This clip goes back almost twenty years before I was born. It was close to another twenty years after the latter event that I first discovered Fibber McGee & Molly, but I've been a fan ever since. This is just a portion of a program, but you get a good idea of what their particular brand of humor was like. Fibber, as his name implied, was given to telling whoppers, and he had a real flair for exaggeration; Molly was more down-to-earth. They were regularly visited by a string of friends and neighbors including Doc Gamble (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, who also played Elmer Fudd in teh Warner Brothers cartoons), Wallace Wimple, Mayor LaTrivia (Gale Gordon, later Lucille Ball's long-time foil), the Old-Timer, Teeny, and [The Great] Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (who spun off into his own longlasting series). If you enjoy this little taste, you can find a whole slew of episodes at the OTR.Network Library (along with a whole bunch of other radio shows):
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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We listened regularly to Fibber McGee on the radio back in the
1930's. Couldn't wait for him to open the door to the hall closet.....Mom
Mom,
I hope you click on that link to OTR.Network Library-- it includes recordings of dozens of old radio series, with hundreds of individual episodes (there are over 400 Fibber McGee & Molly Shows there!). Maybe you'll find some others that bring back fond memories.
Dr. John
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