Uncle Remus - Pgm 2

Note:  This program contains racial stereotyping themes that may be offensive to some listeners. Continuing with our look at "Uncle Remus", here's program 2 in the series, "The Tar Baby".

As we mentioned in the last post, this series was syndicated in late 1947 for the holidays and featured Jimmy Scribner, a Black-dialect actor and comedian, who played all the roles in the show (except the children, of course).  The story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby is probably the most well-known of the Uncle Remus folk tales, forming one of the major animated sequences in Disney's film adaptation of the stores, "Song of the South" released during the same time period as this radio series. The show was transferred from an original Cardinal vinyl transcription, matrix number CAR-A-732.