Command Performance is an American radio program produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service beginning in 1942, built around requests submitted by American servicemen overseas and fulfilled by leading Hollywood actors, singers and musicians of the day performing sketches, songs and greetings for the troops. The program was broadcast exclusively to military audiences rather than aired domestically, and its wartime popularity helped establish the Armed Forces Radio Service as a major distributor of entertainment programming to deployed American forces. Command Performance is widely regarded as a landmark of wartime military broadcasting and one of the most popular programs the Armed Forces Radio Service ever produced.
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Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949.
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Most episodes of the program were produced before an audience in the Vine Street Playhouse in Hollywood, California, and recorded via electrical transcription.
Command Performance, Description, original language
Command Performance is an American radio program produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service beginning in 1942, built around requests submitted by American servicemen overseas and fulfilled by leading Hollywood actors, singers and musicians of the day performing sketches, songs and greetings for the troops.
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Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949.
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