JACK BENNY on VINYL

Radiola Records was a label started in the early 1970s by radio archivist J.David Goldin, specializing in records featuring old time radio broadcasts.

THE RADIO FIGHT OF THE CENTURY : JACK BENNY VS FRED ALLEN

Jack Benny & Fred Allen

2-LP Set

Label: Radiola

2MR-2930

Year: 1974

From the album's liner note:

SIDE A

"THE FEUD BEGINS"

Round 1: How It All Began. Jack looks back (recorded 1968) with a recording made a week after the feud began. With Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson. Plus Jack and Fred before a live Vaudeville audience.

Round 2: Town Hall Tonight. March 25, 1938. Fred strikes back! With Portland Hoffa and Andre Baruch

Round 3: The Jack Benny Show. January 15, 1950. How Jack Benny and Fred Allen met. Both Jack's version and Fred's version. With Rochester, Mel Blanc, Don Wilson.

Round 4: The Jack Benny Show. August 3, 1950. Memories of that great Vaudeville team "Benny and Allen" (or was it "Allen & Benny"?) Listen for Jack and Fred in a violin and clarinet duet. With Rochester.

SIDE B

'JACK & FRED AT XMAS"

Round 5: Command Performance. December 25, 1943. Remembering the good old days. Plus Jack and Fred singing together! With Bob Hope.

Round 6: Command Performance. December 25, 1942. "The End of the Feud". Are they really going to patch things up? Jack and Fred sing again! Also heard: Bob Hope.

Round 7: Command Performance. December 25, 1944. "The Xmas Ties". What to get your pal for the holidays. Jack and Fred in a violin-banjo duet. With Bob Hope, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.

SIDE C

JACK ALLEN AND FRED BENNY?

Round 8: Jack's Eulogy for Fred. Broadcast March 18, 1956, the day after Fred's death.

Round 9: Command Performance. May 9, 1947. Fred tries to rent Jack's room during the housing shortage. With Fred and Rochester.

Round 10: Camel Comedy Caravan. June 11, 1943. "Benny's Boulevard". Jack does his version of Fred's show. With Mary, Phil Harris, Dennis Day

Round 11: The Big Show. November 5, 1950 (first show of the series). "The Pinch Penny Program". Fred does his version of Jack's show. With Tallulah Bankhead, Portland Hoffa, Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Frankie Laine, Meredith Willson.

SIDE D

THE FINE ART OF FEUDSMANSHIP

Round 12: Biography in Sound. May, 1956. How it all began: a revised version, by Jack.

Round 13: The Jack Benny Show. March 27, 1938. "The Boy Scout Knife". With Rochester, Harry Von Zell, Abe Lymon.

Round 14: The Fred Allen Show. June 26, 1949. "The Mohawk Loan Company". With Fred, Jack, and guest Henry Morgan. The very last Fred Allen Show on radio. NBC has the last laugh in its feud with Fred as they cut him off the air when the show runs late.

Round 15: The Fred Allen Show. May 26, 1946. "King for a Day". Funniest of all the Benny-Allen battles (and another losing fight with the clock at the show's end).

THE JACK BENNY STORY

Jack Benny

2-LP Set

Label: Radiola

2MR-4546

Year: 1975

From the album liner notes:

SIDE A

Benny on Style

Your Money or Your Life

Love in Bloom (Benny on violin, vocal by the Sportsmen)

Benny on Playing the Violin

Benny on Aging

Benny's 39th Birthday

The "Benny" Character

Benny in Scotland (can a Scotchman out-bargain Benny?)

"The Whistler"

SIDE B

Benny on Schooling

A Lesson from Professor LeBlanc

Benny's Navy Career

COMPLETE SHOW--MAY 11, 1953 (The Vault) (The Racetrack)

SIDE C

Benny on Timing

Sy? Si!

Benny on Work

The Railroad Station

Benny on Moods

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Benny on Money

Breakfast at Benny's

SIDE D

Benny on Writers

COMPLETE SHOW--JANUARY 29, 1949 (First show on CBS)

Cast: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Bob Crosby, Eddie Anderson (Rochester), Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, Sheldon Leonard, Sara Berner & Bea Benaderet (Mabel & Gertrude), Artie Auerbach (Mr. Kitzel), The Sportsmen, Joe Besser. Special Guests: Amos & Andy

Thanks & a tip of the Rophone Windscreen to Charles Dailey and Irving Fein for their help in preparing this album.

Mark56 records was another record label in the early to mid 1970s specializing in releasing old time radio on vinyl. The label was run by George Garabedian.

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