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WAMU ^ | 6/5/11 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

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

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[Vision]

"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.' "

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  #676 The Merry-Go-Round Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:02)
• 07:30 p.m. Line Up
  02/01/51 Grocery Store Murder (Sus.) (CBS) (29:44)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  10/10/52 #25 Hinka Do (Sus.) (CBS) (29:44)
• 08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  09/05/39 #212 McGee's Fish Fry (Johnson's Wax) (NBC )(29:42)
• 09:00 p.m. Nightbeat
  02/27/50 The Girl in the Park (Sus.) (NBC) (29:26)
• 09:30 p.m. Philo Vance
  09/21/48 #011 The Backstage Murder Case (Synd) (27:22)
• 10:00 p.m. Tales of the Texas Rangers
  08/05/50 #05 The Triggerman (Wheaties) (NBC) (29:50)
• 10:30 p.m. NBC University Theater
  09/03/48 #6 Candide w/Eddie Bracken (Sus) (NBC) (29:28)

[kjo]

Fine...just don’t give MSNPR any money.

Soros took care of your donation.

[WXRGina]

Hello, Friends!

I typed out my AWESOME baked beans recipe for a buddy out in California, so I thought I’d share it here, too. These are the best “baked” beans you ever put in your mouth. Great with barbeque!
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Really Fine Baked Beans

1 lb package bacon
2 med. to large onions
2 med. to large green bell peppers
2 large tomatoes
Brown sugar to taste
White vinegar to taste
2 large cans (28 oz.) Bush’s Baked Beans, Original Flavor

Cut bacon into about 1-inch squares. In large skillet, cook bacon until done. Scoop bacon out of pan and into bowl, and set aside. Discard all but a couple of tablespoons or so of bacon grease (for cooking vegetables).

Meanwhile, pour cans of beans into a colander in sink, and drain sauce from the beans, but do not rinse the beans. Just let them sit while you prepare the vegetables. I kind of spread them evenly around the colander so they can drain as best they can.

Coarsely chop onions, bell peppers and tomatoes (about ¾ inch pieces are nice), and add to skillet with the little bit of bacon grease. Cook covered (or slightly vented), stirring as needed, until vegetables are tender.

Return the bacon to the skillet with the cooked vegetables, and then add vinegar and brown sugar to taste. For this size batch, (as always, guestimating) I add about a half-cup of vinegar and a half to ¾ cup of brown sugar (light or dark, whichever you prefer). Mix and adjust amounts of sugar and vinegar until the sweet and sour is where you like it.

Finally, stir in the beans, and simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, until desired consistency.

[WXRGina]

Don’t worry; we’re not NPR-heads.

This thread is about the classic Old Time Radio Shows, which have nothing in common with the leftist politics of NPR.

Each Sunday we spend together, we’re all about living in the America of yesterday through these wonderful radio shows (Oh, and we talk about food and other stuff, too).

[Red_Devil 232]

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[Vision]

Hello,

thanks for the recipe. Do you think it would taste the same using kidney beans instead of bush's beans? I've got chorizo sausage finishing up in the smoker using apple wood.

An ok lineup tonight.

[WXRGina]

Vision, I’m sure it would be good with kidney beans, too, though I’ve only used the white beans (baked beans, whatever the brand).

Kidney beans in a can aren’t usually made with the “baked bean” brown sugar/vinegar/bacon sauce, but the sauce you make with the vegetables, brown sugar and vinegar would probably make up for the difference.

You have to experiment with the amount of vinegar and brown sugar, so my amounts are approximate. You may want more or less of each.

Your sausage sounds great, as always!

[Vision]

Will do.

What's everybody like tonight?

I'm interested in Philo Vance- not familiar with that one.

[WXRGina]

It’s sounds like an all-around good lineup. Like you, I’m interested in hearing Philo Vance, too, and also Nighbeat.

I wonder where SteelYourFaith is.

[Vision]

I imagine he’ll pop up soon...

[Vision]

The writing in lineup is one dimensional.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

June 6, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  1/31/60 "The Merry-Go-Round Matter" Matter #676 Bob Bailey, Larry Dobkin (Pat McCracken), Howard McNear (Alvin Peabody Cartwright), Frank Gerstle (Gummy O'Bannion), Will Wright ("Doc"), Forrest Lewis (doorman), Joseph Kearns (Jonathan W. Peoples) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - John Wald ; Expense Account Total = "Why bother? After all, by now Alvin Peabody Cartwright has probably forgotten that he sent for me" ; "Well, lets face it. The case I work on has more twists and turns and angles than anything you could imagine. It is called "The Merry-Go-Round Matter" and believe me the name fits. It all starts out with the loss of a valuable object of art, but from the collection of the wildest, most unpredictable old character I have ever known - and what's more he has a friend along - another character just to complicate matters - and I'll tell you this - you'll get more than one chuckle out of the whole affair." Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, calls Johnny about wacky Alvin Peabody Cartwright. Johnny heads for the country of Lakewood and the mansion of Cartwright. Alvin has a Christmas present for him - a bill clip studded with genuine diamonds. Alvin also has a terrible problem for Johnny to solve. He has had a theft of an icon at his new art gallery. Alvin's friend Jonathan W. Peoples had noticed that the icon was gone after a ragged old man had fallen at the gallery. The guard was Gummy O'Bannion, an ex-gangster. Dollar goes to Gummy's place and overhears him talking to the old guy , "Doc", and he immediately goes to Peoples' place in New York City. The doorman sends him to Cartwright's place. Peoples hid the icon to teach Peabody a lesson on being more careful with his gallery. (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:02)

• 7:30 p.m.Line Up
  2/1/51 "The Grocery Store Murder" William Johnstone (Lt. Ben Guthrie), Wally Maher (Sgt. Matt Grebb), Hy Averback, Gil Stratton, Jeanne Bates, Jack Moyles, Herb Butterfield, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Sam Edwards, Tony Barrett ; Producer/Director/Transcriber - Jaime del Valle ; Writer - Blake Edwards ; Music Composer/Conductor - Eddie Dunstedter ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; CBS net ; sustaining ; There have been 8 robberies of all-night stores in the last month. While a police stake-out is in place, a grocery store is held up and the manager's son shot and killed. (29:44)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  10/10/52 "Hinka Do" Program #25 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Jeanette Nolan (Mamie), John Dehner, Ralph Moody, Byron Kane ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Clancey Cassels ; Doc and then Chester asks Matt if he has heard about The Longhorn Saloon. A sign indicates that it is under new management beginning at 8:00 PM. New management is named Mamie from St. Louis, who must have bought it from little Herman Bleeker. She is a pistol-toting dead shot, 190 pounder, with a loud, shrill voice. Matt asks her where Herman is. She says that she thought he left town. Manuel tells Matt that two hours before dawn he saw Mamie with a lantern and a shovel in the arroyo behind the Longhorn. Matt Chester and Doc go digging and find clothes, boots, and Herman's fancy vest with blood on it. Doc does tests on the blood - it is human blood. Finnegan, the barkeep, said that when he came into work at the Longhorn, Mamie was already there and told him to come back later that day. Matt uses various tricks to get Mamie to use up her bullets before he slips the handcuffs on her, and then charges her with the murder of Herman. Just then Herman shows up, and Mamie says that she has been chasing after her husband Herman ever since he ran out on her in Cincinnati. He has been holed up in an upstairs room, bruised and embarrassed. Chester has lost the keys to the handcuffs. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:44)

• 8:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  9/5/39 "McGee's Fish Fry" Program #212 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee, Sis), Hal Peary (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Bill Thompson (Rupert "Mr. Old Timer" Blasingame, Nick Depopoulous), Harlow Wilcox, Isabel Randolph (Abigail Uppington); Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ; (Johnson's Wax) (NBC )(29:42)

• 9:00 p.m. Nightbeat
  2/27/50 "The Girl in the Park" Episode #4 Frank Lovejoy (Randy Stone), Joan Banks, Paul Dubov, Ken Christy, Georgia Ellis, Carol Richards, ; Writer - Russell Hughes ; Director - Warren Lewis ; Editor - Larry Marcus ; Music - Frank Worth ; Alt:" I Die, You Die" ; Randy Stone meets Fran Fowler in the park. She's a nightclub singer with a big problem. The program was rebroadcast April 23, 1950 but with a different cast! (Sus.) (NBC) (29:26)

• 9:30 p.m. Philo Vance
  9/21/48 or 12/5/46 "The Backstage Murder Case" Program #11 Jackson Beck (Philo Vance), Joan Alexander (Ellen Deering), George Petrie (District Attorney F. H. Markham) ; Creator - S. S. Van Dine ; Frederick Ziv Syndication ; Director - Jeanne K. Harrison ; Organist - Henry Sylvern ; After a theatre has been robbed, the star receives a threatening letter and her understudy is murdered. (Synd) (27:22)

• 10:00 p.m. Tales of the Texas Rangers
  8/5/50 "The Triggerman" Program #5 Joel McCrea (Ranger Jace Pearson), Tony Barrett, Byron Kane, Jay Novello, Tom McKee, Tom Holland, Jack Kruschen. ; Creator/Producer/Director - Stacey Keach, Sr. ; Technical Advisor - Captain M. T. "Lonewolf" Gonzaullas ; Transcribed/ Adapted - Charles E. Israel ; Announcer - Hal Gibney ; Sponsor - Wheaties ; Commercial Spokesman - Frank Martin ; NBC ; Based on events of May 27, 1947. The vicious Gordon brothers leave a trail of death behind them as they head for the Mexican border. (29:50)

• 10:30 p.m. NBC University Theater
  9/3/48 "Candide" Program #6 Eddie Bracken, Alec Harford, Bill Shaw, Frank Gerstle, Georgia Backus, Hal K. Dawson, Hans Conried, Herb Lytton, June Foray, Richard Warner, Rolfe Sedan ; Producer/Host - Don Diamond ; Director - Max Hutto ; Author - Voltaire ; Radio Adaptation - Morton Wishengrad ; Music Composers - Henry Russell & Morris Mamorsky ; Music Conductor - Henry Russell ; sustaining ; The best of all possible satires. The story was subsequently used on "The NBC University Theatre" on October 8, 1950. (Sus) (NBC) (29:28)

[WXRGina]

Very. I surely like Dragnet much more.

[steelyourfaith]

Yummy !

[WXRGina]

Hi, SteelYourFaith! I’m glad to “see” you.

Oh, those beans are the bomb (in a good way, of course :-)!

[Vision]

Hey. You had Gina worried (:

[WXRGina]

That’s right!

It’s kinda like when (in the old days) when we may have been “regulars” at a neighborhood bar (as I have been in the past), if one of the regulars had not been in for a while, people would ask, “I wonder what’s ‘wrong’ with Jim? He hasn’t been in in a couple of weeks!” HAAA!! :-)

[steelyourfaith]

Hey Gina. Ditto.

Yeah. Lineup is not as good as Dragnet.