Les Brown and his orchestra and crew members were the only audience for the performers. The segments were taped without an audience present. Bing Crosby (at age 61) used his trump card to bring his cast of guest performers together for a 'very very musical special'. Vanoff and Harbach assembled the production team of writers, music arrangers, designers at the West Coast NBC-Burbank facility to rehearse and tape the variety special. NBC Burbank had the only operational West Coast color television facility, using RCA Color Cameras and Ampex Video Recording Tape Machines, to record and tape-edit the show. CBS did not choose to unwrap their color facilities to video tape the special nor had available stages to video-tape (record) their network variety special. CBS' Hollywood Television City had color cameras in moth-balled storage in their facility (stored in the main facilities corridor between the Drapery Department and the main stage midway). The color special was for a CBS TV 'color'' broadcast.
Rita Scott supervised the production elements, acting as the Unit Production Manager.
The New York Producers Nick Vanoff and Bill Harbach brought their production assistants from their New York City production office to Los Angeles to prepare the show's material.
The 1964 CBS Television "Bing Crosby Special" was video taped in color at the NBC Burbank Television Studios on Stage 2, during the last week in August 1963.
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