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The Railroad hour, radio program

Title: The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954.
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p1bc Lawrence, Jerome,1915- Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings (CStRLIN)NYPW88-A22

Description

490 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.
42 sound tapes : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ;

Summary

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera.
The program featured works by: Irving Berlin, Henry Blossom, Guy Bolton, Noel Coward, B.G. De Sylva, Herbert Fields, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, William S. Gilbert, Fred de Gresac, Clifford Grey, Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Lorenz Hart, Moss Hart, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Fritz Kreisler, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, Franz Lehar, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Mandel, Joseph McCarthy, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sidney Romberg, Lawrence Schwab, Harry B. Smith, Leo Stein, Arthur S. Sullivan, Fred Thompson, Harry Tierney, Vincent Youmans.
Featured performers: Ann Ayars, Kenny Baker, Marion Bell, William Bendix, Mimi Benzell, Ralph Blane, Evelyn Case, Nadine Conner, Doris Day, Clark Dennis, Annamary Dickey, Dorothy Donnelly, Eileen Farrell, Virginia Haskins, Dorothy Kirsten, Frances Langford, Jeanette MacDonald, Elaine Malbin, Victor Moore, Patricia Morison, Patrice Munsel, Lucille Norman, Jarmila Novotna, Walter O'Keefe, Irra Petina, Jane Powell, Dorothy Sarnoff, Dinah Shore, Ginny Simms, Jane Stuart Smith, Jo Stafford, Risë Stevens, Gladys Swarthout, Blanche Thebom, Margaret Truman, Dorothy Warenskjold, Margaret Whiting, Eileen Wilson.

Subjects

Note

Transcription discs and tape copies for the radio program Railroad hour.
Classmarks for individual shows listed in finding aid.
Preservation copies of 87 programs recorded at The New York Public Library. To determine programs tranferred, consult finding aid.

Access (note)

Access to discs restricted; advance notification required.

Source (note)

Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 88-03.

Provenance (note)

Gift of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

*L (Special) 88-03

OCLC

NYPW87-A650

Title

The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954.

Access

Access to discs restricted; advance notification required.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 88-03.

Provenance

Gift of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.

Blossom, Henry, 1866-1919.

Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979.

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.

De Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950.

Fields, Herbert, 1897-1958.

Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972.

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.

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

Gresac, Fred de.

Grey, Clifford, 1887-1941.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.

Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963.

Hart, Lorenz, 1895-1943.

Hart, Moss, 1904-1961.

Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924.

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945.

Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962.

Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.

Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.

Lehár, Franz, 1870-1948.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986.

Mandel, Frank, 1884-1958.

McCarthy, Joseph, 1885-1943.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.

Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951.

Schwab, Lawrence, 1893-1956.

Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936.

Stein, Leo, 1861-1921.

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.

Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987.

Tierney, Harry, 1890-1965.

Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946.

MacRae, Gordon. Performer

Ayars, Ann. Performer

Baker, Kenny, 1912-1985, singer.

Bell, Marion. Performer

Bendix, William, 1906-1964. Performer

Benzell, Mimi, 1922-1970. Performer

Blane, Ralph. Performer

Case, Evelyn. Performer

Conner, Nadine. Performer

Day, Doris, 1922-2019, singer.

Dennis, Clark. Performer

Dickey, Annamary. Performer

Donnelly, Dorothy. Performer

Farrell, Eileen, 1920-2002. Performer

Haskins, Virginia. Performer

Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Performer

Langford, Frances. Performer

MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965. Performer

Malbin, Elaine. Performer

Moore, Victor. Performer

Morison, Patricia, 1915-2018. Singer

Munsel, Patrice, 1925-2016, singer.

Norman, Lucille. Performer

Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994. Performer

O'Keefe, Walter. Performer

Petina, Irra, 1908-2000, singer.

Powell, Jane, 1929-2021, singer.

Sarnoff, Dorothy. Performer

Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994, singer.

Simms, Ginny. Performer

Smith, Jane Stuart. Performer

Stafford, Jo. Performer

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013, singer.

Swarthout, Gladys, 1900-1969, singer.

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008. Performer

Warenskjold, Dorothy. Performer

Whiting, Margaret. Performer

Wilson, Eileen. Performer

Found In:

p1bc Lawrence, Jerome,1915- Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings (CStRLIN)NYPW88-A22

Research Call Number

*L (Special) 88-03

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