On June 30, 1936 the show was reformatted, featuring Nathaniel Shilkret and his orchestra and Benny Goodman and his swing band, with novelist Ruppert Hughes as Master of Ceremonies[1][2] and vocalists Martha Tilton and Johnny Mercer. A Los Angeles Times picture caption[3] notes that Gladys Swarthout was the guest artist on the initial broadcast. Shilkret left the show on September 22, 1936.[1][2][4]
Jack Oakie's College was added to the hour on December 29, 1936. While this aired on Tuesdays on CBS until June 20, 1939, another Benny Goodman Camel Caravan (often subtitled The Camel Hot Club) was heard Saturdays on NBC during 1939. Eddie Cantor starred in another CBS Camel Caravan broadcast from March 28, 1938 to June 26, 1939.
The CBS show was taken over by Bob Crosby on June 27, 1939.
^ abShilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. ISBN0-8108-5128-8
^ abShilkret, Nathaniel, Barbara Shilkret, and Niel Shell, Feast or Famine: Sixty Years in the Music Business, archival edition of Shilkret autobiography, 2001 (copies deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The City College of New York Archival Library, The New York Philharmonic Archives, The Victor Archives (SONY)).
^Los Angeles Times, Radio and Personality feature including a picture of Nathaniel Shilkret, Gladys Swarthout and Ruppert Hughs, July 5, 1936. A copy is reproduced in the archival edition of the Shilkret autobiography.
^Connor, D. Russell and Warren W. Hicks, BG on the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman, Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1969.
