Stan Freberg Show

CBS Radio Show #5 for Stan Freberg from 1957... 15 shows total will eventually be in the "Stan Freberg" Playlist.  OTR Scholars view this series as the last all comedy show on radio.  Thanks for listening...

Stan Freberg - CBS Radio Show No. 5 - Orville Arrives On The Moon -August 11. 1957 - Comedy

Track features about 3 1/2 minutes of introductory information about Stan Freberg with a short clip from one of his most famous early works... followed by the 13th episode from his 1957 CBS Radio comedy series that ran for only 15 episodes before it was taken off the air. Stan did not smoke and objected to cigarette companies sponsoring the show and he often parodied advertising and commercialism, which did not set well with the show's limited sponsors... so CBS cancelled the show after 15 episodes. This show features a skit centered on teaching listeners "All About Werewolves"  Listen here, Itunes or Google Play Music by searching Podcasts for "Heirloom Radio".  Thank you for choosing Heirloom Radio and helping to celebrate the remarkable talent that was demonstrated during the Golden Age of Radio.   www.facebook.com/heirloomradio

The Stan Freberg CBS Radio Show No.13- All About Werewolves - Oct 6, 1957 -Comedy

Number 4 of 15 shows produced by Stan Freberg on CBS radio in 1957.  he show began in July of 1957 and ended in Oct of 1957... not because it was not a popular or well done show, but because Stan Freberg was not a big fan of the Madison Avenue crowd and they did not appreciate his humor on the matter as they were sponsoring the show... SO CBS cancelled the program after just 15 shows.  This show featured a skit "Greatest Moments in History" ... the creative Stan Freberg's views!   Thanks for listening.

The Stan Freberg CBS Show - No. 4 -  Great Moments In History - Aug. 4, 1957

Only 15 episodes of the last network radio comedy series were aired before CBS cancelled the show in October of 1957.  The incredible talent of Stan Freberg and his regular cast members that included Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds , with Billy May handling the music direction created routines and unique comedy, running gags, that the audience loved, but sponsors of the show did not appreciate as Freberg often went after Madison Avenue types.  The show lasted about 4 months and then shut down.  Fortunately we have great transcriptions of the shows and the humor is as funny today as it was then.  Stan Freberg was a multi-talented man with immense creativity.  Enjoy this 12th Show in the CBS series with the lead sit "The Rocket Sled"  Also heard in Stan's version of the hit song "Shaboom, Shaboom"... thanks for listening.  Check out my "Stan Freberg" Playlist for more shows...

The Stan Freberg CBS Radio Show No. 12 - Rocket Sled - Sept. 29, 1957- Comedy

This is the CBS Radio Audition Show of Stan Freberg's sitcom entitled "That's Rich" airing on November 21, 1953.  Show only lasted until midway through 1954 with about a dozen shows preserved. Track includes background about the series. Do not be mistaken that the short run of the program in any way minimizes the creativity of the stories and the amazing portrayal of Rich Wilk that Stan Freberg did as the lead character.  This show never failed to entertain in a quirky sort of way because it was so different from anything else on the air. However fewer and fewer people were listening to radio by 1954 and had turned their attention to the amazing "radio with pictures" known as television.   "That's Rich" is considered by many critics of the time as a "Classic" example of the Golden Days of Radio.  Thank you for listening... and find more of Stan Freberg in the playlist by the same name on this podcast.

That's  Rich - Starring Stan Freberg - Rich Meets Freckles  - Nov. 21, 1953 - Sitcom

This was the sixth show of the CBS Stan Freberg series that ran for 15 episodes from July 14 to October 20th 1957. Despite its short run the program featured some running gags and stock jokes...including a lot of Freberg's ambivalence toward Madison Avenue with many fake advertisements that made fun of some of the show's possible sponsors.  The result was that by the 13th episode the show suffered from a lack of advertising interest. Two cigarette companies offered to sponsor the series, but Freberg turned them down.  As a result, no sponsors so CBS cancelled the series after 15 episodes. It was the last network radio show to devote itself purely to comedy.  In 1958 "The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows, a recording of collected material from the show, won the first 1959 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. More Stan Freberg shows in the playlist by the same name.

The Stan Freberg CBS Radio Show No. 6 -  CBS Censor - Aug 18,1957 - Comedy

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Stan Freberg - CBS Radio Show No. 5 - Orville Arrives On The Moon -August 11. 1957 - Comedy

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