Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy - 255 episodes from the great Old Time Radio comedy duo
(5 stars; 5 reviews)
This collection features 255 episodes of Edgar Bergen's radio programs, including The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Chase and Sanborn Show, The Charlie McCarthy Show, and The Edgar Bergen Hour. Edgar Bergen and his sidekick Charlie McCarthy entertained radio audiences from 1937 to 1956.
This collection aims to preserve these excellent artistic expressions of our past for future generations.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
The following episodes are incorrectly-labeled copies of other episodes and are entirely unnecessary: 299 (=306), 301 (=380), and 371 (=375). Either 277 or 350 is incorrect. Same for 396 and 421. 341 and 342 are different recordings of the same material. There may be other such pairs of files.
I am almost positive that episode 364 contains some material from episode 361, and episodes 358 and 365 may share some broadcast material that has been substituted for what I guess is lost content in at least one in each pair. Again, there may be other instances of this in other episodes. Most or all substitute some piece of sung material for another.
The material of some episodes simply gets cut off even though the recording itself goes on with nothing but silence. These seem to be original to the recordings, or at least to the only extant versions of the recordings. (This is by no means a discouragement from listening to these episodes!)
#36 1938-10-30 The episode opposite War of the Worlds
jayessell
#36 1938-10-30
*THIS* is the episode that some people tuned out during one of Nelson Eddie's songs.
When they spun the radio dial over to CBS, the Mercury Theater's adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' was already in progress.
0:00 Some comedy banter with McCarthy.
2:16 Nelson Eddie sings '"The Song of the Vagabonds'.
4:42 Nelson Eddie sings 'The Canadian Logging Song'
6:22 Edgar Bergen attempts to tell a ghost story.
15:25 Dorothy Lamar sings 'Two Sleepy People'.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, the Martian invasion was just beginning.
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I would have liked to 'review' the episodes individually but wasn't an option.
1952 15th Anniversary Show
(5 stars)
Laurence budd
Ep. 214 in this list- One of the all time best! Rosemary Clooney croons her superb singing while Charlie and Ray set off to interview Edgar's childhood friends in Decatur IL with hilarious results. Bea Benedrette plays an old girlfriend and Jack Kirkwood brings the house down. "Burned down a lot of houses but made a lot of dough!" One of Mortimer's best as well. Not to be missed!
-From Laurence Budd, OTR radio host
