Generic radio workshop script library downloadable text file series. One of the most popular shows in 20th century entertainment, amos and andy were played by white actors. The two accepted, but wgn refused to give up the name sam n henry, and so two new but similar characters were created called amos and andy. Get a piece of history get the amos and andy radio show. Paper doll from the amos n andy radio show national. The man is wearing a brown hat, with a black phone stretching between both his hands and a cigar between two of his fingers on his right hand. The version that most baby boomers saw on television in the early to mid50s with an allblack cast a broadcasting first, incidentally was the second version, one of the mediums earliest sitcoms. Amos n andy, old time radio, 290422 amos is seen talking to. During its radio heyday, amos n andy was to use a popular modernday expression the. In 1943, the boys revamped the series and converted it to a slickly produced halfhour show. Some very kind person has taken the time and trouble and it must have been a tedious job to go through them and remove the commercials, whether for the soap company, the drugstores, or the cbs columbia televisions.
Many historians agreed that amos n andy was perhaps the most popular radio show of all time. Amos n andy was a situation comedy based on stereotypes of africanamericans and popular in the united states from the 1920s through the 1950s. Amos n andy was the story of two black charactersthe modest, pragmatic amos and the blustery, selfconfident andycreated by two white actors, freeman gosden and charles correll. Tune in to hear radio s alltime favorite, amos n andy in 50 of their most hilarious episodes. This soundbite is from 1929 and gives an idea of the early amos n andy. Amos and andy amos n andy was a situation comedy popular in the united states from the 1920s through the 1950s. It was estimated that 40 million americans tuned in religiously, at almost onethird of the population at the time. Alvin childress and tim moore starred in what is considered by some to be the most offensive television program of all. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by freeman gosden and charles correll and originating from station wmaq in chicago, illinois. Amos n andy, one of the most popular and longrunning radio programs of all time, was brought to television in the summer of 1951. Andy leaves, and amos checks in with his daughter again.
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