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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Clara Louise Kellogg"
- Description
- Features vocalist Maria Sylvera and the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson). Music by Donald Voorhees. The story of America's first prima donna.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Kellogg, Clara Louise, 1842-1916
- Local Identifier
- program_no:106
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101623
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Clifford Holland"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars William Johnstone. Features Karl Swenson, John McIntyre, Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of Clifford Holland and his building of the famed Holland Tunnel.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Holland, Clifford, 1883-1924; Holland Tunnel (New York, N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:237
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101730
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Cole Porter"
- Description
- Starring Conrad Thibault with Donald Voorhees and the Cavalcade Orchestra. 1- "An Old-fashioned Garden" - Orchestra 2- "You Do Something to Me" - Orchestra 3- "Night and Day" - Thibault 4- "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Orchestra 5- "You’re the Top" - Orchestra 6- "Easy to Love" - Thibault 7- " Get a Kick Out of You" - Orchestra 8- "Anyhting Goes", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "It's Delovely" - Thibault and Voorhees
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
- Local Identifier
- program_no:100
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101617
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Conquest of Pain"
- Description
- Written by Morton Wishengrasd and stars Brian Donlevy. Host--Walter Huston. Features Howard McNear. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Arnbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of the struggle to make widespread the use of ether, involving physicians Crawford Long and John Warren and dentists Horace Wells and William Morton.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Ether; Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878; Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856; Wells, Horace, 1815-1848; Morton, William Thomas Green, 1819-1868
- Local Identifier
- program_no:413
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101773
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Conservation"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Adams, Parker Fenneley, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. As an overture, the orchestra offers "Trees". Story of the Forest Rangers in action.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Forest rangers
- Local Identifier
- program_no:25
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101591
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Continue Unloading"
- Description
- Written by Stanley Young and co-stars John Garfield and Wally Maher. Features Bill Johnstone . Music by Robert Armbruster with production by Homer Fickett. Gayne Whitman, James Bannon, announcers. The story of a Coast Guard cameraman and his part in the landing operations in the invasion of Sicily.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Sicily Invasion, 1943 (Military operation)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:351
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101774
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Daniel Boone"
- Description
- Stars John McIntyre. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Basil Ruysdael, host. Ted Jewett, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. The story of the colorful American frontiersman who led the vanguard of American migration through the wilderness to the vast plains of the West. Particular emphasis on his settlement at Boonesboro, Ky.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820; Boonesboro (Ky.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:183
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101679
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "David Crockett"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars John McIntyre. Features Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the great frontiersman.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Crockett, David
- Local Identifier
- program_no:227
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101721
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "DDT"
- Description
- Written by Charles Rabiner and stars Richard Whorf. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of how the new weapon against typhus, DDT, conquered the threat of epidemic in Italy shortly after the American invasion.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; DDT (Insecticide)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:441
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101775
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dear Funnyface"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Wendy Barrie and Alfred Drake. Produced by Homer Pickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. The story of the Seabees, the Navy's Construction Battalion and of a particular Seabee reported missing in action. Special guest is Capt. John Perry of the Seabees.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United States Navy Construction Battalion
- Local Identifier
- program_no:346
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101776
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Defiance of Nature"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players (John McIntyre, Orson Welles, Bill Adams, ray Collins). Music by Harold Levey. Music heard is Levey's "Cavalcade Overtures" and melodies from the Broadway show "Sally". Program dramatizes the building of the Erie Canal and also, The Holland Tunnel.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Erie Canal (N.Y.); Holland Tunnel (New York, N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:11
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101578
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diamonds at War"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Charles Coburn. Music by Don Voorhees. Produced by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, announcer. A Nazi spy melodrama about the importance of industrial diamonds to the war effort, based on "They Deal in Death", by Robert Terrall.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Industrial diamonds
- Local Identifier
- program_no:341
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101777
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diary of a Saboteur"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Mildred Natwick and Joseph Schildkraut. Feature Bill Johnstone and Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. A fictionalized treatment of the machinations of a psychological lab of the Nazis, based on the book "Sabotage" by Sayers and Kahn. Cavalcade actor Ted Jewett comments on the DuPont Wilmington Dye Works winning the Army-Navy "E" award. Also, dye worker Al Brown comments on the award .
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Nazi; Army-Navy "E" Award; Sabotage! (Novel); DuPont Wilmington Dye Works
- Local Identifier
- program_no:320
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101779
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diary on a Pig Boat"
- Description
- Written by Stuart Hawkins and stars Edwin Jerome. Features Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The adventure of a submarine and her crew, based on a story by Fredrick Painton. Special guest is a sub commander LTC Willard Saunders, USN, winner of the Navy Cross.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Submarine; Saunders, Willard Arthur
- Local Identifier
- program_no:313
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101778
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Direction Home"
- Description
- Written by Russell Hughes and Bernard Feins and stars Thomas Mitchell. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a young soldier on the home front who finally persuades his prospective father-in-law that war can be fought without a uniform. Program dramatizes the development and use of radar.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Radar
- Local Identifier
- program_no:456
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101780
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Doctor in Crinoline"
- Description
- Written by Merrill Dennison and stars Loretta Young. Host--Walter Huston. Features Howard McNear, John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of Elizabeth Blackwell, first American woman doctor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
- Local Identifier
- program_no:414
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101781
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Doctora In Mexico"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Arent and stars Irene Dunne. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, Frank Graham, anncrs. The story of Dr. Katherine Neel Dale and her medical missionary work among impoverished Mexican peasants.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Dale, Katherine Neel, 1872-1941
- Local Identifier
- program_no:431
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101782
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dolly Madison"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Agnes Moorehead, Bill Adams, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Highlights in the life of Dolley Madison. As an overture, Voorhees offers "A New Moon, An Old Serenade."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849
- Local Identifier
- program_no:166
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101663
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: Donald Vorhees Own Program
- Description
- Cavalcade of Music summer series. Music by Conrad Thibault and Donald Voorhees and Cavalcade Orch. Dwight Weist, anncr. Voorhees own program. 1- "Whispering" - Orch 2- "Vision Fugitive" - Thibault 3- "Capricio Espangole" - Orch 4- "Japanese Sandman" - Orch 5- "Standing In The Need of Prayer" - Thibault 6- "Louisiana Hayride" - Orch
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Voorhees, Donald, 1903-1989
- Local Identifier
- program_no:101
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101618
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Double Play"
- Description
- Written by Isabel Leighton and co-stars Brian Donlevy and Kent Smith. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, James Bannon, announcers. The story of two brothers, in love with the same girl, and how they double-played a Japanese ship out of existence.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:347
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101783
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.