BABY SNOOKS Old Time Radio Shows - 68 MP3s on CD + FREE OFFER OTR
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The Baby Snooks Show Old Time Radio Shows The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio show starring comedienne Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her. Originally Brice did her Baby Snooks character as part of a 1921 vaudeville act. But on February 29, 1936 , the producers of the Ziegfield Follies of the Air , where Brice already had a presence, asked her to fill empty airtime with a Snooks skit. Snooks' media career had begun, and the following year, she played Snooks on the Good News Show . In 1940, she became a regular character on the Maxwell House Coffee Time , sharing the spotlight with monologist Frank Morgan. In 1944, Brice was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies. The series began on CBS (and later NBC) September 17, 1944 , airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Toasties Time . The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show , though the series was sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy . Radio historian Arthur Frank Wertheim wrote this description of the devilish imp's pranks: "...planting a bees' nest at her mother's club meeting, cutting her father's fishing line into little pieces, ripping the fur off her mother's coat, inserting marbles into her father's piano and smearing glue on her baby brother." Yet she was not a mean child. "The character may have seemed a noisy one-joke idea based on Snooks driving Daddy to a screaming fit," wrote Gerald Nachman in Raised on Radio . "Yet Brice was wonderfully adept at giving voice to her irritating moppet without making Snooks obnoxious." Brice herself was so meticulous and fanatical about the character---whose origin lay in Brice's own childhood, the comedienne often said---that she was known to perform in a six-year-old girl's costume. She also insisted on her script being printed in extremely large type so she could avoid having to use reading glasses when on the air live. She was self-conscious about wearing glasses in front of an audience and didn't believe they fit the Snooks image. By her own admission, Brice was a lackadaisacal rehearser: "I can't do a show until it's on the air, kid," she was quoted as telling her writer/producer Everett Freeman. Yet she locked in tight when the show did go on---right down to Snooks-like "squirming, squinting, mugging, jumping up and down," as comedian George Burns remembered. In 1945 Fanny was forced to miss several episodes due to illness and her disappearance was covered up through a story-line involving a search for the missing Snooks with leading stars of the time such as Robert Benchley, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Kay Kyser. The same year saw the first appearance of Leone Ledoux as Snooks brother Robespierre, who until then had been an off-mike character. On May 24th, 1951 , Fanny Brice suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died five days later, at age fifty-nine. Due to air the night she passed away, the final broadcast was a musical tribute to Brice that ended with a short eulogy from Hanley Stafford: "We have lost a very real, a very warm, a very wonderful woman." # # # FIRST BROADCAST: 29th February 1936 as part of The Ziegfield Follies of the Air LAST BROADCAST: 29th May 1951 CAST: Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. Henley Stafford as Lancelot “Daddy” Higgins, Baby Snooks father. Lalive Brownell as “Mommy” Higgins (later played by Lois Corbet and Arlene Harris).Leone Ledoux as Snook’s little brother Roberspierre. ANNOUNCERS: John Conte (late 30s and early 40s). Tobe Reed (1944-45), Harlow Willcox (mid to late 1940s), Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson. VOCALIST: Bob Graham MUSIC: Meredith Willson (37-44), Carmen Dragon. PRODUCER-DIRECTORS: Mann Holiner (early 1940s), Al Kaye (1944), Ted Bliss, Walter Bunker, Arthur Stander. WRITERS: Phil Rapp, Jess Oppenheimer, Everett Freeman, Bill Danch, Sid Dorfman, Arthur Stander, Robert Fisher. SPONSORS: Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O, Tums SOUND EFFECTS: Clark Casey, David Light. THEME: Rockabye Baby * * SAVE EVEN MORE!! * * This show now comes bundled as part of our Complete Comedy Collection which includes scores of similarly themed Old Time Radio Shows for one low price! 68 Episodes in MP3 format ship on a single CD-R with paperless labeling 100% Guaranteed to play on your CD-enabled PC or your money back Hours and hours of play Listen in your car while you commute! Transfer to your smartphone/MP3 player and listen anywhere Wholesome entertainment for the whole family This CD will not play in a traditional CD player. The type of CD referred to in this listing is a computer disc which contains digital audio files called MP3's and requires an MP3 player to play them -- like your computer, for instance . 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