In 1964, the Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company celebrated its 100th anniversary in business. The company had sponsored several radio shows through the years and put together this “clip” show featuring some of the greatest moments from those programs. The show was hosted by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and broadcast by NBC on November 15, 1964.
In 1964, people were not listening to this type of program in great numbers, but the newspaper did their best to help promote it. Here is an article which appeared in the Daily Review, Hayward, CA:
The second story is from the Great Bend Tribune, Great Bend, KS:
The program was also issued on an unofficial album:
The Stewart clip was taken from the broadcast of May 10, 1953, and features “Zeke: Stewart and Mortimer Snerd, in what may well be the funniest sketch in which Stewart was ever involved.
