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4 unusual facts about General Motors Concerts


General Motors Concerts

With a title change to The General Motors Promenade Concerts, the program moved April 1937 to the Blue Network for a series of hour-long thematic shows with male/female leads, including one show of Victor Herbert music with Jan Peerce and Rose Bampton.

Swedish tenor Jussi Björling made his American debut on a General Motors Concert.

The rotating line-up of leading name performers featured Björling, Donald Dickson, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Grace Moore, Erna Sack, Joseph Schmidt and Richard Tauber.

Swedish tenor Jussi Björling made his American debut as part of this series on November 28, 1937.



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