Frankie Borrows Phils New Chartreuse Car: The Phil Harris (October 2, 1949)

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“Frankie Borrows Phils New Chartreuse Car” is an episode of The Phil Harris, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 2, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Phil Harris and Alice Faye star in this 1949 episode of The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, which first aired on NBC on October 2, 1949. Phil discovers that his friend Frankie Remley has borrowed his new chartreuse Cadillac once again. Phil devises a scheme to teach Frankie a lesson, giving him $300 to buy a used car for Alice. Frankie, however, plans to keep the money and buy a car for himself, and the arrangement goes awry when he picks out a battered old automobile.

The Harris household and the used car lots of Hollywood, California

Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Julius, Curly

Listen for: Frankie's scheme to buy a used car for himself with the money Phil gives him for Alice, and the battered car he brings home instead.

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.