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#6976: EMMY AWARDS: 7TH ANNUAL(FIRST NATIONALLY TELEVISED)

1955-03-07, WRCA, 96 min.

Broadcast from 11:30 pm to 1:05am, pre-empling Tonight Show starring Steve Allen, The seventh annual Emmy Awards , and for the first time televised Nationally. From Hollywood Steve Allen. From New York Emcee Dave Garroway. Commercials included.

#5994: BETTY HUTTON SHOW, THE

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1955-10-25, WNBC, 30 min.

Presented on "CHEVY SHOW." Joining the supercharged songstress, comedienne and actress Betty Hutton are Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope. Vaudeville is the theme of this one hour variety show. Not complete.

#10477: JIMMY DURANTE SHOW, THE

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1956-04-07, NBC, 7 min.

October 2nd, 1954-June 23rd, 1956- (NBC)

Half-hour variety show starring Jimmy Durante. Joining Jimmy were his former vaudeville partner Eddie Jackson, pianist Jules Buffano, and drummer Jack Roth. The show was set at the Club Durant and also featured the Durante Girls. 

Guest: Ernest Borgnine.

#13105: WALTER WINCHELL SHOW, THE

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1956-11-30, NBC, 7 min.

October 5, 1956-December 28, 1956

Walter Winchell attempted to bring to television a shortened  variety show version of The Ed Sullivan Show. His half hour format was brief, and after 13 weeks his series was cancelled. 

Walter Winchell's guests are Shelley Winters and Jimmy Durante.
Jimmy sings, "Toscannin, Iturbi & Me." 
Billy Glibert takes a bow from the audience, celebrating his 50th anniversary in show business.

#13111: HY GARDNER CALLING

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1956-12-02, WRCA, 6 min.

HY GARDNER CALLING - Sunday Night, half hour broadcasts, weekly, WRCA Ch. 4 New York City -11:15pm - 11:45pm, 11:30pm - 12:00am April 29, 1956-January 13, 1957

HY GARDNER - Mon-Fri, weekdays, WRCA CH. 4 New York City 11:15-11:25pm, 11:20-11:30pm, 11:15-11:30pm September 10, 1956-January 25, 1957

January 28, 1957 - ? Hy Gardner ten minute segments "Face to Face" on TONIGHT! (New format replacing Steve Allen)
revised format series hosted by Jack Lescoulie.

HY GARDNER SHOW - October 25, 1959-August 14, 1960 WNEW 45 minute and 60 minute broadcasts, Sunday evenings 10-11pm.

HY GARDNER SHOW - September 24, 1960 - September 29, 1962 WOR one hour weekly broadcasts, Saturday evenings 12am-1am.

HY GARDNER SHOW - October 21, 1962 - April 4, 1964 WOR one hour weekly broadcasts Saturdays or Sundays 7:00pm-8:00pm.

HY GARDNER SHOW - September 26, 1964-January 10, 1965 WOR one hour weekly broadcasts Saturday 11:30pm-12:30am or 12:00am-1:00am.

Hy Gardner was a well-known New York Herald-Tribune columnist. He appeared regularly on Tonight! and America After Dark, a short-term substitute for Tonight! after Steve Allen abandoned it early in 1957. Gardner specialized in profiling show business celebrities and other news makers, and he hosted a nightly ten-minute TV interview program in New York called Face to Face. His weekly Sunday-night show, Hy Gardner Calling!, also aired only in the New York area and consisted of interviews conducted by telephone, with the subject seemingly at home, but actually seated in one studio, while Gardner sat at his desk in another. The telephone hook-up was real, and there was no physical proximity between host and guest. The show premiered in 1954 ? on New York City’s NBC affiliate station WRCA-TV, Channel 4, and ran until 1965.

Hy Gardner interviews Jimmy Durante who recalls his early days in show business, Salvatore Dali explains his new technique using bullets.

#13141: EMMY AWARDS: NINTH ANNUAL

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1957-03-16, NBC, 56 min.

The Ninth Annual Emmy Awards for the best in television for 1956 are presented from the NBC studios in Burbank, California. Personalities include Ed Sullivan, Phil Silvers, Carl Reiner, Robert Young, Jimmy Durante, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Palance, Claire Trevor, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Edwards, Loretta Young, and Peggy Wood, "Requiem For a Heavyweight, a presentation of "Playhouse 90," was voted the Emmy Award for best television presentation of 1956.

Desi Arnaz is the host. Dave Garroway concludes the program.

#11520: BEST OF DURANTE,THE

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1957-09-07, KNXT, 30 min.

October 2, 1954 - June 23, 1956

THE JIMMY DURANTE SHOW (later syndicated re-runs aired as THE BEST OF DURANTE) was a half-hour filmed variety show seen on Saturday nights. During it first season it alternated with The Donald O'Connor Show.

Joining Jimmy were three of his longtime compatriots, Eddie Jackson, his former vaudeville partner (together with the late Lou Clayton who passed away in 1950), pianist Jules Buffano, and drummer Jack Roth.

The show was set at the Club Durant, and also featured the Durante Girls.

SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957.

These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes).

These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before.

The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact.

The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch.

NOTE:

To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page.

GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976)

History:

The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats.

Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time.

The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device.

Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The
8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side.

ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS.

THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.

#11521: JIMMY DURANTE SHOW, THE

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1957-09-07, KNXT, 30 min.

October 2nd, 1954,- June 23rd, 1956 (NBC)
Half-hour variety show, alternating in it's first season with the Donald O'Connor Show. Joining Jimmy were his old pals Eddie Jackson, pianist Jules Buffano, and drummer Jack Roth. The show was set at the Club Durant and also featured The Durante Girls.

On this episode: Jimmy learns The Club Durant's hat-check girl, played by Barbara Whiting, is planning to be married and can't afford a large wedding. He offers the facilities of the club for the wedding. Jimmy sings "September Song," "A Real Piano," and "Umbriago." Eddie Jackson and The Jud Conlon Singers are featured. (Film).

SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957.

These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes).

These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before.

The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact.

The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch.

NOTE:

To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page.

GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976)

History:

The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats.

Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time.

The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device.

Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The
8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side.

ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS.

THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.

#10224: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

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1957-10-13, NBC, min.

A major live Special broadcast tribute presentation, including many song and dance performances. Tyrone Power is host.   

A 90-minute review is presented by Standard Oil in celebration of its 75th anniversary. Tyrone Power is master of ceremonies, and performers include Jimmy Durante, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Bert Lahr, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayhehoff, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, and Donald O'Connor. 

Art Buchwald, noted for his humorous newspaper essays from Europe, also appears in an introduction to a number about  Paris.

Jimmy Durante and Bert Lahr team up together for the first time on any stage and sing a number of songs. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Jubilee Time.................................................................Thompson
Man of Today....................................................................Durante
Songs for a Lovely Soprano...............................................Powell
Tin Pan Alley 1957......................................O'Connor & Sid Miller
"Such Sweet Thunder"....................................................Ellington
Sounds of Today and Music of Tomorrow................Wisa D'Orso 
Comedy sketch......................................................................Lahr
Cole Porter Dance..............................Marge & Gower Champion
Confusion 1957..............................................................Mayehoff
American Girl in Paris.......................................Powell, Buchwald
Dance for Four TV Cameras..........................................O'Connor
Comedy Routine in Song......................................Durante & Lahr
Finale.............................................................................Ensemble

  Don Pardo is the announcer.

#10499: STANDARD OIL 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

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1957-10-13, NBC, 19 min.

A music and comedy celebration of the 75th anniversary of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.   

Lavish presentation of this musical/comedy special with staging by Cyril Ritchard.

Highlights include Jane Powell singing "Jubilee Time," Bert Lahr and Jimmy Durante reminiscing about their Vaudevillian days, Donald O'Connor and Sid Miller in a comedy sketch writing songs for a new 1958 play, and a rousing closing of "Jubilee Time" by entire cast. 

Hosts: Tyrone Power and Brandon De Wilde.
  
Announcer: Don Pardo.

#11085: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

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1957-10-13, NBC, 19 min.

A major live Special broadcast tribute presentation, including many song and dance performances. Tyrone Power and Brandon De Wilde are hosts.    

A 90-minute review is presented by Standard Oil in celebration of its 75th anniversary. Tyrone Power and Brandon  De Wilde are master of ceremonies, and performers include Jimmy Durante, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Bert Lahr, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayhehoff, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, and Donald O'Connor. 

Art Buchwald, noted for his humorous newspaper essays from Europe, also appears in an introduction to a number about  Paris.

Jimmy Durante and Bert Lahr team up together for the first time on any stage and sing a number of songs. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Jubilee Time.................................................................Thompson
Man of Today....................................................................Durante
Songs for a Lovely Soprano...............................................Powell
Tin Pan Alley 1957......................................O'Connor & Sid Miller
"Such Sweet Thunder"....................................................Ellington
Sounds of Today and Music of Tomorrow................Wisa D'Orso 
Comedy sketch......................................................................Lahr
Cole Porter Dance..............................Marge & Gower Champion
Confusion 1957..............................................................Mayehoff
American Girl in Paris.......................................Powell, Buchwald
Dance for Four TV Cameras..........................................O'Connor
Comedy Routine in Song......................................Durante & Lahr
Finale.............................................................................Ensemble

  Don Pardo is the announcer. Staging by Cyril Ritchard.      

Duplicate of 10224.

#11346: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

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1957-10-13, NBC, min.

A major live Special broadcast tribute presentation, including many song and dance performances. Tyrone Power is host.   

A 90-minute review is presented by Standard Oil in celebration of its 75th anniversary. Tyrone Power is master of ceremonies, and performers include Jimmy Durante, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Bert Lahr, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayhehoff, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, and Donald O'Connor. 

Art Buchwald, noted for his humorous newspaper essays from Europe, also appears in an introduction to a number about  Paris.

Jimmy Durante and Bert Lahr team up together for the first time on any stage and sing a number of songs. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Jubilee Time.................................................................Thompson
Man of Today....................................................................Durante
Songs for a Lovely Soprano...............................................Powell
Tin Pan Alley 1957......................................O'Connor & Sid Miller
"Such Sweet Thunder"....................................................Ellington
Sounds of Today and Music of Tomorrow................Wisa D'Orso 
Comedy sketch......................................................................Lahr
Cole Porter Dance..............................Marge & Gower Champion
Confusion 1957..............................................................Mayehoff
American Girl in Paris.......................................Powell, Buchwald
Dance for Four TV Cameras..........................................O'Connor
Comedy Routine in Song......................................Durante & Lahr
Finale.............................................................................Ensemble

  Don Pardo is the announcer.      

Duplicate of 10224.

#13304A: BEN HECHT SHOW, THE

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1959-01-19, WABC, 45 min.

September 15, 1958-january 30, 1959

This short lived late night talk show aired on WABC Channel 7 television ONLY in New York. Produced by Mike Wallace.

It occupied an unorthodox time slot, 25 minutes from 10:50pm to 11:15pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. On Wednesdays it would air for 15 minutes from 11:00pm to 11:15pm.

Ben Hecht, playwright, screen writer, novelist, presented this live 22 week nightly commentary show. The format included Hecht's airing his views on the world at large, chatting with guests from varied fields, including literature, politics, journalism. Topics covered included the influences of critics, the fate of the poet in America, and the Supreme Court.

Host was author, journalist, screenwriter, director, and producer Ben Hecht.

His caustic comments would enrage some of the viewers while engaging others. In all, a total of 99 episodes were produced.

NOTE: The four episodes of THE BEN HECHT SHOW, including the premiere (September 15, 1958) audio recorded at the time of the original broadcast and archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. are the only extant examples in any broadcast form known representing this series with the exception of an uploaded to you tube audio only air check broadcast October 17, 1958 with Jack Kerouac.

No air checks exist in the Library of Congress, Paley Center for Media or UCLA Film & TV Archive.

Ben Hecht welcomes guest Jimmy Durante in a two part broadcast, totaling 45 minutes combined, the first airing on January 19, and the second on January 20, 1959. Jimmy sits at the piano and converses with his old time pal Ben Hecht who interviews Durante who gives many anecdotes about his show business career and personal life.

Jimmy plays many numbers he created over the decades. We feel we are in his parlor at home chatting and reminiscing with music, laughter and song.

One of the most endearing, personal television appearances by Jimmy Durante.

A "lost" Television Broadcast.
The only two part Ben Hecht Show broadcast in the series.

NOTE: On February 15, 1958, writer Ben Hecht (1893-1964), a flamboyant and caustic social critic, appeared on
The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace and his producer, Ted Yates, agreed that Hecht's personality was provocative
enough to be the basis of a television show. The Ben Hecht Show was born. For 22 weeks, Ben Hecht held forth on
a variety of subjects, enraging some, engaging many, in this short-lived television show.

#10219: BEN HECHT SHOW, THE

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1959-01-20, ABC, 47 min.

The Ben Hecht Show September 15, 1958 - February 6, 1959

Slotted in a most unusual time period by ABC television
(10:50pm - 11:15pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and 11:00pm - 11:15pm Wednesday nights) this series of 25 minute and 15 minute broadcasts with Ben Hecht, ran only for 22 weeks.
A little over 100 broadcasts were telecast of which only one known episode survives as a kinescope.

Ben Hecht whose motion picture and journalistic career brought him in touch with scores of celebrities in films, television, politics and the social set. Many of his guests are personal friends and that relationship provides for a very informal wonderful discourse during most interviews when discussing a variety of subjects; often enraging some, engaging many. His comments were often entertaining, defiant, realistic and iconoclastic. A rare approach to a commentary / talk show for even the late 1950's.

Two back to back broadcasts with Jimmy Durante are included in this archived series. The first program aired on January 19, 1959 followed by a follow up broadcast airing the following night, January 20, 1959. This very revealing special interview by Ben Hecht of his long time friend Jimmy Durante is a treasure.
Durante sits at that piano discussing his career and recalling a myriad of anecdotes related to his life and times, and plays melody's that personify the music he has been associated with during his long history in show business.

One of the rare jewels in the archive of Archival Television Audio.

#11563A: DINAH SHORE SHOW, THE

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1959-10-12, NBC, 60 min.

November 27th, 1951-July 18th, 1957 (NBC)
October 20th, 1957- June 25th, 1962 (NBC)

From 1951 until 1957 Dinah Shore hosted a fifteen- minute musical show which was seen only once or twice a week before the NBC evening news. During the 1956-1957 TV Season, in addition to her 15-minute show, Dinah starred in a number of specials that were sponsored by Chevrolet broadcast on Sunday evenings.
The second series of television Specials was telecast as a one-hour variety show on Sunday Evenings, from 1957-1962.   

Dinah's guests are vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, comedian Jimmy Durante, singer Julius La Rosa, and actor Peter Lawford. The opening number "Sitting On Top Of The World," features Dinah Shore, and her four guests. A song sketch, "Christopher D. Columbus," is done by Dinah, Jimmy Durante, Julius La Rosa, and Peter Lawford.

#859: FRANK SINATRA TIMEX SHOW

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1959-10-19, WABC, 52 min.

Frank Sinatra welcomes guests Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Mitzi Gaynor. A surprise guest, Jimmy Durante, appears at the end of this variety special.

#5: GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY STARRING JIMMY DURANTE

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1959-12-06, WRCA, 49 min.

The schnozzola, Jimmy Durante himself, stars in a variety special with musical-comedy stars Ray Bolger, Jane Powell, Eddie Hodges and singer Jimmie Rodgers.

#13403: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR, THE

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1959-12-07, NBC, min.

July 29, 1957- March 30,1962.

For four years and eight months, Jack Paar reigned supreme as host of the Tonight Show with a crew of regulars, but only two stayed with him for the entire run; announcer Hugh Downs and band leader Jose Melies, a former army buddy. Familiar faces who appeared many times with Jack included Dody Goodman, Betty Johnson, Elsa Maxwell, Alexander King, Genevieve, Jack Douglas; and wife Reiko, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hans Conried, Peggy Cass, Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, and Johnathan Winters. Hugh Downs substituted for Jack Paar 79 times, more than any other substitute host there were 20 different performers over the period of the series run. Joey Bishop substituted for Paar 31 times. Arlene Francis, 30 times, Jonathan Winters, 26 times, Orson Bean, 21 times, and Johnny Carson 15 times. Altogether there were 243 broadcasts that had substitute hosts filling in for Paar during Jack Paar's TONIGHT SHOW tenure. The title of the late-night broadcast changed to THE JACK PAAR SHOW which took effect on February 3, 1958. The first videotaped broadcast aired on January 5, 1959. "Best of Paar " Re-runs began on July 10, 1959. The first color broadcast aired on September 19, news bulletin on the "Explorer I" satellite, launched today.

Guests: George Raft, who states that he worked with Jimmy Durante in Coney Island, and George Jessel, Amazing Criswell predicts events that will be in 1960..

#10240Q: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE

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1960-01-18, NBC, min.

June 24, 1956-December 27, 1961.
The multi-talented Steve Allen- musician, composer, singer, comedian,author- was the star of this live weekly variety series that bore a strong resemblance to his informal, late-night Tonight! Show. Although the program had elements of music and serious aspects, comedy was far and away its major component. Steve had with him one of the most versatile and talented collections of improvisational comics ever assembled. Among the features that were used at one time or another on a semi-regular basis were: "Letters to the Editor," "The Allen Report to the Nation," "Mad-Libs," "Crazy Shots," "Where Are They Now," "The Question Man," "The Allen Bureau of Standards," and "The Allen All Stars." The most frequently used feature, and by far the most memorable was the "Man on the Street Interview." It was here that the comics on the show developed their best-remembered characters: Louis Nye as suave, smug Gordon Hathaway, Tom Poston as the man who can't remember his own name, Skitch Henderson as Sidney Ferguson, Don Knotts as the extremely nervous and fidgety Mr. Morrison, Pat Harrington as Italian golf pro Guido Panzini, and Bill Dana as shy Jose Jimenez.    

Steve's guests are Jimmy Durante and Peggy Lee.

#40: HY GARDNER SHOW, THE

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1960-08-14, WNEW, 43 min.

Jimmy Durante and associates Eddie Jackson, Sonny King, Jack Roth and Jules Buffano reminisce about the past. 

Jimmy Durante reminisces about his beginnings in show business, first club he ever worked at, his relationships with Lou Clayton, and the early years and personal anecdotes about fighting for two hours with a kid who made fun of his nose.
 
Durante admits he will marry again this year. Introduction of his best buddies Eddie Jackson, Jules Buffano, Hal Roth, and new comer Sonny King who acquired this recording from Phil Gries which led to his introduction of his best friend Joey Bishop.

At the start of the broadcast Jimmy gives great respect to Errol Flynn who wrote lovingly of Durante in his autobiography, "My Wicked Wicked Ways."

Some movie clips are played viewing and hearing Jimmy Durante singing including  "The Strutaway."  

A very special and endearing profile of the entertainer most people describe as "Sweet." 

Originally broadcast April 10, 1960.

This broadcast would be the final telecast Hy Gardner would do on  WNEW channel 5 in New York.

#7112: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: DIAMOND JUBILEE PLUS ONE

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1960-10-07, NBC, 57 min.

SPECIAL BROADCAST SALUTE
Mrs. FDR was 75 a year ago and as a plus one year follow up, a tribute to her (and the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Research Foundation located in Denver Colorado) by admirers in and out of show business.  Many perform during this one-hour 76th birthday celebration special broadcast. A brief distinguished appearance by Mrs. Roosevelt and a simple spiritualization of "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Mahalia Jackson rounds out an excellent broadcast. 

Bob Hope hosts this program which presents show business personalities and other prominent people.
Executive Producer, David Susskind.
Written for Television by  Reginald Rose.

HIGHLIGHTS:

"You Gotta Start Off Each Day With A Song," "I Believe, "Treat A Piano Nice".....Jimmy Durante

"Do Re Mi"....................Mary Martin accompanied by Richard Rodgers on the piano.

"If"..................................Carol Channing

"The Continental".....................Nat King Cole

"The Bee"......................................Jack Benny

NOTE:
This follow up broadcast to last years ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: DIAMOND JUBILEE (October 7, 1959) is different which had Arthur Godfrey hosting and including guests Eddie Cantor, Ralph Bellamy Gertrude Berg, Art Carney, Henry Fonda and Cedric Hardwicke among others. 

NOTE: Occasional original slight broadcast audio static and hum.

#6959: JOHN F. KENNEDY INAUGURAL GALA

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1961-01-19, N/A, 174 min.

Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford star-studded gala and party fundraiser staged at the national Armory in Washington DC on the night before JFK's formal inauguration.

#7232: JIMMY DURANTE SPECIAL, THE

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1961-08-09, NBC, 00 min.

A wild "study in depth" of the vulnerable American Married Man.  

Dupe Of Number 114.

#114: JIMMY DURANTE SPECIAL, THE

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1961-08-09, WNBC, 55 min.

Guests Bob Hope, Garry Moore and Janice Rule assist Jimmy Durante in a wild "study in depth" of the Vulnerable American Married Man.

#131: DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK: LAUGHTER USA, THE

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1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.

Samples of American humor from the beginnings till now are examined. A host of stars participate including Phil Silvers, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen, Buster Keaton, Fred Allen, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and Jack Benney. This premiere show for the series was produced by Donald B. Hyatt and his Project 20 staff. Written by Richard Hanser and Rod Reed. Original musical score by Robert Russell Bennett.

#10240R: DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK: LAUGHTER USA, THE

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1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.

Samples of American humor from the beginnings till now are examined. A host of stars participate including Phil Silvers, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen, Buster Keaton, Fred Allen, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and Jack Benney. This premiere show for the series was produced by Donald B. Hyatt and his Project 20 staff. Written by Richard Hanser and Rod Reed. Original musical score by Robert Russell Bennett.   

Duplicate of #131.

#13582: GUY LOMBARDO'S NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY AT THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL, THE

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1961-12-31, WCBS, 8 min.

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians usher in 1962.  
From the Hotel Grill at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. 

As described in TV Guide:
"RING IN '62 ON CHANNEL 2 WITH GUY LOMBARDO AND HIS ROYAL CANADIANS, THE SWEETEST MUSIC THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN PLAYS RIGHT INTO THE NEW YEAR BEGINNING AT 11:15PM SUNDAY, ON WCBS-TV."

This rare TV audio air check begins with Guy Lombardo introducing Robert Trout at Times Square who describes the moment minutes away from bringing in the New Year, 1962. Trout mentions that it began snowing at 11:30pm. There are 500 special policeman on duty with megaphones addressing a turnout crowd of 300,000 revelers during this 55th New Years Times Square celebration edition.
 Trout describes the ball sliding down the 68 foot pole. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Back at the hotel Grill with Guy Lombardo, his Royal Canadians play "Hail, Hail, The Gangs All Here," followed by a recording by Jimmy Durante, "When Your Smiling."

We hear Guy Lombardo sign off, wishing all a Happy 1962 New Year as the station announcer voices: 
"WCBS TV 2 NEW YORK."

#157: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1962-01-07, WCBS, 24 min.

Jimmy Durante makes his first appearance on an Ed Sullivan Show, most of which is devoted to the loveable "schnozzola" and company. With Eddie Jackson and Sonny King.

#13657: EMMY AWARDS: 14TH PRIMETIME, THE

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1962-05-22, NBC, min.

The 14th primetime Emmy Awards are held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California. Among the personalities present are Leroy Collins, who served as the 33rd Governor of the state of Florida, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. 

Host: Bob Newhart

#207: JIMMY DURANTE CHOCK FULL O' NUTS COMMERCIAL, A

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1962-06-11, N/A, 1 min.

Jimmy Durante

Syndicated. Jimmy Durante does a coffee commercial for Chock Full O' Nuts.

#923: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: MONITOR

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1963-02-09, NBC, 43 min.

A 70th birthday salute to Jimmy Durante with personal reflections and anecdotes from Durante. We hear songs and musical excerpts from the past and listen to entertainers give tribute. They include Jack Benny, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Garry Moore, Ethel Merman and Bob Hope.

#403: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1963-02-24, WCBS, 23 min.

Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, and Sonny King make a very entertaining guest appearance. Ed Sullivan gives them over twenty minutes of show time.

#4190: PERRY COMO SHOW, THE

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1963-05-22, WNBC, 54 min.

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.

#10977: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

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1963-06-23, CBS, min.

           June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971

ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest-running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955, to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. 

 Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half-year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
 
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.  

Host Ed Sullivan celebrates 15 years on CBS with film clip segments of previous shows featuring guests Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, Richard Burton, James Cagney, Art Carney, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Jimmy Durante, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Jackie Gleason, Robert Goulet, Topo Gigio, Oscar Hammerstein 11, Helen Hayes, Sonny King, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Johnny Wayne, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Waters, Raoul Walsh, Sophie Tucker, Rod Steiger, Red Skelton, Phil Silvers, Richard Rodgers, Frank Shuster, Elvis Presley, Cole Porter, Gina Lollabridgida, Robert Mitchum, Maya Plisetskaya, Moiseyev Dancers.

#491: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE

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1963-08-20, WPIX, 15 min.

Steve Allen does his "Letters to the Editor" sketch. Jimmy Durante performs and talks to Steve.

#14271: CALENDAR WITH HARRY REASONER AND MARY FICKETT

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1963-08-26, CBS, 7 min.

October 2, 1961 - August 30, 1963

Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett are hosts for this live half-hour weekday series which deals with a variety of subjects, including art, science, history, fashion, travel, medicine, education, marriage, and customs. Included is a daily news report by Reasoner. Many celebrities also drop by and discuss their past, present and future career with Fickett and Reasoner. 

A review of past interview programs with Jack Benny, June Havoc, Bert Wheeler, and Jimmy Durante. Durante talks about fatherhood.

#506: JERRY LEWIS SHOW, THE

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1963-09-21, ABC, 23 min.

September 21, 1963 - December 21, 1963. Jerry Lewis hosted an unprecedented two hour live variety - talk show, signing  a five year deal for 35 million dollars in 1963 with ABC Television. A two hour live variety show proved to be more than even Jerry Lewis could handle. The series proved to be an enormous failure. In three months the show was off the air. 

The Premiere Show. Opening 23 minutes.

#14307: JERRY LEWIS SHOW, THE (PREMIERE)

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1963-09-21, ABC, 42 min.

September 21, 1963 - December 21, 1963. Jerry Lewis hosted an unprecedented two-hour live variety - talk show, signing a five-year deal for 35 million dollars in 1963 with ABC Television. A two-hour live variety show proved to be more than even Jerry Lewis could handle. The series proved to be an enormous failure. In three months the show was off the air. 

The Premiere Show.  Extended length duplicate of # 506.  

Guests are Mort Sahl, Jimmy Durante, and Robert Stack.

#512: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1963-09-29, WCBS, 39 min.

Ed Sullivan's performing guests are Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra Jr., Helen Forrest, and the Tommy Dorsey Band. Ed introduces N.Y. Yankee stars Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Al Downing, Roger Maris, Elston Howard and Ralph Houk.

#566: TELL US MORE

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1963-12-03, WNBC, 21 min.

The careers of Ed Wynn and Jimmy Durante are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Bernard Sobel.

#7302: "ONE FOR THE MONEY": THE MARCH OF DIMES

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1964-01-05, SYND, 00 min.

Salute to the 1964 March Of Dimes.

#4194: PERRY COMO SHOW, THE

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1964-01-23, WNBC, 54 min.

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.

#14533: HOLLYWOOD PALACE, THE

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1964-04-18, ABC, 19 min.

The guest host is Jimmy Durante. Guests are comedian Jack Carter and Liberace. The announcer is Dick Tufeld.

#19425: HOLLYWOOD PALACE, THE

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1964-04-18, ABC, 19 min.

The guest host is Jimmy Durante. Guests are comedian Jack Carter and Liberace. The announcer is Dick Tufeld.       

Duplicate of #14533.

#692: SUM AND SUBSTANCE

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1964-08-00, WCBS, 27 min.

Host Herman Harvey interviews Jimmy Durante who talks philosophically about his life and career.

#715: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1964-11-08, WCBS, 16 min.

Jimmy Durante performs his nightclub act with Eddie Jackson and Sonny King.

#957: DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL: COCONUT GROVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, THE

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1964-12-10, WNBC, 50 min.

A special Danny Thomas variety hour with guests Eddie Fisher, Joey Bishop and Jimmy Durante who celebrates his 50 years in show business. Also on hand is columnist Walter Winchell.

#5174: DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL

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1964-12-10, WNBC, 52 min.

Comedy-music-dance show presented and videotape recorded at the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in honor of the night club's 40th year in show business.

#730: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1965-02-07, WCBS, 20 min.

Ed Sullivan's guests performers include Jimmy Durante who celebrates his 72nd Birthday and Sonny King.

#14800: ACADEMY AWARDS, 37TH ANNUAL, THE

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1965-04-05, ABC, 202 min.

Bob Hope is the host for The 37th Annual Academy Award presentations from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

Best Actor: Rex Harrison ("My Fair Lady")
Best Actress: Julie Andrews ("Mary Poppins")
Best Picture: ("My Fair Lady")
Best Director: George Cukor ("My Fair Lady")

This is Bob Hope's 14th time as Master Of Ceremonies for the Academy Award presentations.

129 records found for Jimmy Durante

#6976: EMMY AWARDS: 7TH ANNUAL(FIRST NATIONALLY TELEVISED)

1955-03-07, WRCA, 96 min.

#5994: BETTY HUTTON SHOW, THE

1955-10-25, WNBC, 30 min.

#10477: JIMMY DURANTE SHOW, THE

1956-04-07, NBC, 7 min.

#13105: WALTER WINCHELL SHOW, THE

1956-11-30, NBC, 7 min.

#13111: HY GARDNER CALLING

1956-12-02, WRCA, 6 min.

#13141: EMMY AWARDS: NINTH ANNUAL

1957-03-16, NBC, 56 min.

#11520: BEST OF DURANTE,THE

1957-09-07, KNXT, 30 min.

#11521: JIMMY DURANTE SHOW, THE

1957-09-07, KNXT, 30 min.

#10224: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

1957-10-13, NBC, min.

#10499: STANDARD OIL 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

1957-10-13, NBC, 19 min.

#11085: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

1957-10-13, NBC, 19 min.

#11346: STANDARD OIL COMPANY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, THE

1957-10-13, NBC, min.

#13304A: BEN HECHT SHOW, THE

1959-01-19, WABC, 45 min.

#10219: BEN HECHT SHOW, THE

1959-01-20, ABC, 47 min.

#11563A: DINAH SHORE SHOW, THE

1959-10-12, NBC, 60 min.

#859: FRANK SINATRA TIMEX SHOW

1959-10-19, WABC, 52 min.

#5: GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY STARRING JIMMY DURANTE

1959-12-06, WRCA, 49 min.

#13403: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR, THE

1959-12-07, NBC, min.

#10240Q: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE

1960-01-18, NBC, min.

#40: HY GARDNER SHOW, THE

1960-08-14, WNEW, 43 min.

#7112: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: DIAMOND JUBILEE PLUS ONE

1960-10-07, NBC, 57 min.

#6959: JOHN F. KENNEDY INAUGURAL GALA

1961-01-19, N/A, 174 min.

#7232: JIMMY DURANTE SPECIAL, THE

1961-08-09, NBC, 00 min.

#114: JIMMY DURANTE SPECIAL, THE

1961-08-09, WNBC, 55 min.

#131: DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK: LAUGHTER USA, THE

1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.

#10240R: DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK: LAUGHTER USA, THE

1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.

#13582: GUY LOMBARDO'S NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY AT THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL, THE

1961-12-31, WCBS, 8 min.

#157: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

1962-01-07, WCBS, 24 min.

#13657: EMMY AWARDS: 14TH PRIMETIME, THE

1962-05-22, NBC, min.

#207: JIMMY DURANTE CHOCK FULL O' NUTS COMMERCIAL, A

1962-06-11, N/A, 1 min.

#923: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: MONITOR

1963-02-09, NBC, 43 min.

#403: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

1963-02-24, WCBS, 23 min.

#4190: PERRY COMO SHOW, THE

1963-05-22, WNBC, 54 min.

#10977: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

1963-06-23, CBS, min.

#491: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE

1963-08-20, WPIX, 15 min.

#14271: CALENDAR WITH HARRY REASONER AND MARY FICKETT

1963-08-26, CBS, 7 min.

#506: JERRY LEWIS SHOW, THE

1963-09-21, ABC, 23 min.

#14307: JERRY LEWIS SHOW, THE (PREMIERE)

1963-09-21, ABC, 42 min.

#512: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

1963-09-29, WCBS, 39 min.