Claudette Colbert is the Mistress of Ceremonies in this "Command Performance Picnic". She introduces not one, but two orchestras for the evening, and then Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra open the show with the first tune, which is Opus One. Bob Burns brings the latest news from Van Buren, Arkansas. He goes on to play a bazooka-trombone solo with Tommy Dorsey. Corrina Mura then joins the show, and sings a fantastic rendition of Tabu.