The final two years of Bing's prime-time network variety show were sponsored by General Electric on CBS. The first season was marred by the death of Bing's wife, Dixie Lee. And as a result Bing missed a couple shows in November of '52. Rosemary Clooney and Bing's sons, especially Gary, were frequent guests these final two years. What follows is a list of the broadcasts, principal guests and songs sung by Bing from the two GE seasons. Joining Bing on all the broadcasts are his announcer, Ken Carpenter, and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra.
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-9-52) w JANE WYMAN, JOE VENUTI
Feet Up; Til the End of the World; Just Crazy for Me (Wyman);
Zing a Zong (w Wyman); Auf Wiedersehn
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-16-52) w BELL SISTERS, HELEN O'CONNELL
Open Up Your Heart; Just for You; There's a Ship Comin' In
(Bell Sisters); Zing a Little Zong (w Bell Sisters);
Til the End of the World; You Like (O'Connell);
Walking My Baby Back Home (w O'Connell); You Belong to Me
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-23-52) w JIMMY STEWART
Feet Up; Wish You Were Here; Somebody Loves Me; Auf Wiedersehn
[Bing missed the next two weeks due to the death of his wife from ovarian cancer.]
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-13-52) w DINAH SHORE, JOE VENUTI
Just You, Just Me; Open up Your Heart; You'll Never Get Away (w Shore);
Sleepy Time Gal; Doodle Do Do (w Shore); You Belong to Me
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-20-52) w DINAH SHORE, JOE VENUTI
Glow Worm; The Live Oak Tree; Takes Two to Tango; Dinah;
Silver Bells (w Shore); Wish You Were Here
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-27-52) w CONNIE BOSWELL
Just You, Just Me; Wish You Were Here; Some Sunny Day;
That's a Plenty (w Boswell); Keep it a Secret; Live Oak Tree;
You Belong to Me
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-4-52) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY, CHRISTIAN FOURCADE
Sleigh Ride; You'll Never Know (Rosie); Merry Go Round (w Rosie);
White Christmas
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-11-52) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Open Up Your Heart; Because You're Mine; Who Kissed Me (Rosie);
Two to Tango (w Rosie); Silver Bells (w Rosie);
To See You is to Love You
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-18-52) w ELLA FITZGERALD, JOE VENUTI
Sleigh Bell Serenade; Some Sunny Day (w Ella);
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; To See You is to Love You
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-25-52) w GARY CROSBY
Adeste Fideles; O Come all Ye Faithful; Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer; Sleigh Bell Serenade; Jingle Bells (w Gary);
The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Silent Night
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-1-53) w ELLA FITZGERALD
Open Up Your Heart; Keep It a Secret; Chicago Style (w Ella);
Medley: Because Your Mine, You Belong to Me, Wish You Were Here
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-8-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Sleigh Ride; Takes Two to Tango (w Rosemary);
Keep it a Secret
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-15-53) w BOB HOPE, ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Glow Worm; I Do (Clooney); Chicago Style (w Clooney);
Open Up Your Heart (w Hope & Clooney); Heart and Soul
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-22-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
South Ramparts Street Parade (w Clooney); Lovely for Ducks
(Clooney); Heart and Soul; I Never Knew; You'll Never Know
(Clooney); Something to Remember You By (w Clooney)
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-29-53) w KAY STARR, JOE VENUTI
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, Side by Side (w Starr), After You've Gone,
Because You're Mine
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-5-53) w KAY STARR, JOE VENUTI
Lady of Spain, Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, Sleepy Time Gal,
Why Don't You Believe Me?
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-12-53) w JACK BENNY
Glow Worm, Heart and Soul
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-19-53) w JOANNE GILBERT, JOE VENUTI
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, I'm Trying to Forget You,
Chicago Style (w Gilbert), You Don't Know What Love Is, Why Don't You Believe Me?
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-26-53) w PEGGY LEE
Lady of Spain; Til I Waltz Again with You; Just One of
Those Things (P Lee); That's a Plenty (w Lee);
Keep It a Secret; June in January
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-5-53) w JIMMY BOYD, JOE VENUTI
Bye Bye Blues; My Devotion; Early Bird (Boyd);
Open Up Your Heart (w Boyd); Quizas; Why Don't You Believe Me?
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-12-53) w JAMES STEWART, JOE VENUTI
Jeepers Creepers, Til I Waltz Again with You, Two-Shillelagh O'Sullivan
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-19-53) w DINAH SHORE, JOE VENUTI
Mr.Tap Toe, Mexicali Rose, You're in Avalon Town, Harbor Lights (w Shore)
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-26-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Bye bye blues; You can't blame a fool in love;
Haven't got a worry (Rosey); You're Just in Love (w Rosey)
Paper moon (w Rosey); Mandy; Heart and soul
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-2-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Way down yonder in New Orleans; Why did I leave Ohio?;
Who kissed me last night (Rosey); Chicago style (w Rosey);
Easter parade (w Rosey); One little candle
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-9-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Mr. Tap Toe; What would you do? (Clooney);
People will say we're in love (w Clooney);
Lazy; Only Forever (w Clooney)
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-16-53) w GEORGE KEINAPAU, JOE VENUTI
Wild Horses; Til I waltz again with you;
Keep it a secret; It's you I adore; Hawaiian wedding song;
There's music in you; A quiet girl
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-23-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY, JOE VENUTI
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; There's Music in You;
Tenderly (Clooney); April in Paris; These Foolish Things (w Clooney);
We Couldn't Say Goodbye (w Clooney); You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (w Clooney;
Quiet Girl
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-30-53) w BELL SISTERS, JOE VENUTI
Wild Horses; April in Portugal; The Dance of Love (Bell Sisters);
Wait Til the Sun Shines, Nellie (w/ Bell Sisters);
Do You Ever Think of Me?; Blue Tango (Joe Venuti)
Salome (w Joe Venuti); Hushabye
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-7-53) w JOE VENUTI
Wild Horses; And the Angels Sing; Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider;
My Devotion; Hawaiian Paradise; I Love You
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-14-53) w JIMMY BOYD
Deed I Do; Salome w Seven Veils; Little But Loud (Boyd);
Small Fry (w Boyd); Wild Horses; Hushabye
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-21-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI (from France)
Mademoiselle du Paris; Hello young lovers; My truly fair (Lindsay);
Sleepy time gal; A quiet girl; Some enchanted evening
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-28-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
Lady of Spain; Domino; My Truly Fair (Lindsay);
Embrasse moi bien; Somebody loves me; There's music in you
JACK BENNY SHOW (6-1-53) w BING CROSBY
Open Up Your Heart; Bing Crosby's biography;
Way Back Home (w Bob Crosby)
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (6-4-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
All My Love; Valencia; Granada; Belle of Barcelona (w Lindsay);
Do You Ever Dream of Me?; Summertime
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (6-11-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
Mademoiselle du Paris; Domino; Oolala Qui Qui; Down on the Farm (Lindsay);
Qui Qui Marie; I Never Knew; Embrasse moi bien; You Go to My Head
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (6-18-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
Valencia; River Seine; Tenderfoot; If It's All the Same to You (w Lindsay);
Begin the Beguine; Violets and Violins (in French)
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (6-25-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
Mademoiselle du Paris; Night and Day; Belle of Barcelona (w Lindsay);
You Go to My Head; Some Enchanted Evening
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (7-2-53) w LINDSAY CROSBY, JOE VENUTI
All My Love; A Quiet Girl; Mon Coeur Est un Violon;
Cele M'est Egale; La Seine; Granada; Summertime
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GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (9-27-53) w GARY CROSBY
1. Down the Riverside
2. Vaya con Dios
3. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (w Gary)
4. Embrasse moi Bien
5. Magic Window
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-4-53) w GARY CROSBY
1. Keep it Gay
2. Violets and Violins
3. Tenderfoot
4. Hey Joe (Gary)
5. Down by the Riverside (w Gary)
6. Mademoiselle du Paris
7. Song of India (Trotter orchestra)
8. No Other Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-11-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. C.O.D. to Me
2. I Love Paris
3. Lonely Am I (Clooney(
4. That's Amore (w Clooney)
5. Ol' Virginia
6. Lost Cord
7. Little Brown Jug (w Clooney)
8. Genevieve (w Clooney)
9. Ebb Tide (Trotter orchestra)
10. Easy to Remember
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-18-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. They All Laughed
2. P.S. I Love You
3. You're in Kentucky (Clooney)
4. Allez-Vous-En
5. Shine on Harvest Moon / Buckle Down / Indian Summer (w Clooney)
6. Tropicana (Trotter orchestra)
7. Where is Your Heart
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (10-25-53) w JANE MORGAN
1. Row Row Row
2. My Love My Love
3. Valencia
4. April in Portugal (Morgan)
5. Say Si Bon (w Morgan)
6. Donkey Serenade (Trotter Orchestra)
7. Everybody Loves My Baby
8. Vaya Con Dios
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-15-53) w PEGGY LEE
1. Papaya Mamma
2. River Seine
3. I've Got a Crush on You (Lee)
4. It's Wonderful (w Lee)
5. 1920s college medley (w Lee)
6. Vaya Con Dios
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-22-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. Y'all Come
2. Lady Oh!
3. It's a most Unusual Day (Clooney)
4. Something to Remember You By (w Clooney)
5. That's Amore (w Clooney)
6. Think
7. Granada
8. Change Partners
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (11-29-53) w PEGGY LEE
1. Papaya Mamma
2. Valencia
3. Exactly Like You (w Lee)
4. You are too beautiful
5. I Got Rhythm (w Lee)
6. Can't Take that Away (w Lee)
7. P.S. I Love You
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-6-53) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. Gypsie in My Soul
2. Allez-Vous-En
3. Happy Xmas Little Friend (Rosey)
4. You're Just in Love (w Rosey)
5. These Foolish Things (w Rosey)
6. We Couldn't Say Goodbye (w Rosey)
7. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (w Rosey)
8. My Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-13-53) w ELLA FITZGERALD
1. Row, Row, Row
2. Think
3. Moanin Low (Ella)
4. Silver Bells (w Ella)
5. White Xmas (w Ella)
6. Where is Your Heart
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-20-53)
1. Adeste Fideles
2. Sleigh Ride
3. Xmas Song
4. Rudolph Reindeer
5. Jingle Bells
6. Xmas medley
7. White Christmas
8. Silent Night
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (12-27-53) w ELLA FITZGERALD
1. Love is Just Around the Corner
2. Wrong Time, Wrong Place
3. Someone to Watch Over me (Ella)
4. Looking for a Girl to Love (Ella)
5. Istanbul (w Ella)
6. You are too beautiful
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-3-54) w CONNIE RUSSELL
1. Gypsie in My Soul
2. Granada
3. My Kind of Love (Russell)
4. That's Amore (w Russell)
5. Someone Lovelier than You
6. Secret Love
7. Vaya Con Dios
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-10-54) w GARY CROSBY
1. Great Day
2. Stranger in Paradise
3. Ricochet (Gary)
4. Down by the Riverside (w Gary)
5. Think
6. Where is Your Heart?
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-17-54) w HELEN O'CONNELL
1. Zing went the Strings of My Heart
2. It's Alright with Me
3. Ebbtide (O'Connell)
4. Sometimes I'm Happy (w O'Connell)
5. If There is Someone Lovelier than You
6. Oh Lady Oh
7. Secret Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-24-54) w GARY CROSBY
1. Sing Hallelujah
2. You Are Too Beautiful
3. A Woman (Gary)
4. Cornbelt Symphony (w Gary)
5. Oh How I Laughed
6. Stranger in Paradise
7. No Other Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (1-31-54) w CONNIE RUSSELL
1. Gypsie in My Soul
2. Allez-Vous-En
3. You've Changed (Russell)
4. Istanbul (w Russell)
5. If There Is Someone Lovelier than You
6. Keep it Gay
7. Easy to Remember
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-7-54) w HELEN O'CONNELL
1. Love is Just Around the Corner
2. Secret Love
3. In the Still of the Night (O'Connell)
4. Surrey with Fringe on Top (w O'Connell)
5. Granada
6. Where is Your Heart?
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-14-54) w ELLA FITZGERALD
1. Everybody Wants my Baby
2. My Love, My Love
3. That's a Plenty (w Ella)
4. Violets and Violins
5. No Other Love
6. Kiss Me Once Again
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-21-54) w FOUR ACES
1. Jones Boy
2. Changing Partners
3. So Long (Four Aces)
4. Heart of My Heart (w Four Aces)
5. That's What a Rainy Day is For
6. You Go to My Head
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (2-28-54) w FOUR ACES
1. Singing in the Rain
2. Young at Heart
3. Organ Grinder Swing (Four Aces)
4. Tell Me Why (w Four Aces)
5. Changing Partners
6. Answer Me My Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-7-54) w JANA MASON
1. I Get So Lonely
2. But Beautiful
3. I Still Suites Me (w Mason)
4. That's What a Rainy Day is For
5. Secret Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-14-54) w PEGGY KING
1. Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell
2. Young at Heart
3. That's Amore (w King)
4. I Get So Lonely
5. I Can't Believe Your in Love with Me
6. Too Ra Loo Ral
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-21-54) w FRANK SINATRA
1. The Jones boy
2. Granada
3. Young at Heart (Sinatra)
4. Sinatra-Crosby medley
5. Wanted
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (3-28-54) w FRANK SINATRA
1. I Get So Lonely
2. Imagination
3. Take a chance (Sinatra)
4. Sinatra-Crosby medley
5. If you love me
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-4-54) w GARY & LINDSAY CROSBY
1. Rosalie
2. Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell (Gary)
3. Tell Me Why (w boys)
4. Answer Me, My Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-11-54) w GARY & LINDSAY CROSBY
1. Singing in the Rain
2. Lucky Son of a Gun (Lindsay)
3. If You Love Me
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-18-54) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell
2. Wanted
3. Bad News (Rosey)
4. Easter Parade (Rosey)
5. Cockeyed Optimist
6. Dear Hearts, Gentle People
7. Vaya Con Dios
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (4-25-54) w TONI ARDEN
1. Lucky Son of a Gun
2. Tobermory Bay
3. In Paris and In Love (Arden)
4. Small Hotel (w Arden)
5. Lost in Loveliness
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-2-54) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. Can't Give You Anything but Love
2. From the Vine Came the Grape
3. You Make Me Feel So Young (Rosie)
4. A Man and a Woman (w Rosie)
5. You Took Advantage of Me
6. Wanted
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-9-54) w CROSBY BOYS
1. Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea
2. I Get so Lonely (Gary)
3. Let's Harmonize (w Crosby boys)
4. Tobermory Bay
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-16-54) w TONI ARDEN
1. In the Good Ol' Summertime
2. Oh Tell Me Why
3. Cry My Heart (Arden)
4. So in Love (w Arden)
5. Paper Moon
6. With Every Breath I Take
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-23-54) w ROSEMARY CLOONEY
1. Do I Love You?
2. But Beautiful
3. Tomorrow (Rosey)
4. Lily of Laguna (w Rosey)
5. Answer Me, My Love
GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOW (5-30-54) w GARY & LINDSAY CROSBY (last show)
1. Good Old Summertime
2. Let's Harmonize (w boys)
3. Long Way to Tipparari (w boys)
4. Moonlight Bay (w Boys)
5. Oh Tell Me Why
6. Secret Love
[Beginning June 6 Bing's 20-year-old son, Gary, became host of the GE Show for the summer. Later in the summer as network radio advertising dollars continued their shift to television Bing decided to end his prime-time radio variety show, choosing instead to host a nightly 15-minute solo broadcast over CBS beginning in November with announcer Ken Carpenter and the Buddy Cole Trio.]
