What happens
Jack Benny and his radio cast trade holiday gift stories and New Year's Eve tales on this early 1941 broadcast. Jack and Don Wilson compare exchanging unwanted Christmas presents, including Phil Harris's gift that Jack returned. Mary Livingstone teases Jack about his New Year's Eve, and Dennis Day sings a new number. Phil presents an inflated expense account, and Jack and Don share the story of a Rose Bowl outing that went badly. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on January 5, 1941, on NBC and CBS Radio.
A radio studio broadcast in early January 1941, with mentions of a department store, a New Year's party at the Wilshire Bowl, and the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Gladys, Eddie
Listen for: Phil Harris's expense account, with Jack reading out the itemized charges, and the Rose Bowl story told by Mary and Dennis.
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.