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The Bell Telephone Hour Season 4 Episodes

14 Episodes 1961 - 1962

Episode 1

Opening Night

Fri, Sep 29, 196160 mins

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Episode 2

Salute to Autumn

Fri, Oct 13, 196160 mins

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Episode 3

Host: Mel Brandt; guests: The Kingston Trio, The McGuire Sisters, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Theodore Uppman, Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

Fri, Oct 27, 196160 mins

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Episode 4

The Music of Richard Rodgers

Fri, Nov 10, 196160 mins

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Episode 5

Designs in Music

Fri, Dec 8, 196160 mins

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Episode 6

A Trip to Christmas

Fri, Dec 22, 196160 mins

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Episode 7

A Measure of Music

Fri, Jan 19, 196260 mins

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Episode 8

Weavers of Song

Fri, Feb 2, 196260 mins

Host Bergen sings love songs and viewers are introduced to Sutherland who performs the "Mad Scene" aria from "Lucia di Lammermoor", to violinist Rabin's tribute to the late Fritz Kreisler and his compositions "Caprice Viennois" and "Tambourin Chinois", to Previn at the piano for Cesar Franck's "Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra", and to Blair and the Red Norvo Quintet as they perform "Mean to Me" and "Sweet Georgia Brown".

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Episode 9

Portals of Music

Fri, Feb 16, 196260 mins

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Episode 10

The Songs of Irving Berlin

Fri, Mar 2, 196260 mins

Ginger Rogers is hostess of this program devoted to the music of Irving Berlin. Guests include John Raitt, Johnny Desmond, Janet Blair, Mindy Carson, the Joe Bushkin Trio, the NORAD Command Band and Chorus. AnnouncerL Mel Brandt.

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Episode 11

Music of Love

Fri, Mar 16, 196260 mins

Cook and host Drake open the show with selections from Viennese operettas, followed by ballet dancers Hayden and d'Amboise doing "Still Point". Soprano Casa and tenor Corelli perform arias from "Tosca". Pianist Johannesen performs First Movement of Grieg Piano Concerto. The Bell Telephone Hour Chorus and Drake close the show with "Emperor Waltz" by Johann Strauss, Jr., "Don't Ask Me Why" from The Song is Ended, "I'm Off to Chez Maxim's" from The Merry Widow, "Merry Widow Waltz" from The Merry Widow, "Blue Eyes" from White Horse Inn, "Vienna, City of My Dreams", and "Two Hearts Swing in Three-Quarter Time".

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Episode 12

Gala Performance

Fri, Mar 30, 196260 mins

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Episode 13

Springtime in the Park

Fri, Apr 13, 196260 mins

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Episode 14

Till Autumn

Fri, Apr 27, 196260 mins

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