Posted on 03/15/2015 2:39:16 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.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
Hey folks, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day BB thread...how’s it going out there?
Not sure what to think of tonight’s lineup and am not getting hopes up for Recollections at 30... like Let George Do It...Screen Guild Theater have good stories...Quiz Kids is new to me...can’t remember much of Beat the Band...
Doing anything for St. Patrick’s Day? Shouldn’t people go to Mass instead of drinking green beer? Or Mass being a requirement to drinking beer?
Boy, it's a beautiful day today! Over the past week, we've had over 8 inches of rain in our rain gauge in the back yard. It's nice to see the sun again.
Gunsmoke looks like a good one, and, naturally, Ed is doing an all-St. Patrick's Day show after our three intro shows.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 25, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Smokey Sleeper Matter". A mattress warehouse owned by a shady operator has burned down. Arson? Bob Bailey, Russell Thorson, Vic Perrin, Paul Dubov, Jack Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. May 17, 1953. Program #204. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big False Make". Thomas Stanford confesses to robbing a store, but Sgt. Friday proves he was at work at the time of the robbery. See cat. #47082 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music), Hal Gibney (announcer), Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. May 20, 1956. CBS net. "Buffalo Man". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 11, 1958. Marshal Dillon and Chester are taken prisoner by Ben Siple, an insane buffalo hunter. The Pawnee Indians prove an unexpected ally. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Helen Kleeb, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Recollections At Thirty. [WAMU website also has a date of 3-13-11, but I don't know what that's for] March 19, 1957. NBC net, WCKR, Miami aircheck. Sustaining. The program has a St. Patrick's Day theme. Rudy Vallee (1938), John McCormack (1938), Beatrice Lillie (1935), The Silver Masked Tenor (1926), the arrival of the swallows at Capistrano, Paderewski's first radio appearance (September 25, 1938) on "The Magic Key," Morton Downey (1938). This program also known as "Recollections." Beatrice Lillie, John McCormack, Morton Downey (guest), Ignace Paderewski, Rudy Vallee, The Silver Masked Tenor (Joseph White). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
9:00 Beat The Band. March 17, 1940. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kix. The first tune is, "Wearin' Of The Green." A St. Patrick's Day program. Ted Weems and His Orchestra, Garry Moore (host), Elmo Tanner, Parker Gibbs, Red Ingle, Perry Como, Fort Pearson (announcer), Marvel Maxwell, Orm Downes, Country Washburne. 29:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Quiz Kids. March 11, 1951. NBC net, Chicago origination. Sponsored by: Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day. A St. Patrick's Day program. The first question is, "Why does an imitation diamond remind you of St. Patrick's Day?" Joe Kelly (host), Bob Murphy (announcer). 29:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre. March 11, 1946. CBS net. "Irish Eyes Are Smiling". Sponsored by: Lady Esther. A musical romance with a happy ending. June Haver, Dick Haymes, Truman Bradley (announcer), Wilbur Hatch (conductor). 29:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 Let George Do It 09/27/54 Ghost Of Ireland Betty (final show) (Pream) (MBS) (29:40). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
Hey, it’s beautiful here too. And light out in the evening...
Finally, you have nice weather! It’s so fine. :-)
Did you make a barbecue? Has your week been a good one?
Keith has done the grill two nights in a row, so I guess I’ll make spaghetti and a salad tonight.
Poor Keith, today on his day off, he worked all day—partly in a customer’s yard repairing some torn-up lawn, and then the rest of the time trying to figure out an electrical problem in a friend’s house. It’s intermittent, and he couldn’t find what is causing her partial power outages. A bummer to spend this beautiful day doing that, and he just got home about half an hour ago.
I became friends with an (adopted) son of James Arness, one Craig Aurness, who lived with his maternal grandparents, I believe. He went to private school, and had a whole lot of neat stuff, from his Dad I think.
He became a photographer for National Geographic.
Oh, that’s nifty! :-)
No bbq, did some pork chops and pasta.
Sorry to hear about Keith.He deserves a break. It must a time of death by small projects...I've got a few to deal with too.
You know, I don't think JD proved the furniture retail guy was guilty of fraud.
Cool.
She wished this was NY, like that program with the friends?
Wonder what she’s talking about? I love lucy?
Hey there, how you doing?
It’s about to get nice up here...
Spring has sprung, and that’s nice!
That program the lady on Dragnet was talking about sounds like an early “reality” program. A “friend intervention” need.
Howdy, Viking! Good to see you. I hope the luck of the Irish is with you this week. :-)
“You interfering with my right to beat her when I want?”
That was a brutal GS. Kinda hoped for a killing at the end.
On the downside, the new cat my wife adopted a couple of weeks ago got attacked and killed by coyotes yesterday morning - the neighbor saw it. She said it's the same pack that took down a deer in their yard a couple years ago and left the head behind as a calling card. Needless to say, there's a pair of fully loaded .22 mags, a .40 S&W semi, and a 12 gauge sitting fully loaded here at the Viking Lodge. I didn't bother with the Nagant or the Colt - there may be a pack of those vermin running loose, but that would be like using a battleship against a bunch of rowboats. Overkill. LOL
Ed needs to play real Irish music.
Bing Crosby: Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9B49epS_M
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