Jack Benny - Best Christmas Shopping Shows

[@kalvinravn8431]

I had this on an audio cassette tape and would play it at bedtime. I’m 52 years old and have liked old time radio since the mid 1980’s when I heard it at night on am 780 if I recall. 😊

[@shawnmalone9711]

Merry Christmas 2023! 🎄⛇ 🎅 🎁

[@tonyquattrochi4312]

Some of the best radio and television shows are the Christmas episodes.

[@ericpatterson6031]

When I think of Jack's shopping trips I think of Frank Nelson as the Floor Walker. Classic.

[@steveb9151]

"Yyehhhhh-ssss?"

[@aphro65]

Oooh! Do I!

[@luislaplume8261]

The first program of this was on December 13, 1938. I have a picture of my late mother with her class in that year.

[@GohAhweh]

My mom was 10 years old in 38..😊

[@allenjones3130]

Dennis Day had a magnificent singing voice that was both lyrical and powerful. On the medley of sacred Christmas carols, he sings these songs as they were written, without the screeching and caterwauling that today's so-called pop singers indulge in.

[@freeindeed5393]

I had so many belly laughs listening to this!! Thank you so much!

[@gilbertgiles]

Never too late or to early for Benny

[@luislaplume8261]

Radio City Music Hall is in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. I am a New Yorker who grew up there.

[@artyteatwaffle7536]

5 stars... Thanks Chesterton, great Benny trilogy.

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

I love the Jack Benny Christmas Specials. I remember hearing when the group was in Palms Springs, and I think it was Los Angeles or Beverly Hills. There was the guy, Sheldon Leonard who always spoke words relating to a horse race.

[@steveb9151]

"Bud...hey, Bud! C'mere a minute."

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

@@steveb9151 That's him!

[@mmeellxx3919]

The racetrack tout, he was the best!

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

@@mmeellxx3919 Someone brought up the Floorwalker Frank Nelson. He was good too. I will watch them all tonight, and I will enjoy them.

[@mmeellxx3919]

@@kimberlykasimoff1447 gotta love Frank Nelson as Jack’s foil in all episodes! 😂

[@happyfeetgal3879]

🎄📻 Thank you

[@truehill51hill72]

😊 thanks again

[@mikerosevear3264]

hi im looking for the one jack says if i dont get glenn miller in my stocking any idea where i can find it

[@louisianagrandma3595]

Hi, I don't know if you're still interested in listening to the episode referencing Glenn Miller, but I found it. I was trying to find the Christmas Shopping radio episode where Jack is thinking of getting his sister, Florence a nightgown. The gown seems to have loops on it, and the salesman, pronounces it, "da loops". I love it. I didn't find the one I was looking for, but had just listened to the one you're searching for and read your comment. Anyway, the show you're looking for is on YT. It is dated 12/14/41 and entitled, "The Jack Benny Program, 'Buys Dennis A Bird On A Stick'. Credit to Ferdinand Cesarano's channel for putting it on YT. On his playlist, I believe it is #43. At around the 12:46-12:47 mark, Phil comes in and that's when Jack says the line about Glenn Miller. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

[@steveb9151]

The early shows from the late thirties were much funnier and more spontaneous-sounding than the predictable, formulaic shows from the forties.