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Bing Crosby Dinah Shore Fanny Brice Hanley Stafford

This episode was recorded on the date listed above and opens with a performance of "I Don't Want Anybody At All," a song dedicated to the British armed forces.

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Bing Crosby leads a group of famous performers and military singers in putting on a show to boost the spirits of soldiers fighting abroad and families back home.

Bing Crosby, with a variety of stars and the Army Air Forces Chorus, directs a show to entertain the troops overseas and at home, and to strengthen morale.

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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“Bing Crosby Dinah Shore Fanny Brice Hanley Stafford.” Command Performance. Radio broadcast, June 19, 1943.

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