Beat The Band
Description
Beat the Band is an NBC musical quiz radio show that asked listeners and guests to identify tunes and supplied popular dance-band entertainment.
Beat the Band is a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to 1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the show business catch phrase, "Give me a little traveling music", often uttered on TV a decade later by Jackie Gleason.
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