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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
01.10.1948	opie cates orchestra and ginny anderson	+ Program #255. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The first tune is, "I Found...
01.03.1948	earl spencer and kaye starr
12.27.1947	benny carter and benny goodman	+Program #271. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Just You, Just Me." The date above is the recor...
12.13.1947	albert stack orchestra and annette warren	+Program #252. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Oh, Lady Be Good." The date above is the date o...
12.05.1947	opie cates orchestra and martha tilton	+ Program #251. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Digga Digga Doo." The date above is the date o...
11.28.1947	murray mac eachern and kid ory	+Program #250. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The program was recorded bet...
11.21.1947	ernie gill orchestra and penny piper	+ Program #249. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "I Know That You Know." The date above is the r...
11.14.1947	benny carter and peggy lee	+Program #248. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Fish Fry." The date above is the recording date...
11.07.1947	charlie barnett and frankie laine
10.31.1947	benny carter and peggy lee	+Program #246. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Jump Call." The program was recorded mid August...
10.24.1947	count basie and ella mae morse	+Program #245. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Jimmy's Idea." The program was recorded at a "J...
10.17.1947	roy milton sextet and linda stevens	+ Program #244. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Old Man River." The date above is the recordin...
10.10.1947	eddie skrivanek and peter lind hayes	+Program #243. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Blue Lou."
10.03.1947	al killean and hadda brooks
09.19.1947	ike carpenter and four blazes
09.05.1947	beryl davis and cyril hanes
08.29.1947	bobby sherwood and the saul davis trio
08.01.1947	stan kenton and the hollywood blazes
07.25.1947	gerald wilson and mabel scott
07.04.1947	woody herman and jesse price
06.13.1947	pete daley and martha tilton	+Program #227. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The program originates from ...
06.06.1947	jack mcvea and joey preston
05.23.1947	jack mcvea and jack teagarden
05.16.1947	benny carter and helen humes
05.02.1947	benny carter and nat king cole

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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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