From March 8, 1942 until December of 1949 Command Performance
was produced by the
Armed Forces Radio Service for our fighting troops overseas.
All performers donated their time.
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Command Performance Vol. 01
Command Performance Vol. 1
03/01/42 # 1 MC: Eddie Cantor w/Bea Wain & The
Ambassadors, An Extract From The
Buddy Baer vs. Joe Louis Fight, Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Merle Oberon,
“The Mad Russian”
(Broadcast on 03/08/42) From New York City.
03/09/42 # 2 MC: Fred Waring w/Joe E. Lewis, Tallulah
Bankhead, Tommy Riggs
03/13/42 # 3 MC: Kate Smith w/Henny Youngman, Barry
Wood, Ed “Archie” Gardner,
Robert Benchley
03/18/42 # 4 MC: Fred Allen w/Kenny Baker, Henny Youngman,
Gladys Swarthout,
John Kieran, Madeleine Carroll, Portland Hoffa
03/29/42 # 5 MC: George Jessel w/Joan Edwards, Carmen
Miranda, Tallulah Bankhead,
Connee Boswell, Oscar Levant
04/01/42 # 6 MC: Kay Kyser w/Bea Wain, Lou Holtz,
Wendy Davis, Ella Logan, Eddie Cantor
04/12/42 # 7 MC: Gene Tierney w/Joe Forte, Betty Hutton,
Gary Cooper, Sara Berner,
Athur Q. “Raymond Ratcliffe” Bryan, The Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen
And Charlie McCarthy, Ginny Simms, Bob Burns
04/16/42 # 8 MC: Clifton Fadiman w/Phil Baker, “Beetle
& Bottle,” Benay Venuta, Bill Stern,
John Ringling North, Golden Gate Quartet, Walter O’Keefe, Dinah Shore
04/19/42 # 9 MC: Shirley Temple w/Martha Tilton, Ceferino
Garcia, Baby Snooks & Daddy,
Dorothy Lamour, Abbott & Costello
04/23/42 #10 MC: Pat O’Brien w/”Slapsie” Maxie Rosenbloom,
The Merry Macs,
Frank Morgan, John Conte, Frances Langford
05/07/42 #12 MC: Betty Grable w/Judy Canova, Robert
Benchley, Jack Benny, Don Wilson,
Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Rochester
05/14/42 #13 MC: Edward G. Robinson w/Hedy Lamarr,
Nick Parkyakarkas, Milton Berle,
Ginny Simms, Ukulele Ike, Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom
05/18/42 #14 MC: George Raft w/Brenda & Cobina,
Deanna Durbin, Meade Lux Lewis,
Dinah Shore, Lum & Abner, Rudy Vallee
05/13/42 #15 MC: Marlene Dietrich w/Eddie Peabody,
Tommy Riggs & Betty Lou,
Kenny Baker, Mitzi Green, Al Jolson
06/02/42 #16 MC: Mickey Rooney w/Betty Hutton, Bob
Burns, Amos ‘n’ Andy,
Betty Rhodes, The Mad Russian, Harry Von Zell
06/11/42 #17 MC: Don Ameche w/The Merry Macs, Max
Baer, Carole Landis,
George Givot, Bing Crosby, Hugh Herbert, Dinah Shore
06/16/42 #18 MC: William Powell w/Martha Tilton, George
Jessell, Brenda & Cobina,
Judy Garland, Gene Autry (VG+)
06/23/42 #19 MC: Loretta Young w/Ella Fitzgerald,
Ransom Sherman, Oscar Levant,
Phil Silvers, Rags Ragland, Reginald Gardiner, Frank Nelson (VG+)
06/30/42 #20 MC: Spencer Tracy w/Mary Lee, Victor
Borge, The King’s Men,
Pat Friday, Groucho Marx, Barbara Stanwyck, Donald Duck, Goofy & Pluto,
Hans Conreid
07/07/42 #21 MC: Bob Hope w/Lena Horne, Shaw &
Lee, Ginny Simms, Rosalind Russell,
Edith Evanson, Eddie Marr, Les Brown Orchestra
07/14/42 #22 MC: Edward Arnold w/Ethel Waters, Richard
Hayden, Jascha Heifitz, Jack Benny
07/21/42 #23 MC: Pat O’Brien w/Frances Langford, Harold
Peary, Walter Tetley,
Lillian Randolph, Brenda & Cobina, Dick Powell
07/28/42 #24 MC: Cary Grant w/Shirley Ross, Billy
& Mrs. Gilbert, Pinto Colvig,
Jack Mather, Billy Bletcher, Judy Garland, Ruth Hussey
08/04/42 #25 MC: Clark Gable w/Cass Daley, Jerry Colonna,
Carmen Miranda, Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, Count Basie
08/11/42 #26 MC: Walter Pidgeon w/The Mills Brothers,
Vera Vague, Johnny Weismuller, The Merry Macs, Mary Martin
08/18/42 #27 MC: Cary Grant w/Virginia O’Brien, Joan
Davis, Jose Iturbi, Bert Lahr, Ella Mae Morse
Command Performance Vol. 2
08/25/42 #28 MC: Red Skelton w/Betty Hutton, Reginald
Gardiner, Dorothy Lamour,
Truman Bradley, Leo Cleary, Benny Goodman
09/04/42 #29 MC:Tallulah Bankhead w/Joan Edwards,
Col. Stoopnagle, Art Carney, Jane Froman, Willie Howard
08/30/42-1 #30 MC: Bing Crosby w/Connee Boswell, Bert
Wheeler & Hank Ladd,
James Cagney, Larry Adler, Dinah Shore, The Music Maids
08/30/42-2 #31 MC: Bing Crosby w/Hedy Lamarr, Conee
Boswell, Abbott & Costello, Ginny Simms, Kay Kyser
09/22/42 #32 MC: Don Ameche w/Vivian Blaine, Baby
Snooks & Daddy, Nelson Eddy, Bergen & McCarthy, Tommy Dorsey
09/29/42 #33 MC: Bob Burns w/Dinah Shore, Count Basie,
Tommy Dorsey
08/30/42-3 #34 MC: Cary Grant w/Joan Davis, Rise Stevens,
Ethel Waters, Larry Adler,
Abbott & Costello, Ginny Simms, Spike Jone City Slickers (VG+)
10/09/42 #35 MC: Bob Hope w/Claudette Colbert, Judy
Garland, Lana Turner
10/13/42 #36 MC: Bing Crosby w/The Music Maids &
Hal, Mary Martin, The Charioteers, Dinah Shore, The Ambassadors
10/21/42 #37 MC: Frances Langford w/Bob Burns, Helen
O’Connell & Bob Eberly
10/24/42 #38 MC: Linda Darnell w/Virginia O’Brien,
Zero Mostel, Red Skelton, Harriet Hilliard, Truman Bradley (VG+)
10/27/42 #39 MC: Rita Hayworth w/Cass Daley, Hall
Johnson Choir, Frank Morgan,
John Conte, Lena Horne, Meredith Willson, Carl Grayson
11/03/42 #40 MC: Betty Grable w/Judy Canova, Edger
Bergen, Charlie McCarthy,
Mortimer Snurd, Kenny Baker, Ella Mae Morse
01/06/43 #46 MC: Robert Taylor w/The King Sisters,
Joan Davis, Nelson Eddy, “Lum & Abner,” Helen Forrest (VG+)
01/10/43 #47 MC: Joan Blondell w/Florence George,
Connie Haines, Bob Nolan & The Sons Of The Pioneers,
Roy Rogers, Loumel Morgan Trio (VG+) (First Half Only) (13:07)
01/16/43 #48 MC: Jeanette MacDonald w/Virginia O’Brien,
Dale Evans, The Mills Brothers
01/23/43 #49 MC: Bob Hope w/Joan Blondell, Lena Horne,
Ginny Simms, Carlos Ramirez
01/30/43 #50 MC: Dinah Shore w/Chill Wills, Ann Miller,
Kathryn Grayso
02/13/43-1 #51 MC: Rita Hayworth w/Betty Hutton, George
Burns & Gracie Allen, Richard Hayden, Pfc. Gail Laughton
02/13/43-2 #52 MC: Bing Crosby w/Richard Crooks, Pat
O’Malley, The Merry Macs
02/20/43 #53 MC: Olivia deHavilland w/Frances Langford,
Allan Jones, Jinx Falkenburg,
Jimmy Walely & The Rough Riders, Ish Kabibble
02/24/43 #54 MC: Bob Hope w/Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby,
Carmen Miranda, The Music Maids
02/27/43 #55 MC: Betty Grable w/Marian Anderson, Pat
O’Malley, The Charioteers, Mel Blanc, Margaret Whiting
03/13/43 #57 MC: Dinah Shore w/Cornelia Otis Skinner,
Allan Jones, Freddy Martin Orchestra
03/20/43 #58 MC: Judy Garland w/Kenny Baker, Virginia
O’Brien, Woody Herman
03/27/43 #59 MC: Kay Kyser w/Lennie Hayton, Hedda
Hopper, Ish Kabibble, Mel Blanc
Command Performance Vol. 3
04/01/43 #60 MC: Bing Crosby w/Dinah Shore, The Charioteers,
Bob Burns, Music Maids (VG+)
04/03/43 #61 MC: Bob Hope w/Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer,
Lee Sweetland, Elvia Allman
04/17/43 #62 MC: Dinah Shore, Fay McKenzie, The Pied
Pipers, Glen Gray & Casa Loma
04/24/43 #63 MC: Ann Sheridan w/Paul Whiteman, Gracie
Allen, Jose Iturbi, Bonnie Baker (VG+)
05/01/43 #64 MC: Kate Smith w/John Charles Thomas,
Cass Daley, Charioteers
05/05/43 #65 MC: Ginny Simms w/Eddie And Jimmie Dean,
Johnny Bond
05/08/43 #66 MC: Martha Raye w/Jimmie Crier, Bartlett
& Robertson, Mel Blanc (VG+)
05/15/43 #67 MC: Joan Blondell w/Dick Powell, Rochester,
Judy Canova, The Sportsmen,
Virginia O’Brien, Martha Tilton (VG+)
05/22/43 #68 MC: Dinah Shore w/Ticker Freeman, Chic
Chandler, Carlos Ramirez,
Ruth Hussey, The Sportmen (VG-)
06/05/43 #69 MC: Betty Hutton w/Amos ‘n’ Andy, Jose
Iturbi, Phil Kramer, Woody Herman
06/12/43 #70 MC: Bob Crosby w/The Charioteers, Jimmy
Wakely & The Rough Riders
06/19/43 #71 MC: Dinah Shore & Bing Crosby w/Baby
Snooks & Daddy, Mel Blanc,
The Murphy Sisters
06/26/43 #72 MC: Fred MacMurray w/Alice Faye, Bea
Benaderet, Sgt. “Skinnay” Ennis,
Phil Harris, Gene Austin, Jerry Colonna
07/03/43 #73 MC: Kay Kyser w/Gertrude Niesen, Alan
Carney, Wally Brown, Lena Horne,
Rochester, Kay Kyser Orchestra (VG+)
07/10/43 #74 MC: Ronald Colman w/Jeanette MacDonald,
Ginny Simms, Ella Mae Morse
07/11/43 #75 MC: Bing Crosby w/Betty Grable, Artur
Rubinstein, Leo Sherin, Trudy Erwin
07/24/43 #76 MC: Dinah Shore w/Robert Benchley, Rise
Stevens, Tommy Dorsey
07/31/43 #77 MC: Katherine Hepburn w/Archie, Kathryn
Grayson, The Jesters, Ted Lewis
08/07/43 #78 MC: Greer Garson w/Gloria Warren, Nelson
Eddy, Cass Daley,
Pinto Colvig, Billy Bletcher
08/14/43 #79 MC: Rosalind Russell w/Carlos Ramirez,
Jimmy Wakely & The Rough Riders,
Judy Canova, Xavier Cugat
08/21/43 #80 MC: Ginger Rogers w/Alice Faye, Archie,
Frank Sinatra, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
08/28/43 #81 MC: Jimmy Durante w/Bing Crosby, Judy
Garland, Pinto Colvig,
Julie Conway & Georgia Carroll (VG+)
09/09/43 #82 MC: Marlene Dietrich w/Shirley Ross,
Solito De Solis, Zero Mostel,
Martha Tilton, Ella Mae Morse, Johnny Mead, The Pied Pipers
(Two different mastering dates for this broadcast. First 07/27/43
and 09/09/43. Same MC
but different cast listing. This is 09/09/43 cast)
09/06/43 #83 MC: Dinah Shore w/Jeanette MacDonald,
Garry Moore, Jimmy Dorsey
09/11/43 #84 MC: Ginny Simms w/The Andrews Sisters,
Roy acuff & The Smokey
Mountain Boys, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham
09/18/43 #85 MC: Ronald Colman w/Lena Horne, Rise
Stevens, Robert Benchley,
Jascha Heifitz, Walter Tetley
Command Performance Vol. 4
09/25/43 #86 MC: Bob Hope w/Bing Crosby, Frances Langford,
Tony Romano (VG+)
10/02/43 #87 MC: Don Ameche w/Betty Hutton, The Vagabonds,
Al Dexter, Nat King Cole Trio
10/09/43 #88 MC: Robert Young w/Tex Ritter, Salty
Holmes, Cass Daley, Janet Blair
10/16/43 #89 MC: Bette Davis w/John Charles Thomas,
Garry Moore, Rise Stevens
10/23/43 #90 MC: Bob Hope w/Carole Landis, Shirley
Ross, Vronsky & Babin, Jimmy Cash
10/30/43 #91 MC: Judy Garland w/Dinah Shore, Shirley
Ross, Ginny Simms
11/13/43 #92 MC: Bob Hope w/Jimmy Durante, Betty Hutton,
Judy Garland, Lana Turner (VG+)
11/20/43 #93 MC: Ida Lupino w/Phil Harris, Gracie
Fields, Garry Moore
11/27/43 #94 MC: Herbert Marshall w/Anita Ellis, Virginia
O’Brien, Tommy Cook,
Conrad Binyon, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Frances Langford (VG-)
12/04/43 #95 MC: Dinah Shore w/Lulu Belle & Scotty,
Fats Waller, Gloria Jean,
Jerry Colonna, Abbott & Costello (VG-)
12/11/43 #96 MC: Bob Hope w/Anna Lee, Frances Langford,
Martha Raye,
Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Mitzi Mayfair
12/18/43 #97 MC: Dinah Shore & Bing Crosby w/The
Charioteers, Leon “Ukie” Sherin (VG-)
12/00/43-1 #98 MC: Fred Allen w/Ginny Simms, Lauritz
Melchior, The Golden Gate Quartet,
Gypsy Rose Lee, Benny Goodman Trio & Orchestra (VG-)
12/00/43-2 #99 MC: Fred Waring w/Kate Smith, Ilka
Chase, Phil Baker, Orson Welles (VG-)
01/08/44 #100 MC: Shirley Ross w/Carmen Miranda, Jimmy
Cash, Maurice Rocco,
Veronica Lake, Harry James Orchestra (VG+)
01/15/44 #101 MC: Frances Langford w/Phyllis Brooks,
The Revuers, Jimmy Wakely, Virginia O’Brien
01/22/44 #102 MC: Bob Hope w/Deanna Durbin, Dennis
Day, Joan Leslie (VG-) (This program is repeated as #208)
01/31/44 #103 MC: Robert Young w/Kate Smith, Georgie
Price, Mary Martin (VG)
(This broadcast was recorded originally on 12/09/43 as a 90 minute special
“New Year Greetings To GIs” by CBS)
02/01/44 #104 MC: Dinah Shore w/Ticker Freeman, Bing
Crosby, Frank Sinatra
02/05/44 #105 MC: Jerry Colonna w/Fibber McGee &
Molly, Ethel Waters, Cass Daley
02/12/44 #106 MC: Bob Hope w/Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland
02/19/44 #107 MC: Loretta Young w/Frances Langford,
Ginny Simms, Connee Boswell, Larry Adler
02/25/44 #108 MC: Dorothy Lamour w/Virginia O’Brien,
Dick Haymes, Vivian Della Chiesa
04/08/44 #114 MC: Jerry Colonna w/Jo Stafford, Connie
Haines, Yvette, Frances Langford,
Ish Kabibble, Fred Lowery (VG-)
06/03/44-2 #123 MC: Connie Haines w/Lena Horne, Shirley
Ross, Lotta Lehman, Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna,
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope (VG)
06/17/44 #125 MC: Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Gary Cooper,
Bing Crosby, Lena Horne
Command Performance Vol. 5
08/19/44 #134 MC: Judy Garland w/Laurenz Melchior,
Danny Kaye, Helen Forrest (VG+)
09/13/44 #138 MC: Bob Hope w/Johnny Mercer, Gloria
DeHaven, June Allyson,
Frances Langford, Ethel Smith, Jane Russell, Jerry Colonna (VG)
09/23/44 #139 MC: Martha Raye w/Jack Carson, Jane
Wyman, Hoosier Hot Shots,
Rise Stevens, Mischa Auer, Lina Romay, Bob McReynolds and The Texas Playboys
(Ken Carpenter’s second anniversary show)
10/26/44 #144 MC: Clark Gable w/Ginny Simms, Winged
Victory Orchestra
11/01/44 #145 MC: Ethel Merman w/Pat Harrington and
Frankie Hyers, Johnny Sebastian,
Connee Boswell, Joe E. Lewis, Eddie Heywood Sextet
11/25/44-2 #152 MC: Irene Dunne w/Jimmy McHugh, Johnny
Mercer, Jerome Kerr,
Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen, Hoagy Carmichael, Connie Haines
12/16/44-1 #154 MC: Bob Hope w/Bing Crosby, The Andrews
Sisters, Ann Sheridan,
Lauren Bacall, Stan Kenton
12/16/44-2 #155 MC: Bob Hope w/Bing Crosby, The Andrews
Sisters, Ann Sheridan,
Lauren Bacall, Stan Kenton (Same as #154)
01/11/45 #157 MC: Linda Darnell w/Lina Romay, Jack
Teagarden, Janet Blair,
Jimmy Durante, William Gargan, Ed Brophy, Sterling Holloway,
Robert Benchley, Alan Hale, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins
01/18/45 #158 MC: George Burns & Gracie Allen
w/Rafael Mendez, Connie Haines,
C. Aubrey Smith, Dame Made Whitty (VG-)
01/25/45 #159 MC: Frank Morgan w/Frank Sinatra, Brenda
& Cobina, Nelson Eddy,
Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage, Andrews Sisters
02/01/45 #160 MC: Gloria DeHaven w/Carmen Miranda,
Jack Carson, Bing Crosby (VG)
02/08/45 #161 MC: Jeannie Crain w/William Bendix,
Edward Everett Horton (VG+)
02/15/45 #162 Dick Tracy In B Flat, Or For Goodness
Sakes, Isn’t He Ever Going To Marry Tess Trueheart?
MC: None w/Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Harry Von Zell, Jerry Colonna, Bob
Hope, Frank Morgan,
The Andrews Sisters, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Cass Daley
02/22/45 #163 MC: John Garfield w/Danny Thomas, The
Sportsmen, Dick Haymes, Ginny Simms (VG+)
03/01/45 #164 MC: Helen Forrest w/Jack Carson, Andy
Russell, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Treacher,
Alexis Smith, Roy Rogers (VG+)
03/08/45 #165 MC: Frank Sinatra w/Elizabeth Taylor,
Roddy McDowell, Peggy Ann Garner,
Margaret O’Brien, The Crosby Boys, Frances Langford
03/15/45 #166 MC: Herbert Marshall w/Jimmy Durante,
Edward Arnold, Lauren Bacall,
Humphrey Bogart, Janet Blair, Sons Of The Pioneers
06/14/45 #179 MC: Ann Rutherford w/Chu Chu Martinez,
Jerry Colonna, Gloria DeHaven,
Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, The King Sisters (VG+)
07/05/45 #182 MC: Bing Crosby & G.I. Jill w/Ella
Mae Morse, Tommy Dorsey, Spike Jones City Slickers
07/19/45 #184 MC: Judy Canova w/Hoosier Hot Shots,
Danny Kaye, Eve Arden
08/09/45 #187 MC: Walter O’Keefe w/Marilyn Maxwell,
The Town Criers, Rita Hayworth, Les Paul Trio (VG+)
10/25/45 #197 MC: Eddie Cantor w/Margaret Whiting,
Linda Darnell, The Mad Russian, Mel Tormé and The Meltones
11/01/45 #198 MC: Ginny Simms w/Jimmy Durante, Dennis
Day, The Charioteers, The Sportsmen, Mel Tormé
Command Performance Vol. 6
#275 MC: Lina Romay w/Paulina Carter, Meredith Willson
#276 MC: Bill Goodwin w/Harry Babbitt, Alan Young,
Jane Russell
#337 MC: Marion Hutton w/Gil Stratton, Jack Carson,
Ken Carson
#338 MC: Shirley Ross w/Frank Graham, Red Ingle &
Karen Tedder, June Foray
#349 MC: Constance Moore w/Danny Scholl, Garry Moore
#350 MC: Virginia O’Brien w/Trenier Twins, Jerry Colonna
#361 MC: Betty Garrett w/Mel Henke, Jimmy Durante
#362 MC: Gertrude Niesen w/Danny Kaye, Ray Sinatra
#365 MC: Evelyn Knight w/Jimmy Durante, Bob Graham
#366 MC: Constance Moore w/Dennis Day, Hans Conreid
#367 MC: Marilyn Maxwell w/Jerry Colonna, The Chordsmen
#368 MC: Lina Romay w/Archie, Diana Lynn, Danny Thomas,
Kenny Delmar
#369 MC: Esther Williams w/Bud Widom, Ben Gage, Mel
Blanc, Mary Jane Smith, Lum ‘n’ Abner
#370 MC: Marie McDonald w/Bob Crosby, Hal Kantor,
The Andrews Sisters