Two days before the holiday, Jolie opened with a song that "has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas," "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"

If you have some trouble understanding the opening banter, you may need to know that the "Hooper" ratings of the 1940s radio programs were their equivalent of today's Nielsons for TV. Last week's feud continued into this week's show. Levant, however, still found time to play the second movement of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto.

Good golden cheese occupied Ken Carpenter's first commercial break, along with other Kraft varieties. It's not St. Patrick's Day, but Jolie somehow found a way to pay tribute to "Mother MacCree." Continuing to play with dialect, Jolson pictured Harry Lauder, and sang "She's My Daisy."

Lauder was great, but Jolson was the greatest. So, after all the fooling around, the view goes back to the Winter Garden, where a bundle of energy named Al Jolson held the audience in the palm of his hand "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee." Even on the radio, even after 50 years, he could still do it!

Silver wrapped Philadelphia Cream Cheese was just as important to Mr. Carpenter in his next break. But after that, he asked Jolson to remember "When You Were Sweet Sixteen." And he did a wonderful job.

Al Jolson next paid tribute to another great singer, by singing the song more closely identified with him, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas." If you've never heard Jolie sing it, you're in for a treat. You may never be able to listen to Bing again, without thinking of Jolson.

To close the show, eighty men and women in the Kraft Choral Club, in Chicago, sang a variety of Christmas songs.