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Lou takes singing lessons from Professor Melonhead in "The Music Lovers"

Charm School

Lou Costello’s love life is a shambles, but he wants to date Connie Haines. But Bud Abbot’s going to make him attend charm school first! Then, tightwad Lou takes them to eat at The Ritz!

Charm School
Basic Training - The Abbott and Costello Radio Show, March 22, 1945

Basic Training

Basic Training – Broadcast live from the Davis Monthan Air Base, in Tucson, Arizona. Bud and Lou joke about life in the military, Benny Rubin sells Lou a very restrictive mortgage for a new home, and Lou has a fantasy about how “easy” life in the Air Force would be!

Basic Training

Frank Sinatra – School Days

On the Abbott and Costello Radio Show, Frank Sinatra is this week’s guest star. And Lou’s jealous, until he learns that Sinatra’s also from his home state of New Jersey! Then they imagine what it would have been like if they all went to elementary school together …

Frank Sinatra – School Days
Rudy Vallee - Jack and the Beanstalk - The Abbott and Costello Radio Show

Rudy Vallee

On this week’s Abbott and Costello Radio Show, guest star Rudy Vallee is going to help Bud and Lou do Jack and the Beanstalk. He’s only here to help!

Rudy Vallee
Sam Shovel - The Case Of The Man Who Drowned In The Los Angeles River or Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My DestinyThe Abbott and Costello Radio Show. Lou Costello performs a parody as detective Sam Shovel, the private detective. The skit is filled with silly scenarios, the case of the lady blue beard, a pun about too many crooks spoil the broth, a lady who needs Sam to come to her rescue — and the “hold up your hands” routine!

Dust Be My Destiny
Tessie Tinfoil, The Abbott and Costello Radio show

Tessie Tinfoil

Tessie Tinfoil, The Abbott and Costello Radio show

Tessie Tinfoil, The Abbott and Costello Radio show – Lou’s fiancee Ruby Poolcue has broken up with him! But now he has a date with his new girlfriend, Tessie Tinfoil! And Abbott thinks he needs a shave, so he takes him to Mr. Kitzel’s barber shop. Then dance lessons! But then …

Broadcast January 18, 1945, with Mel Blanc, Connie Haines, Ken Niles, Alvia Allman, Freddie Rich, Bea Benaderet

Tessie Tinfoil