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On Dorian's shows "NiteCap" and "The Green Door", she'd often have celebrities do a little WFMU station IDs.
Commented Nov 15, 2012 on "Phil Collins Minus One" And Other Promo Scams at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
"Phil Collins Minus One" And Other Promo Scams
MP3s: Collins on Collins, David Bowie Idents (1 | 2 | 3), King Coleman ID, Homer Simpson ID, Weezer ID, Weezer and Peaches Remix Back in the days before Clear Channel owned every other station in the country, record labels were forced to do a little bit of legwork in order to promote their re...
Thanks, Bob! Mason Adams is always welcome. The IRS still puts out tons of PSAs, available digitally.
Somewhere I have a disk of Alison "The Nightbird" Steele doing Army recruitment ads.
Commented Oct 29, 2012 on Radio Ads and PSA's - The Old, the Outdated and the Weird (Exploring My Reel-to-Reel Catacombs, Volume 34) (MP3's) at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Radio Ads and PSA's - The Old, the Outdated and the Weird (Exploring My Reel-to-Reel Catacombs, Volume 34) (MP3's)
This week, I went digging around in the corner of the catacombs where I keep stacks of radio ads and PSA's, and dug up a batch of 20-30 year old spots, on four different tapes, which are from a variety of very different times and places. First up, four 1981 PSA's from the US Customs service, ...
Nice picture of abused TELLUS K7s!
Commented Apr 2, 2011 on Peeking at Looking At Music 3.0 at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Peeking at Looking At Music 3.0
For the past three years MoMA has been showcasing the ways in which music and art connect and collide in New York City in a series called "Looking at Music." The first two installments focused on the Sixties and Seventies and the current installment (3.0) takes us to the present. The exhibit...
Touch of Evil couldn't even be made in the old Hollywood!
The real pity is not being able to see these classics on a big screen with lots of other people.
A lot of my faves are not from the classic American studio era, but you should see The Grapes of Wrath, and A Face in the Crowd, Shadow of a Doubt.
And for shorts, well, you have to look to the National Film Board of Canada.
Commented Aug 18, 2009 on i love the segue at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
i love the segue
I love the segue. I love to figure out which colors rock together (this summer is so yellow and magenta), which song picks up the tonality of the one previous, or the beat of the one previous to that. What spicy flavor tastes best with what sugary flavor (have you tried mint and watermelon l...
[that is, "... click on the wfmu.org link in the text there." No tests needed!]
Commented Aug 8, 2009 on Just Released: WFMU's iPhone App at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Just Released: WFMU's iPhone App
Hot off the presses, it's WFMU's very own iPhone app! Not so long ago, WFMU became the first radio station to offer streams for the iPhone, way before the app craze took off. We've finally joined the teeming masses... Click here to get the free WFMU Radio app via iTunes (or go to the iPhone ap...
For browsing the WFMU website while listening .... go to the about page and click on the wfmu.org link in the test there.
A more comprehensive WFMU app will (we hope) be able to present the info available in the website formatted in a more iPhone friendly manner in the future.
-- Webhamster Henry
Commented Aug 8, 2009 on Just Released: WFMU's iPhone App at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Just Released: WFMU's iPhone App
Hot off the presses, it's WFMU's very own iPhone app! Not so long ago, WFMU became the first radio station to offer streams for the iPhone, way before the app craze took off. We've finally joined the teeming masses... Click here to get the free WFMU Radio app via iTunes (or go to the iPhone ap...
Hey Bronwyn, welcome to the club, hope you don't stay long.
Right after I was redundified, I got a "Congratulations on your second anniversary with us" card.
The old right hand - left hand communication problem.
Commented Jul 30, 2009 on A Spot of Bother at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
A Spot of Bother
Last Friday I was completely surprised when the dayjob I've worked at for 6 years was eliminated. That's what the bosses said had happened, anyway--that my position was eliminated. It's not me who's being fired, it's the job. But since it was MY job, I'm not to go there anymore, and I won't be...
You should all get a copy of Gaylord's 2006 Marathon Premium AT A LOSS FOR WORDS, which collects 27 of these obscurities, including the aforementioned SAmmy version of Hawaii 5-0 and my fave, the Mission Impossible Theme by the Kane Triplets.
Commented Jul 30, 2009 on These Songs Have Words??? at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
These Songs Have Words???
Here are a few vocal renditions of songs that are usually delivered instrumentally. Margie Singleton - Magic Star (Tel-Star) (1:47) - Believe it or not, Bobby Rydell also cut a vocal version of this one. Sonny James - Apache (2:37) - For the unadulterated story of Apache and all its c...
I not only know these and more, but I also have the Abe Burrows Songbook. Go dig around in the basement - they were a lot more songs on 78s. I once made an outgoing phone message with a bit of his "Pansy In My Garden" parody tenor song.
You want to dig up his musical travelogue "Waukesha Natural Bridge" and his operetta parody "The Duke of Dittendorten."
Burrows was known as a show doctor and wrote the book for Guys & Dolls. He also "talked" to HUAC, which kind of tarnished his reputation once HUAC was tarnished.
Commented Jul 14, 2009 on Abe Burrows Sings? (MP3s) at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Abe Burrows Sings? (MP3s)
Here's a set of records I've known for as long as I've known what a record was. Abe Burrows was a writer, humorist, radio performer, and much more (including being the father of James Burrows). In 1950 or so, he released a set of four 78's (and, apparently, a 10" 33 RPM album, too) under the tit...
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