# "Blueberry Hill" Series Preview: recorded @ CBS, Hollywood on March

Networks named by its archives: CBS. Heard 1943. 1 episodes.

This is an edited excerpt from a remarkable 30 minute recorded preview of the proposed CBS series “Blueberry Hill”. In the cast were Benny Carter’s Orchestra, Ernest Whitman, Mantan Moreland, Lou Mel Morgan Trio, Hattie McDaniel, and The Charioteers. My focus on this program is, for the purpose of this posting the memorable music. However, I’ve included the program opening and closing. The latter is particularly interesting because the announcer explains the circumstances under which the production was done. The program clearly was designed primarily for a black audience. But no announcement was made of its segregated intent. The duration is 21:41. The series was never aired on any of the four (NBC, CBS, Blue, Mutual) radio networks. It was evidently produced as “Jubilee” (I assume, at or by by CBS) for the AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service). The source was three sides of two 16” lateral cut 33.33 vinyl pressings. All (the fourth side had no grooves) of the sides were perceptibly but not egregiously worn. But they contained multiple scratches ranging from minor to significant. Circa 1973, I transferred the material to 15 ips tape. I digitized it about 5 – 10 years ago. This is a current (2012) work-in-progress. Therefore noise still reducible noise is still audible. I am intolerant of the undesirable digital side effects that are caused by over-aggressive use of various tools, or poorly designed ones. Analog issues also often perpetrate various problems. Unfortunately…

## Sets

- "Blueberry Hill" Series Preview: recorded @ CBS, Hollywood on March 24, 1943 (Listeners' uploads): Marked CC0 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/blueberryHillSeriesPreviewRecordedCbsHollywoodOnMarch241943

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [BlueberryHillPvw 1943](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/blueberry-hill-series-preview-recorded-cbs-hollywood-on-march/28ccd655e19c) (18 min): https://archive.org/download/blueberryHillSeriesPreviewRecordedCbsHollywoodOnMarch241943/BlueberryHillPvw_1943.mp3

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.