Wartime Broadcasts

[Terry]

Here's a curious exchange between Welles and Mel Blanc from the G I Journal series (from Welles' period as radio comedian.)

I suspect that laughing at someone's stuttering problem probably isn't funny anymore, so maybe this is more an example of comparative historical anthropology than comedy. (To contextualize, at the beginning Welles is thanking Faye McKenzie for her song, and Earl Carroll owned The Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard, which was famous for its showgirls.)

http://www.box.net/shared/jmt1ibypjh

[Terry]

Here's a grab bag of Welles stuff from WWII. Apart from his own series, Welles was a busy young man in doing guest appearances on other shows.

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWel ... Broadcasts

[Wellesnet]

Welles appears in a couple of skits from this 1944 Halloween program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92Sv_zfwoY

[the_trikeman]

I posted about this earlier, but I now now the title of the broadcast I wish to find. The title is This is Radio, broadcast in 1940 on the eve of the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in San Francisco. Per the Wikipedia entry, it aired on August 3, and featured what William Conrad on Bullwinkle would call "a host of others." There are cameos from various radio shows, and statements from radio and print journalists of the time.

I had a copy of this at one time. It was the "B" side of a radio drama on a cassette I bought at http://www.expo.wayback.net, the Cincinnati Nostalgia Convention (neé the Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention), but my machine chewed up the tape.

If anyone has a sound file, tape, or MP3 containing this broadcast, please message me privately.

Thanks in advance!

[Wellesnet]

Starring Orson Welles, and recorded the day of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Now available on Youtube in three parts:

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-HnMh312c

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1v2r41Sbo

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOoKNqqiySA

[Wich2]

Radiogoldindex lists it, but Dave doesn't sell anymore:

"1684. This Is Radio. August 3, 1940. Mutual net. Sponsored by: The New YorK World's Fair, The San Francisco Golden Gate Exhibition. A program broadcast on the eve of the N.A.B. meeting in San Francisco. The story of radio is told. Professor Quiz, The Lone Ranger, and many other radio personalities appear. Orson Welles, Morton Downey, Hedda Hopper, Gene Autry, Kay Kyser, F. Chase Taylor, Olive Palmer, Gertrude Berg, Edward Bowes, H. V. Kaltenborn, Ray Perkins, Guy Lombardo, Graham McNamee, Jessica Dragonette, Tommy Riggs, Kate Smith, Paul Whiteman, Earle Graser. 1 hour 10 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete."

[Wellesnet]

Hitchhiker, Marvelous Barastro, Fred Allen
Orson Welles week on WGN radio. Three Welles radio programs from the 1940s, including the best sounding "Marvelous Barastro" I've heard, and a Fred Allen show I've never heard before.

Ends this Sunday:
http://wgnradio.com/2016/04/04/wgn-radi ... llen-show/