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From: MNMikeW on 1 Jun 2010 17:41 "R&B" <none_of_your_business(a)all.com> wrote in message news:201006011719348887-noneofyourbusiness(a)allcom... > On 2010-06-01 11:26:18 -0400, MNMikeW said: > >> "R&B" <none_of_your_business(a)all.com> wrote in message >> news:2010053001513355441-noneofyourbusiness(a)allcom... >>> On 2010-05-29 06:26:00 -0400, Mike Dalecki said: >>> >>>> R&B wrote: >>>>> ...in the 1950s and 1960s...and listened to top 40 radio on AM... >>>>> >>>>> (And yeah, there's no golf content here. But there's no politics or >>>>> hateful ranting, either.) >>>>> >>>>> Today a friend sent me a montage of old radio jingles from WLS in >>>>> Chicago, one of the nation's biggest stations, and a legendary top 40 >>>>> station from the '50s through the first part of the '80s, when >>>>> musicradio on AM pretty much died in favor of news and talk, as music >>>>> radio had migrated by then to FM. >>>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> I threw this little video together tonight just to spotlight these few >>>>> jingles. Enjoy. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLu4UVorDSo >>>>> >>>>> Randy >>>>> >>>> >>>> Three words: >>>> >>>> John Records Landecker >>>> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0uqWOOqeg&feature=related >>> >>> >>> Boogie Check. >>> >>> Randy >>> >> Jesus, I remember that. > > > Classic stuff... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1Kb4fb_G4&feature=related > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p66Ik-RNiw&feature=related > > Randy > I called in to "Boogie Check" a few times here on U100 http://www.archive.org/details/cftp-u100
From: bknight on 1 Jun 2010 17:48 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:32:53 -0700 (PDT), newellsatwsu <newellatwsu(a)adelphia.net> wrote: >On May 29, 4:52�am, bkni...(a)conramp.net wrote: >> The JM singers were great, and included Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice >> of Tony the Tiger. � > >Just learned last winter that the other Thurl Ravenscroft claim to >fame was that he sang "You're a Mean One...Mr. Grinch" (or whatever >it's officially titled) in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Did you >play on that one? :-) No. I just checked and didn't know that they did a TV remake of the '66 movie in 2006, and Thurl did that one too. BK
From: Howard Brazee on 2 Jun 2010 07:49 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:32:53 -0700 (PDT), newellsatwsu <newellatwsu(a)adelphia.net> wrote: >> The JM singers were great, and included Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice >> of Tony the Tiger. � > >Just learned last winter that the other Thurl Ravenscroft claim to >fame was that he sang "You're a Mean One...Mr. Grinch" (or whatever >it's officially titled) in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Did you >play on that one? :-) I think of him with 3 roles - he was also the voice of Orson Welles in _Ed Wood_. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: bknight on 2 Jun 2010 07:58 On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:49:09 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:32:53 -0700 (PDT), newellsatwsu ><newellatwsu(a)adelphia.net> wrote: > >>> The JM singers were great, and included Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice >>> of Tony the Tiger. � >> >>Just learned last winter that the other Thurl Ravenscroft claim to >>fame was that he sang "You're a Mean One...Mr. Grinch" (or whatever >>it's officially titled) in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Did you >>play on that one? :-) > >I think of him with 3 roles - he was also the voice of Orson Welles in >_Ed Wood_. Thurl was an imposing figure too, at least 6' 6" tall, and the nicest, friendliest man you'd ever want to meet. BK
From: R&B on 3 Jun 2010 18:09
On 2010-06-01 17:41:39 -0400, MNMikeW said: > "R&B" <none_of_your_business(a)all.com> wrote in message > news:201006011719348887-noneofyourbusiness(a)allcom... >> On 2010-06-01 11:26:18 -0400, MNMikeW said: >> >>> "R&B" <none_of_your_business(a)all.com> wrote in message >>> news:2010053001513355441-noneofyourbusiness(a)allcom... >>>> On 2010-05-29 06:26:00 -0400, Mike Dalecki said: >>>> >>>>> R&B wrote: >>>>>> ...in the 1950s and 1960s...and listened to top 40 radio on AM... >>>>>> >>>>>> (And yeah, there's no golf content here. But there's no politics or >>>>>> hateful ranting, either.) >>>>>> >>>>>> Today a friend sent me a montage of old radio jingles from WLS in >>>>>> Chicago, one of the nation's biggest stations, and a legendary top 40 >>>>>> station from the '50s through the first part of the '80s, when >>>>>> musicradio on AM pretty much died in favor of news and talk, as music >>>>>> radio had migrated by then to FM. >>>>>> <snip> >>>>>> >>>>>> I threw this little video together tonight just to spotlight these few >>>>>> jingles. Enjoy. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLu4UVorDSo >>>>>> >>>>>> Randy >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Three words: >>>>> >>>>> John Records Landecker >>>>> >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0uqWOOqeg&feature=related >>>> >>>> >>>> Boogie Check. >>>> >>>> Randy >>>> >>> Jesus, I remember that. >> >> >> Classic stuff... >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1Kb4fb_G4&feature=related >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p66Ik-RNiw&feature=related >> >> Randy >> > I called in to "Boogie Check" a few times here on U100 > > http://www.archive.org/details/cftp-u100 Landecker is the guy who first came up with the "Boogie Check." Lots of nighttime deejays on lots of radio stations copied him. But Landecker was the first with that particular bit. Like everything else in all businesses, someone has success doing something, then there's a rush by everyone else to copy. But the original is usually the only one that gets remembered most fondly, especially by those most familiar with the business in which the phenomenon occurs. I wasn't a big fan of Landecker, and I never lived in Chicago. But I gotta give it up to him on this. The station I was programming copied him as well. I think we even called it the "Boogie Check," although it's been so long (and I wasn't the deejay, Kidd Kraddick was) that I just don't remember for sure. Randy |