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If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« on: December 31, 2019, 11:35:41 pm »
As they said in the '40s, Happy New Year, gang . . . all aired originally on New Year's Eves gone by . . .

CBS World News Today, "On the Western Front" (1944)
Fibber McGee & Molly, "Fibber Finds a Gold Watch" (NBC, 1940)
The Lucky Strike Program with Jack Benny, "Jack Resolves to be Friends with Fred Allen" (1944)
New Year's Radio Dance Party, featuring live performances by Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, and more. (AFRS, 1945-46)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective, "The Thomas Jason Case" (NBC, 1949)
Broadway is My Beat, "The John Lomax Murder Case" (CBS, 1949)
The Big Show, Vivian Blaine, Jose Ferrer, Sam Levine, Ken Murray, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria Swanson, Fran Warren; host: Tallulah Bankhead (NBC, 1950)
Our Miss Brooks, "Christmas Gift Exchanges" (CBS, 1950)
The Couple Next Door, "Do Sick on New Year's Eve" (CBS, 1958)

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Re: If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2020, 01:01:35 am »
I'm listening to the 1946 AFRS dance party now. Quite a few familiar tunes are in there. Of course, those were the hits of the day, too. And yet it's so much more... listenable... than the New Year parties the major TV networks try to force down our throats.

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Re: If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2020, 01:13:24 am »
I’m staying home too.

Wish I had a cat then the night would be perfect
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Re: If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2020, 01:55:20 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on January 01, 2020, 01:01:35 am
I'm listening to the 1946 AFRS dance party now. Quite a few familiar tunes are in there. Of course, those were the hits of the day, too. And yet it's so much more... listenable... than the New Year parties the major TV networks try to force down our throats.

Swing is just a wonderful genre.
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If only they'd traded a couple of the mush-mallow portions for some more jazz! (I'd have traded half a dozen Henry Kings and that many Carmen Cavallaros for, say, a Dizzy Gillespie or a Sy Oliver or a Charlie Barnet or a Claude Thornhill on that show!)
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Re: If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2020, 01:57:49 am »
Quote from: Gefn on January 01, 2020, 01:13:24 am
I’m staying home too.

Wish I had a cat then the night would be perfect
@Gefn

Just listen to all the cats on the Radio Dance Party!  wink777
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Re: If you're staying home New Year's Eve, have an old-time radio New Year!
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2020, 09:26:29 am »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 01, 2020, 01:57:49 am
@Gefn

Just listen to all the cats on the Radio Dance Party!  wink777

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