"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/24 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 12/24/12 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...

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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...

Christmas Eve Special

[Vision]

• 08:00 p.m. Duffy's Tavern
  12/23/48 Miracle in Manhattan (Bristol Meyers) (NBC) (28:56)
• 08:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye
  12/19/48 #012 Jack Benny Plays Santa (Rexall) (NBC) (29:38)
• 09:00 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  12/23/47 Lost Keys (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (27:54)
• 09:30 p.m. Lum & Abner
  12/24/42 Christmas Eve at the Store (Alka-Seltzer) (14:52)
• 09:45 p.m. Lum & Abner
  12/25/41 Traditional Christmas Show (Alka-Seltzer) (14:20)
• 10:00 p.m. Campbell Playhouse
  12/24/39 A Christmas Carol (Campbell Soup) (CBS) (59:46)
• 11:00 p.m. Cavalcade of America
  12/24/45 Names on the Land (Dupont) (NBC) (29:34)
• 11:30 p.m. First Nighter
  12/22/45 Little Town of Bethlehem (Campana) (CBS) (30:00)

[Vision]

Happy Christmas Eve! It's snowing in Baltimore!

I'll be back later tonight after a feast of seven fishes...

Didn't Ed say tonight's show goes until 1am?

[Vision]

Friends, it's Christmas Eve.Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...

[WXRGina]

I think Ed said midnight tonight...

[varon]

Thank you for the totally unexpected Christmas gift of listening pleasure!

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Merry Christmas Eve!

Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.

There are several missing synopses here. Oh, well. We'll just have to listen and enjoy them.

8 PM EST Duffy's Tavern 12/23/48 Miracle in Manhattan (Bristol Meyers) (NBC) (28:56) Synopsis is missing from the RadioGOLDINdex.

8:30 PM The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. December 19, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Jack Benny plays Santa (for a price) for Phil's kids. See cat. #48212 for the same script broadcast a year later on December 25, 1949. Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Anne Whitfield, Bill Forman (announcer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Jack Benny, Jeanine Roos, Ray Singer (writer), Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Walter Tetley, Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:26. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9 PM Fibber McGee and Molly. December 23, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber is outside shoveling snow, trying to find his lost key ring. Molly sings, "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" with The King's Men. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Harlow Wilcox, Phil Leslie (writer), Don Quinn (writer), Arthur Q. Bryan, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon. 29:51. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:30 PM Lum & Abner 12/24/42 Christmas Eve at the Store (Alka-Seltzer) (14:52) Synopsis is missing.

9:45 PM Lum & Abner 12/25/41 Traditional Christmas Show (Alka-Seltzer) (14:20) Synopsis is missing.

10 PM The Campbell Playhouse. December 24, 1939. CBS net. "A Christmas Carol". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The definitive version of the classic story. Barrymore never was better. Charles Dickens (author), Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles (producer, introducer), George Coulouris, Bea Benaderet, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, Frank Readick, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor). 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

11 PM The Cavalcade Of America. December 24, 1945. NBC net. "Names On The Land". Sponsored by: DuPont. A mythical tour of American towns whose names are odd, historical, funny, beautiful, or memorable. A great radio show, spoken in verse. The production uses the "Wright Sonovox." The broadcast originates from Hollywood. Robert Armbruster (composer, conductor), Frank Morgan, Peter Lyon (adaptor), Jane Lyon (adoptor), George R. Stewart (author), Jack Zoller (producer, director), Tom Collins (announcer), Gayne Whitman (commercial spokesman). 29:08. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

11:30 PM The First Nighter Program. 12/22/45 Little Town of Bethlehem (Campana) (CBS) (30:00) Synopsis is missing.

[WXRGina]

Hey, I like the Christmas greeting! Merry Christmas to you, too, Varon!

Ed will have another Christmas show tomorrow evening, as well.

[Vision]

I'll send the thanks to Ed, but thank you for your thoughts. Love how you phrased that- “listening pleasure.”

Merry Christmas!

[Vision]

I think Ed said midnight tonight...

I may have been too deep into the hot buttered rums (:

[WXRGina]

Mmmmmm, hot buttered rum! Sounds warming down to your toes!

[virgil283]

‘Phil Harris ‘... good memories..

[Vision]

Loved Duffy’s Tavern.

[Vision]

Yea, Phil is great. Underrated IMO.