Post by mtw12055 on Jun 24, 2011 9:42:30 GMT -5
I'm not sure who wrote the dialogue, but it was probably George Jessel and/or his writers. As funny as that schoolroom skit is, it's not really something you'd normally hear in an Our Gang short.
I, too, thought that the sketches had a different feel to them than the material typical of Hal Roach and his Our Gang writers. Do you know if all of the Gangsters present for the George Jessel radio appearance were together in the same room while their spot was being recorded? For some reason, the impression I was getting while listening to the show was that the snippets of comedic dialogue spoken by the Our Gang guests may have been taped separate from each other, and then mixed together later for the final broadcast. I guess that there was just a certain quality to the audio of their segment that felt a little bit disjointed.
I'm not really sure about that. It's possible. Most radio shows at the time (to my knowledge) were done live, but I suppose there is a possibility that the gang could have recorded (keep in mind that 'taping' wasn't around back then) their dialogue on a record that was played during the show. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much information on the production of this spot.