"The Big Broadcast"- Live 9/6

WAMU ^ | 9/6 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Every Sunday for years I listen to the Big Broadcast 7 - 11pm est. Never thought to offer it to other Freepers.

The Big Broadcast runs popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s.

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[Vision]

Yep. And he seems salty...

[ThreePuttinDude]

Here in the Tampa area, we used to have a station that would play 2 hours of
When Radio Was, that was my favorite time of the day. I drive for a living and get
to listen to radio from 9:00 am to about 4:00 pm. When they stopped the old shows
many people called the station to try to get them to keep them on the air. Unfortunately
the station went to another format shortly after. Now it plays second tier talk radio.

[Vision]

That sucks. You’d think xm would have something like this.

[knarf]

I lost a link about three hard drives ago, that aired old yiddish programs from NYC ... I think from the 30's.

I'm not Jewish but they were SOME enjoyable programs.

[knarf]

Oh goody ... NBC is airing the DNC ! ... Tomorrow.

[Vision]

I guess the Texas Rangers Mayo story will continue next week...

[Vision]

And we had Eisenhower/Nixon. Didn’t know Nixon was in presidential polictics for that long.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860706.html

“In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives’ choice, Robert A. Taft, choosing instead the popular war hero, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their presidential nominee.”

Sound familar?(But with a horrible ending.)

[ThreePuttinDude]

Heres what I was looking for

When Radio Was

[Arthur McGowan]

Dear Ed:

I’ve been listening to “The Big Broadcast” for years, since the days of John Hickman. Before that, as a teenager, I never missed “Recollections” with John Hickman. And before that, I remember the Joy Boys going back to when I was a toddler.

Thanks to the interwebs, I can record your show every Sunday night out here in North Dakota.

I wish I knew a lot more about John Hickman. What a great radio man!

[knarf]

I LOVE these wise-crackin’ one liners.

[Vision]

Tell him yourself, make sure to select the big broadcast...he’s answering emails now...

http://wamu.org/contact/

[ThreePuttinDude]

LOL, All American Gumshoe

That’s great

[Vision]

Yep. When a man needed “100 proof plasma” if he gets shot at.

[Vision]

Ahh that Eddie Cantor.

You can't tell me America is happier now than it was then.

Evening all. Will post a thread next week.

[Erasmus]

RCA BC-1 consoles. Gates 12 and 16 inch turntables. Magnecorders and low-end Ampexes. Shure 55s’s, RCA 77DX’s, and E-V 666’s. Transmitters with 4-400A’s (AM & FM both!). Racks ‘n racks of 45’s, 33’s, and some 78’s. 16 inch 33-1/3 rpm ETs.

Saturday morning birthday/polka shows. County fairs. Farm and market reports phoned in every day. Serenade in Blue from the Air Force and Your Navy Sings, mailed in on tape you’d keep and reuse at the station.

Going around to the police & fire stations e-a-r-l-y in the morning to copy notes off the overnight blotters for the morning news, and combining them with rip-n-read from the AP or UPI model 19 teletype, getting your fingers inky in the process.

Those were the dayz!

[Erasmus]

Fergot—

The Sunday church remote that I got paid $5 to do. Conveniently, it was my family church.