Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: OTR Friday - Even MORE Vic & Sade and .

Time to do your ears smile again with some rock solid samples of comedy from radio's golden age. Our first installment of Vic & Sade is a master-ful tale of confusion that has me mesmeried each and ever time I hear to it. Once again, Paul Rhymer uses only two speaking characters, one simply explaining to the former a phone message and short a form as deep and fully as you can imagine fill your ears.

With only the voices of Vic and Rush, we discover the afternoons goings on of Sade, Y.Y. Flirtch, Mis' Harris, Fred and Ruthie Stembottom, Hank Gutstop, Mr. Sludge (one of Mis' Harris' boarders) and a Mr. Yop, Gop or Fop.The action covers Vic's place of business (The Consolidated Kitchen Wares Co.), the rail station, the foundery where Fred stembottom works, Miss' Harris' boarding house and The Lazy Hours Pool Room.yet Vic and Rush never forget their living room.Genius.My favorite Vic-ism: "When I greeted you joyously, your return was sluggish and preoccupied."Words you can languish in. Here it is from June 5, 1939.Show two comes from June 13, 1939. A lazy evening with Vic and Sade playing Rummy and wait to go to bed when Rush rushes in to distinguish the story of "The greatest night of Rotton Davis' en-tire career".There's not often I can add that wouldn't get out from the influence and humor Rhymer hammers out of this one.enjoy!This weeks portion of "Speaking of Radio - The Jack Benny Program" gets a little more into the personality of Jack himself and begins to present the cast. Maybe the greatest collection of talent EVER, pictured below left to good are Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson and Mel Blanc.First up, a prolonged exerpt from the platform gives a stilted life story of Tar and how he assembled the cast, all narrated by the great comedian George Jessel Then we see some of the cast giving contemporary interviews with great insight into Jack's generosity.something we never see on the show. First up Don Wilson, Jack's announcer for nearly the full run of the show...

Then Dennis Day. Originally the replacement boy tenor when Kenny Baker left the show, Dennis became an important comedic ingredient, providing many impressions and dialects over the years.

Enough from me, here's part 3.

Happy OTRing!

Talk to you soon.