Yesterday’s little trip into our electronicly audible past brought forth a lot of private e-mails and some public commentary on all of your early memories of our very much shared radio days. Today it might help put a temporary cap on the subject to just list some of the actors, characters, and sponsors that were the backbone of this whole wonderful experience back in the day. As much s possible, I will try to list these items here in some crude alphabetical order, but I can’t promise anything. Please feel free to comment and add to the lst in the comment section that follows:
Abbott and Costello, Fred Allen, Gracie Allen, The Original Amateur Hour with Major Bowles, Amos and Andy, Gene Autry, Jack Benny, Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, Edgar Bergen, Boston Blackie, The Bickersons, Les Brown and His Band of Reknown, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Cato, Jerry Cologna, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, Cecil B. DeMille and the Lux Radio Theatre, Jimmy Durante, Fibber McGee and Molly, Gangbusters, Arthur Godfrey, Mr. District Attorney, The Great Gildersleve, The Green Hornet, announcer Bill Goodwin, Sterling Holloway, Bob Hope, Clem Kaddidlehopper, Danny Kaye, Sky King, Edward R. Murrow, Let’s Pretend, The Happy Gang of Buster Brown, Lifebuoy Soap, Life with Luigi, Charley McCarthy, Smilin’ Ed McConnell, The Mean Widdle Kid, Captain Midnight, Tom Mix, Digger O’Dell, Ovaltine, Oxydol, Joe Penner, Ma Perkins, Porcyurcorkis, The Quiz Kids, The Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum and Host Raymond, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, The Shadow, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Baby Snooks, The Sixty-Four Dollar Question, Mortimer Snerd, Superman, Danny Thomas, announcer John Scott Trotter, announcer Harry Von Zell, Wheaties (Breakfast of Champions), The Whistler, announcer Don Wilson, and “Thanks for the Memories,” and – “Goodnight, Mrs. Kalibash, wherever you are!”
As I leave you with the lyrics to the Lifebuoy Soap radio commercial jingle, all I can add is that It’s been a fun trip.
“Singin’ in the bathtub, singin’ for joy,
Livin’ the life of – Lifebuoy!
Can’t stop singin’ – because I know,
That Lifebuoy really stops ………..
B ……. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
The Pecan Park Eagle 
December 18, 2009 at 2:46 am |
It was a pleasure to stroll down radio’s memories’ lane. Thanks for connecting us to our shared over-the-air past!
December 22, 2009 at 7:35 pm |
Thanks for the great memories, Bill. Dont forget Allen’s Alley with all those characters: Mrs Nussbaum, Titus Moody (Howdy Bub), Ajax Cassidy and Senator Claghorn (I’m from the South, son, the deep South that is. When I go to New York I never go to Yankee Stadium. I never watch the Dodgers unless Dixie Walker is playing). Claghorn was played by Kenny Delmar, Fred Allen’s announcer. Just one correction. John Scott Trotter was Bing’s orchestra leader, his announcer was Ken Carpenter. Old Fogey Bud Kane