Blondie - Dagwood Buys A New Suit
This is specifically for those of us who, because of circumstances, cannot be attending this weekend’s Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention…after all, we should have a little fun, too, shouldn’t we?
I got an early Christmas present not long ago from Jerry Haendiges, of The Vintage Radio Place. He sent some programs, suggesting I “broadcast” some here…thing is, many of the programs he sent I’d never heard, and some I’ve never heard of, even as long as I’ve been in the hobby. So over the next several months I’m going to run some of the shows he sent in low-bandwidth MP3 format - even at 32kbps mono, these shows are some of the best-sounding shows you’ll hear. But remember for even better sound, these shows (and a few bazillion others) may be purchased from Jerry in either audio CD format, or ultra-high-quality MP3 format.
This time we have an episode of Blondie from 1939 - this summer replacement for Eddie Cantor starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, with Bill Goodwin announcing. I chose this as the latest in the “Haendiges Series” because our friend Will Hutchins was television’s Dagwood on the CBS series back in 1968, and Tommy Cook, with whom I appeared in Paul Reversky at 2002’s FOTR Convention (he, he…I always wanted to say something like that!) played Alexander in a much later incarnation of the radio program.
In this episode in the life of Dagwood Bumstead, he disregards the sage advice of his wife Blondie and is talked into purchasing an over-priced, ill-fitting suit. And, of course, every attempt to fix things results in his problems getting worse…until Blondie takes a hand.
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