Legends of Radio: The Ultimate Jack Benny Collection with Booklet (Legends of Radio)

Wonderful Collection of Classic Jack Benny 2005-03-14 I have become a huge fan of Jack Benny through this collection. The collection spans his entire career in radio. His humor is timeless, so I catch all of the jokes. I can not speak highly enough about this CD collection.

I was at a book signing with Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep) and mentioned that I had recently heard her on the Jack Benny Show (not on this CD collection, sorry) She responded that Jack Benny was a genius. I have listened to many other old radio comedy shows and I have to agree with her. Benny set the standard for comedy radio.

I have found the recent TV programing to be rather uninteresting and these CD's have helped fill the void. They nice to play when doing the dishes or other things that require your visual attention. They are of course wonderful on long car trips.

Now on the the actual collection. The case they come in is well made, very portable and holds the CDs well . Sometimes they are a little sticky on coming out of the plastic sleeves. Possible problem if your trying to drive a car. This collection comes with a very nice pamplet that fits inside the case which talks about each program and lists all of the guests. Some radio shows were serial and left you with cliffhangers. Bennys show was typically not like that although they sometimes had running jokes.

Now I understand that you might be rather hesitant to purchase 20 hours of a program you don't know if you like or not. I was that way too. If you are unsure about if you would like Benny's humor there are single CDs that are much less. Also you can purchase a copulation of different Radio Programs. Walter Cronkites 20th century radio has a very nice variety of EVERYTHING. If your just into comedy look into the Legends of Comedy collection. Most of these can be found on Amazon. Or you can go to the makers website at RadioSpirts.com.

- Radio Spirits