Monthly Archives: December 2016

The Happiness Boys was a popular radio program of the early 1920s. It featured the vocal duo of tenor Billy Jones and bass/baritone Ernie Hare, who sang novelty songs. Jones and Hare were already established as soloists on phonograph records. One of Jones’s better solos was “Mary Lou,” while Hare scored with the Yuletide novelty […]

“One Man’s Family” * Created by Carlton E. Morse, “One Man’s Family” was heard for nearly 3 decades (1932 to 1959), making it the longest running, uninterrupted serial, in the history of American Radio. One Man’s Family debuted as a radio series on April 29, 1932 in Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco, moving to […]