Doris Day on Live Radio Shows 40's/50's

[texas gonzalo]

Peter, Thank You for posting your new great finds in the form of 16" transcriptions. Happy to hear you were able to get recordings made for you. The new "songs" are now part of the Doris Day Definitive Discography. Am very curious about the song "Night and Day." How is Miss Day's interpretation of the song? Please share your reaction to the song. Thanks again and Happy Days, Texas Gonzalo

[Peter Flapper]

Hi Texas,

This one is a mono track, but the same track from: Hooray For Hollywood, but the (fault/rare noise from the Columbia records /it's on all my cd's/lp's/ is missing)

So somewhere out there… there must be a clear version of: Night And Day on a mastertrack.

P
(Any change in situation about your Buddy Clark & Doris record???)

[texas gonzalo]

Peter, thanks for your prompt reponse to my post and question. As to your question on the "Strawberry Moon" Day/Clark recording, sorry to report no progress. Turntables are difficult to acquire, and as I mentioned earlier mine broke down leaving me with no means of transferring the disk to tape and eventually to CD format. But hopefully I can eventually accomplish this, so everyone can listen to the two songs I heard only once. Keep the faith and Happy Days, Texas Gonzalo

[Peter Flapper]

Hi Texas,

Thanks for your update. Came across a 16 inch record, that I didn't know to exist.



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[Musiclover]

Neat find, Peter. There's a book titled "The History of AFRTS: the First 50 Years." I need to get rid of a few books from my shelves before I can buy more, but that one's on my wish list.

[Peter Flapper]

Hi Judy,

If things go well, I will have that AFRS book you mentioned too. I will keep you updated. I found a new Fitch Bandwagon 108 Transcription Record. A very nice Facebook friend: Karl Pearson transferred it to mp3. It has a very rare version of: "Swinging On A Star" by Doris Day, Butch Stone, The Foresters & Les Brown I hadn't heard before.

1944 – 07 – 02 Fitch Bandwagon (AFRS) #305/108 ®
Announcer: Tom Reddy
With: Francis Williams, Doris Day, Gordon Drake, Butch Stone & The Foreseters
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Mexican Hat Dance
2. Amor - Doris Day & Gordon Drake#
3.For Me And My Gal/Shine On Harvest Moon - Francis Williams
4. Swinging On A Star - Doris Day, Butch Stone & The Foresters#
5. Out Of Nowhere

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldittcftj437g ... e.mp3?dl=0

Enjoy,

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi radio (Doris Day) friends…

Does anyone of you have an 78 RPM inside out record player? I bought a record online... Not sure if it's Doris and Les Brown... But it could be: it's from 1944-12-20 and the song is called: "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't, My Baby" It could be a new discovery. If not… no problem…


Hope to hear from you.

P

[Musiclover]

Hi, Peter -
This is really an unusual purchase. I don't have that kind of record player, though.

The song was a #1 hit in 1943 for its writer, Louis Jordan, who also recorded it as side B of a V-disc in March of '44. Side A of that disc was a Les Brown recording of a different song, but it didn't feature Doris on the vocal. As far as the date of December 20, 1944 that's shown on your record, the only thing I can tell you is that Doris sang with Les Brown at the Hotel Pennsylvania on that date; however, my notes don't show which songs she sang that night. Wish I could help you, but I'm at a dead end on this one.

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Just updated our Doris Day Radio List. Not perfect, but a good start if your interested in Doris and friends on air. Found some more information about the Spotlight Bands below and deleted some double information.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=694&p=62590#p62590

1944 – 10 – 12 Spotlight Bands (AFRS) #646/491®
With: Gordon Drake, Butch Stone (Doris isn’t on)
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Moonglow
2. Out Of Nowhere
3. Some Peaceful Evening – Gordon Drake
4. Straighten Up And Fly Right - Butch Stone
5. Anvil Chorus

1944 – 11 – 20 Spotlight Bands (AFRS) #679/524 ®
From: Madison Square Garden, New York
With: Doris Day, Gordon Drake, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Mexican Hat Dance
2. The Very Thought Of You – Gordon Drake
3. Robin Hood – Butch Stone
4. I Didn’t Know About You - Doris Day#
5. End tune

1944 – 12 – 08 Spotlight Bands (AFRS) #695/540 ®
With: Doris Day, Gordon Drake, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Blue Skies
2. Sentimental Journey – Doris Day#
3. Robin Hood – Butch Stone
4. Sleigh Ride In July – Gordon Drake
5. Mexican Hat Dance

1945 – 03 – 02 Spotlight Bands (AFRS) #767/612 ®
From: Chattanooga, Tennessee
With: Doris Day, Morton Downey
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Blue Skies
2. Home For A Little While - Doris Day#
3. Everytime We Say Goodbye – Morton Downey
4. ‘T Aint Me - Doris Day#
5. End tune

1945 – 09 – 04 One Night Stand (AFRS) #785 ®
From: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
Announcer: Bill Ewing
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Negra Constatida: My Pet Brunette
2. The More I See You - Doris Day#
3. Robin Hood - Butch Stone
4. Sentimental Mood
5. ‘Tain’t Me - Doris Day#
6. Laura
7. One Meatball - Butch Stone
8. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
9. Negra Constatida: My Pet Brunette -end tune

Enjoy,

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Came across another Fitch Bandwagon from 1944. Here are it's contents.
1944 – 07 – 30 Fitch Bandwagon (AFRS) #309/112 ®
Announcer: Tom Reddy
Guest: Andy Art Kerry
With: Doris Day, Gordon Drake
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Moonglow
2. I Dream Of You - Doris Day#
3. Flight Of The Bumble Bee - Andy Art Kerry
4. I'll Get By As Long As I Have You - Butch Stone


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[Peter Flapper]

Hi again,

Came across the information about the following one and a half show.

1944 – 07 – 10 One Night Stand (AFRS) #302/257®
From: Café Rouge of The Hotel Pennsylvania, New York
Announcer: Howard Duff
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone, Gordon Drake
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Leap Frog
2. Coquette
3. I Dream Of You - Doris Day#
4. Bizet Has His Day
5. Some Peaceful Evening - Gordon Drake
6. I Know That You Know
7. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Gordon Drake
8. It Could Happen To You - Doris Day#
9. Always

1946 – 07 – 22 One Night Stand (AFRS) #1084®
From: The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
With: Doris Day, Jack Haskell, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
First half part is missing.
5. I Got The Sun In The Morning - Doris Day#
6. Man With The Horn
7. Best Man - Butch Stone
8. 1254 Express
9. Sentimental Journey

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[texas gonzalo]

Peter, thanks for the new information on AFRS ONS #1084. That was a complete blank in the Doris Day Definitive Discography. Not now. On that particular ONS was the #9 song Sentimental Journey sung by Doris Day? Thanks again and Happy Days, Texas Gonzalo

[Peter Flapper]

Hi Texas,

Thanks for replying. No this time it is an instrumental track.

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[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Bought a book online called: Les Brown and His Orchestra by Charles Garrod - from Joyce Record Club publication (1986 version) It's a good read for someone who's doing research on Doris/Les Browns music career. I've updated my online radio list with a lot of information from here. viewtopic.php?f=10&t=694&p=62590#p62590





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[texas gonzalo]

Peter, the Les Brown Discography you found served as a basic source when the Doris Day Definitive Discography was formulated. I found it a great help in discovering the Les Brown/Doris Day legacy. In the process I found some errors in the Joyce publication which I corrected using my record collection library and using the data you have discovered and shared with us in The Doris Day Web Forum. Thanks and Happy Days, Texas Gonzalo

[Johnny]

Thanks Peter and Texas for the informative and interesting discussion on Doris on Live Radio Shows, Les Brown and some other artists I am not familiar with.

Thanks for sharing.

[Peter Flapper]

Hi Johnny,

Thanks for your nice reply and I think it's worth to dive into the Doris Day - Les Brown World. They worked together from 1940 till 1950 with three breaks...
1. 1940 - 1941 Start with Les Brown
2. 1941 - 1943 Marriage and birth of Terry and did some WLW work on the organ program Moon River
3. 1944 - 1946 With Les Brown and had her hits: Sentimental Journey & My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time
4. 1946 - 1948 Starting her solo career on a different radioshows: Rudy Vallee, Jack Kirkwood, Your Hit Parade and others.
5. 1948 - 1950 The Bob Hope Show

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[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

This is the AFRS Transcription Record (16" inch) for Victory Parade Of Spotlight Bands.


1945 – 04 – 25 Spotlight Bands (AFRS) #813/658
From: San Francisco, California
Announcer: Ed Stokes
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Blue Skies
2. He's Home For A Little While - Doris Day#
3. Robin Hood - Butch Stone
4. My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time - Doris Day#
5. Mexican Hat Dance
6. End tune

This show is been in the public domain for some years now.

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi again,

All bored with me bothering you with these old radio shows??? I love to dive into internet and find rare stuff. Today I came across a new release for 2019-01-18 on Amazon.


The date for the first show is not correct and must be 1945-01-16 the AFRS One Night Stand number is 566.

1945 – 01 – 16 One Night Stand (AFRS) #566
From: Café Rouge of The Hotel Pennsylvania, New York
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Leap Frog
2. Down By The Old Mill Stream
3. I’ll Always Be With You - Doris Day#
4. Accentuate The Positive - Butch Stone
5. In A Sentimental Mood
6. Mexican Hat Dance
7. Don’t You Know I Care - Doris Day#
8. Robin Hood - Butch Stone
9. Mohawk Special
10. Leap Frog

1945 – 07 – 24 One Night Stand (AFRS) #682
From: The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
Announcer: Bill Ewing
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone & The Brownies
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Leap Frog
2. My Blue Heaven
3. Till The End Of Time - Doris Day#
3. Harlem Sandman - Butch Stone
4. Twilight Time
5. Tain't Me - Doris Day#
6. I Wish I Knew - Doris Day#
7. Show Me The Way To Go Home - Butch Stone & The Brownies
8. Sentimental Journey - Doris Day#
9. Should I
10. Leap Frog

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[texas gonzalo]

Peter, I am never bored with anything you post, As a natter of fact I look forward to your postings, especially when they pertain to Les Brown/Doris Day recordings. I believe the first AFRS on the Amazon product should be for One Night Stand #496 recorded on 15 January 1945. The second one is news to me. My original notes showed there were four recordings for the Hollywood Palladium #682. I have updated the The DDD Discography to show the contents you described. Thanks for making mine a Happy Day. Texas Gonzalo

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Yesterday I have updated my Doris Day Live Radio list. For the complete list go to: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=694&start=100

I've got two new books now:
One Night Stand Series, 0-1001 by Harry Mckenzie
One Night Stand Series, 1001-4000 by Charles Garrod
They give information about all the One Night Stand shows. And so I have found a lot of detailed information about these shows. And there are more than I could ever dream…

I will follow with a more detailed list later.

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

At the moment these are the missing One Night Stand shows and the songs sung by Doris. The underlined ones are not yet heard by me. And I love to hear them of course...

1944-07-24 ONS 343: It Could Happen To You/It's A Crying Shame/Amor
1945-01-23 ONS 531: You're So Sweet To Remember/Sleigh Ride In July/Sentimental Journey
1945-08-07 ONS Filler 84: A Friend Of Yours/A Stranger In Town/Sentimental Journey
1945-08-09 ONS 766: Along The Navajo Trail/I Wish I Knew
1945-08-13 ONS 814: Sentimental Journey/A Red Kiss On A Blue Letter/Out Of This World
1945-10-11 ONS Filler 93: Till The End Of Time/A Friend Of Yours/The Man I Love
1946-03-27 ONS 936: The Moment I Met You/Day By Day/You Won't Be Satisfied
1946-04-03 ONS 954: Everyone Is Saying Hello Again/The Deevil, Devil, Divil/You Won't Be Satisfied
1946-07-08 ONS 1048: No information
1946-07-23 ONS 1084: I Got The Sun In The Morning (looking for the first half of this show)
1946-07-24 ONS 1063: No information
1946-07-31 ONS 1070: No information
1946-08-06 ONS 1112: If You Were There/My Number One Dream
1946-08-07 ONS 1077: No information
1946-08-13 ONS 1119: If You Were There/My Number One Dream
1946-08-14 ONS 1126: The Man I Love
1946-08-20 ONS 1098: If You Were There/Land Of Dreams/My Number One Dream
1946-08-27 ONS 1105: September Song/South America, Take It Away

Have an nice Day,

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Through my facebook friend Karl Pearson we now have the second two One Night Stand Shows available. The Doris songs on the first show ONS#673 are available, two of the songs on ONS#701 weren't… We now have a much better version of: "A Stranger In Town" and a very special song: "Out Of This World" I have never heard Doris singing this way, Les once mentioned that Doris was magical with a lyrical ballad... I think this song is amazing, with Les superb backing behind it. Never heard Doris sing this way. Hope you all enjoy it too.

1945 – 07 – 26 One Night Stand (AFRS) #673
From: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
Announcer: Bill Ewing
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Leap Frog
2. How High The Moon
3. Growing Pains - Doris Day#
4. Harlem Sandman - Butch Stone
5. Twilight Time
6. Mexican Hat Dance
7. There’s No You - Doris Day#
8. Captain Kidd - Butch Stone
9. Dream - Doris Day#
10. Leap Frog

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jesbzvi1lwrbw ... n.mp3?dl=0

1945 – 08 – 23 One Night Stand (AFRS) #701
From: The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
Announcer: Bill Ewing
With: Doris Day, Butch Stone
Music: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
1. Leap Frog
2. Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
3. A Stranger In Town - Doris Day#
4. Gotta Be This Or That - Butch Stone
5. Twilight Time
6. 'Tain’t Me - Doris Day#
7. Out Of This World - Doris Day#
8. Sunday - Butch Stone
9. I Wish I Knew - Doris Day#
10. Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q2n05kifqwv1j ... e.mp3?dl=0

Enjoy,

P

[Peter Flapper]

Hi all,

Anyone listened to: "Out Of This World"??? I think it's amazing… Love to hear your thoughts.

P

[Jas1]

I agree, love Out of this World- only ever heard Chris Conor sing it before. Also love A stranger in town and I wish I knew