{Radio} The Chase and Sanborn Hour
On July 1, this website turned 7 years old! I didn’t celebrate this milestone on the site since a much more important milestone occurred on that very day: Olivia de Havilland’s 100th birthday.
When the site started seven years ago, it was completely hand-coded. I taught myself coding by buying some website software and a how-to book. As the years have gone on, the site has had many face-lifts and finally I went fully into WordPress, which is much easier to keep up with. Throughout all these changes, I’ve lost some content due to formatting issues–most of which is the audio. It’s a bit painstaking to edit the audio and then upload it. I’ve finally started working on it recently, and the first to go up are the two appearances Clark Gable had on “The Chase and Sanborn Hour,” known for its host Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekick Charlie McCarthy (am I the only one who doesn’t get what the grand appeal of having a ventriloquist host a radio program is? The whole idea is that it is a visual trick. Oh well, they were just that popular I suppose!)
You can hear Clark perform “All Quiet on the Western Front” and compete with Charlie for a date with Dorothy Lamour on the 1937 program, and hear Clark and Charlie compare hunting stories in the 1940 show.
More to come.
5 Comments
Kristen Maddux
Happy anniversary!!
I’m sure you hear this alot, but let me be one more voice telling you this website is fantastic! It’s been so fun reading over your past posts; you have done a wonderful job honoring Mr. Gable. So much content and insight into the man, the myth, the legend! Well done!
I would love to know a little more about the admin, if you ever care to add it. What your name is (I see some people call you Meredith!), how you first became to be such a Gable aficionado, and where some of this amazing content comes from?
Thanks again for such a fun sight.
Kristen Maddux
Coco B
Happy Anniversary again and yes a bio on yourself would be a delight. Oh, and ditto everything Kristen said.
Peggy
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!
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Peggy
Kristin Maddux expressed my sentiments exactly!!!!! Job well done! It’s people like you that keep 1930s Hollywood in history.We NEED to pass history. Thank you for doing so! Lots of generations will not know what it’s like to set in a darken, opulent theatre looking at the “original”big screen with a parent. That’s a wonderful feeling! Then you come along with back-stories about those folks that were larger than life itself. The has never been anyone bigger for a little girl in Ohio, EXCEPT for my Dad sitting beside me!
So I thank you immensely for what you do, and please remember it’s important!
With Best Regards, Peggy
Peggy
Kristin Maddux expressed my sentiments exactly!!!!! Job well done! It’s people like you that keep 1930s Hollywood in history.We NEED to pass history on. Thank you for doing so! Lots of generations will not know what it’s like to set in a darken, opulent theatre looking at the “original” big screen with a parent. That’s a wonderful feeling! Then you come along with back-stories about those folks that were larger than life itself. There has never been anyone larger for a little girl in Ohio, EXCEPT for my Dad sitting beside me!
So I thank you immensely for what you do, and please remember it’s important!
With Best Regards, Peggy