The Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street July 7, 1941 - NBC - Music/Comedy1941 NBC

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 10:40 p.m.

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is a musical variety radio program which began on NBC Blue on February 11, 1940. Radio Life Magazine described this show as "one of radio's strangest offsprings... a wacky, strictly hep tongue-in-cheek burlesque of opera and symphony" Dinah Shore got her start on this show... The show was a mixture of jazz, classical, dixieland, Boogie-Woogie, Barrelhouse, and the Blues!! Gene Hamilton, Henry Levine, and Paul Lavalle are referred to as "Doctors, Professors, etc." all in good fun. Guest is John Kirby and his band... if they can pay them. Enjoy. More of these shows in our Big Band/Jazz Playlist.