brahms Hungarian Dance no.6; interview; Massenet ‘Vision fugitive’ from Herodiade & Youmans ‘Through the years’ (Conrad Tibault); Wagner Dance of the Apprentices from Meistersinger

 

26 Jun 1939 MKO c. Frank Black Berlin ‘An old fashioned tune’; ‘Berlin ‘Song of the Metronome’; Berlin ‘I’m sorry for myself’(Mary Healy); talk on film Second Fiddle from Hollywood; ‘I poured my heart into a song’ (Tommy Dorsey); Berlin ‘When winter comes’ (sw from Buenos Aires and London); Berlin ‘Back to back’

 

3 Jul 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Two Guitars’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Miao, Miao’ & ‘Torados de Madrid’ (Carmen Miranda); ‘That’s right I’m wrong’ (July Ellington) ‘Echoes of Haarlem’ & ‘I’ve got to be a rug-cutter’ (Charlie Barnett); ‘Five glamourous debutantes’ (Jane & Virginia Rogers); ‘A caminia de sul America’ & ‘No tabalera da Bahiana’ (Carmen Miranda); ‘Danger in the Dark’ ‘Ebony Rhapsody’ (Larry Taylor); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

10 Jul 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret Chabrier ‘España Rhapsody’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Ain’t you coming out tonight’ & ‘Moon love’ (Glenn Miller); ‘All the news’ (Jane & Virginia Rogers); Gershwin ‘The Man I love’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Over the sea to Skye’, ‘A Spanish Lady’ & ‘Will ye no come back again’ (Stuart Robertson); ‘Moonlight Serenade’ & ‘Runnin Wild’(Glenn Miller); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

17 Jul 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret Rachmaninov (Shillkret arr.) Prelude in G Sharp minor; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘White sails’ & ‘The South American Way’(Sammy Kaye); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); Rose ‘Deep Purple’; ‘Collegiate Love’ & ‘The Cowboy and the lady’ (Vass Family); ‘Swing n’ Sway’ (Sammy Kaye); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

24 Jul 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Joyous mood’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘It’s me again’ & ‘Honky tonk train’ (Bob Zurke); news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); ‘A little love, a little kiss’, ‘If I had my way’ & ‘Well alright’ (The Smoothies); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Each time you say goodbye’ (Bob Zurke); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

31 Jul 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Gotham Overture’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Mascagni ‘Ave Maria’ from Cavalleria Rusticana & Herbert ‘Thine alone’ from Eileen (Helen Jepson); news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); Oberthür Adagio from Orpheus HarpConcerto & Rogers ‘Flourette’ (Melville Clark); Youmans ‘Gay bright tunes’; ‘Moonlove’ & ‘Gypsy Love song’ (Rosa Rio); Friml ‘Indian love call’ (Helen Jepson); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

7 Aug 1939 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret unidentified swing number; ; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Concert in the park’ & ‘I must have one more Kiss’ (Johnny Messner); sketch (Lew Lehr); ‘Park Ave. Fantasy’; news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); ‘Go fly a kite‘ & ‘I cried for you’ (Three Jacks); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle);

 

14 Aug 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret Rumba ‘Siboney’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Apple for the teacher’ (Shep Fields); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Stormy Weather’ (Bea Wain); Gus Edwards medley; news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); ‘Moon Love’ (Jerry Stewart); ‘That’s a plenty’ (Shep Fields); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

21 Aug 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Bambolina’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Each time you say goodbye’ & ‘Donkey serenade’ (Vincent Lopez); playlet ‘Experience’ (Sheila Barrett et al); Farrar ‘Whisper you care’ & Leoncavallo ‘Mattinata’ (Felix Knight); news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers); ‘It’s funny to everyone but me’ & ‘Dark Eyes’ (Dinah Shore Vincent Lopez); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

28 Aug 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret Wizard of Oz Medley; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); news in song (Jane & Virginia Rogers) – interrupted for newsflash from Warsaw; ‘You and your love’ ‘I want the waiter’ (Ozzie Nelson); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Debussy ‘Un soir de Granada’ (Oscar Levant); George White medley from Scandals; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘You meet the nicest people’ & ‘Comes love’ (Ozzie Nelson); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

4 Sept 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Strike up the band’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘You tell me your dream’ & ‘El Rancho Grande’ (Bob Chester); playlet ‘Wanted: A young man’ (William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck et al); newsflash from Warsaw

 

11 Sept 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Trammin’ at the fair’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘El Relicario’ & ‘Zigeuner’ from Bittersweet (Jessica Dragonette); ‘Lingering on your doorstep’ & ‘We’re off to see the Wizard’ (Gray Gordon); Bert Shefter ‘The lamp is low’; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); Tchaikovsky ‘Love’s own waltz’ & ‘In the gloamin’ (Jessica Dragonette); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)

 

18 Sept 1939 Victor Concert Orchestra c. Nathaniel Shillkret ‘Over the rainbow’ from the Wizard of Oz; sketch (Col. Stoopnagle); ‘Thrill of a new romance’, ‘Say see, see’ & ‘1, 2, 3 kick’ (Dinah Shore & Xavier Cougat); news of air travel; ‘Songs of the African Plains’ (Joseph Maray); Tchaikovsky ‘None but the Lonely Heart’, Rogers ‘The Star’ & Schubert ‘Ungeduld’ (Lotte Lehmann); sketch (Col. Stoopnagle)