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Judy Garland on Radio, 1944

 1943
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ca. 1944? Mail Call  (#?, AFRS)
Host: Judy Garland
Guests: Bob Hope, The Merry Macs and Carmen Cavallaro.
Judy sang: Love and (Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You.2

 
date? Command Performance  (#137, AFRS)
Starring: Judy Garland, Danny Kaye, Lauritz Melchior
Judy Garland and Danny Kaye skit with comical music numbers
Judy sang: I May Be Wrong

 
date? Mail Call  (#72, AFRS)
Host: Jack Benny
Starring: Skinny Ennis and His Orchestra, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Delta Rhythm Boys.
Judy sang: Speak Low 2

 
February 12 Command Performance  (No. 106?, network?, ?min)
Details unknown
[source: 2]

 
March 5 Command Performance  (#106, AFRS)
Announcer: Ken Carpenter
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope
Judy sang: No Love, No Nothin', unidentified medley (with Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra) 2, Embraceable You (with Frank Sinatra)

 
April 28 G.I. Journal  (#41, AFRS?)
Guests: Judy Garland, Bing Crosby
Judy sang: People Will Say We're in Love (Judy and Bing); You Tell Me Your Dream and I'll Tell You Mine (Judy and Bing, joined by audience)

 
May 17 Mail Call  (#91, AFRS V-DISC)
Guests: Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante
Judy sang: The Trolley Song, Can Do, Will Do, and Groaner, Canary and Nose (with Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante)

 
Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante
Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante
recording for Command Performance "Mail Call"
(from unidentified magazine)



May 24 The Frank Sinatra Show  (CBS, 30min)
Announcer: Truman Bradley
Regulars: Jerry Lester, The Vimms Vocalists, Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra
Guest: Judy Garland
Judy sang: Embraceable You (with Frank Sinatra), Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart

 
June 3 Command Performance   (#122, AFRS)
Musical Director: Meredith Willson
Announcer: Ken Carpenter
Starring: Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
Judy sang: Dixieland Band and Something to Remember You By (with Bing Crosby)

 
June 4 The Bakers of America Salute to the Armed Forces  (NBC, 60min)
Master of Ceremonies: Bill Goodwin
Starring: Judy Garland, Edgar Bergen, Gracie Allen, George Burns, Bing Crosby, Gracie Fields, Bob Hope
Judy sang: The Way You Look Tonight (with Bing Crosby), The Trolley Song and Long Ago and Far Away

 
June 25 The Chase and Sanborn Hour  (NBC, 60min)
Guests: Judy Garland, Matt Crowley, Gracie Fields
Judy sang: The Boy Next Door and Long Ago and Far Away

 
Gracie Fields and Judy Garland
from Screen Romances Magazine,
June 1944


July 11 Everything for the Boys  (NBC, 30min)
Music: Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra
Master of Ceremonies: Dick Haymes
Guest Star: Judy Garland
Judy and Dick Haymes sing parody versions of various songs, including You Made Me Love You, I Remember You, You Were Always Chasing Rainbows, Over The Rainbow, I Get a Kick out of You, I Wanna Girl Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad, I Ain't Got Nobody, It's a Great Day for the Irish, A Word from Autolite (to the tune of "There is a Tavern in the Town").

 
August 13 Your All-Time Hit Parade  (#44, AFRS)
Master of Ceremonies: Harry Von Zell
Guests: Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Judy sang: Over the Rainbow and I May Be Wrong
Judy's two numbers available on CD Judy Garland on Radio

 
September 3 The Chase and Sandborn Hour  (NBC, 60min.)
Details unknown 1

 
October 8 Hollywood Democratic Committee Dinner*  (network?, ?min.)
in honor of Harold L. Ickes
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
Judy sang: parody of Over the Rainbow, Someone to Watch Over Me and The Trolley Song
*It's not clear if this was broadcast on radio or not.

 
November 6 Democratic National Committee Program  (CBS and NBC, 60min)
Narrator: Humphrey Bogart
Guests: Judy Garland, Claudette Colbert, James Cagney, Irving Berlin, Joseph Cotten, Keenan Wynn, Groucho Marx
Judy sang: You Gotta Get Out and Vote

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December 17 Philco Radio Hall of Fame  (ABC, 30min?)
with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and Chorus
Guests: Judy Garland, Lum & Abner, Jerry Colonna and the Les Paul Trio
Judy sang: The Trolley Song and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Judy's spoken tribute to Jerome Kern
Judy then participated in a Jerome Kern medley: "I Won't Dance" (Chorus) / Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Judy) / "Why Do I Love You?" (Les Paul Trio) / Look for the Silver Lining (Judy and Chorus)
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Virginia O'Brien, Frances Langford, Judy Garland, Dorothy Lamour, Ginny Simms, Dinah Shore
Carol-singing Sextette: Judy Garland, Ginny Simms, Dinah Shore, Virginia O'Brien, Frances Langford and Dotty Lamour have recorded disc after disc of Christmas carols which are to be sent to the lads overseas - and to all parts of the world. What a sextette! The gals recorded some of them in harmony - and others as solos - but either way, you know that they will sound like angel voices to our boys at the fighting fronts. [Photoplay, 1944]

December 25 Command Performance  (#?, 2:11 min)
Christmas Show
Announcer: Ken Carpenter
MC: Bob Hope
Guests: Xavier Cugat, Jerry Colonna, Virginia O'Brien, Spike Jones, Ginny Simms, Jimmy Durante, Dinah Shore, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Kay Kyser, Frances Langford, Dorothy Lamour, Johnny Mercer, Danny Kaye, W.C. Fields, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy
Program: "Brazil" (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra); "Let's Be Sweethearts Again" (Virginia O'Brien); "Holiday for Strings" (Spike Jones and His Cityslickers); "Amor, Amor, Amor" (Ginny Simms); "Durante, Patron of the Arts" (Jimmy Durante); Address (Henry L. Stimson); "Babalu" (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra); "I'll Be Seeing You" (Dinah Shore); Department Store comedy routine (Jack Benny and Fred Allen); "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" (Kay Kyser and His Orchestra); "It Had to Be You" (Frances Langford); Sounds of Home (Kay Kyser); "Moonlight and Shadows" (Dorothy Lamour); "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" (Johnny Mercer); Address (James Forestal); The Lobby Number (from "Up in Arms," Danny Kaye); comedy routine (W.C. Fields); "The Trolley Song" (Judy Garland and Chorus); Pablo and the small donkey (Spencer Tracy and others); Christmas Carol Medley: "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Dinah Shore), "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Judy Garland), "The First Noel" (Ginny Simms), "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Virginia O'Brien), "Deck the Halls" (Dorothy Lamour), "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Frances Langford), "Silent Night" (Dinah, Judy, Ginny, Virginia, Dottie, Frances)
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December 26 Everything for the Boys  (NBC, 30min)
Master of Ceremonies: Ronald Colman
Guests: Judy Garland
Details unknown

 

Sources:
1. Watson/Chapman
2. John Walther



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