In recent weeks, I’ve posted some shows from a previously overlooked World War II series, “Yankee Doodle”, produced by the Office of Civilian Defense to encourage people to support the war effort on the home front. This week, we kick off a few individual shows, not part of a series, from the same batch of discs.
“Of Interest to the Enemy”, is a fifteen minute drama about Larry Crane, “told by the man who wrote his obituary”. The editor of a small-town newspaper talks with different people in the town about the loss of one of their own who died fighting in the Pacific. It prompts the editor to write an editorial about the “Block Plan”, to coordinate neighbors for civilian defense. The show was written by Pauline Gibson and directed by William Rousseau.
Our mp3 was transferred direct from an original sixteen inch vinyl OWI transcription, matrix number G-1995.
We’ll have a few more shows in this series in the following weeks.
Invitation to the Fair
Raymond Scott - October 3, 1944
Andre Kostelanez - August 20, 1944
Shower of Stars - March 8, 1945
Light Up and Listen Club - Pgm 328
Alec Morison, Your Magic Minstrel - Audition
Your Navy Show - Pgm 2
Manhattan Nocturne - Audition
Your Navy Show - Pgm 1
Jack Smith Show - June 27, 1949
Chesterfield Supper Club - March 8, 1945
Imperial Intrigue - unnumbered episode
Imperial Intrique - Audition
Light Up and Listen Club - Pgm 327
Here’s to Romance - Pgm 45
Raymond Scott - Pgm 146
Waltz Time - April 20, 1945
Grady Cole and the Johnson Family Singers - April 23, 1951
Grady Cole and the Johnson Family Singers - Dec 25, 1950 excerpt
Douglas MacArthur Speech - April 19, 1951
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