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Command Performance - Old Time Radio
Vintage Radio: Wartime Musical Variety
Command Performance was a spectacular wartime musical variety show broadcast from 1942 to 1946. Lauded by Time Magazine as "the best wartime program in America," Command Performance was aired for troops fighting overseas. All radio stars and the production crew donated their time and talents to the program. Troops were given the opportunity to request performance by their favorite American radio personalities. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Red Skelton, George and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, July Garland, and Frank Sinatra were all frequently heard on the show.
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Due to its popularity, Command Performance continued its production even well after the war had ended. The program continued to meet the requests for performance from American servicemen and women all over the world.
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| There are 231 shows in our collection! |
Date Aired |
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| Guests-Kate Smith, Henny Youngman |
March 13, 1942 |
| Guest-Mickey Rooney |
June 2, 1942 |
| Guests-Bob Burns, Dinah Shore, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Spike Jones |
September 29, 1942 |
| Guests-Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, Kay Kyser, James Cagney |
September 11, 1942 |
| Guests-Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Edwards |
September 4, 1942 |
| Guests-Red Skelton, Betty Hutton |
August 25, 1942 |
| Guests-Cary Grant, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr |
August 18, 1942 |
| Guest-Walter Pidgeon |
August 11, 1942 |
| Guest-Clark Gable |
August 4, 1942 |
| Guests-Cary Grant, Spike Jones |
October 7, 1942 |
| Guests-Bing Crosby, Mary Martin |
October 13, 1942 |
| Guest-Dinah Shore |
December 9, 1942 |
| Christmas Special |
December 24, 1942 |
| Guests-Leopold Stokowski, Dorothy Maynor, Mishcha Elman |
November 15, 1942 |
| Guests-Jack Benny, Alice Faye, Cass Daley |
November 10, 1942 |
| Guests-Betty Grable, Judy Canova, Bergen and McCarthy |
November 3, 1942 |
| Guests-Rita Hayworth, Cass Daley, Frank Morgan, Lena Horne |
October 27, 1942 |
| Guests-Linda Darnell, Z. Mostel Red Skelton, H. Hilliard |
October 24, 1942 |
| Guests-Frances Langford, Bob Burns |
October 21, 1942 |
| Guests-Cary Grant, Shirley Temple |
July 28, 1942 |
| Guests-Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Hal Peary |
July 21, 1942 |
| Guest-Clifton Fadiman |
April 16, 1942 |
| Guest-Gene Tierney |
April 12, 1942 |
| Guests-Kaye Kayser, Eddie Cantor |
April 1, 1942 |
| Guests-Fred Allen, Kenny Baker |
March 18, 1942 |
| AND MANY MORE |
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