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Command Performance: April 16, 1942, with Clifton Fadiman

·30 min·2 clips
Phil Baker jokes about traffic so bad, women were marooned on safety islands.
This 1942 episode of Command Performance features Clifton Fadiman hosting a variety of entertainers for U.S. troops overseas, including comedy sketches by Phil Baker, Beetle, and Botel, musical performances by Benny Venuta and Dinah Shore, and interviews with figures like circus owner John Ringling North. The show blends humor, music, and morale-boosting content tailored for wartime audiences.

As heard by us

A brisk wartime variety hour built around Clifton Fadiman, jokes, songs, and requests.

Command Performance plays as a brisk wartime variety hour, opened by a serviceman's request for Clifton Fadiman and then moving quickly through introductions, jokes, songs, and short bits.

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You want Clifton Fadiman guiding a request-driven old-time radio hour with songs and sports.

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