Windy City Jamboree [SEP] original network
Windy City Jamboree
Windy City Jamboree was an American popular music program on the DuMont Television Network from March 19 to June 18, 1950. The show aired live from the Rainbow Gardens nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday nights from 8pm to 10 pm ET, using the facilities of DuMont affiliate WGN-TV.
The cast included Danny O'Neil, Gloria Van, Jane Brockman and Bud Tygett, Jimmy McPartland, Dick Edwards, "Woo Woo" Stephens, Paula Raye, John Dalz, and the Julian Stockdale
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The first (and first live) country music program on network television was "Village Barn", broadcast from 1948–50 by NBC from a New York City nightclub. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, the U.S. networks carried a handful of other country music shows, including "Hayloft Hoedown" and "ABC Barn Dance" (ABC); "Saturday Night Jamboree" (NBC); and "Windy City Jamboree" and "The Old American Barn Dance" (