What happens
Jack Benny returns from New York, where his song was turned down by publishers. Back home, Jack's friends try to spare his feelings, and Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Dennis Day all have their own troubles. Jack later dreams that the New York Symphony performs his song at Carnegie Hall, with Mary, Phil and Dennis among the audience and a series of surreal interruptions. This is the Jack Benny program, broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles. The episode first aired on February 17, 1952.
Jack Benny's home and Carnegie Hall in New York
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Martin Jones, Sergei Dimitrikov
Listen for: Jack's dream sequence at Carnegie Hall, where the New York Symphony performs his rejected song
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.