REFRESHMENT TIME WITH SINGIN' SAM

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Singin’ Sam aka Harry Frankel (January 27, 1888, Springfield, Ohio -June 12, 1948, Richmond, Indiana) was a minstrel performer, vaudevillian and popular personality during the early days of radio. He was best known as "Singin’ Sam, the Barbasol Man" for his long association with that company.

The son of clothing merchant Sol Frankel, young Harry grew up in Danville, Kentucky, singing in various quartets, moving with his parents to Richmond, Indiana, when he was nine years old. He joined Coburn’s Minstrels in 1908 and later toured with Al G. Field's Minstrels. Frankel and his pal Joe Dunlevy were known as the Two Blackbirds when they performed in vaudeville theaters during the late 1920s.

When Frankel began in radio in 1930 on WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), sponsored by the Great States Lawn Mower Company, he started using Singin' Sam as his professional name, and he was also known at that time as "The Lawnmower Man." In New York he began as “Singin’ Sam the Barbasol Man” on WABC on July 20, 1931. He disliked New York, and three years later, he returned to Richmond with vocalist Helene “Smiles” Davis, so named because of her identification with the (then new) song "Smiles" while singing to the troop during World War I. The couple married May 2, 1934 in Richmond and lived first on their 5-acre (20,000 m2) farm, known as Just-a-Mere Farm, ll miles west of town on the National Road (now U.S. Route 40). They later lived on small farm on the southeast side of Richmond with a large colonial revival house with a pool and several outbuildings. In late 1934, Singin' Sam returned to broadcasting after Barbasol arranged to do his show live from Cincinnati, an easy commute.

He continued with Barbasol until 1941, and during that time, he also did shows for Coca-Cola, flying to New York on alternate weeks to make transcriptions for his weekly 15-minute Refreshment Time with Singin’ Sam, which aired from 1937 to 1942. He died in Richmond of a heart attack in 1948.

EPISODES LIST

Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390911 731 Avalon
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390912 732 Come Along My M
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390913 733 Lulu's Back in
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390914 734 What Are Littl
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390915 735 Riding up the R
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390916 736 When It's Sleep
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390919 737 She is the Suns
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390920 738 I Wish I Were A
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390921 739 Sugar
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390925 741 You Are My Luck
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390926 742 Take a Look at
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390927 743 Love is on The
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390928 744 Have You Got An
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 390929 745 I Like Mountian
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391002 746 Sometimes I'm H
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391003 747 Leave Me A Smil
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391004 748 Home Again Blue
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391005 749 Ole King Cole
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391006 750 It Serves You R
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391009 751 Lady of the Eve
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391010 752 Goodbye Blues
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391011 753 Dear One
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391012 754 Liza
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391013 755 Emma Lina Lee
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391016 756 Away Down South
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391017 757 Where in the Wo
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391018 758 May I
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391019 759 Who
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391020 760 Lovely Lindy Lo
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391023 761 Where's My Swee
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391024 762 When My Baby Sm
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391025 763 After You've Go
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391026 764 Make Believe
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391027 765 Why Do I Love Y
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391030 766 When Kentucky B
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391031 767 I'm Sitting on
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391101 768 Golden Gate
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391102 769 Painting the Cl
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391103 770 I Double Dare Y
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391106 771 Now's the Time
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391107 772 You Can't Stop
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391108 773 Everybody Knows
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 391109 774 Just Like a Mel
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400301 855 I Must Have One
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400304 856 Baby Me
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400305 857 An Apple for th
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400306 858 Love With a Cap
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400311 861 Rockabye Your B
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400312 862 We'll Have a Ju
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400313 863 Home Sick
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400314 864 Take a Picture
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400315 865 I Can't Give Yo
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400318 866 Goodbye Summer,
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400319 867 Hey, Babe, Hey
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400320 868 Ringin' in the
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400321 869 The Gypsy in My
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400322 870 I'll Be in My D
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400325 871 Tippy Tippy Tun
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400326 872 Sunday in the P
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400327 873 Dixie
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400328 874 Stay Out of the
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400329 875 The Dipsy Doodl
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400401 876 My Lucky Summer
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400402 877 I Wanta Go to T
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400403 878 Everything is P
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400404 879 Me and the Moon
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400405 880 I Never Knew I
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400408 881 China Boy
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400409 882 Mammy Jenny's J
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400410 883 The Glory of Lo
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400411 884 Smile a Little
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400416 887 Say Si, Si
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400417 888 On the Bam Bam
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400422 891 There's Yes, Ye
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400423 892 California Here
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400424 893 Kentuck's Way o
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400425 894 I'm Just Breath
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400426 895 Hello, Swanee,
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400429 896 That Southern H
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400430 897 California in t
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400501 898 My Baby Says It
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400502 899 Kichimacoco Isl
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400503 900 When You're Smi
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400506 901 Back to Dixiela
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400507 902 The Sailor with
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400508 903 The Little Red
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400509 904 A Bird's Eye Vi
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400510 905 I'm All Bound R
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400513 906 My Sunny Tennes
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400514 907 When the Mornin
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400515 908 No Other Girl
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400516 909 Down Yonder
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400517 910 You Can Tell if
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400520 911 Because They Al
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam 400521 912 Sing An Old Fas
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 931 Where the Shy Little Violets Grow
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 932 Lullaby of Broadway
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 933 Mandy
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 934 At Sundown
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 935 Here’s To Happiness
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 936 Save Your Sorrow
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 937 I Used to Love You
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 938 I'm Shooting High
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 941 I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 942 Let Me Sing And I’m Happy
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 943 On the Beach at Bali Bali
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 944 Is She My Girl Friend
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 945 I Want to Be Happy
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 946 Oh, You Gorgeous Dancing Doll
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 947 I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande
Refreshment Time with Singing Sam xxxxxx 948 Linger Awhile

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