RAREST 50's WHAT'S MY LINE TV soundtrack LP record

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383

i personally know of three TV and movie soundtrack collectors who had been looking for this album for over 25 years. i had one of the finest soundtrack collections extant (including an original 'the caine mutiny' LP) and KNOW that this belongs in the top five!!!  DOT label.  premise of this album was to put the listener on the WHAT'S MY LINE panel and try to figure out (along with the panel) just who the 'mystery guest' was ("will the mystery guest come in and sign in please!!!")--shows were from the 1954-55 season.  there are 8 mystery guests total on the album.  they are printed upside down on the back and, no, i will not tell you who they are---why spoil the fun???  purchase the album, play along with the panel and THEN you will find out!!  panel consisted of regulars dorothy kilgallen, arlene francis and bennett cerf--4th panelist on these episodes was steve allen.  all were warmly chided and edified by the urbane, erudite moderator john daly (or john CHARLES daly as bennett cerf would introduce him)  this show can still be seen on the game show network in the wee hours of the morning.  the 50's broadway glamour was so perfectly captured on this show. tuxes and gowns were de rigeuer of every show and the quick-witted dialogue, double entendres and even the kitsch was so untypical of any other panel show of the time----there was always the sense that they were all just whiling away the half hour in good-natured banter until the show ended at which time they would head for some literary party, theater opening or just to down cocktails at toots shorr's all the while jauntily commenting on the American scene in a very Gatsbyan way-------STYLE!!!     the 'gong show' it wasn't.  record very clean NEAR MINTISH--no scratches. one light scuff.--gorgeous piece of vinyl---cover looks bright and clean--has some transparent tape on seams.  again, i must repeat how rare this piece is.  i wonder how many fervent TV/soundtrack/personality record collectors there are out there who are reading this and discovering it for the first time???