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Not So Long Ago by Robert Russell Bennett, Bob Hope, Various

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Album Info

Release Date: 1960

Label: RCA Victor

This RCA Records Pressing Plant, Rockaway pressing version on 1958-60 RCA Victor black label with silver print, full-color "Nipper" and the inclusion of "CAMDEN, N.J." in bottom rim-text. This was removed during 1960.
Various - Not So Long Ago version is on 1960-63 label style.

These are un-banded sides and the label track list gives a general chronological list of topics covered. Bob Hope narrates between topic and music generally remains in the background.

Back cover notes:
Voices
Bob Hope at the Washington Charity Golf Match
Fiorello La Guardia reads the comics
Dwight D. Eisenhower says he will not be a candidate
Harry S. Truman announces the Japanese surrender / his post-election imitation of Kaltenborn
Babe Ruth his Yankee Stadium farewell
Winston Churchill the "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton Missouri
George C. Marshall proposes the Marshall Plan
Albert Einstein the Hydrogen Bomb statement