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Treasury Star Parade

Heard
1942–1944
Episodes
141

This upload contains 141 episodes of the old time radio show, The Treasury Star Parade. Sponsored by the United States Treasury Department during World War II, the show featured stars from Hollywood and the music industry to encourage the purchase of War Bonds to support the war effort. The 15-minute shows usually consisted of a musical act or a play featuring a Hollywood star. The show was unabashedly patriotic, extolling the virtues of buying bonds to finance the war effort and the needs to the home front to do everything they could to support the boys overseas. The show was the predecessor to Guest Star, a similar show sponsored by the Treasury Department airing from 1947 into the 1970s to encourage the purchase of United States Savings Bonds.

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Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 2

  1. Robert Montgomery

    · No. 1 · 15 min

  2. The Average American

    · No. 2 · 15 min

  3. The Fog

    · No. 3 · 15 min

  4. The Memory of John McGee

    · No. 5 · 15 min

  5. Mrs. Mergatroyd's Dime

    · No. 6 · 15 min

  6. Guest - Enya Gonzales

    · No. 7 · 15 min

  7. What America Means to Me

    · No. 8 · 15 min

  8. Danny Kaye

    · No. 11 · 14 min

  9. This Time

    · No. 12 · 15 min

  10. The Snow Goose

    · No. 13 · 15 min

  11. Song for the People

    · No. 14 · 15 min

  12. State of the Nation

    · No. 16 · 14 min

  13. Wake Up America, It's Late

    · No. 17 · 15 min

  14. Frank Parker

    · No. 18 · 14 min

  15. Bless This House

    · No. 20 · 15 min

  16. Address Unknown

    · No. 21 · 15 min

  17. Buffaloes and Men

    · No. 24 · 15 min

  18. Guest - Edmund O'Brien

    · No. 25 · 15 min

  19. Titan, the Work Giant

    · No. 26 · 15 min

  20. Kay Kyser

    · No. 27 · 14 min

  21. Kay Kyser

    · No. 28 · 15 min

  22. The Hitler Youth

    · No. 29 · 14 min

  23. Kay Kyser

    · No. 31 · 14 min

  24. Ukranian Folk Songs

    · No. 32 · 15 min

  25. Porgy and Bess

    · No. 33 · 15 min

  26. An Easter Story

    · No. 34 · 15 min

  27. Showboat

    · No. 35 · 14 min

  28. Children of America

    · No. 36 · 14 min

  29. So Long Son

    · No. 37 · 15 min

  30. The Moon Is Down

    · No. 38 · 15 min

  31. Tommy Tucker

    · No. 39 · 14 min

  32. Wanted - A Ballad

    · No. 40 · 15 min

  33. The Battle of Bataan

    · No. 43 · 15 min

  34. My Country Tis of Thee

    · No. 44 · 14 min

  35. The Silent Woman

    · No. 47 · 14 min

  36. Fred Waring

    · No. 48 · 15 min

  37. Jane Froman

    · No. 49 · 14 min

  38. Fred Waring

    · No. 50 · 15 min

  39. Guests - Amos & Andy

    · No. 71 · 15 min

  40. The Songs Of The United Nations

    · No. 72 · 15 min

  41. Sophie Halenczek's 'Greenhorns'

    · No. 73 · 15 min

  42. Save The American Way

    · No. 74 · 15 min

  43. I Am An American

    · No. 75 · 15 min

  44. Tangerine

    · No. 76 · 15 min

  45. V Is For Victory

    · No. 77 · 15 min

  46. Education For Victory

    · No. 78 · 15 min

  47. The Great Assembly Line

    · No. 83 · 15 min

  48. Mr. Jones & Mr. Washington

    · No. 85 · 14 min

  49. The Statue of Liberty (Repeat of Episode 1)

    · No. 87 · 15 min

  50. The Jarvis Bay (Repeat of Episode 20)

    · No. 88 · 15 min

  51. Second Battle of Brooklyn

    · No. 94 · 14 min

  52. Malcolm Meachum's 'Beyond Recall'

    · No. 96 · 15 min

  53. Porgy and Bess

    · No. 99 · 14 min

  54. Show Boat

    · No. 100 · 14 min

  55. The Cheatnicks

    · No. 101 · 15 min

  56. The Sound of An American

    · No. 110 · 15 min

  57. Porgy And Bess

    · No. 111 · 15 min

  58. Guest - Vincent Price

    · No. 112 · 15 min

  59. The Man With The Broken Finger

    · No. 113 · 15 min

  60. Guest - Fanny Brice

    · No. 116 · 15 min

  61. Thanksgiving 64

    · No. 117 · 15 min

  62. Guest - Dinah Shore

    · No. 122 · 15 min

  63. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

    · No. 123 · 15 min

  64. The Invaders

    · No. 22 · 15 min

  65. Remember Pearl Harbor

    · No. 30 · 15 min

  66. Miss Liberty Goes to Town

    · No. 41 · 15 min

  67. White Cliffs of Dover

    · No. 42 · 15 min

  68. A Modern Scrooge

    · No. 132 · 14 min

  69. I Got Wings

    · No. 133 · 15 min

  70. The Goldbergs (Repeat of Episode 86)

    · No. 162 · 13 min

  71. Guest - Abe Lyman Orchestra

    · No. 172 · 15 min

  72. Blood, Sweat And Tears

    · No. 174 · 14 min

  73. The Music of Victor Herbert

    · No. 179 · 15 min

  74. Songs By Frank Sinatra

    · No. 180 · 15 min

  75. The Story of Nikolai Gastello

    · No. 183 · 15 min

  76. No Greater Love

    · No. 184 · 15 min

  77. First Song - Put on Your Old, Grey Bonnet, Guest - Lanny Ross

    · No. 200 · 15 min

  78. Our Country (Repeat of Episode 146)

    · No. 202 · 15 min

  79. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

    · No. 217 · 14 min

  80. Oh Susannah

    · No. 218 · 15 min

  81. It Can't Be Wrong

    · No. 227 · 15 min

  82. In My Arms

    · No. 228 · 15 min

  83. Johnny Zero (Repeat of Episode 201)

    · No. 304 · 15 min

  84. Children, Tomorrow Is Yours

    · No. 144 · 15 min

  85. How Far That Little Candle

    · No. 145 · 15 min

  86. Over There

    · No. 149 · 14 min

  87. The Russian People

    · No. 152 · 15 min

  88. Hey Good Lookin'

    · No. 153 · 15 min

  89. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

    · No. 156 · 15 min

  90. Steam Is On The Beam

    · No. 163 · 14 min

  91. Life is Fine with My Baby

    · No. 164 · 15 min

  92. They Also Serve

    · No. 165 · 15 min

  93. Poor Little Rich Girl

    · No. 166 · 15 min

  94. The Aldrich Family

    · No. 195 · 15 min

  95. They Marched at Dawn

    · No. 196 · 15 min

  96. What's the Good Word

    · No. 199 · 15 min

  97. Johnny Zero

    · No. 201 · 15 min

  98. What's The Good Word

    · No. 203 · 15 min

  99. Sho' Nuff

    · No. 205 · 15 min

  100. As Time Goes By

    · No. 206 · 15 min

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