"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 7/28 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 7/28/13 | Ed Walker

[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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[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
  Jolly Roger Fraud Matter Pts. 2-3 (Sus.)(CBS) (27:28)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  09/13/51 #118 Big Waiter (NBC)(26:50)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  10/23/54 Ma Tennis (CBS)(26:00)
• 08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  10/16/45 #449 Getting a Pullman Reservation (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (29:30)
• 09:00 p.m. Hopalong Cassidy
  10/11/50 Gunhawk Convention (Synd) (26:24)
• 09:30 p.m. Mr. Keen
  10/06/49 Case of the Man Who Invented Death (White Hall Pharmical) (CBS) (29:12)
• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  10/23/39 Invitation to Happiness (Lux)(CBS)(59:46)

[Vision]

With the exception of Fibber McGee we have a pretty good lineup, ending strong with a Lux!

Evening all! How are you?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! It’s Sunday already. We’ve been busy-busy-busy today. Got rained out yesterday, so we had to do some of our work today, plus our own yard, which is huge. I just got back from doing the shopping, and now it’s time to do laundry! I’ll see if I can work up a synopsis list...

How’s your week been? Any news?

[WXRGina]

RadioGOLDINdex is now working for me. :-)

These brief synopses are used by permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 20, 1956. Program #190. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Jolly Roger Fraud". Episode #2. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Zanegian tries bribery, and murder. Bob Bailey. 15 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 21, 1956. Program #191. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Jolly Roger Fraud". Episode #3. A dead man talks, but there's murder in the Coast Guard too. Bob Bailey. 15 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. September 13, 1951. Program #118. NBC net. "The Big Waiter". Sponsored by: Fatima Cigarettes. An elderly shopkeeper is brutally beaten to death. It seems he had a roving eye for the ladies. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:43. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. October 23, 1954. CBS net. "Ma Tennis". Sponsored by: L & M. After Andy Tennis kills an unarmed man and is arrested by Marshal Dillon, Ma Tennis comes to town...with her shotgun! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 1, 1958. Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), Virginia Gregg, Sam Edwards, Harry Bartell, Lee Millar Jr., Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Howard McNear, Parley Baer, George Walsh (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (director), William Conrad. 29:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. October 16, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber tries to get railroad tickets for Mrs. Carstairs. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Gale Gordon, Harlow Wilcox, Bea Benaderet, Arthur Q. Bryan, Shirley Mitchell, Don Quinn (writer), Phil Leslie (writer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 Hopalong Cassidy. October 11, 1950. Program #81. Commodore syndication. "Gunhawk Convention". Commercials added locally. A whole town is taken over by crooks and Hoppy loses $10,000 in gold. William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Walter White Jr. (producer, transcriber), Herb Purdum (writer), Albert Glasser (music supervisor). 26:19. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.

9:30 Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons. October 6, 1949. CBS net. "The Case Of The Man Who Invented Death". Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos Toothpaste, Heet. A modern alchemist has been electrocuted to learn his secrets. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert (originator, producer), Anne Hummert (originator, producer), Lawrence Klee (dialogue), Larry Elliott (announcer). 29:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. October 23, 1939. CBS net. "Invitation To Happiness". Sponsored by: Lux. An uneducated prize fighter and a society woman fall in love and marry, both knowing that there are few similarities in their worlds. A well-done boxing/romance story. A girl's trio, billed as "Sally, Irene and Mary," sings a Lux commercial to the tune of, "The Band Played On." Don't miss the tuned cash registers that accompany the orchestra! The story is based on the life of boxer King Cole. Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil B. DeMille, George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Sanford Barnett (director), Eva Nixon (commercial spokesman), Vivian Edwards (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Mark Jerome (author), Melville Ruick (announcer), Cy Kendall, Eric Burtis, Harry Humphrey, Louis Silvers (music director), Mark Geroux (writer), Claude Binyon (screenwriter), Tristram Coffin, James Eagles (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), Robert Warrick, Frank Nelson, Jessie Huston, Ethel Sykes, Grace Nielson (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Jo Campbell (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Kathleen Fitz, Lou Merrill (doubles), Thomas Graham, David Kerman, Sidney Newman. 59:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Huskrrrr]

Sometimes the best part of the weekend!

[Vision]

Hey Gina. Yea, time is going by fast. It was a good week and I expect another one coming up. It's all about the job at the moment. I've begun to embrace the rain.

So, what's the story, or is there a story with the website?

[Vision]

Hey there. Do you like any particular program tonight?

[WXRGina]

There’s really no story with the website. It wouldn’t work for us last week, but I went to the Internet Archive and was able to access it through a cached version. Then a few days later the site itself worked partially—some of the pages wouldn’t load. I checked today, and it all worked like normal. I don’t know what the deal was with it. But, we’re now good to go.

I’m glad your job is going well. What kind of work do you do, or do you want to say?

Last night we did a couple of nice ribeyes on the Egg. Keith did them a couple of minutes on each side at about 700 degrees! WOW-YUM! It’s amazing how hot you can easily get those things! Tonight we have a pork rib roast going on the Egg with sweet potatoes on the side.

[Huskrrrr]

Always enjoy Johnny Dollar and Dragnet. How about you?

[Vision]

I’m an international man of mystery. Ok I’m a sales guy. The ribeyes sound great. Does keith know about the reverse sear?

[Vision]

I like almost all programs except for shows I find stupid. JD is the gold standard. Dragnet is good but what I really like is that these were actual crimes. Fibber McGee I find dumb. Never heard of Mr. Keen. Lux is iconic. That theme song goes right to the heart.. That style is the height of American culture.

I love The Whistler and The Shadow. Jack Benny is so damn funny. As you can see I can keep going like this...

[Vision]

Tonight's thread is brought to you by Lindt's dark chocolate coconut. Everyone should try this.

[WXRGina]

Sales is hard, hard work! But, if you do well, you do well indeed. :-)

We’ve never done the reverse sear (heating the steak before searing it). Does it make a discernible difference in the end result? We just sear the crap out of it, and take it off the grill medium rare to rare.

The chocolate sounds good! With coconut, too!

[Vision]

I only cook reverse sear now. I'll put half a chimney of charcoal in the weber on one side. Salt/pepper/oil the steaks and put them on the other side of the cold grill. Put a piece of pecan wood in and let it go for 10 minutes. After that sear the steaks until done. (:

[WXRGina]

Do you start the cold grill with the steaks on it? Do you use lighter fluid, or how do you light the grill?

[Vision]

I use weber’s charcoal chimney and their lighter cubes.

Yes, cold. Put the charcoal in, but the grate on, wood in, steaks on, lid on. I've been cooking thinner steaks lately and I want them to get 10 minutes in the smoke before the searing starts. Putting them on cold helps with this and you can still get a good crust during searing.

[WXRGina]

That sounds like an excellent method!

[Vision]

It’s the best I know of- even do burgers this way now. Takes a little getting used to.