Bob Hope Jimmy Cash Carole Landis Shirley Ross
Bob Hope hosts, opening with comedy about celebrity hunting and a football game. Jimmy Cash performs with the 370th band. Vronsky and Babin play piano, and Joseph Zaghetti offers a violin solo. Bob Hope and Shirley Ross perform "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey." Cliff Arquette provides comedy as Aunt Addie. The show is dedicated to entertaining U.S. troops during WWII.
Bob Hope kicks off the show with jokes about famous people going hunting and a football match. Johnny Cash sings alongside the 370th band. Piano players Vronsky and Babin perform together, while Joseph Zaghetti plays a violin piece by himself. Bob Hope teams up with Shirley Ross to sing "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey." Cliff Arquette brings laughs playing his character Aunt Addie. The program aims to entertain American soldiers fighting in World War II.
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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“Bob Hope Jimmy Cash Carole Landis Shirley Ross.” Command Performance. Radio broadcast, October 23, 1943.
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