Bing Crosby Radio Broadcasts
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Selections from 1936-1953
Featuring Joe Venuti
Bing Crosby Show
Kraft Music Hall
January 9, 1936
Featuring
Joe Venuti performing Pardon Me, Pretty Baby/Satan’s Holiday
Bing Crosby singing Some of These Days
and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra playing Dorsey Dervish
Bing Crosby Telegram to Joe Venuti
November 13, 1936
Requesting Joe Venuti & His Orchestra fill in for Jimmy Dorsey’s band on the Kraft Music Hall.
SOURCE: VenutiLang Archives
Bing Crosby Show
Kraft Music Hall
Transcribed for the Armed Forces Radio Service
Featuring Bing, Dorothy Kirsten, Ken Carpenter & Joe Venuti in the “Horse Opera”
Which Way’d They Go, Partner?
Bing Crosby Show
Philco Radio Time
TRIBUTE TO GEORGE GERSHWIN
February 1948
Featuring Oscar Levant, Peggy Lee, Ken Carpenter & Joe Venuti
Somebody Loves Me
Lady Be Good
Someone To Watch Over Me
‘S Wonderful
I Got Rhythm
Philco Radio Commercial
Placeholder Ad
Bing Crosby Show
Philco Radio Time
June 2, 1948
Featuring Bing & Joe Venuti performing
Baby Face
Joe Venuti, Dan Dailey, Bing Crosby, Perry Botkin (far right), “Dutch” Groshoff Orchestra, Spokane, Washington (TBD) c. the late 1940s.
Joe Venuti, Dan Dailey, Bing Crosby c. late 1940s (cropped).
Bing Crosby Show
Philco Radio Time
November 10, 1948
Featuring Bing & Joe Venuti performing
Ain’t Doin’ Bad Doin’ Nothin’, written by Joe Venuti & Lee Jarvis
The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric
October 9, 1952
Featuring Joe Venuti playing Body & Soul
The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric
December 18, 1952
Featuring Joe Venuti playing Lady Be Good
The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric
May 21, 1953
Featuring Joe Venuti playing The Blue Tango
NOTE: May 21, Thursday. (6:30–7:00 p.m. Pacific) Another taped Bing Crosby Show for General Electric is broadcast by CBS. The show purports to come from Paris for the next seven weeks, but the bulk of the shows were recorded in Palm Springs, with only additional linking dialogue being taped in Paris. Lindsay Crosby and Joe Venuti are featured in each of the shows.
SOURCE: www.bingmagazine.co.uk