12/06/1952
Meredith Willson's Music Room
12/06/1952
Meredith Willson's Music Room
Typed script for the episode of Meredith Willson's Music Room radio program that aired on December 6, 1952. Willson's honored guest was the actor Gene Lockhart. Willson exchanges banter with his anchor Ken Banghart and shares Lockhart's response to the previous week's Mystery Masterpiece, Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro." Featured music on this episode included the overture to Orpheus in Hades by Jacques Offenbach, "Tortoises" from Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, Paul White's "Mosquito Dance," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters singing "South Rampart Street Parade," Paul Weston's version of "Wonderful Copenhagen," an excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 performed by the Arturo Toscanini and the BBC Orchestra, Lockhart's "World Is Waiting for the Sunrise," and the closing theme of Willson's "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You." The script includes handwritten corrections and additions.
Typed script for the episode of Meredith Willson's Music Room radio program that aired on December 6, 1952. Willson's honored guest was the actor Gene Lockhart. Willson exchanges banter with his anchor Ken Banghart and shares Lockhart's response to the previous week's Mystery Masterpiece, Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro." Featured music on this episode included the overture to Orpheus in Hades by Jacques Offenbach, "Tortoises" from Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, Paul White's "Mosquito Dance," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters singing "South Rampart Street Parade," Paul Weston's version of "Wonderful Copenhagen," an excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 performed by the Arturo Toscanini and the BBC Orchestra, Lockhart's "World Is Waiting for the Sunrise," and the closing theme of Willson's "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You." The script includes handwritten corrections and additions.