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Melody Round-Up - Pgm 533

Friday, August 7th, 2009

For you Lum and Abner fans out there, here’s a bit of an oddity.

“Melody Round-Up” was a fifteen minute country music series that took different forms in its run on the Armed Forces Radio Network.  Some programs in the series were reduced versions of regional country music programs or shows by personalities like Gene Autry.  Others, such as the one you’re about to hear, were more like dee-jay shows.

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Program 533 in the series is hosted by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff, radio’s “Lum n’ Abner”, spinning tunes by the Riders of the Purple Sage and reading dedications to Armed Forces personnel.  The first song on the show is “Following the Sun All Day”.

This previously lost episode of the series was transferred from an original AFRS vinyl transcription.

Again, my thanks to listener Michael Utz for his donation of the disc to my collection!

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Lum N’ Abner, Accidentally Yours - July, 1947

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

As a special treat, here’s an episode of “Lum N’ Abner” that appears to be uncirculated among otr enthusiasts - “Accidentally Yours” from July 1947, created especially for National Farm Safety Week.

The program was transferred from an original RCA Orthacoustic vinyl transcription disc, matrix number ND7-MM-10097, and was used during the Farm Safety campaign run between July 20 and 26, 1947 by the National Safety Council, Chicago. The other side of the disc contains short segments by various political figures about farm safety that could be used in local farm and news programs.

In the show, Lum and Abner hang up a poster promoting Farm Safety Week and, of course, create many opportunities for accidents in the Jot’em Down Store. Cedric Wehunt and Ben Withers pay a visit.

Chester Lauck and Norris Goff began their run as Lum and Abner in 1932 and the series continued in one form or another until the mid-1950s, appearing on all four major networks during the run of the series. The characters inhabit the mythical small town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, but Lauck and Goff based them on people they knew growing up in the state.

One of the fun things about the show is that you can hear Lauck starting to break up during one part, where he tosses out some figures on the number of accidents and deaths each year on farms, but he regains his composure and they go on with the recording session.

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