Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
COUPLE #1: Halo Meadows, a songwriter who performs (I wouldn't exactly call it "singing") her, um, "song", entitled "Chop My Head Off" / Morris Kushner, former radio gag writer
COUPLE #2: Marjorie Yeager, expectant mother with 9 other children / Lingo, a folk singer and naturalist. Groucho seems to sincerely enjoy his music, joining in at one point to harmonize.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
COUPLE #1: Halo Meadows, a songwriter who performs (I wouldn't exactly call it "singing") her, um, "song", entitled "Chop My Head Off" / Morris Kushner, former radio gag writer
COUPLE #2: Marjorie Yeager, expectant mother with 9 other children / Lingo, a folk singer and naturalist. Groucho seems to sincerely enjoy his music, joining in at one point to harmonize.
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.



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