This episode was originally released on 3/1/2022. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.
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In Breaking Walls episode 125 we continue our mini-series in March of 1954.
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Highlights:
• Edward R. Murrow Sees It Now
• Perry Mason Busts The Syndicate
• The 1954 DNC in Florida
• Cathy and Elliott Lewis Can’t Fight City Hall
• Groucho Marx Bets His Life
• Phil Harris and Alice Faye: Happy Couple In Cancellation
• The End of the Expense Account For Johnny Dollar?
• Escape’s Violent Night
• Bing and Frank Swap Oscar Stories and Sing Songs
• The 1954 Tony Awards from NBC with Audrey Hepburn
• Looking Ahead to April with The Army/McCarthy Hearings
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The reading material used in today’s episode was:
• On the Air — By John Dunning
• Network Radio Ratings — by Jim Ramsburg
• The Complete Escape Log — By Keith Scott
As well as articles from
• Broadcasting Magazine
• LIFE Magazine
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On the interview front:
• Alice Faye and John Guedel spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.
• Mandel Kramer and William N. Robson spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org.
• Harry Bartell, Mary Jane Croft, Don Diamond, Jack Johnstone and Byron Kane spoke to SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com.
• Dick Joy, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman spoke with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.
• Norman Macdonnell was with John Hickman for his Gunsmoke documentary.
• William Conrad spoke to collector Chris Lambesis in 1969.
• And Bing Crosby spoke with Barbara Walters in 1977.
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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:
• Fever — By Peggy Lee
• Sleep Walk — By Henri René
• Exotique Bossa Nova — By Martin Denny
• The Venice Dreamer Parts 1 & 2 — By George Winston
• Danse Macabre — By Camille Saint-Saëns
