{"id":33279,"date":"2012-09-10T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33279"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:22:09","slug":"tvs-first-weekly-one-hour-musical-showon-june-20-1948-the-fred-wearing-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33279","title":{"rendered":"TV&#8217;s First Weekly, One Hour Musical Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 1948 &#8216;The Fred Waring Show&#8217; debuted on CBS. It is believed to be the first weekly one hour music show, however, the show was cut to a half hour in &#8217;52. For the first few years, it aired just after the Ed Sullivan Show, at 9 on Sunday nights.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video compilation from the show and you may be as surprised as I was to see what&#8217;s here. The\u00a0 Blues In The Night piece has some awesome production values for 1948, and the last piece has a remarkable sax player dancing, twirling rope and playing all at once&#8230;quite vaudevillian. I think you&#8217;ll enjoy this&#8230;really.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Sax on the CBS Fred Waring Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a001QlAWyVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/427918053912416\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TVs-First-Weekly-One-Hour-Musical-Show-On-June-20-1948-The-Fred-Wearing-Sh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/427918070579081\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 1948 &#8216;The Fred Waring Show&#8217; debuted on CBS. It is believed to be the first weekly one hour music show, however, the show was cut to a half hour in &#8217;52. For the first few years, it aired just after the Ed Sullivan Show, at 9 on Sunday nights. Below is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,822,1031],"class_list":["post-33279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-ed-sullivan-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79883,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279\/revisions\/79883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}