In May of last year, I received a plum assignment from Radio Spirits: authoring the liner notes for a collection of Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy broadcasts. This wasn’t my first rodeo, you understand (I refer you here and here)—but the programs selected for this set would consist of many uncirculated shows, something that makes the heart of any old-time radio fan go pitter-pat. It certainly did wonders for my cardiac circulation, reveling in the antics of radio’s most popular ventriloquist and his smartassed sidekick as they traded quips with the likes of Paulette Goddard, Bert Lahr, Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, and Lupe Velez.
This collection is titled Smile
a While, and it contains sixteen broadcasts from 1943, when Edgar
Bergen and his wooden friends ranked among radio’s top comedy programs—entertaining
audiences weekly to relieve the stress and worries resulting from WW2. I’ve got two of these sets (the SRP is
$31.95) to give away to two lucky members of the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear faithful; I offer my most profuse mea
culpa for not getting this up on the blog as I originally planned…but it took
me a lot longer to defeat the Killer Flu Virus from Venus. As it’s been a little over a month since I
handed out some fantabulous swag, even if you made out like a bandit in December’s
The
Couple Next Door contest you can enter this one if you so desire.
Here are the rules:
1) Send me an e-mail with “Smile a While” in the subject
header to igsjrotr(at)gmail(dot)com. You
have until 11:59pm EST on January 28, 2017 (next Saturday) to enter.
2) Make sure you are a U.S. resident or have a U.S. mailing
address.
3) Again, since TDOY
hosted the last giveaway back in December, the usual request to sit out a contest
to allow other cartooners a more sporting chance is kinda null and void. However…if you still wouldn’t feel right
about entering, not only would we understand completely but we would probably
write folk songs chronicling your generous nature and have a statue erected in
your home town (provided I can sneak this provision in an upcoming Congressional
infrastructure bill).
4) I will choose two winners Sunday morning (via the Random
Number Generator at Random.com) of January 29th and not only inform the lucky
persons of their tremendous good fortune but suggest they have a flutter at
buying a lottery ticket. Keep in mind
that when entering, you don’t have to provide a snail-mail address…but I will
need it once you receive that “Congratulations!” e-mail.
5) As always…there is no number five.
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