Priorities on Parade: Screen Guild Theater (May 15, 1944)

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“Priorities on Parade” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 15, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Johnny Draper and his Dixie Pixies, a struggling band, are playing at the Eagle Aircraft Company in Los Angeles when the employment manager, Mr. Hardley, suggests they take factory jobs instead. Johnny and his bandmates, including Jeep and Donna DeArcy, reluctantly sign on. Jeep is assigned to a welding booth run by a tough, no-nonsense supervisor named Lee Davis, and the two clash over her strict rules. The Screen Guild Theater series presents this 1944 episode, first aired May 15, 1944, starring Bob Crosby, Betty Rhodes, Vera Vague and Jerry Colona.

An aircraft plant in Los Angeles during World War II

Characters: Johnny Draper, Jeep, Donna DeArcy, Mr. Hardley, Lee Davis

Listen for: Jeep's exchanges with Lee Davis in the welding booth, and Johnny's reaction when the band is offered work at the plant

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.