This recording is of the last half hour of the two hour Hollywood Hotel program, broadcast on Friday, June 11, 1937. We have only this fragment of the program, which starred columnist Louella Parsons, and singer Frances Langford and Igor Gorin. The guest stars this week were George Jessel, Al Jolson, Groucho and Chico Marx, and Allan Jones.

The segment begins with George Jessel encouraging his old mentor, Gus Edwards, who is not credited as being in the program and may have been either in the audience or a walk-on, to sing "School Days," a song he had penned for the Kid Kabaret that had given Jessel, Eddie Cantor, Walter Winchell, and so many others their starts.

Jessel next had Frances Langford sing "Rings on My Fingers" and "Shine On Harvest Moon," recalling other great stars past. A suggestion of Enrico Caruso was provided by Igor Gorin. Host Louella Parsons then finished out the segment.

Giving him all he was due, Jessel then introduced Al Jolson, who opened with a great rendition of "Ma Blushin' Rosie." Listen carefully to the lyrics in the verse; they are different than the versions done during and after The Jolson Story, and a little closer to the song's original, if insensitive by our standards, introduction.

George and Al next have a turn at the microphone, with Jessel affectionately calling Jolson "Asey." After comparing notes and styles, Jessel tried "Rosie" on for himself.

Putting all differences aside, they concluded the segment with a wonderful duet of "Give My Regards To Broadway."

A few words from the sponsor then show up, with a weight watching soup commercial.

Many guest appearances on television these days are plugs for new movies, and things were no different in 1937. The new Marx Brothers movie "A Day At The Races" was released in the USA on this day, June 11, 1937, and they were here on the radio to plug the film. The last fifteen or so minutes of this broadcast was sort of a giant promotional radio trailer for the movie. Groucho sang, Allan Jones did likewise; you get the picture. Just sit back and enjoy it, then go rent the movie!