Program of 9/29/35
Wagner – Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude*
David Sarnoff from S.S. Majestic
Felix – Tall Cities Suite: Holiday*
Strauss, J. – Blue Danube Waltz (Maria Jeritza from Vienna)
Bond – I Love You Truly (Maria Jeritza from Vienna)
Lehar – Paganini: aria (Maria Jeritza from Vienna)
The Belle of New Orleans (Paul Whitman)
John B. Kennedy from Detroit on the World Series
Wagner – Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla+
Walt Disney & cartoon characters from Hollywood
Radio trip around the world: San Francisco, Hawaii, Manila, Tokyo, Geneva
I’m Sitting High on a Hilltop (Paul Whitman Orchestra)
Amos & Andy
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
+Walter Damrosch/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 10/13/35
Ed Beatty from Ethiopia on Italian invasion
Medley (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
Saint-Saens – Introduction & Ronda Cappricioso (Albert Spaulding, violin)*
Glinka – Russlan & Ludmilla: Overture*
Verdi – La Forza del Destino: aria (Dusolina Giannini from Berlin)
Mexican folk song (Dusolina Giannini from Berlin)
The Gentleman Obviously Doesn’t Believe in Making Love (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
The Pig Got Up & Slowly Walked Away (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
There’s a Tavern in the Town (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
Helen Broderick & Jimmy Gleason from Hollywood
Gluck – Orpheus (arr. Kreisler) (Albert Spalding, violin)
Dvorak – Symphony No. 9: Finale*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 10/20/35
Mussorgsky – Malaguena*
Dance of ? (University of Stockholm male chorus from Stockholm)
Alfen – Swedish Flag (University of Stockholm male chorus from Stockholm)
You Are My Lucky Star (Richard Himmler)*
Rain in Spain (Richard Himmler)*
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 6*
John B. Kennedy interviews Edgar Mohwrer in Paris on French elections
Chopin – Ballade in ab (Harold Bauer, piano)
Schumann – Warum (Harold Bauer, piano)
Chopin – Butterfly etude (Harold Bauer, piano)
Shakespeare – Othello (Walter Huston & Nan Sunderland from Chicago)
Gershwin – medley*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 10/27/35
Smetana – Bartered Bride: Dance of the Comedians*
Massenet – Thais: Meditation (Jessica Dragonette)*
Accent on Youth (Jan Garber Orchestra from Chicago)
24 Hours a Day (Jan Garber Orchestra from Chicago)
Baby Doesn’t Know Much (Beatrice Lilly)
A Baby’s Best Friend is Its Mother (Beatrice Lilly)
Delibes – Copelia: Czardas*
Delia (Jessica Dragonette)*
Anchors Aweigh*
Navy Day celebration – (from Washington) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Col. Henry L. Roosevelt; all naval districts in U.S. report in morse code; Admiral Joseph K. Tausig speaks with Admiral Joseph M. Reeves on U.S.S. Pennsylvania in Los Angeles; all international stations report – (from New York harbor) Submarine R-13 performs crash dive – (from skies over Washington) Helldivers perform a power dive
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 11/3/35
Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty: Waltz*
Strauss II, J. – Simplizius: Waltz (Joseph Schmidt from Amsterdam)
My Song Goes Around the World (Joseph Schmidt from Amsterdam)
It’s Written in the Stars (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
I’ve Got a Note (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
Chopin – Polonaise in Ab (Joseph Lhevinne, piano)
Golden – A Touch of Brimstone: Act 2 (Roland Young & Mary Philips)
Lecuona – Maleguena*
John B. Kennedy from car in Central Park interviews executives at New York auto show
You Are My Lucky Star (Eleanor Powell)*
Ernestine Shumann-Heink speaks about radio
Medley of Broadway show tunes*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 11/17/35
Gliere – The Red Poppy: Dance of the Russian Sailors*
Bizet – Carmen: Toreador Song (Conrad Thibaud)*
Handel – Wherev’ You Walk (Conrad Thibaud)*
Salzedo - 15 Short Stories in Music: Behind the Barracks, Night Breeze, Skipping Rope (Carlos Salzedo, harp)
Leopold Stokowski from Philadelphia introduces RCA’s new Library of Recorded Music
Brahms – Symphony No. 1: Introduction*
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4: Finale*
Announcement of introduction of RCA phonograph D22
Herbert – Medley (Victor Herbert Light Opera Company)
Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 2: Romance (Albert Spalding, violin)*
Wagner – Traume (Lauritz Melchior)*
Wagner – Die Walkure: Act 2, Spring Song (Lauritz Melchior)*
Borodin – Polovetsian Dances: Dance of the Archers*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 12/1/35
Grainger – Molly on the Shore*
Tangos (Eduardo Donato from Buenos Aires)
Gershwin – Porgy & Bess excerpts (original cast)*
No Other One (Eddy Duchin Orchestra)
Isn’t This a Lovely Day (Eddy Duchin Orchestra)
Grieg – Sigurd Jorsalfer Suite: Homage March*
Anderson – scene from Saturday’s Children (Richard Barthelmess & Jean Muir)
You are My Lucky Star (Eddy Duchin Orchestra)
I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ (Eddy Duchin Orchestra)
John B. Kennedy from the Chicago Stockyard Show interviews the Hon. James B. Gardner, Canadian Minister of Agriculture in Ottawa
Lekeu – Nefarious Faries Suite: Los Porros*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 12/8/35
Wagner – Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude*
Bizet – L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Farandole*
Debussy – Fêtes*
McDonald – Symphony No. 2: Rhumba*
Charles O’Connel on RCA’s Library of Recorded Music
Sibelius – The Swan of Tuonela*
Wagner – Tristan & Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod*
*Leopold Stokowski/Philadelphia Orchestra from Philadelphia
Program of 1/12/36
Lecuona – Andalusia*
Broadway Rhythm (Pickens Sisters)*
Foster – Old Black Joe (Pickens Sisters)*
Interview with Adel Astaire
Strauss, J. – Blue Danube Waltz (Casanova & her Tzigane)
Hungarian Air & Czardas (Casanova & her Tzigane)
John B. Kennedy from main RCA receiving station
Chabrier – España Rhapsody*
Grainger – Country Gardens (Percy Grainger, piano from Hollywood)
Liszt – Liebestraum (Percy Grainger, piano from Hollywood)
Wolf-Ferrari – Jewels of the Madonna: Dance of the Cameraks*
Col. Stoopnagle & Budd
Mussorgsky – Sorochintsy Fair: Gopak*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 2/23/36
Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin: Polonaise*
Duvanoir – Rolling Fire (Hanna Klein & Pauline Gilbert, duo-pianists)
Infante – Andalusian Dances: Gracia (Hanna Klein & Pauline Gilbert, duo-pianists)
Scene from Love on a Bet (Gene Raymond)*
Grofe – Mississippi Suite: Mardi Gras*
Delibes – Maids of Cadiz (Francia White)*
Lehar – Love is a Pilgrim (Francia White)*
John B. Kennedy from New Orleans on Mardi Gras
Report from Rio de Janiero on Carnival
Everything’s in Rhythm With my Heart (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
I’m the Fellow Who Loves You (Rudy Vallee & Orchestra)
Dvorak – Slavonic Dance No. 1*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 3/1/36
Bach – Fervent is My Longing*
Wagner – Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude*
Sunday Driving (Cornelia Otis Skinner from Chicago)
Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun*
John B. Kennedy on the History of RCA
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 6*
Chopin – Scherzo in c# (Mischa Levitzki, piano from Chicago)
Nurse’s Day Out (Cornelia Otis Skinner from Chicago)
Weinberger – Schwanderer the Bagpiper: Polka & Fugue*
*Eugene Ormandy/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from Minneapolis
Program of 3/8/36
Smetana – Bartered Bride: Polka*
Parlez-Moi Votre Chois (Lucienne Boyer)*
It’s a Thrill All Over Again (Lucienne Boyer)*
John B. Kennedy at RCA research laboratories
Stags at Bay medley (Russ Morgan Orchestra)
Lisa Serzio from Rome
Verdi – Aida: Triumphal Scene*
Scenes from Call It a Day
Wagner – Lohengrin: Narrative (Lauritz Melchior)*
Grieg – He Sclibe Dische (Lauritz Melchior)*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 3/22/36
Glazounov – Raymonda: Hungarian Scene & Dance*
Massenet – Manon: Laurel (Lanny Ross)*
Dream Lover (Lanny Ross)*
Graham McNamee from Newark Airport reporting on New England flood relief efforts
Broadcast from airplane landing at Chicago airport
Let Yourself Go (Ray Noble Orchestra)
The Touch of Your Lips (Ray Noble Orchestra)
Debussy – Marche Ecosaisse*
Strauss, J. – Waltzes of Spring (Erna Sack from Dresden)
Floyd Gibbons on New England flood
Lecuona – Andalusia: Gitanaria*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 3/29/36
Wolf-Ferrari – Secret of Suzanne Overture*
Down Among the Dead Men (John Goth & his London Singers)
Caleno – Custureme (John Goth & his London Singers)
10,000 Miles Away (John Goth & his London Singers)
Beethoven – Romance in g (Efram Zimbalist, violin)*
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 21 (Efram Zimbalist, violin)
Rachmaninoff – Humoresque*
Sheridan – School for Scandal (Ina Claire, Osgood Perkins, Brian Aherne, Charles Coburn)
A Couple of April Fools (Jack Jackson & His Music from London)
I’m Putting All My Eggs Into One Basket (Jack Jackson & His Music from London)
Everything Stops For Tea (Jack Jackson & His Music from London)
Dvorak – Slavonic Dance No. 2*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 4/5/36
Mozart – Marriage of Figaro Overture*
Meyerbeer – Le Prophete: Ah! Mon Fils (Doris Doe)*
Thank God For A Garden (Doris Doe)*
Trip around the world via shortwave – Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Berlin, Basle, Paris, Madrid, Bangkok, Manila, Tokyo
Rimsky-Korsakov – Cappricio Espagnole: Gypsy Fandango*
Women’s glee club from Honolulu
Galsworthy – Justice (Leslie Howard from Hollywood)
Massenet – Scenes Napolitanes*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 5/24/36
Luigini – Ballet Russe: Czardas*
La Petite Mirsha from Budapest
Chopin - Scherzo in c# (Harold Bauer, piano)
Schumann – Traumerei (Harold Bauer, piano)
Mussorgsky – Malaguena*
I’m Going to Sit Right Down & Write Myself a Letter (Fats Waller & Orchestra)
Christopher Columbus (Fats Waller & Orchestra)
Kaufmann – If Men Played Bridge as Women Do (Hugh O’Connell)
Massenet – Manon: Gavotte (Helen Jepson)*
Strauss, J. – Tales From the Vienna Woods (Helen Jepson)*
Kreisler – Liebesfreud*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 6/7/36
Coates – English Suite: Covent Garden*
Yodelers from Jungfrau in Switzerland
Nobody’s Darling But Mine (Tennessee Ramblers)
What Would You Give In Exchange? (Tennessee Ramblers)
Saint-Saens – Sampson & Delilah: aria (Marion Telva)*
Strauss, R. – Cäcilie (Marion Telva)*
Hop On a Bus (Shep Fields Orchestra)
On a Beach at Bali Bali (Shep Fields Orchestra)
Col. Stoopnagel & Budd from the Soundview Country Club at Greatneck, Long Island
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto: 3rd movement (Joseph Knitzer, violin)*
Kreisler – Chez Rosmarin (Joseph Knitzer, violin)
Lacomb – La Ferria: Valvaresa*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 6/14/36
Wagner – Die Meistersinger Overture*
Announcement of release of new recordings by Arturo Toscanini
Wagner – Tannhauser Overture & Bacchanale*
Wagner - Tristan & Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod*
Wagner – Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries*
*Frank Black/New York Philharmonic
Program of 6/28/36
Bizet - Carmen: Act 1 Prelude*
Fibber McGee & Molly from Chicago
You (Ruth Etting)*
Tormented (Ruth Etting)*
John B. Kennedy from Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts
Saint-Saens – Sampson & Delilah: Bacchanale*
Noyes – The Old Organ Grinder (Verse Speaking Choir from Chicago)
Liszt – Liebestraum (Rudolph Ganz, piano)
Paganini – La Chasse (Rudolph Ganz, piano)
Debussy – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Rudolph Ganz, piano)
Massenet – Parade Militaire*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 7/5/36
Mozart – Marriage of Figaro Overture*
Beethoven – Minuet in G*
Gliere – The Red Poppy: Dance of the Russian Sailors*
Pierne – March of the Wooden Soldiers*
Turina – Sacro-Monte*
Hill – Rhythm on the Range: Empty Saddle*
Saint-Saens – Dance Macabre*
Wagner – Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude*
Debussy – Canope, Minstrels & Claire de Lune*
Bach – Fervent is My Longing*
Dvorak – Symphony No. 9: Scherzo*
*Charles O’Connell/The Philadelphians from Philadelphia
Program of 8/23/36
Wagner – Tannhauser: Feste March*
Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Hildegarde)*
He Was a Handsome Young Soldier (Hildegarde)*
John B. Kennedy from San Francisco
Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail*
On a Coconut Island (Shep Fields Orchestra)
Oh My Goodness! (Shep Fields Orchestra)
Did I Remember? (Shep Fields Orchestra)
Floyd Gibbons on the Spanish Civil War from Madrid
Scarlatti – Sonata in A (Mischa Levitzki, piano)
Chopin – Waltz in c# (Mischa Levitzki, piano)
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 8/30/36
Coates – London Suite: Knights
John B. Kennedy from Salt Lake City
There Are Two Sides to Every Story (George Hall Orchestra)
Knock, Knock (George Hall Orchestra)
Wagner – Tannhauser: Dich Teure Halle (Helen Traubel)*
Strauss, R. – Cäcilie (Helen Traubel)*
Herbert – Woodland Fancies: Autumn Frolics*
Floyd Gibbons on the Spanish Civil War from Madrid
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto: 3rd movement (Albert Spalding, violin)*
Debussy – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Albert Spalding, violin)
Delibes – Sylvia: March & Procession of Bacchus*
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Program of 11/29/36
Rachmaninoff – Prelude in g*
Schubert – Ave Maria (Marian Anderson from Prague)
My Soul is Anchored in the Lord (Marian Anderson from Prague)
John B. Kennedy from the Seeing Eye in Hanover, New Jersey
Reich – Violin Suite No. 3: Perpetual Motion*
Penthouse Serenade (Paul Whitman Orchestra)
It’s Delovely (Paul Whitman Orchestra)
William Tell (Paul Whitman Orchestra)
I’ve Got Plenty of Nuthin’ (Paul Whitman Orchestra & the King’s Men)
Dardinella (Paul Whitman Orchestra)
Col. Stoopnagle & Budd in tribute to sound effects men
*Frank Black/NBC Symphony Orchestra
Announcers: Milton Cross, Ben Grauer, John Walls, Robert Waldrop, Eliza Bruler
No audience in New York until program of 11/3/35
Technical information: programs through 10/27/35 on 78rpm aluminum discs; volume differences between sides; no attempt to join sides; sound good but surface noise – programs of 11/3/35 and after on inside-start 16” transcriptions; sound usually bass heavy & muffled; some high frequency distortion at loud passages; some programs marred by crosstalk from other programs on tape program dubbed from; sometimes disc is too fast; sometimes disc has wow; sometimes stylus skips back or forward