"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 11/9 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 11/9/14 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four 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...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  10/30-31/56 Silent Queen Matter Pts. 2-3 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:40)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  02/08/53 #190 Big Press (NBC) (26:18)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  02/05/56 #200 Legal Revenge (CBS) (21:10)
• 08:30p My Favorite Husband
  04/22/49 Time Budgeting (Jello) (CBS) (24:10)
• 09:00p Casey, Crime Photographer
  10/23/47 #208 Lady In Distress (Anchor Hocking) (CBS) (29:26)
• 09:30p Line Up
  10/11/51 Bad Check Passers (Sus.) (CBS) (29:20)
• 10:00p Lux Radio Theater
  12/29/47 #596 Anchors Aweigh w/Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly (Lux) (CBS) (59:46)

[Vision]

Good evening OTR fans...the world's a little brighter this week from the glow of America becoming more red...

We have My Favorite Husband, good stuff with Lucille Ball...some crime/detective shows that were more B level IMO but fun...and not only a Lux...but Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly from ‘47!

Get warm and get ready for a great evening of radio...

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 30, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Silent Queen Matter". Sustaining. A stagecoach ride, Johnny gets his lumps, and a surprise witness turns up! The system cue has been deleted. Adrian Gendot (writer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Frank Gerstle, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg. 14:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 31, 1956. Program #3. CBS net. "The Silent Queen Matter". Sustaining. A bowl of lentil soup and Johnny almost ends up in a cemetary! The system cue has been deleted. Adrian Gendot (writer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Frank Gerstle, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg. 14:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

7:30 Dragnet. February 8, 1953. Program #190. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Press". A pair of check forgers are at work in Los Angeles. Sgt. Friday goes undercover to track them down. See cat. #47072 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer), Art Gilmore, Whitfield Connor, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. February 5, 1956. CBS net. "Legal Revenge". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Marshal Dillon and Chester visit a cabin out on the prairie with a dying man and his strange wife. There's an unusual secret between them. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 17, 1956. Bobby Haggart is introduced as the whistler on the Chesterfield commercials. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Helen Kleeb, Lawrence Dobkin, Stacy Harris, Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Bob Haggart, George Walsh (announcer). 25:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

8:30 My Favorite Husband. April 22, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Liz and George are late to dinner at the Atterburys. Liz is always late! George wants her to budget her time from now on. The date is subject to correction. Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon, Hans Conried, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 24:42. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 Casey, Crime Photographer. October 23, 1947. CBS net. "Lady In Distress". Sponsored by: Anchor Hocking Glass. Marybelle Warren has disappeared, and her cowboy companion is concerned. A phoney murder racket is the cause of it all! Alonzo Deen Cole (writer), Archie Bleyer (music), Herman Chittison (piano), Jan Miner, John Dietz (director), John Gibson, Staats Cotsworth, Tony Marvin (announcer), George Harmon Coxe (creator). 29:35. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

9:30 The Line-Up. October 11, 1951. CBS net. "The Frivolous Forger Fracus". Sustaining. Florian Bach is identified as a passer of bad checks. A popular violinist at this time was actually named "Florian Zabach." William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Eddie Dunstedter (composer, conductor), Ray Hartman, Jay Novello, Jeanette Nolan, Hy Averback, E. Jack Neuman (writer), Herb Butterfield, Howard McNear, Peter Leeds, Gil Stratton, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Jaime del Valle (producer, director). 28:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. December 29, 1947. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Anchors Aweigh". A wartime musical about two sailors and a girl and a promised audition. AFRS program name: "Showtime." See cat. #45156 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Louis Silvers (music director), Frances Robinson, John McGovern, Truda Marson (doubles), Cliff Clark (doubles), William Johnstone, Ed Emerson (doubles), Clarke Gordon, Gil Stratton, Robert Griffin, Edward Marr (doubles), George Neise, Isobel Lennart (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

[iowamark]

Grace Kelly or Gene Kelly?

[WXRGina]

Oh, that’s a tough one! :-)

[BluesDuke]

I enjoy what they do, of course, but you'd think that with so much classic radio surviving to be heard today, they could coordinate their lineup to play broadcasts on the same date as the date on which they aired in the first place. Might be much more fun that way, especially with things like the 1955-56 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar which became a five-part, fifteen-minutes-a-day offering each week for that couple of years. (And is often considered the best Johnny Dollar.)

If they did that, there could be days when you get three installments of, say, Fibber McGee & Molly or Lux Radio Theater or The Jack Benny Program or Suspense . . .

[Vision]

Yea I wondered that too. I’m thinking Gene like the movie...

[Vision]

Hello there. So, was there french chicken on the menu this week?

[WXRGina]

Yes, leftover, BUT we did the chicken spiedies yesterday evening! It was really good. I made the marinade on Thursday, soaked the chicken for a day, and Keith grilled the kebabs last night. YUM!

How about you? What’s shakin’?

[Vision]

Sure. Do you ever listen to OTR on antioch? They use a daily historical lineup.

My “beef” with BB is that there are SO MANY good OTR shows, we really don’t get a good variety. Why run Line Up for instance? There’s countless other shows to explore...

Anyway, what a great problem to have (:

[Vision]

Cool. The cast iron worked? Anything braised gets better with age. And you did the spiedes! Good and easy.

Life is good. Work was busy. Not a lot of cooking this weekend but I've got an unreliable sauce I can pass along to you tonight. Doing some raviolis with this sauce, and some sausage.

How was election night for you all? Huddled around the radio? Maryland elected a Republican governor! I met him briefly last Sunday night. I'm off to cook for a few minutes...

[BluesDuke]

I listen to a personal collection of 12,580 old-time radio broadcasts and counting. And I write a blog (which I recently re-launched) in which I review a particular show on the date it originally aired and link to other shows that aired the same date. Keeps me engaged, keeps me listening to OTR when I'm not picking up a guitar and playing the blues . . .

Give it a pull. You of all people would probably enjoy it! Here are the last few entries:

5 November: Pushed, pulled, nicked, nicked
6 November: When Alice went walknig home
8 November: The big broadcast to be . . .
9 November: The extended lives of Fibber & Molly

(Missed 7 November thanks to an outage involving my Net provider . . . )

[WXRGina]

Very cool! The Republican wave was amazing, especially because it easily overcame all the dead Democrats voting 20 times each. It was pretty nice, but I’m not holding my breath that these people will do much of anything to stop Obama. I hope I’m wrong.

Yes, the cast iron worked perfectly for the coq au vin. PERFECTLY! I’m really loving that new pan. It’s the only cast iron pan I’ve ever had. When I told my Mom about it, she said she should’ve given me some of my grandmother’s seasoned cast iron. I’m liking seasoning my own. :-)

[WXRGina]

Hey, thanks for sharing that with us, BluesDuke!

[BluesDuke]

Hey, thanks for sharing that with us, BluesDuke!

Thank you for the kind words, Gina! Now, if you'd like to go to town several times over and build yourself a nice old-time radio collection, you can go here, to archive.org; or, here, to the Old Time Radio Researchers Library. Happy listening!

[WXRGina]

Yes, Archive.org is a stand-by, and I thank you for the OTR Researchers link that we weren’t aware of. Excellent! I’m glad you’re writing a blog. That’s good stuff!

[BluesDuke]

I’ve been doing it for quite some time, now. I took a few breaks now and then to try to think of better ways to do it, but I got back on the horse last week and don’t plan to hop off. Especially since I keep finding stuff I hadn’t fallen upon before even with 12,000+ shows in my collection already!

[WXRGina]

I’ve added your site to my “favorites” folder. Keep up your fine work! I love the Fibber and Molly piece. Fascinating stuff! :-)