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Manhattan Moon And You

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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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Sound Recordings

Sound Recording A29m53s

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Sound Recording B29m44s

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Cast & Crew

F

Fort Pearson

Announcer

Country Washburne

E

Elmo Tanner

whistler

M

Marilyn 'Marvel' Maxwell

vocal

T

Ted Weems and His Orchestra

Cast

Sun Jun 30 1940 Sun Jun 30

Quiz Show Variety

Documents

WP · The Washington Post · Washington · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Log Sun Jun 30 1940 · Broadcasting LAT · Los Angeles Times · Los Angeles · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Log WSJ · The Wall Street Journal · New York · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Highlight NYT · The New York Times · New York · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Log LMN · Los Angeles Mirror News · Los Angeles · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Highlight CDT · Chicago Daily Tribune · Chicago · Sun Jun 30 1940 · Radio Log

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