- Description
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Bill Robinson on Jubilee all-colored radio show / Bill "Bojangles" Robinson [radio]
- Title
- Bill Robinson on Jubilee all-colored radio show [Radio]
- Performer
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Published/Created
- 1943-07-12
- Genre
- Radio
- Abstract
- Celebrating half a year of the famous "Jubilee" all-colored radio show transcribed for men in service overseas, an outstanding group of artists recorded a one-hour program featuring a battle of the bands between the orchestras of Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie. Other stars on the program were Robinson. Recorded in a Hollywood radio station and for an audience of 340 persons, it was prepared to be broadcast in transcription form to reach all the armed forces, overseas.
- Source
- Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015