Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 January 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
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
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Mothers_Best_Flour_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
3 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
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 ep02 First Song Where The Old Red River Flows · 9 Jan 1951
- 3. MBF ep04 First Song Alabama Waltz · 11 Jan 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 ep02 First Song Where The Old Red River Flows
9 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 9 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep04 First Song Alabama Waltz
11 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 11 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep05 First Song No Bodys Lonesome For Me
12 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 12 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep06 First Song Loveless Mansion on the Hill
15 Jan 1951 · 13 min
Broadcast 15 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep08 First Song Nobodys Lonesome For Me
17 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 17 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep09 First Song Move It On Over
18 Jan 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 18 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
MBF ep20 First Song Cold Cold Heart
2 Feb 1951 · 14 min
Broadcast 2 February 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
12 Jan 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 12 Jan 1951.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Broadcast 12 January 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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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