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Michael Fienstein's American songbook

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chrish

PBS ran the original and a new episode of Michael Fienstein's American songbook tonight, what great TV. The new episode has him visiting Hugh Hefners Playboy mansion where he looks at an incredible collection of audio, video and movie clips of jazz, big bands and performers of the great American songbook back to 1920. One of the highlights is Hefners well stocked old Wurlitzer....Michael punches up "Candy" by Johnny Mercer, it dosen't get any better than that.
Then he visits the Hudson, NY home of an old NYC big band radio announcer who played original WJZ acetate recordings.
Michael's homes are filled to the brim with every bit of sheet music and recordings he can save for posterity climbing through dumpsters if necessary to keep any more of these treasures from ending up in landfills. When he is not performing he spends his time transfering the music for storage longevity.
 
chrish said:
PBS ran the original and a new episode of Michael Fienstein's American songbook tonight, what great TV. The new episode has him visiting Hugh Hefners Playboy mansion where he looks at an incredible collection of audio, video and movie clips of jazz, big bands and performers of the great American songbook back to 1920. One of the highlights is Hefners well stocked old Wurlitzer....Michael punches up "Candy" by Johnny Mercer, it dosen't get any better than that.
Then he visits the Hudson, NY home of an old NYC big band radio announcer who played original WJZ acetate recordings.
Michael's homes are filled to the brim with every bit of sheet music and recordings he can save for posterity climbing through dumpsters if necessary to keep any more of these treasures from ending up in landfills. When he is not performing he spends his time transferring the music for storage longevity.
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I have cause to believe that you are an extreme right-winger. YOU SHOULDN'T BE WATCHING PBS BECAUSE ACCORDING TO RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA IT'S GUMMINT-SUPPORTED! Cut it out! There must be some octagonal-steel-cage-kick-boxing on Spike TV for you to watch, plus Fox "News" of course.
 
I have cause to believe that you are an extreme right-winger. YOU SHOULDN'T BE WATCHING PBS BECAUSE ACCORDING TO RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA IT'S GUMMINT-SUPPORTED! Cut it out! There must be some octagonal-steel-cage-kick-boxing on Spike TV for you to watch, plus Fox "News" of course.

A mental health professional may be able to work with you on adjusting your medications.
 
Right-wingers of every stripe are constantly commenting on the intertoobz that public broadcasting should go commercial and get off the gummint, um, nipple. Today's (02/06) Northeast Radio Watch has a story about the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations threatening to pull the plug on WSBE-TV. Most of the comments to various media sites in RI will say "DO IT", let them go commercial and run network repeats and infomercials. OK, most fundraisers ARE infomercials these days. One of the biggest myths in current day media commentary is the theory than TLC, Discover, History and A&E have replaced the need for PBS. {SFX: Klaxon} Wrong. For the most part (the exception being some programming on History, and their spawn H2) these channels went the way of the earlier cable channels that had high aspirations, but turned decidedly commercial one the numbers of cable viewers reached critical mass.
 
You seem to have missed the fact that I like all conservatives pay taxes to support PBS in addition to the voluntary contributions I make tto WGBH and NHPTV
 
Laurence Glavin said:
I have cause to believe that you are an extreme right-winger. YOU SHOULDN'T BE WATCHING PBS BECAUSE ACCORDING TO RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA IT'S GUMMINT-SUPPORTED! Cut it out! There must be some octagonal-steel-cage-kick-boxing on Spike TV for you to watch, plus Fox "News" of course.
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We discuss radio here. If you want to inject politics into it, I have three words for you:

Take It Outside.
 
Since tax money helps to pay for PBS and NPR, it would be nice if they had other views once in awhile. Any right-leaning shows? (And again for the record I am not totally right-wing). Evidently Air America failed
because those on the Left would prefer to hear their views on a powerful, taxpayer-funded FM station
not an interference prone, weak AM station. (In Wash DC lib radio is back, via 1480, and Alter.Net
said liberal views had been totally missing from D.C. radio. Um...what about NPR?)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gr...rrison-keillor-mocks-newt-gingrich-polygamist
(not that I'm necessarily a fan of Nuke GingerItch)

Perhaps in the interest of "fairness" a separate public radio network should be set up, right-leaning, and given half the funding the CPB allots. Mark Steyn, Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Howie Carr, and
Glenn Beck: Up next on CPR. Conservative Public Radio. ::)
 
(And Steyn btw isn't just politics; orig he was theatre critic of Wall St Journal and an amazon.com description of one of his books reads "The glorious tradition of the Broadway musical from Irving Berlin to Jerome Kern and Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. And then . . . Cats and Les Miz. Mark Steyn's Broadway Babies Say Goodnight is a sharp-eyed view of the whole span of Broadway musical history...Steyn shows us the genius behind the 'simple' musical, and asks hard questions about the British invasion of Broadway ")
http://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Babies-Say-Goodnight-Musicals/dp/0415922879
 
On Wednesday, 02/08, WBUR's "On Point" covered the depletion of mammals and certain reptiles in the Everglades by the increasing number of pythons there. The animal hardest hit? Raccoons, down by 99 percent! It doesn't appear that the near disappearance of raccoons has aroused the citizenry; nobody knows what function raccoons serve. Now MANATEES...that's different!
 
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