Big Bands from Chicago | Those Were The Days | Saturday, June 24th 1978

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BIG BANDS FROM CHICAGO

BOB CROSBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
(4-29-40) from the Blackhawk Restaurant.
Vocals by Bob Crosby and Marion Mann. Tunes
include “Fools Rush In,” “Cecilia,” “The Starlit
Hour” and “Sugar Foot Stomp.” Mutal via
WGN. (6:55; 11:20; 10:50)

TED WEEMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
(2-10-37) from the Trianon Ballroom. Vocals by
Perry Como. Music includes “When My Dream-
boat Comes Home,” “Goodnight, My Love” and
“The Doll Dance” featuring whistler Elmo
Tanner. MUTUAL (14:05)

BENNY GOODMAN SEXTET (8-20-52)
from the Blue Note. Listen for “After You’ve
gone,” “Bye Bye Blue,” “Poor Butterfly” and
“Avalon.” Greg Donovan is announcer. NBC.
(8:10; 7:35; 8:35)

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHES-
TRA (3-27-45) from the College Inn of the
Hotel Sherman. Vocal by Frances Wayne and
Woody Herman. “Happiness is a Thing Called
Joe,” “I Wonder” and “Apple Honey.” CBS.
(14:45)

WILL OSBORNE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
(10-4-48) from the Edgewater Beach Hotel.
Music featured includes “The Dipsy Doodle,”
“Singin’ in the Rain,” “The One I Love,”
“Caramba! It’s the Samba!,” “Ramblin’ Rose”
and “Wabash Blue.” NBC. (10:05; 14:15)

STAN KENTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
(12-4-42) from the Panther Room of the Hotel
Sherman. Vocals by Dolly Mitchell and Red
Dorris. “A Touch of Texas,” “Manhattan
Serenade,” “When the Lights Go On Again” and
“Eager Beaver”. BLUE NETWORK. (13:05)

GLENN MILLER CHESTERFIELD
SHOW (6-13-40) from the stage of the Chicago
Civic Theatre. “Solitude,” “The Rumba Jumps,”
“Everybody Loves My Baby.” Chesterfield Cig-
arettes. CBS. (14:35)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be KARL
PEARSON, record collector and authority on the
Big Band Era.