Second-hand Second Hand Rose

[Roger Shuy]

I remember The Baby Snooks and Daddy show too; listened to it often when I
was a boy, sometimes with my radio under the covers so that my parents
would think I was asleep after my bedtime. Older people (like me) have
told me that they played the same trick on their parents. Oh, the
wonderful days of entertainment radio! Fanny Brice, Great Gildersleeve,
Fibber McGee and Molly, The Green Hornet, Lone Ranger, I Love a Mystery,
and other programs were wonderful then.
Roger Shuy

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Grant Barrett wrote:

> On Saturday, March 4, 2000, Mike Salovesh <t20mxs1 at CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU> wrote:
> >Mike Salovesh wrote:
> >
> >> Of course, I come by my knowledge of the 1920s second-hand myself.  I'm
> >> a 1930s Depression baby.  The first thing that comes to my mind when I
> >> hear Fanny Brice's name is the voice of the little girl on the Great
> >> Guildersleeve radio show.
> >
> >Ooops!  Well, I blew that one.  I meant "Fibber McGee and Molly", not
> >the "Great Guildersleeve", when I said that Fanny Brice's voice was
> >regularly featured on a weekly radio show.
> >
>
> Jim and Marian Jordan played the title roles in "Fibber McGee and Molly" in which
> there was also a character called "Little Girl." She was voiced by Marian who always
> left the room, if you'll notice, before Little Girl took the mic, Mike. Guildersleeve
> was a character on the show and went on to have a spin-off.
>
> Fanny Brice played Baby Snooks on a separate program called "Baby Snooks and Daddy."
>
>
> All subject to the laws of If I Remember Correctly, of course.
>
> --
> Grant Barrett
> gbarrett at americandialect.org
>