Old Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "Peggy Lee" (1949) | Full Episode

Wednesday nights on CBS in 1949, Bing Crosby ran the easiest half hour in radio, and on October 12 he threw out the script entirely. "Tonight's chirping for Chesterfield isn't going to be our usual pack of tunes," he tells Ken Carpenter. "We're unleashing a whole carton of melody." It's music lovers' night: ten songs, barely a joke in sight. Bing and Peggy Lee open with "How It Lies" and close on a hushed duet of "Again," and in between Peggy sings "A Wonderful Guy" from the brand-new South Pacific, Bing reprises "Cockeyed Optimist" at her request, croons "Some Enchanted Evening," "Amor" and Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You," and rides out "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the season's biggest hit, with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. Only the fourth week of Bing's Chesterfield run, with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and Buddy Cole at the keyboard.

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