42-04-20 Gravy Boat / Pickle and Olive Shoe Poem

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Sade writes a poem that she sends to the newspaper about her broken gravy boat; it's word-for-word the same (replacing 'gravy boat' for 'pickle and olive shoe') as the poem she wrote in 1941 about her broken pickle and olive shoe. Remember that incident? {{{HEAR}}} (from 41-05-xx 14 Days in Grovelman, South Carolina.)

The beginning of the olive and pickle shoe poem goes this way:

I am an olive and pickle shoe,

Sitting on your table.

Help yourself to all you want,

Your...

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The pickle and olive shoe breakage is serious, serious business to Sade.

This synopsis may not be 100% accurate.

The transcription disc for this episode survived but was either sold to Radio Spirits in the 1970's or was donated to the Library of Congress. (That might mean that we may never hear this episode.)

However, 30 seconds or so of the episode remains, although it's not in good shape.

Download the 34 second snippet.