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) in Blue" as well as a source to his Preludes, Piano Concerto and "Porgy and Bess". After its disastrous flop on Broadway, "Blue Monday" was reportedly renamed 135th Street when Ferde Grofé re-orchestrated it in 1925, with a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on December 29 under the direction of Paul Whiteman. However, the original Grofe score exists in the archives of the Oscar & Hammerstein Library at Lincoln Center, part of the New York Public Library and is titled Blue Monday (135th Street). In an unusually daring move for 1950's television, it was presented in that medium in 1953,