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+ Jubilee ran from 1942 to 1953 and was aimed as a morale-building service for black troops and aired for military personnel. The show was hosted by Bubbles Whitman, yet was never broadcast at home. Jubilee filled an important gap in the musical history of radio, though it was transcribed for distribution to service personnel and was not heard home. Conceived, at least in part, as a morale-building service for for Negro troops overseas, it presented bands and entertainment that had been given short shrift by the networks. The wartime host, Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman, was a jive-talking bundle of energy. Most of the shows were recorded before live audiences in Los Angeles: either at network studios or in the facilities of such syndicators as C.P. MacGregor and Universal Recorders. The series has emerged as an important piece of black heritage: its War Department status ex-empted the performing artists from the union-mandated recording bans of 1942-43 and 1947-48, and many of the discs contain unique performances. Click here to read more about Jubilee

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Please enjoy these 133 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
02.12.1945	guests billy eckstine and sarah vaughn	+Program #120/216. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "To...
02.19.1945	guests billy eckstine and coleman hawkins	+Program #121/217. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Airmail Special." The program was possibly ...
03.12.1945	guests harry james and kitty kallen	+Program #124. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "I'm Beginning To See The Light."
03.19.1945	benny carter and effie smith	+Program #125/219. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The program was previo...
03.26.1945	benny carter and betty roche	+Program #126/207. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Jubilee Jump." The program was re-issued on...
05.21.1945	andy kirk and gwynne time	+Program #134/211. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The program was releas...
06.04.1945	eddie green and benny carter	+ Program #136/222. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "S...
06.11.1945	joe liggins and jimmie lunceford	+Program #137/213. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. This program has also ...
06.18.1945	jimmie lunceford
06.25.1945	alvino rey and lillian randolph	+Program #139. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "Jeep R...
07.09.1945	count basie and ann moore
09.24.1945	dick haymes and count basie	+Program #149/223. AFRS origination. The date above is the recording date. The first tune is, "Rhyth...
10.29.1945	eddie green and herb jefferies	+ Program #154. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is "Louise...
11.12.1945	stan kenton and june cristy
11.26.1945	lionel hampton and frankie robinson	+Program #159. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Loose Wig." The date above is the recording dat...
12.17.1945	boyd raeburn and david allen	+ Program #163/209. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. This is program #209,...
01.07.1946	lionel hampton and lena horne
06.24.1946	boyd raeburn and ginny powell
07.22.1946	benny carter and delta rhythm boys
08.05.1946	art walker and delores parker
11.30.1946	wingy minone and kid ory
12.13.1946	bobby sherwood
12.27.1946	cliff land and 4 chicks and chuck
01.10.1947	cliff lang and kay starr	Program #202. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The Cliff Lang Orchestra appe...
01.17.1947	les paul and benny carter

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Jubilee is one of my favorite musical shows from the OTR era.

John

This series was designed for, and aimed at the Black soldier serving during and after WWII...but for anyone, white, black, yellow, or in-between, this is some of the hottest music this side of heaven. CARL A. HALLSTROM, a Jubilee expert states; "Jubilee was a unique series of radio entertainment designed for the guys and gals in the American Armed Forces during World War II. None of the broadcasts were heard over the regular networks in the USA. Jubilee was produced in Hollywood by the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) and the programs were transcribed on 16" vinylite discs (speed: 33 1/3 rpm) and distributed to various radio stations all over the world. Back in 1985 German bookseller Norbert Ruecker produced two hardcover books offering a "complete" discography of the Jubilee transcriptions. It turned out to be a sort of a draft edition of a manuscript prepared by German collectors Rainer E. Lotz and Ulrich Neuert. Bo Scherman and Hallstrom revised the original manuscript edition of the Lotz-Neuert discography, based on copies of the actual transcriptions and material found in contemporary trade magazines.

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