[1] The Danny Kaye Show featured singing, instrumental music, and various kinds of comedy sketches.
[2] In Nobody's Fool, Martin Gottfried wrote about the program: "Everything about it was to be top drawer, beginning with Kaye's then record salary of $16,000 a week (compared to the $100 apiece he had been paid for three minor CBS radio shows in 1940).
"[3] In addition to Kaye, the cast included Eve Arden and Lionel Stander as regulars, with the supporting cast including and Frank Nelson (playing sponsor Mr. Pabst in the premiere), Kenny Delmar, Everett Sloane, Joan Edwards, and Butterfly McQueen.
[1] The producer was Goodman Ace, described by Gottfried in Nobody's Fool as "radio's premier comedy writer, who had so estimable a reputation that even though the program would be broadcast from Los Angeles, he was able to insist on running it from New York.
"[3] A behind-the-scenes influence was Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine, a producer, composer, and lyricist in her own right.