Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Recorded at ABC Studios, Hollywood, California
also featuring Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Bell Sisters perform “Bermuda,” and then sing “June Night” with Bing Crosby.

LP Release: The Bells’ performance with Bing on “June Night” was once released on All Star Products LP2000 – “Bing Crosby’s All Star Chesterfield Show.”

Girl Scouts Annual Jamboree (NBC, 1:30-2:00 p.m.)
The 40th anniversary of the Girl Scouts is celebrated with Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Jack Smith, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Young, The Bell Sisters and announcer Ken Carpenter

Desmond-Hammond Radio Show

Bob Hope Show (NBC, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
also featuring Gracie Allen and Jerry Colonna
Bell Sisters perform “Bermuda” and banter with Bob Hope. Bob indicates they will be back for the “after show.”
Taped on March 17, 1952 in San Diego, California.

Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Transcribed in San Francisco from the Marine Memorial Theatre
also featuring Gary Crosby and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Bell Sisters perform “Wheel of Fortune,” and then sing “June Night” with Gary Crosby.

Bob Hope Show (NBC, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Taped in Hollywood, California.

Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
also featuring Bob Hope and Kay Starr

Edited Out: This episode of the Bing Crosby show was taped before a live audience from the Polo Grounds in Palm Springs on April 5 – a two-hour benefit show. Bing’s shows were always recorded long and then edited down, so broadcast time constraints forced the deletion of the Bells’ performance.

Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Transcribed in Hollywood
also featuring Kay Starr and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Bell Sisters perform “Boo-Hoo,” and then sing “Poor Whip-Poor-Will” with Bing Crosby.

Bob Hope Show  (NBC, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)
also featuring William Holden, Tony Martin and Jack Kirkwood
Bell Sisters perform “Boo-Hoo.”

The Big Five Show, Olympics (Helsinki, Finland) Fundraiser (Sponsor: KLAC) 
Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by 5 KLAC disc jockeys: Bob McLaughlin, Peter Potter, Alex Cooper, Dick Haynes and Greg Norman
also featuring the Modernaires and Frank Sinatra
Bell Sisters perform “Hello,” “Drip Drop,” “Bermuda,” banter with Peter Potter, and then “Goodbye.”

Next Day: According to announcer, show was recorded then broadcast the next day.

Jubilee (Sponsor: Armed Forces Radio Service; Program 368) 
also featuring Connie Haynes, The Mel Henke Trio, Don Raye and Gene DePaul (Don Wilson, Announcer)
Bell Sisters perform “Boo-Hoo” and “Bermuda.”

Note: Date of dubbing [recording] is May 20, 1952.

Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: General Electric)
also featuring Helen O’Connell and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Bell Sisters perform “There’s a Ship Comin’ In”, and then sing “Zing a Little Zong” with Bing Crosby and the Rhythmaires.

Jubilee (Sponsor: Armed Forces Radio Service; Program 393)
also featuring Bill Stewart, Champ Butler and Cappy Lewis Combo (Don Wilson, Announcer)
Bell Sisters perform “There’s a Ship Coming In” (dedicated to Sgt. Anthony J. Caden, Jr., in Austria) and “Socko the Smallest Snowball” (dedicated to the crew of the U.S.S. Thompson).

Note: Date of dubbing [recording] is November 11, 1952. “Socko the Smallest Snowball” makes better sense as a song selection when you consider the dubbing date over the broadcast date.

Variety in Review (Sponsor: Armed Services YMCA, weekly radio feature)
Broadcast from 350 East Ocean, Long Beach, California
also featuring “Flip” Thompson and Band

Bing Crosby Show (CBS, Sponsor: General Electric)
also featuring Joe Zenuti and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Bell Sisters perform “The Dance of Love,” and then sing “Wait ‘Til the Sun Shines, Nellie” with Bing Crosby.

Jubilee (Sponsor: Armed Forces Radio Service; Program 418)
Broadcast from ABC Studios in Hollywood, California
also featuring Dan Dailey, Johnny Grant and Martha Stewart (vocalist)
Bell Sisters perform “Talk, Talk, Talk” and “A Fool Such as I.”

Note: Date of dubbing [recording] is May 12, 1953.

Bob Hope Show (NBC, Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes)

NBC Radio Show Appearance

Bakersfield, California
Doing radio (and two television) appearance; promotion for “Those Redheads from Seattle.” Personal postcard to relative (Oran Bell) says “appearing tomorrow in Salinas.”

Sponsor: New England Dairy & Food Council 
(June is National Dairy Month)
Broadcast in Malden, Massachussets from station WHIL, 1430 AM
also featuring Bob Hope, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, the Modernaires, the comedy of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Bell Sisters perform “Do It Again.”

Notes: According to label of disc, this early example of an “infomercial” was broadcast at 9:45 a.m. on May 31, 1:30 p.m. on June 13. Serial no. F-26679.

Stand By For Music (U.S. Naval Recruiting) 
15 minute program
Also featuring Jim Wallington (announcer) and Frank de Vol and His Orchestra.
Bell Sisters perform “June Night,” “Heartless” and “Bermuda.” Includes interview with Cynthia about beginning of Bells’ career.

Transcription Disc: Label on 16″, 33-1/3 rpm disc indicates this is Program #9. Artist on other side of disc is Jeff Chandler (Program #10).

Stand By For Music (U.S. Naval Recruiting) 
15 minute program
Also featuring Jim Wallington (announcer) and Frank de Vol and orchestra.
Bell Sisters perform “Do It Again,” “A Fool Such as I” and “Take Back Your Gold.” Includes interview with sisters about their home town, school, family life.

Transcription Disc: Label on 16″, 33-1/3 rpm disc indicates this is Program #2 (although Program #9 above seems earlier). Date of January 1955 also handwritten on label, likely date of broadcast or re-broadcast. Artist on other side of disc is Champ Butler (Program #1).

Dallas, Texas
Yesterday USA Radio with Bill Bragg
Live interview with Cynthia broadcast over AM and cable radio in Dallas, Texas and over Internet at 7:30 p.m. EST from www.yesterdayusa.com.

Greenville, Illinois
“The Golden Oldies Show” with John Goldsmith on station WGEL (FM 101.7)
Phone interview with Cynthia, discussing Bell Sisters’ career and life at home.

New York, New York
“Singing Siblings” by Sara Fishko on WNYC (FM 93.9)
Segment includes brief phone interview with Cynthia and Bell Sisters’ “Socko” and “June Night” as background music.

Salt Lake City, Utah
“Women, the Third Decade” by Babs DeLay on KRCL (FM 90.9)
Segment includes phone interview with Cynthia and broadcast of “Bermuda,” “June Night,” “Wheel of Fortune” and “The Counting Song”.