NEW MP3s
- Darth Vader Theme (ukelele)
- On the Road Again (George Takei)
- I Feel Fine (Carlos Malta)
- The Night Before (Carlos Malta)
- Teen Spirit (Opium Jukebox)
- Teen Spirit (Rockabye Baby)
- Teen Spirit (Ituana)
- I’ll Be There (French)
- I Go to Rio (French)
- If I Had a Hammer(French)
NEWLY ARCHIVED SHOW
- KABC: 6/25/04
NEW CD UPLOADED
"Hollywood Affair"
The Lost Kim Basinger Album: Written and Produced by Prince
- Come on
- My Love Will Find U
- I Wanna
- 2 Naughty
- Love at First Sight
- Show Me
- Action Action
- Color of Sex
- Will U Stay With Me
NEW GERMAN MP3s
- Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
- I Want to Go Home (Beach Boys)
- California Sun (Beach Boys)
- Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
- In My Room (Beach Boys)
- Surf City, Here We Come
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Delilah
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Too Much Time on My Hands
- Itsy Bitsy Bikini
- Never on Sunday
- I Am What I Am
- Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina
- Memory
- Kiss Today Goodbye
- Some People
- Everything’s Coming Up Roses
- Let Me Entertain You
NEW MP3 CATEGORY: COMPLETELY FUCKING AWFUL
- 5 new tracks
NEW MP3 CATEGORY: PAUL WINCHELL ARCHIVE
- 5 radio shows (1950's)
- 1952 RCA Victor album
- 1954 Decca album
- 1957 RCA Victor album
- 1961 Epic single
- 1962 US Steel radio campaign
- Stop That Pigeon! (Dick Dastardly)
Nothing even resembling a podcast has happened in quite some time. Not only have Marc and I been busy trying to get our mystery project up and running, I’ve actually been . . . oh what do they call that again?
Oh yes.
Working.
In the last few weeks, I’ve done a commercial for Kmart, voiced roles in the new Rob Zombie movie, worked on Phineas and Ferb, and on Thursday, I’ll be doing Penguins, which is a Disney series from the people behind Madagascar. Can you believe that? If I wasn’t so drunk, I’d think I was hallucinating.
I’m not completely sure when we’re going to get another podcast up, but from reading your comments, I can tell you have to get something to listen to pretty quickly. You’ve stopped short of actual threats, but it’s an uneasy peace.
So today I’m uploading three new highlight reels, which you can get here (or at the bottom of this post). What I think makes these worthwhile is that they’re from my first years at KFI, and they’re completely ridiculous.
I fondly recall this period as sort of the tail end of a great period in local radio. Clear Channel hadn’t yet hadn’t yet gotten to the stage where they demanded right-wing conservative blathering from every gasbag they hired, and little fish like me were largely alone to create their own formats. And since I had no sponsors and only did weekends, KFI management didn’t really give a shit what I was doing.
Obviously, not everything I tried was successful, but the failures were entertaining in their own right. It was all part of trying to create a new kind of radio that was more about amusing people than irritating them.
It was great for a while, but the burnout was inevitable. No matter how hard I worked or what I accomplished, I was just a placeholder for another clone. Talk radio would continue to be distilled down to a few personalities, and even fewer points of view.
And I think that’s really the best indicator of how very out of step Clear Channel is. Terrestrial radio is in financial freefall, and the first thing they cut from ther budgets are local hosts. As podcasting explodes, corporate radio responds by giving us fewer voices.
Yeah.
I hope you enjoy these highlight reels. I like to think we’re heading back to this kind of freedom.
From: (Redacted) Subject: VERY Strange TV Show Date: April 25, 2008 9:01:37 AM PDT To: april@aprilwinchell.com
Hi April,
I know how much you love bizarre television, so here’s one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen.
It’s from a British variety show called The Black and White Minstrels, which was apparently very popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
It’s kind of like The Lawrence Welk Show, with its wholesome (and corny) musical numbers, but there’s just one thing . . .
All of the men wear blackface (and BAD blackface at that) and white gloves, while the women remain white.
I find it very strange that the songs they’re singing are not minstrel songs; these are middle-of-the-road pop songs which don’t require blackface. So why are all of the guys wearing it? Especially in 1978?
There are more clips posted on YouTube, but this will give you a taste of what the cultured British viewers were enjoying a few decades ago: