Last week, we heard the Jack Smith-Margaret Whiting Show for Christmas Seals.  Now, let’s flip over the disc and pay a visit to Wistful Vista with a Christmas themed “Fibber McGee and Molly”.

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In this episode, Fibber tries to get out of shoveling snow and gets a visit from Doc Gamble, the Old Timer, and a traveling salesman.  In checking a log at otrsite.com, I found an episode called “Shoveling Snow” broadcast December 26, 1950 and the program is available at archive.org.  It sounds like the same recording, skillfully edited for a 15 minute format.  And you thought they didn’t have reruns in the days of live radio.

As I mentioned in the Margaret Whiting post, the “Style A” on the label indicates this is a 15 minute show; I’ve seen Christmas Seals programs where “Style A” was a fifteen minute show and “Style B” was a thirty minute show by the same artist.  Anyone have a “Style B” version of this show?

The program was transferred from an original vinyl transcription pressed by RCA, matrix number NE1-MM-8137.

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