What happens
Jack Benny prepares to make his violin debut at Carnegie Hall, playing a benefit concert alongside celebrated musicians. Mary Livingstone and Dennis Day tease him about his nerves and his musical reputation, while Rochester worries about a mix-up over his formal wear. Oscar Levant arrives to serve as Benny's accompanist, and the cast becomes distracted by a rehearsal-style spoof of the quiz program Information Please. This Jack Benny episode aired on January 17, 1943, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris among the lead performers.
New York City, the lead-up to Jack Benny's Carnegie Hall concert, with a studio audience of servicemen
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson, Oscar Levant, Abe Lyman, Phil Harris
Listen for: Benny's running jokes about his violin playing and his nerves, Dennis Day's song, and the Information Please parody with Oscar Levant
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.