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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
01.17.1947	les paul and benny carter
06.25.1948	johnnie otis and joan barton
10.27.1942	joe louis and lena horne	+ Program #2. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The program has also been d...
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 ...
03.05.1948	jimmy zito and kay starr
07.09.1948	jimmy witherspoon and ella fitzgerald	+Program #281. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "How High The Moon." The date above is the recor...
01.20.1948	jimmy mundy
01.17.1948	jimmy mundy and nat king cole
02.27.1948	jimmy lunceford orchestra and joe thomas	+Program #263. AFRS origination. The program was compiled approximately October, 1947 from previous ...
03.14.1947	jimmy lunceford and andre previn
06.18.1945	jimmie lunceford
07.03.1944	jimmie lunceford
06.26.1944	jimmie lunceford and nat king cole	+Program #85. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "Little ...
07.24.1944	jimmie lunceford and lena horne	+Program #89. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "Hallelu...
05.14.1948	jean taylor and jackie mills quintet	+Program #273. AFRS. The first tune is, "Chattanooga Choo-Choo." The date above is the AFRS release ...
06.06.1947	jack mcvea and joey preston
05.23.1947	jack mcvea and jack teagarden
11.20.1944	jack benny and rochester
05.29.1944	international sweethearts of rhythm
09.19.1947	ike carpenter and four blazes
03.12.1948	harry lubin and walter gross
03.19.1948	harry lubin and delta rhythm boys	+Program #266. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Malaguena." The program may have been released ...
04.09.1948	harry james orchestra and willie smith	+Program #267. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. Records by Harry James and H...
04.04.1947	harry james and etta james
04.16.1948	harry james and earl hines

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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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