ep01 First Tune - For Me and My Gal: Aladdin Lamp

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“ep01 First Tune - For Me and My Gal” is an episode of Aladdin Lamp, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

This is the first episode of the Aladdin Lamp series, which is a radio program of commercials and songs. It opens with a song called For Me and My Gal, followed by a sales pitch from Martin Ed McConnell, the Aladdin lamp man. He invites listeners to visit his store to see the company's new line of Aladdin lamps with Whippa light shades, which he says will make housework easier and home life more pleasant. He suggests the lamps make good gifts and good study lamps for children. The program then closes with a hymn, I Serve a Risen Savior, and a farewell from McConnell, who says the show will return next time.

A radio broadcast of the Aladdin Lamp program, with a commercial pitch for Aladdin lamps and a closing hymn.

Characters: Martin Ed McConnell

Listen for: The song For Me and My Gal near the opening, and the sales pitch for the Aladdin lamps with Whippa light shades.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.