What happens
Jack Benny celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of announcer Don Wilson's career in radio on his program, which airs on NBC and CBS in 1938. Wilson's friends, including Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris, tease him about his early days as a singer in a trio and about his weight. Livingstone reads a flattering poem written in his honor, and Harris dedicates a song to him. Benny and Harris trade insults, and Benny attempts to hire a substitute announcer to plug the sponsor's product. Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger then visit, and Benny plays their new song, Thanks for the Memory, on violin.
A radio studio during a Jell-O broadcast, celebrating Don Wilson's fifteenth year in radio.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Listen for: Mary Livingstone's poem for Don Wilson, and Jack Benny's violin performance of Thanks for the Memory.
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.