The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, which aired first on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949.
Joe Sinnott's caricature of the Kraft Music Hall (l to r): Orchestra leader John Scott Trotter, Marilyn Maxwell, Bing Crosby and announcer Ken Carpenter. Veteran Marvel Comics artist Sinnott also illustrated the covers of several Crosby albums.
Nelson Eddy marks the end of the radio program on September 22, 1949.
Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
Whiteman in a 1939 publicity photo
Whiteman and his orchestra, 1921
The members of Whiteman's Orchestra in 1930
A frame from the trailer for the film Rhapsody in Blue (1945)