Betty Boop Frolics (Radio Program)

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Betty Boop Frolics

Betty Boop Frolics

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Betty Bonnie Poe Betty Boop — (NBC radio promo featuring Bonnie Poe and Victor Erwin.)

The Betty Boop radio show, alternatively known as Betty Boop Fables. The radio schedules and listing guide has been listed in alphabetical order by time and date by the Betty Boop Wikia Fandom.

Please note that the show is considered to be lost media. The audio from the series is something that some collectors genuinely hold or have copies of over the years, but they haven't made them available to the public. There are two other alternative names for this program which remove the (s) that include; Betty Boop Frolic and Betty Boop Fable.

Characters

May

Betty Boop Frolics at 9:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Wednesday, May 17, 1933) | (Mae Questel, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin)
Betty Boop Frolics at 9:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Wednesday, May 24, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 9:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Wednesday, May 31, 1933) | (Mae Questel, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin)

June

Betty Boop Frolics at 9:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Wednesday, June 7, 1933) | (Mae Questel, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Thursday, June 29, 1933) | (Mae Questel, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin)

Betty Boop In Person 1933 NBC — (O-o-o-o-oh, here's Betty Boop in person. The little lady who is heard over a WEAF network each Friday at 6.30 P.M., in private she's known as Mae Questel.)

July

Betty Boop Frolics at 6:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Thursday, July 6, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 6:35 p.m. | WENR (NBC) | (Saturday, July 8, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, July 14, 1933) | (Mae Questel, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, July 21, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 5:15 p.m. | KSD (FM) | (Friday, July 21, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, July 28, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe, Red Pepper Sam and Vic Erwin's Band)

Announcement made on Saturday, July 22, 1933, was that Bonnie Poe the radio voice of Betty Boop has been the voice of the screen Betty Boop for the last four months.

August

Betty Boop Frolics at 7:15 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, August 4, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, August 11, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, August 25, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)

September

Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 1, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 8, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 15, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 17, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 7:30 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 22, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 6:45 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, September 29, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe, Billy Costello and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 5:45 p.m. | KSD | (Friday, September 29, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe, Billy Costello and Vic Erwin's Band)

Bonnie Poe Betty Boop Made It And Not On Looks 1933 — (Bonnie Poe sang in 14 Broadway nightclubs and charmed with her "It," before at 19; she clicked with Vic Irwin as Betty Boop on the air.) ^[1]

| Betty Boop Frolics - Friday 1⁄4 hour | Radio Fan-Fare | (September)

Bonnie Poe, Red Pepper Sam, Vic Irwin's Band.

6:15 p.m. - Eastern Daylight | WCKY | WMAQ | WIOD |

P (Papa Time Zone) | KGW | KHQ | KOMO |

On Saturday, September 2, 1933, the New York news gave a review that they have grown more accustomed to the absence of Mae Questel. And that Bonnie Poe more than fits the bill as Betty Boop. She's a cute bit of but the arrangements of Vic Erwin's orchestra were not as good as they used to be.

October

Betty Boop Frolics at 6:45 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, October 6, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 5:45 p.m. | NBC-WEAF | (Friday, October 13, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 6:45 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, October 20, 1933)
Betty Boop Frolics at 5:45 p.m. | KSD | (Friday, October 20, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe, Billy Costello and Vic Erwin)
Betty Boop Frolics, NBC at 5:45 p.m. | WSM (650 kHz) | (Friday, October 27, 1933)

November

Betty Boop Frolics at 6:45 p.m. | WEAF (660 kc.) | (Friday, November 3, 1933) | (Bonnie Poe, Billy Costello and Vic Erwin's Band)
Betty Boop Frolics at 3:45 p.m. | KYA (San Francisco's 1260) | (Friday, November 17, 1933)

Trivia

Some episodes on this list were missing actors and actresses credits in news reports, therefore the credits are blank.

Mae Questel started off the radio series as the voice of Betty Boop, however around this time Questel (who sometimes appeared at the Fleischer studios on and off to voice Betty), briefly retired to give birth to her son. So Bonnie Poe took over the role of Betty on the radio show, and on screen in the animated cartoons. It was stated by Lou Diamond who hired the talent to voice Betty for the Fleischers, that they needed more voices for the Betty Boop character, as Questel alone could not be in more than one place, and was also absent from the role at one point.

20 or 30 years ago somewhere between the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was a website, and on that website, a seller (known for selling old time radio shows), was selling copies of this series for a heavy fee. However, as of 2023, the website no longer exists, and the seller is likely deceased as he was quite elderly. By the late 2000s his website was no longer being used, and later vanished from the internet. This indicates that there were at one point physical copies and or audio rips (in which the audio had been extracted), of the Betty Boop Frolics radio show.

The only person who could possibly give more of an insight on existing physical copies of this series is historian Jerry Beck of the Cartoon Research.

In 1933, Bonnie Poe and Billy Costello both gave an interview on air, and gave an insight on this radio show.

Margie Hines who is uncredited, is said to have filled in for a few episodes for this NBC series, along with Vic Erwin.

The same year as this show was airing on radio, Little Ann Little was touring with Pauline Comanor in a live in-person Betty Boop show. 1932 to 1933 is when Betty Boop was at her peak.

↑ Bonnie Poe Made It And Not On Looks

[1] Bonnie Poe Made It And Not On Looks

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