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.
Comedy Caravan - April 20, 1945
Guest Star - Pgm 86
Guy Lombardo - Pgm 62
The Hour of Charm - April 7, 1945
Louie’s Hungry Five - Pgm 6, Part 2
Raymond Scott - August 22, 1944
Supper Club - March 7, 1945
Waltz Time - Pgm 80
The Eddie Cantor Show - Feb 14, 1945
The People Act - May 11, 1952
One Night Stand - Pgm 571
The Naval Air Reserve Show - Pgm 23
Guest Star - Pgm 85
This Song Is Yours - Auditions
Sunday Serenade - Pgm 95
Waltz Time - April 6, 1945
Light Up and Listen Club - Pgm 318
Hour of Charm - March 18, 1945
Guest Star - Pgm 78
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