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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 6/21 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 6/21/15 | Ed Walker

Posted on 06/21/2015 1:25:02 PM PDT by Vision

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

Listen Live

Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:

http://kallmansalley.com/


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The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'
1 posted on 06/21/2015 1:25:02 PM PDT by Vision
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To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; boxlunch; bsf53; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...


2 posted on 06/21/2015 1:25:25 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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3 posted on 06/21/2015 1:25:55 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision
Happy Father's Day everyone...boy we had a strong storm come through Baltimore/DC last night, it snapped a telephone pole in half a few doors down...

We have a Father's Day show, and as regulars know the one thing OTR does really, really poorly is father/family shows. So brace yourselves, Jack Benny could be good, Nightbeat is a solid B show, and Mystery is My Hobby looks fun...

How you feeling?

4 posted on 06/21/2015 1:27:29 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision
Happy Father's Day, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

And, yes, it's a Father's Day show Ed is putting on.

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 23, 1958. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Denver Dispersal Matter." Don Ricardo is the beneficiary on four different policies, for over $200,000! Just a coincidence? Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Peter Leeds, Frank Gerstle, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Barney Phillips, Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Forrest Lewis, Edgar Barrier. 25:47. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. November 3, 1953. Program #220. NBC net. "The Big Rain." Sponsored by: Chesterfield, Fatima. Cecil Johnson is suspected of beating Grace Dillon. Her husband, however, had been heard threatening her life. The Chesterfield commercials contain health claims for the product. Ben Alexander, Ben Hogan (Chesterfield testimonial), George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Harry Bartell, Jack Kruschen, Jack Webb, John Robinson (writer), Vivi Janis, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. August 26, 1956. Program #93. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "No Sale." The last show of the season. Two toughs come to town and demand that Kitty sell them the Long Branch Saloon, and it looks as if they're going to get their way! See cat. #39972 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny. June 18, 1939. Red net. Sponsored by: Jell-O. The cast goes down to the railroad station to leave for Waukegan. Carmichael the bear is going along too! The last program on which Kenny Baker appears. Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Eddie Anderson, Harry Baldwin, Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Bill Morrow (writer), Cliff Nazarro, Frank Nelson, Blanche Stewart. 29:18. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 Father Knows Best. June 14, 1951. NBC net. Sponsored by: Maxwell House Coffee (one commercial heard). The family plans a Father's Day picnic; physical preparations begin. Robert Young, June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma Jean Nilsson, Herb Vigran, Stanley Farrar, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, Bill Forman (announcer), Ed James (writer). 27:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

9:30 The Life Of Riley. June 16, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Pabst Beer. It's Father's Day, and Riley winds up with a TV. Two TV's in fact! William Bendix, Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Irving Brecher (producer, transcriber), Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Reuben Ship (writer), Alan Lipscott (writer), Louise Erickson, Bobby Ellis, Lou Kosloff (music). 29:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 Night Beat. December 28, 1951. NBC net. Sustaining. Ben Troy's wife is having a baby, and Ben's almost going into labor himself! A two-voice drama. Frank Lovejoy, William Conrad, Warren Lewis (producer, director), David Ellis (writer), Mary Marcus (editor), Robert Armbruster (music), Don Rickles (announcer). 29:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:30 Mystery is My Hobby. #17 Some Fatherly Advice (Synd) (24:08). These episodes are not organized chronologically or numerically on the Index, and I did not find this synopsis.

5 posted on 06/21/2015 1:32:07 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Wow, Vision! I’m glad you’re safe after that storm. Did you have any damage at your house?


6 posted on 06/21/2015 1:36:11 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

None thank God. Didn’t even lose power.

How are you?


7 posted on 06/21/2015 1:37:43 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision

Oh, that’s good then.

We’re fine, but VERY hot. It’s a sauna outside, combined with a steam room.

Just the usual Sunday—no news, good news. I got some Johnsonville brats to go with some chicken leg-thigh quarters for the grill.

You still dieting?


8 posted on 06/21/2015 2:03:26 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Cool.

Yea, dieting, but tonight I'm going to saute a little calamari with a salad.There's a local asian market with a fabulous seafood dept. Today they have live crawfish. Thought about doing some of those. Do you crawfish much?

9 posted on 06/21/2015 2:33:15 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision

No, we don’t do crawfish. There are lots of places around here that do them, live or boiled. I like them okay, but just think it’s too much “work” messing with them, peeling the, for that little bite of tail. I’d rather have big shrimp or even the best, biggest shrimp of all: lobster! :-)


10 posted on 06/21/2015 2:52:35 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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That actually reminds me of how long it has been since I have been inside a place like Red Lobster.

Too long.

11 posted on 06/21/2015 3:24:49 PM PDT by Houmatt (United States of America 1776 - 2012)
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Oh, I know! The Red Lobster that was near where I live was washed away by Hurricane Katrina ten years ago, but it was longer than that since I’d been there. And I haven’t actually had a lobster in a loooong time from anywhere.


12 posted on 06/21/2015 3:44:00 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Gunsmoke!


13 posted on 06/21/2015 4:58:17 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision

Bad men.


14 posted on 06/21/2015 5:07:55 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision

I miss Paul Harvey.


15 posted on 06/21/2015 5:21:29 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: WXRGina
A Freeper has mailed me to say they're camping and listening to the BB. That Jack Benny will remind him of his childhood.
16 posted on 06/21/2015 5:31:13 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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Oh, that’s very cool! Camping and the Big Broadcast! Whoo-hoo!


17 posted on 06/21/2015 5:50:06 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision; WXRGina
Jack Benny was really funny.

Yes, you can be funny without being raunchy.

18 posted on 06/21/2015 5:58:13 PM PDT by Houmatt (United States of America 1776 - 2012)
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Jack is good, sometimes hilarious...but the Phil Harris show killed it IMO.


19 posted on 06/21/2015 6:28:26 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: Vision

Father Knows Best from 1951 when Ike was still General Eisenhower.


20 posted on 06/21/2015 6:30:08 PM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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