mary livinston

This episode consists of a curated collection of Clips originally broadcast January 5 through January 16, 1938.

 

And it’s a good one, too! Lots of classic comedy and infectious songs coming your way!

 

Featuring:

Eddie Cantor

Pinky Tomlin

Don Wilson

Jack Benny

Kenny Baker

Mary Livingston

Phil Harris

Ned Sparks

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

And - The Mad Russian

 

Featured Songs Include:

Bei Mir Bist du Shoen – Pinky Tomlin & Eddie Cantor

I love the Girls Medley – Eddie Cantor

Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen – Phil Harris and his Orchestra

Rosemarie – Nelson Eddy

Down with Love – Loretta Lee

You Started Something – Don Ameche

Bob White What You Gonna Swing Tonight – Eddie Cantor

And - Rosalie – Kenny Baker

 

So please take the time machine with me to the year 1938 and be entertained by these voices from the past, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

Bie Mir Bist du Shön

This song shot up the charts, appearing in the top ten on January 8 1938, going to number one two weeks later and staying in the top spot from 5 to 10 weeks, depending on your source.

And it went international before that was really a thing, becoming a massive hit in Germany and Poland as well as the United States.

Dozens of established recording artists, Like Kate Smith and Benny Goodman, rushed to record their own version of the song.

This incredible popularity made singers on the Radio of every style cover the song , and that is what you are going to hear, Radio greats interpreting this song each in their own style and bringing something new to it each time.

You are about to hear “Bie Mir Bist du Shön” performed by The Andrew Sisters, Pinky Tomlin, Phil Harris, Georgie Jessel, Eddie Cantor, Little Dorothy Wade, Kenny Baker, and child star Bobby Breen.