More Actual Radio Shows "Commandeered" For Fake Radio Shows
Worked on the MASSIVE Tape and Record Show Enterprises archives digitization project again tonight, this time mainly more episodes of ACTUAL radio shows the organization "stole" from real broadcasts, and chopped down to fit spots in the TRSE weekly line-up...
"The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 10. Broadcast Friday, July 18, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Along Came Jones(The Coasters), Dead Skunk(Loudon Wainright III), Mr. Grillion(The George Garabedian Players), Kidnapped(Woody Allen), The Cockroach Stomp(Blanchard and Morgan), Rats In My Room(Joey Reynolds & Danny Neaverth), Locked In The Closet With You(Susan "SuLu" Dubow & Damaskas), Joe the Love Potato(Duck Logic), Hey Dude Let's Party!(Trog and Woody).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 11. Broadcast Friday, July 25, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Buying a Bed(Monty Python), Crazy Mixed Up Song(Homer and Jethro), Babysitting Boogie(Ralf Bendix), Insipid Rap(Mike Cahill), Life In The Slaw Lane(Kip Adotta), It's The Liquor(Kip Adotta), Der Fueher's Face(Spike Jones and His City Slickers).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 12. Broadcast Friday, August 1, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Der Fueher's Face(Spike Jones and His City Slickers), Part Time Plumbers(The Cover Boys), Roman Decimals(The Frantics), Living Doll(Cliff Richard and The Young Ones), Jane Get Me Off This Crazy Thing!(TeeVee Toons Master Mix), Pencil Neck Geek(Fred Blassie), Surfin' Bird(The Trashmen), Fish Heads(Barnes and Barnes)."
"The Independent Sampler: Episode 30. Broadcast Wednesday, January 29, 1992 at 7:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin'(Ray Charles), Airgin(Manhatten Transfer), Would You Believe(Martha Burks), I Want To Know What Love Is(Big Daddy), Every Breath I Take(Gene Pitney), She's My Girl(The Turtles).
The Independent Sampler: Episode 31. Broadcast Wednesday, February 5, 1992 at 8:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: Beaumont Rag(Marion Sumner), Nancy Rowland(Tommy Hunter), Cherry Apple Rag(Plank Road), Cacklin' Hen(Luke Smathers String Band), Hobo's Blues(Paul Simon), WEAK Radio(Lester "Road Hog" Moran and His Cadillac Cowboys-aka:The Statler Brothers), Engravings II(Ira Stein/Russel Walder).
The Independent Sampler: Episode 32. Broadcast Wednesday, February 12, 1992 at 8:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: New England Morning(William Ackerman), Watching My Life Go By(Michael Hedges), Stars(George Winston), Across The Alley From The Alamo/Switchin' In The Kitchen(Asleep At The Wheel), Travelin' Clean(Jimmy Buffet), What Have You Done For Me Lately(Steve Goodman)."
Listening back to my "Dr. Demento Show" edits, it might have worked better for the opening theme if I had tried to locate a recording of "Pico and Sepulveda" and did a generic announcement over it myself. Instead, I used Barry Hansen's show intro from one "two hour" original broadcast for the three or so half hour episodes I managed to squeeze out of the one broadcast, thus you hear the same artists mentioned in three episodes in a row, even if the artists don't appear in the episode. There was no internet then, I never knew the actual theme tune name at the time, so I wouldn't have known what to go to a record store to try to special order, since they most likely wouldn't have it "in stock". As a result, the TRSE version of Dr. Demento "is what it is". Then again, I mainly only did it as "filler" for the Friday half hour after "The Tape and Record Show", since almost everything we tried for that "time slot" never lasted long.
The Dennis Goodwin hosted "Independent Sampler" episodes were originally aired Sunday afternoons on the local university radio station KNLU (now KEDM) a few years before the TRSE weekly edited version were "broadcast" of these half hour episodes. There was a "gap" in TRSE productions by 1992, since a certain female co-worker and I started dating a while in the interim (no, it was before THAT "notorious" one), and I kind of lost interest in the recording organization during that time. The "Sampler" tapes were sitting in the archives during the years interim and "resurrected" with the brief TRSE "return". As for the opening theme music, I picked out an instrumental tune from my collection and just dubbed in an announcement by the host, since most "local shows" don't have "theme music". Not to "dig" at Dennis, since I know him and consider him a friend, but one day when I have nothing better to do, I need to count the times he uttered "Uh" in an episode. :-P
Apparently when episode 30 was broadcast on KNLU there was an upcoming Journey concert in Jackson, Mississippi, judging from Dennis' reference before the Big Daddy song. I'm too "lazy" at the moment to dig out "master cassettes" of the original off-air recordings to determine the actual ORIGINAL broadcast date for the show, but I DO still have the mostly unedited tapes in the archives, just haven't listened to them since dubbing the edited TRSE "broadcast" versions. Actually, transferring the edited TRSE "broadcast" versions is the first I've listened to the tapes since the decade they "aired" on the TRSE schedule.
"The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 10. Broadcast Friday, July 18, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Along Came Jones(The Coasters), Dead Skunk(Loudon Wainright III), Mr. Grillion(The George Garabedian Players), Kidnapped(Woody Allen), The Cockroach Stomp(Blanchard and Morgan), Rats In My Room(Joey Reynolds & Danny Neaverth), Locked In The Closet With You(Susan "SuLu" Dubow & Damaskas), Joe the Love Potato(Duck Logic), Hey Dude Let's Party!(Trog and Woody).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 11. Broadcast Friday, July 25, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Buying a Bed(Monty Python), Crazy Mixed Up Song(Homer and Jethro), Babysitting Boogie(Ralf Bendix), Insipid Rap(Mike Cahill), Life In The Slaw Lane(Kip Adotta), It's The Liquor(Kip Adotta), Der Fueher's Face(Spike Jones and His City Slickers).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 12. Broadcast Friday, August 1, 1986 at 11:00pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Der Fueher's Face(Spike Jones and His City Slickers), Part Time Plumbers(The Cover Boys), Roman Decimals(The Frantics), Living Doll(Cliff Richard and The Young Ones), Jane Get Me Off This Crazy Thing!(TeeVee Toons Master Mix), Pencil Neck Geek(Fred Blassie), Surfin' Bird(The Trashmen), Fish Heads(Barnes and Barnes)."
"The Independent Sampler: Episode 30. Broadcast Wednesday, January 29, 1992 at 7:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: Ain't Misbehavin'(Ray Charles), Airgin(Manhatten Transfer), Would You Believe(Martha Burks), I Want To Know What Love Is(Big Daddy), Every Breath I Take(Gene Pitney), She's My Girl(The Turtles).
The Independent Sampler: Episode 31. Broadcast Wednesday, February 5, 1992 at 8:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: Beaumont Rag(Marion Sumner), Nancy Rowland(Tommy Hunter), Cherry Apple Rag(Plank Road), Cacklin' Hen(Luke Smathers String Band), Hobo's Blues(Paul Simon), WEAK Radio(Lester "Road Hog" Moran and His Cadillac Cowboys-aka:The Statler Brothers), Engravings II(Ira Stein/Russel Walder).
The Independent Sampler: Episode 32. Broadcast Wednesday, February 12, 1992 at 8:00pm central. Theme Music: The Avengers Theme(Laurie Johnson). Songs include: New England Morning(William Ackerman), Watching My Life Go By(Michael Hedges), Stars(George Winston), Across The Alley From The Alamo/Switchin' In The Kitchen(Asleep At The Wheel), Travelin' Clean(Jimmy Buffet), What Have You Done For Me Lately(Steve Goodman)."
Listening back to my "Dr. Demento Show" edits, it might have worked better for the opening theme if I had tried to locate a recording of "Pico and Sepulveda" and did a generic announcement over it myself. Instead, I used Barry Hansen's show intro from one "two hour" original broadcast for the three or so half hour episodes I managed to squeeze out of the one broadcast, thus you hear the same artists mentioned in three episodes in a row, even if the artists don't appear in the episode. There was no internet then, I never knew the actual theme tune name at the time, so I wouldn't have known what to go to a record store to try to special order, since they most likely wouldn't have it "in stock". As a result, the TRSE version of Dr. Demento "is what it is". Then again, I mainly only did it as "filler" for the Friday half hour after "The Tape and Record Show", since almost everything we tried for that "time slot" never lasted long.
The Dennis Goodwin hosted "Independent Sampler" episodes were originally aired Sunday afternoons on the local university radio station KNLU (now KEDM) a few years before the TRSE weekly edited version were "broadcast" of these half hour episodes. There was a "gap" in TRSE productions by 1992, since a certain female co-worker and I started dating a while in the interim (no, it was before THAT "notorious" one), and I kind of lost interest in the recording organization during that time. The "Sampler" tapes were sitting in the archives during the years interim and "resurrected" with the brief TRSE "return". As for the opening theme music, I picked out an instrumental tune from my collection and just dubbed in an announcement by the host, since most "local shows" don't have "theme music". Not to "dig" at Dennis, since I know him and consider him a friend, but one day when I have nothing better to do, I need to count the times he uttered "Uh" in an episode. :-P
Apparently when episode 30 was broadcast on KNLU there was an upcoming Journey concert in Jackson, Mississippi, judging from Dennis' reference before the Big Daddy song. I'm too "lazy" at the moment to dig out "master cassettes" of the original off-air recordings to determine the actual ORIGINAL broadcast date for the show, but I DO still have the mostly unedited tapes in the archives, just haven't listened to them since dubbing the edited TRSE "broadcast" versions. Actually, transferring the edited TRSE "broadcast" versions is the first I've listened to the tapes since the decade they "aired" on the TRSE schedule.