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.
Invitation to the Fair
Raymond Scott - October 3, 1944
Andre Kostelanez - August 20, 1944
Shower of Stars - March 8, 1945
Light Up and Listen Club - Pgm 328
Alec Morison, Your Magic Minstrel - Audition
Your Navy Show - Pgm 2
Manhattan Nocturne - Audition
Your Navy Show - Pgm 1
Jack Smith Show - June 27, 1949
Chesterfield Supper Club - March 8, 1945
Imperial Intrigue - unnumbered episode
Imperial Intrique - Audition
Light Up and Listen Club - Pgm 327
Here’s to Romance - Pgm 45
Raymond Scott - Pgm 146
Waltz Time - April 20, 1945
Grady Cole and the Johnson Family Singers - April 23, 1951
Grady Cole and the Johnson Family Singers - Dec 25, 1950 excerpt
Douglas MacArthur Speech - April 19, 1951
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