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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 6/30 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 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.

Listen Live

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: radio; thebigbroadcast
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 06/30/2013 1:27:39 PM PDT by Vision
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To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...


2 posted on 06/30/2013 1:27:58 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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3 posted on 06/30/2013 1:28:29 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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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.


4 posted on 06/30/2013 1:31:43 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Vision

“I’ve 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


5 posted on 06/30/2013 1:45:45 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: Vision

What! No “Dago Bomb” this Fourth?


6 posted on 06/30/2013 2:03:32 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Roccus

Do you mean this link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_%28series%29

That makes sense but boy do I hope this has nothing to do with Walter Cronkite.


7 posted on 06/30/2013 2:14:57 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Calvin Locke
I had to look that up. That was a Jean Shepard program?
8 posted on 06/30/2013 2:16:08 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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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.


9 posted on 06/30/2013 2:23:05 PM PDT by Roccus
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So are you listening tonight? What do you like?
10 posted on 06/30/2013 2:50:46 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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Can’t...got company coming

HOWEVER, I dug out a link for the download of the Jean Shepherd show to listen to later. };^)


11 posted on 06/30/2013 3:14:52 PM PDT by Roccus
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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.

12 posted on 06/30/2013 3:21:18 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Roccus

Ok later. You can listen to the entire show at wamu’s website.


13 posted on 06/30/2013 4:22:14 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Calvin Locke
Cool, I will. Hope you tune in tonight.
14 posted on 06/30/2013 4:23:17 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Vision

John Wayne talking about loving America. We need more John Wayne.


15 posted on 06/30/2013 4:58:14 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Vision

Paul Harvey Ping.


16 posted on 06/30/2013 6:01:50 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Vision

I’ll be listening by the radio. Night all. Have a fun week.


17 posted on 06/30/2013 7:13:06 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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To: Vision

Love the Big Broadcasts! :)


18 posted on 06/30/2013 8:14:06 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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