My all-time favorite Fibber McGee & Molly episode. Two days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor contains war news. The best part was Molly's off-handed joke about the globe with Japan on it, which was one of the classic comedy highlights of OTR. Many thanks for including this show's episode for posterity!!!
@Arthur5260
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite as well.
@adamantman3200
Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorites as well. You can just sense the tension in the studio, especially after Molly's comment about Japan. I'm glad the newsflash before the show was left in. Some versions have deleted it, which a major loss in continuity. The sound quality, other than the turntable rumble, is very good. WMAQ, CHICAGO AIRCHECK
@mwatts-riley2688
4 жыл бұрын
The start of this show gives us a very interesting blast of history, ww2 points, a taste pf why radio and 📻 shows were so so urgently needed in the days prior to mass tv. The entire well world depended entirely on radio. Lifting spirits and giving info were the primary tasks for networks. Heavenly Days! To share these and keep them alive is our way of honoring them, and the ppl that went before us. M. IL
@lesmcc8103
2 жыл бұрын
Coffee makes me sleepy. Makes you sleepy? It keeps most people awake Not me. I never drink it!
@kevinchappell3694
5 жыл бұрын
Great show.......
@mwatts-riley2688
3 жыл бұрын
Gale Gordon- works: Vaudaville/ traveling My favorite Husband Fibber McGee Blondie and Dagwood The Lucy show LUCY HERE'S LUCY. Guess appearances- Andy Griffith The Aldridge Family Bob Hope Danny Kaye. When would he get to bathe or sleep? 🛌 m
@armenian_nightmare33
2 жыл бұрын
@@mwatts-riley2688 You forgot Mr. Wilson on "DENNIS THE MENACE!"
@kevinchappell3694
5 жыл бұрын
The Japanese sooooo mis-read America. 😮😣
@Kelnx
3 жыл бұрын
Not really. The Japanese knew war was inevitable and figured they would hit the US hard first instead of waiting for it. They knew both that the FDR administration was looking for any pretext to enter the war in Europe, as well as to prevent the spread of the Imperial Japanese hegemony in the Pacific and East Asia. And they also knew it was more likely that the Americans would use the Japanese, as a "more immediate threat to the US homeland" as that pretext, than cooking some sort of Lusitania type incident to go to war in Europe. Japan as a pretext to war killed two birds with one stone. The Japanese knew it, so they struck first. And it was a logical gamble. It is possible had the US carriers been at Pearl, the US would have been incapable of waging much war in the Pacific for quite a while. Air power at sea was simply a requirement by that point, a fact the Japanese understood far better than many American military leaders at that point. The Japanese were counting on that possibility as well as the possibility they could force a very conditional peace treaty with the US which would give Japan control of the West Pacific. Pearl Harbor, for its "infamy", was a total failure for the Japanese, as the carriers were not in port. Hitting the battleships was useful, but was not what the Japanese desperately needed to accomplish with Pearl Harbor. To compound this, another major target, which were the repair and fuel facilities at Pearl were not hit with a third wave because the Japanese task force was afraid the US carriers were in the area somewhere and could attack them. So they cut their (few) losses and left without actually accomplishing the mission. If Japan misread anything, it was the ability of Naval intelligence to piece together at least enough doubts to convince the Navy to send its carrier groups to Midway and Wake to deliver supplies, Marines, and aircraft, as these were the most likely targets close to home if Japan decided to try something. Which is the sole reason the Pacific carriers were not at Pearl Harbor as expected. That is also why the battleships were in port instead of with the carriers...the Navy had to rush the carriers to beef up Wake and Midway, and battleships would slow them down. No, the Japanese didn't really misread the US. War was simply an inevitability and they rolled the dice to get a better outcome, and the dice came up poorly for them. Even so, even after being nuked twice, Japan came out like roses compared to half of Germany and much of Europe.
@artmoss6889
2 жыл бұрын
A radio for 50 bucks-- that's well over 500 dollars in today's money.
@keithleeuwen877
6 жыл бұрын
Great !
@mwatts-riley2688
3 жыл бұрын
The voice of the old timer just GRATES on my nerves. That laugh is so so annoying. It's makes my back skin turns cold. M
@cdiane1602
11 ай бұрын
Love the war news
@paulfurth7985
3 жыл бұрын
Good episode. Was that Spike Jones on percussion that we hear?
@artmoss6889
2 жыл бұрын
That's a good question. As I understand it, Jones played in the Billly Mills Orchestra, but I haven't been able to find out exactly when he left.
@paulfurth7985
2 жыл бұрын
@@artmoss6889 By the time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (12/7/41), Spike and his band of merry men had already formed the City Slickers (their first recording date being 8/8/1941). Their first records on the budget label Bluebird did not sell well. No doubt, these musicians, even Spike, kept their paying jobs with the more established bands. It wasn't until they recorded "Der Fuehrer's Face" on 7/28/1942, that the Spike Jones band became a hit.
@artmoss6889
2 жыл бұрын
@@paulfurth7985 Yes, but do we know that Jones, having formed his own band, had ended his relationship with Billy Mills? Could he have still been playing with Mills when this episode was recorded? I believe that was the original question.
@paulfurth7985
2 жыл бұрын
@@artmoss6889 Although I don't have the information when Spike left the Billy Mills band (he also had played in several studio bands during the 1930s), as I has suggested, it's highly likely he stayed with whatever paying band he was with, at least until the release of "Der Fuehrer's Face." And maybe several more months afterwards would the City Slickers had only been part time. When he and his merry band became popular, only then Spike would have given into the Slickers fulltime.
@chrischeshire6528
6 жыл бұрын
Great episode! But I bet it was hard to be funny during those days.
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