# Lonesome Gal

Heard 1951. 18 episodes.

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. 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

## Sets

- Lonesome Gal (Old Time Radio): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/LonesomeGal
- Lonesome Gal 15 Eps (Old Time Radio): Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/LonesomeGal_431

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Cockeyed Optimist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/ee731a993dc8), aired 22 January 1951 (15 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510122CockeyedOptimist.mp3
1. [In the Still of the Night](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/8c0dea67a0df), aired 1 February 1951 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510201InTheStillOfTheNight.mp3
1. [My Foolish Heart](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/0769c849a5f4), aired 2 February 1951 (18 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510202MyFoolishHeart.mp3
1. [Cheek to Cheek](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/caa19a6dedda), aired 5 February 1951 (14 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510205CheekToCheek.mp3
1. [It's Too Late Now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/1cec843f9158), aired 6 February 1951 (15 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510206ItsTooLateNow.mp3
1. [The Moon is Yellow](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/ef40ff1716b3), aired 7 February 1951 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510207TheMoonIsYellow.mp3
1. [For Sentimental Reasons](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/68e0d8fd21d3), aired 8 February 1951 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510208ForSentimentalReasons.mp3
1. [A Typical Western Style (Featuring Sarah Vaughan)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/aaa64f714d25), aired 15 February 1951 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510215ATypicalWesternStylefeaturingSarahVaughan.mp3
1. [She Announces Cutting a Record of Her Theme Song](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/e7fc8f72035e), aired 15 February 1951 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510215SheAnnouncesCuttingARecordOfHerThemeSong.mp3
1. [Advert--Cutting A Record of Theme Song](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/ddd5ec5a9038), aired 15 February 1951 (0:32): not offered here
1. [You Want to Be Loved](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/1bcc07e52c35), aired 2 March 1951 (16 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510302YouWantToBeLoved.mp3
1. [Someday I'll Find You](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/1bede197c891), aired 20 March 1951 (13 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510320SomedayIllFindYou.mp3
1. [To Each His Own](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/446ac2a65ffa), aired 29 March 1951 (15 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510329ToEachHisOwn.mp3
1. [Till the End of Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/9fdceb348da5), aired 2 April 1951 (16 min): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-510402TillTheEndOfTime.mp3
1. [LonesomeGal-49XXX Voice Only (1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/3850f7fff966) (6:50): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-49xxxVoiceOnly1.mp3
1. [LonesomeGal-49XXX Voice Only (2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/28a425027876) (7:06): https://archive.org/download/LonesomeGal/Lonesomegal-49xxxVoiceOnly2.mp3
1. [LG 1949 (Voice Only) A](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/2d84187c1184) (6:48): not offered here
1. [LG 1949 (Voice Only) B](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/lonesome-gal/2f5932a5a974) (7:04): not offered here

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. An episode whose only basis is its uploader's public-domain mark is not played, as that law protects it; one under its rights holder's licence plays everywhere.