The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1951–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- Genre
- variety
From late 1950 to late 1951, you could hear Hank Williams on WSM every morning at 7:15 singing and selling Mother's Best Flour , as well as self-raising Cornmeal and Pig & Sow Feed. During the 15 minute show Hank and the announcer Louie Buck would pitch the flour in between Hank's songs. Hank even wrote a theme song for the show. I love to have that gal around Her bicuits are so nice and brown Her pies and cakes beat all the rest Cause she makes them all with Mother's Best Hank was paid $100 a week for five shows. Often times, they were pre-recorded due to Hank's touring schedule. These shows are among Hank…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
2 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. MBF ep01 First Song The Blind Child · 8 Jan 1951
- 2. MBF ep07 First Song Everythings Okay · 16 Jan 1951
- 3. MBF ep63 First Song Why Should We Try · 4 Apr 1951
MBF ep01 First Song The Blind Child
8 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 8 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep07 First Song Everythings Okay
16 Jan 1951 · 13 min
Broadcast 16 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep63 First Song Why Should We Try
4 Apr 1951 · 12 min
Broadcast 4 April 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
First Song - Pins & Needles In My Heart
Date unknown · 15 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
First Song - Dear John
Date unknown · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
First Song - Move It On Over
Date unknown · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
First Song - Tennessee Border
Date unknown · 13 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
MBF_5x.xx.xx_ep40_First_Song_-_Cold,_Cold_Heart
Date unknown · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1951–1951
Other series the network carried while Mother's Best Flour was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Mother's Best Flour
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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