Bob and Ray WOR 135 September 14, 1973

About this film

These files are hosted at the Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/bobandraytoaster. Please go to that site. Mary Backstage - Not staying for free. Friday, September 14, 1973 A second file has been added to this dates show. This edited Friday episode has what some Bob and Ray fans especially enjoy, station breaks and pleasent chatter with the news staff. Bob and Ray were often breaking each other up in these weeks. The Mary Backstayge episode introduces us to the Brown Paper Bag. Firesign Theater fans may be especially interested. Hop into your Dodge Coronett and head off onto the freeway, which is already in progress. 0:00 - Intro, opening the mail, the Danish cheese contest. 1:20 - Wally Ballou (Bob) from Kendallville, Indiana, with a report on hay fever. Ballou interviews Kendallville director of public health Dr. Otto Schimmelpfennig (Ray) on ragweed control, and his efforts to produce a bumper crop. 4:40 - Artie Shaw plays 'Begin The Beguine', from 1938. 7:55 - Bob and Ray discuss 78 RPM records and their prices. Ray mentions that they were around seventy cents in the late thirties or early forties; seventy cents in 1940 would be about $2.05 in 1973 dollars, or $11.4…

Directors & creators

BNRToast

Subjects

Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding, Elliot, Goulding, Bob & Ray, BNRToast, BNR, OTR, Old Time Radio, Satire, WOR, Mary Backstayge

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