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| 6/30/13
| Ed Walker
Posted on 06/30/2013 1:27:39 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.
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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.'
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posted on
06/30/2013 1:27:39 PM PDT
by
Vision
To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...
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posted on
06/30/2013 1:27:58 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
- 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
03/08-09/56 Plant Agent Matter Pts. 4-5 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:12) - 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
08/16/51 #114 Big Winchester (NBC) (26:20) - 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
09/27/54 #128 Helping Hand (CBS) (25:50) - 08:30 p.m. You Are There
03/21/48 July 4, 1776 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:10) - 09:00 p.m. Jean Shepherd
1974 The Carbide Cannon (WOR) (37:44) - 09:40 p.m. Suspense
07/15/62 #934 Snow On 66 w/Grayson Hall, Jimmie Blaine (CBS) (21:18) - 10:00 p.m. Options
07/04/78 The 4th of July w/Ed Walker (NPR) (60:00)
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posted on
06/30/2013 1:28:29 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
Evening all. Hope your week was great. It’s so rainy here.
I’ve never heard of You Are There. Cross your fingers that Jean Shepherd’s show is listenable. But we have a Suspense! Can’t remember if this Options is good or not. There’s one special that has Jimmy Stewart in it which is fantastic, hope for the best.
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posted on
06/30/2013 1:31:43 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
“Ive never heard of You Are There.”
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Not sure if I remember the radio show, but I do remember the 50s TV show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_(series) explains it better than I can
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posted on
06/30/2013 1:45:45 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Vision
What! No “Dago Bomb” this Fourth?
To: Roccus
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posted on
06/30/2013 2:14:57 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Calvin Locke
I had to look that up. That was a Jean Shepard program?
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posted on
06/30/2013 2:16:08 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
Yeah, that’s the one. Not sure how I screwed up the link.
I don’t think Cronkite was involved in the radio series and IIRC, he was pretty straight forward when he did the TV one. But that was about 60 years ago and the years have a way of dimming what, at the time, were youthful impressions.
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posted on
06/30/2013 2:23:05 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
So are you listening tonight? What do you like?
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posted on
06/30/2013 2:50:46 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
Can’t...got company coming
HOWEVER, I dug out a link for the download of the Jean Shepherd show to listen to later. };^)
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posted on
06/30/2013 3:14:52 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Vision
IIRC, Jean Shepherd's "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb" was short story he wrote for Playboy in the early 1960s, and became an annual retelling every Fourth of July for a number of years.
I caught one rebroadcast on SW in which he told of the original inspiration.
Shep's father, along with a friend, picked up extra cash by selling fireworks before the Fourth. One evening, Shep's at the stand, and a drunk businessman, showing off for his girlfriend/mistress, buys the biggest rocket they have, and sets it off nearby.
The guy's reactions weren't as quick as the fuse, and his jacket sleeve was scorched or charred.
"Dago" does refer to Italian, but at that time, Italian fireworks were not only the biggest, but top-of-the-line as well.
Well worth tracking down a version.
To: Roccus
Ok later. You can listen to the entire show at wamu’s website.
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posted on
06/30/2013 4:22:14 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Calvin Locke
Cool, I will. Hope you tune in tonight.
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posted on
06/30/2013 4:23:17 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
John Wayne talking about loving America. We need more John Wayne.
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posted on
06/30/2013 4:58:14 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
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posted on
06/30/2013 6:01:50 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
I’ll be listening by the radio. Night all. Have a fun week.
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posted on
06/30/2013 7:13:06 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: Vision
Love the Big Broadcasts! :)
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posted on
06/30/2013 8:14:06 PM PDT
by
citizen
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