Brian,
Attached is the preshow Gildersleeve from 2/25/45. Dates on many of these old shows are hard to pin down exactly. There is an outside chance it is actually a week later than that. Although Peary and Tetley are out of character, by force of habit (I guess) they still refer to each other by their character names. The idea of Leroy having a girlfriend in San Diego is absurd since the character is about 14 years old and lives in mid-wedtren town called Summerfield.
I have been to lots of OTR sites but I will try your links. I collect most of my shows from the binary newsgroups. It’s fun since you never know what is going to be there from day to day. To date I have collected almost 250 Gildersleeve shows (on 3 CDs), the majority of which are from the Harold Peary era (pre-1950). There is also a one-time show in which Peary and Tetly replace an ailing Jim Jordan on Fibber McGee and Molly. Gildy was a spinoff from that show. I also have more than 90 Phil Harris-Alice Faye shows. I can send you some if you like.
Because radio was less demanding than TV or movies, Tetley performed these characters concurrently!
I am sending a second e-mail with some JPGs attached. These are two 3-D pairs I took myself. Feel free to use the Bullwinkle statue on your site (credited, of course). I do not know who owns the third picture.
Your site mentioned that Tetley died in obscurity. I remember that Stan Laurel spent his final years in a small Hollywood apartment and kept his name in the phone book so he could easily meet his fans. Stan died in 1965 (if memory serves), 8 years after Ollie.
Good luck. Jonathan O
I told Jonathan that we would be very happy to use any of the radio links that he has. I am looking forward to seeing them and listening to them. I also mentioned that we would try to get a larger version of our color photo, of Walter Tetley to him. Jonathan is certainly very knowledgable and thorough. He sheds some light on some extremely fascinating and interesting nuggets about Tetley and the celebrities from his era in general. We are very grateful to him for his wonderful contributions to us. I daresay that Jonathan appears to be as fascinating as his information!!