Stuff I gotta scream about!
A Different Kind Of Oldies Show and Rock The Universe from 10/4/08 are available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. They are also streaming on the rerun server.
Once again our 1st hour is a tribute. This time to George “Wydell” Jones the lead singer of The Edsels and the composer of “Rama Lama Ding Dong” who passed away on 9/28.
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A Different Kind Of Oldies Show from 9/27/08 is available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. It is also streaming on the rerun server.
The 9/20 Rock The Universe show was not delivered to WWCR in time to make the broadcast schedule. WWCR is airing that program this week. We’re skipping a week in order to remain in sync. The next program has been recorded and is on it’s way down to WWCR and will be available next week, 10/4/08. The extended net edition of that show will also air on Radio New York International on 10/5/08.
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A Different Kind Of Oldies Show and Rock The Universe from 9/20/08 are available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. They are also streaming on the rerun server.
Our 1st hour is a tribute to Earl Palmer, the legendary drummer who passed away last Friday.
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The legendary Rock & Roll drummer passed away this past Friday, 9/19/08, at the age of 84. This best and most detailed obituary we’ve found is this one by Keith Spera in the N.O. Times Picayune.
A Different Kind Of Oldies Show and Rock The Universe from 9/13/08 are available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. They are also streaming on the rerun server.
A Different Kind Of Oldies Show and Rock The Universe from 9/6/08 are available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. They are also streaming on the rerun server.
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A Different Kind Of Oldies Show and Rock The Universe from 8/30/08 are available for Podcast, On Demand Streaming and Downloading. They are also streaming on the rerun server.Effective with the September 6th shows, the files will double in size as bit rate will change to 128kbs. This will allow for better fidelity, but will also slow your downloads and take up more space.
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I had more or less given up on the radio hobby for a while back in the 70’s and 80’s until I came across a magazine I had not seen before at my local newsstand. It was Popular Communications and I immediately bought and devoured the edition and very soon became a subscriber.
It was edited by an name I had seen as a writer in many of the other radio hobby I had read in the 60’s, Tom Kneitel. During my involvement with Radio Newyork International in it’s WWCR days I spoke to Tom on a number of occasions bantering about radio in general as I confirmed and gathered research for my Crossband program.
I lost contact with him as I began to separate myself from RNI but never forgot the few interesting conversations we had. Tom Passed away on Friday after a long illness.
Tom was the son of Seymour Kneitel, the director of many a Famous Studios/Paramount Cartoon and the grandson of the predecessor studios creator, the legendary Max Fleischer.
From the Orlando Sentinel newspaper:
Tom Kneitel, who loved radios from the time he was a kid, turned his hobby into a career, writing magazine articles and books for other radio buffs. Known by his CB handle “Tomcat,” Kneitel was a storied figure in the world of CBs, shortwaves and scanners.
His 1992 book Tune in on Telephone Calls - which told readers how to use inexpensive equipment to join the “popular pastime” of listening in on other people’s cell-phone calls - earned him interviews by The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
Kneitel, 75, died Friday. The DeLand man had been ill for more than a year, with a variety of health problems, said Judy Kneitel, his wife of 54 years.
He began writing about radios in the 1950s. “My goodness, I’m having fun and they’re paying me,” he told his wife.
His last job had been as editor of Popular Communications magazine, but he had also written for CB Horizons magazine, S9 magazine, Popular Electronics and TV Guide. He also wrote a number of other books.
Born in New York City, Kneitel spent part of his childhood in Florida. He was the grandson of Max Fleischer, the cartoonist who had a Miami animation studio that created Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons.
His family moved back to New York when he was a teenager, and Kneitel spent most of his life there. In 2004, the Kneitels retired to DeLand.
He was a funny man but also a workaholic who would “be at the typewriter 18 hours a day,” Judy Kneitel said. “He never missed a deadline. He enjoyed writing.”
Even as he was entering a hospice last year, “he turned out three more articles,” she said.
Most of his columns contained humor, plays on words and strong opinions. A Pennsylvania newsletter for radio buffs last year reprinted this retort by Kneitel, who’d been taken to task for his criticism of an old organization: “I don’t care when it was founded, I just want to know when it will be losted.”
Kneitel got his first radio from relatives after he contracted polio when he was 14 - and was hooked.
Though he recovered from the disease, he always walked with a limp, his wife said, and about 15 years ago “post-polio syndrome” landed him in a wheelchair. He’d been suffering from heart disease and diabetes, among other problems, too.
In addition to his wife, Kneitel is survived by seven of his eight children and by 10 grandchildren. The family plans a private memorial service.
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