![]() ![]() The duo's last musical program for WGN was broadcast on January 29, 1928. Gosden and Corell left WGN after the station rejected their novel concept of recording Sam 'n' Henry on phonograph records for distribution to other radio stations. They provided the voices for all characters. Correll and Gosden wrote and produced 586 episodes. Sam 'n' Henry premiered on Chicago radio station WGN on January 12, 1926, and immediately found an audience of Midwestern listeners. Having been initiated into a colored fraternity called the Jewels of the Crown, they strike up a friendship with the Most Precious Diamond, the high officer of the lodge, who frequently tries to get his hands on the boys' money. This influx was met with considerable resistance in Northern communities, including Chicago, leading to numerous forms of marginalization for the new arrivals one expression of this was the often mocking, stereotypical portrayal of African Americans by White performers, a tradition of which Gosden and Correll became prominent examples.Īfter overcoming initial problems with finding food, living space and employment, Sam and Henry set up their own moving company, with overbearing Henry as company president and meek, gullible Sam as the one who does all the work. This reflected the historical circumstances in Chicago during the 1920s, when millions of Southern Black families moved north in search of opportunity and relief from Jim Crow segregation in the South. Gosden and Correll decided to make their main characters, named Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, Black men who had recently arrived from Alabama during the Great Migration. Like The Gumps, each show would be amusing in itself but would also feature recurring characters in an ongoing storyline. Gosden and Corell instead proposed their own radio serial using characters they created themselves. ![]() Even though the show was eventually brought to a close, the Amos ‘N’Īndy show will forever be apart of radio and television history.In late 1925, radio performers Gosden and Correll had been approached about doing a show based on Sidney Smith's popular comic strip The Gumps. Although the intentions of the Amos ‘N’ Andy show seemed to be positiveĪnd for comical purposes only, the show nevertheless, focused on mindless andĬonniving not-to-bright blacks that resided in Harlem. Lawyers and other upstanding occupations. That they had several episodes where blacks were shown in the roles of doctors, Their justifications for feeling this way was Was racist, the creators and producers never saw this as a problem. Because of this ban, old controversies wereīrought to light and in 1964 protests were again conducted to end the run ofĬBS’ audience for the show began to diminish and the show was taken off the air The country’s leader later decided to ban his country. Though Kenya agreed to purchase the show from CBS, To the show as one of its most widely watched and circulated television This came as a surprise to many mainly because CBS was still referring Selling the rights to the Amos ‘N’ Andy show to 2 African countries, Kenya and West Nigeria. In 1963, CBS announced that they would be These protests the show continued to air for 2 years. Very popular among many in the 1950’s, there wereĪlways Civil Right’s Groups who protested the show, saying that it fostered OtherĬharacters in the show included, Madame Queen who was Andy’s girlfriend, and Lightnin’ the slow moving janitor. ![]() Just the philosophical cab driver who narrated most of the episodes. Although Amos’ name was in the title of the show, it was ironic that his Andy could be described as husky and wellĮven referred to him as the “big dummy.” More times than not, Kingfish would end up getting the both of them in troubleīut Andy would keep coming back for more. Mainly because he was “not the sharpest tool in the shed” so to speak. This often put him at odds with his wife Sapphire, his lodge brothersĪnd his mother in law who was simply referred to as “Mama.” Andy was often the sidekick to Kingfish It meant scheming and deceiving his friends. Was portrayed as a scheming man who would do anything for a quick buck, even if The Amos ‘N’ Andy show was set in Harlem and most of the storylines centered around the antics of George Stevens who was otherwise known Search continued because only Ernestine Wade and Amanda Randolph were brought Nationwide search was conducted for actors to star in their television Gosden and Correll starred in the radio version of their show butīecause they were both white, it would be impossible for them to portray 2 Show, the creators and producers Freeman Gosden andĬharles Correll decided to take their show toįor the first time on CBS. Because of the widespread popularity of the On Ma, Amos ‘N’ Andy was introduced to radioĪnd eventually become one of the most popular programs ever to air. ![]()
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