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Dan and guest attempt to go in depth and analyze each episode of the classic televison show The Twilight Zone
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TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
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Westerns Movies Channel will take you back to those great western movies from the 1930s-1950s. The wild west will come alive with those heroes that always fought evil and rescued the damsel in distress.
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War Movies takes you back to ancient times of histories great empires, their conquest, to modern day warfare. Hollywood greatest heroes on the silver screen come alive once again with epic tales of sacrifice and heroism. Taken from the public domain archives of Nostalgia USA Studios each movie will be full of action and adventure.
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Drama Movie Channel will inspire you, make you cry, and thrill you with action and adventure. Drama from the most productive years in Hollywood from the 1930s-1950s.
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A biweekly podcast revisiting classic television, one series at a time. Hosts Hannah and Jeffrey are your intrepid and informed tour guides through TV's back catalog as they take a fresh look at shows which have been off the air for at least 15 years and are available on a major streaming service, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.
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The Old Time Dragnet Show With Adam Graham
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From 2007-2013, Adam Graham hosted the Old Time Dragnet Program, playing through every episode of Dragnet along with supplementary materials including episodes of Pat Novak and Jeff Regan. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5899323/advertisement
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An episode-by-episode conversation about the 90s, New York City, and the classic NBC sit-com "Mad About You." Hosted by a couple of real Reis-guys (Russ Feder & Jonathan Marballi).
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Robert Davi on what made Sinatra a "method singer"
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TVC 629.5: Ed welcomes back singer/actor Robert Davi (License to Kill, The Goonies, Profiler, Davi Sings Sinatra). Robert will perform his music show, Robert Davi: My Kind of Town, an evening of music that pays tribute to both the Great American Songbook and his idol and mentor, Frank Sinatra, at the Black Box Center for the Arts, 8221 Glades Road,…
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TVC 629.6: Ed welcomes TJ Lubinsky, director and co-executive producer of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme: Memories of My Mom and Dad, a two-hour special, hosted by David Lawrence, that takes a joyful look at how television helped Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme become the most successful husband-and-wife singing duo of all time. Steve Lawrence and E…
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Walter Cronkite, Aaron Brown, and Don Pardo
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TVC 628.1: From November 2013: Part 2 of our special joint edition of The Sounds of Lost Television and This Week in TV History featuring Phil Gries, Tony Figueroa, and Donna Allen that looks back at how network television news covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963—a seminal moment in U.S. history and in the lives …
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How the JFK Assassination Stigmatized Dallas
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TVC 628.2: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio discusses some of the various films and documentaries that have been made over the years about the assassination of President John K. Kennedy. Also in this segment: How the JFK assassination left a stigma on the city of Dallas for many years, and how that started to changed in t…
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TVC 628.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio shares some final thoughts on how network TV news covered the assassination of President Kennedy on 11/22/63, as well as how the 8mm color motion sequence shot by clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder became one of the most scrutinized pieces of film ever. Want to advertise/spo…
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John Barbour's Last Word on the Murder of JFK
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TVC 628.4: Ed welcomes back John Barbour, five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and co-creator of Real People; author of Your Mother’s Not a Virgin, the story of his life and career in show business; and the only man who has produced three films on the JFK assassination, including John Barbour’s and William Shakesp…
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TVC 628.5: Five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about some of his heroes and mentors, including Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Earl “Fatha” Hines, and Jim Garrison, the Louisiana district attorney known for his investigation into the JFK assassination. John’s latest film, John Barbour’s and William Shakespeare’s Last Word …
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John Barbour, Frank Sinatra, and Breaking Bad
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TVC 628.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about he came to be Frank Sinatra’s personal writer for many years, and the circumstances that led to John’s appearance in what turned out to be the most-watched episode of Breaking Bad. John’s latest film, John Barbour’s and William Shakespeare’s Last Word on the Murde…
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This week we check out "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Mike Flannigan's multiple Netflix series. Stick around for a deep dive into William Friedkin's segment of the 1980's Twilight Zone, "Nightcrawlers". Thank you for listening! Merch!By Rockshot PIctures Media Group, LLC.
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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
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How Network TV News Covered the Assassination of JFK
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TVC 627.1: From November 2013: A special joint edition of The Sounds of Lost Television and This Week in TV History featuring Phil Gries, Tony Figueroa, and Donna Allen that looks back at how network television news covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 and the events that followed over the next three days—a semina…
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The Missing Four Minutes of NBC News coverage of 11/22/63
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TVC 627.2: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio recalls the moment, circa 1988, when he realized that he had something that NBC did not have—the audio of the first four minutes of the network’s national news coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963—and his decision to go public with that dis…
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TVC 627.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays audio of the first national news bulletin for NBC News, read by booth announcer Don Pardo at approximately 1:47pm ET on Nov. 22, 1963, announcing that President Kennedy had been “cut down by an assassin’s bullet.” Due to the technical limitations of TV broadcasting at the …
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TVC 627.4: Ed welcomes back legendary singer, actress, and philanthropist Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed). Earlier this year, the former president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, presented Ruta with Lithuania's highest honor at a magnificent ceremony in the Vilnius Presid…
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Ruta Lee, Darren McGavin, and Casa Manana
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TVC 627.5: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee shares a few memories from her life and career, including the epic story of how she helped her grandmother emigrate from Lithuania in 1963, and how Darren McGavin put down a deposit in Ruta’s name for a home in Palm Springs, early in Ruta’s career. Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only is the sto…
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Don Pardo and The Chaos at NBC News on 11/22/63
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TVC 627.6: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays excerpts from his May 1998 interview with longtime NBC announcer Don Pardo in which Pardo recalls the chaos that permeated the NBC newsroom on Nov. 22, 1963, in the moments immediately following the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot, and how he was pressed …
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TVC 626.1: Music and television historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for an in-depth look at The Monkees television series (NBC, 1966-1968) and why it still holds up today. Chuck interviewed Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and many other key Monkees personnel for Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, the excellent Disney Channel documentar…
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TVC 626.2: Chuck Harter, music historian and writer of the acclaimed documentary Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, talks to Ed about the three phases of The Monkees in 1967: television series, recording unit, and live performing ensemble. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorsh…
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Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer
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TVC 626.3: Ed welcomes Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author; creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series; and the executive producer of both Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, the two Amazon Prime series starring Titus Welliver that are based on the Harry Bosch novels, and The Lincoln Lawyer, the Netflix series s…
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TVC 626.4: Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series, talks to Ed about collaborating with David E. Kelley on the Netflix series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer; how Harry Bosch, the book character, differs from the character that Titus Welliver plays on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy; and why the Musso …
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TVC 626.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jon Burlingame, nationally renowned music journalist and the author of Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring that not tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song, but gives readers a portraits of the many great composers who made those…
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TVC 626.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time, talks to Ed about the three eras of music for television, and how the role of music supervisors on a television series has become particularly important today, when many shows use pre-existing songs to convey the theme and mood of a series. Music for Prime Time: A History of American Televi…
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The Healing Nature of Abbott and Costello
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TVC 625.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, …
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TVC 625.2: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and Ed about the many famous character actors who co-starred with Abbott and Costello in the movies and on television, including Shemp Howard, Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Dick Powell, Charles Lane…
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TVC 625.2b: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and Ed about the "Ultimate Abbott and Costello Top Ten," one of the extra features of The Annotated Abbott and Costello, and a scientifically put-together Top Ten that includes input from such …
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TVC 625.3: Ed welcomes singer and dancer Shelly Clark, one of the founding members of Honey Cone, the legendary R&B and soul girl group from the late 1960s and early 1970s that was also the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, the label operated by the famed writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland. Honey Cone was also the very first act to appear …
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The Craft of Music Composed for Television
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TVC 625.5: Ed welcomes back Jon Burlingame, longtime music journalist and our nation’s leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. Jon’s latest book, Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring, not only includes more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors, and musicians who…
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TVC 625.4: Shelly Clark, one of the founding members of the legendary R&B and soul girl group Honey Cone, talks to Ed about how the empowering lyrics of Honey Cone's songs help usher in a new mindset for female groups and solo female artists. She also shares a few memories of performing as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s, in…
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Jon Burlingame on Jerry Goldsmith and Patrick Williams
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TVC 625.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time, talks to Ed about the television work of renowned composers Jerry Goldsmith (Barnaby Jones, Police Story, The Loner) and Patrick Williams (The Streets of San Francisco, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant, The Magician). Topics this segment include why Goldsmith was r…
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TVC 625.7: Music historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for a remembrance of music legend Tina Turner, a force of nature as a live performer (both as a solo artist and when she performed with her husband Ike Turner as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue) who went on to become a darling of the MTV generation. Tina Turner passed away May 24, 2023 at age eig…
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Imagine if you Will
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Episode 167: Shatterday / A little Peace and quiet
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It's the Twilight Zone...80's STYLE! The bullet hit the bone and we've stepped in the zone. Take a deep dive into the filmmaker's and cinematographer's creativity behind the first episode of the Iconic 80's reboot. As promised in the show- a new T-shirt design here. MerchBy Rockshot PIctures Media Group, LLC.
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Arielle Raycene of Confidential Informant
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TVC 624.1: Ed welcomes Arielle Raycene, actress, entrepreneur, social media influencer, and co-founder of Real A F, a platform that connects social media with spatial media and a 3-D walk-around application. Arielle also can be seen in the action thriller Confidential Informant (with Mel Gibson and Kate Bosworth), the Peacock series Bupkis (starrin…
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TVC 624.2: Ed and Greg Ehrbar welcome back actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, scene by scene look at all th…
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TVC 624.3: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello, talks to Ed and Greg about how Abbott and Costello honed their style from their days in burlesque, and how such classical routines as "Who's on First," "365 Days," and "7 x 13 = 28" always seem fresh and new, no matter how many times they performed it. The Annotated Abbott…
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TVC 624.4: Ed welcomes back George Schlatter, creator and producer of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Real People, and a fixture in the world of variety television for more than fifty years. George’s memoir, Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy, is the story of how a kid from Missouri forged his way out of the rough and tumble world of Las Vegas nightclu…
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Episode 166: The Odyssey of Flight 33
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Dan is BACK! Just call him Mase. After a long hiatus it's time to jump back into season 2 of The Twilight Zone Original Series, "The Odyssey of Flight 33". Could this be the answer to what unknown aircraft have been flying around our earthly skies? Merch!By Rockshot Pictures Media Group, llc.
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How Bob Barker Came to Host The Price is Right
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TVC 623.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University and host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, joins Ed for a remembrance of game show legend Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and, before that, Truth or Consequences. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. I…
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Why Expanding Price is Right to an Hour was a Risky Move
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TVC 623.2: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about how it took a few shows for the Bob Barker Price is Right to find its footing; why it was a risky move for CBS to expand The Price is Right to an hour from its original thirty-minute length; and why Drew Carey was “a compromise choice” to replace Barker as host of Price in 2007. Bob Bar…
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TVC 623.2a: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Bob Barker’s vast skills as a communicator—and, particularly, his ability to connect with both the studio audience and the viewers at home—enabled him to withstand the various scandals and controversies that plagued The Price is Right in the years after Bob Barker became executive prod…
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TVC 623.3: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen reminisce about the “Barker’s Box” segment on Truth or Consequences, and how that feature was a mini version of the type of audience participation show that Barker hosted on radio early in his career. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confi…
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Bob Barker, Johnny Olson, and “Come on Down!”
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TVC 623.4: Longtime television announcer Randy West joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its tribute to game show legend Bob Barker. Among the many game shows on which Randy worked as an announcer was the Bob Barker Price is Right. In this segment, Randy talks to Ed about the circumstances that led him to succeed Rod Roddy as the announcer on Pric…
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How Bob Barker Made the Contestants the Stars of The Price is Right
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TVC 623.5: Longtime television announcer Randy West shares some memories of working alongside Bob Barker during the 2003-2004 season, when Randy was the announcer on The Price is Right. He also provides some insight into hosting the live version of The Price is Right, which Randy has done in many different venues over the years. Bob Barker passed a…
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TVC 623.6: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen share a few memories about being neighbors with Bob Barker during the years he hosted The Price is Right. the time when they were neighbors Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. T…
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Rose Marie, Frank and Dean, and Jerry Lewis
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TVC 622.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie. This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Merc…
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TVC 622.2: Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of the one and only Rose Marie, talks to Ed about how her mom and Doris Day bonded immediately once they started working together on The Doris Day Show, and how their friendship lasted until Rose Marie’s death. Also in this segment: Noopy and Ed talk about the 100 days of “Rose Marie Facts,” a collec…
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TVC 622.3: Greg Ehrbar interviews Mark Cantor, jazz and film historian, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, and one of the contributors to the Blu-ray release Soundies: The Ultimate Collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sp…
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TVC 622.4: Ed welcomes Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham!, longtime record producer and songwriter, and the director of The Real George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, an excellent documentary that not only explores the many ups and downs of the illustrious Grammy Award winner, but takes a deep dive into who George really was: a kind and ge…
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TVC 623.5: Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham! and the director of The Real George Michael, talks to Ed about how George Michael, like many artists, had an up-and-down relationship with fame throughout his life and career. Also in this segment: Ed asks Simon what he looked for, and what George looked for, when determining whether a new song …
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TVC 622.6: Jazz and film historian Mark Cantor talks to Greg Ehrbar about how his book, The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, was more than four decades in the making. The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s is available through McFarland Books and Amazon.com, while Soundies: The Ul…
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TVC 621.1: Part 2 of a two-part conversation that began on our program last week with Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in music, but is really, at its heart, a celebration of music …
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TVC 621.2: Ed welcomes back Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie. This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More, a collect…
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