Storer recorded a demo of the radio show with Como as its host and Mitchell Ayres and his Orchestra providing the music.

The singer the agency preferred was under contract and would need to be released from it before he could accept a job on the new radio program.

[2] With John Klenner, Shaffer and Steele composed the show's theme song, "Smoke Dreams."

She began her twice-weekly broadcasts from Hollywood in November 1946, backed by her future husband, Paul Weston.

[2][14] Stafford's Hollywood "Club" broadcasts featured the vocal group The Starlighters; in 1947 she recorded her version of the show's theme song, "Smoke Dreams", with them.

The cast then resorted to hand-held microphones, but the plane's cabin pressure made them very heavy and difficult to hold after a few minutes.

By September 1949, the show's time was extended from 15 minutes to a half-hour, and it was changed from a weekday to a weekly program.

[25] The Chesterfield Supper Club appeared as a simulcast on NBC Television, beginning Christmas Eve, 1948, with a live performance by Perry Como.

Initially, NBC had intended to broadcast three Friday night Supper Club shows on television as well as radio.

The experiment had gone well enough for NBC to extend the experimental phase of televising The Chesterfield Supper Club through August 1949.

He continued to host The Chesterfield Supper Club until 1950, when he moved to CBS and the NBC series ended.