The Ten-Pie Pete Radio Show, Volume 1
(1947)
Description: A collection of 10 LP vinyl records, printed by Columbia Records in 1954. Each LP features an episode from the Ten-Pie Pete Radio Show, a half-hour combined comedy/musical radio performance hosted by General Foods. The LPs are packaged in a worn but intact album with a cartoon of Ten-Pie Pete (a friendly-looking hobo carrying a pie) on the front.
First found: 1997, in a Brooklyn second-hand thrift shop. No other items of this type were ever found in that establishment.
Never heard of Ten-Pie Pete? Well, neither has anybody else (certainly nobody has at Sony or Kraft Foods, and they were asked to rather comprehensively check). The actual presser is a company that nobody’s ever heard of; and the cast is likewise unknown, except maybe for a ‘Janet E. Ace’ (listed as ‘Mrs. Missus’). It definitely looks authentic for 1954.