The Radio Fight of the Century - Comedy Series 11 & 12
Vinyl Condition VG
Description from the Sleeve -
THE famous radio feud between Fred (Hatfield) Alien and Jack (McCoy) Benny that has been rocking America's air minded listeners with laughter for more than a year, has now passed into history. But anything as funny as that feud shouldn't be allowed to do anything of the kind— which is why we've re-created it in print. Here's the whole furious fight, from beginning to end, ready for the first time for you to read.
How did it start? Well, it actually began when a gent named Schubert wrote a harmless composition called "The Bee". For years Jack Benny had been hankering to play "The Bee" on his program as a violin solo, and for years he had been discouraged, sometimes by sheer force. But one night he came out flatfooted with the announcement that, come what might, he would play "The Bee" by request—his own. Presumably Fred Alien listened in that night, because the following Wednesday we find him firing the opening shot in the feud:
FRED: Ladies and gentlemen, Sunday last an itinerant vendor of desserts who has a sideline called by some, a radio program, announced to an apprehensive world that he would murder a Bee. This dire news has seeped into every nook and cranny of the country, and I understand citizens are fleeing these shores by the thousands rather than submit to such torture. ................
ID. 100051 - Jack Benny vs. Fred Allen - Radiola Label ID. 2 MR-2930
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