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Radio Spirits presents a collection of broadcasts from the Golden Age of Radio. Featured here are 14 episodes starring Jack Benny, the legendary vaudeville comedian.
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While George Burns and Gracie Allen were funny on stage, screen, and television, radio was, and remains, the preeminent showcase for their comedic talents. Here you'll find twenty digitally remastered and resorted radio episodes, including some available here for the first time, featuring big name guest stars, like Cary Grant, Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Bing Crosby, and more!
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During these World War II episodes, the Wistful Vista residents fight the battle with volunteering for the Red Cross, dealing with shortages, contributing to scrap metal and War Bond drives, sending letters by V-Mail, plus keeping an eye out for spies and an ear out for patriotic songs performed by The King's Men.
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Twenty half-hour epoisodes from the Jack Benny radio program that featured Eddie Anderson as Rochester. "In the realm of unforgettable radio voices, there is one that stands head and shoulders above all others -- one distinctive voice that could never be convincingly duplicated, one that brought its owner undreamed of success. It was a voice of sandpaper and gravel and rusty scrap iron, rasping over a nation's loudspeakers for more than thirty years....
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"Any comedian can be funny in the studio, but domestic comedy is usually considered the province of actors who happen to do comedy. Jack Benny straddled the two roles for most of his career -- the suave, witty master of ceremonies standing on stage in front of a curtain one moment; the put-upon householder tormented by a bumptious servant, eccentric friends, and troublesome neighbors the next. Jack, for all his high-flown show-biz pretensions, became...
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"Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn't do, or hadn't done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to romantic lovers and back again. Here's a collection of some of Jack's most fabulous guises!...