So You Want to Lead a Band is a half-hour television variety show hosted by Sammy Kaye. It was also known as The Sammy Kaye Show, The Sammy Kaye Variety Show, Sammy Kaye's Music from Manhattan, and Music from Manhattan.
Format Members of the studio audience are invited to conduct the band. Then through its applause, the audience chooses the winning amateur conductor. The winner receives a prize. Vocalists on the program included Barbara Benson and Jeffrey Clay.
The series aired on Thursdays at 9pm Eastern Time after Treasury Men in Action and before Kraft Television Theater. The show's competition on NBC was Dragnet.McNeil, Total Television, appendix, national television schedule
In 1954, it was replaced by Star Tonight.
Broadcast schedule + Broadcast Schedule Span on the Air Network Day of Week Time June - July 1950 NBC Sunday 8-8:30 July 1951 - July 1952 CBS Saturday 7-7:30 August - September 1953 NBC Saturday 8-8:30 August 1954 - January 1955 ABC Thursday 9-9:30 September 1958 - February 1959 ABC Saturday 10-10:30 February - April 1959 ABC Thursday 10-10:30 April - June 1959 ABC Saturday 10-10:30 Source: The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present
References
External links So You Want to Lead a Band at CTVA