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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
07.02.1948	billy eckstine and the trenner twins	+Program #280. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Out Of Nowhere." The date above is the recordin...
08.29.1947	bobby sherwood and the saul davis trio
12.13.1946	bobby sherwood
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,...
06.24.1946	boyd raeburn and ginny powell
12.20.1943	c p johnson and etta james	+Program #57. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Southern Fried." The date above is the recording...
01.17.1944	c p johnson and johnny mercer	+Program #61. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "Sherman...
02.14.1944	cab calloway and nat king cole
03.21.1947	charlie barnett and eddie haywood
11.07.1947	charlie barnett and frankie laine
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...
07.09.1945	count basie and ann moore
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...
06.07.1943	count basie and jimmy rushing
10.02.1944	count basie and rochester
12.06.1943	count basie and teddy wilson
09.11.1944	count basie and thelma hopkins
04.30.1948	count basie and toni harper
04.23.1948	count basie orchestra and jimmy rushing
01.24.1947	count basie
02.05.1948	dave cavanaugh and ernie felice
07.12.1943	delta rhythm boys	+Program #33. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. Rose Murphy (the "Chi Chi Gir...
08.09.1943	delta rhythm boys
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...

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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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