Pop Chronicles Interviews #139 - Jim Jordan
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- Introduction 0:00:31
- Old-Time Radio and audience enthusiasm; Fibber and Molly program years; different incarnations of program; longevity with NBC; segment on recent CBS program (tribute to broadcasting) 0:02:29
- Further discussion of CBS segment; door sound effect and hall closet trademark 0:02:29
- Closet door and catchphrase; how Fibber and Molly act originated; vaudeville and radio; New York in 1920s; WENR; The Smith Family 0:04:20
- Smackout program; joining NBC; Johnson Wax; the name Fibber McGhee 0:03:25
- Fibber and Molly program; adjacent programs on schedule; program announcers and characters; Bill Thompson; Gale Gordon; Arthur Q. Bryan; Gene Carroll and and Glenn Rowell; Carroll and Grady 0:04:05
- More radio duos: Ford Rush and Glenn Rowell; Freeman Gosden and Charles Corell; Marlin Hurt; doing different voices; roles they took on in producing the show 0:01:55
- Union scale; Don Quinn; Marian's leave of absence in late 1930s; Hollywood; making movies 0:03:00
- Work week for making radio shows; bloopers; Hal Perry; Ed Begley (Sr.); changes in radio industry; enduring appeal of old-time radio 0:04:30
- Future of radio programming; current activities; remarriage; Yogi Jorgensen; interview concludes 0:03:16
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #139 - Jim Jordan, audio recording, 1966; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692138/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.