I Got The Sun In The Morning (1946 NBC Radio) Music from Fibber McGee Molly | Billy Mills Orchestra

Hear a digitally enhanced and restored NBC Orthacoustic Electrical Transcription disc of the musical portion of the "Fibber McGee and Molly Show" as heard on the live OTR broadcast. Billy Mills was the "maestro" - or musical director of the show - and his 18 to 22-piece radio studio orchestra was populated with musical radio stars like Buddy Cole on piano, Perry Botkin on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and soloists like Andy Secrest on trumpet and Abram Lincoln on trombone and Matty Matlock on clarinet - as well as NBC staff musicians and 'stars' from the big bands that were disbanding during this time.

This song may be familiar as it is a selection from the hit musical "Annie Get Your Gun" from 1946, with words and music by Irving Berlin, a show overplayed in Summer Stock and high school theatre throughout the country to this day ;-) It was made popular in 1946 by Doris Day with the Les Brown Orchestra on Columbia Records.

This particular arrangement is very sweet - and Buddy Cole on the piano is just a virtuoso with amazing chord combinations and keyboard trickery in these early 1946 season recordings.

Buddy Cole had replaced Rex Koury on piano from this season of the radio show onward.

Koury, who'd performed for the Orchestra on piano from 1938-1945, went on to direct his own radio show orchestra on another network.

There's definitely a new arranger on this song for the orchestra (also to compliment the new players and rhythm section (Perry Botkin is still on guitar) - - compared to the other performances in 1945 with the 'big orchestra' and harp.

And some 'licks' and 4-bar transition segments that are introduced particularly in this song - that will be overused in future arrangements from this point in time onward so I've noticed!!!

Hear these vintage and rare big band swing arrangements as performed live during the 'musical interlude' of the show - never intended to be heard again - with a high-fidelity quality than originally heard on AM radio over 65 years ago. Billy Mills was the orchestra leader for the show from 1938 to 1953, at which point NBC dropped the live orchestra and cut the show to 15 minutes due to viewer competition with television.

At their peak, this top-rated Old Time Radio show, "Fibber McGee and Molly", would have had over 35 million listeners on a typical Tuesday night broadcast (at 9:30p ET) - until television came along, decimating the radio network audiences.

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