Some months ago, I posted a sequence of early radio serial broadcasts by the “Little German Band”, “Louie’s Hungry Five”, which originated at WGN in Chicago. The series was developed by the station after they lost “Amps n’ Andy” so they could cash in on the lucrative syndication transcription market. The shows I posted a few months ago dated from 1931.
Doug Hopkinson and Ryan Ellett produced a detailed and illustrated article about the series that tells the story much better than I can.
Next up on the blog, part of two earlier “Louie’s Hungry Five” broadcasts, probably dating from late 1930. While the later discs I posted previously were pressed by Columbia, here’s a disc recorded at Marsh Laboratories and likely distributed just a few weeks after the syndicated show debuted in October 1930.
In program 5 of the series, the band is at some kind of carnival and walking through an attraction with funhouse mirrors. We only hear the second part of the show on this disc.
The show was transferred from an original Marsh Laboratories Electra shellac 12” transcription, matrix number 6075.
Columbia Demonstration Record
20th Century International Radio Newsreel - February 24, 1939
The FBI in Peace and War - October 15, 1952
This is War - March 14, 1942
Coleman Cox - Pgm 12
Coleman Cox - Pgm 11
This is War - February 28, 1942
Lanny Ross - May 23, 1949
Great Music - Pgm 144
This is War - February 21, 1942
The People Act - May 18, 1952
Naval Air Reserve Show - Pgm 24
Fred Waring Show - April 26, 1945
Great Music - Pgm 143
This is War - February 14, 1942
Reno Rides the Range - Pgm 4 Part 2
Reno Rides the Range - Pgm 3 Part 2
Kenny Baker - September 23, 1945
American Rhapsody - April 7, 1945
It’s Time to Smile - September 30, 1942
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