Double Feature:

ORGANIST ROSA RIO
Plus
SECOND TIER RADIO COMEDIANS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 1, 1997

ROSA RIO—

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES (7-16-48) Isolated episode of the long-running daytime series, “dedicated to everyone who has ever been in love.”  Rosa Rio apparently provides the organ theme music.

BILL STERN SPORTS NEWSREEL (8-2-46) The fabled sportscaster and storyteller has boxing stories about John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey. Rosa Rio apparently provides organ accompaniment.

FRONT PAGE FARRELL (7-2-48) Isolated episode of the daytime drama about a “crack newspaperman and his wife.”  Apparently Rosa Rio at the organ.

SPEAKING OF RADIO (4-12-97) In a phone conversation, Chuck Schaden talks with organist Rosa Rio in her home in Sun City, Florida as she talks about her career during the golden days of radio.

ROSA RIO TIME (7-1-47) In this daily program, Rosa Rio plays the organ and piano at the same time, offering such selections as “Humoresque” and “Stormy Weather.”

LORENZO JONES (4-30-45) The mayor pays a visit to the Jones’ residence in this isolated episode of the long-running daytime series. Apparently Rosa Rio provides the organ theme.

PLUS—

SECOND TIER RADIO COMEDIANS—

STARTIME (2-27-51) Jack Pearl stars as “Baron Munchausen with Cliff Hall as “Sharlie” in a “potpourri of melody and comedy a la carte.”  The Baron has written an opera and wants guests Ray Middleton and Mimi Benzelle to star in it. Audition program for a possible series.

JOE PENNER SHOW (1938) Joe, a student at “Huskies College,” has been signed up by his roommate to join the college Glee Club.

EDDIE CANTOR SHOW (1-24-45) Cantor stars with Bert Gordon, the Mad Russian.  Eddie’s wife Ida wants a divorce and Cantor asks the Russian to help clear things.