Episodes
Saturday Dec 15, 2018
Comedy Caravan - April 20, 1945
Saturday Dec 15, 2018
Saturday Dec 15, 2018
Our final post this week is a half-hour of comedy with Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore, originally broadcast April 20, 1945 on the CBS network, but heard here in a version heard on the Armed Forces Radio Service as program 95 in the series.
Roy Bargy and His Orchestra kicks off the show with “South American Way”. Garry tries to make a long distance phone call to the FBI. Georgia Gibbs sings the new ballad, “I Should Care”. Durante and Moore play twin brothers in a “hillbilly feud” sketch.
Our show was transferred from an original vinyl 16” Armed Forces Radio transcription. The date is from the disc matrix.
Again, our thanks to blog listener William Harris for his donation of the disc to the collection!
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
Guest Star - Pgm 9
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
“Guest Star” is, of course, the long-running United State Treasury syndicated series created to promote the sale of Savings Bonds. If you’re collecting transcriptions, it’s probably the most commonly-found series, so I really only get the discs if they’re unusual. And any comedy or drama presentation is unusual in this series usually devoted to musical guests.
Program 9 in the series features a fifteen minute comedy show with guests Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore that plays similarly to their popular CBS program. Dennis Agay leading the orchestra and chorus opens the show with “California”. The sketch in the show features Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore running a real estate business and finding themselves with a haunted house. The announcer is Howard Petrie.
The show was transferred from an original vinyl transcription disc, matrix number ND7-MM-5428. The date April 3, 1947 is in the matrix.
Thursday Dec 24, 2009
Comedy Caravan - Pgm 19
Thursday Dec 24, 2009
Thursday Dec 24, 2009
For your holiday enjoyment, we now offer some Christmas comedy, courtesy of the "Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore Show". Broadcast as "Comedy Caravan" on Armed Forces Radio and marked as program 19 in the network's Christmas series, the show was probably originally broadcast on CBS on December 21, 1945. The main sketch has Durante and Moore operating a zoo and looking for a six-legged octopus. Moore also does his version of "White Christmas".
This appears to be a previously lost episode of the series and finding it was a treat for me since I've always enjoyed Durante and Moore's program. However, it can be hard to tell sometimes with AFRS shows of this period - it could have been assembled from other Durante-Moore shows just for the AFRS holiday programming schedule. The show was transferred from an original AFRS vinyl transcription; the date is from the transcription matrix. The original is the worse for wear and has gone through click reduction to make it more listenable.