Posted on 02/15/2015 2:27:16 PM PST by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
Evening all, from the frigid mid Atlantic, it was 5f this morning, it’s 15f now down to 1f tonight with 5” of snow coming Monday. Sigh.
But we have radio, and Jack Benny!...then a a boxing story of Joe Lewis, which should be good (a repeat?)...and President day shows...Mr. President with GW is interesting...
How’s it shakin’ out there...
Ed's playing a couple of shows for President's Day.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 10, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Templeton Matter". $100,000 in gems are missing from a big safe. How did it get opened? Bob Bailey. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. April 19, 1953. Program #200. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Rip". A gang of safe-burglars is trapped by a stool pigeon left with an unpaid-for trench-coat. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 22, 1956. CBS net. "Indian Crazy". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Mr. and Mrs. Jallup move onto their new ranch after a fellow rancher and Marshal Dillon tell them that there are no Indians around. When Mrs. Jallup is killed, her husband kills the neighboring rancher for revenge...and Marshal Dillon is next! The system cue is aded live. William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Helen Kleeb, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 25:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny. February 14, 1954. Program #368. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. It's Jack's birthday. Is it the 39th or the 40th (It was actually his 60th)? AFRS program name: "The Jack Benny Program." The program was February 10, 1954. The script was previously used on the nprogram of February 13, 1949. Jack Benny, Eddie Anderson, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc, Bob Crosby, Dennis Day, Jeanette Eymann, Shirley Mitchell, Dick Ryan, Don Wilson, Hilliard Marks (producer, transcriber), Mahlon Merrick (music director). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Destination Freedom. October 10, 1948. WMAQ, Chicago. "Little David". Sustaining. Produced in co-operation with The Chicago Defender. The story of Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion. Well done. Bobby Christian (music), Charles Mountain (announcer), Elwyn Owen (organist), Fred Pinkard, Harry Elders, Homer Hecht (producer), Hugh Downs (announcer), Jack Moss, Janice Kingslow, Les Spears, Oscar Brown Jr., Richard Durham (writer), Studs Terkel. 29:24. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Mr. President. July 31, 1949. ABC net. "George Washington". Sustaining. Mr. President plans to lead a life of leisure after the war, but George Washington's services are needed by the United States. Betty Lou Gerson, Dick Walton (producer, director), Robert G. Jennings (creator), Edward Arnold, Jean Holloway (writer). 29:09. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 America Salutes The President's Birthday. January 29, 1944. Pool feed, CBS net aircheck. Sponsored by: March Of Dimes fund appeal. The program originates from the Waldorf Astoria, New York City. Basil O'Connor, Bob Hope, Conrad Nagel, Dan Seymour, Dinah Shore, Eddie Cantor, Edward R. Murrow (narrator), Frances Langford, Frank Sinatra, Franklin Roosevelt, Garry Moore (host), Georgia Gibbs, Jerry Colonna, Jimmy Durante, Lily Pons, Mary Pickford, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, The U. S. Marine Band. 60:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
This America Salutes The President's Birthday has an interesting cast of characters...
Yeah, it’s a big name lineup for that show.
We’re doing okay here. No news. How about you? All well up there? Any good recipes lately?
We're freezing our onions off up here.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean you can’t cook.
Of course.
Nothing new?
Nothing much new, except Keith has stripped the finish off his new old radio, getting ready to refinish it. It has a long way to go, though. Lots of work ahead of him after the finish to get the insides functioning.
This morning I was browsing the OTR Library, and there is a program called “Summers in Maryland”, and nuts, there are no shows listed for it. Can’t find anything on this show. ):
I’ve never heard of that one. I just did a search and came up with nothing on it.
It’s weird they would have an empty entry.
Hey there, see, you know how to handle bad weather.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2012/02/pork-chops-with-garlic-and-wine/ You?
Oh, it sounds great, Viking! But, I’m sorry to hear you have crummy weather moving in. Vision’s also frozen with millions of others. We’re not going to get too awfully cold down here, just into the 30s, if they don’t downgrade us. STAY WARM! :-)
Oh, that looks excellent!
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