What happens
Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney open their new show with announcer Ken Carpenter, marking a return to the air on leap day, February 29. The trio chats playfully about their names and their return to CBS. Crosby and Clooney then sing a duet of "Will You Still Be Mine", followed by Clooney's performance of "Heartaches by the Number". The hosts exchange jokes about a new bottle cap designed to open ketchup bottles, with Crosby and Clooney trading quips about their own struggles with the bottle. Crosby then sings "They Can't Take That Away from Me", a number first introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
A radio broadcast from the studio, the first show of The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show on February 29, 1960.
Characters: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ken Carpenter, Buddy Cole
Listen for: The duets and solo songs by Crosby and Clooney, and the running banter about the ketchup bottle cap.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.