Guest Gertrude Nniesen
Shirley Ross performs "It's A Big Wide Wonderful World," while Harry Stewart appears as "Yogi Yorgeson, The Hindu Mystic From Stockholm" and sings "The Object Of My Affection." Mark Stevens and Shirley Ross act out a comedy sketch imagining their family life a decade ahead and then a quarter-century into the future. Errol Garner plays "Back Home In Indiana," with an approximate air date.
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Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949. The program was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to overseas troops — but with few exceptions, it was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations.
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“Guest Gertrude Nniesen.” Command Performance. Radio broadcast, July 5, 1949.
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