Bob Hope Christmas Eve At The Front 1943

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12 жыл бұрын

Bob Hope Hosts Christmas Eve At The Front This Show Stars Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Original Air Date Was 12/24/1943. Originally broadcast from 10-11:15pm(et), and carried on all four broadcast networks {NBC, CBS, Blue, Mutual}; this was the NBC "feed".

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@Ladysensei 3 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic My father served in 4th Marine Division (Saipan, Tinian, Roy Namur and Iwo Jima) he was a Radio Operator and after the war he went on to get a degree in broadcasting and was a DJ with Alan Freed in Cleveland, Ohio and then moved to Charleston, SC to a career with WCSC Radio and later in 1952 television.

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! You father lived an interesting life. Thanks for your family's service. Bet he had some great stories to tell.

@lukejackson4964 3 жыл бұрын

Hi There Ladysensei!! Your pop and mine might’ve fought together!! My dad was also a Marine but in a intel unit attached to the the second division. Fought at tarawa, Saipan, Ron Namur and Titian. He’s actually the very same Harry A. Jackson that speaks at the 38 min mark in this clip!!! Someone just sent this to me randomly tonight. He was an incredible artist and had an incredible life but I never knew about this little episode. If you want to see some of his vast body of work check out the insta I run for him @harryjacksoninstitute!!!

@solepropt 3 жыл бұрын

@@lukejackson4964 Bless your Father and the brave Boys and Men alike who put their lives on the line to save our wonderful country. I am glad that they are not here in 2021 to see the evil which seems to be the new normal. If they were still of the age that they were in 1943, they would be absolutely livid at the election fraud perpetrated by the Scumbag Democrats which ended in the theft of our Presidency and the false Impeachment of the greatest president since George Washington.I believe that they would have fought and died to right this wrong.

@michelewhite8241 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@gregorypalmer5403 Жыл бұрын

Was he Joe Pinkston ? He was a Yankee in SC going back to WWII days and was on South Carolina Public Radio still into the 1980s " playing old records" and he had thousands of followers including me.

@franklinbolander1916 3 жыл бұрын

MAN THIS STUFF IS SOLID GOLD.!...NOTICE THIS WAS A FEW YEARS BEFORE LIONEL BARRYMORE PLAYED IN ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE!

@suryclind 7 жыл бұрын

I adored Bob Hope and when I feel lonely I watch all the old Bob Hope Specials in some sad war torn country..he was a national treasure..I miss him and his wonderful spirit..my late husband taught me the love of radio.

@judy9521 6 жыл бұрын

Stari Night - I totally agree with you. when life becomes a little too hard, I can always count on Bob Hope to cheer me up. 😊

@Brad4Ellis 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve shared the wonders of Old Time Radio with my wife - and if she outlives me, I bet these old shows will give her comfort!

@johnrbarton3504 4 жыл бұрын

I've thought the same thing many times.

@deasunja1367 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Stari Night, I am looking back to some greats of old before hosting a Christmas broadcast tomorrow night 6:30 pm Arizona time kvan.fm I can't guarantee the host will light up the special but I am sure at least the live music will. Talias Van's Bright and Morning Star Choir and Orchestra will follow the Youth Choir which opens. Blessings.

@garycarpenter2980 Жыл бұрын

I wasn't born when they had these radio shows but it seems like I was there

@nickgeorge2176 3 жыл бұрын

It was a very sad time in human history, Bob Hope was brilliant ,no one has matched him to this day.

@danielroque8504 2 жыл бұрын

Agree! And no one ever will, in my lifetime!

@williamdrylie7951 Жыл бұрын

Nothing sucked more than being on a patrol Christmas Eve into Christmas Day in a RVN jungle 1971. Listening to this, memories flood the mind.

@dotdominy230 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, GOD BLESS

@williamdrylie7951 Жыл бұрын

@@dotdominy230 No thanks are necessary, it was my duty and a privilege as a United States citizen to serve my country. I enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps and served my incurred service time all six years on active duty. wldrylie SSgt USMC 1970 - 1976 active duty.

@topekatecumsehkansas8299 11 жыл бұрын

This was during WWII when I was in the forth grade - still remember much.

@paulbacchus1015 4 жыл бұрын

Bob Hope ' the comic's comic' these are the kind of rarities I love. Thanks for posting. Paul Bacchus esq

@alitlweird 10 жыл бұрын

i was born in the wrong decade. *sigh* glad this stuff is still around and available.

@46619TAB 8 жыл бұрын

+alitlweird I'm a 1954 Baby Boomer. My dad enlisted December 8, 1941, my mom wrapped bandages with the Red Cross. I grew up with music of the Big Band era wafting thru the house, the great film classics checked out from the library and I still tear up when I hear "I'll be Seeing You" especially when sung by Frances Langford!

@alitlweird 8 жыл бұрын

30s & 40s America is the epitome of class and elegance.

@46619TAB 8 жыл бұрын

alitlweird Indeed.

@ruthannpayne9010 5 жыл бұрын

alitlweird agreed

@erniepianezza8940 5 жыл бұрын

Justin Harris I was born in 1960, but believe i was around in the 40's i love everything about them!! :-)

@darindavis9250 6 жыл бұрын

That was awesome to hear what it was like in the 40's

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

The air is cold with early, chill, dark nights...the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsuoZc-l3tGyhIE.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZfaq.

@michelewhite8241 Жыл бұрын

This means so much to me. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this. A heart felt "thank you".

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening to it on the channel Michele.

@stevenkarras3490 Жыл бұрын

agree 100%!!!!!

@kevinparent7521 5 жыл бұрын

After watching the funeral of President HW Bush I listened to this broadcast. What a sacrifice that generation made for our freedom. Too bad today’s snowflakes do not appreciate the ground they walk on due to these brave souls. God Bless those who serve and served and God Bless America.

@woodyhayes7402 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with all except injecting HW Bush (#41) in that generation. Guy was a certifiable Globalist piece of shit, while parading around like he was a Patriotic American.

@raydematio7585 5 жыл бұрын

Bush served his country honorably and you have no right to question his service

@woodyhayes7402 5 жыл бұрын

@@raydematio7585 - I reserve the right to question any and all public servants. I also reserve the right to make a FACTUAL STATEMENT. Now, you are a fanboy and believe whatever you want, but for me FACTS will guide my thoughts. I'll bet you also think Ronald Reagan was a great conservative leader too?

@nickrossi217 4 жыл бұрын

@@woodyhayes7402 gee, i wonder why Gen Patton at the end of the war said we were fighting the wrong enemy? o. go down to the local mall and see what he was talking about.

@woodyhayes7402 4 жыл бұрын

@@nickrossi217 - Yah, I get what you're saying, but what you see at the local mall is a by-product of the Globalist/Central Bankers who I think Patton was really referring to.

@svetlanarodriguez7429 3 жыл бұрын

I miss shortwave and AM radio before digital ruined it.

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 3 жыл бұрын

Think a lot of us missed it.

@radiotv9509 6 жыл бұрын

I remember linting to this on CBS when I was in 2nd grade our whole family gathered in the den by the radio to hear it I loved those times where we would forget drama and just sit and talk people never do that now they just play on there stupid phones oh how times have changed

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 6 жыл бұрын

radiotv 950 Sounds great! Good times!

@Ironworthstriking 3 жыл бұрын

You’re not wrong but I bet your grandfather thought “people never talk anymore they just sit around and listen to the damn radio!”

@michelewhite8241 Жыл бұрын

agree.. they are so connected, that they are disconnected . Blessings to you.

@Vidiod 10 жыл бұрын

Love the old radio shows - my dad listen to all of 'em - thanks for sharing!

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

@beacee 5 жыл бұрын

Such a different time and place.. Thanks for posting!

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 5 жыл бұрын

Unlike the craziness going on now! ha! Thanks so much for listening!

@judy9521 5 жыл бұрын

You had me at “ Bob Hope”.😊😍

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 5 жыл бұрын

Think that gets most people!

@JOHNHANCOCK1964 10 жыл бұрын

no..thank you sir for preserving these great old shows..they're great. :)

@judy9521 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for up loading this jewel.👏👍I can listen to Bob Hope all day long. 😊

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 6 жыл бұрын

Great! Have tons of Bob Hope on my channel!

@drakepatrick3261 6 жыл бұрын

Back again for my yearly tradition

@RDobbs-uv4xc Жыл бұрын

Ditto

@viciousrage5548 4 жыл бұрын

3 more months till Christmas Eve and another listen of this great radio broadcast

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 4 жыл бұрын

Hope many more to come! Thanks for listening.

@viciousrage5548 4 жыл бұрын

OTR HALLOWEENHOLIDAZE no problem! First listened to this broadcast last Christmas on a foggy night in concord in a car driving. I stopped having family Christmas’s a long time ago. This broadcast helped me feel a bit of what those Americans felt oh so long ago and I hope listening to these old broadcasts can keep their legacy alive.

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 4 жыл бұрын

@@viciousrage5548 People always have more interesting stories of how the listen to these shows that I do. Thanks for sharing.

@eddiemunster2196 2 жыл бұрын

My grand mom, would have remembered this, my mom was, 8 years 0ld.in 1943. But an eight-year-old really doesn't pay attention to things like this but maybe the Christmas music

@gregorypalmer5403 Жыл бұрын

They don't remember the words but they remember the shows and hearing them during the Christmas season. Many many discussions with my Mom, aged 90, about all this. 11 years old, almost 12, when this broadcast came out and we haven't discussed this particular broadcast but a. living in Detroit, " the Arsenal of Democracy" , and b. three young uncles in the Service, over the Oceans, she has given us a ton of real life history from this time. The things people whine and sob about or advocate for, today , are almost criminally trivial compared to real life and real things back then, really not long ago at all if you knew your parents and grandparents.

@gregorypalmer5403 Жыл бұрын

Tell Grampa Munster Hello from Detroit !

@fromthesidelines 11 жыл бұрын

NBC had already separated itself from the "Blue" network in October 1943, after Edward J. Noble acquired it; he was planning to change the "Blue" identification as soon as he was able to secure the rights to the name "American Broadcasting Company" (which he did, by late 1944- from then until June 1945, the standard closing I.D.became, "This is the Blue network of the American Broadcasting Company.").

@midmodgal 12 жыл бұрын

10:31 Where the guys all yell "Merry Christmas" Great stuff, Steppy!

@bill2066 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE this stuff!!

@shawnmalone9711 3 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas 2020!🎇🎆⛄⛄

@fromthesidelines 12 жыл бұрын

Originally broadcast from 10-11:15pm(et), and carried on all four broadcast networks {NBC, CBS, Blue, Mutual}; this was the NBC "feed".

@caszelestey 7 жыл бұрын

thank you for this program

@splitter226 10 жыл бұрын

Great share - Thank You!

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 10 жыл бұрын

No Problem! Have many more!

@danielroque8504 2 жыл бұрын

Back when our minds were filled with good thoughts!!

@michelewhite8241 Жыл бұрын

Amen!!!

@PaulGruendlerBeau 3 жыл бұрын

"Franklin, Winston and Joe"? Say it ain't so!

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

@micderpenstien7846 Жыл бұрын

Stories of pain and you blew them off

@viktorgadany7595 4 жыл бұрын

When radio rein king.

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

@Jason59012003 12 жыл бұрын

That's friggin' sweet!

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

@donlove3741 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Hope !

@stevenwatsham5973 5 ай бұрын

Its just a shame that the world has turned out the way it is! 😢😢😢

@chrissweet5740 3 жыл бұрын

Wondering how the Dave the Dude story really ended. 😄 Sounds like they cut the Sailor's ribald tale midway. "She was four feet tall and five feet wide". 😂😂😂. Anyone have the skinny on how it ended? 😉😁😄

@NEPatriot 11 жыл бұрын

NBC in this case was NBC "Red". The Blue network would eventually become ABC.

@sgtgaryacompany3279 4 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness something of our past greatness and the past 3 years we've returned to greatness without a Democrat war that Democrats started since the Korean conflict.

@Dulcimertunes Жыл бұрын

Listening on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2022

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 12 жыл бұрын

@KFCVideos1 Thanks! Come Back For More Shows! Merry Christmas!

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 12 жыл бұрын

@applecorpse1 Thank You!

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 12 жыл бұрын

@midmodgal You also have to dig the deep southern accent!

@otterhouse 11 жыл бұрын

16inch transcription disc??? And, yep, wow again...

@drakepatrick3261 7 жыл бұрын

They don't do this anymore.

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 7 жыл бұрын

It's a shame! Thanks for listening!

@mrchops4099 2 жыл бұрын

LOL I don’t believe it. Voice actors. I still love it though. 🇺🇸♥️💯

@johnsakowicz6723 5 жыл бұрын

I had to listen to this to remember what made America great. The last two years of 2017-2018 have been such a disappointment.

@raydematio7585 5 жыл бұрын

Go away miserable idiot

@raydematio7585 5 жыл бұрын

I am disappointed that you annoy people with this stupid depressing message. Please do us all a favour and go away.

@cianperdisatt2587 4 жыл бұрын

@@raydematio7585 agreed

@emmgeevideo 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, I thought “Go away miserable idiot” referred to the poor substitute for presidential leadership in the White House today. FDR he isn’t.

@nickgeorge2176 3 жыл бұрын

America these days needs to stop voting in democrats communist shit.

@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE 12 жыл бұрын

@Jason59012003 Thanks! Ha!

@antinotis 9 жыл бұрын

Well, it's too bad that we didn't "get along" with Marshal Stalin. But, I think that was mostly his fault.

@TowGunner 7 жыл бұрын

Stephen Michaels Ya think?

@terryrussel523 7 жыл бұрын

"A Dictator and mass murder of his own people, (starting with Russia's most experienced and successful Military officers, political rivals, church officials, businessmen ) and then Anyone, man woman or child, who stood in his way. Enslaver of millions who found themselves under his control after the war, he gave back nothing he ever got his mitts on without milking the life out of it first. One more of one to many who were allowed to die in a warm bed at an old age." A Russian who became a citizen of the U.S. (the good old fashioned legal way) when I was a teenager told me a lot of things you won't find in any history books published in the U.S. in the last 30 years.

@jacksontroy6742 5 жыл бұрын

He was a piece of shit and so is Trump

@butchyshoe 3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksontroy6742 another fu3ken Dummikrate

@woodyhayes7402 7 ай бұрын

I wonder what happened to "dave the dude"

@listeningeyes9990 3 жыл бұрын

When leaving comments, Please use punctuation marks instead of making your comments one LONG sentence.

@RandomHud 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t tell us what to do you are a petty little person who is missing the point of these comments and bringing negative energy to this post mind your own business

@listeningeyes9990 3 жыл бұрын

Lora P, Another example of one LONG sentence.

@solepropt 3 жыл бұрын

@@listeningeyes9990 GFY. How was that?