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Lonesome Gal

Heard
1951
Episodes
18

The few surviving installments of the legendary syndicated old-time radio program, in which Jean King, as Lonesome Gal, fashioned a fifteen-minute-daily persona as the kind-of virtual girl friend to thousands of lonely male listeners in the 1950s. Her trademarks included brief talks between music selections, talks that usually (but not always) ended in a conversational reference to the coming song's title. She even cut a record of her theme song, "Lonesome Gal"---as did Margaret Whiting, Dinah Shore, and Teresa Brewer.

More about it

She habitually appeared in a cat-eye shaped mask for personal appearances to preserve the mystique at the height of her show's popularity. Created while she was herself lonely in Dayton, Ohio, after a none-too-successful try as an actress in California, King brought the show to Los Angeles and syndicated it around the country with the help of the "Dragnet" radio producer she eventually married.

This set includes two selections from 1949 in which the music was excised but King's talks, complete with Bond Street Tobacco commercials woven in, remain intact. They had no titles originally

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Cockeyed Optimist

    · 15 min

  2. In the Still of the Night

    · 17 min

  3. My Foolish Heart

    · 18 min

  4. Cheek to Cheek

    · 14 min

  5. It's Too Late Now

    · 15 min

  6. The Moon is Yellow

    · 17 min

  7. For Sentimental Reasons

    · 17 min

  8. A Typical Western Style (Featuring Sarah Vaughan)

    · 17 min

  9. She Announces Cutting a Record of Her Theme Song

    · 17 min

  10. Advert--Cutting A Record of Theme Song

    · 0:32

  11. You Want to Be Loved

    · 16 min

  12. Someday I'll Find You

    · 13 min

  13. To Each His Own

    · 15 min

  14. Till the End of Time

    · 16 min

  15. LonesomeGal-49XXX Voice Only (1)

    No date given · No. 1 · 6:50

  16. LonesomeGal-49XXX Voice Only (2)

    No date given · No. 2 · 7:06

  17. LG 1949 (Voice Only) A

    No date given · 6:48

  18. LG 1949 (Voice Only) B

    No date given · 7:04

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Lonesome Gal

    Old Time Radio · 15 episodes here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  2. Lonesome Gal 15 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 3 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

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

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