Project Audion Episode 46: The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show

Project Audion returns with some great laughs! Even if you don't recall Phil Harris, you would know his voice from Disney movies. But he was Jack Benny's radio bandleader for years, and then he and his real-life movie-star wife, Alice Faye, got their own spinoff radio series. In the late 1940s and early 1950s the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was a masterclass in radio comedy. Harris (charming, egotistical, smooth, Southern) and Faye ( grounded, smart, and only occasionally the movie star) were surrounded by eccentric regulars like Elliot Lewis as Phil’s band buddy Remley, and Walter Tetley as the little kid Julius - and each week the happy result could be heard in the gales of laughter from the live studio audience. Former Bob Hope comedy writer Robert L. Mills was a fan of the show growing up, and has penned a pitch-perfect recreation for our coast-to-coast Project Audion cast to recreate!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices