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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 6/16 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 6/16/13 | Ed Walker

Posted on 06/16/2013 2:08:45 PM PDT by Vision

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

Listen Live

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


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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 06/16/2013 2:08:45 PM PDT by Vision
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2 posted on 06/16/2013 2:09:25 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...


3 posted on 06/16/2013 2:09:53 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Happy Fathers Day all...hope you could spend time with Dad.

We have a Whistler tonight! Never heard of Bob & Ray.

Hope you are well and ready for a fun night...


4 posted on 06/16/2013 2:10:56 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision
Hello, FRiends! Happy Father's Day to all you Dads!

We have a Whistler and an Escape with a Robert Louis Stevenson story, plus Mutiny on the Bounty hosted by Orson Welles! Great lineup this evening!

It looks like Ed's assistants may have misspelled the new Johnny Dollar series title. Theirs conflicts with the Mr. Goldin's.

These brief synopses are provided courtesy of the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin, used by permission.

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 2, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Fathom Five Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. A dead man tells a tale, but not the one he was meant to tell! The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Barney Phillips, Bob Bailey, Carleton Young, Eleanor Audley, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Les Crutchfield (writer), Mary Jane Croft, Roy Rowan (announcer), Sam Edwards, Shepard Menken. 14:02. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 5, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Plantagenet Matter". Sustaining. In Vicksburg, a beautiful girl dies in Johnny's arms, while asking him for help! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Michael Ann Barrett, Jeanne Bates, Marvin Miller, Frank Gerstle, Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Kruschen, Ken Peters, Herb Butterfield, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 02:51. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:30 Dragnet. July 26, 1951. Program #111. NBC net. "The Big Late Script". Sponsored by: Fatima. A successful businessman named Tony Richmond has been kidnapped and held for a $20,000 ransom. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. September 13, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Dooley Surrenders". A buffalo skinner named Emmett Dooley confesses to Marshal Dillon that he's killed a man, but Matt has a good reason for refusing to put him in jail. See cat. #54834 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 8, 1958. Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, James Nusser, William Conrad, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Meston (writer), Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:30 Bob and Ray. November 10, 1948. WHDH, Boston. Sponsored by: Fatima Cigarettes, Mission Bell Wine. Linda Lovely, "Believe It Or Rot." Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Bill Green (piano), Ken Wilson (organ). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete as above.

9:00 Escape. August 4, 1947. Program #5. CBS net. "The Sire de Maletroit's Door". Sustaining. Which will it be...the beautiful girl or the sword? Robert Louis Stevenson (author), Elliott Lewis, Peggy Webber, William N. Robson (producer, director), Les Crutchfield (adaptor), Ramsay Hill, Cy Feuer (composer, conductor). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 The Whistler. October 4, 1942. CBS net. "The Urge To Kill". Sustaining. A businessman under intense wartime production pressures develops amnesiac spells with increasing frequency. J. Donald Wilson (writer, director), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor). 29:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Campbell Playhouse. January 13, 1939. CBS net. "Mutiny On The Bounty". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The story of Captain Bligh and the men of "The Bounty" during a visit to Tahiti. Orson Welles reads an eloquent word portrait of ham radio operators. The intermission guest is Dorothy Hall, a ham radio operator who helped the residents of Pitcairn Island during an epidemic. Burgess Meredith, Carl Frank, Dorothy Hall, Edgar Barrier, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Frank Readick, Joseph Cotten, Memo Holt, Myron McCormick, Orson Welles (host), Ray Collins (narrator), Richard Wilson, William Alland. 59:49. Audio condition: Excellent.

5 posted on 06/16/2013 2:27:25 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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Hi Gina, how ya doing? Did you do anything for Fathers Day? I packed up the smoker and cooked for Dad yesterday so today has been about getting back. Maybe a pizza tonight here.
6 posted on 06/16/2013 2:32:16 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Hi, Vision! You’re a good son to your dad! I’ll bet you made a super barbecue for him.

We’ve been working all day and sweating like crazy! I’m still working—now doing housework. :-)

I got the stuff to make hamburgers on the grill, but we haven’t slowed down enough to think about dinner. It’s time for a beer, though!


7 posted on 06/16/2013 3:05:52 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Sounds like you deserve a cold one or three.


8 posted on 06/16/2013 3:48:21 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Yep. And, I need a shower. After a few beers and few shows. Sometimes you’re so tired, you don’t want to take a shower, but you feel (and smell :-) better when you do.


9 posted on 06/16/2013 3:57:57 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

I hear ya. If it was me I’d to it during Bob & Ray which looks like the weak link tonight.


10 posted on 06/16/2013 4:10:03 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

That’s exactly what I thought, too. :-) Keith said it’s a comedy.


11 posted on 06/16/2013 4:15:12 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

That was a pretty weak ending for a 5 part story! Dang. I feel robbed. If you are going to string us along there better be a big climax.


12 posted on 06/16/2013 4:17:19 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Yes, it was weak. The “dead” guy never had a chance, and then he was dead.


13 posted on 06/16/2013 4:33:31 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Thanks as usual - I have to be in the right mood to listen (and am tonight)....but that picture always tugs at the ole heart strings.


14 posted on 06/16/2013 4:59:05 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: DJlaysitup

We’re glad to have you. Is there any show you like tonight?


15 posted on 06/16/2013 5:01:43 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

I love Paul Harvey...


16 posted on 06/16/2013 5:27:06 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Let it be known that Bob and Ray are terrible. They must have had local success.


17 posted on 06/16/2013 5:47:27 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

Ed interviewed Bob a week or so ago. He’s still around, bless his heart.

The Paul Harvey made me “misty.”

I’m clean now. :-)


18 posted on 06/16/2013 5:50:48 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Just in time for good programs...


19 posted on 06/16/2013 6:00:55 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: Vision

“Sir, if you are in possession of your wits, you are insulting me grossly!”


20 posted on 06/16/2013 6:07:35 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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