One of the all time favorite and best remembered radio comedy programs ever. The country stopped to listen when AMOS 'N' ANDY was on the air. Beginning as SAM 'N' HENRY over WGN Chicago on 01/12/26, the series became so popular that the name had to be changed when Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left two years later, and was last heard on 12/18/27. WGN owned the name and would not let Gosden and Correll take it with them when they moved to WMAQ. After three months worth of development they were ready on 03/19/28. Their new station was to be the CBS outlet for the Chicago area and as history now knows the new name became AMOS 'N' ANDY, five days a week. The series was first heard over NBC RED for Pepsodent beginning on 08/19/29, continuing as a six day a week broadcast until 1932.
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Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll
AMOS N' ANDY
It continued as a five day a week program for Pepsodent over NBC until 01/03/38 when Campbell became the new sponsor. The program moved to CBS, with Campbell as sponsor, on 04/03/39 and continued as a 5 day a week program until 02/19/43 when it again returned to NBC on 10/08/43 but this time as a 30 minute program sponsored by Rinso. The broadcasts continued on NBC until 07/06/48. After a summer vacation the CBS network, with Rinso as sponsor, again captured the program. The Rinso sponsorship continued until 05/08/49. Rexall took up the shows sponsorship starting 10/09/49 and continued until 05/23/54. From 09/26/54 until it left the air on 05/22/55, the series had a number of different sponsors. At the same time, from 09/13/54 until 11/25/60, another series entitled AMOS AND ANDY MUSIC HALL was heard as a 5 day a week, 25 minute program.
George Bernard Shaw once said, "There are three things I'll never forget about America – Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, and Amos N' Andy."
