Then we got a call and a letter from the legal branch of the people who owned the character Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. That was a real novel thing! It was taking off like a rocket and going to be a big hit. So I thought, “I’ll do something different and get the ball rolling here.” I wrote a song called “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon,” which had a dog barking on it, and we made that record in 1960. I just did it in desperation to attract some attention in the beginning, because I made records for three years and couldn’t get arrested with a hit. You know, I didn’t start out writing and recording comedy songs. Yeah, I guess it had something to do with acceptance at another level besides just comedy, of course.
THEME SONG SERGEANT PRESTON TV
(Audiences) knew you more for your comedy songs more than they did for this, but I think (“Everything is Beautiful”) changed that … especially with the power of the TV show. Charlie was a lot of help and a great engineer. It may have been one of the first, if not the first big hit to ever be recorded in that studio. … Jack had just finished it a couple of months earlier. We were one of the first sessions in that studio. We cut it over at Jack Clement’s old studio. I had a great engineer at the time, Charlie Talent. I did not know that! Well, congratulations … doubly so. I don’t remember who produced the record, but I remember the first time I heard it on an AM radio. Yeah, I mean it’s, “keep an open mind, always bore in for the truth.” Very simple. When you really look at it, no matter what your spirituality is, isn’t that the message? It’s one of the few songs that made it into popular culture, but also became sort of a worship anthem almost immediately.
COTY 440427 Prestons Right Hand Man.mp3.COTY 440101 No Escape For A Murderer.mp3.COTY 430828 The Last Days of a Freight Line.mp3.COTY 430717 Meeting Terms of Contract.mp3.Note: The theme music is Donna Diana Overture by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek. That's fitting for man's (and kid's) best friend.įor more adventurous animals, see also: Adventures of Champion (Gene Autry's Horse), Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, The Challenge of the Yukon, and the Original OTRCAT Dog Collection.įor other great serials, see also: Captain Midnight, Jerry at Fair Oaks, Adventures of Dick Cole, Bobby Benson, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Hop Harrigan, Jungle Jim, Magic Island, Sky King, Speed Gibson, Superman, Terry and the Pirates, and Tom Mix. All three dog characters went on to TV shows, and all were quite popular. And Rin-Tin-Tin, and then Rin-Tin-Tin Jr. More amazing still, real dogs Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin had their own old time radio shows! Lassie did her own lines, with backup from a soundman.
Text on ©2001-2022 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved. When Challenge of the Yukon, as it was titled then, went national, the kids of America took to the frozen North's blizzards and winds. Soundman Dewey Cole "barked and whined and made other appropriate dog sounds as King," Dick Osgood said in a book about Trendle's station, WXYZ that first carried the show. Preston's sidekick is a Malemute named "Yukon King." It works great, because it harkens back to the Robert Service and Jack London tales of the frozen North, and the canny canine continues to amaze the happy listener in adventures that often end with the two tackling toughs. John Dunning (of On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) says of Trendle's work, "His shows bore the common trademarks of simple, vigorous adventure plotting, a staunchly bigger-than-life male hero, and lively music cribbed from the classics." Trendle production, the man who gave us the Green Hornet old time radio classics. That's understandable, as this show was a George W. Preston, with Brace Beemer (of The Lone Ranger fame), himself, taking the role for a short time in the mid 1950s. This long-running favorite of a dventure lovers, as well as Husky lovers, swept into the old time radio juvenile lineup like a Canadian cold frontl.īefore the 1940s, this old time radio classic was brought to you by Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice.įrom the mid 1940s right up to 1954, Paul Sutton played Sgt. AKA Challenge of the Yukon (prior to November, 1951)
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