Appointment with Music
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Appointment with Music is a half-hour{{cite magazine |date=June 23, 1948 |page=27 |title=WSM's Web Feed As Durante Sub |magazine=Variety |url=https://archive.org/details/variety170-1948-06/page/n194/mode/1up |accessdate=November 1, 2023}} American radio music program that was broadcast on NBC beginning on June 30, 1948.{{cite news |title=The News of Radio: 'Let's Talk Hollywood,' Screen Quiz Show, to Hold Down Jack Benny Time |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/06/24/archives/the-news-of-radio-lets-talk-hollywood-screen-quiz-show-to-hold-down.html |access-date=October 29, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=June 24, 1948 |page=50|url-access=subscription }}
Singer Snooky Lanson headed the cast of Appointment with Music, and Dorothy Dillard was the female vocalist.{{cite book |last1=Havighurst |first1=Craig |title=Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City |date=December 19, 2011 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09434-7 |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n419OLT1fK8C&dq=%22Appointment+with+Music%22&pg=PA155 |access-date=October 29, 2023 |language=en}} The Dixie Dons quartet also performed on the show,{{cite magazine |last=Ackerman |first=Paul |date=August 7, 1948 |page=10 |title=Appointment with Music |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UkUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Appointment+with+Music%22&pg=PA10 |accessdate=October 29, 2023 }} and Owen Bradley led a 26-piece orchestra.
As the summer replacement for Jimmy Durante's program, Appointment with Music was broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The show's competition included Texaco Star Theater on ABC and The Whistler on CBS. The program originated from WSM in Nashville, Tennessee,{{cite news |title=Radio Entertainment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/134302041/ |access-date=October 29, 2023 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |date=June 30, 1948 |page=19|via = Newspapers.com }} and was sustaining.
Critical response
A review in the trade publication Billboard described Appointment with Music's content as "tuneful and uncomplicated melody, unmixed with jive and unmarred by be-bop." The review complimented the vocal performances of Lanson, Dillard, and the Dixie Dons and commended Lanson's work as master of ceremonies.
The trade publication Variety noted in a review that the program was "a surprise departure" from WSM's "accepted, bucolic format" of country music.{{cite magazine |date=July 7, 1948 |page=23 |title=Appointment with Music |magazine=Variety |url=https://archive.org/details/variety171-1948-07/page/n22/mode/1up |accessdate=November 1, 2023 }} The review described the program as having a "soft lights, sweet music theme" and said, "Listeners in search of quiet and mental calmness will find this half-hour of song and music a welcome appeasement from the raucous quizzers."
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Category:1948 radio programme debuts
Category:1940s American radio programs