Posted on 09/01/2013 1:41:27 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.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
How is everyone? I took possession of my new scooter Friday and life is great.
A mixed bag tonight. Love seeing Fred Allen w/Bing, and This is your FBI. But the 10pm hour looks fairly weak...
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 4, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Salt City Matter". Sustaining. Johnny arrives in Salt City and knows that there's going to be trouble. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Barbara Fuller, Dick Ryan, Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, Jean Tatum, Barbara Eiler, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Jack Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:14. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 5, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Salt City Matter". Sustaining. That hunch turns into action...and murder! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Barbara Fuller, Dick Ryan, Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, Jean Tatum, Barbara Eiler, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Jack Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. November 8, 1951. Program #126. NBC net. "The Big Hit and Run Killer". Sponsored by: Fatima. A bakery truck has run down and killed an old woman and her grandson. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. November 27, 1954. CBS net. "Cooter". Sponsored by: L & M. Kitty mentions that she plans on staying at the Long Branch "for a while.' Ben Sisle uses a hired gun and then simple-minded Cooter Smith to be his bodyguard. The script was soon on the Gunsmoke television series on May 12, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Harry Bartell, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 29:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Lone Ranger. December 23, 1942. Program #1548/761. Syndicated. "Mr. Martin"/"Dan's Strange Behavior". Music fill for local commercial insert. Why does Dan Reid refuse to help the Lone Ranger capture a killer named "Higgins?" We learn that Dan's last name is not really "Frisbe!" Brace Beemer, John Todd, Fran Striker (writer), George W. Trendle (creagor, producer). 28:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:00 The Fred Allen Show. May 23, 1948. NBC net, WNBC-FM, New York aircheck. Sponsored by: Ford. Allen's Alley question: "What are you doing about your radio listening?" Fred and guest Bing Crosby do, "The Story Of Bing Crosby's Life." Fred, Bing, and an unidentified third voice do a fine version of "Bye, Bye, Blues." Portland does not appear, Fred does the opening monologue with Kenny Delmar. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #77265, but the AFRS rebroadcast uses a different "Allen's Alley" question. Fred Allen (performer, writer), Kenny Delmar (announcer, performer), Al Goodman and His Orchestra, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious, Peter Donald, The De Marco Sisters, Bing Crosby, Nat Hiken (writer), Bob Weiskopf (writer), Howard Riley (producer, director), Kenneth MacGregor (associate producer), Agnew Horine (sound effects), Joe Silva (engineer). 29:15. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 This Is Your FBI. May 2, 1952. ABC net. "The Courier". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. "The basic secrets of nuclar fission have been stolen." The show features a rare guest star (George Murphy) in a drama based on the film, "Walk East On Beacon" The story tells how Russia gained knowledge of the making of the atomic bomb. After the drama, George Murphy says, "thank God for the FBI" and heaps praise upon the agency. The system cue is added live. Stacy Harris, William Woodson (narrator), Larry Keating (announcer), Jerry D. Lewis (writer), Jerry Devine (producer), Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), George Murphy, Whitfield Connor, Ted de Corsia, Isabel Jewell, Tom Tully. 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
10:00 Biographies In Sound. May 15, 1956. NBC net. "Recollections At Thirty". Sustaining. "A salute to network radio on its thirtieth anniversary." Excerpts heard: The Kansas City Nighthawks, Bob and Ray, The First National Speed Crocheting Contest (1939), famous news bulletins and reports, excerpts from Toscanini broadcasts, Ben Grauer describes the conclusion of Toscanini's last broadcast, an Arch Oboler broadcast, "One Man's Family (Chapter 8, Book 29)," "Pot Of Gold," "Information Please," "The Fred Allen Show," "The Kraft Music Hall," "Vic and Sade," many other brief excerpts. Al Jolson, Arch Oboler, Arturo Toscanini, Ben Bernie (panelist), Bernardine Flynn, Bert Silan, Bill Stern, Bob Elliott (Johnson's Back Plaster commercial), Charles Correll, Clarence Hartzell, Clem McCarthy, Cliff Hall, Clifton Fadiman (host), Don Bell, Don McNeill, Edgar Bergen, Fred Allen, Freeman Gosden, Groucho Marx, H. V. Kaltenborn, Harry Truman, Horace Heidt (narrator, vocal), Huey Long, Jack Pearl, Jerome Jacobs (writer, producer), Jim Jordan, Jimmy Durante, John Kieran, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Leon Pearson, Little Jack Little, Marian Jordan, Ben Grauer, Pat Kelly (producer), Ralph Howard Peterson, Ray Goulding (Johnson's Back Plaster commercial), The Kansas City Nighthawks, W. C. Fields, Walter Damrosch, Westbrook Van Voorhis. 53:59. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hi, Vision! Happy Labor day to you, too!
You’re mobile now! :-) Be too careful on that thing, though. I know you will.
This is Your FBI looks good. The Biographies in Sound celebrating the 30th anniversary of broadcast radio, like you said, might be a little weak. We’ll see.
Hey Gina. What are you up to this weekend?
Anything cooking?
Over the past several days, we’ve barbecued chicken, red fish, sausage and ribs, so I guess we’re doing leftovers this evening. What about you? Surely you have something nice going for Labor Day. :-)
I did some chickens Friday but have been playing with the bike this weekend.
My next culinary adventure will be mastering Baltimore pit beef. So I'm researching slicers...
A slicer? Not a nice, sharp knife? I don’t know what Baltimore pit beef is, though.
Ah, yes. Thin-sliced is hard to achieve without a mechanical slicer.
Bing Ping.
That was a good FBI show, but we were perplexed by the guy’s basically turning himself in without much prompting. Keith said maybe it was a cry for help. I said maybe he got sick of stupid, evil communism and knew he would be “disappeared” if he tried to get out. There are worse things than American prisons, to be sure.
I missed some of the details while doing dishes. Will let you know if I listen to it again.
Shoot, I miss a LOT of the Big Broadcast when I’m doing laundry, etc. I’m with you!
Good night, Vision. I hope your week is a good one.
Have a great week.
Hi, Vision. I don’t know if you’re familiar with this site or not, but it’s information-packed with all things barbecue:
http://www.amazingribs.com/index.html
Speaking of which, you can look up Baltimore pit beef there.
Meathead is also an insufferable liberal. But he does good bbq.
I grilled up some flap steaks with hickory wood tonight. So good.
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