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...have a short-wave battery radio set which has been a Godsend here in the woods. For the past four or five evenings KGEI has been booming through. I have heard Bing Crosby, THE MARCH OF TIME, Charlie McCarthy and Jack Benny. A funny thing happened the other evening while I was listening to THE MARCH OF TIME. One of the episodes purported to depict an incident in the front lines here in Bataan. There was a sound effect of firing and one of the characters said: "Here they come!" Just at that minute a flight of dive-bombers opened...
Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...
Most popular, and most played, are the tunes of the hour. Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Kay Kyser, Bing Crosby rate high. When Consolidated Aircraft Corp. tried heavy classics on its programs, workers hooted. But Portland's huge Oregon Shipbuilding Yard draws no complaints when it goes as high as Brahms' Fifth and Sixth Hungarian Dances...
...some two hours of English programs every day. The stuff begins to come in on Bataan at 5 every afternoon (2 a.m. in San Francisco). It starts with a quarter-hour of straight news. Another quarter-hour is devoted to a roundup of editorial comments from the U.S. Since Bing Crosby's request performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie Cantor; Friday, Rudy Vallee. There is also news in Tagalog, and a discussion in English, Freedom...
Skylark (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Hoagie Carmichael of Star Dust fame and Johnny Mercer of Blues in the Night got together for this rambling, rhapsodic song. Not a top hit, but should...