The Bell Telephone Hour

A portrait of violinist and teacher Joseph Fuchs as he prepares two young students, Takako Nishizaki and Christiane Edinger, for their concert careers. The intense weeks of lessons, the
anxieties, disappointments, and the hopes of the students and Fuchs are shown as they participate in music competitions. They compete in the Leventritt Music Competition in Carnegie Hall and no winners are declared. Practicing for next year, they and other competitors, Pinchas
Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Serge Lucca, and Donald Wylerstein, are seen performing. Nishizaki and Edinger advance to the semi-finals but are then eliminated. Fuchs talks about teaching and playing the violin.

This San Francisco music tour swings from jazz to opera. Cameras view musicians against a backdrop of Bay City landmarks. John Handy, top alto saxophonist in the Downbeat Jazz Critics' Poll, plays at Stern Grove before an audience of 22,000. Sylvia Davis and the San Francisco Opera Company rehearse and perform Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; and Zola Dishong dances to the electronically composed Le tombe de Edgar Allan Poe. Also seen and heard: the folk-rockin' Jefferson Airplane group, in a psychedelic-light environment; young pianist Patricia Michaelian, appearing with the San Francisco Symphony; husband-and-wife pianists Milton
and Peggy Salkind; and the San Francisco Ballet.

Highlights:

Spanish lady, Scheme no. 1--Handy; Schumann's Piano Concerto in A
Minor--Michaelian; Chopin's Variations in D Major, Gravities, Polka--the Salkinds;
It's no secret--Jefferson Airplane.

Hosted by Donald O'Connor with performances by Dolores Gray, Opera singers George London and Jean Fenn, pianist Erroll Garner, Nancy Dussault, John Davidson and Doug Crosley.

Highlights:
Donald O'Connor sings "Just One of Those Things".
Donald, Dolores, Doug and Nancy perform "It's Delovely".
George London and Jean Fenn perform "Wunderbar!".
Erroll Garner plays "It's All Right With Me".

Hosted by Hoagy Carmichael with performances by singer Gordon MacRae, songstress Leslie Uggams, singer-actor Bill Hayes, singer-actress Carol Lawrence, pianist Peter Nero, choreographer-dancer Matt Mattox and his dancers with Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Orchestra.

Highlights:
A tour through the songs of Gershwin, Arlen, Rodgers, Berlin, Loesser and Carmichael.
Songs performed include "Tea For Two" from No, No, Nanette (Youmans/Caesar), "Shall We Dance" (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin), and "The Continental" (Conrad/Magidson).

Hosted by Mel Brandt & Donald Voorhees with performances by Maurice Chevalier, Rudolf Nureyev, Maria Tallchief, Robert Preston, Joan Sutherland, Clifford Curzon and Harry Belafonte.

Highlights:
Maurice Chevalier sings "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "Les Hommes".
Robert Preston performs "76 Trombones" River City.
Joan Sutherland performs an aria from Ophelia
Clifford Curzon performs the final movement of "Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4".
Harry Belafonte sings "Try to Remember", "Who's Gonna Be Your Man" and "Amen".

Hosted by Olivia de Havilland with performances by Ron Husmann, Anita Gillette, Dorothy Collins, Patricia McBride, Edward Villella, Richard Tucker, The Sholom Secunda Chorale, Morman Tabernacle Choir and the Buster Davis Singers.

Highlights:
Dorothy Collins sings "Spring Is Here" from the Broadway musical "I Married An Angel" and "Button Up Your Overcoat" and an Easter Hat Medley.

Hosted by Jane Powell with performances by Jack Haskell, Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Max Morath and His Original Rag Quartet.

Highlights:
A melodic hour of American regional music.
Jane Powell and Jack Haskell sing a passel of popular tunes like "Oklahoma", "I'm Alabamy Bound", "Ohio" and others.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans perform "Home on the Range" and a square dance call.
Max Morath and his Original Rag Quartet perform "Hello My Baby".

Hosted by Barbara Cook with performances by Dolores Gray, Jack Cassidy, Duke Ellington, Ethel Ennis, Richard Tucker and Lucine Amara.

Highlights:
Barbara Cook with The Bell Telephone Hour Chorus: "Love Makes the World Go" from Carnival, MEDLEY "Buffalo Gals"/"Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair"/"In My Merry Oldsmobile / "Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine / "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" / "If I Had a Talking Picture of You" / "Pettin' in the Park" / "By a Waterfall" / "Shuffle off to Buffalo" / "Indian Love Call".

Host Maurice Chevalier greets musical-comdey star Stanley Holloway, jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza and the puppet cast of "Les Poupees de Paris".

Chevalier reminisces about some of the songs and the performers he has known in his long career. Holloway offers a medley of British music-hall tunes and Miss Berganza sings "Nacqui all'affanno, al Pianto" from Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola".
Donald Voorhees leads the orchestra

Highlights
"Hello Dolly!", "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me", "Mimi", "I Remember It Well", "Under the Bridges of Paris", "C'est Si Bon", "Poor People of Paris", "Valentine", "Au Revoir" ..... Chevalier
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" .... Chevalier, Poupees
"Teasin'" ........ Chevalier, Holloway
"Dixie", "Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet" ..... Fountain
"When You're Smiling" ....... Chevalier, Fountain

Host Burl Ives welcomes guests Bing Crosby, The McGuire Sisters, Grant Johannesen and the Buddy Cole Group.

Highlights:
The McGuire Sisters perform "I Love You", "Alabama Jubilee" and "One Fine Day".
Burl Ives performs "Old Blue", "Leather Winged Bat", "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", "Little White Duck", "Funny Way of Laughter" and "A Little Bitty Tear".
Grant Johannesen plays Greig's Piano Concerto in A Minor.

Hosted by Burgess Meredith with performances by John Raitt, Jaye P. Morgan, Gene Nelson, Taina Elg, Johnny Desmond, Lorin Hollander, The Four Lads, Allegra Kent, Jacques d'Amboise and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Choir.

Highlights:
Hollander plays a Chopin waltz and a Saint-Saens concerto.
"Girl That I Marry" ....... Nelson
"What'll I Do?" ........... Elg
"Always" .................. Raitt
"Remember" ................ Morgan
"Lovely Day" .............. Desmond, Nelson, Morgan, Elg
"They Say It's Wonderful" . Raitt
"Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Heat Wave" ..... Morgan
"I Never Knew", "Simple Melody" ........ Morgan, Desmond
"No Strings" .............. Nelson
"Let's Face the Music and Dance" ....... Nelson, Elg
"Song Is Ended" ........... Raitt

Hosted by Marilyn van Derbur featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Grant Johannesen, Martha Wright, Russell Nype, Ris Stevens, Melissa Hayden, Jacques d'Amboise and The New York City Ballet.

Highlights:
The program starts out with Jazz and journeys to opera and ballet.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington in their first joint television appearance accompanied by Jim Hall, Gus Johnson and Wilfred Middlebrooks in a medley of Ellington's hits.
Ris Stevens performs Natoma (Herbert): "Beware of a hawk, my baby ... Lonely am I".
Grant Johannesen performs Gershwin's Concerto in F.