File B089 - C.G.E. television : highlights and lowlights

1 audio reel (1 hr., 4 min., 8 sec. ; 1 hr., 4 min., 29 sec.)

File consists of a recording of "highlights and lowlights" from C.G.E. Showtime. It includes performances by the Leslie Bell Singers, male chorus, and mixed choir.

Side 1

• When my ship comes in ; The girl that I marry ; I know where I'm goin' ; Paper of pins ; Gently Johnny [with narration]
• It's me
• Chickaboom ; Some of these days ; Nothing to do with you ; Gambler's guitar ; Buttons and bows [with narration]
• We open in Venice
• Lullaby of Broadway ; Goodnight ladies ; Life upon the wicked stage ; Give my regards to Broadway ; South Pacific medley (Some enchanted evening ; I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair) ; Why do I love you ; Oklahoma! [with narration]
• New York, New York
• Now's the time to fall in love (Potatoes are cheaper) ; Get happy
• [Walking medley] : Would you like to take a walk ; Heat wave
• On the good ship lollipop
• Marta ; Tramp tramp tramp ; I love to whistle
• Ricochet romance ; I love Louisa
• Out of the Orient, crystal skies
• [Lois Marshall program] : Falling in love with love
• O come all ye faithful [fragment]
• Istanbul (not Constantinople)
• Pick yourself up ; It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Life has its funny little ups and downs
• Wizard of Oz (Merry old land of Oz ; If I only had a brain) [excerpts]
• How d'ye do and shake hands
• The first Noel

Side 2

• The holly and the ivy
• My grandfather's clock
• I wonder as I wander
• Snow, snow, beautiful snow
• Runners in the snow
• Home cookin'
• I've got my love to keep me warm
• You'd be so nice to come home to
• Triplets
• All of me
• Who cares
• Honey darlin'
• Saturday night in Punkin' Crick
• Castle Rock
• Here's to the maiden
• Here's a health unto his majesty
• Drink to me only with thine eyes
• MacConnachy Square
• Mary Morrison
• I'll go home with Bonnie Jean
• It's a good day
• Sit down you're rockin' the boat
• It's a big wide wonderful world
• Poppa Piccolino

See Bell's manuscripts: All of me (OTUFM 39-A-2-34); Buttons and bows (OTUFM 39-A-2-107); Chickaboom (OTUFM 39-A-2-130); Drink to me only with thine eyes (OTUFM 39-A-2-200); Falling in love with love (OTUFM 39-A-2-227); Gambler's guitar (OTUFM 39-A-2-254); Gently Johnny (OTUFM 39-A-2-257); Get happy (OTUFM 39-A-2-258); Give my regards to Broadway (OTUFM 39-A-2-262); Grandfather's clock (OTUFM 39-A-2-280); Here's a health unto his majesty (OTUFM 39-A-2-313); Here's to the maiden (OTUFM 39-A-2-314); Honey darlin' (OTUFM 39-A-2-330); How d'ye do and shake hands (OTUFM 39-A-2-335); I know where I'm goin' (OTUFM 39-A-2-355); I love Louisa (OTUFM 39-A-2-356); I wonder as I wander (OTUFM 39-A-2-370); I'll go home with Bonnie Jean (OTUFM 39-A-2-372); It's a big wide wonderful world (OTUFM 39-A-2-421); It's a good day (OTUFM 39-A-2-422); It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (OTUFM 39-A-2-427); It's me (OTUFM 39-A-2-429); I've got my love to keep me warm (OTUFM 39-A-2-387); Life upon the wicked stage (OTUFM 39-A-2-486); Lullaby of Broadway (OTUFM 39-A-2-514); MacConnachy Square (OTUFM 39-A-2-517); Mary Morrison (OTUFM 39-A-2-532); Merry old land of Oz (OTUFM 39-A-2-549); O come all ye faithful (OTUFM 39-A-2-600); Poppa Piccolino (OTUFM 39-A-2-656); Ricochet (OTUFM 39-A-2-675); Runners in the snow (OTUFM 39-A-2-691); Saturday night in Punkin' Crick (OTUFM 39-A-2-700); Sit down you're rockin' the boat (OTUFM 39-A-2-723); Some of these days (OTUFM 39-A-2-737); South Pacific medley (OTUFM 39-A-2-757); The First Noel (OTUFM 39-A-2-821); The holly and the ivy (OTUFM 39-A-2-833); Tramp tramp tramp (OTUFM 39-A-2-921); Triplets (OTUFM 39-A-2-925); We open in Venice (OTUFM 39-A-2-972); Who cares (OTUFM 39-A-2-998); Wizard of Oz (OTUFM 39-A-2-1012)

C.G.E. Showtime (originally The C.G.E. Show) featured the Leslie Bell Singers and the Howard Cable Orchestra. It ran first on CBC radio [1949-1952] and then on the CBC Television Network (1952-1959). The Leslie Bell Singers were involved in the first two seasons [1952-1954] of the television show.