"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air." - Jack Benny
Try not to hack at the ball in jail or put the ball in pocket, just choke down on your nine-iron and hit that jumper out of the kitty litter! This is a quadruple bogey!
If that made sense to you, you will enjoy OTRCAT's new Golf Collection featuring golf-themed old time radio shows from a variety of genres including comedy, drama, and even science fiction. Sport broadcaster Bill Stern interviews famous golfers. Avid celebrity golfers Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, and even Charlie McCarthy have many a golf playing antics.
More highlights in this special Golf Old Timed Radio Collection include:
- Fibber & Molly go to a picnic on a golf course!!!
- Charlie McCarthy & WC Fields spend some time together on the green.
- In X-Minus One, a golfer is challenged by a perfect robotic golfer for the hand of a millionaire's daughter.
- Rare broadcast of Coca Cola Top Notchers with Grantland rice interviewing professional golfer, Stewart Maiden.
- In the March of Time, a female golfer in the Philippines, a former washerman, wins an open golf tournament.
- Detective Frank Race is kept on par by beautiful golfing women and a murder.
- In a rare recording of Eversharp Schick Varities, Ted Husing interviews golfer Craig Wood.
- In an early 1935 broadcast of Ripley's Believe It or Not, Robert Ripley talks about strange marriage practices, hair weaves and golf oddities.
- Olin Dutra (the 1934 US Open Golf Champ) guest stars on Al Jolson's Shell Chateau.
Many more aces are included in this collection sure to almost beat 18 holes on the fairway.
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