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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/13 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 12/13/15 | Ed Walker

Posted on 12/13/2015 11:45:59 AM 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.

Listen Live

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

Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:

http://kallmansalley.com/


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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.'
1 posted on 12/13/2015 11:45:59 AM PST by Vision
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To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; boxlunch; bsf53; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...


2 posted on 12/13/2015 11:46:37 AM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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3 posted on 12/13/2015 11:47:16 AM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision
Happy Sunday all! A little bit of an early thread...I've got to run to a Christmas thing but should be back before showtime..

We've got a lineup of Bish shows...Burns and Allen...Life of Riley...Falcon...but then we end with a very special moment in OTR history, Lux with It's a Wonderful Life, am excited about that...

How's your Christmas season going?

4 posted on 12/13/2015 11:48:10 AM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision
Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

The Christmas lineups continue. You can't beat "It's A Wonderful Life."

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

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 21, 1955. Part #3. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A lonely vigil in the snow, a killer prowls the night, and a lady vanishes. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 22, 1955. Part #4. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A little girl who believes in Santa Claus, a big girl who believes in very little, and both of them facing death! Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. May 25, 1950. Program #50. NBC net. "The Big Key". Sponsored by: Fatima. Maria Comacho is found dead in a churchyard. The clues are meager: a key, a pen, a shoe polish smear. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:29. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. December 25, 1955. CBS net. "Twelfth Night". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Eban Hakes has walked all the way from the Ozarks, just to kill Joff Monger. A family feud going on for years is about to break out in Dodge...but never on Sunday! The script was used again on Gunsmoke on December 25, 1955 (see cat. #59418) and on the Gunsmoke televiion series on December 28, 1957. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Dehner, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Vic Perrin, Helen Kleeb, Howard McNear, Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Georgia Ellis, George Walsh (announcer). 25:47. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

8:30 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. December 14, 1943. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Gracie tries to get guest Kay Kyser married to her friend Tootsie Sagwell. See cat. #72812 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jimmy Cash, Felix Mills and His Orchestra, Bill Goodwin, Kay Kyser, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra (music fill), Harry Babbitt (music fill vocal), Elvia Allman. 30:38. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

9:00 Life of Riley. 12/24/47 Christmas in a Store Window (Prell) (NBC) (29:20). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

9:30 Falcon. 12/24/50 Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (Sus.) (27:26). Another missing synopsis! :-/

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. March 10, 1947. CBS net. "It's A Wonderful Life". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. Tired of his life on Earth, a man finds out what it's like never to have been born. Edwin Maxwell, Janet Scott, Noreen Gammill, Cliff Clark, Norma Jean Nilsson, Leo Cleary, Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Victor Moore, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), William Johnstone, John McIntire, Philip Van Doren (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Frank Capra (screenwriter), Frances Goodrich (screenwriter), Albert Hackett (screenwriter), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Susan Blanchard (intermission guest), Norman Field, Franklyn Parker, Ann Carter, Charles Seel, Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Edward Marr. 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

5 posted on 12/13/2015 2:16:16 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Hey Gina, I’m in the car heading home listening, but I’m running late. How you doing?


6 posted on 12/13/2015 3:46:23 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: WXRGina

Hey Gina, I’m in the car heading home listening, but I’m running late. How you doing?


7 posted on 12/13/2015 3:47:01 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Hi, Vision! We’re doing fine. What did you do today?

We had a nice weekend. Friday was my birthday AND the radio station Christmas party, so we had a fun time. The party was at the Hard Rock Casino here, and the station put everyone up in the hotel, so no one would have to drive. It was a fine time.


8 posted on 12/13/2015 4:14:26 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
That sounds like a great time. Did it get wild?

We were almost 70f today. Fantastic weather. Went to church, scootered around, did a few errands, went to a Christmas party- I'm stuffed with crabcakes, shrimp, wings, and beer. (:

9 posted on 12/13/2015 4:46:09 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Oh, that’s a very nice you had, Vision! The party did not get wild, just a tad silly, but many of us danced and danced and danced. It got late quickly!


10 posted on 12/13/2015 4:49:38 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Murther, he says! It’s SOLID!


11 posted on 12/13/2015 4:59:11 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

I’m sorry. That’s not nice of me. It’s MURDER!


12 posted on 12/13/2015 4:59:36 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Gunsmoke!


13 posted on 12/13/2015 5:00:48 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: WXRGina
That's right. Murder!

Man, I've heard this GS so many time. The peace officer thing is funny though.!

14 posted on 12/13/2015 5:03:44 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision; WXRGina
Evening, folks. Transcribe the shows for me, I'm up to my neck in work tonight. Didn't even get a chance to listen to the Redskins-Bears game............


15 posted on 12/13/2015 5:26:43 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Viking2002

Hey, how’s it going?


16 posted on 12/13/2015 5:28:44 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Yes, Peace Officer! I never get tired of that episode. It’s so precious. :-)


17 posted on 12/13/2015 5:58:29 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Viking2002

Viking, you rock! It’s good to see you!


18 posted on 12/13/2015 5:59:13 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision; WXRGina
Busy! Big internal restructuring going on, so we're short-staffed. It's a zoo tonight..........'course, I can't complain too much - I'm getting paid to sit here in my shorts and sandals. And nobody can see that Miller Lite I open a half hour before I clock out. LOL


19 posted on 12/13/2015 6:26:08 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Viking2002
The highlight of the night will be Lux, it's a wonderful life. Decent shows so far but b level.
20 posted on 12/13/2015 6:36:59 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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