February 14th approaches. It is a special day for me. Yes indeed, February 14th is Jack Benny's birthday. If memory serves me right, Jack will be 39. Jack has been 39 since 1933, when he actually turned 39. And it is not just Jack Benny that I fondly ...
In the glory days of radio, performers from Bing Crosby to Jack Benny recorded in front of live audiences. That’s almost unheard of today, but one group of performers keeps the tradition alive under the name The Radio Free Song Club.
I kept thinking about Jack Benny being unable to play Kreuzer's Sonata No. 2, and essentially ruining that melody for all time, but that was a violin. And then there was Liberace's appalling version of"I'll Be Seeing You,"which for 30 years ...
He remembers listening to Jack Benny and"Amos'n'Andy,"maybe, and to Tommy Dorsey or Duke Ellington."We'd listen to mysteries and comedies,"Dickinson said."Then, when the bands got going big, I'd put the radio under the covers and listen some more."
I would have lunch every Tuesday at the Hillcrest with Groucho, GeorgeBurns, Jack Benny and their manager. I was their audience and they were amazing how they told their stories. The way they talked and the way they told their stories informs ...
Additional cast: Russell Thorson, Jack Edwards. Writer/director: Carlton E. Morse. The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny: Jack Challenges Fred Allen to a Fight (NBC, 1939)—If the once-infamous Jack Benny-Fred Allen feud really climaxed during a Benny ...
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