

aa290523 Kingfish Helps Earl Compete With For Taxi Business.mp3.aa290521 Earl Dixon Applies For Lodge Membership.mp3.aa290520 The Taxi Company Gets Competition From Earl Dixon.mp3.aa290519 Amos And Andy Suspect Kingfish Is Embezzling.mp3.aa290427 Reviewing Contracts For Lodge Hall Renovations.mp3.aa290426 Getting Contract Bids For Lodge Hall Renovations.mp3.aa290425 Amos Gets A dear John Telegram.mp3.aa290423 Raising Money For Lodge Renovations.mp3.aa290422 Ruby s Father Sees Amos Talking To Another Girl.mp3.aa290421 Everyone Is Signing Andy s Name.mp3.aa29 xxxx Andy Helps Ruby Make Amos Jealous.aa440428 Sapphire s Brother Leroy Visits.mp3.aa440303 Trying To Find Madame Queen.mp3.aa440211 Three Strikes And You re Out.mp3.aa431231 Mister 1943 With Edward G Robinson.mp3.aa431022 Kingfish Is Sued With Walter Huston.mp3.aa390403 The Marriage Of Andrew H Brown.mp3.aa361204 Annual Minstrel Show At Lodge.mp3.aa360819 2 395 th Day Of Broadcasting For Nbc.mp3.aa320324 Opening Theme And Commercial.mp3.aa290705 The Real Criminals Talk About Framing Amos.mp3.aa290423 0312 Andy Goes To The Doctor.mp3.aa290422 0310 Kingfish Wants To Play Cards.mp3.aa290321 Widow Parker Marries John Watkins.mp3.(Please note that many of the rare recordings in this collection may be of inferior sound quality.) See also: article on the history of Minstrel Shows and Old Time Radio.

For other similar series, see also Amos And Andy Music Hall, Beulah, Pick and Pat, Johnson Family, Black Crows, Johnson Family, Southland Echoes, and Sam n' Henry.

This collection is part of the larger Minstrel Show Collection. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll lived to see the comedy form they had embraced, black face, had come to mean a very different thing from what it did then. The 1950s began an era that was to bring Amos and Andy to a close as major American entertainment figures. Throughout the 1940s, the show went on, although the world had changed with WWII. The lawyer Stonewall, and the Kingfish grew to be nearly as popular as the originals. Through ups and downs in popularity through the 19s, they grew their characters and that world they inhabited. From Chicago they grew to national fame, and together, they made the world of Amos and Andy live and They were in character every minute they were on the air, they never looked at each other, they did the show cold without any rehearsal, and they used different mikes to get just the sound and emotions they were looking for. John Dunning, in his authoritative On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, gives a comprehensive overview of this singular pair who became Amos and Andy.įor years, Gosden and Correll wrote the shows themselves, often finishing just before airtime. They were Amos and Andy from the beginnings of national network radio until that form had passed on, beaten on radio Top 40 bland and blatant Rock 'n' Roll. Reproduction is prohibited.Īll this was the creation of two men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Text on ©2001-2023 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved. The national audience was estimated at 40 million, and that very large audience was made up of Americans of many races and national backgrounds.
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Stores would close, even movie theatres would stop the film while the Amos and Andy show was played instead for the movie audience. However, for 34 years Amos and Andy held a very singular place in the American old-time radio experience.In its early prime, the early 1930s, it was common for entire towns to be listening to the show. That white actors played black actors is reason for much of the dismissal of this show's impact on its listening audience. This show must be considered as what it was - one of the most popular shows in 20th century entertainment - on radio especially, as it even continued on TV with other actors.
