*OFFICIAL* FRED ALLEN Old Time Radio Shows OTR MP3 DVD Start Price USD 9.97 Current Price USD 9.97 Time Left 7 days 11 hours 32 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, October 16, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Location Anderson, SC See more about '*OFFICIAL* FRED ALLEN Old Time Radio Shows OTR MP3 DVD' Description The Historical Archive Sample Page Search 100's of DVD's and CD's in our eBay Store: Visit my eBay Store: The Historical Archive Or Visit a Specific Store Category Collections at Savings Advertising History American Indian Americana Antique Books on CD Antique Maps on CD Auto History Civil War Fairs & Festivals Historic Photo CDs Myth, Legend & Folklore Railroads Religious Collections Revolutionary War Space History Vintage Audio/Video CDs World at War NEW CATEGORIES: News of the Day U.S. Presidents Atomic & Nuclear Weapons Tests Old Time Radio Collections (Links open in new window) Another Official Old Time Radio Release by The Historical Archive Fred Allen Old Time Radio MP3 Collection on DVD Be sure to ckeck out our 70+ OLD TIME RADIO MP3 COLLECTONS in our eBay Store. (Links open in a new window) Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight was the longest-running hour-long comedy-based show in classic radio history. In 1940, Allen moved back to CBS with a new sponsor and show name, Texaco Star Theater. By 1942, he shortened the show to half an hour - under network and sponsor edict, not his own. He also chafed under being forced to give up a Town Hall Tonight signature, using barely-known and amateur guests effectively, in favor of booking more recognizable guests, though he liked many of those. He took over a year off due to hypertension and returned in 1944 with The Fred Allen Show on NBC. Blue Bonnet Margarine, Tenderleaf Tea and Ford Motor Company were the sponsors for the rest of the show's life. Texaco revived Texaco Star Theater in 1948 on radio, and more successfully on television, making an American icon out of star Milton Berle). Allen again made a few changes. One was adding the singing DeMarco Sisters, to whom he'd been tipped by arranger-composer Gordon Jenkins. "We did four years with Mr. Allen and got one thousand dollars a week," Gloria DeMarco remembered. "Sunday night was the best night on radio." Sunday night with Fred Allen seemed incomplete on any night listeners didn't hear the DeMarco Sisters - whose breezy, harmonious style became as familiar as their cheerfully sung "Mr. Al-len, Mr. Alll-llennnn" in the show's opening theme. During the theme's brief pause, Allen would say something like, "It isn't the mayor of Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga, kiddies." That device became a signature for three of the four years. The other change, born in the Texaco days and evolved from his earlier news spoofs, proved his most enduring, premiering December 13, 1942. "Allen's Alley" followed a brief Allen monologue and comic segment with Portland Hoffa ("Misssss-ter Allll-llennnn!"), usually involving gags about her family which she instigated. Then, a brief music interlude would symbolize the two making their way to the fictitious alley, always launched by a quick exchange that began with Hoffa asking Allen what he would ask the Alley denizens that week. After she implored him "Shall we go?", Allen would reply with cracks like "As the two drumsticks said when they spotted the tympani, 'let's beat it!'"; or, "As one strapless gown said to the other strapless gown, 'What's holding us up?'" A small host of stereotypical characters greeted Allen and Hoffa down the Alley, discussing Allen's question of the week, usually drawing on news items or popular happenings around town, whether gas rationing, traffic congestion, the Pulitzer Prizes, postwar holiday travel, or the annual Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus visit. The Alley went through a few changes in the first installments. Early denizens included sarcastic John Doe (John Brown), self-possessed Senator Bloat (Jack Smart), dimwit Socrates Mulligan (Charlie Cantor), and pompous poet Falstaff Openshaw (Alan Reed). But soon the Alley's four best-remembered regulars moved in and rarely disappeared: announcer Kenny Delmar as bellowing ("Some- Ah say, somebody's knockin' at mah doah!") Senator Beauregard Claghorn (the model for cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn), Parker Fennelly as stoic New England farmer, Titus Moody, Minerva Pious as the Jewish housewife, Pansy Nussbaum, and Peter Donald as fast-talking Irishman, Ajax Cassidy. This collection of Fred Allen Greats includes 79 different shows and appearances for a total of 34 hours of listening enjoyment. Here are the contents of this collection: 39-10-11 Satire On Surveys And Polls 40-03-27 guest reaction 40-05-08 jack boyle hillbilly 40-11-15 Oscar Levant 40-xx-xx Superman Special 41-03-05 little red riding hood 41-03-12 phil and a blank 43-01-03 Long Pan Versus Mr Moto 43-01-31 Guest Oscar Levant 43-02-28 Guest Phil Baker 43-03-07 Guest Judy Canova 43-03-21 With Richard Haydn 43-04-04 Looking For Umbriago 43-04-25 With Bel aLugosi 43-05-16 Chile 43-05-16 Frank Sinatra 43-05-23 Fred's Biography 43-12-12 Getting A Radio Job 44-01-02 Hillbilly Band 44-01-09 Hit On The Head 44-01-09 With Ed 'Archie' Gardner 44-02-13 With Louella Parsons 44-03-19 The Life Of Ted Lewis 44-03-26 Buying Liquor 44-04-02 Radio Vs TV 44-04-09 Fetlock Bones 44-04-23 Oscar Levant (AFRS40) 44-05-28 Portland Hoffa's Birth 44-06-11 South Dakota 45-10-07 Auditions 45-10-21 Hillbilly 45-10-28 Court Case with Edg 45-10-28 Charlie McCarthy Sues 45-11-04 Mash Notes 45-11-11 Mob Buster 45-11-25 leo durocher 'brook 46-01-06 Take It Or Leave It with 46-01-20 A Movie On Fred's Life 46-02-03 Picadilly 46-02-24 Hillbilly Drama 46-04-11 guest Basil Rathbone 46-04-28 Racing Form Trial 46-05-12 The Fat Man 46-05-26 King For A Day 46-10-27 Breakfast Show 47-03-16 Picadilly 47-03-23 Sued By Rogers And Hammerstein 47-05-25 Rudy Vallee And His Mega 47-06-15 Renting The Room 47-10-19 james mason one lon 47-10-19 The Perfect Crime 47-10-26 jack haley selling 47-12-14 New Year's Eve Plans 47-12-28 Returning A Cuckoo Clock 48-01-04 Psychopathic Spectacular 48-03-28 Husband & Wife Radio Show 48-04-11 One Lon gPan Skit 48-04-18 The Author Meet His Match 48-04-25 Scalping Baseball Tickets 48-05-02 JP Morgan Court Of Human 48-05-09 Break The Contestant 48-05-23 Fred Wants To Do Bing's 48-06-06 Jack Eigan What's Wrong 48-06-27 Stop The Music 48-10-24 Dale Carnegie Breakfast 48-11-07 Sam Shovel Private Eye 48-11-28 Fred Tries To Get In 48-12-05 TV Commercials 49-01-09 Book Revue 49-01-30 Howdy Doody 49-02-06 Planning A TV Show 49-04-24 One Long Pan 49-05-01 Jamaica Race Track w 49-05-22 Babysitting 49-06-26 Final Show Morning Radio Please visit Our About Me Page to Learn More about Us! This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3 software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh computers. The mp3 files on the DVDs can be copied onto CDs for play in your car stereo, home entertainment center, etc so you can take your favorite shows with you anywhere you go. All our Old Time Radio DVDs are professionally produced and packaged in DVD cases. This allows you to easily store them with your DVD collection. Our Old Time Radio DVDs are designed to play on all computer DVD players. View Our Other Products: To view a listing of all our products currently available, just click on the link below: -->View All Products (Note: This will open a new browser window. To get back to this auction, just close this window.) Shipping and Handling: U.S. $3.00 for the first item purchased. An additional $1.00 will be charged for each additional item bought and paid with the same payment (i.e. the same eBay invoice). International: $6.00 for the first item and $1.00 for each additional item bought and paid with the same payment (i.e. the same eBay invoice). Here is how this works on eBay. First, make all the purchases you want without making a payment. When you make your final product purchase, make your payment. At that point, eBay will allow you to combine all your purchases into a single payment and will automatically charge you the shipping charges as stated above. If you do not follow this procedure, you will be making multiple payments, paying shipping multiple times and get your order sent in multiple packages. If this process doesn't work, contact us and we will generate a correct invoice for you. Shipping is generally completed within one business day of purchase. Payment options: Our payment processor is PayPal Guarantee: All items are covered by a 30 day money back guarantee. Only the purchase price is refunded. Shipping is not refunded. Item must be sent back at buyer's expense and buyer must include the auction ID and method of payment with the item to receive a refund. xygooberpie123 Feedback: We give positive feedback to all our paying customers at the time your product is shipped. To purchase your DVD for immediate delivery, just click on the Buy It Now button at the bottom of the page. Product and Product Advertisement Copyright © 2006-2008 THA New Media LLC - All Rights Reserved Place a Bid!