Back in the mid-Sixties, before I became WBAI's Manager (we left the "General" out in those days). Robert Potts, our News Director, and I did the morning show. We powered the station on (it slept at night) and delivered "Music and News with Albertson and Potts." Sometimes we pre-recorded little bits like this clip, where we made fun of our beloved radio station:
My deepest thanks to John Lightning, who salvaged this and other bits of nostalgia.
Heavens, man! You can't possibly expect present talent to reach for these impossibly Olympian broadcast standards!
ReplyDelete~ 'indigopirate'
I think Michael Haskins may be trying.
DeleteIn more ways than one, perhaps?
Trying? Trying? The man is the embodiment of cool, of sang froid, of effortless accomplishment – his portrait illustrates the entry for sprezzatura in many dictionaries and appears as well in recent editions of 'The Art of the Courtier'.
Delete~ 'indigothatpiratefella'
Goshdarnit, Indigo, I thought his veiled intellect was supposed to remain a secret—may I then assume that you also know about that key? I refer to the one used by the former Kathy Davis to wind him, Berthold and Mimi Rosenberg up on alternate days.
DeleteKey? What key...? [looks away, as if concerned with being overheard]
Delete[whispers] It's not so much the lesser automata that worry me... it's... [beat] The Clockwork Orange!
~ 'indigopirate'
Scribbles on yellow semi-glossy government toilet paper sheet (Victoria Station ca. 1954)..."clockwork orange is the new clockwork black." Runs to lose himself in the newsreel theatre... it is no longer there... gone with the soot.
DeleteI genuinely enjoyed that! *burp*
ReplyDelete"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls" - Simon & Garfunkel
"...the words of the profits were written on the studio wall." - The Spirit of Radio