Oh, how I hated those ads as a teenager in the late seventies! Unfortunately, not only were those ads inescapable on AM Top 40 back in those days, but they were also designed to stick in your brain no matter how much you wanted to forget them.
It was all about the acts. Ed himself was not an entertainer. He was an entertainment columnist in the 1930s. CBS hired him in 1941 to host a weekly radio variety show, which was a success (again, because of the acts, not Ed) and in 1948, the network asked him to host a similar show on television, which lasted 23 years.
I dunno. I thought the "Spinning Plates Guy" was pretty good. But forget about Wayne and Schuster, who apparently were Ed's favorite comedians. And he did introduce us to The Muppets, as well as Topo-o-o-o-o-o Gigio-o-o-o-o.
To the point that Stri-dex hired a pre-"Mandy" Barry Manilow to write their jingle.
Ed knew what acts were hot THAT week which was his genius
Ok then……..
I'm not sure what to think about Jelly Roll. I don't like Chris Stapleton. He is talented, but not my style. The one song of his I heard that I liked was on Real Country, the satellite format, and I thought it was Waylon.
He also introduced Jack Benny in 1932!I dunno. I thought the "Spinning Plates Guy" was pretty good. But forget about Wayne and Schuster, who apparently were Ed's favorite comedians. And he did introduce us to The Muppets, as well as Topo-o-o-o-o-o Gigio-o-o-o-o.
Good Lord! Do you know that first hand?
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Clearly, some old-timers don't understand either. One needs to look no further than 60% of the posts around here.
We have been considering some stricter moderation when presented with extraneous and irrelevant comments.
Speaking for myself; I think the job you moderators do is already thankless enough work already. The last thing we should be saddling any of you with is editing typical nostalgic wanderings, or when discussions go entirely through a guardrail and over the cliff. Don't get me wrong, I think nostalgia is great, but it seems like participants aren't able to separate nostalgia from the original topic or the present day. You and Frank closing the topic when contributions veer too far off the road in my view, is usually good enough. I just wish enough participants would be able to have the self-restraint that their musings or recollections may not be relevant to the particular topic at hand.
Interesting idea. Can the board application allow for sidebar conversations that don't choke the original topic? For example; some sort of symbol denotes a sidebar discussion that a participant could click on that would take them to the sidebar discussion without having to read through (as an exaggerated example) what someone had for dinner on this date in 1979?
Yeah, there's been a lot of that lately.
(Good Lord, as someone who used to moderate Usenet newsgroups, I hate meta-discussions. But there are times when patience is a good strategy, too....)
A great band name 😂
