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Sunday Jan 10, 2010
Eddie Cantor - November 29, 1944
Sunday Jan 10, 2010
Sunday Jan 10, 2010
Here's a fun comedy variety show featuring show-biz veteran Eddie Cantor. Cantor, a big star of screen and records in the 20s, was on-hand for the birth of sound movies and starred in a series of early Technicolor musical comedies in the early 30s. He was still going strong on radio a decade later.
This episode of the "Eddie Cantor Show" was originally broadcast November 29, 1944 on NBC. The version heard here was a replacement for the "Charlie McCarthy Show" program 88 from the Armed Forces Radio Services. The show originates at the Navy's Sixth War Loan Exhibit in Chicago. In one of the sketches, Eddie delivers messages to folks in Chicago from people in Los Angeles, including delivering a birthday present for Jack Benny's father. The program features Bert Gordon, "The Mad Russian"; Joe Kelly; Leonard Sues; Nora Martin; Roy Shield and His Orchestra. At the end of the program, we hear an AFRS announcement for the Globe Theater radio play writing contest. The show was transferred direclty from an Armed Forces Radio Service vinyl transcription and is dated in the disc matrix. Special thanks to listener Michael Utz for his donation of this disc to the collection.
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