Jack Benny · November 19, 1944 · 29 min · 3,389 words
The transcript of “Broadcast from the Corona Naval Hospital, California”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast November 19, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
Machine transcript (may contain errors).
The Jack Benny program. Lucky Strike means find tobacco, so round, so firm, so fully packed. So free and easy on the draw. L-s-m-f-t, l-s-m-f-t, l-s-m-f-t, y sure, of course. Lucky Strike means find tobacco, so round, so firm, so fully packed.
so free and easy on the draw if you were president of the tobacco markets now open in the south you could see lucky strike consistently selected by the finer the lighter the naturally milder lucky strike tobacco and this finer lighter naturally milder lucky strike tobacco means real deep down smoking enjoyment for you so smoke the smoke tobacco expert smoke lucky strike from the
In the U.S. Naval Hospital at Corona, we bring you the Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny. With Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, yours truly Don Wilson, and our new singer, Larry Stevens. Ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, one of America's great naval heroes, Captain James Lawrence once said, don't give up the ship. So now we bring you a man who wouldn't give up anything, Jack Benny!
Yep. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Hello again. This is Jack Benny talking. And Don, that was a very clever introduction, except for one thing. It just so happens that it wasn't Captain James Lawrence who said don't give up the ship.
It was John Paul Jones. Oh, no, no, no, Jack, you're wrong. It was Captain James Lawrence. No, Don, no, no. The Captain Lawrence said don't shoot until they make eyes at you. It was John Paul Jones who said don't give up the ship.
It was Captain James Lawrence. It was John Paul Jones and I ought to know because I'm an old Navy man myself. That's right, Jack. You were in the Navy during the last war, weren't you?
74 more paragraphs, about 27 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listKeep listening with Potato Plus: every episode, on demand, from any moment.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listAll Jack Benny transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive
New channels, the best find from the archive, and what is coming up. One email a week.