Football Series Program at Hand
[Sept. 28, 1934]
Phil Harris has decided to do something about all of the gaiety which precedes the big football games on college and university campuses the country over, "Let's listen to Harris" programs heard Fridays at 9 p.m. over the WJZ-NBC transcontinental network.
Commencing tonight, Harris will broadcast in fancy the festivities, including the pre-game dance, from the leading academic citadels of the nation. Thirteen great games and 26 great colleges will be honored in the new series.
The first program in the new series will be dedicated to Ohio and Indiana universities who will do battle on the Hoosiers home gridiron at Bloomington Indiana, this Saturday. Phil will take his nation-wide audience in fancy to the pre-game prom on the Indiana campus and will blend the breathless and excited flavor of college football and the rhythmical tunes of his melodious musical combinations.
The way down deep baritone, whose distinctive vocalizing and tuneful orchestra have made his program one of the most popular lighter entertainments on the air, will again present the beautiful Leah Ray and the peppy, harmonizing Three Ambassadors.
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[August 24, 1934]
A half-hour of vocal and instrumental harmonics, featuring Phil Harris and his orchetstra, with Leah Ray, vocalist, will be included over an NBC-KGO network this evening at 5. Included among the current song hits to be sung by Harris and Miss Kay are "I've Got You on the Top of My List" and "Love in Bloom."
Someone asked about Johnny Green in another thread. There's a mention of him just above the piece on Phil:
TO PLAY TONE POEM
"In the Modern Manner," Johnny Green's program of modern harmonics
And orchestration, will introduce for the first time Raymond Scott's new tone poem, "Tia Juana," during the broadcast this evening from 5:30 to 6 on KFRC. This recent Scott composition—Raymond Scott is the pseudonym of Mark Warnow's brother Harry—is a lush, descriptive piece, depicting the life and sounds of the colorful Mexican racing resort, developed in modern chords and melodies.
Green will also present a medley of new Harold Arlen tunes from the revue, "Life Begins at 8:40," including "Fun to Be Fooled," "You're a Builder Upper" and "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block." Two solos by Jimmy Brierly, tenor, will be "Hill-Billy-Willy" and "Then I'll Be Tired of You," and the orchestra will round out the program with "The Very Thought of You," "Your Love," "Not Bad," from "Big Business," and Chabrier's "Bourree Fantastique."