Little orphan Annie Radio Broadcast 1936 1/2

These days, Annie is famous as being a frizzly-haired orphan girl singing "Tomorrow", but she was originally a cartoon character created in 1929, and later turned into a radio show. This is one of the broadcasts from 1936 titled "Watching bridge being built"

[@jonnynelson5734]

I'm here because I am - once again - watching "A Christmas Story" and I'm looking for the darn lyrics to the song. I grew up in the 1970s, but I was one of the last in line of a big family. My dad is older than most father's of 45 yr old guys and he remembers listening to this by the radio. We need the lyrics, DERNIT!! Tiggle fiifer!! lol What a different time. Our TV's and the internet/social media advertise to our kids all the time, but MAN, it was blatant back then.

[@2oldfashgrl]

+Jonny Nelson I remember my Mom singing at least part of this song to us kids! She couldn't remember the whole song. She was just a kid when she listened to this song on the radio, kind of like your Dad! I sure wish I had recorded this on my audio recorder, I have one on my video camera, it has 3 functions on it. Anyway, she passed away last Fall in Oct.. I didn't even think of it then, everything was a blurr at the time! She loved that broadcast, and in the later years, when my kids were little, the movie was playing in the theatres, she went to see it. She loved it! Another song she liked, popular in those days, was "Hallelujah I'm a Bum". She said that her Dad (my Grandpa, of course) would sing it to her and her Brother and Sister sometimes! It's on here somewhere, I've seen it and heard it!

[@joellafargue9882]

That's one earworm I can do without...!

[@sharronneedles6721]

I remember listing to this as a child and being so exited to listen every night, sadly at the very end when we all got our decoder pens the most famous movie line is history poped into all our heads. "BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE" This maddened me so much I called all my friends and with disappointment in our voices we came up with the silliest scheme to do the same thing back to lil orphan Annie.

[@glenysthomson5955]

I remember the decoder rings. My brother and I were so mad, as you say the message was drink your Oveltine!

[@gives_bad_advice]

This is a hilarious story!

[@artdeco64]

“A crummy commercial? Son-of-a-bitch.”

[@OzmaBara1988]

A crummy commercial??? Son of a bitch!!!

[@TofuttiRutti]

the organist for these broadcasts out of Chicago was Irma Glenn, very well known at the time. In 1931 my mom and her friend Clara, age 12, had the job of singing the opening and closing theme every week, sung five years later by (obviously) a man. Irma Glenn and the two girls were in one studio at NBC Blue in the Insull Building, while the voice actors were in a separate studio elsewhere. Just a bit of trivia for y'all. :)

[@markherron1407]

I'm watching Annie Live on NBC right now! Merry Christmas ⛄🎄 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

[@OzmaBara1988]

0:22 - "Kids, it's Little Orphan Annie Time, brought to you by Rich Chocolatey Ovaltine!" Oh I could still taste it. ~Jean Shepard, A Christmas Story

[@themzbonez14]

isnt it time for somebodys favorite radio broadcast? yeah! *rushes to radio*

[@emmatittle22282]

A Christmas Story? One of the best movies to watch around Christmas! Only reason why I came to this.

[@adamnelson4859]

Yeah right lol

[@waivedwench]

Only one thing could have pulled me away from celluloid sex in the window.

[@nostalgik._]

“Hey Kids, It’s Little Orphan Annie Time!”

[@gusalexandrakis5151]

This show and my late mother-in-law had history. In 1930, MIL (age 9) and her brother (age 6) were sent to live at Maryville Academy, an institution in Des Plaines, IL. (Her mother had left the family in 1928, and her father wasn't able to secure sufficient employment [due to the Depression] to care for his kids, so the orphanage was seen as the best alternative). A feisty little girl, MIL determined she would make the best of her situation, and joined in all the activities at her new residence, which included religious and secular education, home ec, gym (basketball and swimming), and various entertainments, including gathering in an assembly hall to listen to children's radio shows (enhanced by use of speakers). Little Orphan Annie was new at the time, and the kids LOVED it, seeing redheaded Annie as 'one of their own'. Eventually, they all learned the theme song, and sang along with the intro. In the end, the orphanage turned out not to be a 'hard knock life', but rather a place of refuge for kids displaced from their homes by various adversities.

[@nk5otr]

Who's that little chatterbox? The one with pretty auburn locks Whom do you see? It's Little Orphan Annie She and Sandy make a pair They never seem to have a care Cute little she This Little Orphan Annie Bright eyes, cheeks a rosy glow There's a store of healthiness handy Mite size, always on the go If you wanna know, "ARF!" says Sandy Always wears a sunny smile Now, wouldn't it be worth the while If you could be Like Little Orphan Annie?

[@MrTommyg024]

"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE." Ovaltine!?! It's a crummy commercial! 😬

[@alexanderip1003]

+MrTommyg024 Present day *BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR CULLIGAN *Canadian Filtered water

[@Kiyoko504]

Welcome to marketing kid!

[@joellafargue9882]

+Robert Mitchum: Let's not mention Donald Trump here! ;o)

[@Theopaulson]

a christmas story

[@captainzachsparrow6193]

Son of a bitch!!

[@brianshajari5944]

A crummy commercial brought me here

[@lb5047]

Who’s here because they like the Annie musical

[@aaronlimbaugh3698]

Kids, it’s little orphan Annie time! Brought to you by rich chocolatey Ovaltine.

[@richardranke7878]

Wow! The entire radio theme from the Little Orphan Annie radio show. Actually, Little Orphan Annie's comic strip began in 1924 and the radio show lasted from 1930 to 1943. Ovaltine was the original sponser, but in the last few years Puffed Wheat Sparkies cereal sponsored them. Joe was from the radio show and only the radio show.

[@subzero8679]

"A crummy commercial?!?! Son of a bitch!!!!"

[@imakecostumes]

Don't borrow money to buy stock, eh! Annie could have saved us 10 years ago! Thanks for these!

[@SamTomaino]

When I was a kid, I always thought Ovaltine tasted slightly medicinal and avoided it like a plague. When my father was a kid, about the time this radio show was broadcast, he thought the same thing. I couple of years ago, they tried to sell it to kid again in these sappy TV commercials. I don't think it worked.

[@Drew__Films]

Anyone else here from "A Christmas Story" ???

[@EagerSleeper]

Joe sounds a lot like Billy West!

[@Mesterius1]

Actually, Harold Gray's original "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip was created in 1924.

[@alexanderip1003]

and in 2014 a 3rd film was developed in the attempt to revive the franchise

[@JmaJeremy514]

Actually, the cartoon was created in 1924 and it was based on a poem from 1885.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Yes, I've heard of that poem. It was called "Little ORPHANT Annie." I've never heard or read the poem, but from what I've heard about it, it was about a little girl who tells scary stories to other children, warning them that "The goblins will get you if you don't watch out." Back in the 1970s or '80s, "Mad" magazine ran a parody of famous poems built on the premise of what would have happened if the poems had "sequels," and one of these was a follow-up to "Little Orphant Annie" entitled "A Farewell to Little Orphant Annie." In the hypothetical sequel, all the children are so frightened by Annie's stories, that they begin to have nightmares, or throw fits. After examining and questioning the kids, a doctor realizes that Annie is the cause of their problems, and recommends that she should be sent to a mental institution, because, as he tells the children's parents, "All kids throw fits/when you let weirdo orphan girls/scare them out of their wits." The poem ends with Annie in the institution, where she imagines that she hears strange voices saying "We're goblins who'll get Annie/if she don't watch out."

[@hillbillyprofane]

@TofuttiRutti Wow, that's really interesting! Thanks for sharing that!

[@meadowluvskurt]

hillbillyprofane Omg hey-

[@UglyBarnical58]

its a major award!

[@UglyBarnical58]

Bing Crosby's Ghost i think it says fragile dear

[@josephhale9198]

Ovaltine had nothing to do with the major award. The decoder. And the lamp was 2 different awards

[@Anthony_Spilotro]

The things they did to sell a product...

[@TyBardy]

pretty tame by todays standards to be honest.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Technically, Little Orphan Annie first appeared as a comic strip in 1924. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie

[@quinnmccaffery7783]

Ah, Rosa my little Bambino.

[@mrFalconlem]

Ovaltine is still big in England, kinda like Quik here.

[@IAmBrooklynGizMoe]

OH CMON RALPHIE I GOTTA GO

[@timdaugherty4014]

I wish Grace was in this.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Why did they cut off the last few minutes of this episode?

[@ACluelessKid]

"Keenest"? Mm.. Fantastic.

[@JMFabiano]

Is this Pierre Andre?

[@kinura8]

What was the studio organ used for these broadcasts?

[@tomorrowmorning8360]

When I’m stuck with a day that’s grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin and grin and sayyyyyyooooohhh” Oops sorry that wouldn’t come along for about 40 years or so, when Andrea McArdle would become a 13 year old nominee for a Tony Award on Broadway. Her co-star Sandy was a rescue from a Connecticut shelter and stayed with the show the entire 6 year run of the original production.

[@sadvictoriam3543]

That doesn’t sound like a baby!

[@JMFabiano]

Red cabbage?

[@tjszuch]

How do you get the secret decoder pin?!

[@mardigus]

Don't shoot your eye out.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

14 people didn't drink their Ovaltine

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

Ovaltive 'looks' so chocolaty 😂😂😂

[@Kiyoko504]

Its chocolate Water!

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

​@@Kiyoko504 Isn't that supposed to be made with milk, and not water?

[@mrFalconlem]

chocolate milk. duh.

[@quetnique]

@xg1optimusprimex LMBO hilarious!

[@Janegrannis]

Ovaltine will increase the food energy value of milk?!

[@rperlberg]

In other words, it gives you a sugar high.

[@mardigus]

That's some serious propaganda.

[@espositolne]

lol so much lies about milk and ovaltine. "easier to digest" "hmm my kid keeps crapping his pants after he drinks his milk, maybe ovaltine will work"