January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semi regularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra.
Dave Garroway is host for a show built around American entertainers
who have performed overseas. Performers are jazz man Louis Armstrong, Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, husband and wife musical-comedy team, singer Jane Froman, pianist Grant Johannesen, and Dancers Taina Elg and Gene Nelson, Allegra Kent and Jacques d'Amboise. Donald Voorhees conducts the Orchestra for this one-hour -long show.
Highlights:
Movie songs. Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy duet "Around The World In Eighty Days." " If I Had A Talking Picture Of You," and "Forty-Second Street." Shirley offers "As Time Goes By." as a solo.
Concert Music:
Grant Johannesen plays the first movement of "Grieg's piano concerto in A Minor.
Theater Music:
Jane Froman sings a medley from Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess" "I've Got Plenty Of Nuttin," "I Loves You Porgy," and. "It Ain't Neccesarily So."
Ballet:
Taina Elg, Gene Nelson, Allegra Kent and Jacques d'Amboise dance an original ballet choreographed by Gene Nelson.
Jazz:
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars play "Tiger-Rag,""Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "12th Street Rag," and " West End Blues."
