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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 5/22 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 5/22/16 | Interim host Rob Bamberger

Posted on 05/22/2016 2:03:37 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.

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

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http://kallmansalley.com/


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The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.

Saying Goodbye To Ed Walker

Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.

1 posted on 05/22/2016 2:03:37 PM PDT 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 05/22/2016 2:04:01 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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3 posted on 05/22/2016 2:04:49 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision
Happy wet Sunday all...it won't stop raining in the mid Atlantic...

Love this lineup tonight...Mr. and Mrs. Blandings, never heard of this, cool...loving Halls of Ivy...my favorite OTR comedy Phil Harris and Alice Faye...and an interesting Screen Guild Theater with Bachelor Mother...

How's it around you way?

4 posted on 05/22/2016 2:06:31 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision; All
Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

It looks like a fairly bland lineup, because I'm not wild about the comedies.

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 14, 1961. CBS net. "The Simple Simon Matter". Sustaining. Was it murder or suicide in San Diego? Robert Readick, Jackson Beck, Mason Adams, Maurice Tarplin, Elizabeth Lawrence, Bernard Grant, Art Hannes (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer), Bruno Zirato Jr. (producer, director), Ethel Huber (music supervisor). 24:40. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. September 14, 1954. Program #265. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Cut". A jewelry store has been robbed of $5000 worth of watches. The burglar was apparently barefoot, and cut himself! Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:21. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. September 22, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Custer". A stranger has murdered old man Granby, but Marshal Dillon can't prove it. The script was used on the series previously on November 21, 1953 (see cat. #4561) and on the Gunsmoke television series on September 22, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer), Rex Koury (composer, conductor). 26:13. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 Mr. and Mrs. Blandings. November 8, 1950. An audition recording. The Blandings' are all alone in their dream house...at last. Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Eric Hodgins (creator), Gale Gordon, Nat Wolff (writer, director), Anne Whitfield, Patricia Ianonne, Gail Bonney, Herb Vigran, Jack Kruschen, Bernard Katz (composer, conductor), Wendell Niles (announcer). 29:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 The Halls of Ivy. The Lame Girl and the Hypochondriac (03/12/59) (28:59). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

9:30 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. November 6, 1949. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Alice sings, "Look What You've Done." Phil sings, "Lucky Old Sun." Phil is getting ready for television...as a detective? Alice Faye, Anne Whitfield, Bill Forman (announcer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Gale Gordon, Jeanine Roos, Paul Phillips (producer, director), Phil Harris, Ray Singer (writer), Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Walter Tetley, Arthur Q. Bryan, Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:31. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

10:00 Screen Directors' Playhouse. March 8, 1951. NBC net. "Bachelor Mother". Sponsored by: RCA, Chesterfield, Anacin. A good comedy about a department store sales clerk, a baby, and the son of the store's owner. A funny comedy of errors. Lucille Ball, Robert Cummings, Frank Nelson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Garson Kanin (guest screen director), Bing Crosby (Chesterfield commercial), Bob Hope (Chesterfield commercial). 59:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

5 posted on 05/22/2016 3:16:58 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Bland? Boy you dislike the comedies that much?! Cool to know Mr. and Mrs. Blandings is an audition and has Cary Grant...


6 posted on 05/22/2016 3:23:02 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision

Yeah, that’s cool—Cary Grant! I’m sure it’ll be good, and then the finale is a Lucille Ball comedy. I’m sure they’ll be good shows.

How’s your week been? We’re doing fine. Just the usual, which is good.


7 posted on 05/22/2016 4:06:04 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Unfortunately the Cary Grant show is being pulled...darn...

Week was busy and fast, lots of meetings. I'm taking off Friday to extend the holiday. I tried to get people to make a last minute trip to Key West but no luck. Anything cooking?

8 posted on 05/22/2016 4:40:42 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision; Eaker; TheMom

Oh, wow! You could’ve gone way down in Florida! I have a friend in Islamorada, which is about 90 miles from Key West. He would show you a fun time there in that beautiful place.

Keith’s grilling some chicken with some special rub he made up with brown sugar and other stuff from the cabinet. :-) I haven’t figured out what I’m going to do for the side dish yet.

Last night I was making Eaker’s wife’s enchilada recipe, and the last thing that goes on top are fried eggs. I had them frying in a little oil, and I was flipping them over, and the last one had a bubble that EXPLODED, shooting hot oil in my face, on my arms and front and all over the area of the kitchen floor. Now, we know how fried eggs will pop in the oil sometimes, but this is unlike any “pop” I’ve ever seen before, and I did not have the heat up high, just normal, medium-low. It was a LOUD BANG! I quickly grabbed a “leaf” off one of my aloe vera plants and rubbed its gel all over my face and arms. Today, I only have a few small burn spots on my left arm. That’s our “fun” excitement story for the week. :-)


9 posted on 05/22/2016 4:55:13 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: humblegunner

@ #9. It’s not as bad as your crowbar story, but I did get a tiny bit of hot oil in my eyes (before I shut my eyes), just enough to make my eyes a bit “blurry” for the rest of the night and a little today. :-)


10 posted on 05/22/2016 4:59:37 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Crazy. Never heard of that unless a lot of oil is being used.
11 posted on 05/22/2016 5:00:34 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: WXRGina
Oh my, 20th Century played this episode this morning...nuts...Custer is slandered, I think, at the end...
12 posted on 05/22/2016 5:09:45 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision

I didn’t use a lot of oil, but this frying pan I have (a nice All Clad one) is shaped so that it pools the oil on the perimeter. I don’t know why an expensive pan would be designed that way, higher in the center, instead of having a level bottom, but it is.

That was a chilling ending to Gunsmoke. I had to ask Keith, the history buff, if all the men under Custer died. He said, “Oh, yes! ...” And, he told me the terrible rest of the story.


13 posted on 05/22/2016 5:27:31 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Does he know if Custer was a bad guy? Due to arm smugglers the Indians had repeating rifles where the US Calvary didn't. Custer is always portrayed as an idiot or a bad guy but I've not confirmed that.
14 posted on 05/22/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision
I'm turning out for this to the Blandings...

https://archive.org/details/MrMrsBlandingsOtrSitcomOldTimeRadioComedy.caryGrantBetsyDrake

15 posted on 05/22/2016 5:31:43 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision
FYI, The Blandings seem to be mediocre writing about a NY ad exec newly living in the country with his absentminded wife. The talent seems wasted, I've got another 5min to finish.
16 posted on 05/22/2016 5:59:57 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: WXRGina
Did you hear that? A new, permanent BB host is coming at some point.
17 posted on 05/22/2016 6:00:50 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision
OMG Rob is apologizing for the word crippled being used in the Halls of Ivy. Super Barf! The word is used everyday.
18 posted on 05/22/2016 6:01:46 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Vision

No, Custer wasn’t a bad guy, and he reportedly did a good job throughout his career. He just got in a bad deal in Montana. You can read about him (for what Wikipedia is worth) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer#Controversial_legacy

As Matt Dillon said in that episode, the bad guys always get theirs in the end, and that was the implication of that deserter being sent off to fight with Custer in Montana. The murderer received his death penalty.

I didn’t hear that a new BB host is coming, but we’re very glad for that. We can hardly listen to Rob, because of his terrible speech impediment (or whatever it is). I don’t mean to say that he’s not knowledgeable in what he does, because he is knowledgeable, but the way he horribly mispronounces words is insufferable for listeners.


19 posted on 05/22/2016 6:20:00 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
The US Army guy said that Custer was an unlikeable guy or something.
20 posted on 05/22/2016 6:22:35 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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