Tags: Radio Program.
Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to 1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the show business catch phrase Give me a little traveling music often uttered on TV a decade later by Jackie Gleason. In the first series broadcast on Sundays at 6:30pm from Chicago emcee Garry Moore read music-related questions submitted by listeners to band members in the 14-piece Ted Weems Orchestra.