Amos 'n' Andy
Comedy Section

Catalog #

Comcd1-2a

Episodes in Collection

292 (3 cds)

 

Disk 1

 

Disk 2

 

Disk 3

This 15 minute daily situation comedy was probably the most popular radio show of all time. The listening audience was estimated at 40 million, almost one-third of Americans living at that time. The story was of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll playing Amos and Andy as black men from Harlem who owned the Fresh Air Taxi Company, so called because its only cab had no windshield. Amos and Andy were the commonest of common men: they symbolised the poor Joe with no money, no job and no future.

FIRST BROADCAST: March 19th 1928

LAST BROADCAST: November 25th 1960

SPONSORS:   Pepsodent. Campbell Soups, Lever Brothers – Rinso & Rexall

CAST: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Ernestine Wade, Amanda Randolph, Harriette Widmer, Elinor Harriot, Terry Howard, Madeline Lee, Lou Lubin, Eddie Green, Johnny Lee

ANNOUNCERS: Bill Hay, Del Sharbutt, Harlow Wilcox, Art Gilmore

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS:

WRITERS-ADAPTORS: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher, Bob Fisher, Arthur Stander, Harvey Helm, Shirley Illo, Paul Franklin, Octavus Roy Cohen

SOUND EFFECTS: Frank Pittman, Ed Ludes, David Light, Gus Bayz

ORCHESTRA AND ORGANIST: Gaylord Carter, Lud Gluskin, Jeff Alexander's Orchestra and chorus// Vocals: The Jubilaires (Theodore Brooks, John Jennings, George McFadden, Caleb Ginyard)

THEME: The Perfect Song from Birth of a Nation