Al Benson WGES August 5 1955: Grocerer! Ha.
Robert W. Morgan Magic 106: Seems pretty down on the industry.
Don Imus WNBC 1987: Isn't shy about saying things.
The sketch about George Bush is still funny.
End of WNBC, Beginning of WFAN: A whole bunch of radio legends all gathered together.
The call from Jerry is one of the calls any announcer wants to get on his last day.
I didn't really appreciate the WFAN intro.
WEAF June 6 1944: A historic recording indeed.
There were probably tight controls on which clergymen would be allowed on the air. I bet no pacifist clergy or any of the ministers who realized the whole war was staged were allowed on.
D-day Radio May 9-June 6 1944: A quite interesting retrospective of this commemorative format.
Bob Sivers WOWO Fort Wayne Emergency Broadcast System: Talk about embarrassing for the Air Force.
Bob Sivers handles this situation with pure professionalism. I don't think a deejay today would react as he did.
CBS-2 Chicago Report About Emergency Broadcast: Gary Mayer sounds so much younger.
Bruce Bradley WHN August 9 1973: Hearing about that contest makes you listen for Bradley to forget to say "1050" even forty years later.
$6.50 for a year's magazine subscription!
Fred Gale Interviews Abbie Hoffman WMCA 1971: A real snapshot of the times.
Gale and Hoffman are talking about all this alternative culture stuff, then Gale reads a commercial about how a store has to get rid of all it's stock, even the knew stuff, just because it's name changed.
"I'm sorry,, we had to cut that off the air."
"Hello, I'd like to speak to Abbie, please." Obviously people didn't get that Abbie could hear them in the studio.
That final caller on this recording is just ... something.
As much as I like this recording, I feel I should point out something. The hippies whole thing was, "Don't trust anyone over 30", yet at the time of this broadcast Hoffman was around 35.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
AIRCHECK REVIEWS
Mark Elliot's Old Toronto Radio Commercials: All these are good in their own way, but the calypso song for Honest Ed's is really a trip.
Allen Freed KDAY November 1960: The jocks were on seven days a week! Did they actually work seven days a week or did they tape one day of programming?
Freed was wrong about Chris Montez.
Joe O'Brien WMCA December 21 1960 (part 2): Real world news coverage on a music station.
A minimum of Christmas songs. Good thing.
Bob Hale WLS June 8 1960: Neat easy listening format.
You can just picture three conservative nurses at the hospital listening to Hale's shift every night.
Kevin Nelson CKSL London January 8 1980: An announcement about the Progressive Conservative party on a top 40 radio station. Neat!
Six hours of commercial free music on Saturday nights in the days before cd changers or portable music players.
John Majhor with Brother Christopher (Chris Sutton) June 22 1984: The Major was great. You can hear Brother Christopher's potential.
Plays a song he played in the last hour.
One girl requested a song called "Fake Friends" and dedicated it to another girl. I sense there was a cat fight soon after.
All these girls crushing on Duran Duran.
A Catholic boy's school and a Catholic girl's school got to watch "The Video History of Rock" together. Oddly intriguing.
Caribbana sure came early that year.
Allen Freed KDAY November 1960: The jocks were on seven days a week! Did they actually work seven days a week or did they tape one day of programming?
Freed was wrong about Chris Montez.
Joe O'Brien WMCA December 21 1960 (part 2): Real world news coverage on a music station.
A minimum of Christmas songs. Good thing.
Bob Hale WLS June 8 1960: Neat easy listening format.
You can just picture three conservative nurses at the hospital listening to Hale's shift every night.
Kevin Nelson CKSL London January 8 1980: An announcement about the Progressive Conservative party on a top 40 radio station. Neat!
Six hours of commercial free music on Saturday nights in the days before cd changers or portable music players.
John Majhor with Brother Christopher (Chris Sutton) June 22 1984: The Major was great. You can hear Brother Christopher's potential.
Plays a song he played in the last hour.
One girl requested a song called "Fake Friends" and dedicated it to another girl. I sense there was a cat fight soon after.
All these girls crushing on Duran Duran.
A Catholic boy's school and a Catholic girl's school got to watch "The Video History of Rock" together. Oddly intriguing.
Caribbana sure came early that year.
Friday, December 14, 2012
RADIO-RELATED STUFF: HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT SANDY HOOK?
Tom Mischke on WCCO seems like he could be a real jerk.
Is K.D. Lange the only artist "Canada Live" features anymore?
Was listening to a station from Italy when I heard about the Connecticut school shooting. The format was rock. They even had interviews in Italian. Good to see that somewhere in the world music stations still care about world news.
Is K.D. Lange the only artist "Canada Live" features anymore?
Was listening to a station from Italy when I heard about the Connecticut school shooting. The format was rock. They even had interviews in Italian. Good to see that somewhere in the world music stations still care about world news.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
REPLY AWL
There is an article in this week's edition of the online Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind where the author talks about toys and games she enjoyed as a child. I have to admit I am not good at remembering the rules for games. The only card games I can remember the rules to are go fish and black jack. I have played dominos a couple times but have to relearn the rules each time.
CBM's talking Christmas card for this year sucked. Let me count the ways:
- staff not bothering to say who they were when they gave their Christmas greeting;
- one staff member who, in his greeting, couldn't even get the name of the organization right;
- a woman reading an essay by an author wherein he makes a remark to the effect he's not even sure he believes the birth of Christ actually took place; narrator didn't pronounce the writer's name right;
- a dramatization of a play by Dorothy L Sayers that adds a whole bunch of details that aren't in the account of the visit of the wise men to Jesus; persists with the myth that they were kings who arrived twelve days after Jesus birth (yeah, they're gonna travel all that way on foot or animal in twelve days); didn't appreciate the line about "he shall have temples in Rome and Byzantium"
CBM's talking Christmas card for this year sucked. Let me count the ways:
- staff not bothering to say who they were when they gave their Christmas greeting;
- one staff member who, in his greeting, couldn't even get the name of the organization right;
- a woman reading an essay by an author wherein he makes a remark to the effect he's not even sure he believes the birth of Christ actually took place; narrator didn't pronounce the writer's name right;
- a dramatization of a play by Dorothy L Sayers that adds a whole bunch of details that aren't in the account of the visit of the wise men to Jesus; persists with the myth that they were kings who arrived twelve days after Jesus birth (yeah, they're gonna travel all that way on foot or animal in twelve days); didn't appreciate the line about "he shall have temples in Rome and Byzantium"
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
THINGS IN THE NEWS
A couple items of concern regarding privacy. First, a company that has developed a DVR that can monitor what is going on in the room around it, they say for advertising purposes. Also, a movement afoot in Massachusits to have black boxes, similar to those found on airplanes installed in light trucks.
There was a story on "As It Happens" tonight about gender neutral theatre. A woman has put on Shakespearean plays where roles are played by men or women, regardless of the character's gender. This kind of reminds me of when a company put on "Macbeth" in the park of our little town and featured Banquo as a woman. It doesn't work.
A man in California has managed to plant "new" old growth forest by taking samples from living plants in the root systems of redwood tree stumps and cloaning them into new redwoods. I am not for human or animal cloaning, except maybe for specific body parts used in transplants. Is it right to clone a plant?
There was a story on "As It Happens" tonight about gender neutral theatre. A woman has put on Shakespearean plays where roles are played by men or women, regardless of the character's gender. This kind of reminds me of when a company put on "Macbeth" in the park of our little town and featured Banquo as a woman. It doesn't work.
A man in California has managed to plant "new" old growth forest by taking samples from living plants in the root systems of redwood tree stumps and cloaning them into new redwoods. I am not for human or animal cloaning, except maybe for specific body parts used in transplants. Is it right to clone a plant?
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
REPLY AWL
The Fourth Quarter 2012 issue of Children's Friend contains a poem about the story Jesus told about the man with two sons, one who said he would do something but didn't, and one who said he wouldn't do something, but did. The poem contains a whole bunch of made up details that are just not in the parable. I would remind the author of Jesus' warning in Revelation for people who add to the word of God.
The same issue contains a big article composed of a series of smaller articles about using our gifts and talents for Jesus. Though I somewhat agree with what the article was trying to say, the Seventh-day Adventists misinterpret the parable of the talents. The talents don't represent "talents" in our sense of the word. Rather, they represent faith. The first two servants symbolize two men who went out, shared the Gospel and increased their faith. The third servant represents a man who couldn't be bothered sharing his faith.
Also, Charles Mills, we know you are a grown man. Even as a child I knew authors were grownups. Stop writing in the person of a little child. And you have a favourite doll? OK, that just makes me wonder about you.
The same issue contains a big article composed of a series of smaller articles about using our gifts and talents for Jesus. Though I somewhat agree with what the article was trying to say, the Seventh-day Adventists misinterpret the parable of the talents. The talents don't represent "talents" in our sense of the word. Rather, they represent faith. The first two servants symbolize two men who went out, shared the Gospel and increased their faith. The third servant represents a man who couldn't be bothered sharing his faith.
Also, Charles Mills, we know you are a grown man. Even as a child I knew authors were grownups. Stop writing in the person of a little child. And you have a favourite doll? OK, that just makes me wonder about you.
Monday, December 3, 2012
RADIO-RELATED STUFF
The weather band on my shortwave was working yesterday.
CKOL was broadcasting a church service last night. I disagreed with some things contained in it, but from a radio programming standpoint it was good to hear such a thing.
Listened to BBC Radio 4 on the internet today. They broadcast the first episode of a serial called "China Girl", based on the author and his wife's adoption of a baby girl from China about fifteen years ago. It was well done, although I could have done with out the use of the song "China Girl" as a bridge, at least. On the whole, though, it was enjoyable. Good to see the Beebe can still make good stuff.
CKOL was broadcasting a church service last night. I disagreed with some things contained in it, but from a radio programming standpoint it was good to hear such a thing.
Listened to BBC Radio 4 on the internet today. They broadcast the first episode of a serial called "China Girl", based on the author and his wife's adoption of a baby girl from China about fifteen years ago. It was well done, although I could have done with out the use of the song "China Girl" as a bridge, at least. On the whole, though, it was enjoyable. Good to see the Beebe can still make good stuff.
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