The Big Band Years

Airs Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Peter Marshall hosts "The Big Band Years," a celebration of the music that brought the country through World War II and kick-started the baby boom: the big bands of the 1930s and '40s.

Credit: TJL Productions

Above: Peter Marshall hosts "The Big Band Years," a celebration of the music that brought the country through World War II and kick-started the baby boom: the big bands of the 1930s and '40s.

Monday, August 3, 2009

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This “Big Band” retrospective features the songs that brought the country through WWII and kick-started the baby boom. The program mixes vintage live, rare and unreleased footage of bands and vocalists from the 1930s and 40s. Peter Marshall ("Hollywood Squares") hosts.

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