Appointment with Music is a half-hour[1] American radio music program that was broadcast on NBC beginning on June 30, 1948.[2]
Singer Snooky Lanson headed the cast of Appointment with Music, and Dorothy Dillard was the female vocalist.[3] The Dixie Dons quartet also performed on the show,[4] and Owen Bradley led a 26-piece orchestra.[2]
As the summer replacement for Jimmy Durante's program, Appointment with Music was broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.[2] The show's competition included Texaco Star Theater on ABC and The Whistler on CBS.[4] The program originated from WSM in Nashville, Tennessee,[5] and was sustaining.[4]
Critical response
A review in the trade publication Billboard described Appointment with Music's content as "tuneful and uncomplicated melody, unmixed with jive and unmarred by be-bop."[4] The review complimented the vocal performances of Lanson, Dillard, and the Dixie Dons and commended Lanson's work as master of ceremonies.[4]
The trade publication Variety noted in a review that the program was "a surprise departure" from WSM's "accepted, bucolic format" of country music.[6] The review described the program as having a "soft lights, sweet music theme" and said, "Listeners in search of quiet and mental calmness will find this half-hour of song and music a welcome appeasement from the raucous quizzers."[6]