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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
10.09.1942	duke ellington and ethel waters
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...
12.18.1942	benny carter nicodemus
12.25.1942	guest ernie whitman
01.02.1943	guest cab calloway
05.24.1943	louis armstrong aint misbehaving	+Program #26. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The first tune is, "Ain't M...
06.07.1943	count basie and jimmy rushing
07.12.1943	delta rhythm boys	+Program #33. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. Rose Murphy (the "Chi Chi Gir...
08.09.1943	delta rhythm boys
08.16.1943	lucky millinder and jimmy noone
08.23.1943	rochester and lucky millinder	+Program #39. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "You Big Ham." The date above is the date the pro...
09.06.1943	ernie morris and jimmy jordan
09.20.1943	erskine hawkins and rosetta tharpe	+Program #43. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Let's Go Home." The program opening is upcut.
10.04.1943	erskine hawkins and nat king cole	+Program #45. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Bicycle Bounce." The date above is the recording...
10.11.1943	barney bigard and louis jordan
10.25.1943	erskine hawkins and rochester	+Program #48. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The first tune is, "Let's Bal...
11.01.1943	all soldier show	+Program #50. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Swinging The Blues." An all-soldier show from Fo...
11.02.1943	duke ellington and louis armstrong	+Program #49. AFRS origination. An assembled program, during which the announcer and Ernie declare t...
11.08.1943	louis jordan and nat king cole	+Program #51. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of release. The first tune is, "I Found A...
11.15.1943	harlan leonard and delta rhythm boys	+Program #52. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Specs and Spots" ("Harlem Shout"). The program w...
11.22.1943	lionel hampton and golden gate quartet
12.06.1943	count basie and teddy wilson
12.13.1943	nobile sissle and barry bigard	+Program #56. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Skater's Waltz." The date above is the recording...
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...
12.27.1943	louis armstrong and the mills brothers	+Program #58. AFRS origination. The date above is the date of recording. The program was released ab...

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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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