Posted on 04/27/2014 1:54:43 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.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Happy Sunday! How are things where you are?
A night of detective work and drama with big stars, Cooper, Lancaster...and a Jimmy Durante show which could be hit or miss...it’ll be a good night...
I surely hope Ed is feeling all better this week. I know from experience that it's the pits trying to do radio when you're sick (even if it's not live).
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 4, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. The so-called trackless desert yields a set of tracks that leads straight to... The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Shepard Menken, Johnny Jacobs, Roland Winters, Herb Butterfield, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 5, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. The case is closed and then it suddenly reopens with a bang...from a 30.06 rifle! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Shepard Menken, Johnny Jacobs, Roland Winters, Herb Butterfield, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
7:30 Dragnet. July 10, 1952. Program #161. NBC net. "The Big Hate". Sponsored by: Fatima. Elizabeth Hoffman, a fifty-two year old music teacher, is found dead in a boxcar! Gordon Miller is found holding the body. Harry Bartell, Herb Ellis, Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Joyce McCluskey, Vic Perrin, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:14. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. July 16, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Twenty-Twenty". Troy Carver, a lawman who doesn't see very well, is determined to go ahead with a gunfight. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 25, 1956. See cat. #61889 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Joseph Cranston, James Nusser, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 26:08. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Jimmy Durante Show. March 31, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall Drugs. Rose Marie does a very good imitation of Jimmy. The whole cast and guest Victor Moore tour the colleges of America. Jimmy Durante, Arthur Treacher, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, Howard Petrie, Candy Candido, Peggy Lee, Rose Marie, Victor Moore. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Nick Carter. March 25, 1945. Mutual net. "Death Behind The Scenes," or "The Persecuted Actor". Sponsored by: Lin-X Home Brighteners. . 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Screen Directors' Playhouse. October 10, 1949. NBC net. "Criss Cross". Sustaining. A good gangster story about a planned armored car holdup and a double-double-cross. Screen director Robert Siodmak appears by transcription. Burt Lancaster, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeff Corey, Betty Morgan, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Robert Siodmak. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. September 23, 1940. CBS net. "The Westerner". Sponsored by: Lux (Scarlett O'Hara cameo brooch premium). The "cattlemen," led by Judge Roy Bean, take on the "homesteaders," down in Texas. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Cecil B. DeMille, Donald Curtis, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Frederick Shields, Gloria Holden, Hal K. Dawson, Harry Humphrey, Jay Michael, John Deering, Lou Merrill, Melville Ruick (announcer), Ted Arthurs, Brooks Benedict, Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Vera Gilmer (intermission guest: a model known as "The Modern Cameo Girl"), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Niven Busch (screenwriter), Stuart Lake (author), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaopter), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:32. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hey Gina. How’s the weekend going?
Howdy, Vision! It’s been a busy one. The usual catching up on our “other” jobs—Keith has had quite a bit to do yesterday and today, and I had to work at the radio station for several hours yesterday. Today, housework!
On Easter, we went over to see Keith’s Mom, and a cousin had given her this gigantic, probably ten-pound pork roast wrapped in mesh because it’s not a whole roast—an INDUSTRIAL-SIZED pork roast. Anyway, she gave it to us, and Keith’s been smoking it all afternoon, just a straight smoke. He checked it just a bit ago, and it’s close to 150 degrees, not quite. This sucker is HUGE, and we have to find people to share it with, and probably freeze some of it.
Anyway, what’s up with you? Still liking your new job?
Hey, my email may have made it on the air.
All is great. The job is fun. Things are going very well now.
So after the email to Ed about being sick I sent another and asked him about making programming suggestions. THAT email did not get a response. Oh well.
Smoker temp around 250F. I’ll let it go for a while longer.
She’s a lunker!
Hope I can stay up for The Westerner.
Yes, we heard Ed talk about it! I think he got more than one, it sounded like. We all were worried about him, and I’m glad he addressed it.
Keith has kept it around 225—250. It still has a little way to go, the mongo-meat!
I’m really glad you’re job is a good one! :-)
Almost JINX! :-) 5 seconds or so.
I thought Ed said he got an email. Who knows.
After Dragnet’s July 1952 episode: “Hear the Republican convention on NBC,” referring to the Chicago convention where Dwight Eisenhower would be nominated.
Ed said, “I got e-mail...” meaning more than one. Then he said something like, “Thanks to all of you who wrote with concern...” We thought he sounded bad, too, although we didn’t write. I’m glad lots of people noticed and care about him.
Huh. I heard that differently. Strange.
Victor Moore was awesome.
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