Sitting here enjoying one of the season's greatest joys for me: My annual unveiling of "Christmas with Dino" once again after almost a year's hiatus. It truly is not Christmas for me if I don't have Dean Martin belting out the classic songs of the season.
I am starting to shake off the headaches of 2013 and feel a bit of the holiday cheer.
Will
I've been listening to 'Heavy Metal Christmas' much to the chagrin of my family. Guess I'll switch to my #2 fave Christmas album, Elvis.
BKB
Bah Humbug!
Ha ha ha! This reminds me of last night. I accompanied Lynn to her office Christmas party. It was held at the Convention Center (the Hyatt is adjacent to the Center) and they had the room all decorated for the occasion. We had a nice meal, gifts were exchanged ... all the usual Christmas party stuff. They had a DJ and a dance floor and while we were eating and chatting, the DJ was playing "hip hop" stuff. Lynn gave me a funny look and said, "This just ain't right" and went and asked the DJ to play some Christmas music. About 1/4 way through the second song, there were so many "complaints" ... the hip-hop cranked up again and everyone was happy. I looked at Lynn and said, "I guess we're officially OLD!"
My Elvis Christmas collection is my absolutely favorite. I guess it's just something I associate with my childhood as Mom and Dad played it a lot. My second favorite is a mixed CD a friend gave as a gift 4-5 years ago. It's called Blue Christmas and it's all blues artists and blues Christmas songs. My third is "Sentimental Journey" and it's all the favorites from the 30's and 40's.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
they only did one Christmas song, but The Eagles 'Come home for Christmas' is one of my all time faves too.
BKB
I play "Blue Christmas" on the harmonica once a year. That's plenty for me.. Maybe Barry can relate to this a bit. In my short few years as a "radio personality" I worked mostly small market stations where, starting right after Thanksgiving, we were required to play increasing amounts of Christmas music until Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we played 100% Christmas music. Trap a man in a 4X8 booth with 8 hour shifts of solid Christmas music borders on torture way worse than water-boarding ore bamboo under your fingernails. That has been 40 years ago and only in the past few years have I *not* turned the station when a Christmas song came on the radio. To quote Thumper... "Bah, humbug."
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
A lot of times there's nothing worse than someone elses music is there?Originally Posted by Thumper
Ha ha ha! This reminds me of last night. I accompanied Lynn to her office Christmas party. It was held at the Convention Center (the Hyatt is adjacent to the Center) and they had the room all decorated for the occasion. We had a nice meal, gifts were exchanged ... all the usual Christmas party stuff. They had a DJ and a dance floor and while we were eating and chatting, the DJ was playing "hip hop" stuff. Lynn gave me a funny look and said, "This just ain't right" and went and asked the DJ to play some Christmas music. About 1/4 way through the second song, there were so many "complaints" ... the hip-hop cranked up again and everyone was happy. I looked at Lynn and said, "I guess we're officially OLD!"
Will
HH, I can relate! but you're dating yourself. Nowadays, all of that programming is automatic and there ain't no DeeJays any more.
Speaking of, I was just reminiscing with some friends about old Larry Lujack and Gary Gears on WLS AM. I've spent many an evening watching the submarine races at the lake with WLS playing on the AM in my old car.
BKB
Boy - ain't that the truth.. and at night, KAAY in Little Rock.. and *really late at night" WSM and the Opry.
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
Ha ha ha! I see there are a BUNCH of old farts here! I grew up listening to the local (Orlando) station, WLOF and my favorite DJ was Bill "The Weird Beard" Vermillion. If the "skip" was good at night, it was either WLS out of Chicago, or on a good night, I could get Wolfman Jack out of his "outlaw" station in Mexico. Man-o-man, those were the days ... yep, even the good ol' days of submarine races ... or Hookman's Bridge!
KAAY...........wow...........100,000 Clear Watt Craziness.
Beaker Street.
Wow.
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Posthole, I listen to him 50 years ago on the beach and cruising the streets at night.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...ews&id=9365876
The older I get, the better I was. I also forget my password and have to have Len reset it for me
You guys might get a kick out of a movie called 'Pirate Radio' . Its about back in the days when the BBC outlawed rock and roll and some radio personalities went aboard an old cargo ship and broadcast from offshore. Its a pretty good movie.
I have a lot of good memories from hanging out at the radio station where my old man was part owner and station manager at the time. I was taking the transmitter readings or 'the logs' as they called it then when I was about 12. Just had to have the engineer sign of on them. I was never an on air person as I have no voice or knack for that, but growing up around that environment was a hoot. when my step Dad first started in radio it was at a little gospel/country station in Van Buren Arkansas called KFDF. They spun all their commercials on reel to reel Wollensak tape machines. Inside a cabinet door they'd driven about 100 nails into the back side of the door and on each would be a spool of tape with ads on the they'd taped. They'd cue them up on those machines and I swear watching a DJ operate a board on a busy day was like watching someone play a piano.
Got my FCC provisional when I was 17, got my third phone at 18 and second class license when I was 22. I always thought that's what I'd do until I somehow got sidetracked into the phone bidness. Probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.
BKB
Those were back in the days when TV came over the air, and Telephones came over cables.
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Yup. And almost every house in America had set top rabbit ear antennas with a piece of aluminum foil wrapped around them in the belief they'd get better reception.
And don't forget 'turning the antenna', with the old man outside turning it this way and that and me standing in the window relaying instructions from Mom on what the picture looked like. That never ever EVER worked out good in the end. I learned from that experience that to be the middle man in anything was not a profitable situation.
BKB
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THAT WORKED IDJIT!!
So tell me why holding them worked so well (and still works with those little elec alarm clock radios with the wire hanging down)?????
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Well, some of the reason is that you're completing a better circuit to ground and you're shunting a lot of noise to ground. The other part is you're quite an electrical guy and your big old body increases the area that the little vibrating waves can resonate with.
BKB
Ooooooooooooooooooeeeeeoooooooooooo
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We were lucky we had an "Antennarotor" to pick up our three channels.
The older I get, the better I was. I also forget my password and have to have Len reset it for me
I remember when we got our third channel.. mygawd.. the choices..
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
As long as one of them had Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw on Sunday night starting at 7pm, who needed more than 3?
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
My Mom caught me once trying to adjust the vertical hold on our TV when there was a nekkid woman in a shower on TV and they only showed her from the neck up. I never could figure out why that didn't work.
BKB
As a kid growing up, Orlando had one channel (6-CBS) and on a good day .. with aluminum foil on the rabbit ears OR my little sister standing next to the set touching the rabbit ears ... we could pick up a "snowy" channel (2-NBC) out of Daytona. Later on it was a HUGE deal in town when we got a local ABC station (channel 9)! 'Course all were black & white and went off the air around 10:00 - 11:00 pm or so. Back on around 6:00 or 7:00 am (can't really remember). Memories MY kid will never have.
To be honest, I just have basic cable now and have no clue how many channels I get.
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I remember getting up close to the speaker and yelling "GRANDFATHER CLOCK" when it was time for Captain Kangaroo to wake him and he asked us to "help".
Hey - If I didn't get my 8 hours of westerns a week.. I wasn't worth a damn.. Paladin was (and still is) my favorite.
and Sea Hunt.. and Annette's boobs ( I mean the Mickey Mouse Club)..
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
I can still remember the every day afternoon lineup of good westerns on TV. I was probably in the third or fourth grade then. Sugarfoot, Maverick, The Rebel, and the Lone Ranger. On Saturdays we got My Friend Flicka and The Rifleman. Those were darned good old westerns. They must have filmed a jillion of them.
BKB
and on edit it wasn't The Rebel it was Johny Yuma. I was thinking of the theme song....'Johnny Yuma was a rebel, he roamed through the west....'
BKB
Watched Paladin last week, twice.
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It just ain't Christmas until I hear Porky Pig singing Blue Christmas.
And speaking of old Westerns.....don't forget Cisco Kid, Sgt Preston Of The Mounties, Branded, and of course Bonanza, and Gunsmoke.
I remember one time when the TV repairman came to the house, and I asked him if he could put some color tubes in the works!
When one of our "rich" neighbors got a color TV, I asked my Dad if we could get one. I still remember him saying he'd think about it when the people on there quit looking like Martians. Those first units had horrible color resolution.
And do you remember some of the BIG names in TV's back then? Dumont, Zenith, Quazar, Philco....long since gone the way of the Wooly.
and Laramie and the Rifleman and Laredo and Wyatt Earp and The Virginian and Maverick (I liked Brett best - he was more likely to shoot someone) and Wild Bill Hickok and.. and man, they just don't make TV like they used to..
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
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