That title could refer to so very many things. But it refers to Christmas. Yet again, I am preparing for the ol’ K-Cow going all-Christmas music much, much earlier than I personally would like. This year Reindeer Radio takes over November 13th. And I have come to peace with it. This is something like the … Continue reading It’s Too Damn Early!
July 27th is the 25th anniversary of my first day at KCOW Radio. In the summer of 1998, with college behind me, I sent out cassette tape demos to several stations that had openings. One of them was KCOW. I had a telephone interview with General Manager Mike Garwood and Kevin Horn. They also talked … Continue reading Twenty-Five Years: Holy Crap!
A broadcaster who was well-loved by KCOW listeners for years has died. From Dateline Hollywood: Don Kennedy, star of the long-running WSB-TV children’s show “Officer Don and The Popeye Club,” has died at 93. Kennedy died from complications of dementia following a stroke in 2015, his daughter, Rebecca Maple, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Officer Don … Continue reading Remembering Don Kennedy
In the summer of 2009, I interviewed Davy Jones of The Monkees–an interview I have shared and re-shared on this blog. But that summer also found me hopping on the long distance phone lines to chat with Ron Dante. Ron Dante provided the singing voice of Archie. Known in the pages of “Life With Archie”, … Continue reading My Interview Interview With the Guy Who Sang “Sugar Sugar”
You know what the nice thing is about having a blog? It’s there to scratch your itch, as far as writing goes. You can write about whatever you want, for as long as you want. I, for example, decided to do detailed write-ups of every multi-part episode of “Happy Days.” Was anybody asking for that? … Continue reading Three Love Letters To Jack Benny
I love Christmas, the whole Christmas season. In fact, I love it a little bit too much where home decorating is concerned. I have a wonderful stereo system with turntable, CD, and FM radio. It’s got the Victrola brand name which I like, even though I know whoever’s making these things is 42 degrees from … Continue reading “Take Tea and See”: Freberg for Salada
Over the years, KCOW’s basement tenant Bob S. Bestos and I have cooked up a lot of radio nonsense. For the last several years our major annual project has been the Halloween special…but in 2015 we created “The Bestos Christmas Yet”, a holiday special which aired on KCOW. I figured Bob was worthy of the … Continue reading The Bestos Christmas Yet
It’s another blog post spotlighting some of my recent efforts in radio advertising. I’m running out of headlines, if that isn’t apparent. We start this time with Keep Alliance Beautiful. KAB uses their commercial air time to deliver friendly reminders about recycling, trash cleanup, etc. Since material is repeated, and it’s important to enrobe an … Continue reading Ads! Radio Ads!
Judy Tenuta, one of the most outrageous and rambunctious comediennes of the 80s and 90s, passed away recently at age 72 of ovarian cancer. If you aren’t familiar with her stand-up, you might recognize her from a variety of cartoon voice acting roles and a series of collaborations with Weird Al Yankovic. In 1996 or … Continue reading Facing The Goddess: The Day I Met Judy Tenuta
I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend who rents a small place in the basement of KCOW, the enterprising weirdsmobile himself, Bob S. Bestos. Bob has been making regular appearances on my morning program again after a long sabbatical in Antarctica. And I have been coercing otherwise sensible people into taping cameo guest appearances … Continue reading Crazy, Bob, Rowlf and The 2000-Year Old Man
