TV’s First Weekly, One Hour Musical Show

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.

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  1. Dennis Degan September 13, 2012

    Of course, you mean “Fred Waring”. The Waring blender also was his idea.