{{Short description|1933-1934 old-time radio variety program}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox radio show | show_name = The Oldsmobile Show | image = Ted Husing-RM June 1934 -grayscale.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = Ted Husing, host of the ''Oldsmobile Program'' | other_names = | format = Variety | runtime = 30 minutes | country = United States | language = English | home_station = | syndicates = CBS | television = | presenter = | starring = Ted Husing | announcer = | creator = | writer = | director = | senior_editor = | editor = | producer = | exec_producer = | narrated = | rec_location = | rem_location = | oth_location = | first_aired = 1933 | last_aired = 1934 | num_series = | num_episodes = | audio_format = | opentheme = | othertheme = | endtheme = | sponsor = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | podcast = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''The Oldsmobile Show''' is a half-hour weekly old-time radio variety program in the United States. It was broadcast on CBS in 1933<ref name="sies">Sies, Luther F. (2014). ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-5149-4}}. P. 494.</ref> and 1934.<ref name="r">{{cite web|title=The Oldsmobile Program|url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Oldsmobile%20Program&type=Programs|website=RadioGOLDINdex|access-date=5 November 2016}}</ref>
==Format== The ''Oldsmobile Program'' featured "Ted Husing's sport talks" and music.<ref name="rn">{{cite journal|last1=Kaufman|first1=Samuel|title=Backstage in Broadcasting|journal=Radio News|date=November 1933|volume=XV|issue=5|page=294|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Radio-News-IDX/IDX/30s/33/Radio-News-1933-11-R-OCR-Page-0040.pdf|accessdate=4 November 2016}}{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Personnel== Ted Husing was the program's host. The ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition'' says that Leon Belasco's orchestra provided the music, with contralto Barbara Mauel as soloist and the Hummingbirds as the vocal group.<ref name=sies/> The April 1933 issue of ''Radio News'' indicates that George Olsen and his orchestra were the musicians for the program, with Ethel Shutta, Fran Frey and Richard Gardner singing and that Gus Van was "continuing the comedy and character songs which were identified with the Van and Schenck stage partnership of twenty years.<ref name="rn2">{{cite journal|title=Backstage|journal=Radio News|date=April 1933|volume=XIV|issue=10|page=635|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Radio-News-IDX/IDX/30s/33/Radio-News-1933-04-R-OCR-Page-0061.pdf|accessdate=4 November 2016}}{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
In 1934, Husing continued as the host, with Ruth Etting as soloist, backed by Johnny Green and his orchestra.<ref name=r/>
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== External links == * [http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/O%20Series/Oldsmobile%20Program%20-%20Etting%20AndGreen/ Streaming episodes of ''Oldsmobile Program'' from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506030810/http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/O%20Series/Oldsmobile%20Program%20-%20Etting%20AndGreen/ |date=May 6, 2017 }}
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