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Classic radio programs from the early to mid 20th century on DVD in MP3 format.

Amos n' Andy (1928-1954)

Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. 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. After the series was first broadcast in 1928, it grew in popularity and became a huge influence on the radio serials that followed.

Amos 'n' Andy creators Gosden and Correll were white actors familiar with minstrel traditions. They met in Durham, North Carolina, in 1920, and by the fall of 1925, they were performing nightly song-and-patter routines on the Chicago Tribune's station WGN. Since the Tribune syndicated Sidney Smith's popular comic strip The Gumps, which had successfully introduced the concept of daily continuity, WGN executive Ben McCanna thought the notion of a serialized drama could also work on radio. He suggested to Gosden and Correll that they adapt The Gumps to radio. They instead proposed a series about "a couple of colored characters" and borrowed certain elements of The Gumps. Their new series, Sam 'n' Henry, began January 12, 1926, fascinating radio listeners throughout the Midwest. That series became popular enough that in late 1927 Gosden and Correll requested that it be distributed to other stations on phonograph records in a "chainless chain" concept that would have been the first use of radio syndication as we know it today. When WGN rejected the idea, Gosden and Correll quit the show and the station that December. Contractually, their characters belonged to WGN, so when Gosden and Correll left WGN, they performed in personal appearances but could not use the character names from the radio show.

When WMAQ, the Chicago Daily News station, hired the team and their WGN announcer, Bill Hay, to create a series similar to Sam 'n' Henry, they offered higher salaries than WGN and the rights to pursue the "chainless chain" syndication concept. Amos 'n' Andy began March 19, 1928, on WMAQ, and prior to airing each program they recorded their show on 78 rpm disks at Marsh Laboratories, operated by electrical recording pioneer Orlando R. Marsh.

** THERE ARE 268 EPISODES ON THIS DVD **

Our user friendly DVDs have easy to read media play lists (playlist.m3u) with consistent file names and no file duplication. We do not simply throw a bunch of files onto a DVD that would have you wasting your time trying to figure out the sequence of the shows.

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 Our "Old Time Radio" DVDs contain unedited programs as they originally aired many decades ago. Many contain nostalgic radio commercials and historical news briefs.

NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO ENJOY THESE CLASSIC RADIO PROGRAMS...

	On your computer! The program playlist will automatically open in Windows Media Player (or equivalent) when inserted into your computer's DVD drive. You can also browse the DVD to select the playlist or files if autorun feature is disabled.
	On your MP3 Player! Copy episodes off the DVD and onto your MP3 player.  Do it exactly the same way you copy MP3 files off your hard drive now!
	On your Car's CD Player (or any other CD player)! Using Windows Media Player (or equivalent) you can select episodes and burn them to music CDs for hours of listening pleasure - on the go!
	On your Home Entertainment (TV) DVD player! Many newer DVD players are capable of playing MP3 DVDs (navigation features are determined by your player). If your player can only play MP3 CDs, you can copy the files to a CD without having to convert them to music CDs.

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