Tuesday, January 22, 2013
1200 Jack Benny radio scripts?
I haven't looked at them all, but there APPEARS to be 1200 different Jack Benny radio scripts here.
Monday, January 21, 2013
The coolest thing I've ever done?
I still get a big kick out of Comic Weekly Man and the LIVE comics I helped create there. Imagine, 50 years later, I sat at my computer and helped create/finish OTR. It's enough to boggle the mind!
Here I am, a big nobody - but thanks to the internet and a little imagination, I hooked up comics and audio from 50 years ago. That's pretty cool in my book.
I am going to have to go back and do some more of Comic Weekly Man.
Here I am, a big nobody - but thanks to the internet and a little imagination, I hooked up comics and audio from 50 years ago. That's pretty cool in my book.
I am going to have to go back and do some more of Comic Weekly Man.
Sam and Henry
Though few early Amos 'n' Andy shows are available, they are a good many Sam and Henry episodes out there.
Sam 'n' Henry lasted almost two years (almost 600 episodes!) before Gosdin and Correll became Amos and Andy.
You can find Sam 'n' Henry here.
Sam 'n' Henry lasted almost two years (almost 600 episodes!) before Gosdin and Correll became Amos and Andy.
You can find Sam 'n' Henry here.
More about audience participation
This past weekend, I posted about audience participation and Eddie Cantor.
It got me thinking about shows who would encourage applause when actors entered one year and then obviously discouraged this practice the next. This is most evident on the Jack Benny Show. Skip around different years and you will see what I mean: Phil Harris gets a big ovation one year and then the next, nothing!
This probably wasn't a big deal in real time but we have a chance to listen to any surviving show at will and if you just happen to be listening on "shuffle" then you may notice a difference right away.
It got me thinking about shows who would encourage applause when actors entered one year and then obviously discouraged this practice the next. This is most evident on the Jack Benny Show. Skip around different years and you will see what I mean: Phil Harris gets a big ovation one year and then the next, nothing!
This probably wasn't a big deal in real time but we have a chance to listen to any surviving show at will and if you just happen to be listening on "shuffle" then you may notice a difference right away.
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