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The Telephone Hour

Title: The Telephone Hour : radio broadcast, 1940-09-02 / [produced by NBC Radio Network].
Publication: 1940.

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Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings.

Description

2 streaming audio files (approximately 30 min.) : digital, mono.

Uniform Title

Bell Telephone hour (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Bell Telephone Hour
Kitty, my love, will you marry me.
Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Classical music radio programs.

Note

Title and credits from audition; date from finding aid.
Streaming files transferred from original audio discs.
Matrix nos: BB23985-C1 (disc 1); BB23986-B2 (disc 2).
"Tel. Hour, Prog 19, part 1; and Tel. Hour, Prog 19, part 2"-- On run-out of discs 1 and 2 respectively.

Access (note)

Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.

Language (note)

Sung in English and Italian.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings, *L(Special) 89-33.

Contents

1st link: Opening announcement ; To the sea (arr. for orchestra) / music by MacDowell ; Commentary ; Poor wandering one / music by Sullivan ; libretto by W. S. Gilbert (White, orchestra) ; Bell Telephone ad ; Rhapsody no. 6 / music and arr. by Liszt (orchestra) ; Commentary on Ombra mai fu -- Link 2: Ombra mai fu / music by Handel (Melton, orchestra) ; Kitty, my love, will you marry me? (Melton, orchestra) ; Murmuring zephyrs (arr. for chorus and orchestra) / music by Jensen ; English words by E.S. Wilcox ; Bell Telephone ad ; They didn't believe me / composed by Kern for musical The girl from Utah (Melton, Utah, orchestra) ; Closing announcement.

Call Number

*LK-16 823-824

OCLC

938185866

Title

The Telephone Hour : radio broadcast, 1940-09-02 / [produced by NBC Radio Network].

Imprint

1940.

Country of Producing Entity

United States

Playing Time

001442 001446

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

Warner Anderson, announcer ; James Melton, tenor ; Francia White, soprano ; Bell Telephone Hour Chorus ; Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra ; Donald Voorhees, conductor.

Event

Broadcast on NBC Radio in New York 1940 September 2.

Access

Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.

Language

Sung in English and Italian.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings, *L(Special) 89-33.

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Added Author

Anderson, Warner, 1911-1976, host.

Melton, James, 1904-1961, performer.

White, Francia, 1908-1984, performer.

Voorhees, Donald, conductor.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, librettist.

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, arranger of music.

Wilcox, E. S, lyricist.

Container of (expression): MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908. Sea pieces. To the sea; arranged.

Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Pirates of Penzance. Poor wandering one.

Container of (expression): Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Rhapsodies hongroises. No 6; arranged.

Container of (work): Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Serse. Ombra mai fù.

Container of (expression): Jensen, Adolf, 1837-1879. Gesänge aus dem spanischen Liederbuch. Murmelndes Lüftchen; arranged. English.

Container of (work): Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. They didn't believe me.

Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, performer.

Bell Telephone Hour Chorus, performer.

National Broadcasting Company.

Added Title

Bell Telephone hour (Radio program)

Kitty, my love, will you marry me.

Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings.

Found In:

Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings.

Research Call Number

*LK-16 823-824

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