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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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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
02.14.1944	cab calloway and nat king cole
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...
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...
06.24.1946	boyd raeburn and ginny powell
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,...
12.13.1946	bobby sherwood
08.29.1947	bobby sherwood and the saul davis trio
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...
09.05.1947	beryl davis and cyril hanes
02.20.1948	benny goodman and peggy lee
02.13.1948	benny goodman and howard mcghee
07.10.1944	benny carter
06.04.1948	benny carter orchestra and connie jordan quartet	+Program #276. AFRS origination. The program originates from McCormick General Hospital, Pasadena. T...
12.18.1942	benny carter nicodemus
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...
10.31.1947	benny carter and peggy lee	+Program #246. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Jump Call." The program was recorded mid August...
05.02.1947	benny carter and nat king cole
01.31.1947	benny carter and nat king cole	+Program #204. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The first tune is not identi...
04.25.1947	benny carter and josh white
05.16.1947	benny carter and helen humes
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...
07.22.1946	benny carter and delta rhythm boys
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...
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...
10.11.1943	barney bigard and louis jordan

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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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