Barnes Newberry has been off-the-air for going on a year, after ten years of hosting his “Highway 61 Revisited” show on WUMB (UMassBoston). Barnes had what can be termed a “falling-out with management,” and I’ve really missed listening to him on Saturday mornings. I’ve been told there is the possibility of Barnes returning to the airwaves sometime in the Spring. Here’s hoping he can put it together. Stay tuned!
Oldies stations have left the 50’s behind — demographic is too old — and even the 60’s is being nudged out, now that the 80’s have been added to the playlists. But even when the 60’s was the sweet spot for ad dollars, the stations kept far too few songs in rotation. Here’s but one of many examples. Tommy James’ hit “I Think We’re Alone Now” would get played to death, but we’d never hear his great single “Mirage.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMEhRmKeyM
The good news is, Pandora and Slacker have, and play, everything. Music Choice on cable TV is good too. And that’s why, unless I’m the car, I don’t listen to oldies radio.
Mark Sinnott has announced that his dad, Marvel Comics legend Joe Sinnott, will have some of his fantastic art on display at the Dutch Ale House in Joe’s hometown of Saugerties, NY. The opening for the two-month showing will be next Sunday, February 20 at 3 pm, and I’m hoping to be there with D.F. Rogers, esq. Denro has done an incredible job of locating issues of comic books for Joe that he worked on decades ago, where Joe had only the story title on file because the publisher didn’t have a specific issue in mind for the assignment.
Mark is the world’s biggest Jethro Tull fan, and at this moment one of Ian Anderson’s flutes is in orbit on the International Space Station, with astronaut Catherine Coleman.
It was Perm Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Scott was worried they might do something to his own back-length hair; but, as you can see, he escaped unscathed. Which is a good thing for us too, his co-workers at the office!
Here’s the video. Don’t know how long it’ll be available, so watch it now.
Scott Murawski is a guitarist who tours with Mike Gordon, from Phish. Scott’s day job has him stuck working with me. He’s not at the office today, because tonight Scott will be appearing with Mike Gordon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
When synchronized sound came to the movies, American film studios no longer had a universal product that only needed the title cards translated into different languages to be exported to markets around the world. Dubbing spoken dialog has never been a satisfactory alternative, except for cartoons.
Thanks to the ubiquitous distribution of American silent movies in their day, every so often copies show up in other countries. The latest example is a cache of American films that were preserved in Russia.
