HOME | BOOKS | JEAN SHEPHERD | MOVIES | OLD TIME RADIO AUDIO CD | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 CD ROM | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 DVD ROM FRED ALLEN SHOW - 3 mp3 CD SET Old Time Radio - 3 CD - 180 mp3 Fred Allen (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio. His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; radio historian John Dunning (in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored. A master adlibber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles), while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson, but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen). Ironically, in view of his often barbed observations of the medium, Fred Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to television. Fred Allen's first taste of radio came while he and Portland Hoffa waited for a promised slot in a new Arthur Hammerstein musical. In the interim, they appeared on a Chicago station's program, WLS Showboat, into which, Allen recalled, "Portland and I were presented... to inject a little class into it." Their success in these appearances helped their theater reception; live audiences in the Midwest liked to see their radio favorites in person, even if Allen and Hoffa would be replaced by Bob Hope when the radio show moved to New York several months afterward. The couple eventually got their Hammerstein show, Polly, which opened in Delaware and made the usual tour before hitting Broadway. Also in that cast was a young Englishman named Archie Leach, who received as many good notices for his romantic appeal as Allen got for his comic work. Hammerstein retooled the show before bringing it to New York, replacing everyone but two women and Allen. Leach decided to buy an old car and drive to Hollywood. "What Archie Leach didn't tell me," Allen remembered, "was that he was going to change his name to Cary Grant." Polly never succeeded in spite of several retoolings, but Allen did go on to successful shows like The Little Show (1929–30) and Three's a Crowd (1930–31), which eventually led to his full-time entry to radio in 1932. PLEASE READ HOW TO LISTEN AT THESE CD THESE ARE MP3 CD RECORDING THEY WILL NOT PLAY IN REGULAR CD PLAYERS You will need CD players that read mp3 files. Here some of the more popular mp3 players: Coby, Memorex, Panasonic, Philips, Sony and many more. Be sure you buy a model that support mp3 files. You can upload the files in ipods like Apple Ipod, Sansa and 100's more. Many new car CD players reads mp3, again check your player first. Many new home DVD players and virtually every Blu Ray reads mp3 files, please check your manual. Finally you can use your compurer. If you're reading this web page, you already have everything you need to listen this mp3 CD Most of these shows are 32kbps, if space is available we will use higher bit rate. 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FULL REFUND IF NOT SATISFIED EPISODES LIST Fred Allen 32-12-25 010 Mammoth Dept Store Fred Allen 33-01-22 014 The Court Of Judge Allen Fred Allen 33-10-06 xxx The Salad Bowl Revue Fred Allen 35-10-02 052 Once an Amateur, Always an Amateur Fred Allen 35-11-27 060 Voopie on the Volga Fred Allen 36-01-15 067 Home of the Range (1st Half Only) Fred Allen 36-01-22 068 Mumbo Fred Allen 36-06-17 089 Colonal Stoopnagel and Budd Fred Allen 36-09-30 002 Gangbusters Fred Allen 36-10-07 003 Who Killed Rappaport Fred Allen 37-03-10 025 Murder on High Seas Fred Allen 37-03-17 026 St Patricks Day Show Fred Allen 37-05-19 035 The Story of Holliwood Fred Allen 37-12-22 047 Santa Will Not Ride Tonight Guest Jack Benny Fred Allen 38-05-18 068 The House That Jack Built Fred Allen 38-05-25 069 Who Stole The Favorite Fred Allen 38-06-08 071 Satire on Song Writers Fred Allen 38-06-22 073 Telephone Weddings Fred Allen 39-02-22 095 Subway Posters Fred Allen 39-03-22 099 Murder at Madison Square Fred Allen 39-04-05 101 George Jessel - Capt. Joseph McBride - Ferryboat Captain Fred Allen 39-06-21 112 Crisis on the Showboat Fred Allen 39-10-04 001 The Search for Mr Livingstone - New Series Fred Allen 39-10-11 002 Satire on Survey and Polls Fred Allen 39-10-18 003 Gene Autry Fred Allen 39-10-25 004 Guest Billy Rose Fred Allen 39-11-08 006 Doughnut Master Fred Allen 39-12-27 013 Dr. Allen Clinic Fred Allen 40-01-31 018 Mountain Justice Fred Allen 40-02-21 021 The Missing Cat Fred Allen 40-02-28 022 Life at the South Pole Fred Allen 40-03-20 025 Eagle Gets Loose in the Studio Fred Allen 40-03-25 xxx Alle's Reply to NBC About the Eagle Incident Fred Allen 40-03-27 026 Who Killed Mack Borden Fred Allen 40-04-03 027 The Laziest Man in the World Fred Allen 40-04-24 030 Eddie Anderson (Rochester) Incomplete Fred Allen 40-05-08 032 Commencement Day At Barber Village Fred Allen 40-06-12 037 Hillbilly Skit-Betty Jane Rhodes-Jack Boyle Cattle Caster at Paramount Fred Allen 40-10-09 002 Jerry Siegal, creater of Superman Fred Allen 41-01-01 013 Amateur of the Month Fred Allen 41-01-08 014 All Is not Gold That Glitters Fred Allen 41-01-15 015 The Specialist's Quandry - Nelson Elliscu - Dog Dietician Fred Allen 41-01-22 016 They Almost Junked the Junket Fred Allen 41-01-29 017 A Stay At Home Cruise - Norman Gray-Razor Tester Fred Allen 41-02-05 018 Montain Justice Fred Allen 41-02-12 019 Truth and Subsequences Fred Allen 41-02-19 020 Milk Fred Allen 41-02-26 021 Hugh Martin Singers Fred Allen 41-03-05 022 Little Red Riding Hood Fred Allen 41-03-12 023 Philanda Blank My story Fred Allen 41-03-19 024 Nicotine Alley Fred Allen 41-03-26 025 The Wedlock Society Fred Allen 41-04-02 026 One Long Pan Takes A Chance Fred Allen 41-04-09 027 Shortcut to a Nervous Breakdown - Sam Levine Fred Allen 41-04-16 028 Sleep Fred Allen 41-04-23 029 Radio The Great American Pastime Fred Allen 41-05-07 031 Jack Benny's 10th Anniversary-Jack Benny and Amos and Andy Fred Allen 41-06-04 035 One Long Pan Ghost to Ghost Network - Leo Durocherer Fred Allen 41-06-18 037 No Blood and No Sand - Thomas E. Dewey Fred Allen 41-06-25 038 The Hour of Good Intentions Fred Allen 41-12-10 049 Death Valley Takes A Day Off - Last Show of the Season Fred Allen 42-03-08 061 The Life Fred Allen Fred Allen 42-05-03 069 Freak Show Murder Fred Allen 42-05-10 070 The Courting Of Nasty And Nell - Guest Marlene Dietrich Fred Allen 42-05-24 072 Vaudville Fred Allen 42-06-07 074 English Radio Spoof Fred Allen 42-06-21 076 Mountain Justice Fred Allen 42-06-28 077 Vacation Plans Fred Allen 42-10-04 001 Guest Charles Laughton - Andrews Sisters Fred Allen 42-10-11 002 Roland Young-Wee Bonnie Baker Fred Allen 42-10-18 003 Les Miserables Guest Star Orson Welles Fred Allen 42-10-25 004 The Courting Of Jenny Sugs Roy Rogers Arthur Godfrey Fred Allen 42-11-01 005 Guest Robert Benchley Fred Allen 42-11-15 007 BBC Take It or Leave It Fred Allen 42-11-29 009 Adolph Menjou - New Suit Fred Allen 42-12-20 012 Santa Claus Sits Down Risa Stevens Metropolitan Opera Fred Allen 43-01-03 014 PeterLorre-One Long Pan vs Mr Moto Fred Allen 43-01-31 018 Oscar Levant Fred Allen 43-02-28 022 Phil Baker Fred Allen 43-03-07 023 Judy Canova Fred Allen 43-04-04 027 Jimmy Durante - Looking for Umbriago Fred Allen 43-05-16 033 Frank Sinatra Fred Allen 43-05-23 034 George Jessel - Freds Biography Fred Allen 43-12-12 040 Lauritz Melchior Fred Allen 44-01-02 043 Albert Spaulding - Hillbilly Band Fred Allen 44-01-09 044 EdGardner-HitbyaBeerBarrel Fred Allen 44-03-19 054 Ted Lewis-The Life of Ted Lewis Fred Allen 44-03-26 055 Ed Gardner - Buying a bottle of liquor Fred Allen 44-04-02 056 Jack Haley - Radio vs TV Fred Allen 44-04-09 057 Reginald Gardiner - Fetlock Bones Fred Allen 44-04-23 059 Oscar Levant - South Dakota Fred Allen 44-06-11 066 Deems Taylor - South Dakota Fred Allen 45-10-07 001 Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy Fred Allen 45-10-21 003 Frank Sinatra - Charlie Mccarthy Sues Fred Allen 45-10-28 004 Charlie Mccarthy Trial Of The Century Fred Allen 45-11-04 005 Lost Memory - Mash Notes With Martha Raye Fred Allen 45-11-11 006 Monte Wooley Charlie the Chicken Fred Allen 45-11-18 007 Boris Karloff - Renting A Room Fred Allen 45-11-25 008 Leo Durocher - Brooklyn Pinafore Fred Allen 45-12-16 011 Seeking A Radio Job - Guest Lauritz Melchoir Fred Allen 45-12-30 012 Radio Shows In Russia Fred Allen 46-01-06 013 Phil Baker -Take It Or Leave It Fred Allen 46-01-13 014 Carmen Maurice Evans - Hamlet Fred Allen 46-01-20 015 George Jessel - Movie Of Fred's Life Fred Allen 46-02-03 017 Bea Lilly - Picadilly Fred Allen 46-02-10 018 Les Miserables Reprise with Orson Welles Fred Allen 46-02-24 020 Arthur Treacher - Hillbilly Sketch Fred Allen 46-03-03 021 Orson Welles - Les Miserables Fred Allen 46-03-10 022 Banana Mans Lament with Carmen Miranda Fred Allen 46-03-31 025 Charlie The Chicken with Monty Woolley Fred Allen 46-04-14 027 Leo Durocher - Brooklyn Pinafore II Fred Allen 46-04-28 029 Racing from Trial Fred Allen 46-05-05 030 Mr. And Mrs. Breakfast Show guest Tallulah Bankhead Fred Allen 46-05-12 031 Sydney Greenstreet - The Fat Man Fred Allen 46-05-26 033 King For A Day with Jack Benny Fred Allen 46-06-23 037 50th Anniversary Of The Telephone Company guest Oscar Levant Fred Allen 46-10-13 040 Mikado guest Tony Martin Fred Allen 46-10-27 042 Tallulah Bankhead - Breakfast Show Fred Allen 47-03-02 060 Murder In The Penthouse guests The Quiz Kids Fred Allen 47-03-16 062 Picadilly reprise - guests Beatrice Lillie Bobby White Fred Allen 47-03-23 063 Suing Fred Over Picadilly Copyrights Rodgers Hammerstein Fred Allen 47-04-06 065 The Shoshlik Shanty guest Gregory Ratoff Fred Allen 47-05-11 070 Bing Crosby - Hollywood Mikado (Poor) Fred Allen 47-05-25 072 Rudy Vallee And His Megaphone Fred Allen 47-06-15 075 Renting the Room Ozzie Harriet Fred Allen 47-10-19 080 The perfect Crime - James Mason - One Long Pan Fred Allen 47-10-26 081 Jack Haley - Selling Life Stories Fred Allen 47-12-14 088 George Jessel - Booking New Year Party Fred Allen 47-12-28 090 Monty Wooley - Returning A Clock Fred Allen 48-01-04 001 James Mason - 1st Show For Ford Fred Allen 48-03-28 013 James Pamela Mason - Morning Show Fred Allen 48-04-11 015 Basil Rathbone - One Long Pan Fred Allen 48-04-18 016 James Farley - Literary Panel Fred Allen 48-04-25 017 Leo Durocher - Scalping Baseball Tickets Fred Allen 48-05-02 018 Henry Morgan - Selling Shampoo Fred Allen 48-05-09 019 Don Mcneill - Break The Contestant Fred Allen 48-05-23 021 Bing Crosby - The Life Of Bing Crosby Fred Allen 48-06-06 023 Jack Eigan - What's Wrong With Radio Fred Allen 48-06-27 026 Jack Benny - Stop The Music Fred Allen 48-10-24 030 Price for Listeners Missing Contest - Dale Carnegie Fred Allen 48-11-07 032 Arthur Treacher - Sam Shovel Fred Allen 48-11-28 035 George Jessel - Getting Into The Roxy Fred Allen 48-12-05 036 Henry Morgan - Radio Vs Tv Fred Allen 48-12-26 039 Maine Murder Trial Fred Allen 49-01-09 041 H Allen Smith - Literary Panel Fred Allen 49-01-23 043 Ttraveling Salesman Jack Haley Fred Allen 49-01-30 044 Rudy Vallee - Fred Gets Rudy Into Tv Fred Allen 49-02-06 045 Bert Lahr - Planning A Tv Show Fred Allen 49-02-13 046 Murder Case guest Doc Rockwell Fred Allen 49-03-20 051 Mob Buster guest Victor Moore Fred Allen 49-04-24 056 Basil Rathbone - One Long Pan Fred Allen 49-05-22 060 Col Stoopnagle - Babysitting Fred Allen 49-06-26 065 Last Show W Jack Benny Henry Morgan Bing Crosby Show - Fred Allen Bing Crosby Show - Fred allen-Connie Boswelll Bing Crosby Show - Peggy Lee Fred Allen Edgar Bergen Show 39-11-29 Gulf Screen Guild-Fred Allen-Robert Benchley Edgar Bergen Show 45-09-03 Guest Fred Allen Edgar Bergen Show 46-11-13 Guest Fred Allen Edgar Bergen Show 47-11-02 Guest Fred Allen Edgar Bergen Show 50-05-17 Bing Crosby-Peggy Lee-Fred Allen Information Please 40-11-15 Fred Allen Information Please 41-10-17 Fred Allen Information Please 43-02-15 Fred Allen Information Please 44-12-25 Fred Allen Information Please 45-02-12 Fred Allen Jack Benny 00-00-00 Guest Fred Allen - Jack Paar Jack Benny 37-03-14 End of Feud with Jack Benny Jack Benny 38-03-27 Fred Allen-Kate Smith Jack Benny 39-01-29 Bodyguard Jack Challenges Fred Allen Jack Benny 39-02-05 Training for a fight with Fred Allen Jack Benny 45-02-04 Cameo by Fred Allen Jack Benny 53-08-03 San Francisco with Fred Allen The Big Show 50-01-26 Talulah Bankhead and Fred Allen The Big Show 50-11-05 Debut Fred Allen Jimmy Durante The Big Show 50-11-26 Fred Allen-Ed Wynn-Ed Gardner The Big Show 50-12-03 Fred Allen-Phil Silvers-Margaret Truma The Big Show 51-03-04 Fred Allen-Herb Shriner Ethel Merman The Big Show 51-05-06 Fred Allen-Groucho Marx-George Jessel Today Show 64-03-18 Hugh Downs Interviews Fred Allen On Today Show FEEDBACK Our feedback record is excellent but if any problems arise, contact us before leaving any kind of neutral or negative feedback or if you plan on rating us anything less of five stars in all DSR areas. 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