# Kate Smith Hour

Networks named by its archives: Mutual. Heard 1939–1946. 4 episodes.

For eight years (1937–45), The Kate Smith Hour was a leading radio variety show, offering comedy, music and drama with appearances by top personalities of films and theater. The nationwide audience was introduced to comedy by the show's resident comics, Abbott and Costello and Henny Youngman, while a series of sketches led to The Aldrich Family as a spin-off in 1940. She continued into the 1950s on the Mutual Broadcasting System, CBS, ABC, and NBC, doing both music and talk shows.

## Sets

- Kate Smith Hour (Old Time Radio): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/Kate_Smith_Hour
- Kate Smith Show (Listeners' uploads): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/kate-smith-show

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Guest Al Jolson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/kate-smith/3692a42e092b), aired 29 December 1939 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/Kate_Smith_Hour/1939-12-29_Xxxx_-_Kate_Smith_Hour_-_Guest_Al_Jolson.mp3
1. [Guest Jackie Gleason](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/kate-smith/0fa32518ae77), aired 24 December 1944 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/Kate_Smith_Hour/1944-12-24_Xxxx_-_Kate_Smith_Hour_-_Guest_Jackie_Gleason.mp3
1. [Guest Gene Kelly](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/kate-smith/4271e949bd0c), aired 4 April 1946 (25 min): https://archive.org/download/Kate_Smith_Hour/1946-04-04_Xxxx_-_Kate_Smith_Hour_-_Guest_Gene_Kelly.mp3
1. [Kate Smith Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/kate-smith/45fcde7c31e8) (29 min): https://archive.org/download/kate-smith-show/Kate%20Smith%20Show.mp3

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.