TV’s First Weekly, One Hour Musical Show
On September 10, 2012
- TV History
On June 20, 1948 ‘The Fred Waring Show’ debuted on CBS. It is believed to be the first weekly one hour music show, however, the show was cut to a half hour in ’52. For the first few years, it aired just after the Ed Sullivan Show, at 9 on Sunday nights.
Below is a video compilation from the show and you may be as surprised as I was to see what’s here. The Blues In The Night piece has some awesome production values for 1948, and the last piece has a remarkable sax player dancing, twirling rope and playing all at once…quite vaudevillian. I think you’ll enjoy this…really.
Of course, you mean “Fred Waring”. The Waring blender also was his idea.