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LizzieMaine

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Fibber and Molly were sort of like an old shoe. Part of their appeal was their comfortable corniness -- you knew you weren't going to get incisive satire or scintillating wit, but rather the sort of humor you might expect from your small-town Uncle Louie. Small-town listeners, especially, liked that.

Having just gotten home from work, I'm waiting for my baloney sandwich to digest while I listen to Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, broadcasting live from the Congress Hotel in Chicago "thru the remote control facilities of station WGN" on April 29th, 1940. Hot stuff.
 

TimeWarpWife

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I love to listen to Fibber & Molly. You're right, Lizzie, there really is something comfortable about them, although every now and then they do have a bit that makes me chuckle out loud. With things so insane in the world we live in, it's nice to be able to go somewhere and for a half hour or so, revisit a simpler time.
 

ChiTownScion

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Fibber and Molly were sort of like an old shoe. Part of their appeal was their comfortable corniness -- you knew you weren't going to get incisive satire or scintillating wit, but rather the sort of humor you might expect from your small-town Uncle Louie. Small-town listeners, especially, liked that.

Having just gotten home from work, I'm waiting for my baloney sandwich to digest while I listen to Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, broadcasting live from the Congress Hotel in Chicago "thru the remote control facilities of station WGN" on April 29th, 1940. Hot stuff.

And yet, for some reason, I enjoy the Great Gildersleeve, a spinoff series. Maybe it's the way he cackles, "Oh, Leroy..." I have a few friends with that name, and I like to adopt the voice in addressing them on occasion.
 

LizzieMaine

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I think the real difference between Fibber and Gildersleeve is that the former was written by a cartoonist -- Don Quinn, whose comedy style emphasized broad, exaggerated characters -- while Gildy was written in a far more realistic vein. It really hit its stride in 1943, when John Whedon took over as head writer -- he made the town of Summerfield as much a character as Gildersleeve himself, and turned the series into a semi-serialized program stressing continuing storylines that allowed for much stronger character development.

There are very strong similarities between Summerfield and Andy Griffith's Mayberry -- and John Whedon is the connecting link, as he also wrote for the Griffith show in the early sixties. Whedon was, by the way, the father of Tom Whedon -- who wrote extensively for children's television in the sixties and seventies -- and the grandfather of Joss Whedon, who gave the world "Buffy The Vampire Slayer." The distance between Summerfield and Sunnydale is not at all far.

Gildersleeve's druggist, Mr. Peavey, never fails to crack me up. Our own local pharmacist, when I was growing up, was exactly like him.
 

ChiTownScion

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BTW, Lizzie, I note your new end tag, from "Solidarity Forever."

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.


Being 4th generation AFL (later, AFL-CIO), I love it.
 
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Good choices.

The Wise Guyz are one of my favorite new bands. I got hip to them a few years ago while living in Ukraine. As you might imagine, I was very pleasantly surprised to find stuff like that there.

https://youtu.be/U5r7ELhIB2w

They are a lot of fun. I hope to one day see them, but will not hold my breath on that.
Right now, I am listening to Cracker's "King of Bakersfield." Earlier, it was a little bit of Gas Huffer and some Hank III.
:D
 

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