Dinah Shore Cornelia Otis Skinner Allen Jones

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Dinah Shore hosts the program and starts by singing "You Made Me Love You." Freddie Martin leads his band while Jack Feener plays piano for the Piano Concerto. Alan Jones performs "Sweet Mystery of Life" for the soldiers. Cornelia Otis Skinner does a funny bit about a mom helping her boy with math homework. The show is made for American troops and wraps up with a tale about watermelons.

Hosted by Dinah Shore, the show opens with her singing "You Made Me Love You." Freddie Martin and his orchestra, with Jack Feener on piano, perform the Piano Concerto. Alan Jones sings "Sweet Mystery of Life" for troops. Cornelia Otis Skinner delivers comedy as a mother tackling math with her son. Dedicated to U.S. armed forces, it ends with a watermelon story.

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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