WWII Radio Broadcast July 6, 1944 and November 30, 1944 (CD) by Bing Crosby

WORLD WAR II RADIO BROADCASTS contains uninterrupted Kraft Hall Radio programs, complete with songs, comedy sketches, commercials and World War II

news bulletins. Also available as part of 5-CD box set WWII RADIO: LIVE RADIO BROADCASTS FROM 1943-1945 on Laserlight (15934).

Includes liner notes by Laurence J. Zwisohn.

Digitally remastered by Robert Vosgien (CMS Digital, Pasadena, California).

One of radio's longest and best-loved programs was the Kraft Music Hall (sponsored by Kraft Foods). This program ran from June 1933 through May 1949. WWII RADIO BROADCASTS documents two radio performances that Crosby fronted--the first broadcast dates back to July 6th, 1944 and the second to November of that same year. Both programs are heard here in their entirety; even the advertisements for Kraft Foods have been left in. There is also a lot of canned comedy/banter, as well as war bulletins, played between tunes, making this CD very authentic.

Indeed, the record company (Laserlight) hasn't tampered with the broadcast one bit. Crosby gets his July 6th show off to a swingin' start with "Sno Qualimie Jo Jo," and kicks his November show off with the bluesy "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby." Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey are also featured on this release. The brothers' all-instrumental version of "Sandman," and their decidedly goofy version of "Exactly Like You" are especially heart warming.