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Tuesday Mar 02, 2010
Bob Burns Show - November 16, 1944
Tuesday Mar 02, 2010
Tuesday Mar 02, 2010
In listening to many classic otr shows over the years, I never paid much attention to Bob Burns and he isn't particularly well-known today. But, at the time, he was a major personality. He started out on the Paul Whiteman and Rudy Vallee shows in the 1930s and was a regular on "Kraft Music Hall". He hosted his own radio show from 1941 through the end of the decade and had a syndicated newspaper column.
In this post, we dig up what I think is a previously lost episode of the "Bob Burns Show" from November 16, 1944. Originally broadcast on NBC, this version was heard on the Armed Forces Radio Network and was distributed as a replacement for program 62 in the "Village Store" series. Bob talks about being recognized as a celebrity in Hollywood and does routines around his upcoming trip to Chicago. The show was transferred from an original Navy Department AFRS vinyl transcription; the program date is from the transcription matrix.
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