BEAT THE BAND

OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD-ROM - 29 mp3 - Total Playhouse: 14:16:03

Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to 1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the show business catch phrase, "Give me a little traveling music," often uttered on TV a decade later by Jackie Gleason.
In the first series, broadcast on Sundays at 6:30pm from Chicago, emcee Garry Moore read music-related questions submitted by listeners to band members in the 14-piece Ted Weems Orchestra. Originally sponsored by the General Mills cereal Kix, listeners whose questions were used on the air received $10; those who stumped the band received $20 and a case of Kix. Questions were often posed in the form of puns or riddles. such as, "Suppose a small fur-bearing animal gets so angry he explodes. What song title is suggested?" The answer from comedian-violinist Red Ingle, "Pop Goes the Weasel." Band members who answered questions incorrectly had to toss a fifty-cent piece on the bass drum. The musician with the most correctly answered questions at the end of the program took home the bass drum "kitty". Unlike most radio shows of the time, Beat the Band did not always originate in Chicago; the program was often broadcast on location from places like Denver, St. Louis, and Milwaukee.
The program's vocalists were Perry Como, Parker Gibbs and Marvel Maxwell. Other cast members included Country Washburn and Elmo Tanner, the Whistling Troubador. This series aired from January 28, 1940 to February 23, 1941.
Relocating to New York as a summer replacement for Red Skelton's Raleigh Cigarettes Program, the program began anew on June 15, 1943 with Raleigh Cigarettes as the sponsor (until June 1944). Music was supplied by the Harry Sosnik band. The first host of the second series was Hildegarde. After June 1944, the host was Eddie Mayehoff. The program came to an end on September 6, 1944.
Announcers were Marvin Miller and Tom Shirley. The program's theme music was "Out of the Night," composed by Harry Sosnik; and Walter Hirsch. The first version of this theme was by Weems and Hildegarde. The second version was performed by Sosnik.
Music was the basis for several quiz shows, such as Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge. In 2001, Soundcraft issued a compact disk of transcripts for some of the 1940 episodes of the show.

SHOWS LIST

Beat the Band 40-01-09 (000) First Song - Goody Goodbye (Audition Show)
Beat the Band 40-01-28 (001) First Song - You're a Lucky Guy
Beat the Band 40-02-18 (004) First Song - Say, Si Si
Beat the Band 40-02-25 (005) First Song - Goody Good-Bye
Beat the Band 40-03-10 (007) First Song - Goody Good-Bye
Beat the Band 40-03-17 (008) First Song - Wearin' of the Green
Beat the Band 40-03-24 (009) First Song - Ma, He's Makin' Eyes At Me
Beat the Band 40-03-31 (010) First Song - I Got My Eyes On You
Beat the Band 40-04-07 (011) First Song - You Little Heartbreaker You (1)
Beat the Band 40-04-07 (011) First Song - You Little Heartbreaker You (2)
Beat the Band 40-05-26 (018) First Song - Oh, Golly, I'm in Love
Beat the Band 40-06-16 (021) First Song - Knit One, Pearl Two
Beat the Band 40-06-23 (022) First Song - Take Your Girlie To The Movies
Beat the Band 40-06-30 (023) First Song - Manhattan Moon and You
Beat the Band 40-07-07 (024) First Song - Get That Moon out of Your Eyes
Beat the Band 40-07-28 (027) First Song - It Seems Like A Month Of Sundays
Beat the Band 40-08-04 (028) First Song - I Hear Bluebirds
Beat the Band 40-08-11 (029) First Song - I'm Nobody's Baby
Beat the Band 40-08-18 (030) First Song - There's a Great Day Coming, Manana
Beat the Band 40-09-22 (035) First Song - Calicanga
Beat the Band 40-09-29 (036) First Song - It Feels Like a Month of Sundays
Beat the Band 40-10-06 (037) First Song - Down Argentine Way
Beat the Band 40-10-20 (039) First Song - Who's Who in Your Heart
Beat the Band 40-12-08 (047) First Song - Toot That Trumpet
Beat the Band 40-12-15 (048) First Song - The Lady with Red Hair
Beat the Band 40-12-29 (049) First Song - How About You
Beat the Band 41-01-05 (050) First Song - It's High Time
Beat the Band 41-02-09 (055) First Song - Love Is
Beat the Band 44-03-01 (095) First Song - Pack Up Your Toubles In Your Old Kit Bag
Beat the Band 44-08-02 (117) With Eddie Mayhoff And Harry Solnick

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