Posted on 10/23/2016 2:10:11 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:
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.
Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.
I'm VERY happy with tonight's lineup...a whole half hour with Bing hosting the Philco Radio Time...never heard of Show Stoppers and am looking forward to it...Dragnet...Suspense!, the classic The Lodger, maybe second version of it...Night Beat...and ending strong with a Lux from ‘39...
How you feeling?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)
“Alfred Hitchcock directed its audition show (for the CBS summer series Forecast). This was an adaptation of The Lodger[1] a story Hitchcock had filmed in 1926 with Ivor Novello. Martin Grams, Jr., author of Suspense: Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills, described the Forecast origin of Suspense:
On the second presentation of July 22, 1940, Forecast offered a mystery/horror show titled Suspense. With the co-operation of his producer, Walter Wanger, Alfred Hitchcock received the honor of directing his first radio show for the American public. The condition agreed upon for Hitchcock’s appearance was that CBS make a pitch to the listening audience about his and Wanger’s latest film, Foreign Correspondent. To add flavor to the deal, Wanger threw in Edmund Gwenn and Herbert Marshall as part of the package. All three men (including Hitch) would be seen in the upcoming film, which was due for a theatrical release the next month. Both Marshall and Hitchcock decided on the same story to bring to the airwaves, which happened to be a favorite of both of them: Marie Belloc Lowndes’ “The Lodger.” Alfred Hitchcock had filmed this story for Gainsborough in 1926, and since then it had remained as one of his favorites.
Herbert Marshall portrayed the mysterious lodger, and co-starring with him were Edmund Gwenn and character actress Lurene Tuttle as the rooming-house keepers who start to suspect that their new boarder might be the notorious Jack-the-Ripper. [Gwenn was actually repeating the role taken in the 1926 film by his brother, Arthur Chesney. And Tuttle would work again with Hitchcock nearly 20 years later, playing Mrs. Al Chambers, the sheriff’s wife, in Psycho.] Character actor Joseph Kearns also had a small part in the drama, and Wilbur Hatch, head musician for CBS Radio at the time, composed and conducted the music specially for the program. Adapting the script to radio was not a great technical challenge for Hitchcock, and he cleverly decided to hold back the ending of the story from the listening audience in order to keep them in suspense themselves. This way, if the audience’s curiosity got the better of them, they would write in to the network to find out whether the mysterious lodger was in fact Jack the Ripper. For the next few weeks, hundreds of letters came in from faithful listeners asking how the story ended. Actually a few wrote threats claiming that it was “indecent” and “immoral” to present such a production without giving the solution. “
Great info on fun story...
Hi, Vision!
How’s it going up there? I hope you’re having a good weekend.
We spent the day and night yesterday at Orange Beach in Gulf Shores. Keith’s brothers and sister rented a giant three-story house on the beach. They all got there on Thursday, but I had to work, so we drove over there on Saturday and stayed the night, came back this morning. It was a beautiful place, right on the beach, and Alabama won their game, so it was pretty much perfect (everyone there is a huge Bama fan, and we had the game on the radio and televisions).
I'm doing fine. I can't tell who is going to win the election and I'm starting to be done with it. If there are so few moral and sane Americans left then it's best we know asap to deal with it.
On a lighter note, here's an easy, decent chicken marinade...
http://www.nobiggie.net/the-best-4-ingredient-chicken-marinade/
Yeah, my fear is massive election fraud, because that woman does NOT have the support that the fake media polls pretend, and if we had a truly honest election, I’m certain she would lose by 20 to 30 points. There would have to be major computer voting machine hacks, because there aren’t enough foot soldier vote fraudsters to put her over the top.
Thanks for the marinade recipe. Keith said that sounds like the one his buddy David uses.
Cool! We’ll have to try it, because we eat so much chicken.
Bing Ping!
Yes! BIG Bing Ping! :-D
Victor Moore was awesome!
Again with the PC crap. Murray just HAD to issue his stupid “safe space” “snowflake” disclaimers before the last two shows. Gunsmoke DOES NOT NEED ANY DISCLAIMERS! We’re both sick of that guy.
Thanks!
Vision, that marinade sounds good. I have wing sections marinated in Cuban mojo marinade in the oven, and the aroma is heavenly. It's made out of grapefruit and orange juice, garlic, onion, and spices. Great for chicken, pork, fish, and shrimp. I'm baking them because I ran out of gas and didn't feel like fiddling with charcoal tonight. Baking some yellow squash in butter and cracked pepper on the side.
Yes, you’re spot-on right, Viking, in your analysis. These commie freaks—IF they don’t pull of the election theft—WILL go full-on scorched earth. Plus, she will sue for recounts, etc.
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