Shirley Ross, June Foray
Shirley Ross begins the show with a piano performance and vocal rendition of "Cumana." Red Ingle and Karen Tedder perform their distinctive version of "Temptation," and Shirley Ross humorously mispronounces Jim Backus's name as "Jim Bupkiss," causing her to break into laughter.
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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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“Shirley Ross, June Foray.” Command Performance. Radio broadcast, September 21, 1948.
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