http://kingdaevid.podbean.com a whole lotta stuff that I like Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:23:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WARNING: ANATOMICALLY-CORRECT LANGUAGE ...I forget exactly how I got these; I want to say I found them on a web site somewhere but can't recall exactly which one. Anyway, these are a set of airchecks of several nights on CB radio channels in the Milwaukee area in the last week of ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/10/04/milwaukee-cb-radio-recordings-from-1970-71/ http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/30/johnny-carsons-half-century-of-nbc-comedy-1982/ ...'twas on October 1, 1962, that Johnny Carson started his employment by his third television network. First had come CBS in 1955, with a half-hour sketch comedy show that lasted all of 39 weeks, then a midday Godfreyesque hodgepodge to burn off the remaining weeks on that network's contract with ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/30/johnny-carson-with-richard-m-nixon-and-john-twomey-19671972/ ...back on the 17th of September, 1969, someone at the Drake University Times-Delphic in Des Moines wondered in print whether Paul McCartney was alive or dead. Within a month, the rumour of Macca's demise and the other Beatles' allegedly dropping hints on albums as early as Help! in 1965 had ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/28/echoes-of-a-century-the-paul-is-dead-rumour/ ...since quite a few of you liked the 1961 Mort Sahl offering a few days back, here's another, and even rarer, piece of Sahl to consume, crackly vinyl and all. It's his earliest album, recorded in 1955 (but not released until around '58, and then quickly withdrawn from distribution), recorded ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/28/mort-sahl-at-sunset-1954/ ...this one is among the oddest items in my collection, if only because a hit-making record company actually thought it would be a hit. This piece actually started out as a regular bit in Redd Foxx's standup act throughout the '60s, and as such it was specifically targeted by Foxx ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/28/the-prayer-by-ray-scott/ ...I'm posting this one because it was about the "bank holiday" ordered by President Roosevelt in his first days in office, and even though it doesn't address the deregulation farce that led the United States to the situation we're in now, it is still light years ahead of anything I've ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/27/president-franklin-roosevelts-first-fireside-chat-12-march-1933/ ...whoa! The first of my Echoes programs on Glenn Miller turns out to be more popular than I'd anticipated. Thanks for the turnout, folks, and in thanks, here's the second... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/25/echoes-of-a-century-major-glenn-miller/ ...and here is some standup comedy pointed at the administration of the winner of the debates above. Mort Sahl had a huge recording career in the 1950s, frequently commenting on the Eisenhower Administrations; here, recorded in the Spring of 1961, is his first crack at Jack Kennedy's shop. Curiously, I ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/23/mort-sahl-the-new-frontier/ ...this upcoming Saturday, September 27th, will be the 66th anniversary of the end of one of the greatest music groups ever assembled, Glenn Miller's second civilian band. Its last broadcast performance is included in this Echoes that provides examples of not just that civilian band but also the beginnings of ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/21/echoes-of-a-century-captain-glenn-miller/ ...it was 35 years ago tonight that Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen, two of the most uniquely gifted folk musicians America ever produced, were killed in a Louisiana plane crash. Croce was a great storyteller, and not merely in musical terms; the audio file here has Jim introducing a couple ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/09/20/jim-croce-35-years-later/ ...not nearly as long as We Hold These Truths or On a Note of Triumph, or even Between Americans, but this is among the finest pieces that Norman Corwin ever created or Orson Welles ever uttered near a microphone. Don't believe me? Then, the next time you see it, I ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/08/15/columbia-presents-corwin-fourteen-august-14-august-1945/ ...as you can see, I've junked all of the "Audible Scribblings" material. The way that KPHX and Nova M ripped me off, it's best that I make a clean break from those two-faced punks. In the meanwhile, what will appear here are semi-daily posts that'll only be up for a ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/08/12/some-changes-are-being-made-here/ ...after all, I did name her after the tune ;-) ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/08/01/just-a-song-one-of-my-daughters-wanted-to-hear/ ...now, if KAZG or KOOL had the guts to have me do this kind of show for them, they'd really be worth listening to ;-) ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/05/22/the-technicolour-breakfast-9-april-2001-part-two/ ...just for the hell of it, here I am doing my retro music show on WSUW in Whitewater, Wisconsin, one morning in '01. Thought y'all might get a bit of a kick out of it... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/05/22/the-technicolour-breakfast-9-april-2001-part-one/ Here is the first of my Derby Specials this week. It's the "UnreportedNews.Net Radio Show" from July 15th of last year, in which I sat in for Sarge Phelps and chatted with Kamikaze Kiwi and Red Rocker of the Arizona Derby Dames, and Pardon My French and Mizz Nashty* of the ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/03/30/unreportednewsnet-radio-show-july-15-2007/ ...featuring a marvelous narration by Orson Welles. As broadcast on the evening of December 7, 1941. I'll be touching upon this one as well this Sunday morning. Parts of it fit well with the Obama address... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/03/19/between-americans-by-norman-corwin/ ...now, because you've asked for it, I'll fill y'all in on what my signoff line means. the "peace" part is self explanatory; if you still don't get it, check out some Dave Garroway clips on YouTube and maybe you'll get it. There's two bits to the "oranges" part, however. Remember ... http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2008/03/02/on-a-note-of-triumph/