Interchange – Roll Jim Crow: The Racial Project of the American Tobacco Company

Published: April 30, 2019, 10:05 p.m.

Our opening song is “Lucky Day.” This is Judy Garland’s version from the London sessions of 1960. The first performance of the song was by Harry Richman in a 1926 Broadway revue. “Lucky Day” became a theme song for the 1940s NBC radio show Your Hit Parade which was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. Sponsoring …