The Jack Benny Show – November 4, 1951
An evening pause: This was the first episode in Benny’s second season on television, following nineteen years doing a regular radio show. The first singer is Bob Crosby, brother of Bing. The taxi driver is Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and almost all of the characters in Warner Brothers best cartoons.
Almost everything in this episode works, but make sure especially you stay with it to see the Benny’s performance as lead fiddler of a hillbilly band.
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Brilliant.
I’ve been listening to recordings of Benny’s old time radio show from the 30’s and 40’s and in my opinion they’ve never been equaled.
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Make sure you check out->
https://archive.org
for Jack Benny stuff.
A cursory look: their Moving Image archive has 700+ entries (tv, movies, shorts, guest appearances, etc.) and their Audio archive has 1,600+ entries (radio and records, including 78’s)
[everything is free to download, in various qualities, and no registration is required]
here we go, 2 examples from the Archive on Jack Benny…
(an extremely good print!)
“Buck Benny Rides Again” (1940)
Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Rochester
https://archive.org/details/buck-benny-rides-again-1940
(1:23:58)
and
(a very poor specimen….)
“Jack Benny & Entertainers at PT Base 10/11/1944”
(Extracted from Navy film # NPC 5748)
https://archive.org/details/NPC-5748
(2:44)