Dan'l Boone & Colonel Coon???

[Winter Hawk]

In the early 1950s when our family didn't have a t.v. and I spent many hours listening to radio programs, there was a 5 minute "filler" show by the above title.  It would have some adventure or other of Daniel Boone and his sidekick, a racoon named, you guessed it, Colonel Coon (or was that Kernel Coon?).  That's all I remember about it from when I was about 8 years old.  Does anyone else remember this show?  Just curious...

~Kees~

Oh, and my folks didn't get a t.v. until 1977....

[Hank in WV]

I think we got our first one about '56. I remember watching my Brklyn Dodgers on Sat afternoon. Don't remember listening to that show Kees.

[Winter Hawk]

It may have been locally produced in Hawaii.  Like I said, it was only about 5 minutes long, and humorous situations.

~Kees~

[Hawken]

Us ain't had no TV till 19FiftyFoe!

Sides...I was too much a busy shootin sparrows wit my Red Ryder at night wit a flashlight attached to the barrel!!

[doggoner]

I remember the "Big John and Sparky" show on the radio. I still break out in their theme song sometimes. It was "The teddy bears picnic". That was 1949 or maybe in the early 1950's. Good memories.

doggoner

[Nessmuk]

I confess to being an "Old Time Radio" addict. I researched "Daniel  Boone" and there were a number of  shows but none with a "Colonel Coon". Sorry, Kees. It probably was a local filler and not archived. Audio tape and wire was expensive and often reused back then.

[Bigsmoke]

I remember the "Big John and Sparky" show on the radio. I still break out in their theme song sometimes. It was "The teddy bears picnic". That was 1949 or maybe in the early 1950's. Good memories.

doggoner

That was my favorite radio show "back in the day."  A couple of years ago, I was looking around a web site called something like "Free Sheet Music" and found The Teddy Bear's picnic.  Of course, I printed off a copy.  How could I not, even if they charged for it.  Guess now I will have to spend some time looking for it and give it a play.  Or maybe I will just find it on the computer again.  Probably  be faster.
John
PS  Failing memory getting the best of me.  What was Sparkey, just cannot recall.

[Bigsmoke]

OK, a couple of bits of trivial knowledge.
Teddy Bear's Picnic, written in 1907, words were not written until 20+ years later.
Sparky was a puppet.
None of the early radio shows were recorded by the studio.

[doggoner]

Bigsmoke

Sparky was a puppet I think. The show was on KFBK out of Sacramento, Ca. on Saturday morning. I was raised in Galt Ca. which at the time was a wide spot in Hwy 99 almost half way between Sacramento and Stockton. It was a great place to grow up in but has went downhill as the years have gone by. I carried my shotgun to school on the school bus and left it in the principal's office . After school a couple of buddies and I would go duck or pheasent hunting or whatever. No one thought it unusual or out of place. Now a kid would be torn limb from limb for even saying he had a gun. One of several reasons I live some place other than where I was raised.

doggoner