Marjorie Flipped over Crooner Larry Lake: The Great Gildersleeve (March 5, 1947)

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“Marjorie Flipped over Crooner Larry Lake” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 5, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Marjorie Gildersleeve is so taken with the crooner Larry Lake that she plays his records constantly and fills her room with pictures of him. Her uncle, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, finds the noise and the infatuation intolerable and tries to put a stop to it. Friends and neighbors, including Peavey at the hardware store and Judge Hooker, offer their opinions on how to handle a teenager's crush. Gildersleeve decides to steer Marjorie toward better music, and Eve Goodwin's advice shapes his approach. This is The Great Gildersleeve, a comedy series heard on NBC, first broadcast on March 5, 1947, with Harold Peary in the title role.

Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve household and around town

Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Marjorie Forrester, Leroy, Bertie, Peavey, Judge Hooker, Eve Goodwin, Larry Lake

Listen for: Gildersleeve's exasperation with Larry Lake's records and Marjorie's enthusiasm for them, and the family breakfast table exchanges

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.