Blue Monday Jamboree Blue Monday Jamboree Blue Monday Jamboree is an old-time radio variety program in the United States. It was broadcast initially (beginning January 24, 1927) on KFRC in San Francisco, California, then was distributed on the West Coast by the Don Lee Network and was later carried nationwide on CBS. Bill Oates wrote, in his biography of Meredith Willson, that the program was "one of the most popular West Coast originated radio shows in the early 1930's." Radio historian John Dunning wrote that the program was "known in the West as 'the daddy of all variety shows.'" "Blue Monday Jamboree" "contained
Blue Monday (opera) and Bess". "Blue Monday" was one of Gershwin's premature works and lacks the musical and dramatic sophistication of his later musicals and "Porgy and Bess", but jazz conductor Paul Whiteman, who conducted the original performance of the piece in 1922, was so impressed by it that he asked Gershwin to compose a symphonic jazz piece for Whiteman to conduct at a concert Whiteman was planning. The resulting piece, "Rhapsody in Blue," became Gershwin's most famous composition. Arts consultant Jeffrey James claims that "Blue Monday" is the "genesis of the Rhapsody", and "the missing link in Gershwin's evolution into the Rhapsody