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

WAMU ^ | 7/12/15 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

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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[Vision]

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.'

[Vision]

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

(((((Early Ping)))))

Hi All, an early thread as I'm traveling today. Hope to check in later in the show. With luck Gina can host tonight.

And we have a good one, Bob Hope with Frank Sinatra, Screen Guild Players with Lost Weekend (not a story to have cocktails with), Nightbeat, and closing strong with MGM Theater and Riptide (sounds great)!

Talk with you all later...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  04/12/58 #584 The Wayward Money Matter (AFRS) (24:14)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  11/24/53 #223 Big Present (NBC) (26:26)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  09/16/56 #232 Thick and Thin (CBS) (22:32)
• 08:30p Bob Hope
  02/27/45 w/Frank Sinatra (Pepsodent) (NBC) (29:28)
• 09:00p Screen Guild Players
  01/07/46 The Lost Weekend (Lady Ester) (CBS) (29:28)
• 09:30p Nightbeat
  09/18/50 Wanna Buy a Story (Sus.) (NBC) (29:30)
• 10:00p MGM Theatre
  1949/50 #16 Riptide (MGM Syndication) (55:12)

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

The lazy, hazy--HOT!--and crazy days of summer continue. Looks like a decent lineup.

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 13, 1958. CBS net, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Wayward Money Matter." A tobacco company safe has been "opened" and $104,000 taken. Elmer, the meek little bookkeeper, disappears the next day, but is found dead. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Frank Nelson, Edgar Barrier, Alan Reed, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Vic Perrin. 25:37. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. November 24, 1953. Program #223. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Present." The "Milk-Bottle Bandit" has pulled nineteen consecutive jobs. Is it a kid? Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:15. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. September 16, 1956. CBS net. "Thick 'n' Thin." Sponsored by: L & M. Odie Perkins and Brace McCoy, two old codgers who have been friends for years, suddenly start feuding. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 26, 1959. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Barney Phillips, Peggy Rea, Les Crutchfield (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 24:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 The Pepsodent Show. February 27, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Pepsodent. The program originates from Torney General Hospital, Palm Springs, California. Frank sings, "I'm Beginning To See The Light." Bob and guest Frank Sinatra appear in a western skit, after Frank takes the usual kidding about his physique. The recording appears as part of "To The Rear March" AFRS #82 (see cat. #10291). Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Wendell Niles (announcer), Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen (as "Vera Vague"), Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra. 29:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre. January 7, 1946. CBS net. "The Lost Weekend." Sponsored by: Lady Esther. The classic about the battle of the bottle. Barry Fitzgerald presents the Redbook Award to the writers of the story (including Billy Wilder). Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Frank Faylen, Barry Fitzgerald, Billy Wilder (writer), Truman Bradley (announcer), Wilbur Hatch (arranger, conductor). 29:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 Night Beat. September 18, 1950. NBC net. Sustaining. Mary Callahan offers to sell information to Randy Stone about the murder of gambler Marty Crain...for $500! Frank Lovejoy receives a scroll from Agnes Underwood, the only woman city editor of a large metropolitan paper, presented by Theta Sigma Phi, a journalism sorority, for accurately and convincingly portraying a newsman. Frank Lovejoy, Warren Lewis (producer, director), Larry Marcus (editor), Marty Wilkenson (writer), Frank Worth (music), Betty Moran, Peggy Webber, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman, Jack Kruschen, Stan Waxman, Don Rickles (announcer), Agnes Underwood. 29:30. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The MGM Theatre Of The Air. January 6, 1950. Program #16. MGM syndication. "Riptide." Commercials added locally. A love story about a jealous English nobleman and his wronged wife. Ivor Francis, Ed Stokes (announcer), Howard Dietz (host), Marx B. Loeb (director), William Kendall Clarke (adaptor), Joel Herron (composer, conductor), Raymond Katz (producer), Madeleine Carroll, Carl Frank. 57:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

[Vision]

Hi Gina, greetings from Boston. How you doing?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! We’re warm and muggy! :-) I see you made it safely to Boston. I hope you had a good trip.

[Vision]

Yeah the trip was fine, easy flight from BWI to Boston. Dealing with some last minute conference frustrations, hope to go to an oyster restaurant tonight. Should catch JD and some shows the end.

[WXRGina]

Enjoy your dinner! Sounds good.

[Vision]

Wilkens Avenue, the home of the clerk, is in my general neighborhood.

[WXRGina]

Oh, cool! I thought of you when they said Baltimore AND seafood and oysters! :-)

[Vision]

Hey Gina, how’s the MGM theater been?

[WXRGina]

Vision, we had the show playing in the background but were talking, so we missed most of it.

I hope you have a good week!