No Mo' TRSE "Doctor" Broadcasts, A Wedding Double Bill, and a Jukebox
Final three half-hour episodes of the "Doctor" digitized from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises edited "broadcast" versions this evening, and another "season five" flagship "Tape and Record Show" episode...
"The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 21. Broadcast Monday, April 27, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Guitarzan, The Streak, Shriner's Convention, Mississippi Squirrel Revival(Ray Stevens), I Put A Spell On You(Screamin' Jay Hawkins), No Cause For Alarm(Russell Hoffman), Rappin' Duke(Shawn Brown).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 22. Broadcast Monday, May 4, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Do The Watusi(Howie Mandel), Breakfast With Joe The Love Potato(Duck Logic), Rock Me Jerry Lewis(Mike Elliott & Bud Latour), I'm Not Merv Griffin(Gary Muller), Dead Puppies(Odgen Edsel), Little Nash Rambler(The Playmates), Car Trouble(The Frantics), Johnny and Joanie(Lou Baby and the Zanies), Bye Johnny(Scotty Chapin).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 23. Broadcast Monday, May 18, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Ricky("Weird Al" Yankovic), The Sissy Song(Billy Briggs), Mr. Custer(Larry Verne), To Glory In A Glad Bag(John Biggs), Totally Nude(The Wallets), Streakin' USA(Harry Hepcat), Goin' Skinny Dippin'(Mayf Nutter), Old Swimming Hole(Happiness Boys), They Won't Let You Show It At The Beach(Shel Silverstein), The Bee That Invaded The Nudist Colony(Billy Mitchell). [Final TRSE Edition]
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 405, Broadcast Friday, October 21, 1983 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: One Thing Leads To Another(The Fixx). "A Two Wedding Comparison" - Two weddings are featured in this program, the fictional "Brady Brides", and the real ceremony of James Stricklin and Michelle Haney. / 1999(Randy Haney, James Stricklin, Prince).
TRS Jukebox: Episode 4: Broadcast Sunday, December 19, 1982 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - Songs include: Get Closer(Linda Ronstadt), I'm Alright(James Stricklin, as Raymond J.Johnson Jr./Kenny Loggins), Ribbon In The Sky(Stevie Wonder), Maneater(Daryl Hall and John Oates), I'm So Excited(The Pointer Sisters), Stepping Out(Joe Jackson), Girl of 100 Lists(The GoGo's), Mickey(Toni Basil), Shakin'(Eddie Money)."
With tonight's digitizations, I completed the limited run of the "TRSE version" of "The Dr. Demento Show". Episode 21 included a profile of Ray Stevens, with four songs by the performer.
Episode 22 had yet ANOTHER "local" request caller, this time, someone named "Sharon" from Ruston, Louisiana, who requested the "Little Nash Rambler" tune. The original two-hour episode would have aired nationally in 1986. The "Johnny and Joanie" and "Bye Johnny" songs were satires of the Johnny Carson/Joan Rivers feud.
There's quite a bit of nudity in episode 23, but no need to be TOO concerned. It IS a "radio show" after all! :-P
Episode 405 of "The Tape and Record Show" included one segment which had been "broadcast" in two other incarnations in previous seasons, the wedding of Jan and Marcia Brady, from "The Brady Girls Get Married" TV movie. As a "comparison" of a sitcom wedding vs. a real life wedding, the ceremony of James Stricklin and Michelle Haney was used as the "real life" portion. The entire episode has "meh" sound quality, since the "Brady" wedding was recorded onto audio cassette back when I was still using an external microphone held up to a TV speaker, hooked to a portable monophonic cassette recorder. James and Michelle's wedding doesn't sound much better, since I just set up microphones as close as possible to the "action", and I was ducked behind a partition in the church with the audio recorder, and I had no way to adjust the levels at the time. Any "level" adjusting was done in "post production" back at my makeshift "studio". Ironically, the same type low frequency "buzzing" is heard in BOTH recordings. It was"normal" for all the old recordings I made from the TV speakers in the early days, but I never quite figured out why it was in the recording I made in the church, unless some other equipment the church was using was causing RF interference with the cassette recorder. Audio in the James/Michelle portion of the hour IS still clear enough however, you can hear the click of cameras shooting photos in the background, at least on the headphones I was using in the conversion process. I think it was Michelle's aunt who sang "You Light Up My Life". She could have been a professional singer in my opinion. The episode ends with a rather awkward summary by myself.
"TRS Jukebox", as I mentioned in earlier posts, originated as the first "pop music" TRSE series, in the early 80's, derived from audio from HBO's "Video Jukebox". Once music from that series started to run out, I "padded" episodes out with music from my personal collection. In episode 4, I inserted the "raw file" of James doing his "Raymond J. Johnson, Jr./Bill Saluga" impersonation singing the Kenny Loggins song "I'm Alright", which was in an earlier production with James singing along with himself as himself AND Johnson, the latter morphing into a character with the same voice, Jacob J. Welsh, spelled W-e-l-esh-esh.
Random Fact: James' second marriage has been FAR more successful than his first one, first one was the one converted in tonight's digitization. I know he'd rather ignore that one, but the recording was next in the archives for digitization. I'm a "completest" as much as I can be, unless a recording is "missing" and can't be duplicated, like episode four of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" and episode 25 of "Paul's Country Corral". Sorry, James. :-(
"The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 21. Broadcast Monday, April 27, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Guitarzan, The Streak, Shriner's Convention, Mississippi Squirrel Revival(Ray Stevens), I Put A Spell On You(Screamin' Jay Hawkins), No Cause For Alarm(Russell Hoffman), Rappin' Duke(Shawn Brown).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 22. Broadcast Monday, May 4, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Do The Watusi(Howie Mandel), Breakfast With Joe The Love Potato(Duck Logic), Rock Me Jerry Lewis(Mike Elliott & Bud Latour), I'm Not Merv Griffin(Gary Muller), Dead Puppies(Odgen Edsel), Little Nash Rambler(The Playmates), Car Trouble(The Frantics), Johnny and Joanie(Lou Baby and the Zanies), Bye Johnny(Scotty Chapin).
The Dr. Demento Show: Episode 23. Broadcast Monday, May 18, 1987 at 8:30pm central. Theme Music: Pico and Sepulveda(Freddy Martin and His Orchestra). Songs: Ricky("Weird Al" Yankovic), The Sissy Song(Billy Briggs), Mr. Custer(Larry Verne), To Glory In A Glad Bag(John Biggs), Totally Nude(The Wallets), Streakin' USA(Harry Hepcat), Goin' Skinny Dippin'(Mayf Nutter), Old Swimming Hole(Happiness Boys), They Won't Let You Show It At The Beach(Shel Silverstein), The Bee That Invaded The Nudist Colony(Billy Mitchell). [Final TRSE Edition]
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 405, Broadcast Friday, October 21, 1983 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: One Thing Leads To Another(The Fixx). "A Two Wedding Comparison" - Two weddings are featured in this program, the fictional "Brady Brides", and the real ceremony of James Stricklin and Michelle Haney. / 1999(Randy Haney, James Stricklin, Prince).
TRS Jukebox: Episode 4: Broadcast Sunday, December 19, 1982 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - Songs include: Get Closer(Linda Ronstadt), I'm Alright(James Stricklin, as Raymond J.Johnson Jr./Kenny Loggins), Ribbon In The Sky(Stevie Wonder), Maneater(Daryl Hall and John Oates), I'm So Excited(The Pointer Sisters), Stepping Out(Joe Jackson), Girl of 100 Lists(The GoGo's), Mickey(Toni Basil), Shakin'(Eddie Money)."
With tonight's digitizations, I completed the limited run of the "TRSE version" of "The Dr. Demento Show". Episode 21 included a profile of Ray Stevens, with four songs by the performer.
Episode 22 had yet ANOTHER "local" request caller, this time, someone named "Sharon" from Ruston, Louisiana, who requested the "Little Nash Rambler" tune. The original two-hour episode would have aired nationally in 1986. The "Johnny and Joanie" and "Bye Johnny" songs were satires of the Johnny Carson/Joan Rivers feud.
There's quite a bit of nudity in episode 23, but no need to be TOO concerned. It IS a "radio show" after all! :-P
Episode 405 of "The Tape and Record Show" included one segment which had been "broadcast" in two other incarnations in previous seasons, the wedding of Jan and Marcia Brady, from "The Brady Girls Get Married" TV movie. As a "comparison" of a sitcom wedding vs. a real life wedding, the ceremony of James Stricklin and Michelle Haney was used as the "real life" portion. The entire episode has "meh" sound quality, since the "Brady" wedding was recorded onto audio cassette back when I was still using an external microphone held up to a TV speaker, hooked to a portable monophonic cassette recorder. James and Michelle's wedding doesn't sound much better, since I just set up microphones as close as possible to the "action", and I was ducked behind a partition in the church with the audio recorder, and I had no way to adjust the levels at the time. Any "level" adjusting was done in "post production" back at my makeshift "studio". Ironically, the same type low frequency "buzzing" is heard in BOTH recordings. It was"normal" for all the old recordings I made from the TV speakers in the early days, but I never quite figured out why it was in the recording I made in the church, unless some other equipment the church was using was causing RF interference with the cassette recorder. Audio in the James/Michelle portion of the hour IS still clear enough however, you can hear the click of cameras shooting photos in the background, at least on the headphones I was using in the conversion process. I think it was Michelle's aunt who sang "You Light Up My Life". She could have been a professional singer in my opinion. The episode ends with a rather awkward summary by myself.
"TRS Jukebox", as I mentioned in earlier posts, originated as the first "pop music" TRSE series, in the early 80's, derived from audio from HBO's "Video Jukebox". Once music from that series started to run out, I "padded" episodes out with music from my personal collection. In episode 4, I inserted the "raw file" of James doing his "Raymond J. Johnson, Jr./Bill Saluga" impersonation singing the Kenny Loggins song "I'm Alright", which was in an earlier production with James singing along with himself as himself AND Johnson, the latter morphing into a character with the same voice, Jacob J. Welsh, spelled W-e-l-esh-esh.
Random Fact: James' second marriage has been FAR more successful than his first one, first one was the one converted in tonight's digitization. I know he'd rather ignore that one, but the recording was next in the archives for digitization. I'm a "completest" as much as I can be, unless a recording is "missing" and can't be duplicated, like episode four of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" and episode 25 of "Paul's Country Corral". Sorry, James. :-(