"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/7 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 12/7/14 | Ed Walker

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

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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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Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

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• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  12/23/55 Nick Shur Matter Pt. 5 (Sus.) (CBS) (14:28)
• 07:15p Vic & Sade
  10/27/42 Vic Gets Stuck Picking A Xmas Gift for the Boss (Crisco) (NBC) (12:36)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  12/22/49 #030 .22 Rifle for Christmas (Sus.) (NBC) (27:04)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  03/04/56 #204 The Hunter (CBS) (20:44)
• 08:30p Fibber McGee & Molly
  12/24/46 #566 Christmas Card from Elizabeth (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (29:20)
• 09:00p Tales of the Texas Rangers
  12/24/50 Christmas Present (Sus.) (NBC) (29:46)
• 09:30p Let George Do It
  12/25/50 Santa Claus in Glass (Standard Oil) (MBS) (29:42)
• 10:00p Radio Reader's Digest
  12/19/46 Room for a Stranger w/Frank Sinatra (Hallmark) (CBS) (29:38)
• 10:30p Suspense
  12/21/50 #408 Christmas for Carole w/Dennis Day (Auto-Lite) (CBS) (29:54)

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Good evening all...you can barely buy a fresh Christmas wreath in the Baltimore area, but I managed to get the decorations up today.

The lineup is in full Christmas swing, I’m most curious about Radio Reader’s Digest with Sinatra and of course...Suspense!

How’s it going out there...it’s 2 1/2 weeks till Christmas...

[WXRGina]

I miss being there with you all. Next week should be back to normal, back at home again.

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Have a great time with your family...

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Miss you, Honey

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I have to tune out during Dragnet. I wish Ed would stop playing that episode.

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He’s a good hearted DC lib. I wish he’s stop too but in his mind he’s making the world a better place.

How you doing? What’s new? The job going well?

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks.

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Everything is good. Missing my Gina. No BBQ this weekend. How about you?

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What’s up Viking? You’re tuning in early tonight. How are things around the house?

[Vision]

Things are good, 10 more degrees outside would be better.

Cooked up some fish last night and grilled a steak tonight. I think over Christmas I’m going to make at least one stab at beef plate ribs.

Are you staying home for Christmas?

[Viking2002]

Limping back and forth trying to get the main 9' Christmas tree in the living room organized. We have four trees - three were easy (I did them and they are quite beautiful, TYVM), but I let the missus put the biggest one up with the grandson.

It looks like it was decorated by epileptic elves pickled on Russian potato vodka. Of course, she's blaming the cat. It's always 'the cat'. Right.

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell the twinkle lights could get strung the way they are without someone getting garrotted. Or electrocuted.

Then, after I find the ONE radio station in the whole valley playing Christmas music, she turns off this - THIS! - so she can watch CSI: Miami, or CSI: BFD, or whatever it's called:

Gotta admit, though, the house looks nice outside.

[Vision]

You have me laughing at “CSI: BFD”.

It’s nice to come home to a well decorated house. The smell of Christmas trees brings me clearly back to early childhood.

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Oh God, Crabs for Christmas!

[Viking2002]

Yeah, I can remember going to a tree farm owned by a Mr. Nee in Centerville, PA, as a kid. Tall old fella, former MLB pitcher. We'd walk through his tree farm, and Dad would pick out the nicest tree he could find. Usually a white pine - he loved those - but a blue spruce would suffice if the others weren't good that year. His son would cut it down with a big limb saw, and tug it up the hill to strap to the roof of the car. (That job became mine once I got over 5' tall. I became intimate with the physical properties of pine tar at an early age. LOL) We'd always stop by an old gas station/greasy spoon at the town crossroads afterwards for hot chocolate. That's what makes for Christmas memories, not a new iPod or some other gimme-gimme-gimme gadget in this day and age.

Although our trees are artificial here, I have not one, but two secret weapons to swing it in my favor: pine and/or bayberry candles, and, most importantly, about a thousand linear feet of real, honest-to-goodness yellow pines on my property. I could corner the pine cone market. We make homemade fall and Christmas ornaments with them. All I have to do is cut a couple of small branches off a lower bough, bring them in, and the house smells like an Alpine forest. Never hurts that the entire front yard is a bed of pine needles this time of year, either. But man, I mean there can be too much of a good thing. Pine straw EVERYWHERE. But I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China.

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Yea, that’s the stuff in life that matters.

[Viking2002]

Amen. Amen.

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Gotta love Bob Bailey...