This is what the Google Search Console says about this site:
Your site doesn’t have enough usage data
Which is actually an improvement considering that, before I fixed the WordPress problems, Google refused to even allow the domain to appear in a search. Curiously, on July 17, one of my old posts suddenly received more than 2,500 hits. This one.
Why the sudden interest? Dunno!
Follow-up:
Airchecks from Los Angeles station KHJ provide the music bed (to use a radio term) for Once Upon a Time… in HOLLYWOOD.
On February 9, 1969, while Rick Dalton was filming the Lancer pilot, and his buddy Cliff Booth was surveying the decaying remains of Spohn Movie Ranch, KHJ was preparing to air The History of Rock & Roll on February 21. Created by KHJ program director Bill Drake, the documentary was the subject of a lecture given by Matthew Barton of the Library of Congress.
Forgive me for re-telling a story. Besides being relevant here, it’s one of my favorite stories.
I was doing DJ duty on August 16, 1977, when news hit the AP teletype that Elvis had died. On 10-inch reels of tape the station had a copy of the syndicated 1969 edition of Drake’s The History of Rock & Roll.* I’d hang around the station on my own time to listen to the series in the production studio.
As soon as I saw that first terse news bulletin about Elvis, I pulled out the LP set Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1. Slip-cueing “Heartbreak Hotel” on one of the Russco/Micro-Trak turntables, I announced the tragic news over the air. As the song played I ran out of the studio, grabbed the History of Rock & Roll tape about Elvis, ran back to the studio, and mounted it on the old Magnecord deck.
As updates came across the AP wire, for the next hour I broke format and threw together an ad hoc Elvis tribute. While songs and commercials played, I frantically searched the tape for good sound bites, with surprising success. Breaking format is usually a BIG no-no in radio, but to my surprise the program director liked my Elvis tribute. Starting at 16 minutes into the video, you can hear some of what I used.
It all worked out perfectly, thanks to — ahem! — my very skillful engineering, and that tape. My long overdue thanks go to Boss Radio KHJ! At that same time Drake was in the middle of updating the documentary. He immediately began working on a dedicated Elvis tribute tape.
* Narration of the syndicated edition of the HRR was by Humble Harve Miller. Who had, to say the least, a checkered history in radio.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-humble-harve-miller-dead-20190606-story.html
Yesterday, I talked about me and Denro, years away from meeting, listening to “Evil Woman” by Crow on WRKO in January, 1970. Here’s a Dale Dorman aircheck with exactly what we heard, as it happened.
Tara, the O’Hara family homestead!
With the plantation decimated by the war, Scarlett vows to never go hungry again!
The plantation’s soil must have been contaminated by Union soldiers during Sherman’s March, because Tara Flour is making people sick!
Consumer Reports’ food safety and policy experts recommend that consumers stop eating products that contain the additive called tara flour.
Never go hungry again? But wasn’t Scarlett refusing to eat to keep her tiny waist?
To what 60’s music category does the superb “Pictures of Matchstick Men” belong?
The answer is, of course, 4. What does Music Mike have to say about it?
Not so fast, Music Mike! There is an official stereo mix.
A recent installment of 88 Rewound had Denro and I exchanging messages in stunned disbelief. We both remembered a certain single, as heard on WRKO, where it reached #2 in early 1970. Like most boys, we were into the sound of the record and didn’t pay attention to the lyrics, but how did we fail to catch onto this tragic tale??
You will bear someone else’s fertile seed
Evil woman don’t play your games with me…
… Now I know just what you’re looking for
You want me to claim this child you bore
But I know that it was he, not me
Take it away Music Mike, who’s as wide in this video as the stereo separation of the recording!
Crow was a heavy metal band that was given a Blood, Sweat & Tears sound by the producer. I can both understand why professionally arranged horns were added, and why the group disliked them.
