Audio Time Travel

Jack Benny - Kenny Baker's First Show


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Today we travel back to November 3, 1935 for the first show featuring singer Kenny Baker. The formula that would carry Benny and team through the next 35 years is evidenced here. Jack and team allude to themselves being on the radio or needing to be somewhere to be on the radio. There is also a somewhat offensively (for our time) stereotypical (for the original time) portrayal of an Italian immigrant character.



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Audio Time TravelBy Greg Lauer