Way cool. As you probably know, Fred Waring is considered a national treasure here. In the same league as Aaron Copeland, Louis Armstrong and Art Feidler.
Maybe even a cut above Lawrence Welk. LW was a superb performer, but I don't recall him coming up with a lot of original stuff like the other three did, almost until the day they died.
One of the first songs I learned to sing as a small child was
"Them Bones", aka "Dry Bones," a 1947 release in which Fred Waring and the boys subject the Delta Rhythm Boys'
1943 hit to a Spike Jones treatment, with lots of sound effects.
My parents told me that Waring would drive around State College, Pa. in a mid-1950's Cadillac.