First Song - Where The Old Red River Flows: Mother's Best Flour (January 9, 1951)

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“First Song - Where The Old Red River Flows” is an episode of Mother's Best Flour, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 9, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Mother's Best Flour is a 1951 episode in which the sponsor's radio show opens with a Hank Williams song and a light morning setting in a farmhouse kitchen, with a host playing a little boy called Mother's Best Little Boy and inviting listeners in for biscuits. The program mixes song performances, a couple of cast members chatting about the day, and several commercial messages for the sponsor's flour, cornmeal and farm feed. Carl Jenkins is mentioned as the first to arrive at the studio that morning, and the musicians discuss records and a steel guitar. The broadcast was originally aired on January 9, 1951. The transcript covers only the first part of the program.

A radio studio and a farmhouse kitchen, broadcast in the morning

Characters: Hank Williams, Louie, Carl Jenkins, Mother's Best Little Boy

Listen for: Hank Williams singing 'Where the Old Red River Flows' and the sponsor's flour and cornmeal commercials

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.