Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: March 19th 1928
LAST BROADCAST: November 25th 1960
SPONSORS: Pepsodent. Campbell Soups, Lever Brothers – Rinso & Rexall
CAST: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Ernestine Wade, Amanda Randolph, Harriette Widmer, Elinor Harriot, Terry Howard, Madeline Lee, Lou Lubin, Eddie Green, Johnny Lee
ANNOUNCERS: Bill Hay, Del Sharbutt, Harlow Wilcox, Art Gilmore
MUSIC: Gaylord Carter, Lud Gluskin, Jeff Alexander’s Orchestra and chorus
VOCAL GROUP: The Jubilaires (Theodore Brooks, John Jennings, George McFadden, Caleb Ginyard)
WRITERS: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher, Bob Fisher, Arthur Stander, Harvey Helm, Shirley Illo, Paul Franklin, Octavus Roy Cohen
SOUND EFFECTS: Frank Pittman, Ed Ludes, David Light, Gus Bayz
THEME: The Perfect Song from Birth of a Nation
Amos n Andy – 1929-1960
This 15 minute daily situation comedy was probably the most popular radio show of all time. The listening audience was estimated at 40 million, almost one-third of Americans living at that time. The story was of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll playing Amos and Andy as black men from Harlem who owned the Fresh Air Taxi Company, so called because its only cab had no windshield. Amos and Andy were the commonest of common men: they symbolised the poor Joe with no money, no job and no future. It was the first significant serial utilising the elements of sympathetic characters, comedy and suspense.
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