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From the 1940's through the 1960's, many performers, mostly singers but
occasionally actors as well, contributed their talents to programs sponsored
by various governmental agencies promoting civil defense, the National
Guard or the sale of United States savings bonds. Radio
shows were generally fifteen minutes in length and distributed to independent
stations around the country via large disc recordings called transcriptions.
Jill made an unusually large number of such programs under titles such
as Let's Go to Town, Manhattan Melodies, Let's
Go with Music and the Jill Corey Show. Jill
also made a series of fifteen minute television programs for those same
sponsoring agencies in 1956, when she was just 21 years old. Each
of these programs was devoted to the music of a famous song writer of the
time - among them Harold Arlen and Cole Porter. The screen captures
above were made while Jill was actually singing such songs as Arlen's Over
the Rainbow and Cole Porter's Get Out of Town on
these programs.
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We are deeply indebted to devoted Jill Corey fan Mr. John Greenstreet of
Baltimore, Maryland, for his talent and expertise in creating the moving
image display above. You can read Mr. Greenstreet's story of
his own introduction to Jill and her manifold talents on our Reflections
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