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''Sam 'n' Henry'' was a radio series by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll that aired on Chicago radio station WGN in 1926–28. The ten-minute program is often considered the first situation comedy. Gosden and Correll reworked the premise on a more ambitious scale to create their long-run radio show ''Amos 'n' Andy''. ==Characters and history== In late 1925, radio performers Gosden and Correll had been approached about doing a show based on Sidney Smith's popular comic strip ''The Gumps''. Gosden and Corell instead proposed their own radio serial using characters they created themselves. Like ''The Gumps'', each show would be amusing in itself but would also feature recurring characters in an ongoing storyline. Since they had received a favorable response to African-American characters they had previously done on radio, Gosden and Correll proposed that the principal characters be African Americans, Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, newly arrived in Chicago from rural Birmingham, Alabama. After overcoming initial problems of not starving, finding a living space and making enough money to pay the rent for it, Sam and Henry set up their own moving company, with overbearing Henry as company president and meek, gullible Sam as the one who does all the work. Having been initiated into a colored fraternity called the Jewels of the Crown, they strike up a friendship with the Most Precious Diamond, the high officer of the lodge, who frequently tries to get his hands on the boys' money. ''Sam 'n' Henry'' premiered on Chicago radio station WGN on January 12, 1926, and immediately found an audience of Midwestern listeners. Correll and Gosden wrote and produced 586 episodes.〔(), ''All about Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators Correll and Gosden''. New York: Rand McNally, 1929.〕〔(Dunning, John. ''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-507678-8. )〕 They provided the voices for all characters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sam 'n' Henry )〕 They left WGN after the station rejected their novel concept of recording ''Sam 'n' Henry'' on phonograph records and distributing those to other radio stations. The duo's last musical program for WGN was broadcast on January 29, 1928.〔"W-G-N radio program". ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', January 29, 1928.〕 In March, they brought their characters, now called Amos and Andy, to competing Chicago station WMAQ.〔Heinl, Robert D. "Off the Antenna". ''Washington Post'', March 25, 1928.〕 WGN retained the rights to the characters and continued ''Sam 'n' Henry'' without Correll and Gosden until February 12, 1928.〔〔McLeod, Elizabeth. ''The Original Amos ’n’ Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928–1943 Radio Serial''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2005. ISBN 0-7864-2045-6〕 On March 31, some two weeks after ''Amos 'n' Andy'' premiered on WMAQ, ''Sam 'n' Henry'' returned as a 15- to 30-minute program, in which the title characters mostly functioned as announcers for musical performances. The final episode of ''Sam 'n' Henry'' aired on July 14, 1928.〔"W-G-N radio program". ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', July 14, 1928.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam 'n' Henry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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