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Musical Monday: Square Dance Jubilee (1949)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about

This week’s musical:
Square Dance Jubilee (1949) – Musical #852

Studio:
Produced by Donald Barry Productions
Distributed by Screen Guild Productions

Director:
Paul Landres

Starring:
Don Barry, Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon, Max Terhune, John Eldredge, Thurston Hall, Chester Clute, Tom Tyler, Tom Kennedy
Themselves: Spade Cooley and His Band, Cowboy Copas, The Broome Brothers, Smiley and Kitty, Johnny Downs, Herman the Hermit, The Elder Lovelies

Plot:
Talent scouts Don Blake (Barry) and Seldom Sam Jenks (Vernon) travel across the west, aiming to have a true western experience, to find musical acts for a television show, Square Dance Jubilee. Along the way, Don and Sam get entangled with western criminals.

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Musical Monday: Colorado Serenade (1946)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Colorado Serenade (1946) – Musical #7colorado243

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Studio:
PRC Pictures Inc.

Director:
Robert Emmett Tansey

Starring:
Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, David Sharpe, Mary Kenyon, Forrest Taylor, Dennis Moore, Abigail Adams, Warner Richmond, Lee Bennett, Robert McKenzie, Bob Duncan

Plot:
Eddie (Dean) and his pal Soapy (Ates) come across a stagecoach hold up. They are able to thwart the robbery, but not before the driver and guard are injured. Eddie helps ride the stagecoach in to town, where the robbers are found. However, Judge Hilton (Taylor) believes the story of the gunman and wants to let them go. Eddie, with the help of a stranger named Nevada (Sharpe) try to track down the thieves.

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Saddle up for “Radio Waves” tonight at 6 p.m. ET

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“Radio  Waves Over Hollywood” will be streaming live Thursday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m (Eastern time).

Tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., “Radio Waves” will have guest star Preston Jenkinson, senior broadcast journalism major, discussing some of his favorite westerns and comparing the 2010 version of “True Grit” to the John Wayne version.

In the second hour of the show, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., guest star Devang Joshi, senior computer science major, will discuss the new face of westerns and how they changed in the 1960s.  Some films in this discussion will be Sergie Lenoe’s trilogy of Clint Eastwood films such as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

So be sure to listen at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  live stream on www.winrfm.com (go to Listen Live) or  the old WINR website.

Call in at 803-323-2122, whether you know me or not, to contribute to the discussion.  I would love to hear from you!

And remember, non-Winthrop students can listen and call in too!

Also, if you listen to the “Radio Waves Over Hollywood” show, leave feedback for me in the comments area. Let me know what I need to work on or what you want to hear!

Check out the Comet Over Hollywood Facebook page and Radio Waves Over Hollywood Facebook page.