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Request performance

Title: Request performance [sound recording], 1945-1946.

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n1bc Lawrence, Jerome,1915- Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings (CStRLIN)NYPW88-A22

Description

31 sound discs : analog, acetate, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.

Note

Radio comedy routines, recorded for broadcast on radio program Request performance.
Continues: Command performance.

Access (note)

Access restricted; advance notification required.

Source (note)

Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Detailed finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 88-3.

Provenance (note)

Gift of Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee.

Linking Entry (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

*L (Special) 88-03

Title

Request performance [sound recording], 1945-1946.

Access

Access restricted; advance notification required.

Summary

Radio program which solicited programming requests from the listening audience. Listeners would write to the studio with ideas for skits, and the actors on the show would perform those skits on the air. Skits were written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. Each program features a different all-star cast.

Featured performers: Abbott and Costello, Barbara Jo Allen, the Andrews Sisters, Eddie Arnold, Mischa Auer, Kenny Baker, Lucille Ball, Lionel Barrymore, Janet Blair, Victor Borge, Joe E. Brown, Nigel Bruce, Burns and Allen, Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Jerry Colonna, Cass Daley, Clark Dennis, Jimmy Durante, Louise Erickson, Dale Evans, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Faye, Barry Fitzgerald, Helen Forrest, Ed Gardner, Bill Goodwin, Jack Haley, Phil Harris, Dick Haymes, Rita Hayworth, Harriet Hilliard, Edward Everett Horton, George Jessel, Allan Jones, Spike Jones, Boris Karloff, the Nat King Cole Trio, Kay Kyser, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Frances Langford, Charles Laughton, Oscar Levant, Art Linkletter, Ella Logan, Ida Lupino, Jeanette MacDonald, Marilyn Maxwell, the Merry Macs, Garry Moore, Dennis Morgan, Frank Morgan, Ozzie Nelson, David Niven, Merle Oberon, ZaSu Pitts, Jane Powell, George Raft, Tommy Riggs, Earl Robinson, Rochester, Roy Rogers, Lina Romay, Shirley Ross, Andy Russell, Jean Sablon, Ginny Simms, Red Skelton, the Slim Galliard Trio, Sir Aubrey Smith, Ted Steele, Kay Thompson, Rudy Vallee, Janet Waldo, Robert Walker, Cornel Wilde, Meredith Wilson, Keenan Wynn, Alan Young.

Linking Entry

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

Indexes

Detailed finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 88-3.

Added Author

Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.

Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.

Allen, Barbara Jo. Performer

Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977. Performer

Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956. Performer

Auer, Mischa, 1905-1967. Performer

Baker, Kenny, 1912-1985, singer.

Ball, Lucille, 1911-1989. Performer

Barrymore, Lionel, 1878-1954. Performer

Blair, Janet. Performer

Borge, Victor. Performer

Brown, Joe E. (Joe Evan), 1892-1973. Performer

Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953. Performer

Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964. Performer

Carson, Jack, 1910-1963. Performer

Colonna, Jerry, -1986. Performer

Daley, Cass. Performer

Dennis, Clark. Performer

Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980. Performer

Erickson, Louise. Performer

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1909-2000. Performer

Faye, Alice, 1915-1998. Performer

Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961. Performer

Forrest, Helen. Performer

Gardner, Ed, 1901-1963. Performer

Goodwin, Bill. Performer

Haley, Jack, 1897-1979. Performer

Harris, Phil, 1904-1995. Performer

Haymes, Dick. Performer

Hayworth, Rita, 1918-1987. Performer

Horton, Edward Everett. Performer

Jessel, George, 1898-1981. Performer

Jones, Allan, 1907-1992. Performer

Jones, Spike, 1911-1965. Performer

Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969. Performer

Kyser, Kay. Performer

Ladd, Alan. Performer

Lake, Veronica. Performer

Lamour, Dorothy, 1914-1996. Performer

Lanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986. Performer

Langford, Frances. Performer

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962. Performer

Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972. Performer

Linkletter, Art, 1912-2010. Performer

Logan, Ella, 1913-1969. Performer

Lupino, Ida, 1918-1995. Performer

MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965. Performer

Maxwell, Marilyn. Performer

Moore, Garry, 1915-1993. Performer

Morgan, Dennis, 1908-1994. Performer

Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949. Performer

Nelson, Harriet. Performer

Nelson, Ozzie, 1906-1975. Performer

Niven, David, 1910-1983. Performer

Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979. Performer

Pitts, ZaSu, 1898-1963. Performer

Powell, Jane, 1929-2021, singer.

Raft, George. Performer

Riggs, Tommy, 1908-1967. Performer

Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991. Performer

Rogers, Dale Evans. Performer

Rogers, Roy, 1911-1998. Performer

Romay, Lina. Performer

Ross, Shirley, 1909-1975. Performer

Russell, Andy. Performer

Sablon, Jean, 1906-1994. Performer

Simms, Ginny. Performer

Skelton, Red, 1913-1997. Performer

Smith, C. Aubrey (Charles Aubrey), 1863-1948, voice actor.

Steele, Ted. Performer

Thompson, Kay, 1909-1987. Performer

Vallée, Rudy, 1901-1986. Performer

Waldo, Janet. Performer

Walker, Robert, 1918-1951. Performer

Wilde, Cornel. Performer

Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984. Performer

Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986. Performer

Young, Alan, 1919-2016, performer.

Abbott and Costello (Comedy team)

Andrews Sisters.

Burns & Allen (Comedy team)

King Cole Trio.

Merry Macs (Musical group)

Slim Galliard Trio.

Found In:

n1bc Lawrence, Jerome,1915- Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings (CStRLIN)NYPW88-A22

Research Call Number

*L (Special) 88-03

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