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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/27 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | WAMU | Ed Walker

Posted on 12/27/2009 3:43:07 PM PST by Vision

It's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs.

Listen Live

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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 12/27/2009 3:43:08 PM PST by Vision
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To: Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Cold Heat; Ghost of Philip Marlowe; knarf; OLDCU; petertare; ...
Happy Sunday Night. Classic Radio Time.

Last show of 2009!


2 posted on 12/27/2009 3:44:15 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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3 posted on 12/27/2009 3:44:59 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision
Thanx again !
4 posted on 12/27/2009 3:46:18 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Evening. For some reason I love it when there is a 500 word essay on what happens on a 30 minute program. LOL.


5 posted on 12/27/2009 3:51:48 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

Of course you do ... even with the spoilers included ... I’m so sure.


6 posted on 12/27/2009 3:58:16 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: steelyourfaith
Love the Shadow. And the Whistler.
7 posted on 12/27/2009 4:01:35 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision
For some reason I love it when there is a 500 word essay on what happens on a 30 minute program. LOL.

How about a thousand? ;)

8 posted on 12/27/2009 4:05:05 PM PST by BluesDuke (Let sleeping dogs lie, and you leave them open to perjury charges.)
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To: BluesDuke; steelyourfaith

I am being serious. I enjoy it. Such care was put into all this.


9 posted on 12/27/2009 4:06:51 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

Me too. I enjoy the Theater of the Mind. I especially enjoy the old time radio comedy writing. The writers did not have the luxury of falling back on sight gags or being augmented by visual slapstick, yet it was frequently very witty.


10 posted on 12/27/2009 4:08:42 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Yea, that’s probably why the writing is so good.


11 posted on 12/27/2009 4:13:13 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

Sebastian’s dead. Crap.


12 posted on 12/27/2009 4:15:38 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

And the acting. There was that cadre of radio actors who were highly experienced & skilled at verbally moving a story line along who, otherwise, had “faces for radio”. They often showed up as bit players in movies or TV and adeptly supplemented the principals. I always look out for them.


13 posted on 12/27/2009 4:24:02 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: steelyourfaith

“Floyd the Barber” is one.


14 posted on 12/27/2009 4:28:35 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

Howardd McNear for sure. :)


15 posted on 12/27/2009 4:31:46 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: steelyourfaith
I got into Old Time Radio several years ago, back when i started looking for things to while away the time on long trips. I have listened to and liked Gunsmoke, Suspense, Escape, Johnny Dollar, Jack Benny, but my favorite has actually turned out to be Lum & Abner. It's silly but there are a lot of LOL moments and the humor isn't as dated as, say, Jack Benny can sometimes be. By the way, the Internet Archive site hosts a lot of OTR shows that you can listen to or download.

Here's a link to Lum & Abner from there (i'm linking to "page 3" since the sound quality is better there than on the first two L&A pages, plus the commercials are fewer): L&A 03

16 posted on 12/27/2009 4:55:20 PM PST by Humbug (we regret to inform you that this freeper is too busy at the moment to bother with taglines)
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To: Humbug

Thanks for the info. Would you like on the ping list?


17 posted on 12/27/2009 5:00:18 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision

Yes, please add me. Thanks.


18 posted on 12/27/2009 5:01:40 PM PST by Humbug (we regret to inform you that this freeper is too busy at the moment to bother with taglines)
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To: Humbug

Oh yeah. Lum & Abner are wonderfully funny. Quite the equal of Amos ‘n’ Andy. The Lum & Abner Society used to (until very recently) publish a periodical magazine, offer scripts of old radio shows for which there are (as yet) no existent audio, and a way to acquire all existent audio programs (I have them all). I think most of the Lum & Abner episodes are available still through SPERDVAC.


19 posted on 12/27/2009 5:07:41 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: Humbug
Oh yeah. The L&A Society still maintains a presence on the internet.

In addition, L&A made about a half dozen or so very low budget movies that never quite captured the flavor of the radio broadcasts. The movies were also available for purchase through the L&A Society at one time.

20 posted on 12/27/2009 5:53:00 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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