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In this installment of the Retro Radio Diary, Keith announces what will follow in the episode, and with a nod to fans of Lum and Abner, we get the show rolling.
GI Jive 450 Lucky Millander – Jitters.
Host: Li’l Marcel.
DJ: Lester Jay Bosun Mate 2nd Class.
The Army Weekly presents GI Jive. The music you ask for. The jukebox of the air. Servicemen of yore could send requests to Special Services, Los Angeles USA.
Playlist:
- Lucky Millander – Jitters.
- Artie Shaw – Begin the Beguine.
- John Scot Trotter – Betweemn the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
- Jimmy Dorcey – King Porter Stomp.
Sandwiched in the middle is a piece that was received from blinded Viet Nam vets titled , ‘Just Last Night’. Permission was given to include it, bBut the original author is not known. If you know who wrote it, please let me know.
Command Performance – Robert Taylor, Lum and Abner, King Sisters. ep46, 430106
Announcer: Ken Carpenter.
Host: Robert Taylor
Playlist:
- The King Sisters – Mr Five by Five.
- Joan Davis – Flirts with Robert Taylor, and Dpoes a Love Scene.
- Joan Davis singfs, He’s My Guy.
- Harry James and his Orchestra – I Cried For You (Hellen Forrest)
- To give tribute to a Gold Star family, Nelson Eddie – Through the Years. ).
- Lum and Abner – Lum reads a book from the library. The Art of Self Defense. Abner gets confused over why the gents in the pictures are wearing their pajamas, and lessons on throwing an opponent. Wait. Is Abner adversary, or opponent? The Jujitsu lesson doesn’t go as Lum planned.
- Harry James – The 2 O’Clock Jump.
- Robert Taylor closes with a word on ration books, and links the shortages into the kind of rationing that the troops are dealioning out to enemy forces.
