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“Supper Club” was the AFRS version of Chesterfield Supper Club, a 15-minute music show starring, at this point in its run, singer Perry Como. Haendiges dates these as October 9 and October 10, 1945.
Supper Club 172
Guest The King Cole Trio
First Song Did You Ever Get That Feeling in the Moonlight?
We must ignore Haendiges’ information for the guests of this second program, who he calls “Dick and Jane Wesenbury”. They are actually comedy team Dick and Gene Wesson (pictured below with a very young Sammy Davis, Jr.)
Dick Wesson I have seen recently in a Warner Brothers film called Starlift (1951). He’s a brash and pushy comic character, and we get to hear him earlier in his career here, being a whole lot the same.
Supper Club 173
First Song The Lord’s Been Good to Me
Guests Dick and Gene Wesson
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Ace Acetate
I went and looked at my catalog of my shows and found that I had 73 Chesterfields. Then thought, “Wow, now I’ll have 75 shows.”
I realized that those other 73 shows I got without having to pay for the work that went into them. And you just gave me 2 more to enjoy. So now I’m going to mail in a check for your station to help out with your building fund.
And I challenge all the people I know (and don’t know) from Cobalt Club, The Flashing Dial, and OTR Plus who come here to make donations, too. Let’s give something back to the people who are making our collections better!
DavidinBerkeley
Dear Sir:
I am looking for a Chesterfield Supper Club from May 6, 1948. I have two songs from this show. The show had Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and Irving Berlin previewing “Easter Parade” with Perry Como. Do you know if this entire show exists anywhere. Thank you in advance for allowing me to ask.
Thank you again.
Thanks for posting. I apologize for the long delay replying to you; it’s been very quiet on this project.
Using the typical online references, I’m finding no mention of the episode:
http://otrsite.com/logs/logc1052.htm
http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Chesterfield+Supper+Club
http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Logs_txt/The%20Chesterfield%20Supper%20Club.txt
And I know with certainty it is not in our collection.
Good luck finding it.
Ace