Breaking Walls

In 1965 while Fran Sinatra was recording his album, "September of My Years," he allowed CBS to record the process, and gave Walter Cronkite an unprecedented interview on his life. During the course of the interview, Walter Cronkite asked Frank how he wanted to be remembered.

In 1965 while Fran Sinatra was recording his album, "September of My Years," he allowed CBS to record the process, and gave Walter Cronkite an unprecedented interview on his life. During the course of the interview, Walter Cronkite asked Frank how he wanted to be remembered.

In Breaking Walls episode 91, we finish the adult western trilogy with a focus on the period after television decimated radio’s listening audience, forever altering the broadcasting landscape. Dramatic radio’s time as America’s number one entertainment genre was over, but it was far from dead.

Our story won’t conclude on that fabled date of September 30th, 1962 when radio drama supposedly ended forever. We’ll push down the trail through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as dramatic radio continued to avoid the hangman’s noose.

Highlights:

• Dirty Saturdays

• Gunsmoke Finds Sponsorship.

• Gunsmoke’s TV launch

• NBC and Dr. Sixgun

• Norman Macdonnell and CBS bring a new Western to the Air

• J.B. Kendall, Luke Slaughter, & Paladin

• The End of Gunsmoke

• Horizon’s West and One Last Gasp

• Elliott Lewis—Young At Heart

• Riding off Into the Sunset

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

• As well as numerous passages from Broadcast Magazine

On the Interview Front:

• Lilian Buyeff, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Elliott Lewis, Vic Perrin, and Herb Vigran, were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Parley Baer, William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, and Norman Macdonnell were with John Hickman. Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of WAMU’s Recollections. Today, this program is heard each Sunday evening as The Big Broadcast. For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William N Robson was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. This interview can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org.

• Parley Baer was with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chat at SpeakingofRadio.com.

•John Dehner was also heard with Neil Ross for KMPC on March 23rd, 1982. While Elliott Lewis was with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS program from Denver. And Raymond Burr was with Jack Webster in 1963.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• The Theme to A Summer Place - by Percy Faith

• Mr. Sandman - by The Chordettes

• Young At Heart - by Frank Sinatra

• And Come Down My Evening Star - by Joan Morris & William Bolcom

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 91, we finish the adult western trilogy with a focus on the period after television decimated radio’s listening audience, forever altering the broadcasting landscape. Dramatic radio’s time as America’s number one entertainment genre was over, but it was far from dead.

Our story won’t conclude on that fabled date of September 30th, 1962 when radio drama supposedly ended forever. We’ll push down the trail through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as dramatic radio continued to avoid the hangman’s noose.

Highlights:

• Dirty Saturdays

• Gunsmoke Finds Sponsorship.

• Gunsmoke’s TV launch

• NBC and Dr. Sixgun

• Norman Macdonnell and CBS bring a new Western to the Air

• J.B. Kendall, Luke Slaughter, & Paladin

• The End of Gunsmoke

• Horizon’s West and One Last Gasp

• Elliott Lewis—Young At Heart

• Riding off Into the Sunset

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

• As well as numerous passages from Broadcast Magazine

On the Interview Front:

• Lilian Buyeff, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Elliott Lewis, Vic Perrin, and Herb Vigran, were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Parley Baer, William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, and Norman Macdonnell were with John Hickman. Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of WAMU’s Recollections. Today, this program is heard each Sunday evening as The Big Broadcast. For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William N Robson was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. This interview can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org.

• Parley Baer was with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chat at SpeakingofRadio.com.

•John Dehner was also heard with Neil Ross for KMPC on March 23rd, 1982. While Elliott Lewis was with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS program from Denver. And Raymond Burr was with Jack Webster in 1963.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• The Theme to A Summer Place - by Percy Faith

• Mr. Sandman - by The Chordettes

• Young At Heart - by Frank Sinatra

• And Come Down My Evening Star - by Joan Morris & William Bolcom

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 91, we finish the adult western trilogy with a focus on the period after television decimated radio’s listening audience, forever altering the broadcasting landscape. Dramatic radio’s time as America’s number one entertainment genre was over, but it was far from dead.

Our story won’t conclude on that fabled date of September 30th, 1962 when radio drama supposedly ended forever. We’ll push down the trail through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as dramatic radio continued to avoid the hangman’s noose.

Highlights:

• Dirty Saturdays

• Gunsmoke Finds Sponsorship.

• Gunsmoke’s TV launch

• NBC and Dr. Sixgun

• Norman Macdonnell and CBS bring a new Western to the Air

• J.B. Kendall, Luke Slaughter, & Paladin

• The End of Gunsmoke

• Horizon’s West and One Last Gasp

• Elliott Lewis—Young At Heart

• Riding off Into the Sunset

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

• As well as numerous passages from Broadcast Magazine

On the Interview Front:

• Lilian Buyeff, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Elliott Lewis, Vic Perrin, and Herb Vigran, were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Parley Baer, William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, and Norman Macdonnell were with John Hickman. Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of WAMU’s Recollections. Today, this program is heard each Sunday evening as The Big Broadcast. For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William N Robson was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. This interview can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org.

• Parley Baer was with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chat at SpeakingofRadio.com.

•John Dehner was also heard with Neil Ross for KMPC on March 23rd, 1982. While Elliott Lewis was with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS program from Denver. And Raymond Burr was with Jack Webster in 1963.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• The Theme to A Summer Place - by Percy Faith

• Mr. Sandman - by The Chordettes

• Young At Heart - by Frank Sinatra

• And Come Down My Evening Star - by Joan Morris & William Bolcom

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 90 and on the second part of our western trilogy, dramatic radio goes from boom to bust in a nine year period after World War II, as a group of actors become radio legends, while the radio western grows up.

Highlights:

• William S. Paley’s Plan to Overtake NBC

• The West-Coast Hollywood Actors

• Robson, Yarborough, Lewis, and Hawk Larabee

• Escape Moves the Western Forward

• The Life and Death of Jeff Chandler

• CBS Becomes Number 1

• NBC Fires Back with New Western Shows

• Elliott Lewis, Suspense, On Stage, and Crime Classics

• The Birth of Gunsmoke

• Jack Johnstone, Jimmy Stewart, and The Six Shooter

• The Networks Pull the Plug in 1954

• What’s Next

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

As well as passages from

• Broadcast Magazine — 12/22/1947, 2/16/1948, 3/1/1948

• Sponsor Magazine — 10/1/1951

On the Interview Front:

• Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff, Mary Jane Croft, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Jack Johnstone, Byron Kane, Elliott Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, and Herb Vigran were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Hans Conried, Howard Duff, and Elliott Lewis with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org

• Jack Benny, Hans Conried, Betty Lou Gerson, Elliott Lewis, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com

• Eve Arden, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS Radio program from Denver. Some of his interviews can be found at OTRRLibrary.org

• William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, Norman Macdonnell, John Meston, William N. Robson, and George Walsh were John Hickman of WAMU for his Gunsmoke documentary.

• Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William Conrad was also with collector Chris Lambesis for a December 15th, 1969 interview

• Jimmy Stewart was with Larry King in 1986

• And William S. Paley and Frank Stanton were interviewed for CBS’s 50th Anniversary program in 1977.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Find them all on itunes or at their links in the written credits

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• I’ve Got the World on a String - by Frank Sinatra

• Pyramid of the Sun & Voodoo Dreams - by Les Baxter

• I’ll Be Seeing You - by The Harry James Orchestra

• Route 66 - by Nat King Cole

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 90 and on the second part of our western trilogy, dramatic radio goes from boom to bust in a nine year period after World War II, as a group of actors become radio legends, while the radio western grows up.

Highlights:

• William S. Paley’s Plan to Overtake NBC

• The West-Coast Hollywood Actors

• Robson, Yarborough, Lewis, and Hawk Larabee

• Escape Moves the Western Forward

• The Life and Death of Jeff Chandler

• CBS Becomes Number 1

• NBC Fires Back with New Western Shows

• Elliott Lewis, Suspense, On Stage, and Crime Classics

• The Birth of Gunsmoke

• Jack Johnstone, Jimmy Stewart, and The Six Shooter

• The Networks Pull the Plug in 1954

• What’s Next

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

As well as passages from

• Broadcast Magazine — 12/22/1947, 2/16/1948, 3/1/1948

• Sponsor Magazine — 10/1/1951

On the Interview Front:

• Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff, Mary Jane Croft, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Jack Johnstone, Byron Kane, Elliott Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, and Herb Vigran were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Hans Conried, Howard Duff, and Elliott Lewis with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org

• Jack Benny, Hans Conried, Betty Lou Gerson, Elliott Lewis, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com

• Eve Arden, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS Radio program from Denver. Some of his interviews can be found at OTRRLibrary.org

• William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, Norman Macdonnell, John Meston, William N. Robson, and George Walsh were John Hickman of WAMU for his Gunsmoke documentary.

• Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William Conrad was also with collector Chris Lambesis for a December 15th, 1969 interview

• Jimmy Stewart was with Larry King in 1986

• And William S. Paley and Frank Stanton were interviewed for CBS’s 50th Anniversary program in 1977.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Find them all on itunes or at their links in the written credits

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• I’ve Got the World on a String - by Frank Sinatra

• Pyramid of the Sun & Voodoo Dreams - by Les Baxter

• I’ll Be Seeing You - by The Harry James Orchestra

• Route 66 - by Nat King Cole

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 90 and on the second part of our western trilogy, dramatic radio goes from boom to bust in a nine year period after World War II, as a group of actors become radio legends, while the radio western grows up.

Highlights:

• William S. Paley’s Plan to Overtake NBC

• The West-Coast Hollywood Actors

• Robson, Yarborough, Lewis, and Hawk Larabee

• Escape Moves the Western Forward

• The Life and Death of Jeff Chandler

• CBS Becomes Number 1

• NBC Fires Back with New Western Shows

• Elliott Lewis, Suspense, On Stage, and Crime Classics

• The Birth of Gunsmoke

• Jack Johnstone, Jimmy Stewart, and The Six Shooter

• The Networks Pull the Plug in 1954

• What’s Next

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

As well as passages from

• Broadcast Magazine — 12/22/1947, 2/16/1948, 3/1/1948

• Sponsor Magazine — 10/1/1951

On the Interview Front:

• Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff, Mary Jane Croft, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Jack Johnstone, Byron Kane, Elliott Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, and Herb Vigran were with SPERDVAC, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com

• Hans Conried, Howard Duff, and Elliott Lewis with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org

• Jack Benny, Hans Conried, Betty Lou Gerson, Elliott Lewis, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com

• Eve Arden, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS Radio program from Denver. Some of his interviews can be found at OTRRLibrary.org

• William Conrad, John Dehner, Rex Koury, Norman Macdonnell, John Meston, William N. Robson, and George Walsh were John Hickman of WAMU for his Gunsmoke documentary.

• Mr. Hickman was the longtime host of “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• William Conrad was also with collector Chris Lambesis for a December 15th, 1969 interview

• Jimmy Stewart was with Larry King in 1986

• And William S. Paley and Frank Stanton were interviewed for CBS’s 50th Anniversary program in 1977.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://www.twelvechimesradio.com

Find them all on itunes or at their links in the written credits

Selected Music Featured in Today’s Episode Was:

• I’ve Got the World on a String - by Frank Sinatra

• Pyramid of the Sun & Voodoo Dreams - by Les Baxter

• I’ll Be Seeing You - by The Harry James Orchestra

• Route 66 - by Nat King Cole

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 89, we explore the birth of the dramatic radio western show, specifically targeted to adult audiences. This is the first of a three-part mini-series on adult western radio shows.

Highlights:

• Back to the Very Beginning

• What is a Western Show?

• The Birth of Western Dramatic Radio Shows

• Empire Builders

• Death Valley Days

• The Western show on local stations

• ...And in syndication

• Lux Presents Hollywood

• The Triumph and Tragedy of Buck Jones

• Americana and the Cavalcade of America

• Howard McNear and Romance of the Ranchos

• The First Western Soap Opera

• The War Ends and the Western show grows up

• What’s Next?

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

• Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

• The Network by Scott Woolley

On the interview front:

• Don Ameche, Joan Fontaine, Hans Conried, Rudy Vallée were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org

• Agnes Moorehead and Anne Seymour were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com

• John Dunkel and William N. Robson were with John Hickman for his WAMU program “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• Ruth Woodman was with Ida Blackburn in 1961 for KOCO. The full video clip can be seen on the Oklahoma Historical Society's Youtube page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnsye8K4SEsY9Ssi8EzzHg

• and journalist Robert Bendiner was with Westinghouse for their 1970 50th Anniversary program.

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• The Colorado Trail Opus 28 by Elizabeth Hainen - http://www.elizabethhainen.com

• The Last Rose of Summer by Tom Waits

• Morning Prayer by Kenneth Little Hawk

• All Mortal Flesh Be Silent by Deirdre Fay

• Across the Wide Missouri, by Mathias Gohl, Molly Mason, Jay Unger, and Andy Stein

• Jefferson and Liberty by John Owen Lardinois

• Amazing Grace by Leta Rector

• Across the Alley from the Alamo by the Mills Brothers

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 89, we explore the birth of the dramatic radio western show, specifically targeted to adult audiences. This is the first of a three-part mini-series on adult western radio shows.

Highlights:

• Back to the Very Beginning

• What is a Western Show?

• The Birth of Western Dramatic Radio Shows

• Empire Builders

• Death Valley Days

• The Western show on local stations

• ...And in syndication

• Lux Presents Hollywood

• The Triumph and Tragedy of Buck Jones

• Americana and the Cavalcade of America

• Howard McNear and Romance of the Ranchos

• The First Western Soap Opera

• The War Ends and the Western show grows up

• What’s Next?

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning

• Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg

• Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

• The Network by Scott Woolley

On the interview front:

• Don Ameche, Joan Fontaine, Hans Conried, Rudy Vallée were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org

• Agnes Moorehead and Anne Seymour were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com

• John Dunkel and William N. Robson were with John Hickman for his WAMU program “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org

• Ruth Woodman was with Ida Blackburn in 1961 for KOCO. The full video clip can be seen on the Oklahoma Historical Society's Youtube page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnsye8K4SEsY9Ssi8EzzHg

• and journalist Robert Bendiner was with Westinghouse for their 1970 50th Anniversary program.

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

• The Mutual Audio Network

http://mutualaudionetwork.com

Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• The Colorado Trail Opus 28 by Elizabeth Hainen - http://www.elizabethhainen.com

• The Last Rose of Summer by Tom Waits

• Morning Prayer by Kenneth Little Hawk

• All Mortal Flesh Be Silent by Deirdre Fay

• Across the Wide Missouri, by Mathias Gohl, Molly Mason, Jay Unger, and Andy Stein

• Jefferson and Liberty by John Owen Lardinois

• Amazing Grace by Leta Rector

• Across the Alley from the Alamo by the Mills Brothers

I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Terry Wallace

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/