Jack Scholl

A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.

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In this episode of the Musical Merry-Go-Round we get music from Frankie Carle and His Orchestra and Marjorie Hughes.

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A retrospective of popular music from the 1890s and the turn of the century, with words for the audience to join in.

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Musical short featuring Les Brown's take on Strauss' "Blue Danube," Art Lund singing "Mam'sell" to a beautiful blonde, and "Sad Cowboy" while riding on a horse (!), and Tex Beneke sings "Somebody Loves Me."

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Virginia O'Brien visits Martin Block as he hosts a radio show devoted to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. A few numbers are heard from the band as Block gives a brief history of how they started. O'Brien also recalls her first movie song.

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This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.

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A short in the Memories From Melody Lane series. This dramatization of Stephen Foster's life shows how the songwriter came to write four of his most popular tunes: "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Folks at Home", "Beautiful Dreamer", and " De Camptown Races". After each song is performed, the audience is invited to sing along with the Melody Makers as the lyrics are displayed on title cards.

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Disc Jockey Martin Block talks with and plays music by Tex Beneke

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We visit Martin Block at his studio desk at 11:30 AM at the height of his popularity as a disk jockey, when more than 400 radio stations carried his show. Block opens the show with Freddie Martin's first big hit, "Tonight We Love," an adaption of a Tchaikovsky piano concerto; he dedicates it to a listener in Wyoming, and we see her daydreaming as she listens. Then Keenan Wynn stops in for a chat, asking Block about being a DJ. Between bits of conversation with Wynn, Block plays three more Martin records, including "Cumana," and we see the band in action.

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In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.

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This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", that have become American standards.

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This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.

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Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

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A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

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After a career on the stage and in movies, Desi Arnaz is introduced in this short as an orchestra leader.

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This "Melody Masters" short traces Jan Savitt's career from first violinist in a symphony orchestra to leader of a top-rated jazz and recording outfit. It features the Jan Savitt Band and vocalists Shirley Van, Bob Arthur and Helen Warren. Savitt and band accompany while an acrobatic act known as the Lipham Children do their stuff, and some bathing Beauties show up in the beach scene. Songs include "Some Sunday Morning", "Too Marvelous for Words", Dearest Darling" and "I'll Always Love You."

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This Melody Masters Bands musical short (production number 2605) is a mixture of cuts from earlier shorts featuring various bands, including footage taken from 1939's short "Vincent Lopez and his Band" that featured Betty Hutton as the band vocalist.

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U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.

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This short chronicles the rise in popularity of Spade Cooley and his unique blend of country and swing music.

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A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.

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A chemist in a perfume factory seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.

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A retrospective of popular music from the 1890s and the turn of the century, with words for the audience to join in.

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This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.

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In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.

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This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", that have become American standards.

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This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.

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