Guest Star radio show transcription disc: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Transcription disc of the radio program Guest Star. This 33-1/3rpm disc is a record of the programs that aired April 4, 1954, program 367: "The Self-Made Man," featuring Faye Emerson and Lee Bowman, and April 11, 1954, program 368, featuring The Sons of the Pioneers. The Sons of the Pioneers performed their songs "Twilight Time in Tennesee," "If You Would Only Be Mine," "Swinging the Scottish," and "Way up High in Sierra Nevada."

Guest Star was a radio program produced by the United States Treasury Department from 1947 until the early 1970s that featured different guest stars each week performing scripted sketches or music in order to promote the sale of savings bonds.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1954
• recording artist: Sons of the Pioneers
• performer: Emerson, Faye
• Object Name: sound recording
• Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 16 in; x 40.64 cm
• associated subject: Music
• associated subject: Radio
• ID Number: 1996.0320.29412
• accession number: 1996.0320
• catalog number: 1996.0320.29412
• maker number: 367
• maker number: 368
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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