Check out our Amos 'N Andy Forum to ask questions or talk to other buffs.We have plenty of Amos 'N Andy history articles, photos, facts, trivia and sounds here.WELCOME TO THE AMOS 'N ANDY WEB SITE! We have Amos and Andy videos on DVD disks and VHS tapes.Includesĭiscussion of the moral and ethnic controversies. Order now from For more information on TheOriginal Amos 'n' Andy, visit the websiteĬomplete history of television actors and radio show personalities.The result is a workoffering a unique opportunity for reassessment of 'Amos 'n' Andy's' placein the history of American broadcasting - and insight into the reasonswhy the series made such a dramatic impact on the audiences of its time.This illustrated hardbound book examines every facetof the nightly 'Amos 'n' Andy' episodes, along with a detailed explorationof the backgrounds of the men behind the program.- The Original Amos 'n' Andy:Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, and the 1928-43 Radio Serial by Elizabeth McLeod ISBN # 0-7864-2045-6 216 pages 7' x 10', Hardbound Illustrations, endnotes, index '.an important and perceptiveaccount of the classic radio program that brought many listeners to radio.McLeod has done her homework in archives and surviving recordings - thisis an important record of a historical landmark program series.' - Communications QuarterlyBooknotes A full-length examination of theoriginal radio series that made Amos and Andy household names to the firstgeneration of radio listeners, and which defined the format of every radioserial to follow.The show was the first TV series to feature an all-black cast.Analysis and history of the US show that ran from 1928 to 1943, written by In 1951 CBS launched the Amos ‘n’ Andy television series, with African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams, Jr., playing Amos and Andy, respectively. Gosden and Correll carried on in a final radio incarnation, The Amos ‘n’ Andy Music Hall, until 1960. It continued in its nightly serial format until 1943, when it was revamped as a weekly situation comedy, The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show, which lasted until 1955. The show became a national craze and a radio institution. The radio show quickly gained a large audience, and from 1929 on it was broadcast nightly from coast to coast on NBC radio. The two white actors adopted stereotypical dialect, intonations, and character traits that had been established in the blackface minstrel tradition in the 1800s. Gosden played Amos, an earnest and hardworking young black man, and Correll played Andy, his more worldly, somewhat shiftless friend. Because the Amos ‘n’ Andy radio show was based on the model of minstrel shows, thus based on racial stereotypes, and was voiced by two white entertainers from the late 1920s to 1951, it was considered highly objectionable.Ĭreated by entertainers Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll-who also were the sole writers for the show during the first decade of its life-the Amos ‘n’ Andy radio show debuted in 1928 on Chicago radio station WMAQ. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īmos ‘n’ Andy Show, popular radio and television program that had its roots in a 1926 radio program called Sam ‘n’ Henry.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. ![]()
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